Eater reports that students from a Johnson & Wales Food Management Services class will be prepping and serving meals on Jefe’s Original Fish Tacos and Burgers Truck as part of their Food Truck Restaurant Experience assignment. So far so good, but the notice goes on to note that there will…
Cuthbert Harewood has a dream — a dream that one day even the neighborhood of Liberty City, sweltering with the heat of violence and poverty, will be transformed into an oasis of peace and Pizza Huts.But Harewood’s grandiose vision has a simple beginning: renaming two blocks along NW 71st Street…
The Psycho Daisies Snowflakes Falling on the International Dateline (Psycho Daisies Records) psychodaisies.com It was never my fingers on the neck of a killer guitar. I can read on bass if told properly. I can muster a heavy beat on drums if allowed. But I’ll never be the type of…
This used to be a regular Short Order feature, but it was suspended mainly because there simply aren’t that many good jokes about eating, restaurants, or food. Surprising, but true. There are actually lots and lots of jokes about the subjects, but funny ones are far fewer. Our supply was…
With his rugged gutter flow blasting car speakers throughout Dade County, C-Ride has been a long-time favorite in the 305. And backed by Miami’s own Cool & Dre, he’s got pretty much everything he needs to make a major impact on the hip-hop scene. For the last year or two,…
Everybody is getting excited about tonight’s Miami New Times Iron Fork event, to be held at Grand Central downtown. There will be great food and drink, all sorts of chefs and food industry personalities milling about, lively music, general festiveness, and – possibly the highlight of the evening – the…
Frantik continues to impress with intelligent rhymes that draw on theology, positive thinking, introspection, and different types of consciousness. Not that there isn’t a rough streak in here. You can feel it the same way that you’ve felt the steady rise of ire in the face of extreme stupidity. Remember…
As expected, Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell and WQAM talk show host Sid Rosenberg put on a delightfully entertaining debate yesterday regarding the state of the University of Miami football program. Campbell went on Rosenberg’s show yesterday afternoon after the two controversial personalities exchanged barbs on Twitter and over…
Letters from the issue of October 21, 2010
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The gripping finale of Jersey Shore season two airs tomorrow, and with the crew heading back to the series’ eponymous location for season three we’ll have to say goodbye to our favorite guidos. So, obviously, we must treasure these last precious moments we have with them. Today let’s remember what…
One of our pet peeves (a polite way to say ‘things that piss us the hell off’) is when people screw up Mexican food. That’s because it takes either a complete nincompoop or someone who takes absolutely no pride in their work to do so. Think about it. How hard…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke tackles high school football coaching salaries.Florida — and Miami-Dade — seriously need to change the way high…
Numbers. It’s the first thing that hits the eye upon opening the home page for NBC Feast Miami. Looks less like a blog than a board game. The clutter, however, is only mildly annoying compared to what they signify: Confusion.The grading system runs from to 100, which deceives the…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this exclusive online column, Luke hits back at the Randy Shannon haters.I’m really sick and tired of hearing all…
Last night was the penultimate episode of season two of Jersey Shore, and judging from next week’s previews of the gang hitting up the Everglades, the last with the majority of the action happening in Miami. It’s sort of a shame, we were just getting used to watching the gangs’…
Almost three months after 21-year-old tattoo and graffiti artist Jonathan “Ynot” Corso was killed in a strip club parking lot, the identity of the driver who mowed him down has finally been revealed — but the new information leaves more questions than answers. Corso’s life and sudden death was the…
Blowfly Blowfly Does XXX-Mas (Pandisc Records) myspace.com/blowfly Christmas comes early this year with that thick, juicy, protein-filled wad of Blowfly love that you’ve tasted so many times over the last five decades. A true visionary, Clarence Reid, AKA Blowfly, decided to jump the holiday bandwagon with this delightful take on…
So Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera just called up to say that yesterday’s post trashing his proposal to ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers in Coral Gables was unfair. He claims to have said many other more intelligent things to a reporter than, “Some people look at leaf blowers as a necessity…
Here’s the news: Poe Boy and Strong Arm’s DJ 360 has just teamed up with Ball Greezy and his We Good Entertainment imprint. A native of Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Greezy is probably best remembered for his 2007 single “Shone. And this past summer, he was also part of the unofficial official…
When MTV announced Jersey Shore would film its second season in South Beach, Miami became the only place outside of Jersey to become infected by a Jersey-fied reality show. So last night’s South Park, in which the mountain town is suddenly overrun by “cabbage-muffed” Jerseyites, hit close to home. The…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is coming to bat for his homeboy, former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, this Friday. The pair will lay out their reasons for supporting amendments 5 and 6 on the November ballot at an 11 a.m. press conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Miami.The…
