Chile

"Death and the Maiden" at Mosaic Theater: Mysteries Shroud This Prescient Study of Torture, Tyranny, and Democracy

The Food List Challenge, Round Two

​Last week, we told you about the Food List Challenge, the Facebook app of 100 dishes and drinks to prove you're a foodnik. So far, 335,345 people have tried it, including former food critic for the Washington Post Phyllis Richman (97) and former New Times critic Gail Shepherd (85). Some of the ... More >>

Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival This Sunday: The Ultimate Jerk Off!

Laine DossJerk chicken cooking the traditional way..​OK, we had to get that jerk-off pun out of the way. But seriously, if you like your meat hot and spicy, then you want to head over to Markham Park in Sunrise for the 10th annual Jamaican Jerk Festival, sponsored by Grace (which, by the way, make ... More >>

Do That Conga

Laine DossJerk chicken cooking the traditional way..​OK, we had to get that jerk-off pun out of the way. But seriously, if you like your meat hot and spicy, then you want to head over to Markham Park in Sunrise for the 10th annual Jamaican Jerk Festival, sponsored by Grace (which, by the way, make ... More >>

NEW! Cha Cha's Opens on the Island in West Palm Beach

Nicole Danna​Here's something Palm Beach County hasn't seen in awhile: A well-executed tapas restaurant.Whether you call it pinchos, chopitos or tapas -- derived from the Latin word "tapar," meaning "to cover" -- doesn't much matter. All you really need to know is that Cha Cha's certainly has ... More >>

Pairings 2011: How Was It?

Chef Franco Filippone from Sette Bello​This morning started with a red eye after a decadent night of eating and drinking at last night's 4th Annual New Times Pairings. It was my first South Florida gastronomic event and I was impressed at how smoothly things ran, the absence of lines, and plenty o ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: Colores del Sol 2008 Malbec

'Tis the season of the ritual charring of the flesh--aka, barbecue season--(check out John Linn's review of Sheila's here) so a young man's fancy turns to what beverage of the alcoholic persuasion is best to wash down some killer 'cue.  Many of you (philistines) will say beer, and while it's tr ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: Copa Del Rey 2008 Chardonnay

​Everybody's looking for a good deal on wine nowadays, and anybody who's been paying attention to the wine market knows that some of the best deals around are coming from Latin America. Or to put it more succinctly, Chile and Argentina.  The quality of their grapes, skill of their winemakers ... More >>

Paula DaSilva Bids Fond Farewell to 3030 Ocean

It's time to kiss the chef goodbye​, folks. Paula DaSilva, Hell's Kitchen season 5 contestant and longtime Executive Sous Chef at Fort Lauderdale's 3030 Ocean, is packing up her knives and heading to Miami. DaSilva, who's worked at 3030 Ocean under Chef Dean James Max for over 10 years, will becom ... More >>

Boca Blogger Rips Into Palm Beach Trousers

​We've been getting weekly updates from Boca Raton blogger Robert Feeley for some time now: Feeley's news parody, SPN (for StuPidassNews), is at least as ripe as The Onion, only it's completely homegrown. In SPN-land, Boca is "Beaver Falls," and Feeley's august news outlet is "The Only News Sourc ... More >>

Alexi Delano and Camea

​We've been getting weekly updates from Boca Raton blogger Robert Feeley for some time now: Feeley's news parody, SPN (for StuPidassNews), is at least as ripe as The Onion, only it's completely homegrown. In SPN-land, Boca is "Beaver Falls," and Feeley's august news outlet is "The Only News Sourc ... More >>

Film It

​We've been getting weekly updates from Boca Raton blogger Robert Feeley for some time now: Feeley's news parody, SPN (for StuPidassNews), is at least as ripe as The Onion, only it's completely homegrown. In SPN-land, Boca is "Beaver Falls," and Feeley's august news outlet is "The Only News Sourc ... More >>

Lithium From Bolivia Could Reshape Miami and the World

​We've been getting weekly updates from Boca Raton blogger Robert Feeley for some time now: Feeley's news parody, SPN (for StuPidassNews), is at least as ripe as The Onion, only it's completely homegrown. In SPN-land, Boca is "Beaver Falls," and Feeley's august news outlet is "The Only News Sourc ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: South America's Mighty Malbec

