Another steamy summer, another Miami Spice. The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau is back with the oft-beloved, sometimes maligned dining deals that help fill restaurants during the slow summer months and give less well-to-do diners a way to eat in the city’s most lavish spots at a fraction of…
I never thought that I’d be one to discuss dining etiquette. After all, my first blog was entitled Uncouth Gourmands and my previous utensil usage brag was that I could fish pickles out of the jar with chopsticks. Although, this past week I have switched from my loud and inefficient…
Last week, when Liberty City soul food restaurant Jumbo’s closed its doors, it was big news. The New York Times’ Frances Robles wrote a front-page story documenting how the joint went from discriminating against African-Americans to becoming a black Miami landmark. The Miami Herald and others followed. I, for one,…
Vets’ Neglect Every vet is different: The first part of your feature about a local vet who died of neglect at Miami’s VA hospital is very nicely written (“Hell on the Home Front, Part 1,” Michael E. Miller, July 24), but there’s more going on than the unfortunate death of…
David Bracha’s River Seafood & Oyster Bar will make its long awaited move out of Brickell sometime in 2015. Bracha, who also owns Oak Tavern in the Design District, has leased spaced on the ground floor of the rising Flagler on the River Apartment Towers being built by Argentine developer…
It’s hard being the Bawse. Just ask Rick Ross. Miami’s most famous rapper is no stranger to controversy. Between his 18-month stint as a correctional officer at the South Florida Reception Center and those “U.O.E.N.O.” lyrics about a molly sex assault, it’s pretty easy to throw hate in Ross’ direction…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 says good riddance to a restaurant that didn’t serve blacks. Last week, when Liberty City soul food restaurant…
Not long after sunset, downtown Miami is so deserted the click of a changing traffic light echoes like a gunshot. Once-bustling cafeterias and shops closed hours ago. In the inky darkness, steel shutters rattle in the wind. But then you turn a corner and a cool-yellow glow pours onto the…
New Times Broward Palm Beach is looking for a restaurant critic. The ideal candidate will have experience both reporting about food and writing long-form restaurant criticism…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
It’s official, y’all. Pepe Billete’s gone national. The Cuban puppet with a mouth like a sailor speaking Spanglish is no longer just “Miami famous.” He announced on Twitter this afternoon that XM satellite radio has offered him his own national sports talk radio show…
It’s hard to believe 25 years have gone by since I put out 2 Live Crew’s As Nasty as They Wanna Be, the first album in history to be deemed legally obscene. Back then, I never imagined I’d be the only music artist to go to jail and take the…
Deadly Boating All too common: Unfortunately the deadly Fourth of July boating accident that killed four, like many of the boating fatalities you wrote about (“Blood on the Water,” Trevor Bach, July 17), is a combination of the most unlikely events happening at the same time. The boat that was…
Dewey LoSasso likes to have fun. At AQ by Acqualina, the stylish restaurant that opened in a towering, Venetian-style Sunny Isles Beach hotel-condo this past April, the mustached chef plays with dishes such as green eggs and ham. A 20-minute wait precedes a bubbling martini glass layered with sweet mascarpone…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 reminisces about the album that changed hip-hop. It’s hard to believe 25 years have gone by since I…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
We want to start by reminding you that Paris Hilton is 33. If, at that age, we are prancing around a sound green-screen stage dressed like a my-size Barbie princess doll, please, don’t hesitate to shoot us. No adult woman should be stuck in such a stunted hell. That she…
Former Taperia Raca chef de cuisine Ryan Harrison took to Twitter last night, lashing out at his former boss and Eating House owner Giorgio Rapicavoli after Harrison left the MiMo tapas joint earlier this month. See also: Taperia Raca Offers Easy-to-Enjoy Tapas in MiMo…
LeBron James is not stupid. But leaving the Miami Heat is the King’s dumbest decision. It’s worse than “the Decision” in 2010, when he moved to the Magic City. He’s giving up living in paradise, residing in a state with no income tax, and playing for the most stable, most…
UM’s PEDs Not the only ‘roid school: I didn’t notice in your piece about the long history of PEDs in the University of Miami’s baseball program (“Steroids and the U,” Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts, July 10) where you mentioned the other top 25 teams from 2005 that lost at…
Kickstarter may be a metaphor for life itself. The crowdfunding site that allows people to pledge money to entrepreneurs in exchange for getting in on the ground floor of a new idea has had some dumb ideas — like the potato salad Kickstarter that so far has raised over $50,000…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 dives into LeBron-mania. Update: LeBron James has made the dumbest decision of his life. He is heading to…
