Moving Units: Top Sellers at Local Independent Record Stores

Moving Units is a new column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to see past top sellers. Top Sellers for the Week of June 1 – 5:Sweat Records, Miami 1. Veckatimest, Grizzly Bear 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix 3. Rational Geographic Vol…

Wish You Were There: Over the Weekend of June 4 to 7

Wish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend’s biggest shows. The biggest thing going in Miami this past weekend was the Poplife 10-year anniversary event, which luckily barely escaped the day’s torrential rain. But still, nada about…

Breaking News: Washington Couple Busted Spying for Cuba

A former US State Department employee and his wife have been busted in Washington D.C,. spying for Cuba. Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, worked for Fidel Castro for 30 years, according to an indictment handed down by the US Attorney General’s office this afternoon. Myers had top secret…

Anokha, Hakkasan, Chu, Susan Boyle, and Vegans in Hell

Kurma ChameleonAnokha Restaurant number two has apparently bit the dust. When it first opened a decade ago on Commodore Plaza in Coconut Grove, this was a very good place for Indian food. Over the years it slipped little by little, and then last year moved to Virginia St. We wonder:…

¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.? Looking Back at the Poplife

A summer night in 1999, my friends David, Cali and I rode out to Mezzanote in Coral Gables. He said it was a party, but it looked like a restaurant and sounded like cool music. The DJ was in some corner by the door to the busboys chamber, his name…

Friday Food Funnies: Restaurants

I went to a fancy French restaurant called ‘Deja Vu’. The headwaiter said, ‘Don’t I know you?’ ~Rod SchmidtHave you heard about the new restaurant on the moon? Great food, but no atmosphere. ~UnknownA cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. ~Morey AmsterdamA gourmet…

Listen Now: Miami Bass Warriors “Bro, That Chick’s a Basser”

To celebrate the upcoming release of their 12″ three-way single, Miami Bass Warriors have released their newest track “Bro, That Chick’s a Basser.” If you saw their performance at this year’s Calle Ocho, you might have already heard it, but this is the actual studio cut, free from the background…

City of Miami Executive’s Expenses Raise Eyebrows

Robert Ruano, Miami’s director of grants and sustainable initiatives, spends a lot of money dining out and traveling on the taxpayers’ dime. According to copies of the reimbursement forms and receipts Ruano has submitted to the Miami’s finance office between 2006 and January this year, the city has picked up his…

Letters from the Issue of June 4, 2009

No Justice Sloppy reporting: I remember the William Fenzau murder case from The First 48, but I don’t get the angle of Francisco Alvarado’s May 28 story, “Rush to Justice.” How did the TV show rush the detectives? Where in the article is there anything to substantiate this incredible claim?…

STK=STINK, And a Couple of Other Restaurant Notes

*As being reported on this site and others, Brosia has closed in the Design District. Lots of folks liked it, and the outdoor patio was one of the coolest, but I, for one, won’t miss the wavering service and uneven cuisine.*Maison d’Azur has shut its’ doors at the Astor Hotel…

Peel the Vote ’09: Not That Carollo, But Still a Carollo

In the crowded race to for the city commission seat being vacated by Joe Sanchez, perennial candidate Frank Carollo has amassed $95,275 in campaign . The guy’s run before.Vitals: A 39-year-old certified public accountant with a perfectly symmetrical pompadour. Qualifications: Ran three times for the state House of Representatives –…