B.B. King

Last Night: BB King at the BankAtlantic Center

Happy 83rd Birthday B.B. King

Wednesday Night: Q-Tip at Revolution

Photo by Eddie RosenstockQ-Tip with The Cool KidsWednesday, November 26, 2008Revolution, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Watching Q-Tip live on Letterman.The Review: Rap shows normally feature an MC accompanied by a tour DJ and a laptop, but when an artist such as Q-Tip brings a tight band with him ons ... More >>

Night & Day

Photo by Eddie RosenstockQ-Tip with The Cool KidsWednesday, November 26, 2008Revolution, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Watching Q-Tip live on Letterman.The Review: Rap shows normally feature an MC accompanied by a tour DJ and a laptop, but when an artist such as Q-Tip brings a tight band with him ons ... More >>

Short Cuts

Photo by Eddie RosenstockQ-Tip with The Cool KidsWednesday, November 26, 2008Revolution, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Watching Q-Tip live on Letterman.The Review: Rap shows normally feature an MC accompanied by a tour DJ and a laptop, but when an artist such as Q-Tip brings a tight band with him ons ... More >>

Night & Day

February 5-11, 1998

The Straight Dope

February 5-11, 1998

Johnny Guitar Watson

The Essential Johnny "Guitar" Watson (Fuel 2000/EMI)

The B.B. King Blues Festival

The Essential Johnny "Guitar" Watson (Fuel 2000/EMI)

Black, White, and Red All Over

Red Holloway

BB King and Buddy Guy - Your Pre West Palm Show Warmup

If you haven't heard already, two of the world's greatest living blues guitarists descend on South Florida on February 9th. The legendary BB King and Buddy Guy will be rocking the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The show is not sold out and the cheapest tickets available can be obtained fo ... More >>

B.B. King

If you haven't heard already, two of the world's greatest living blues guitarists descend on South Florida on February 9th. The legendary BB King and Buddy Guy will be rocking the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The show is not sold out and the cheapest tickets available can be obtained fo ... More >>

Pinetop Perkins

If you haven't heard already, two of the world's greatest living blues guitarists descend on South Florida on February 9th. The legendary BB King and Buddy Guy will be rocking the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The show is not sold out and the cheapest tickets available can be obtained fo ... More >>

With a Very Wide View of History: Charles Mills and the Twentieth Century

If you haven't heard already, two of the world's greatest living blues guitarists descend on South Florida on February 9th. The legendary BB King and Buddy Guy will be rocking the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The show is not sold out and the cheapest tickets available can be obtained fo ... More >>

A Blues Hound Walks Straight

If you haven't heard already, two of the world's greatest living blues guitarists descend on South Florida on February 9th. The legendary BB King and Buddy Guy will be rocking the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The show is not sold out and the cheapest tickets available can be obtained fo ... More >>

Blessed and Highly Favored

Blues siren Shemekia Copeland gets soulful

Senior Moment

Delbert McClinton

Funky Blu Roots

Delbert McClinton

Broward Blues

Hep Cat Boo Daddies

Buddy Guy

Can't Quit the Blues (Silvertone/Legacy)

Big Blend

Delbert McClinton

Betta Axe Somebody

Duwayne Burnside

How Live?

Soulive! The smokin' NYC trio is hip to the future of soul.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Soulive! The smokin' NYC trio is hip to the future of soul.

The Other Boss

Soulive! The smokin' NYC trio is hip to the future of soul.

Next Best Thing

If you weren't at this landmark blues concert, Lightning in a Bottle will do

A Tough Nut to Krack

If you weren't at this landmark blues concert, Lightning in a Bottle will do

High-Steaks Dining

If you weren't at this landmark blues concert, Lightning in a Bottle will do

Off the Abode Again

If you weren't at this landmark blues concert, Lightning in a Bottle will do

Guess Who's Back

And he's got a shiny new quarter just for you, baby

Return of the King

B.B. King proves that the thrill isn’t gone just yet

Humpin' Around

Hollywood Hump Day

Gettin' Hiatt

John Hiatt

Soul Power Puts on Quite a Show Documenting an Epic Concert in Zaire

John Hiatt

It's (Shit)Hammer Time

​The shithammer continues to fall on local restaurants.   At CityPlace, the revolving door keeps spinning with the departure of Bar Louie, a somewhat unwieldy blend of pub, sports bar and midscale café with a menu that offered something for everyone but hardly anyone bothered to sample. ... More >>

More Worthy 'Cue Out West: Art's Barbecue in Coral Springs

John LinnThe ribs at Art's Barbecue are smoky and succulent.​ A rib dinner at Art's Barbecue in Coral Springs comes with two sides, cornbread, and a half-rack of tender ribs mounted on top of two pieces of white bread. The ribs sported a slightly pink smoke ring and had a the sort of soft-but-firm ... More >>

