Miami knows riots. Our volcanically inclined metropolis has erupted in bloodshed on more than one occasion. Sometimes the cops start it, sometimes the people, but either way riots tend to yield little more than destroyed communities and dead bodies. That’s why some thrills are best felt vicariously. As much fun…
Short Order has obtained police reports for a robbery occurring on December 11th, 2008 at Michy’s, a high profile restaurant headed by one of America’s top chefs, Michelle Bernstein. Michy’s is located on 69th and Biscayne, just a few years ago that was the intersection of Crackwhore and Carjack. Thieves…
According to a report issued today by the World Wildlife Fund, the Pink Dragon Millipede is one of 1000 new species discovered in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia in the last 10 years. Okay, so the thing has a cyanide-producing gland. But that doesn’t mean your favorite TV chef…
Remember the old Simpsons episode where Homer eats the poison sushi? The stuff was called Fugu, and it’s made out of pufferfish/blowfish. It can be more poisonous than getting bit by a dog that just got bit by a rattlesnake that’s been eating hemlock out of an old tin can…
Buggah D. Govanah, president of On Point Entertainment and Marketing is sick of bootleg rap shows with bad sound and no production value. He’s set out to change that through a benefit for Haiti that’s creating a platform for Caribbean artists and artists of Caribbean descent to get together on…
This is it. Seven bands in about a minute. Two of them I didn’t get the names of, so I just made something up. If you know who they are, tell us so we can tell the world. Tell your friends. Support the movement. Give the people with the money…
The “Ice Cream Man” a.k.a. Matt Allen is a dude who rolls around the country in an old van named Mitch giving away free ice cream. We caught up with him at O.H.W.O.W Gallery (Our House West of Wynwood) on NW 7th Ave and 32 Street during a Basel week…
The last time we had a police escort, we started in Miami Gardens and ended at the Dade County Jail. Hey, nobody’s perfect. But the Fort Lauderdale Harley-Davidson Biker Bash offers us a shot at karmic redemption. Now in its tenth year, the four days of motorcycle-inspired festivities will take…
Wynwood during Art Basel is full of stuck-up, black-clothed, beret-wearing, street-thronging, tourist-without-a-map-lookin’ art mongers. We bet they feel like Vikings in undiscovered territory, but the fact is Wynwood is a vibrant and historic community of about 15,000 residents who were here first. The Miami Workers Center armed a neighborhood residents’…
The “Pedestriart” urban art project has taken over the Midtown Art Park. Apparently it’s important for everyone to know that grasshopper 69’s are strictly prohibited. Local artist Leonel Matheu uses his own iconography to make artistic statements for the consumption of passing foot traffic. Several big art fairs including, SCOPE and PhotoMiami are setting up tents just a couple blocks south of the park, so it should get plenty of foot traffic. Here are some shots of the work.
Socialist, Communist, dirty red pinko bastard — 2008 has seen the resurgence of anti-Commie rhetoric. What better way to celebrate it than to embrace it? Dana Keith, director of the Miami Beach Cinematheque, is using Soviet montage filmmaking as the basis for a visual experiment in bringing two worlds together…
India’s Akbar the Great, ruler of the Mughal Empire from 1556 to 1605, is renowned for his contributions to art, science, and building technologies. No surprise that his reign saw the creation of a smoking implement that marries all three. According to Wikipedia, the physician invented the hookah as an…
Few cinematic moments feature such a perfect marriage of image and song as one in Goodfellas, with protagonist Henry Hill coked out of his skull and packing a bag of guns. As he tries, by car, to outrace a helicopter chasing him, a suspenseful swell of piano rises in the…
Sikumi is a 15-minute murder drama shot on the frozen Arctic Ocean off Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost point in the United States. You gotta love the Miami Short Film Festival — which is now in its seventh year — for bringing such diverse programming to the bottom of the map…
Crying about gas prices while still cruising around in your SUV is lame. Get over it. The interactive nightlife promoters of I Am Your Villain are encouraging two-wheeled mayhem washed down with dollar beer specials. You should be there when the Loose Cannons on the Run bike race leaves from…
According to Jeffrey Kippel of BodyProud.org, competitive fitness modeling is a sport, and the bikini and Speedo set that participates is a group of pro athletes. He should know — as coproducer of the FAME Fitness Bikini Model Lifestyle Expo and World Tour, he has seen more orange skin than…
Local music impresario José El Rey declares, “I’ll be there, and I’m more than enough for all the ladies to come. There will be woofers installed in special devices.” What’s he talkin’ ’bout? It’s Shake, a new party that’ll have you fiending like a junkie every Thursday night. Thank Que…
On February 15, 1933, shots rang out in Bayfront Park. Italian anarchist Giuseppe Zangara stood on a wooden folding chair, held up a pawnshop .32-caliber pistol, and fired at President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. The crowd bumped Zangara’s arm, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak caught a bullet, Roosevelt came out unscathed, and…
Jacob Katel This past Saturday one of two group-bike-ride events in Miami that carry the Critical Mass name met at Vizcaya Metro Rail station to traverse areas of downtown, Brickell Key and Coconut Grove via self propelled motion…
A renegade freelancer at New Times recently conducted a random telephone survey of used car dealers and private sellers regarding their thoughts about alternative transportation. “You ain’t gon’ catch me in no hot-ass sun on a bike,” admitted a private seller of a Cadillac Brougham. Alex from Palermo Motors doesn’t…
I go to Heidy’s Cafe (2804 NE Second Ave., Miami) for the $6 special. The portions are generous and the food delicious. Today, the daily special features carne asada, white rice, refried beans, and spaghetti. I add on Honduran cheese, mantequilla, spicy vegetables and habanero salsa. By the end of…
Jacob Katel Two blocks east of Biscayne Boulevard between NE 23rd and 35th Streets along the seawall separating Biscayne Bay from Miami’s asphalt landscape, lie many forms of public art. The following images depict examples of scratching, tagging, drawing, bombing, stickering, propaganda, architecture, nature and industrial design. Words are stupid…
