Mike Torrey, Machu Picchu Photog, Talks Food in Peru

Mike Torrey is a San Diego based architectural photographer with a new book out called “Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu’s Terraces of Enlightenment.”Mike will be in town for the Miami International Book Fair and will be on a panel with a National Geographic photographer and a pilgrimage organizer on Saturday, November…

Flyer of the Week: Yacht at Electric Pickle November 14

According to the Yacht Manifesto #1: “Yacht is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA.” Also, Yacht “seeks to explore frontiers and to expand awareness of extraterrestrial Intelligence” and “believes in an Afterlife,” but “does not…

Kourtney and Khloe Shockingly Not Based on Reality

Here we were thinking Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami was an authentic documentary looking at the real lives of two young girls trying to make it in the Magic City, but *gasp* new revelations seem to reveal that it was actually some sort of heavily manipulated pseudo-reality program milked for…

Slip N Slide DJ Purfiya Can’t R.I.P. Because He’s Not Dead

DJ Purfiya is from the city of Palmetto, Florida, just south of Tampa. He’s affiliated with Miami’s own Slip N Slide Records as one of their official DJs.Wednesday, rumors hit the Internet — namely Twitter — that he had died due to complications of the flu. Yesterday we found out…

Miami’s World Series MVP: A-Rod

As far as I know, there were two Miami boyz playing in the World Series — A-Rod (Westminster) and Raul Ibanez (Sunset) — as well as a lot of Dominicans and others who spend significant time here. Though Hideki Matsui won the MVP — and he’s a Yankee I generally…

Why Are They Messin’ With My Oreos?

Last night, the monster magnet lodged at the end of my shopping cart dragged me, yet again, directly to the cookie aisle. I gazed in awe at the vast selection that lined the shelves, wondering where my favorite cookie jar filler could be found. Panic overrode the incessant drooling when…

Letters from the Issue of November 5, 2009

Barack Talk Get to work, big O: “No Justice” (James Lieber, October 29) was great. President Obama should read it and get rid of most of his treasury officials. He should put Brooksley Born, the lady who tried to regulate derivatives under President Clinton, in her place. He should put…

Ex-Judge Phil Davis Convicted on Fraud Charges

Looks like Phil Davis is finally heading to the pen.The ex-Miami judge, who wriggled out of jail time in a federal sting operation in the early ’90s by admitting a raging cocaine habit, was found guilty of fraud today.Prosecutors built a case against Davis involving a non-profit he founded in…

Archive Diver: Ray Charles at Woody’s on The Beach in 1988

Ron Wood is one of the world’s most famous bass guitar players thanks to his tenure with the Rolling Stones. But did you know that back in the ’80s he was part owner of a live music venue on Miami Beach called Woody’s? Well, it’s true. Woody’s Miami Beach was…

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top 5 Albums for the week of October 25 – 31Uncle Sam’s, South Beach1. Give Up the Ghost, Brandi Carlile 2. Fruit, Asteroids Galaxy Tour 3. One Love, David Guetta 4. This…

Faceless Blogger “Strawbuyer” Irks Prosecutor Kostrzewski

An anonymous Miami blogger dubbed the Strawbuyer has made an enemy out of a veteran state prosecutor.Since debuting on the web this past July, the author — who writes with the acidic juvenile prose of a celebrity blogger — has attacked the work of Bill Kostrzewski, a Miami-Dade assistant state attorney…

Alan Ogg Dead: His Gumby-esque Physique Ruled the Miami Arena

Before Dwyane Wade, the O’Neal twins, Mario Chalmers, and Eric Spoiled Boy, a seven-foot two-inch giant ruled the Miami Arena. Alan Ogg drew calls of “Ogggggggggggg,” and the fans loved him. Now he’s dead at age 42. An infection somehow reached his enlarged heart. In 1991, then staff writer and…