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Like all purebred party animals, the adventuresome men of Miami garage psych crew Lil Daggers welcome any kind of fun, no matter how dangerous, drunk, or bizarre. They’ll play house parties. They’ll play pool parties. They’ll play satanic séances, bake sales and shit fights. From the very first Pagan fuck…

Luna Rises Again”Back by Popular Demand” declares the banner across the re-rechristened Luna Cafe at 4770 Biscayne Boulevard. Short Order had reported in July that Luna had changed its name to L’artista Restaurant and tweaked the menu towards a more fine dining experience. We noted that it “Seems a curious…

This week Archive Diver rips some music and dance related listings straight out of the classifieds of our paper’s October 5 – 11, 1988 edition.We’ve got private dirty dancing lessons, an ad to sell peace bracelets at a Grateful Dead concert, DJ Mont “progressive since 1979,” and country and amateur…

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to view past top-sellers. Top Five Albums for the Week of September 28-October 3 Sweat Records, Miami 1. Where The Wild Things Are, Karen O. & the Kids2. I And…

Did something improper go on in Hialeah’s budget office? Did budget director Alex Vega and senior internal auditor Ana Maria Gomez do more than just crunch numbers on city time? Well, whatever they were up to, it didn’t sit well with Vega’s wife Tania. This past April 6 around 12:30…

This remix of Black Dada’s “Imma Zoe” comes courtesy of UB the Underboss from the THC crew. The song is called “Imma Chico,” and it calls for Latinos all over Miami-Dade County, South Florida, and the world to stand up.Here’s UB’s message that we received by e-mail with the track: “Get ready…

​Seven hours. That’s how long Ryan Evans mixes up the mayhem at Buck 15 each and every Friday night. Seven hours. But if you’re the kind of DJ who can begin with ’90s hip-hop, segue through commercial house, and peak with classic rock and roll, well, seven hours is just…

Sometimes, everything you’ve ever feared about the drive- thru is true. Careful what you say into that fast food speaker. Short Order recently met Trew Money, his rap name, in a local bar and grill kitchen where he was working as a dishwasher. We asked if he had any funny…

Like thousands of other readers of the Miami Herald, I was charmed Friday when I read of the 20-year, multimillion-dollar effort to spruce up downtown sidewalks. World-famous artist Burle Marx designed about a mile of walkways similar to those on Rio’s Copacabana for Biscayne Boulevard between the Arsht Center and…

Inspired by the Late Summer Vegetable Salad dish recently devoured at Sra. Martinez, (soon to be named one of Esquire magazine’s 20 best restaurants of 2009,) we whipped up this tasty take in about an hour.  Suffice to say that mere minutes after that hour, a crumb and a puddle…

Are paintings made of menstrual blood creepy enough for you? How about a Rape Tunnel? Oh, wait. The Rape Tunnel was fake, but the blood paintings are a little too real. Tomas Regalado might have helped to raise some money for one little terrorist, but he doesn’t want to talk about…

Like a hipster boy who just got dumped by his admittedly too-perfect girlfriend, White Room’s having a tough time bouncing back from its recent breakup with local queen of cool, Poplife. Especially harsh was the fact that the bitch (er, Poplife, in this case) immediately shacked up with that new,…

Waiter: “Tea or coffee, gentlemen?”1st customer: “I’ll have tea.”2nd customer: “Me, too – and be sure the cup is clean!”                 (Waiter exits, returns)Waiter: “OK, I’ve got two teas. Which of you asked for the clean cup?”How many waitresses does it take to change a light bulb?Three. Two to stand around…

Over the past 15 days, I have written several blog posts questioning the residency of Hialeah councilwoman Katharine Cue. I reported how her driver’s license and city documents, including forms she filled out with her own handwriting, showed she actually resided at 19195 Mystic Pointe Dr. in Aventura when she…

Happy first year anniversary to Yelp Miami. To help celebrate, take a blogger to lunch.North One 10 and Cacao Restaurant are the most high profile closings of the season. This leaves us with two less really good chef-driven neighborhood restaurants, a genre in which our city already comes up way…

The Christian Thing to Do Matteis is the man: “Blackbeard Air” (Gus Garcia-Roberts, September 24) raises some serious questions. Didn’t Christian Matteis found Halcyon Jets and do $50 million in sales last year? Why would the company have risked losing him? I invested in this deal only when I heard…

You’ve heard the haters’ standard bitch: “Man, the rap game these days ain’t nothin’ but a lobotomized, blinged-out, corporate pimp.” And while that’s true to a certain extent, hip-hop in the late aughts is anything but a bag of boring, homogenized bullshit. For every one-dimensional gangsta rap retread, you’ve got…

Adrian “Drop” Santalla, and Phenom are the production team behind Drop Dead Beats and the force behind “Triumph,” the opening track on Pitbull’s new album Rebelution.ESPN recently licensed the song for one month of universal usage. Drop says “I got people calling me up telling me, oh I just heard…

Some Journey diehards don’t like the fact the band still performs under its original name, but with replacement Arnel Pineda, a Filipino former cover band frontman, on vocals. Still, it seems like most fans just want to hear the songs performed live, and well, whether Steve Perry is along for…