THU 29 Where can a country girl find a decent hoedown? Thanks to the friendly folks at the Main Street Café (128 N. Krome Ave., Homestead), every Thursday night we can slip into our dungarees, Frye boots, and sassy Stetsons to enjoy a heapin’ helpin’ of classic country music. With…
THU 22 Dude, you’ve been sporting a soul patch and toting around that ragged copy of On the Road since you left Evergreen State College in 1993. Don’t you think it’s time to update your look and your book? You can take care of both issues tonight when Miami Living…
Andres Levin is a very busy man. He’s currently scoring a film and a television show, and he’s knee-deep in producing a Brazilian jazz album. Besides those projects, Levin is about to bring his increasingly popular band Yerba Buena back to rock Miami. The seven-member group is hitting the road…
THU 15 Formed in 1992 in a lush little Florida college town we like to call Gainesville, the three Pez-loving pop-y punk bandmates of Less than Jake spent a few years tinkering with their identity, and by adding a few members and an addictive ska beat, they soon won over…
THU 8 Artists find inspiration in the strangest places. “I was walking behind a very, um, obese lady, and she was wearing purple spandex,” says New York photographer Daniel Aubry, who pauses to laugh. “And I imagined her as a mound, or pile, of cheeseburgers.” From that thought Aubry conceived…
Marc Bamuthi Joseph has won four national poetry slams and appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. He’s been hailed by critics as being one of the most compelling and important spoken-word performance artists. But Bamuthi Joseph shrugs off the accolades. “My greatest achievement? It’s being a father. No question,” the…
Funkmaster Flex is more than a DJ. The man who first made his name a decade ago as the on-air voice for the blossoming hip-hop scene in New York has managed to parlay his influence into a multimedia career that successfully combines his two major passions: hip-hop and tricked-out whips…
Before Beat Street and Breakin’, street gangs were b-boying to the Sugar Hill Gang. Before that, there was the Rock Steady Crew, doing fly moves to the sounds of Afrika Bambaataa. Earlier still, there was James Brown’s “Get on the Good Foot,” which sparked a trend of competitive street dancing…
Birthdays, vacations, family reunions. These are the occasions that Barron Sherer and Kevin Wynn watch over and over. As co-curators of Cinema Vortex, a nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting and screening Florida’s old movies, Sherer and Wynn have seen thousands of children blow out birthday candles, a ridiculous number of…
For local food lovers Miami Spice has been an exciting, much-anticipated event. And for good reason — restaurants that typically charge a pretty penny for fancy dishes offer prix fixe menus which allow diners on a budget to feast in fine style. This year the culinary program is bigger and…
In a dark corner of Scorpico Multiplayer, ten young adults are sitting together, headsets in place, eyes focused on the glowing computer screens before them. They are all playing Battlefield 2, the number-one game in the country. “Sometimes I have twenty, thirty people all playing the same game,” says co-owner…
At the stroke of midnight in the dark morning of Saturday, July 16, cash registers all over the world will be singing “ca-ching, ca-ching” for bookstore owners when the sixth tome in J.K. Rowling’s super-successful Harry Potter series makes its debut. Expectations for the latest installation, Harry Potter and the…
Jamaican Julie has a dwarf stature and a tangy flavor. Graham comes from Trinidad and has yellow skin that darkens to a pink blush. Rosigold is silky and ripens early. Tommy Atkins is available anywhere in Florida. The Indian Alampur Baneshan has a complex, somewhat overpowering flavor that will appeal…
Unlike most other monarchs, Karen Adler and Judith Fertig were not born into royalty. These Kansas City women earned the right to call themselves The BBQ Queens fair and square. After a chauvinistic local DJ dared to say women couldn’t barbecue, Adler and Fertig called his bluff with a battle-of-the-sexes…
After a lengthy and publicly rancorous battle with his employers, Kevin “Ital-K” Smith was officially informed that his services as traffic director at WLRN-FM (91.3) would no longer be required. This occurred Tuesday, June 21, when Friends of WLRN executive director Rick Lewis and CFO Karen Echols personally lowered the…
After 50 years, Frankie’s Pizza remains as no-nonsense as ever. The slices are still square, you still get a complimentary sample for immediate noshing, and the prices still can’t be beat — you can score a tomato and cheese slice for a buck and a dime. “We’re still doing things…
Every year when Father’s Day rolls around, the family treks out to the mall to buy the requisite gift: a high-tech gadget, a new watch or wallet, a pair of silky socks, or something with “#1 Dad” proudly emblazoned on it. Fathers get the same boring presents because they never…
South Beach on Memorial Day weekend looks like a scene from a rap music video — parties on the beach, baller types cruising down Ocean Drive in expensive rentals with oversize gleaming rims, and girls spilling out of tiny bikini tops. The last weekend in May has become a much-anticipated…
When Benoit Swan-Pouffer discusses the latest production of the Cedar Lake Ensemble, “Beyond the Red,” his French accent thickens and his words trip over each other in excitement. His passion is audibly apparent, as well it should be. As the resident choreographer of this young dance ensemble, he is able…
She’s known for fine fashion, accessories, and perfumes. Hollywood stars Renée Zellweger, Brittany Murphy, and Salma Hayek wear her fabulous frocks to red-carpet events. Venezuelan designer Carolina Herrera found her springboard to international fame right here in the Magic City, at the annual Miami Fashion Week of the Americas. This…
For those of us from the northern hemisphere who haven’t traveled much, Australia seems odd and amazing. Its seasons are reversed — Christmas is a perfect time to work on a tan, and winter is in July. Metropolises, deserts, rain forests, snowfields, and sandy beaches can all be found in…
Being a good student at the University of Miami can be hard. Besides the regular load of course work, the campus is like a microcosm of South Beach, with muscled young men and barely legal, scantily clad females everywhere. Despite the steamy atmosphere, Brian Bellinkoff and Fizaa Dosani stay centered…
