R.L. Burnside A Ass Pocket of Whiskey (Matador) Recorded in one afternoon in the Holly Springs, Mississippi, hometown of 69-year-old blues great R.L. Burnside, A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey documents a noisy, spirited session between Burnside, his sideman Kenny Brown, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, a New York City-based…
Los Lobos Colossal Head (Warner Bros.) All artists show their influences in their work. What separates the sublime from the hapless in this regard is the ability to do it without being crass. And there’s certainly nothing crass about Colossal Head, the seventh long player from Los Lobos. Genius is…
Maria Genero isn’t this town’s best-known weathercaster. But when Hollywood came a-knocking, top stormdogs Bryan Norcross and Don Noe were nowhere to be seen; it was the perky WTVJ-TV (Channel 6) weekend fill-in who answered the door. Genero landed a bit part in Striptease, the Demi Moore vehicle that was…
Chip Cassidy, wine director of Crown Wine Merchants and possibly the foremost wine retailer in the Southeast, tilts back in his favorite chair at his favorite table in his favorite restaurant. He raises his glass of 1990 Domaine Trimbach Riesling Cuvee Frederic Emile and swirls it gently, then lets his…
This article was not conceived as a thorough computer-assisted analysis of South Florida wine lists. Thus, while an index of the wine lists compiled appears below, the tables that accompany this story do not single out restaurants by name. Their purpose is merely to illustrate the vast variation one is…
They induced the best national acts to play in a small barroom, and now they’re shutting down. Blame the owners. Blame South Beach. Blame yourself.
Lionel Goldbart is an unlikely hero. Working the Lotto hardware at Art Barker’s News on a Saturday afternoon, he’s somewhat forgettable in his worn T-shirt and shorts buoyed by suspenders, stubbly of chin and thinned out on top, bespectacled, round and a little bit droopy. To anybody who asks, he…
They still flock by the thousands to Mallory Square to catch the sunset, but in Key West there is no more Full Moon. For sixteen years a legendary late-night haven for the Conch town’s rogues and writers, the Full Moon Saloon closed for good on July 19. “We had as…
This past Thursday the newly sworn-in Metro-Dade County Commission took the field against the seasoned Florida Marlins at Joe Robbie Stadium, in the county’s first-ever professional baseball game. On a glorious and sunny April afternoon, the Metro Movers defeated the major league Marlins 8-6, in front of a sellout crowd…
Last Monday, April 5, the Florida Marlins baseball team played its first regular-season major league game. The contest took place at Joe Robbie Stadium in North Dade, home of the Marlins and the Miami Dolphins. The Marlins were victorious, defeating Los Angeles Dodgers by a score of 6-3. Before the…
Greg Baldwin speaks with the straightforwardness of a person who has made the following statement so many times he has forgotten that most people will miss the weight of its full meaning: “The heterosexual community has to understand what we want and where we’re coming from and who we are.”…
Late evening was bleeding into early night when we passed 140th Street and pulled off Biscayne Boulevard into the semicircular driveway of the Miami Moon Motel (“efficiencies, color TV, air conditioning”) in scenic North Miami Beach. A hand-written sign on the front door of the office instructed visitors to knock…
Let us now explain lightning and thunder, and then whirlwinds, firewinds, and thunderbolts: for the cause of all of them must be assumed to be the same.
National Weather Service specialist Noel T. Risnychok doesn’t fit the image.
