Enterprise Florida is a public-private partnership meant to attract business to Florida. Think of it this way, if Visit Florida, the state's tourism board, is meant to lure people to Florida for vacation, Enterprise Florida is supposed to lure businesses here to set up shop permanently. Governor Rick Scott, ever...
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Last night as part of the Cooking Tour Experience 2015, hosted by more than 40 members of the team from El Celler de Can Roca, the Girona, Spain restaurant which currently sits atop the list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, 100 lucky diners were invited aboard the SeaFair yacht...
Belkis López Correa is poised on her skateboard, ready to give herself over to one of the most epic hills in all of Havana. The 16-year-old stands under a fierce midday sun with a forward gaze, steady and cool. Her knees are slightly bent, pink Vans sneakers stacked atop a...
Thanks to Bob Dylan, plenty of rock and roll fans are familiar with the name Hollis Brown. His 1964 hit, “Ballad of Hollis Brown,” is the dark tale of a South Dakota farmer who escapes poverty by killing his family and then himself. These days however, Hollis Brown is a...
In many respects, Jeanine Capó Crucet's debut novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, is a classic coming of age tale. Lizet Ramirez is the daughter of Cuban immigrants, born and raised in Miami, she leaves the proverbial nest to attend Rawlings College, an elite East Coast University. While at Rawlings, Lizet must learn...
It seemed inevitable Tom Colicchio would open a place in Miami. He's been eyeing the city since 2007, when David Bouley's Evolution vacated the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. But there was little hint the smooth-domed chef whose face is a fixture everywhere from television to Capitol Hill would take on a...
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Anecdote #1: Chris Farley made a habit of pouncing on Mike Myers — at the same exact time each week — during the early- to mid-1990s era in which the two starred on Saturday Night Live. The elfin Myers deliberately took showers at a fixed, quiet time, but each week,...
Some of the best love songs are those whose lyrics perch precariously between "I adore you, let's be happy forever" and "I'm miserable without you, where have you gone?" Together, the melody and words of Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash's 1943 ballad "Speak Low" take the shape of a vaporous...
Sharon Morla was a greedy kid. While growing up in Lima's San Isidro neighborhood, she would often tease a fistful of nuevo soles out of her parents and avoid her sister and friends while scouring the streets for her favorite carrito sanguchero. Each rickety metal cart shaded by a technicolor...
Crobot is everything that is right about hard rock, pushing the limits with its music and high energy shows. The bearded group is definitely in demand on the festival and touring circuit, going on the road this year with Anthrax and Black Label Society. Crobot feels just as comfortable in...
Washington D.C.-based Amsterdam Falafelshop is expanding to Miami. The small chain started in 2004 in D.C.'s Adams Morgan neighborhood by Scott and Arianne Bennett, who were inspired by the many falafel and chip shops found throughout Amsterdam and throughout Europe, combining Middle Eastern flavors with famous Dutch-style frieten. Now, the...
Summer festival season isn't off to the best start for Ten Walls, AKA Marijus Adomaitis. Creamfields, Sonar, PITCH, and Urban Art Forms have all dropped the Lithuanian producer from their bills following a recent homophobic Facebook rant where he referred to the gay community as "people of different breed" and...
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Richard Rosengarten walked into Publix at 4:20 p.m. November 15, 2013. Normally, not even Rosengarten, a brilliant and bespectacled University of Miami law student, would remember the exact date and time he went grocery shopping. But it's not every day you see cops electrify an innocent man. The supermarket's automatic...
With restaurants opening and closing every month, it's difficult to keep track of those that have truly stood the test of time -- the oldies but goodies. To help identify Miami's classic eateries, New Times consulted with an expert on Miami culinary history, Mandy Baca. The result is a list...
For Miamians, many things come to mind at the mention of Overtown. But what's often overlooked is the neighborhood’s rich history, a past when it was commonly referred to as the “Harlem of the South” or “Miami’s Little Broadway.” Those who were there to see that Overtown paint a picture...
Downtown Miami is not quite the culinary capital of the city. Affordable options are slim. You have the fancy hotel restaurants and fast food, but mid-range places where you can buy a delicious lunch for $10 or under are hard to come by. If you don't want to pack your...
When developer Michael Simkins started snapping up properties in the Southeast Overtown, Park West neighborhood last year no one knew exactly what he had mind. Then plans leaked out to the public that he wanted to build a 633-foot giant LCD advertisement structure to outrage, but Simkins soon wanted the...
If you're unfamiliar with polpettone, you won't be after visiting Fornaro in Coconut Grove. At this one month-old restaurant, the Italian meatloaf-like dish reigns supreme. You can get polpettone on top of your pizza, or inside a panini, and of course you can order the polpettone on its own ($14.90)...
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The blinds are drawn in Murphy's Miami Beach bedroom as the 33-year-old pulls a white, silicone, four-inch conical contraption from his nightstand. Called a TLC Tugger, it was designed to stretch skin gradually, as earlobes are stretched for gauges. Except Murphy isn't stretching his earlobes. His project is much more...
Angel Torres glances at his meat case in dismay. “It just isn’t like it was in the old day anymore,” he says, presiding over whole flap steaks, smoked salmon sides, and vacuum-sealed bags of oxtail. Once, decades ago, Torres would rise before 5 a.m. to get to the now-defunct (and...
The death of Amy Winehouse, in July 2011, at age 27, was one of the first great tragedies of 21st-century pop music, an event — like the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain in the last decade of the 20th — that emphasized the jarring contrast between the fragility...
I have been booking bands, playing in bands, and putting on events for 20 years now. I do realize what a gasbag sentence that is. But I'd like to say that up front to establish some form of credibility as I attempt to make sense of the recent trend of...