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Night&Day
Hot Fish
Hey, the Marlins are in first place! That’s right!
By Chris Joseph
Published: May 1, 2008
Something is not right with the Florida Marlins. The sucking is not working, which is the only thing they’ve been good at for the past five seasons. At least it was. Last...
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Night&Day
The Sweetest Victory
Everyone wins with cupcake bingo at Sweetcakes!
By Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik
Published: May 1, 2008
All hail the mighty cupcake. There’s no baked dessert that’s more evocative of childhood innocence. Cupcakes take you back to the days of bruised knees and bake...
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Metro
Mother-in-Law from Hell
A boorish mom, insensitive cops, and a deaf couple add up to nasty controversy.
By Natalie O'Neill
Published: May 1, 2008
Just before dinner on a Sunday evening in January 2007, there was a knock at the door of Cynthia Cuevas's small red townhouse on West Eighth Street. But the...
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Metro
Boom & Bust, Part 1
On this foreclosure tour, the mortgage crisis is just another money maker.
By Janine Zeitlin
Published: May 1, 2008
They peeked in the closets. They sniffed the kitchen and breezed through the Spanish-style three-bedroom on San Lorenzo Avenue in Coral Gables, which was going for $653,900....
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Riptide
Big Brown Machine
Saturday's Kentucky Derby favorite arrives fresh from South Florida.
By Edmund Newton, Janine Zeitlin and Thomas Francis
Published: May 1, 2008
Sports Big Brown Machine Saturday's Kentucky Derby favorite arrives fresh from South Florida. By Edmund Newton For the past two weeks, Palm Meadows has clattered with the...
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Letters
Letters from the Issue of May 1, 2008
Food reviewers such as Lee Klein should encourage good dining, not this type of blatant highway robbery.
Published: May 1, 2008
Plastic: Far from Fantastic Thanks for your reality check, Tamara Lush, in your April 24 Riptide article ("Mama's Got a Brand New Bum"). I'm from Salt Lake, and our lovely...
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Music
No One Ever Really Disappears
Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again.
By Dan Leroy
Published: May 1, 2008
Name a pop music A-lister, and he or she has either worked with Pharrell Williams or probably wants to. Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, and Madonna...
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Music
Flamenco, Still
Helming the Andalusian act Chambao, La Mari forges ahead with her Spanish-world mix.
By Julienne Gage
Published: May 1, 2008
Chambao, an Andalusian band from Málaga, Spain, introduced the concept of "flamenco chill" to the world in 2002 when it released an album by the same name. But since...
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Burner
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
The Postmarks reach the UK.
By José Dávila
Published: May 1, 2008
One year ago, with the release of the band's self-titled debut, the Postmarks instantly became the most critically acclaimed band in all of South Florida. Indie press stalwarts...
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Burner
Coming Up Rosy
Barcelona duo the Pinker Tones lets the sunshine in.
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 1, 2008
During an increasingly rare moment at home in Barcelona, Mr. Furia, half of the pop-disco-smashup outfit the Pinker Tones, is expounding on the importance of sunshine. Where...
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Burner
Keep Watching the Stars
Astralwerks gives Air's Moon Safari the 10th-birthday treatment.
By Ryan Foley
Published: May 1, 2008
Air's Moon Safari would knock Marcel Proust's dick in the dirt. The distinguished French author would fete the equally distinguished French pop-men for the group's association...
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Rotations
The Waterford Landing
Bullet Park EP (Applied Chaotics)
By Abel Folgar
Published: May 1, 2008
The Waterford Landing's 2004 self-titled full-length debut was refreshing, in what was then a local sweltering sea of shit populated with bad bass, half-ass hip-hop, uninspired...
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Rotations
Monotonix
Body Language (Drag City)
By John Nova Lomax
Published: May 1, 2008
It used to be that a band's records enticed you to the live show. Although a studio recording, Monotonix's Drag City debut EP, Body Language, on the other hand, is best...
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Rotations
Atmosphere
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 1, 2008
The characters given life by Slug on Atmosphere's new album have unenviable situations, but they're not all painting that shit gold. (Whatever that means.) Vagrants, single...
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Livewire
Outereach
By Arielle Castillo
Published: May 1, 2008
Much like their most beloved musical forebears, long-surviving hometown trio Outereach is hard to peg to one microgenre or scene. First on the list of influences on the group's...
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Livewire
Concord Dawn
By Eric W. Saeger
Published: May 1, 2008
New Zealand twosome Concord Dawn is the biggest drum 'n' bass thing in its native country. The band's deliriously danceable tunes have been played for years by international...
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Livewire
Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion
By Nicholas L. Hall
Published: May 1, 2008
Imagine, for a moment, that there are whole worlds of music about which you know nothing. Stars rise and fall in these other spheres, completely uninfluenced by the mechanisms...
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Livewire
Noa
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: May 1, 2008
Few singers make their career after returning to their native land from the United States. But Noa is no ordinary singer. After growing up in New York City, the Israeli native...
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Cafe
Macho Tacos
A van-turned-restaurant offers the real deal in Florida City.
By Lee Klein
Published: May 1, 2008
"De sus amigos de 'Taco Loco,'" reads the sign over the storefront window at Maya Grill. The Mexican restaurant opened six months ago on West Palm Drive in Florida City, but...
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Cafe
Tasty Morsels
Published: May 1, 2008
Miamians in the mood for Mexican in other corners of the county might consider these solid south-of-the-border joints: Burritos Grill Café 899 NE 125th St., North...
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