Lest you think The Inspector is a hater, this week we won’t bring you the dirt on local routine-food-inspection-reports. Instead we’ll highlight the reports reporting that there is nothing to report. These restaurants were found to be totally violation-free on their most recent inspections.Pita Pit – 16323 SW 88 St,…
Cheech and Chong are funny dudes. They did a show for the South Beach Comedy Festival at the Fillmore on South Beach. They have been recording albums since the 1970’s so I took the opportunity to ask them some music-related questions. Enjoy…
Cheech And Chong Drink Bongwater from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Cheech and Chong are great Americans, even though they are Mexican and Canadian. They performed at the South Beach Comedy Festival 2009 and I caught up with them backstage to ask food questions for Short Order. They told me…
Liberty City Breakfast from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Gus Garcia’s feature story this week explores the world of Basic Training Delivery Academy in Miami’s Liberty City. Here’s a video detailing the Sunday breakfast ritual they offer free to the community. Click here to read the full article…
As long as we’re talkin about Charlie Pickett getting his due, here’s one of the reasons why, this video for the song “Overtown” written by Dave Froshneider and performed by “Charlie Pickett and The Eggs” is some real pioneer shit. Now, I’ll admit it, I hadn’t ever heard of…
In 1995, a legendary Miami bass group by the name of 95 South released a song called “Rodeo.” The lyrics went like this: “Come on get wild, girl. I’ll be the horse and you can be the cowgirl.” Do any of y’all bareback-riding, tie-down-roping drill teams know what we’re talkin’…
Gunline Entertainment is a rap group of young gutter dudes from South Dade’s meanest corners steadily making a name for itself by playing shows all over Dade County. From Maracas to Gusto’s, Nice and Naughty to Coco’s to Sobe Live, they bring a real bloodthirsty-party-vibe with em’ wherever they go…
Artie Lange Live From Miami from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Artie Lange is the greatest American storyteller since Mark Twain. This motherfucker is hilarious. Artie Lange was in Miami promoting his book “Too Fat To Fish,” at Books & Books in Coral Gables. Artie was drinking water because…
Lurk on this suckas. Fusik aka Only Few Are Sick aka play this shit loud til the old lady next door shakes her fist at you then realizes she might as well be dancing and then starts shakin it like a hot tomato aka…
Cookie junkies across the nation simultaneously erupted in joy and floundered in despair when ’09 Girl Scout cookie shipments hit the streets and salmonella peanut butter reports hit the airwaves. But don’t despair, according to MSN Health & Fitness:”The drum roll for recalls of peanut butter products continued without letup,…
Ah, the Cuban Pig Roast. There’s no greater cooking method than the outdoor-food-to-fire-method. And with the holiday pig we ate, we gotta start looking ahead to the next one. This kind of cooking is so basic, yet so delicious, it brings out the inner cave person in all of us…
In 1968 The Berkowitz family opened their first seafood restaurant. That was in Cambridge, Mass. Legal Seafood is now a big franchise with locations in Sunrise, West Palm, and Boca and they are declaring January 20th a “Legal Holiday.” So when you go in there and buy an entree you…
Chef Ivo Mazzon of Joey’s Cafe in Wynwood is from Roncade, Treviso, in Northern Italy, close to Venice. He studied there for five years at a hospitality institute and has been in Miami since April, 2003. He says “I love it here. We’re trying to make something special to create…
Business-hippies Ben & Jerry know ice cream cross-branding is a powerful way to push a message and make people smile. Hell, their corporate language refers to the CEO as “chief euphoria officer.” With that in mind, they’ve chosen January as a month of change wherein their famous butter pecan flavor…
Check out this live video of The Methodaires playing at Churchill’s. The Methodaires play a mix of ska, soul and rocksteady music, are currently gigging and have recorded material coming out this year. If you see their name on a flyer, go check em’ out, they’re worth it…
In “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” a Food Network original series, host Guy Fieri rides around looking for real-reality through specialty joints. In this episode he visits Jamaica Kitchen, an authentic Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican establishment serving up pure fire. In 2007 the place won Miami New Times “Best Chinese Restaurant.” Check…
Brisco – Underground Money from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Follow Brisco from his performance onstage at the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009, through the Miami Beach Convention Center, and into the parking lot in this exclusive New Times music interview…
Did you hear the one about the guy who came home and found his best friend in bed with his wife? He said, “Morris, I have to. But you?” Ba-dum-ching! That’s Catskills humor for ya. But the Borscht Belt — a string of large Jewish resorts where the likes of…
Check out this official exclusive video footage of DJ Laz backstage of the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009 before he hits the stage to perform, hangin’ out with Reality Kings Media (Miami reality porn originators), talking about doing commercials for lawyers, and makin’ “Jewish money.”…
Check out this Miami New Times exclusive freestyle from Unda Surveillance backstage from the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center…
Chef Marco Ferraro from Wish, winner of Miami New Times’ “Best Outdoor Dining” award in 2007, one of four “Best of’s” we’ve awarded the hotel/restaurant, says “I’m Italian. Our cuisine is contemporary-American with a global influence. We do new-American food with an emphasis on fresh, local ingredients. Local is great…
Check out this exclusive Miami New Times video of JT Money freestyling backstage after rocking a show at the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009…
