SBWFF 2010: FIU Student Workers Make It Happen

South Beach Wine and Food Festival is here, but it wouldn’t be without the FIU student volunteers who gain invaluable real world experience by creating the infrastructure, handling the logistics, cooking the food, dealing with sponsors, and a million other jobs that nobody thinks about while they’re drunk in a…

Top Five Ways To Sneak Your Weed Into The Bob Marley Festival

The 17th annual Bob Marley Fest hits Bayfront park this Saturday, February 27th with more Marley-kid performances than you can shake a joint rolled up in a copy of the Miami Herald at (hey at least then the paper’ll be put to good use).The list of what you can’t bring…

Q American Barbeque’s Full House Opening Night

Jonathan Eismann’s Q American Barbeque is officially open for business. The above image is from 8:52 p.m. at last night’s grand opening celebration, which featured free food, free beer, and free shots of liquor…

Sakaya Kitchen at Fashion Week Kickoff Party at Gary Nader Gallery

Midtown upstart Sakaya Kitchen’s Ssam lettuce wrap holds angus beef “bulgogi,” scallion ginger sauce, fresh edamame, rice pearls, and Ssamjang in organic Swank Farms green butterhead lettuce. Ssam is the Korean method of wrapping bite-size meats in leafy vegetables.The dish was available for free sampling in biodegradable wheat bowls last…

SBWFF 2010: Daniel Boulud, Morimoto, and Friends Haiti Benefit at Tap Tap

Chefs Daniel Boulud, Masaharu Morimoto, Kris Wessel, and Jose Garces teamed up last night for a Haiti benefit dinner at South Beach’s Kreyol landmark Tap Tap restaurant.Wessel said the event, organized by South Beach Wine and Food Festival director Lee Brian Schrager, came together via twitter. “Lee put out a…

Face the Crowd

Visions of Daisy Dukes-clad superchongas with hips so heavy they knock jaws out of whack with each step. A shirtless old man, drink in hand, mambos for a cheering crowd. An over-30 DJ spins for a middle school booty dance contest. Rival factions of gangsters-in-training throw fists in the middle…

Miami Bass Warriors Just Wanna Sniff Some Glue

Aholsniffsglue once made crack cocaine out of Ajax and battery acid, smoked it with the Dalai Lama, and became obsessed with stripes and circles. True story.Give thanks the art world appreciates the kind of compulsions that drive people past the brink of madness, are willing to pay for it, and…

Enter the South Beach Wine & Food Fest Twitterverse

Welcome to the future. This year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival will be the first to occur at the dawn of the age of real time media. Sure Twitter’s been around for years, but now it’s so mainstream your grandma’s on it. If she’s got food on her mind…

Talula’s Offal Tasting Menu for South Beach Wine & Food Fest

The South Beach Wine and Food Festival is in for an offal treat. That means organs, and entrails from pig, cow, ducks, and more at Talula, Miami Beach’s best kept secret.On the menu are delicacies like sweetbreads, livers, hearts, tripe, ears, and foie gras for a total of seven courses…

Recap: Honeyboy Edwards at Colony Theatre, February 21

Honeyboy Edwards destroyed a sold out house at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre last Saturday night with a set so full of Delta you could feel it in your bones. The 94-year-old Edwards, who just won 2010’s Life Time Achievement Award at the Grammys, played with backing by Steve Arvey on…

Top 10 Sodas From Around the World

10. Pee Cola from Ghana – At first we thought it was just an internet joke, but we found two seemingly legitimate sources that back it up.So…. Drink Pee Cola…

Uncle Luke Fucks With Miami New Times, Ya Heard?

There are seven dirty words that got George Carlin arrested for disturbing the peace while doing a stand up comedy routine in 1972. In the ’90s, Luther Campbell, or Uncle Luke to you, white boy. who put them into action and made a world famous career out of them.Obscenity? Fuck…

The Burger Beast’s Miami Burger Tour in Funny Quotes

When the inevitable German tourists climb aboard a Miami Tour Company bus today for a trek around Dade, they might catch a faint whiff of the meat sweats.Last night, the Burger Beast’s inaugural Burger Tour shuttled 25 passengers among Taurus in the Grove, the Filling Station downtown, and Burger & Beer Joint…

In Defense of Lyrikill’s Viral Marketing Strategies

Before he was crashing live news coverage to get himself on TV, Lyrikill Dot Com already had a sophisticated viral marketing strategy in place. See the above video of the Lyrikill song “You Done Messed Up” intercut with celebrity gossip photos and titled “Chris Brown Beat Rihanna [Picture Rihanna on…

Audio: Pre-Show Interview With Honeyboy Edwards, 94-Year-Old Blues Legend

Honeyboy Edwards is playing Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre this Saturday fresh off winning the lifetime achievement award at this year’s Grammy’.Tigertail Productions booked the gig well in advance. Tickets are still available for $35 to $50.Honeyboy told us, “I don’t know nothing else to do but play the blues and…

Miami Street Food Fest Rolling Into Town this Spring

The Miami Street Food Fest could one day be bigger than the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, but it’ll have to get its wheels on the road first.This spring, the first annual Fest will welcome carts, trucks, vendors, tents, and the people who love them to some as yet…

Swift and Fearless

Most earthbound singers lack intergalactic charisma — no gravity or visibility from outer space, and they couldn’t catch a look from a comet if it was taking a coffee break. They aren’t stars; they’re just good-looking clones with fancy websites and overproduced sounds. But Taylor Swift is a musician and…

Video: Miami All-Star Band, City of Progress, Rocks For Haiti

Look, we’ve never liked having to say this, but basically the Red Cross fucking sucks. They do a lot of shit, but certainly not as much as people believe, definitely not as much as they portray, and beyond a shadow of a doubt with the heavy burden of “administrative costs”…

Destroyio Punk Rock Show at Art of Freedom in Little Havana

“Fuck the art scene, bunch of boojie motherfuckers. I do this shit cause I need it to live, not for the money.” Those were the words of Fabio Destroyio on the front steps of the Freedom Tower after losing the Miami New Times Mastermind Awards at Artopia. The label would…