Having no health insurance sucks. Just ask Cecil Gamarra. Three years ago, the soft-spoken 42-year-old noticed his young Haitian wife beginning to change. She stopped sleeping and would vanish for days at a time. Sometimes she’d mutter things about people who didn’t exist — and places she’d never visited. Doctors soon…
This week in 1988 Blue Oyster Cult came to South Florida and played a show at Summer’s in Fort Lauderdale. According to people who like telling stories, at some point in the history of the club New York hardcore band Murphy’s Law played a show there. Some kid let off…
Black Moth Super Rainbow’s recently released Eating Us may not have lovingly upset as many stomachs as 2007’s eerily chewy Dandelion Gum. But that’s only because people are beginning to build up a taste for the Western Pennsylvania outfit’s trippy brand of vivid wildness. Sure, the kooky quintet’s latest longplayer…
Attention all unsigned hip-hop artists, producers, and songwriters: your big break is finally here. Maybe.The All Access Music Conference will come on the weekend of August 8 to the Eden Roc Hotel (4525 Collins Ave., Miami Beach). This two-day event will allow Miami’s unsung heroes to showcase their talents to…
A few years ago I wrote a feature in New Times called Foie Wars, in which a dozen local chefs offered their views on the bloated liver controversy. I bring this up not to revisit the debate, but rather as a cheesy way to recycle a past article for self-promotional…
For once, Miami Police Chief John Timoney can brush off his haters. The city’s top law enforcer hosted a press conference today to announce that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has cleared the Miami PD of “cooking the books.”A year and a half ago, Fraternal Order of Police President…
Uncle Sam’s Music, South Beach1. The Hits, Michael Jackson2. Thriller, Michael Jackson3. Off The Wall, Michael Jackson4. Perfecto Vegas, Paul Oakenfold5. BLACKsummers’ Night, MaxwellSweat Records, Miami1. The Dandy Warhols Are Sound, Dandy Warhols2. Time To Pretend EP, MGMT3. Horehound, Dead Weather4. Far, Regina Spektor5. Number Ones, Michael Jackson…
Something purporting to be a television program called Miami Social infected airwaves this week. We introduced you to the cast, and they proceeded to do nothing. Though, the show seems to be less infectious than Swine Flu. Also, Glenn Garvin made a funny joke, that makes us love him, that…
Sometimes a party isn’t just a party. Sometimes it’s Local Motion, the annual charity electro concert benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, organized by Loscar Rodriguez, a.k.a. HenceSoLo, and presented by Lexyn Intelligence and Nocturnal. First launched in February 2006, Local Motion has been fighting the good fight…
I bought a box of animal crackers and it said on it “Do not eat if seal is broken.” So I opened up the box, and sure enough… ~Brian KileyThe murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. ~Peter De VriesI never eat in a restaurant that’s…
In April, the LA Times wrote this about Miami Social: “It is the most vapid, foul, awful, self-satisfied group of people ever assembled in the entire world, and it will be a smashing success.” Well, they were right about one thing. Thankfully, they were wrong about the “smashing success” part. Social’s premiere…
Graveyard first played in South Florida a few months ago, opening for Clutch and the Sword at Culture Room. A quick scan of the crowd showed I wasn’t the only one floored by these Swedes’ straight-up vintage-sounding, heavy psych onslaught. Well, maybe that crushing feeling was partly a result of…
Early on in my ongoing tour of duty for New Times, I had the pleasure of telling the story of Fane Lozman, a Miami native who made a small fortune as a Chicago software engineer before coming home in 2003. That year Lozman settled into a nondescript houseboat off the waters…
Jonathan Eismann, Chef/Owner Pacific Time and Pizza VolanteBest Squid in Ho Chi Minh City, cooked over a fire in a old steel drum in the street, Best Pork Chops in history there, too. Saigon Killer Pork Chops!Best Chinese and Dim Sum at a place right next to the Mandarin Oriental…
The Rich Will Inherit Wade will win: In response to “Dwyane’s Disaster” (Gus Garcia-Roberts, July 9): Baron Richard von Hautman sounds like quite a character. He’s too full of himself, to the point of intoxication. It really won’t be that hard to legally arrange for his fall. All Dwyane Wade…
Notes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade, focused on pop music’s history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments.Okay, let me start by stating that…
How does one recap a show where nothing happens? Such is the problem of writing about Miami Social. Sure, “things” happened. Body party moved. Mouth opened, tongues twisted, and words came out (half the time that word was Gansevoort). Things vaguely resembling emotions were emoted. And even though Bravo frequently…
On Crossfade, I’ve been following the Boca rock and rollers of Stonefox as they’ve worked in their home studio, and prepared for their upcoming July 30 CD release show at Propaganda. (For a refresher, click here for a free MP3 from that new album, Back on the Wire.)I visited them…
Miami singer/songwriter Daphna Rose sounds like a folky lounge singer, blending expressive and insightful lyrical arrangements with her brand of accessible bluesy pop. When she reaches for the chorus of this featured MP3, singing “There’s room for a miracle in my life,” she seems to channel Elvis Costello. At other times, the song plays like one of those inspirational and…
Short Order recently met James, a veteran waiter with more war stories than a hundred year old soldier. Here’s a funny story:”I was working at Capital Grille at the time and this table of guys are eating dinner. One of em’s got on this $15,000 watch, one of those Pierre…
As part of Short Order’s continued efforts to expose the less glamorous realities of restaurant work, we’ve been asking workers about their lives. Here, Mary Edwards (fake name) from “some restaurant in Miami” (to protect the identities of the innocent) gave us this story about a particularly bad customer: “Christmas Eve…
Hey eaters, guess what, while you’re off in the dining room eating spaghetti at your favorite restaurant there’s a whole universe of drama spinning in the kitchen. An entire Greek tragedy may have played out over your plate as it went out. One great tradition is the kitchen prank. Short…
