Last week Head Spins brought you into the studio of WDNA, site of Gene de Souza’s long-running Café Brasil. As we said in the article, any Brazilian worth his or her weight in music pays a visit to the show when they hit town, and that included Adriana Calcanhotto, who…
Residents at Opa-locka’s Gardens Apartments — perhaps the city’s sketchiest property — endured 5 murders, 656 assaults, 34 robberies, 25 shootings, and 80 stolen cars during one four-year stretch, according to police records. And the apartments remain the hottest spot in the city for cops, says Capt. Rex Galindo, a spokesman…
It was 1979 and punk was being born again in the glitter-flecked primordial muck of Los Angeles. Late-blooming skinheads and bands like Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and the Germs were bashing the West Coast hardcore scene into shape, using little more than blunt force. For most fans of aggro…
Contrary to the way it seems, Riptide does not watch every reality TV show. Our TVs are seldom set to anything involving dance, but perhaps we should have caught some So You Think You Can Dance this season, because 18-year-old Miami student Jeanine Mason won. Yes, she did flamenco, the lambada,…
Broward-based MC Dynas is one of the local hip-hop underground’s stealth forces. He may not perform every weekend at the usual suspect venues, but when he surfaces, it’s always with something worth stopping to listen to. Raised in New York City, his style is stamped with his hometown’s golden-era lyricism…
The Tummy Trilogy, the 1994 compilation of Calvin Trillin’s three food books (American Fried; Alice, Let’s Eat; and Third Helpings), contains enough funny — and brilliant — observations on eating to fill Friday Food Funnies for years. There is certainly no other food writer that can play on the same…
To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. I attended the local stop of the Warped Tour, on Saturday, July 25 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, and was disappointed that no one really watched Bad Religion. I don’t get it! These guys are…
To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here. One constant theme of this column is a fixation on bands and artists that somehow fell through the cracks that occur within pop music’s lengthy trajectory. That’s one hazard of rock’s rich repertoire — so many artists, but so…
As long as we’re talkin’ bout Maggotron, we might as well do the right thing and put some of his sounds in your earholes. Get ready for robot voices, vocoder effects, screw type vocals, movie quotes, scratch noises, more cowbell, and the drum patterns that now define old school…
The last time we checked in with the Weston-by-way-of-Bogota, brother-heavy indie act Old Wives’ Tale was this past June. Then, the band had just released its debut album, and was set to embark on a mini European tour. What we forgot to explain, though, is that the reason for the…
This is just freakin’ awesome. James and Karla Murray, the photographers behind Miami Graffiti, the book showcasing our finest street artists, have inspired a nostalgic acid trip of an art installation featuring local graff legend Crome. For an exhibition still in the works called “MOM & POPism,” artist Billi Kid…
Norman Van Aken, Chef/Owner Norman’s at the Ritz Carlton, Orlando (and soon to be Norman’s 180 in Coral Gables) It seems everyone has his or her own favorite Julia Child story. That’s how well known and firmly entrenched in the American psyche the inimitably voiced gourmet goddess, (of the more…
Boxed In Loved it so much she’s afraid: “Million Dollar Maybe” (Natalie O’Neill, July 30) was great — just crazy-cool. It makes me want to cry to see a woman so strong and determined. You go, girl! Good thing I saw Christina Swanson’s pic, so I know not to mess…
George and Martha of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Burt Pugach and Linda Riss of Crazy Love. Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan of Us Weekly. Pop culture is full of quite literally insane couples who manage to stay together no matter how much we’re secretly rooting for their relationship’s demise…
Chef Allen Susser, Chef/Owner Chef Allen’sTalking about Food was one of Julia’s favorite subjects. She was always involved. But Julia never saw food as an armchair discussion. She wanted to get right into the middle to experience the foods, the flavors, and the culture. I loved showing her our mangoes,…
Break out your plastic containers, glass jars, and individual size serving packets of that funky yellow condiment America loves. Today is National mustard day. Soon Biscayne Boulevard will be engulfed in a roaring flood of that French’s. Dijon fights will erupt spontaneously in parking lots across Hialeah. Kids all over…
Saigon Kick was arguably South Florida’s biggest rock export in the early ’90s, a band with some major hits that remains somewhat underrated, perhaps, because of the time at which it appeared. At first glance, the group, originally a quartet, had all the aesthetic stylings of a glam-metal act. But…
Mike Mineo fuses reggae, soulful vocals, and fan-chain pulling, computer-monitor slapping, light-switch flipping percussion for his funky and quirky single “Work,” off his upcoming album Eccentricity, due out in late February. Produced by Brent Williams, who produces and plays with local singer-songwriter Cat Shell, “Work” conveys the sense of stagnant imprisonment and monotony associated with middle-class/blue-collar existence. Mineo used a click…
Short Order’s been bothering every restaurant worker we meet for stories from their time working in the restaurant industry. Pen and pad in hand we approach them in kitchens, at bars, in hallways and at hostess stands. Sometimes the stories come to us.That’s how we met twenty eight year old…
According to Hart Baur from SKUM, Grove Cinema “was the only (movie) theatre in Miami that had a liquor license,” which means that if you were old enough to have a drink in 1988 you could have done so while watching The Decline of Western Civilization Part II – The…
Last week, I reported about Sean Casey, a 35-year-old Boston native who is serving a 12-and-a-half-year prison term for allegedly running down and killing an elderly woman on Harding Avenue in Miami Beach, and then fleeing the scene, back in 2001.While awaiting trial, Casey fled the country in 2004 to…
This past weekend was relatively slow for “big” shows… But among the most impressive gigs last week was Thursday night at Propaganda, where local guys Stonefox celebrated the release of their sophomore album. For the occasion, they invited their awesome friends from Atlanta, Dead Rabbits. This band is a brother-brother…
