Whistle Stop Food Truck Rodeo at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum

​Some of Miami’s most popular food trucks will be tooting their horns at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum this Saturday. The museum, dedicated to preserving the history of trains in Florida, will be hosting an event featuring mobile meals and free admission February 5. Not only will the food trucks…

Hey, Single Ladies: Mate the Pain Away This Valentine’s Day

​It’s February, and you’re single as usual. You and all of the other dateless spinsters are just dying to get some action, but for whatever reason, you don’t want to feel cheap.Here’s the truth: Ladies, you are cheap, and you’re desperate. Embrace your situation, and enjoy life, you sad bastards!…

99. Leek Soup at Buena Vista Deli

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. 99…

Super Super Bowl Keg Options for Miami Drinkers

​Don’t be a snob about renting a keg. No one’s going to think you’re Van Wilder’s older, uglier brother. You’re just thrifty. Providing libation for your closest 40 alcoholic buds during the Super Bowl can get pricey. In a crappy economy, the smartest way to go is with the money-saver…

ArtCenter/South Florida Accepting Submissions for Residency Program

Housing galleries and studios, ArtCenter/South Florida is situated on a bright and bustling corner of Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road. Inside, passersby can watch artists creating in their studios and purchase work from the makers directly. The gallery/studio space offers plenty of foot traffic and visibility year-round, and it attracts thick…

Biscayne Triangle Truck Round-up’s New Location is Announced

​There’s good news today for those in Miami drooling over moving munchies. The Biscayne Triangle Truck Round-up is back on this week with a new location at the parking lot of American Legion Post #29 (6445 NE 7th Avenue, Miami). After moving from the former NE 109th and Biscayne Boulevard location…

Our Lady of Lebanon Festival: People Come for the Food

This weekend there’s plenty of food and not-quiet entertainment at the Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Church’s 34th Annual Lebanese Festival. It’s like being at home but with strangers. The boisterous servers on the buffet line will ask you if you are Lebanese; if you are, why don’t you attend…

25. Gean Moreno

In honor of our Artopia party on February 10, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.25. Gean MorenoArtist and writer Gean Moreno is helping to shape the Miami art scene. Recently,…

Lady Gaga Smells Like Blood and Semen

​Yes, you read that headline correctly. According to Fashionista.com, Lady Gaga of the land “Telephone,” has her own perfume in the works. Apparently, she’s aiming for some seriously corporeal aromas and not the good kind (like babies). Rather, her eau de toilette will smell of blood and semen. We suppose the…

Cookies of the Apocalypse: Eating the End of Days

As you already are well aware, the end of the world is coming very soon. The Mayan calendar kinda just ends on December 12, 2012, which is not tomorrow, but you know, it’s hovering frighteningly close in time. Psychic Edgar Cayce saw us entering into a “New Age” around now,…

Culinarium Thursday Night Food Truck Meet-up Cancelled

​The Thursday night food truck round-up known as Culinarium, which launched last week is being cancelled due to lack of permits. The food court was the first of its kind locally in that it featured live music and booze at Villa 221 (221 NE 17th Street). Organizer Richard Hales of…

Tamiami Truckers Food Court Announces New Location

​Tamiami Truckers Food Court is one of the largest and most popular meet-ups. It convenes by the Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport from 6 to 11 p.m. on Friday nights. They recently announced a change in location starting this week, and will no longer be meeting at 12795 SW 137 Avenue. The…

Miami Poetry Collective Brings Miami Squares to Sweat Records

Miami’s finally figuring out that it’s awesome to get creative with your friends and then share your genius, or whatever, with the rest of the city. Miami Poetry Collective demonstrated this last summer at the inaugural Miami Squares at Sweat Records. The interactive poetry reading was packed with pleased fans and…

Food Truck Rundown: So You Know Where to Find Them

Seems everyone in Miami is hungry for sustenance on wheels these days. And mobile food courts are the rage. This week a few of the meet-up locations are changing. Tomorrow the Biscayne Triangle Truck Round-up, which was meeting on Tuesdays on Biscayne Boulevard and 109th Street, will be closed while…

Sugarcane Introduces a Sublime Revamped Cocktail Menu

​Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill takes cocktails very seriously. This is a blessing for those of us who enjoy libations with complex flavors. South American-inspired, New York-style Midtown gastropub hired mixologists Evas Zvi and Gabriel Orta, who also work with the W South Beach, create possibly the best tasting drinks in…

Helena Garcia Creates Live Mural at Vagabond Tonight

​Wynwood isn’t the only hotspot for artists’ murals near Downtown Miami. Only blocks away in Overtown, a gallery of public art line walls on 14th Street. Both outside and inside of the Vagabond nightclub, another world of paintings is being created by local artists. Tonight, illustrator Helena Garcia will be producing…

Fiamma Gastronomia is Bringing Italy to Española Way

​Fiamma Gastronomia is a very Italian place.It’s a stylish restaurant where pretty much anything goes. You want to watch All My Children on TV, they’ll put it on. You want to specialize your order, no olives, no cheese…no problem. There’s always a chef in the kitchen. It’s clean and sleek,…