Next Restaurants Due at The Shops at Midtown Miami

We checked in with Developers Diversified, the folks in charge, among other things, of stocking Miami’s fastest growing neighborhood with new restaurants, to see what was coming up. The spokesperson let us know that they were “excited to announce the opening of Egyptian Pizza Kitchen and Hurricane Grill & Wings…

Food Arts Magazine: Clueless In Miami

Looks like Food & Wine isn’t the only national culinary magazine that has trouble locating Miami on the map. The latest issue of Food Arts (April 2010), a glossy industry publication “at the restaurant and hotel forefront”, reports two exciting new Miami restaurant openings: Pacific Time debuted in the Design…

One Down, Two To Go In North Bay Village

Oscar Alfonso (right) and Joe Geller (center) lost their hand-picked city manager Matthew Schwartz (left).​This past Tuesday night, a coup went down in North Bay Village. The city commission voted 3-2 to fire city Manager Matthew Schwartz. Before he left the city commission meeting, Schwartz addressed the audience. “I wish…

Letters from the Issue of April 15, 2010

Dance with Death Spine-tingling: Incredible writing (“Dead at Dawn,” Natalie O’Neill, April 8). Reading this sent chills down my neck with each sentence. Powerful, powerful stuff. We live in such a simultaneously beautiful and violent city. Ryan An American tragedy: An extraordinary piece of writing. This is what journalism used…

Luke Says Baseball Replaces Blacks With Dominicans

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 claims Major League Baseball has a plan to phase out African-American players and replace them with black…

Mixtape of the Week: Webbz – God’s Plan

Webbz brings the long awaited God’s Plan project to life. Its technically a mixtape, but most definitely sounds and plays out more like a street album. And with Dade Dilla, Midus and God himself serving as executive producers – God’s Plan has some of Webbz’s best work yet.The mixtape starts…

MP3 of the Day: Panic Bomber Discipline EP Remixes

Last week, we raved about Panic Bomber’s latest effort, Discipline, calling it his best work to date. If you haven’t heard it, do it so now. After that, thank Richard Haig and YYZ Records who have made the Discipline EP Remixes a free download.None of the reworkings match the catchy…

Backstage in South Florida: Iron Maiden Chauffeur Fail

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, an uncomfortable encounter with Iron Maiden and a mad dash to get their singer to the show on time.Long before the arrival of Hard Rock,…

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records’ Top 5 Releases for April 6-12

In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.As foretold, hip-hop producer Madlib notched some serious sales of his latest Beat Konducta installment this week. Some of the other records…

Kardashians Go Naked to Promote Dash

Apparently one of the main plot lines of Kourtney And Khloe Take Miami season two involves the duo giving a makeover to their Washington Ave boutique Dash. Today the sisters posted pictures from a photoshoot to promote the revamp, in which the were airbrushed with body paint (and then we…

Baseball Wants to Replace Blacks with Dominicans

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 claims Major League Baseball has a plan to phase out African American players and replace them with…

Musician’s Discount Center is a South Dade Vinyl Goldmine

Musician’s Discount Center can seem like it’s half way to Key West if you live in downtown Miami, Cuba if you’re in NMB, or Argentina if you’re in Broward, but for Cutler Ridge, West Kendall, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Florida City, and the whole Down South, the store is pretty much…

Another New Times Writer Loved Mike Mineo, Goolsby Too

The charms of New Times contributor Courtney Hambright go well beyond her abilities to pen a clever phrase. We were particularly pleased with her recent profile of local singer-songwriter-goofball Mike Mineo because the reportage included plenty of passages like this:In the spring of 2006, Mineo, who plays acoustic guitar without…

Black-Owned Miami Beach Hotel Goes Belly Up

The Royal Palm Hotel on 16th Street and Collins Avenue was supposed to be a beacon of atonement for Miami-Dade County’s racist past.In 1989, county officials snubbed South African leader Nelson Mandela when he visited Miami. African Americans across the country boycotted Miami-Dade, costing the area tens of millions in…

Slashpine Brings the Doom to Roofless Records’ Cinema Sounds No. 6

It was an insanely heavy way to start a nice night of music and movies: Bodies tossed across train tracks, horsemen of the apocalypse streaking through snowy nowheres, and local metalheads Slashpine shredding slow and deep into doom-y sonic territory. A couple days before the show, I asked Roofless Rex…

More Free Music: No Age and Teenanger, Both Storming Miami April 17

All you hardcore weekend warriors can just keep on keeping on, living “in the moment,” and partying so unendingly hard that your eyes, teeth, and toenails hurt till Wednesday. Personally, I’m taking a fucking break.Why? ‘Cause I don’t really give a shit about today, tomorrow, or the next day. Every…

MP3 of the Day: The Crumbs – “Just Like That”

It makes me really happy and sad that a new Crumbs album (Gator Kicks) will be coming out at the end of this month. Happy because I’ve been a fan for a very long time and sad because it might very well be the last effort by these long-running punkers…