Ah, how I miss Joe Arriola. The boisterous ex-city manager was always good for a laugh. So it was nice to see Arriola, who appears to have shed a few pounds, as a guest on WBPT’s community talk show, Issues, this past July 24. During a 15-minute interview with host…
The Fourth Annual Florida State Rag Popping Championship took place July 28, 1988 at Tobacco Road. The competition was presided over by the International Rag Popping Association. According to the 1988 issue of New Times promoting the event, “rag popping is an eclectic mix of dance, rhythm, and juggling, all…
Bond Street, one of our best sushi establishments, is opening a branch in the tony Thompson Beverly Hills hotel (the flagship Bond Street is in NY – SoBe’s opened in 2001). One of the cooler treats at the new place will be soy sauce “caviar”, tiny dots of the dark…
First, check out New Times’ Warped Tour photo slideshows — click here for the bands, click here for the fans and the fashions.Saturday proved meteorologically unpredictable in West Palm Beach. This year’s edition of the Warped Tour had migrated pretty far north from its usual South Florida venues in Miami…
New Times does its best to get with pretty much every South Florida DJ, as long as they’re active. But DJ Erok’s so damn active that we can’t seem to get a hold of him. Oh, we sat down and interviewed the Galveston, Texas native for Head Spins months ago,…
Ben Novack Jr was into some crazy, crazy shit like amputee porn.Ft. Myers Beach fired their town manager because her wife stars in movie where her characters are described thusly: “Jazella Moore is a scandalous MILF. She’s already slept with her son’s friend once and was able to keep it…
Forget about the Aqua Girl thing and that Just Add Water party. Don’t think about the Standard and that rad view of the bay they have.This is the real Pool Party. The last time Pool Party played was at Sweat Records’ COLTOBERFEST 305, last October. No one has seen or…
Believe it … There are chimps living among us. And when these wild animals aren’t busy ripping the faces off unwitting citizens, they’re insidiously hard to spot. Cleverly camouflaged in people clothes with their hair cropped and parted smartly down the middle of the skull, they’re shopping in our supermarkets…
Yes, it’s no secret I hang out at the Poorhouse in Fort Lauderdale a lot. But here’s a new event worth mentioning at the bar: My Pod Mondays. It started a few weeks ago and is hosted by the place’s legendary bartender, Mr. Jon Owens. People interested in putting their…
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. ~Woody AllenNow that it’s fashionable to reveal intimate details of married life, I can state publicly that my wife, Alice, has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a…
Gregory Poux was killed last night around the corner from New Times, at the Windwood Car Wash on NE Second Avenue. The 34-year-old who lived up the street in Little Haiti was shot multiple times and then died at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The Miami Herald and cops portrayed the death as tragic. He cared…
Our sister paper in San Francisco notes that Miami-Dade’s new $200K housing director Gregg Fortner isn’t particularly well liked back home: Two quotes from the piece: “Fortner fell out of favor with [Gavin] Newsom after the mayor discovered a city-built playground at the Sunnydale development torched for the second time…
Murder (And Politics) Most Foul Goodbye, Jess: “‘Til Death” (Michael J. Mooney, July 16), about the woman who killed her estranged wife, is beautifully written but terribly sad. It seems like Jessica was a wonderful lady the world will miss a lot. I’ll have both of these women in my…
Stories from TattooLaPalooza at the Miami Beach Convention Center
I don’t know how it is that Real Housewives keeps coming up on a topic of discussion on this blog (seriously, we are really not as obsessed with Bravo programming as it seems), but Real Housewives of New York star Jill Zarin recently hosted a Hamptons fundraiser for Charlie Crist’s…
Some DJs wear their influences on T-shirts; others shout ’em out from the rooftops. Then there are the spinners who allow their influences to speak for themselves, in every loop, sample, edit, and beat. Not loudly, or blatantly, or garishly, mind you. But with a keen, cool discretion, so that…
The Oceanaire Seafood Room is trying to stay afloat in dangerous waters. Despite its parent company filing Chapter 11, the sole Miami location of the Minneapolis-based upscale seafood chain will remain open, says senior vice president of operations Tim Whitlock. The announcement came last Monday, forcing the closings of four…
So, Miami Social happened again last night. George and Lina’s relationship continued to make the cast of lead-in series NYC Prep look mature. Michael had his super sweet 16 (+20). People said the word “Gansevoort.” A large dog pooped. And most important, Ariel Stein inspired a bump in Riptide traffic. The…
So now comes the news that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are gonna be celeb minority owners of the Dolphins, like Jimmy Buffett and the Estefans before them. (Follow the jump for the news release.) I get what Dolphins owner Steve Ross is doing. Pandering. That’s what he’s supposed to…
If you’ve never visited our restaurant database we have hundreds and hundreds of listings with addresses, telephone numbers, websites and other info for restaurants all over Dade County.From time to time Short Order uses that information to conduct random surveys. We recently asked a few joints about the cheapest things…
This past weekend, Nick Lucchesi, a correspondent from New Times’ St. Louis sister paper, the Riverfront Times, headed to the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. In a nutshell, here’s what he found:*David Yow of the Jesus Lizard has still got it at 49 years old, even though his stage patter includes…