​Every wine-producing region has its iconic wine. The Napa Valley has Cabernet Sauvignon; France, Bordeaux; Italy, Chianti; Spain, Rioja; Australia, Shiraz; Chile, Carménère. And Argentina has malbec.   Like its South American cousin, malbec is one of the "noble grapes" of Bordeaux (al ... More >>

Crazy Grease

​Every wine-producing region has its iconic wine. The Napa Valley has Cabernet Sauvignon; France, Bordeaux; Italy, Chianti; Spain, Rioja; Australia, Shiraz; Chile, Carménère. And Argentina has malbec.   Like its South American cousin, malbec is one of the "noble grapes" of Bordeaux (al ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: The Fickle Grape of Chile

One of the world's unique and most interesting wines has long been one of its most mysterious. The wine is Carmenere, today made almost exclusively in Chile, though until a dozen or so years ago, even the people who made it thought they were making Merlot.  Carmenere was once one of the "noble ... More >>

Top Ten of '08: Latin

One of the world's unique and most interesting wines has long been one of its most mysterious. The wine is Carmenere, today made almost exclusively in Chile, though until a dozen or so years ago, even the people who made it thought they were making Merlot.  Carmenere was once one of the "noble ... More >>

Last Night: The Ritz-Carlton's Wine Room and Scotch Bar

New Times was graciously invited to an evening of pampering and boozing last night courtesy of the Ritz-Cartlon Fort Lauderdale's (semi) new and much improved wine bar. And it went.... well, how do you think it went? We were pampered. We were boozed. It was an all around lovely evening, and I would ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Maestros

The Boca Museum scurries to match all the fine Latin American art exhibitions around

Lauderdale Food and Wine Events Tonight

The Boca Museum scurries to match all the fine Latin American art exhibitions around

Various artists

The Boca Museum scurries to match all the fine Latin American art exhibitions around

Latin Alternative Music Conference, Day 4

The Boca Museum scurries to match all the fine Latin American art exhibitions around

Last Night: Eric Clapton at Hard Rock Live

The Boca Museum scurries to match all the fine Latin American art exhibitions around

King Fisher

The Boca Museum scurries to match all the fine Latin American art exhibitions around

Various artists

Putumayo Presents Latin Reggae (Putumayo)

Local Yokels Armed With Brushes

Putumayo Presents Latin Reggae (Putumayo)

Corruption Welcome Here!

Go ahead. Corporatize the Day of the Dead

Francesca Ancarola

Lonquén (Petroglyph)

Fruitful Reverie

Cézanne can have his apples. These artists go for the watermelon, even when flies are circling.

Las Movies

The Latinbeat film festival invades South Florida

Best Smoked Fish

Lox Haven

Best Wine List

Harrison's Wine Bar

Through the Grapevine

Harrison's Wine Bar

Don't Go It Alone

Christian Slater hunts monsters but finds only a lame movie

Just Like the Rest of Us

"Hispanic heritage" is hard to find at ArtServe and Gallery Six By Michael Mills

La Gata de 190

Argentine tango goddess María Angelica Milán remembers her nine lives

Ley Down the Law

... they're rock stars! Comprende?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

... they're rock stars! Comprende?

Bodily Dysfunction

Insect tongues, frogs, human skin, and more -- they're all "corporal"

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Insect tongues, frogs, human skin, and more -- they're all "corporal"

Margaritamill

The drinks are the best thing about this cantina

Best Group Art Exhibition

"Reality and Figuration: The Contemporary Latin American Presence"

4-D Days

Raising the reggae bar with Broward-based Fourth Dimension

A Movable Feast

The local International Hispanic Theatre Festival is one of the biggest and best of its kind -- when will South Florida discover it?

Señor Coconut

El Gran Baile (Emperor Norton Records)

Christina Aguilera

Mi Reflejo (RCA)

Cha-Cha Chow

Samba Room

Seduced by Stella

"Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules"

Ricky Who?

Watcha Tour

Death Be Not Subtle

Watcha Tour