With a sewing machine and a fashion dream, designer Lorie Lester opened her own clothing store and studio this last October, just steps from the Design District. At only 27, the Miami native knows what’s she’s doing despite being an unusual age and gender for owning an independent business in…
Nuns performing Fiddler on the Roof on a cruise ship? You’d have to be a madman or a genius to think of that meshuggah idea. Nunsense creator and director Dan Goggin is the kooky brain behind the cockamamie concept of, what else, but Meshuggah-Nuns. The show marks the grand finale of…
After speaking with Susan Lee-Chun about her sweet Yummy ChunBuns, you might drool a little. The artist has a sense of humor and a good eye for delightful desserts. She’s happy when people say to her: “I love your buns!” or “Damn, girl! Your buns are amazing!” Speaking of the…
Lester’s. It sounds like a Milwaukee dive bar where steelworkers make eyes at Doreen, the sassy bartender with a heart of gold. But not Lester’s in Miami. Here it will be a coffee shop/bar with a simple concept and a chic, clean, sleek look.Artist Dan Milewski is opening Lester’s in Wynwood, tentatively…
Kayla de la Cerda, like most of us, remembers eating Lunchables as a kid. Unlike the rest of us, this 18-year-old Miamian was able to incorporate her memory of mystery meat and crackers into a screenplay for With Me. Filmed with Fro Rojas, it screens this Saturday at the Borscht…
Magical visual manipulators of sea life Coral Morphologic, comprised of Colin Foord and Jared McKay, not only landed a spot at the Borscht Film Festival, screening their short “Man O War,” but also an original soundtrack for the film by Animal Collective’s Geologist. Lucky for the Morphologic guys, he’s not just a…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 51…
At the Beautiful Villains Fashion Show, designer Lorie Lester’s friends and family (i.e., people of all shapes and sizes) will model her 2011 summer line. That way we get to enjoy her ’70s-inspired fabrics and silhouettes on bodies that look more like our own than a 12-year-old girl’s. Lester is…
Local artist Carlos Rigau wanted to show us a house around the corner from his art space and residence General Practice. What’s so interesting about this place down the street? It’s situated next to an empty lot, under a sexy billboard and the freeway. Unlike General Practice, which is protected by…
The story of Jason Handelsman, AKA The President, is already interesting enough when summarized by writer and video-maker Jacob Katel: “There’s something funny about a native Dade County cracker who calls himself The President and lives in a foreclosed house in Cutler Ridge, trying to make it in the rap…
Everyone’s life is so rich with tales, some boring, others outrageous. But sometimes we feel like we don’t have the tools tell them, and so our memories become jumbled. And our hands won’t write. Frustration prevails.Maybe you’ve given up all hope on writing your story, or maybe you have a…
Lady Gaga doesn’t dress like the rest of us. For example, sometimes you’re putting on a polo and you look down and think, I look like a douche, so you replace it with a Sonic Youth t-shirt. Or you put on shorts and then realize your ass cheeks are partially…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 55…
Heather Greene isn’t just one of the worlds few female whiskey experts and official ambassador for Glenfiddich scotch, she’s also an accomplished singer-songwriter.She and her partner in music, Adam Williams, have put together cool, mellow, urban music to accompany a perfect glass of whiskey for the series “Music to Drink…
See the full Lady Gaga at the American Airlines Arena slideshow. Lady GagaWith Semi Precious WeaponsAmerican Airlines ArenaApril 13, 2011 Better Than: A Slurpee on a cool day in a hot room. Not since a 1990-something Ani DiFranco show has so much talking been heard coming from the stage at…
What do you get when everyone except for a few nuns is seasick on a “Faiths of All Nations” cruise and the show must still go on? Well, if that show is Fiddler on the Roof, you get Meshuggah-Nunsb>. The quirky musical is the brainchild of Dan Goggin, creator of…
When we saw the stills from Jorge Rubiera’s new film, we were stunned. They transported us to another time and place. Rubiera, winner of the New Times MasterMind award for narrative, is someone who knows how to hold a camera and when to take a shot.The current working title of…
If you prefer giving back while enjoying the finer things in life, you’re in luck. This week the United Way will host its 16th annual Miami Wine & Food Festival, featuring flowing wine and whiskey and tons of fantastic foods. To maximize your eating and drinking pleasure, organizers have added…
Everybody’s favorite glam guidette isn’t Snooki, it’s Lady Gaga. The Italian-American princess continues to force parents into explaining things like disco sticks to their five year olds. Sure, Gaga’s always less than boring. But sometimes, she’s just so ridiculous that we don’t even have the energy to “get it.”Still, Mother…
It’s not every day you hear about a guy from Birmingham, England, cooking Spanish cuisine that everyone wants to eat. We suppose that makes Michael Gilligan a special kind of chef.Gilligan, who will present dessert this weekend at a United Way event, got his start not only working at Michelin-starred restaurants but…
As a kid growing up in Miami, there really was no better place than Vizcaya to blast our young impressionable minds into the past and out of the realm of reality. The romantic mansion and manicured gardens inspire fantasies of lives never lived, wayward minotaurs, and renaissance love affairs. …
Kevin Lemonier, a senior at Miami Edison Senior High School has been working with Youth L.E.A.D. (Youth Leading Environmental Activism through Democracy) for about a year. At first, his sister’s garden and all of the work intimidated Kevin, but after regularly working in it, he realized it was “a lot…
