The Taste of Andalucia food festival began auspiciously enough this past Monday evening. Guests streaming through the foyer of the InterContinental Miami Hotel’s ballroom were greeted with bouquets of red carnations handed out by mantilla-clad women. David Maldonaldo, a venenciador from Cadiz, drew small but potent sherry glasses of fino…
Osama bin Tourism It was 9/11 that got the bouncer: I was, and I am, extremely disturbed, as a Miami Beach resident and taxi driver, to learn of the murder of a bouncer at the very high-end Mansion Discotheque (“Full Moon Murder” by Lyssa Oberkreser, May 25). That very night,…
The first annual Memorial Fest began as an awesome day of music and fun in the blazing heat. Lady Saw’s performance was as wonderfully explicit as The Bitch had anticipated — filled with advice for females who want to beautify and “bling out” their nether regions. Cocoa Tea was absolutely…
This Prosecutor’s Still Stingin’ Just a lawyer with Web access: I am writing, not only to call you out for printing an out-of-date, recycled story, but to make a few clarifications and comments about Robert Powell’s “Four Wheels, No Breaks” (May 25). I have never been involved in the prosecution…
This past Saturday night, while many concerned themselves with extrapolation of The Da Vinci Code, The Bitch immersed herself in another canon from Rome similarly disparaged by the Vatican: Vogue Italia. A thorough decryption of the impressive June tome was made possible in the comfortable environment of D’Vino, a relatively…
Best Babble Yeah, well there’s that: Regarding “Best Parking in Miami Beach” (May 11): Perhaps the garage at Tenth Street between Alton and West is “usually almost empty, clean, well lit, and conveniently located,” but how about being just safe? Over the past few months I’ve been informed of several…
There is little The Bitch loves more than the languid days of summer, when there is nothing but lawn darts, Parcheesi, backgammon, shuffleboard, and Wiffle ball to occupy twilight game-time. But one sport captures a canine’s heart like no other: catch-and-release bunny-chasing. So the intrepid hound’s ears pricked up at…
Best Babble Sing sing: Before publication of “Best of Miami” (May 11), I took a long, hard look at the past winners of Best Karaoke and noticed the best in 2004 and 2005 both ended up firing the KJ shortly after publication. So I kind of hoped Karaoke Miami would…
She’s Local Forget that Brando, dude: In the May 4 Miami New Times, the “DVDish” item by Robert Wilonsky about the Tennessee Williams Film Collection missed a significant opportunity for a Miami connection. You might have added an appropriate caption under the picture of the 23-year-old Marlon Brando and Kim…
On a recent episode of The Sopranos, coke-snorting Christopher Moltisanti pestered Sir Ben Kingsley. The beleaguered mobster tried in vain to persuade the knighted actor’s character to help him snag some swag from the Chateau Marmont’s “Luxury Lounge.” Free shopping sprees available only to celebrities are part of perk lore,…
A Triple for the Grove Playhouse Mittelman is just the beginning: Francisco Alvarado’s story “Now You See It” (April 27) about the Coconut Grove Playhouse makes me think I’ve gone through this before. Wasn’t the demise of the Florida Philharmonic just a couple of years ago? I was burnt once…
Jonathan Riesco, the stalwart of the small Westchester neighborhood (The Bitch always mentally prefaces with so-called) known as the Bird Road Art District launched another successful show this past Saturday evening in his studio at 4552 SW 71st Ave. Riesco, a jovial redhead who often sports a papi chulo-meets-ska getup…
A Warmup It’s coming May 11: I just wanted to give some feedback on two of your Best of Miami 2005 restaurant suggestions. We were recently vacationing in Miami Beach with two children and were looking for a good restaurant that would be entertaining to the kids. We chose Barton…
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Outside In Living saints of Kendall: I commend the Miami New Times for its splendid coverage in Emily Witt’s “Band of Outsiders” (April 13) of the positive work the Geraldis have done for people in our community. While serving as a principal of Neva King Cooper Educational Center in Homestead…
The Bitch’s ultrasensitive ears have been picking up intimations of the pending closure of the Virgin Megastore at Sunset Drive and South Dixie Highway in South Miami. Although the store is often overpriced, and the Shops at Sunset Place is generally the biggest intelligence vacuum outside of Miracle Mile in…
Dangerous Show Or as dangerous as theater can get, anyway: As Ed Bullins’s literary representative, I thought it might seem inappropriate for me to be writing to New Times about Joanne Green’s excellent review, “Devil Inside” (April 6). The play, The Taking of Miss Janie, which is being done at…
The equestrians staging this month’s Miami Beach Arena Polo Cup are an informal cadre called the Polo Lifestyle Team. They are basically a group of very wealthy fellows from Argentina, Switzerland, Italy, and India, along with American nouveau riche such as Tim Gannon of Team Outback (yes, the owner of…
When the Santos Come marchando in: In reference to Patrice E.G. Yursik’s story “Totally Jazzed” (March 30): I lived in New Orleans for three years until Katrina came to town. I chose to live there to do research on jazz and to experience the music in the place where it…
While taking a breather during a set at Saturday’s Ultra Music Festival, Brandon Flowers, the doll-like lead singer of the Killers, uttered an appropriate encomium for this year’s Miami Music Conference: “When music kills you, at least it doesn’t hurt.” The phrase aptly captured the overall essence of the week,…
Recall the Pro and Con She gotta go: Regarding Francisco Alvarado’s “Total the Recall” (March 16): For government to work, elected public officials need to know they are supposed to serve the people, not the other way around. If we the people do not like the way he/she is conducting…
A Weighty Responsibility To treat them right: As a Brit member of the U.S.-based fat acceptance site, Big Fat Blog, I just had to write and say how much I enjoyed reading Patrice E.G. Yursik’s refreshingly unbiased and celebratory piece “Big-Girl Sunday” (March 16). Given the subject matter of the…
