To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here. One constant theme of this column is a fixation on bands and artists that somehow fell through the cracks that occur within pop music’s lengthy trajectory. That’s one hazard of rock’s rich repertoire — so many artists, but so…
As long as we’re talkin’ bout Maggotron, we might as well do the right thing and put some of his sounds in your earholes. Get ready for robot voices, vocoder effects, screw type vocals, movie quotes, scratch noises, more cowbell, and the drum patterns that now define old school…
The last time we checked in with the Weston-by-way-of-Bogota, brother-heavy indie act Old Wives’ Tale was this past June. Then, the band had just released its debut album, and was set to embark on a mini European tour. What we forgot to explain, though, is that the reason for the…
This is just freakin’ awesome. James and Karla Murray, the photographers behind Miami Graffiti, the book showcasing our finest street artists, have inspired a nostalgic acid trip of an art installation featuring local graff legend Crome. For an exhibition still in the works called “MOM & POPism,” artist Billi Kid…
Norman Van Aken, Chef/Owner Norman’s at the Ritz Carlton, Orlando (and soon to be Norman’s 180 in Coral Gables) It seems everyone has his or her own favorite Julia Child story. That’s how well known and firmly entrenched in the American psyche the inimitably voiced gourmet goddess, (of the more…
Boxed In Loved it so much she’s afraid: “Million Dollar Maybe” (Natalie O’Neill, July 30) was great — just crazy-cool. It makes me want to cry to see a woman so strong and determined. You go, girl! Good thing I saw Christina Swanson’s pic, so I know not to mess…
George and Martha of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Burt Pugach and Linda Riss of Crazy Love. Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan of Us Weekly. Pop culture is full of quite literally insane couples who manage to stay together no matter how much we’re secretly rooting for their relationship’s demise…
Chef Allen Susser, Chef/Owner Chef Allen’sTalking about Food was one of Julia’s favorite subjects. She was always involved. But Julia never saw food as an armchair discussion. She wanted to get right into the middle to experience the foods, the flavors, and the culture. I loved showing her our mangoes,…
Break out your plastic containers, glass jars, and individual size serving packets of that funky yellow condiment America loves. Today is National mustard day. Soon Biscayne Boulevard will be engulfed in a roaring flood of that French’s. Dijon fights will erupt spontaneously in parking lots across Hialeah. Kids all over…
Saigon Kick was arguably South Florida’s biggest rock export in the early ’90s, a band with some major hits that remains somewhat underrated, perhaps, because of the time at which it appeared. At first glance, the group, originally a quartet, had all the aesthetic stylings of a glam-metal act. But…
Mike Mineo fuses reggae, soulful vocals, and fan-chain pulling, computer-monitor slapping, light-switch flipping percussion for his funky and quirky single “Work,” off his upcoming album Eccentricity, due out in late February. Produced by Brent Williams, who produces and plays with local singer-songwriter Cat Shell, “Work” conveys the sense of stagnant imprisonment and monotony associated with middle-class/blue-collar existence. Mineo used a click…
Short Order’s been bothering every restaurant worker we meet for stories from their time working in the restaurant industry. Pen and pad in hand we approach them in kitchens, at bars, in hallways and at hostess stands. Sometimes the stories come to us.That’s how we met twenty eight year old…
According to Hart Baur from SKUM, Grove Cinema “was the only (movie) theatre in Miami that had a liquor license,” which means that if you were old enough to have a drink in 1988 you could have done so while watching The Decline of Western Civilization Part II – The…
Last week, I reported about Sean Casey, a 35-year-old Boston native who is serving a 12-and-a-half-year prison term for allegedly running down and killing an elderly woman on Harding Avenue in Miami Beach, and then fleeing the scene, back in 2001.While awaiting trial, Casey fled the country in 2004 to…
This past weekend was relatively slow for “big” shows… But among the most impressive gigs last week was Thursday night at Propaganda, where local guys Stonefox celebrated the release of their sophomore album. For the occasion, they invited their awesome friends from Atlanta, Dead Rabbits. This band is a brother-brother…
The Banana has a friend named Betty, who earlier this year picked up a two-bedroom condo on Brickell Avenue for $109,000. Betty got the unit at a bargain because it was in foreclosure. But you wouldn’t know that by checking the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser’s online property search database, a…
Chef Tim Andriola has been lauded by food critic John Mariani in Esquire Magazine as a “chef to keep your eye on,” going on to say that he “definitely has the touch of a master.”He started as a kid in Lee, New Hampshire at his family’s restaurant, the Gateway. In…
Model Latina Miami premiered last night on SiTV, a station we’ve never heard of and pretty sure we don’t get, but we browsed through the first episode online. The funny thing is that runways of the world could certainly use a healthy dose of Latina spice. Only a few leggy Brazilian glamazons, such…
The French chef has her own South Florida story. Growing up I even had the honor to live part of it, attending the tributes that our local chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Food would throw her, since my mother was the co-founder. So buckle up and come…
Allegedly foul-mouthed Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg sure pissed off a Navy Commander Jeff Gordon with insinuations about shoving red hot pokers up his ass, for fun!, or something. They both seem like jerks in this situation, but who is the bigger jerk: Gordon or Rosenberg? This is not to say…
In the vaguely menacing gloam of this first dying decade of the 21st century, the people continue to party hard. It’s an obsessive, have-fun-or-die type of mindset that cannot be deterred, no matter the consequences. And to a large extent, Frenchy sensations Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter of Daft…
In the early morning hours of Jan. 8, 2008, in a dark alley off South Glades Drive, a gang member named Andrew James Rolle walked up to a white Ford Taurus and blasted the man inside to death.The driver was an off-duty Miami detective named James Walker, and his murder…
