New Year’s Eve, like Valentine’s Day, is what folks in the restaurant biz refer to as “Amateur Night” — meaning the patrons who frequent eateries on these occasions are not necessarily the most serious diners. That said, some of our local chefs have come up with seriously creative menus for…
Do you think Dennis or Hillary could be twins? Or that Huckabee and Giuliani are cut from the same cloth? That’s what we thought. If you want to show how different the candidates are in the Florida presidential primaries on Jan. 29, you must be registered to vote by Dec…
So my friend downloaded the latest Burnout Paradise demo from Xbox Live, and I can say that the game is shaping up quite nicely. EA better not just stop at the demo, though. I’d hate to see this series go to crap. My friend played it first, and the first…
Howie Kleinberg and Michael Jacobs have a lot in common. Both chefs are fairly big guys, and have been cooking locally for many a year (Jacobs was originally top toque at Tantra in 1997). Kleinberg started up the kitchen at The Food Gang in Surfside, which for all its glowing…
Hey, Mom and Dad! Can you find and circle all the weapons your kids brought to school last year? Between August 2006 and July 2007, Miami-Dade Schools Police confiscated on school property about 300 objects deemed “weapons.” Little Billy and Susie (and Andrés and Keisha) packed 17 handguns, two AK-47s,…
1. There Will Be Blood: The Texas tea bubbles up from the ground like primordial blood at the beginning of Paul Thomas Anderson’s turn-of-the-century oil-prospecting epic (which won’t open in most parts of the country until January and stars Daniel Day-Lewis). Nearly three hours later, the blood spilling across the…
How tough is it for a movie to find its audience, above the din of blockbuster marketing and beyond the clogged distribution pipeline? Tsai Ming-liang, the Taiwanese/Malaysian director regarded as one of the world’s greats, had two films in U.S. theaters this year, The Wayward Cloud and I Don’t Want…
An acquaintance who fought in both Afghanistan and Iraq says he has no use for documentaries about George Bush’s bungling of the War on Terror. He has not and will not see a single one of the movies made about the tragic consequences of the administration’s rush to drop bombs…
It was only a couple of years ago that the horror genre seemed newly resurgent, like an undead killer digging himself out of the grave. “Fresh-faced” directors like Eli Roth, Rob Zombie, Darren Lynn Bousman, and James Wan — many of whom were dubbed “The Splat Pack” — seemed poised…
Absolutely, unequivocally, this has been The Year of The Apatow. Judd got Knocked Up to the tune of $150 million (at the box office alone); the super-okay Superbad, which Apatow produced, grossed another $120 million, gross being the operative word; and at year’s end, he walks hard to the finish…
One secretary attended school and had skin treatments on the taxpayers’ dime. Another employee was let out of work for jury duty … on most Fridays between January 2005 and June 2006. And a third person — also paid by you and me — possibly used publicly funded help to…
Hi Cleo Lemon. Hello. How are you? Let me first just say, thanks for all the memories. It’s been real. You had some decent games for us here and there over the last couple of seasons. Hell, you helped us avoid infamy by leading us to our first and only…
Where: Hops Grill and Brewery , 1155 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines, (954) 441-4599 What $15 Gets You: Smothered Chicken Marsala, side of vegetables, side of fries, and a drink of your choice. The food at Hops wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. It was standard. Keeping in mind that…
Big Man, one of the men sent to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway because of a county ordinance prohibiting sex offenders from living in most of Miami-Dade — “Sex Offenders Set up Camp,” – has been allowed to return home with his wife in Pompano Beach. His case, it…
Glenn61 — our resident degenerate and hooker expert– has sadly left us. He’s moved up to Broward, where Bob Norman and the gang will no doubt delight at his impish misadventures. Before he went, however, he sent me this Christmas present. I don’t know what the hell it is folks…
In my restaurant review this week (Two Americas), I wrote that “While a ‘food revolution’ has indeed taken place, only middle-class and wealthy people can afford to purchase the real quality goods (To wit: Last week I swooned at the check-out line upon realizing I’d just paid eight dollars for…
Bring some cafe cubano into the clutches of your friends who perpetually tote around Starbucks cups. The white-haired Cuban owner of Indian Hardware, 1227 Alton Road, Miami Beach, has been selling everything from keys to coffeemakers for 40 years. His dusty shelves are stocked with stove-top espresso makers for $14.95…
Last Minute Gifts: Lizano Hot Sauce The year was 1992 – or something like that; the place was Costa Rica. The food was Gallo Pinto – the uniquely Central American name for rice and beans – and it was good, until I put some Lizano, Costa Rica’s ubiquitous hot sauce,…
Happy Festivus Everyone. The New Times has compiled all of our year end rankings, lists, and other nonsense below. So when the family meltdown begins escape into our 2007 retrospective. Just click on the photos below: 2007 In Photos Top 20 South Florida Concerts of 2007 Miami’s Best Albums of…
Sure Luis Posada Carriles has been called the “bin Laden of the hemisphere” by the Cuban government but his giclée prints selling at Cuba Collectibles.com are not half bad. (Sorry, looks like Viejito is sold out but Tumbadoras, a pair of smiling drummers and the top-seller, is still in stock.)…
1. New Orleans City Council Votes to Demolish Housing, Protesters Riot – The City Council voted unanimously to raze the city’s largest public housing project. Protesters fought with police. Those outside the city council chambers fought to get in, the one’s inside argued for their homes. 2. Governor Crist Unveils…
It’s hard to find something in Miami that someone back home will want – something that will help them understand what the hell you’ve been doing for the past three years and why you’ve opted to spend your days on the hurricane-addled edge of the world. Thank God for the…
