While most of the city was freaking out over the Super Bowl, some other legends were in town on Friday night: Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead. In a pretty unusual booking for downtown Miami, the two touched down at the recently revamped Bayfront Park Amphitheater…
After a seemingly endless heyday, rap-rock eventually became one of the most reviled musical artifacts of the end of the last millennium. But it’s been more than a decade since then. Fred Durst has disappeared from everywhere except Twitter, and critical darlings like Cage are starting to rhyme over guitars…
Over the weekend, Florida International University men’s basketball coach Isiah Thomas denied a Foxsports.com report that the Los Angeles Clippers were courting him to be the NBA team’s president, general manager, and coach.During his postgame conference following the Golden Panthers’ latest home loss, Thomas said, “I’m very happy here at FIU…..
Locos Por Juana are fuckin’ awesome, and we’ve got the proof. Welcome to our first edition of Crossfade Live, where we bring you our original high definition concert recordings from bands and venues all over South Florida.Today we bring you a full, live album we recorded Friday night at Jazid. If you’ve…
As the New Times reported last week, Monotonix’s trip to South Florida ended when only twelve minutes into its set, the band’s singer Ami Shalev stopped to say: “After more than 700 shows, I think I finally broke my leg.” Seemed like a joke at the time, but it turned…
Here’s a track from the forthcoming collaborative effort between some of South Florida’s most notorious, adept and unfortunately under-recognized musicians. We’re talking here about Bobby Tak (formerly of the Bobs and New Wave sensations the Cichlids), guitar master Charlie Pickett, and Ian Hammond (of the DT Martyrs).I’ll be examining their…
Turns out North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso is not so neighborly. James Carter, a mortgage broker who lives next to Alfonso’s three-bedroom waterfront house at 7520 W Treasure Dr., says his property gets completely soaked in water every time hizzoner turns on the sprinklers.Carter says he’s angry that the…
Word on the street is some kind of athletic contest will take place in the Miami area this weekend. Such frivolous spectacles do not interest Riptide. We are more fascinated by contests of the mind — or, more specifically, finding out who’s been really dumb in the county this week…
From Miami New Times Editor Chuck Strouse:I hate Girl Scout cookies. They started just as the first World War ended in Muskogee Oklahoma. That’s right, the year of the Russian Revolution, they were peddled in a high school cafeteria. That was just five years after the Girl Scouts themselves got…
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma BombeckNot all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.~Dave BarryMTV…
Can’t blame Commissioner Katy Sorenson for calling it a day. Sixteen years is a long time to spend battling the unreformable majority on the county commission.For a decade and a half, Sorenson has consistently been the voice of ethical reason on an elected body that has often voted in favor of…
It’s Friday and the radio’s reporting a current temp of 83 degrees. Your Datsun’s dash clock is busted but your Casio wristwatch reads 7:39 p.m., which means this trip is still on schedule, but barely. You’re bored, sick of the public airwaves and things like the weather, so you press…
We’re not sure if this is a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare, but the prospect of the Jersey Shore cast coming to South Beach for season two just got a little more real.TMZ reports producers sent a letter to Mynt Lounge asking if they’d be able to shoot footage for…
Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega certainly picked a terrible day to leave the Beach for an out-of-state conference. First came a fiery meeting with the City Commission, when the police union decried plans to force them to help make up a city budget deficit. Then, lost amidst the sound…
North Bay Village is a place where corruption and unethical behavior rolls in with the tide on a regular basis.The small three-island city once saw four elected officials indicted and removed from office in one fell swoop.But that hasn’t stopped Mayor Oscar Alfonso from throwing ethics into the murky bottom…
Nothing helps a restaurant (or food festival) more than having a good motto. Except maybe having good food. Or service, or a few other things. Yet while we at Short Order aren’t about to cook or wait tables for you, we’re only too happy to provide a few clever slogans…
Letters from the issue of February 4, 2010
Bougainvillea’s Old Florida Tavern closes at the end of the month
It’s A Crazy, Mixed-Up WorldOff the EaterWire: “Now open in the Hotel Victor, Victor Café is a Mediterranean bistro belonging to the Bice family of restaurants. Executive chef Julian Baker has opened Bice restaurants around the world and brings to South Beach a menu of classic pasta dishes, salads and…
Over at our post announcing the first phase of Ultra’s line-up this year, commenters have been divided. One camp seemed appalled by the new presence of jam-scene-birthed acts like Lotus, Pretty Lights, and the Disco Biscuits. The other camp’s reaction can basically be summed up thusly: “FUCK YEAH BISCO!”If anything…
BLT Steak, Laurent Tourondel’s steakhouse in The Betsy South Beach, has launched a new BLT Express lunch offering: $18, exclusive of tax and gratuity, for any two items from among soups, salads, and half-sandwiches — served simultaneously to insure speedy service. So you might choose tomato gazpacho with goat cheese…
Jersey Shore has inspired a bit of local pride in us. South Beach has its share of classless juiceheads and bimbos, but dear God, at least it’s not that. If Snooki and the Situation are “Gym, Tanning, Laundry,” SoBe-ites are a tad bit classier — like “Gym, Tanning, Dry Cleaning.”Well,…
