Behind the Line at Joey’s Wynwood

Chef Ivo Mazzon of Joey’s Cafe in Miami’s Wynwood is from Roncade, Treviso, in Northern Italy, close to Venice. He studied there for five years at a hospitality institute and has been in Miami since April, 2003. He says “I love it here. We’re trying to make something special to…

Artie Lange In Miami – Live Video

    Artie Lange Live From Miami from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Artie Lange is the greatest American storyteller since Mark Twain. This motherfucker is hilarious. Artie Lange was in Miami promoting his book “Too Fat To Fish,” at Books & Books in Coral Gables. Artie was drinking water because…

Fusik – South Florida Global-Breaks

                        Lurk on this suckas. Fusik aka Only Few Are Sick aka play this shit loud til the old lady next door shakes her fist at you then realizes she might as well be dancing and then starts shakin it like a hot tomato aka…

Cuban-Style Pig Roast Using La Caja China

Ah, the Cuban Pig Roast. There’s no greater cooking method than the outdoor-food-to-fire-method. And with the holiday pig we ate, we gotta start looking ahead to the next one. This kind of cooking is so basic, yet so delicious, it brings out the inner cave person in all of us…

Girl Scout Cookies Hit Streets, Scared of Salmonella?

Cookie junkies across the nation simultaneously erupted in joy and floundered in despair when ’09 Girl Scout cookie shipments hit the streets and salmonella peanut butter reports hit the airwaves. But don’t despair, according to MSN Health & Fitness:”The drum roll for recalls of peanut butter products continued without letup,…

“Yes Pecan” – Ben & Jerry’s Launches Obama Ice Cream

Business-hippies Ben & Jerry know ice cream cross-branding is a powerful way to push a message and make people smile. Hell, their corporate language refers to the CEO as “chief euphoria officer.” With that in mind, they’ve chosen January as a month of change wherein their famous butter pecan flavor…

The Methodaires – Strictly Roots Music

     Check out this live video of The Methodaires playing at Churchill’s. The Methodaires play a mix of ska, soul and rocksteady music, are currently gigging and have recorded material coming out this year. If you see their name on a flyer, go check em’ out, they’re worth it…

Jamaica Kitchen On Food Network

In  “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” a Food Network original series, host Guy Fieri rides around  looking for  real-reality through specialty joints. In this episode he visits Jamaica Kitchen, an authentic Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican establishment serving up pure fire. In 2007 the place won Miami New Times “Best Chinese Restaurant.”  Check…

Video: DJ Laz Talkin’ Shit at the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009

Check out this official exclusive video footage of DJ Laz backstage of the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009 before he hits the stage to perform, hangin’ out with Reality Kings Media (Miami reality porn originators), talking about doing commercials for lawyers, and makin’ “Jewish money.”…

Behind the Line at Wish

Chef Marco Ferraro from Wish, winner of Miami New Time’s “Best Outdoor Dining” award in 2007, one of 4 “Best of’s” we’ve awarded the hotel/restaurant, says “I’m Italian. Our cuisine is contemporary-American with a global influence. We do new-American food with an emphasis on fresh, local ingredients. Local is great…

Molecular Gastronomy at Enso

                                                                                                                         Jacob Katel”The exciting part for us is when people break out their cameras before they eat,” says Chef Jacob Durham from Enso. “Food is the only artform made strictly for consumption. Cooking is the oldest profession in the world, so it’s…

Living Raw, Sex, and the City

This girl here, livin’ somewhere in Miami, name of Suvine, pictured above, has a public, online diary documenting her life as a  fruitarian. What’s that mean? According to Wikipedia, “Fruitarians (or fructarians) eat in principle only the fruit of plants.” No meat, no dairy, no eggs, no fish, nothing cooked,…

Tree/soundz Releases a New Video

                                                  from the band’s myspace Treesoundz is a band that could make millions of dollars. I found them on the Internet while I was lurking around for a blog post. I’m a freelancer; I get paid by the piece, like selling crack rock on commission. They need to quit editing…

Violent Street Drummer Incident in Downtown Miami Caught on Tape

Where can you see a violent, wheelchair bound assailant striking out against street musicians playing dirty south drum beats? Downtown Miami, mothafucker. That’s right, a YouTube user  identifying him- or herself only as guaromiami recently posted a teaser of the incident. They’re selling the full version in hard copy for…

JK Citizen Rocks Hip-Hop

“Hip-Roc” rapper JK Citizen has a message “We tryina bring back music, we trying take it to a different level.” You may have seen his “Rock The Vote” video on YouTube, over 150,000 people have, but JK Citizen is just getting started.After the jump, see the transcript of the Crossfade…

Jimbo’s Place – Smoked Fish In Pictures

                                                                            Smoked Tuna – Jacob KatelJimbo’s Place is a Dade County institution. If you like smoked fish, cold beer, bocce ball, redneck-rock-n-roll, fishing, manatees, graffiti, choppers, hot rods, kayaks, wave runners, nature trails, family outings, drunken brawls, feral cats, wild roosters, music videos, film shoots,  bikini models, chess games, sunsets,…

Food Stamp Nation – Florida Leads The Pack

The Miami Herald reports that “In the last two years, the number of Floridians on food stamps has increased more than 40 percent to 1.7 million. That increase is the highest in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”The numbers read like this, 356,000 food stamp recipients live…