Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.Woman’s Day has a great article pointing out what we all already know: Food is always better when it’s stuffed with other…
Did you miss the Allman Brothers at last month’s Wanee Festival in Live Oak? Well fret no more, the biggest act from(and founders of) the festival just can’t get enough of their home state and have announced an October 20 date at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. It’s a wonder…
Talk about huge concert announcements. Yesterday, Bruce Springsteen announced a stop at the BankAtlantic Center, and today the Beastie Boys let slip one of their nine stops on this year’s tour will be at Bayfront Park Amphitheater. Even better news: this is the last stop on the tour, so you…
It’s harder than you might think to find a good cup of coffee. I mean, straight-up, regular old coffee-flavored coffee. There are plenty of places to get your coffee drowned in milk or laced with sugary syrups, but finding a decent cup of black coffee can seem impossible if you…
Leave it to your boss to inadvertently ruin your good mood. After last week’s grass jelly debacle, I decided to take fate back into my own hands and hand-select the food I’d be eating for this week’s post. At my last trip to Publix, I was waiting in the checkout…
In case you haven’t heard quite enough of the King of Pop over the last few weeks (is it ever enough?) Who’s Bad, “The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band,” is coming to Revolution Live on July 22. Founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, five years ago, Who’s Bad has been…
Joe Rogan has had his hands all up in pop culture. He started off on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, hosted Fear Factor for six seasons, did a quick stint on The Man Show, and is currently hosting and doing color commentary for UFC bouts. In between all that, Mr. Rogan…
Live Nation continues to make Wednesday the best (if only) day to get tickets through their site. Last week, they announced the “All-In” tickets: For $29.99 you get lawn tickets, parking, a hot dog, and a soda. This week, they’re expanding the “All-In” promotion to include reserved seats at Cruzan,…
Have you ever heard from someone who went to a Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band concert and left unsatisfied? The Boss’ fans are rabid, and his shows are legendary, often culminating in three hour sets spanning his entire 40-plus-years’ catalog. His previously announced tour did not have a…
Deadmau5 (pronounce dead mouse for those reading this aloud) a.k.a. Joel Zimmerman, has just announced a North American tour with a stop at Revolution Live on November 13. The Canadian progressive house DJ is bringing his trademark high energy show (think full multimedia experience rather than just a dude bobbing…
70’s power balladeers REO Speedwagon, prog rockers STYX, and straight up 80’s (hair) metal band Night Ranger are touring and hitting up Cruzan Amphitheater on October 31. Let us break this down for you: If you buy a ticket for this show (and you will), there’s about a 99% chance…
If checking out the Get Up Kids reunion show on November 12 isn’t your thing, perhaps this will float your boat (pun very much intended). There’s a boat, a big one at that, setting sail from Miami that very same day which will have Rick Springfield, Richard Marx, Brandon Barash…
There was a time in the ’90s when “emo” wasn’t a bad word, a style of dress, an overuse of eyeliner, or an awful haircut. It was when bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, Cursive, Texas is the Reason, and The Get Up Kids were proud to play their own…
There’s no getting around it: When you eat a Primanti-style sandwich at Primanti Brothers, you feel like a glutton of the highest degree. The Pittsburgh-based sandwich company (whose only locations outside of PA are in South Florida) is famous for jamming everything that would normally be in a lunch platter…
Col. Bruce Hampton (Retired) and his current band, Quark Alliance, is bringing a whole new kind of jam/funk/blues/avant garde to Revolution Live on August 21.Col. Hampton has been pounding out the tunes since 1963, playing in bands like The Hampton Grease Band, The Late Bronze Age, and The Aquarium Rescue…
If you or someone you know ever gets that smug sense of accomplishment, that they’ve done so much with their lives or they’re just crazy busy and don’t have time for much else, and you’d like to knock them down a peg or two, have them look up Ruben Blades’…
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs, this time with a local focus.Dinner Reviews focuses on Broward, Palm Beach, and Dade counties and… well reviews restaurants. The best…
No self-respecting foodie should let Bastille Day go by without some kind of celebration. Say what you want about French culture (normally a bunch of overblown cliques anyway); there is simply no denying French influence on cuisine. Some of the finest breads, cheeses, and desserts in the world are distinctly…
In case you haven’t heard enough quite enough of the King of Pop over the last few weeks (is it ever enough?) Who’s Bad, “The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band”, is coming to Revolution Live on July 22. Founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, five years ago, Who’s Bad has…
Respectable Street’s 22nd Anniversary Party is coming up on August 22, and down-under rockers Sick Puppies have announced they’ll be playing that same night. Sick Puppies are touring in support of their upcoming Tripolar album, their third studio album to date. As far as what they sound like, well think…
There was a time that it was considered sexier to leave some things to the imagination than to splay yourself open for all to see. It was around the same time that Vaudeville was hot and a nickel would get you into a theater filled with fire-eaters, dancers, magicians, and…
Don Chambers is an Athens, Georgia-based singer/songwriter whose latest album, Zebulon, was produced by Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers fame. His music is thick with banjo, steel guitar, and thumping percussion, laced with dark lyrics. And on Zebulon, Chambers sounds like he wants to be Tom Waits and/or Nick Cave…
