Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. The Isle Casino & Racing in Pompano has its own universe of bars and restaurants to explore — and if you’re dressed well enough, you can hit all of them. When my friend Beard and…
Lazaro Casanova: Don’t let the baby face fool you.Local DJs like Oscar G and Cedric Gervais may get all the glory on a national level, but they better watch out for Lazaro Casanova. The young musician has gone from obscure indie-party DJ to legit techno/house producer. He even paired up…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. The Isle Casino & Racing in Pompano is seriously like Disney World for degenerate adults. Seriously, you lose entertainment-and-booze filled hours in a casino and walk out to find it’s already dark (or light, whichever…
Santa: Imposter or the real deal?There was a time, often called “childhood,” when catching your unmarried moms making out with a fat, bearded guy in a red suit would’ve been a wonderful development of the most Christmassy proportions. Who’d have thought that Santa could be your stepdad? No one. And…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Tryst4 E. Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach 561-921-0201 The halls of Tryst had been more than significantly decked. The tree in the back patio dining area was full of lights; inside, poles had been wound with…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. The Bull Bar 2 E. Atlantic Ave.Delray Beach 561-274-8001, thebullbar.comAcross from the Bull Bar was a park with an “ice skating rink” and a giant Christmas tree all decked out in blue, purple, red, and…
Yeah, pal, that’s “indie rock,” scare quotes very much included. Look, it’s a meaningless term. As are “college rock,” “alternative,” “hipster,” etc. Let’s not overthink this. Here we have ten splendid records with an amorphous rock ‘n’ roll designation, albeit in a perhaps slightly more experimental and thoughtful vein than…
Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing. With a few exceptions, like Raekwon and Kid Cudi, most of 2009’s exciting, innovative rap records came from Southern artists…
The past year brought the worst economy since the malaise of the ’70s, and like that era, it also saw dance music sweep the nation. Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé, and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs all dabbled in the sound. Even Michael Jackson, before his untimely death in…
Local rapper-producer ParableWhenever the web seems to have reached its peak of weirdness, the whole thing whirlpools into entirely new dimensions of the bizarre, revealing secret worlds where you can watch celebrity breakdowns streamed live, read first-round NBA draft picks suicide tweets, or even e-shop for shrunken human heads. One…
Night Watch is a regular column about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Downtown Delray was awash with Christmas lights. They were crawling up tree trunks and stretching across storefront windows; they dangled from awnings and snaked around wreaths at every art gallery, pet salon, clothing boutique, and…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Porterhouse Bar & Grill201 SW 2nd Street, Fort Lauderdale 954-522-1253 There are very few locations on Himmarshee Street acceptable to bring a date that you still have to impress (i.e., haven’t yet slept with). But…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Trina Restaurant and Lounge 601 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale 954-567-8070; trinarestaurantandlounge.comTrina, the Atlantic Hotel’s classy oceanfront bar, is decorated with abstract art, dark wood furniture, small round tables, retro-chrome chairs, and plush outdoor…
No women no cry might have been Bob Marley’s anthem but come February 28, 2010 “No Bougie’s, I’ll cry” is what regulars in the South Miami bar scene will be sniffling. That’s right, folks, South Miami’s chillest dive, Bougainvillea’s, will be shutting its doors for good leaving locals, UM students,…
If Boca Raton band Stonefox’s performance really shone at the Miami Music Festival this past weekend, it only served to underscore the amateurish quality of much of the rest of the event. Planned as a three-day set of simultaneous showcases, à la SXSW, the inaugural edition of MMF was poorly…
I went to Mansion on Saturday night to find out what’s happened to electro-house. This energetic style, with equal parts electro and indie dance rock, exploded on the international scene in 2006 but lost most of its edge within two years. It was seemingly extinguished by the same intensity that…
Aventura is one of the most successful Latin music acts in the world at the moment. Not “arguably” and not “possibly” — it’s simple fact. How else do you categorize a group whose most recent album is the biggest Latin seller of 2009, breaking sales records for most consecutive weeks…
He expected his mother to have reservations, but it didn’t matter. So Surfer Blood’s 23-year-old frontman, John Paul Pitts, broke the news in his parents’ kitchen this past August. Instead of enrolling as planned for fall classes at Florida Atlantic University, he would be hitting the road with his band…
If love makes the world go ’round, alcohol makes love a little easier to find. That’s why, this week, I’ve selected a few great places you can go to have ultimate success in liquoring up (and scoring with) a hot date. Consider this your Christmas present — from my home…
Despite its seemingly official, compendious name, the Mexican Institute of Sound is not some sprawling, south-of-the-border government entity all about the science of airwaves and eardrums. In fact, the Institute’s only got one member — Mexico City cratedigger-slash-EMI exec Camilo Lara — and he mostly studies the art of shaking…
Alright, I promise this will be the last Miami Music Festival post for a while. But in case you wanted to see what you missed — because you missed it, didn’t you? — check out these YouTube clips of a few choice performances. First, I’ll post a few from Saturday…
DJ Joaquin Estevez was born in the Dominican Republic and relocated to Miami in 1992, where he’s been a mainstay of the local underground EDM scene since his long-standing residency for Sobebeats and their infamous warehouse parties in 2006-2008. He has since played regularly in support of the PL0T, Link,…
