On Thursday, February 19, Miami New Times celebrated the end of calendar editor Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik’s illustrious five-year career with the paper. We had a party and got drunk at Uva 69 in Miami’s historic MiMo District in the Upper Eastside. At the end of the night, I fell…
Here’s a video of Chef Odel Arencibia from The Capital Grille Miami broiling up some herb-marinated beef tenderloin served on a crostini base with tomatoes, peppers, and onions. I tend to believe all meat tastes best off a wood-burning grill, but a high-quality cut of tenderloin marinated ten hours in…
Last night, Obama’s State of the Union address featured a lot of talk about energy this, renewable that, and let’s face it, he’s right. Matter of fact, if we don’t start fishing our waters in a more responsible, future-conscious manner, the only chicken of the sea left is gonna be…
I found out about the NMB Stunnaz through this video I found somewhere on the internet. They have the kind of sophisticated, organically built web presence intrinsic to millenial generation projects. NMB Stunnaz are wild and young minded, they have a hit song with its own dance, they know how…
Elba Travin has been running the Argie Cafe in downtown Fort Lauderdale with her husband, Nestor, for eight years. They serve Argentine food, empanadas, pizza, and sandwiches. Elba told me that the empanada flavors they sell the most of are…
Here’s a great video I found on the internet from the Downtown Miami Grave Rave at PS14. It’s performance footage from Outbreak and D-Murder’s set. This video is the first I ever heard of these guys and I gotta say they have a real good stage presence. Music aint about…
Up till I shot this video, I had never seen a real-life truffle. I’ve shot in the kitchens of some fine, highly rated restaurants in Miami, but I’ve only ever seen truffle oil. This mac ‘n’ cheese recipe uses actual truffles baked right in to a crispy, hot, cheesy mass…
I was wandering around the Wines of Spain Pavilion at the South Beach Food & Wine Festival when I saw the Forever Cheese sign. Nice name, I thought as I speared a couple of cubes with a toothpick. The cheese tasted expensive, not like the stuff I get at the…
The South Beach Food & Wine Festival offered more than cheese trays and grape juice. What are we talkin’ ’bout? Booze, glorious booze, and there was plenty of it. I saw brandy, absinthe, vodka, tequila… it was like that scene in The Warriors where every gang in the city shows…
Porcini Cream of Mushroom Soup from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Odel Arencibia is executive chef of and partner in The Capital Grille Miami. His restaurant has just teamed up with Tuscan winemaker Castello Banfi and is offering a special promotion from February 23 to April 5, 2009, to celebrate. They…
I heard the sound of an excited crowd and saw Paula Deen get introduced onstage at Sunday’s South Beach Wine and Food Fest. In a tent at 13th and Ocean, I maneuvered close for an angle to shoot video.Paula Deen is a funny lady. I don’t own a TV and…
Chef Dean James Max of 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale had a table set up at the Food & Wine Festival serving the best grub I tried in the whole place. I didn’t know what the hell it was, so I waited around till Chef was done schmoozing his many…
Oceanik is a man and a band. I saw him playing steel drums at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. This video captures him covering “Bailamos” by Enrique Iglesias. I also heard him do a version of “Because I Got High” by Afroman. Oceanik got a consistently great response…
If Sunday was any indication of how well the South Beach Wine & Food Festival did, then it was a resounding success. Tons of humans tore through hundreds of thousands of portions of grub and massive amounts of alcohol, grape-based and otherwise. Celebrity chefs led cooking demos, signed books, worked…
Food & Wine 2009 is almost upon us. You know what that means. The culinary throngs descend on South Florida, feast on its tropical flesh in a media-driven frenzy, and hopefully dump enough money on our shores to keep us goin til next year. Aaron J. Michaels from Culinary Convenience…
I found an e-flyer for an all-you-can-drink warehouse party in Kendall featuring live music and art, so as a member of the media it’s my responsibility to share that information with the world. Clubs are stupid, bars are expensive, parking lot drunks of the world unite! Straight-edge kids are welcome,…
I cold-called Escopazzo out of our restaurant database and said, “Hey, I’m from the newspaper, what are you doing for Wine & Food?” Sommelier Rich DiGacomo had great answers for me. He talked about the Food Network, Rachel Ray, Key West prawns and drinking. Here’s what he had to say:…
I cold-called OLA at Sanctuary to find out if they got anything going on for the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2009. I spoke to a real cool dude, sommelier Albert Omahen about fish tacos, wine, and the smoker’s palette. Here’s what he had to say:…
Gamertagradio.com is one of those thriving Miami-based web companies you might never have heard of, but millions around the world know it well. That’s the power of niche content in a global market, and the brains behind the site have successfully represented and monetized urban gaming culture. They know that…
This year Subtropics marks its 21 year anniversary and 20th edition (more on that later) of bringing together sound minds in South Florida. The conference features performances, lectures, networking opportunities and exhibits for audiophiles and the uninitiated alike. Artistic Director of the festival Gustavo Matamoros, a sound educator at the…
Dream Dinners, “the original dinner assembly store,” is a company with franchises in 31 states that has appeared on the Dr. Phil show, in the pages of the New York Times, on Forbes.com and in more momazines than you can shake a spatula at. Dream Dinners provides you with the…
The YOLO Grill from Miami New Times on Vimeo.I recently spent a couple hours shooting the kitchen at YOLO (You Only Live Once) in downtown Ft, Lauderdale. It’s a real classy joint serving simple American food cooked in a high quality manner using fine ingredients. Check out this grill video…
