Last Night: Yasumicon 2008 at FIU Graham Center

Marco Kornfeld Zelda comes to life — er, sort of — at Yasumicon 2008. Click here to view the full slide show. On most days like Saturday, kids are racing to get away from the heat by jumping in to the nearest body of water they can find. But the…

Last Night: Projekt Revolution at Cruzan Amphitheatre

Sayre Berman Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington performs with the band during the Projekt Revolution tour stop at the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach. Click here to view the full slide show. Projekt Revolution with Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, The Bravery and more Friday, August 1, 2008 Cruzan Ampitheatre,…

Blog of the Week – Eye On Miami

What makes a world-class city? According to Eye On Miami, a city can have all the stadiums and museums it wants, but if it can’t provide its citizens with basic needs and services, achieving world-class status is out of reach: You can build a hundred stadiums but as long as…

Booze Hound – Jake’s Bar & Grill

In a time of such economic strife, I say screw the beef! Instead of dinner out on the town, I suggest one blow their shrinking wads of indulgence-flow on the savory, sweet nectar of catastrophe — booze. Yet, New Times doesn’t want you to waste your hard-earned cash on crap,…

Marlins Make a Trade… for Arthur Rhodes?

Manny Ramirez is headed to the Marlins! A deal is close! Sources are saying it’s only a matter of time! Here we go! Ready? And…. the deal is dead. The Red Sox sent him to L.A. instead. Sad trombone sound Okay, so the Manny to the Marlins thing didn’t happen…

On The List – Vagabond Redux, Skream and DJ Huggs

There is only one word that could describe last weekend: Boring. It was so boring, personally I went to bed most nights by 1 a.m. Come on Miami! I know we are at the height of the low season, but that doesn’t mean we have to get lazy. Unfortunately, things…

Manny Ramirez a Marlin? — UPDATED

UPDATE: Sorry, Fish fans dreaming of a summer watching Manny being Manny in Dolphin Stadium. Looks like the ManRam will be looking for the best place to take a leak behind the outfield wall in sunny Chavez Ravine instead. According to ESPN, the eccentric slugger is headed to the Dodgers…

Miami Spice Preview, Part 1

Each year around this time, upon being handed my first Miami Spice menu of the season, I think of Ernie. Ernie is my car mechanic. “Broken radiator hose,” he’ll say with a furrow across his brow. “That’ll cost you 300,” and without even looking up to see the stunned look…

REMINDER: Rock The Bells 2008 Ticket Giveaway

Contest closes tomorrow! Sign up now. With Rock The Bells only a few weeks away happening Saturday, we here at the New Times are feeling a bit generous. We are giving away a pair (read ’em, two) of tickets to the show at Bicentennial Park, Saturday, August 2. Scheduled to…

Bike Blog – Biking Boston

Greetings from Massachusetts! I don’t love to compare cities with awesome bicycle accommodations to Miami’s developing status, but I’ve been lucky enough to pedal around Boston this weekend and figured this would be a good chance to cover what’s going on outside of South Florida. I’ve not had the pleasure…

New Chef At Wish

The Hotel in South Beach wished upon a star, and it looks like they’ve got one. Marco Ferraro, just named the new executive chef of the property’s Wish restaurant, has what they call in the business “the chops.” There are numerous ways to achieve chopdom, and Mr. Ferraro seems to…

Cocaine Cowboys 2 Takes Its Cues From ’90s West Coast Hood Flicks

Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustin’ With The Godmother (Rakontur) On the DVD commentary of Cocaine Cowboys 2, rakontur director Billy Corben describes the aesthetic difference between CC1 and CC2 as East Coast versus West Coast. Because the first film revolved around Miami in the ’80s, it was made to feel like…

Top 5 Songs About Miami

Miami, a city that has inspired numerous crime-driven TV shows, plenty of bad movies and countless rap videos. And why wouldn’t it? It’s sunny city laced with danger — and plenty of coke. So it goes without saying, plenty of songs have been written about our fair city. I’ve narrowed…

Gen Art Director Monica Glass Leaves Post For LA

Courtesy of Monica Glass Departing Gen Art director Monica Glass and her successor Andrea Aberegg at the Chanel Ready-to-Wear Resort Collection at the Raleigh in May. Since 1993, Gen Art has been organizing art and entertainment events in cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. In 2002, the organization…

Pitchfork Gives Dino Felipe’s Latest Release a 7.2

Dino Felipe No Fun Demo (No Fun) Hard-to-please, self-righteous Web site Pitchfork gave local musician Dino Felipe’s latest release No Fun Demo a 7.2 out of 10, which for Pitchfork is a-fucking-mazing. Reviewer Marc Masters calls Felipe’s latest effort “his poppiest [release] to date,” adding “Felipe rarely deviates from his…

The Vagabond Shut Down For the Weekend UPDATED

Word around town is there was an accident at The Vagabond (30 NE 14th Street, Miami) last night. Various sources have told me someone got injured, and then this was posted at 5:56 a.m. by The Vagabond via MySpace: Hello friends, Last night, an unfortunate incident happened where a ceiling…

Chef Allen Gets A Facelift

I recently saw Chef Allen at an event and thought to myself, “Hmm, he’s getting on in years; now might be a good time for some nip-and-tuck.” Well, wouldn’t you know that he’s gone ahead and done just that. Oh, wait a minute, sorry — I read the release wrong…

Blog of the Week – Random Pixels

The Miami Herald isn’t the only daily in the United States hurting these days because of lack of subscriptions and advertisers. But the question is, is the Herald doing everything in its power to hold on to its readership? Random Pixels has a few ideas on how the Herald can…