Early on in Forrest Shaw’s comedy career, a guest spot at the Improv put him in front of an enthusiastically unappreciative crowd. He told us, “When you first start out, all your jokes are about masturbating.” While telling a joke on the sensitive subject, hand moving back and forth in…
This morning, we got the nasty news that the doors to Bar at 28 NE 14th Street will never reopen again. It sounds dramatic, because it is dramatic. It’s all sad over there, and closed. Saying goodbye is hard! There are plenty of 305 folks who will now never step…
A nameless homeless man arrives at his new home by train. He enters what the chief of police calls “Fucktown” to which he welcomes the tramp before holding him down so that a couple of douchebags might carve the word “scum” into his chest.The film Hobo with a Shotgun was…
Madonna once asked, “Do you know what it feels like for a girl in this world?” Look dudes, no matter how many women’s studies classes you’ve taken or how much Lifetime TV you’ve watched, the female experience isn’t one you can just stumble upon or even easily understand. Maybe psychedelic…
Maybe you know him only as cofounder and bassist of Mötley Crüe, a metal god, a man of magically spiky hair, someone who once frequented “Dr. Feelgood.” But Sixx is also a father of four, a photographer since 1998, an internationally syndicated radio personality, and a clear-thinking, superbusy dude. This…
At the Biscayne Truck Triangle Roundup on the grounds of Johnson & Wales University, chef and restauranteur Michelle Bernstein made about 1,000 samples of a refreshing summer dish to distribute to visitors for free. All of the meals were scarfed down by eager eaters within an hour.Miami was the inaugural…
Cary Elwes. Hubba hubba. No one’s saying the man isn’t a great actor, but he’s also obviously a dreamboat. The British screen star stole a generation of ladies’ hearts as Westley, the farm boy in The Princess Bride, and then he made us laugh in Mel Brooks’ spoof Robin Hood: Men…
Ashley Jones, known as Treasure Fingers, is a man, not a lady. Like the Ashley in Gone With The Wind, Jones is also from Atlanta. But unlike the guy in the book with Scarlett O’Hara, he’s a highly coveted disco house DJ and producer who spends much of his life…
On Wednesday night, Bar tweeted: “As of this afternoon, BAR on 14th Street has permanently shut down.” So the Jacuzzi Boys goodbye party has been canceled. Everyone’s slowly coming to terms with the fact that the space at 28 NE 14th Street, currently known as Bar, will soon be closing…
So word on the web is that Los Angeles Laker Ron Artest is changing his name to Metta World Peace. Metta. (That’s Mr. World Peace, if you’re nasty.) According to ESPN, his attorney filed papers a little over a week ago to make this his new legal label.His new first…
Since you obviously have good taste, you must be looking forward to Disney’s soon-to-be-classic The Muppets coming out this Thanksgiving. You won’t have to wait till November, though, to conjure up memories of these furry little guys. Pitchfork reported that on August 23, Weezer, Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket, and Sondre…
Everyone’s getting in on the food truck action. Even Macy’s is taking the popularity of the mobile meal and using the talents of famous chefs to market to the good old U.S.A. Miami is the first stop on the national Macy’s Chefs A-Go-Go food truck tour, which will be showcasing…
Richard Hales, chef and owner of Midtown hotspot Sakaya Kitchen, spoke with Short Order about his love for Thailand and about the trials of food trucks. He then was kind enough to share with all of us a recipe for a dish worth trying to make at home. Dae Ji Grilled Baby…
Sakaya Kitchen’s Richard Hales gave us frank answers to questions about wine and food trucks, though not about wine on food trucks. During the first part of our interview with the restaurateur, we talked a bit about eating Asian and business school.Hales is living his childhood dream, even though it’s…
Alongside Mos Def, Talib Kweli was Black Star, a duo that created the soundtrack — via hand-me-down cassette — to this writer’s late-’90s college days. Somehow, their socially conscious, Afrocentric hip-hop totally articulated how we felt as a nerdy, suburban white girl driving through the streets of South Beach. So…
Video artist Ryan Trecartin’s work is intense, but in the good way. He said it makes some people anxious, but generally speaking, it’s a little unnerving, a tiny bit scary, very funny, so smart, and sweetly over-stimulating. “Any Ever,” his MOCA exhibit that opened last night, includes seven movies created…
Tribute shows are terrible in so many ways. It’s like, If I really wanted to hear that song the way I enjoy hearing it, I’d use my iPod, thank you. But tributes are also fun to watch for their crash-and-burn performances. And sometimes, even because someone does a shockingly wonderful…
Recently, Perez Hilton reported that tickets for Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale tour are selling for half off. Apparently, the original prices were extremely expensive, in the range of $96 to $346.50, before fees. But her boyfriend Jason Trawick is selling tickets on his site at a 50-percent discount, as was…
Richard Hales is the owner of the popular Sakaya Kitchen, one of the few independently owned joints that make Midtown cool. He took over our palates with intoxicating brussels sprouts, and then helmed the growing food truck movement in Miami.At age 21, after being laid off, the Tampa native knew…
Sticky-fingered friends are no good. They’ve stolen your best CDs over the years. But Treasure Fingers is a hand you probably wanna get familiar with. The disco-house DJ and producer is Atlanta-bred Ashley Jones. Appropriately signed to Fool’s Gold Records and working out of New York, he creates original tracks…
Gallagher, famous for letting out his anger on watermelons, lit up a room of mostly middle-aged white folks cloaked in plastic last night at the Seminole Casino. Though most people seemed amused, let’s just say, it’d be hard to imagine sitting through a dinner with the guy.For a progressive woman…
Whatever you call your male parent — pops, dad, father, papa, man-whose-seed-enabled-my-existence, the-reason-I’m-so-fucked-up — and whatever your relationship is with your one or two dads, we all appreciate a good song about daddyness.In honor of Father’s Day, which is this Sunday (go buy a card or something), and to celebrate…