Restaurant News: B.B. King's Opens, Cabana Re-Opens, Roxy's Auctions New Year's Booths

•    The entertainment scene at CityPlace just got a whole lot more interesting with the opening earlier this month of B.B. King's Blues Club. Taking over the spaces once home to Legal Sea Foods and Bar Louie, this sixth club in the B.B. King mini-empire boasts four bars, stages for ... More >>

Art's BBQ

•    The entertainment scene at CityPlace just got a whole lot more interesting with the opening earlier this month of B.B. King's Blues Club. Taking over the spaces once home to Legal Sea Foods and Bar Louie, this sixth club in the B.B. King mini-empire boasts four bars, stages for ... More >>

Super Bowl Parties Around South Florida

​Now that we know it's going to be the New Orleans Saints against the Indianapolis Colts, the official buildup to Super Bowl 44 is on. After yesterday's amazing NFC Championship game, the game on February 7 has a lot to live up to. But where can you go where you can not only watch the Big Game but ... More >>

Get Happy at CityPlace

​Like foreclosures, unemployment and pin-striped bankstas lugging home million-dollar bonuses, restaurant happy hours are a sign of these very unhappy economic times.  What you don't see much of--at least not yet, anyway--is an entire mall going happy for a few hours a night. But that is the ... More >>

Eric Clapton Brings Ax to BankAtlantic

​Like foreclosures, unemployment and pin-striped bankstas lugging home million-dollar bonuses, restaurant happy hours are a sign of these very unhappy economic times.  What you don't see much of--at least not yet, anyway--is an entire mall going happy for a few hours a night. But that is the ... More >>

The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, Called New Times to Chat

​Like foreclosures, unemployment and pin-striped bankstas lugging home million-dollar bonuses, restaurant happy hours are a sign of these very unhappy economic times.  What you don't see much of--at least not yet, anyway--is an entire mall going happy for a few hours a night. But that is the ... More >>

Jimmie Vaughan's Guitar Skills Light Up Culture Room

​Like foreclosures, unemployment and pin-striped bankstas lugging home million-dollar bonuses, restaurant happy hours are a sign of these very unhappy economic times.  What you don't see much of--at least not yet, anyway--is an entire mall going happy for a few hours a night. But that is the ... More >>

Restaurant News: Margaritaville Resort Headed for Hollywood, B.B. King to Play B.B. King's, See and Eat Seafood in Pompano Beach

•    Cynics among you (though certainly not Charlie) might consider it akin to choosing between typhoid and malaria, but the Hollywood City Commission has picked Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville over Sly Stallone and Bruce Willis's Planet Hollywood to build a $100 million hotel-restaur ... More >>

Diamond-Cut Details on Sean Healy's Ponzi Purchases

Flickr: stephend9This is a pauper's ring compared to the diamond conventions Sean's bands routinely held.​Frankly, there aren't enough pages in our print edition to give you the full details on Sean Healy's Ponzi-fueled spending spree. But TGI the age of the interwebs, because court-appointed rece ... More >>

Gospel Brunch at B.B. King's Starts Sunday

What would BB eat? ​There's something cheerfully transgressive about soul food. It's the high-caloric, high-carb fodder that lent (at least two of) the Dixie Chicks their political chutzpah and fueled Faulkner's dirty mind. Like Abisinthe for the Bible Belt, soul food is the nutritionist's night ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

Make this butternut squash pizza at home using a cheap and easy pizza stone.​Kubo Asiatic Cuisine debuts in Palm Beach.The Beaujolais Nouvea Wine Festival takes place tonight at Gulstream Park.Want to celebrate Turkey Day without the work? Try these restaurants hosting special meals. [Broward/Dade ... More >>

Joe Bonamassa to Bring Night of Blues to Hard Rock

Make this butternut squash pizza at home using a cheap and easy pizza stone.​Kubo Asiatic Cuisine debuts in Palm Beach.The Beaujolais Nouvea Wine Festival takes place tonight at Gulstream Park.Want to celebrate Turkey Day without the work? Try these restaurants hosting special meals. [Broward/Dade ... More >>

Happy Hour: B.B. King's Restaurant & Blues Club in West Palm Beach

Photo by Erica K. Landau​The Place: B.B. King's Restaurant & Blues Club, 550 Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach. Call 561-420-8600. The Hours: 3 to 7 p.m. every day. The Deal: Half-off drinks and appetizers. The Digs: With locations already in the two music capitals of Memphis and Nashville and ... More >>

Johnny Winter Brings Guitar Heat to Culture Room

Photo by Erica K. Landau​The Place: B.B. King's Restaurant & Blues Club, 550 Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach. Call 561-420-8600. The Hours: 3 to 7 p.m. every day. The Deal: Half-off drinks and appetizers. The Digs: With locations already in the two music capitals of Memphis and Nashville and ... More >>