The first thing you experience when entering Semilla Eatery & Bar is the sweet aroma emanating from a wall of potted herbs. They’re a welcome respite from the construction craziness on Alton Road. You’ll also be relieved to hear “Wrecking Ball” sung by someone other than Miley Cyrus and see…
There’s an old High Times video of legendary pot grower Jorge Cervantes that opens with “the Ganja Guy” behind the wheel of an old rusty tractor. Cervantes — wearing his iconic disguise of black sunglasses and black dreadlocks — tells viewers he’s taking them on a tour of marijuana gardens…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
A group of parents and alumni representing predominantly African-American inner-city public schools recently accused Miami-Dade schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho of being a “slick operator.” In a six-page manifesto, they alleged Carvalho has turned his back on black schools and broken promises made to the African-American community. They are wrong. Carvalho…
Super Struggles The super’s the problem: Alberto Carvalho is a special case (“Carvalho Criticized,” Chuck Strouse, March 6). He sits imperially impervious, camouflaged in a fancy suit, with neatly groomed hair, articulate, paranoid, well-scripted, self-absorbed, intelligent, cunning, calculated, and always looking ahead. He is the ultimate political illusionist with a…
Think packaged food prep, and you’ll likely envision a sterile assembly line manned by dead-eyed factory workers. Or not manned at all. Such is the general reality of our tech-heavy, mass-produced food system. But Eat4Life, a Miami-based company and creator of the Superfood bar, is just the opposite. Even with…
Everyone has their special place. Mine includes champagne, imported cheese, caviar, and foie gras. Marky’s Gourmet has it all and so much more. For more than 30 years, Marky’s has provided Miami with top-of-the-line caviar, truffles, and other gourmet items, including lobes of foie gras. For someone who comes from…
Match is for desperados, eHarmony for old fogies, and Christian Mingle for closeted freaks, leading us cyber whores to the next best thing – Tinder. Meant to serve as an on-the-go service for both social and non-social single specimen, this dating app triggers and targets local hotties (and sometimes the…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke gives Miami-Dade’s top educator a passing grade. A group of parents and alumni representing predominantly African-American inner-city public…
Outfitted in black suits without ties, Fabrizio Carro and Cristiano Vezzoli dart from table to table to inquire about their patrons’ meals and to extol the virtues of various regional Italian dishes. As they maneuver between the restaurant’s interior and the terrace, their tousled black curls and matching facial scruff…
Feeling cheesy this weekend? You’re in luck, because tomorrow is the “Crack Heard Around the World.” Last year, Whole Foods set a Guinness World Record title for the most wheels simultaneously cracked (426) and so they’ve decided to bring it back. At 3 p.m. tomorrow cheesemongers at stores across the…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Few things are more enjoyable than eating a whole fish. Cooked on the bone, its flesh stays flavorful and succulent — a far cry from most dry, overcooked fillets. All a whole fish needs is a bit of lemon. All you need alongside it is a cold beer. Sure, not…
The confetti wafted onto his impossibly square shoulders. The Nashville audience stood and roared. Then a medal on a royal-blue ribbon was draped around Miami-Dade schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s neck. Last month, after more than five years of agonizingly hard work, the self-proclaimed son of “pretty dramatic poverty” who grew…
It took an incident close to home for Spike Lee, the Do the Right Thing director, to see the reality facing African-American neighborhoods across the country. During a Black History Month lecture recently, he grumbled about his dad being harassed by new white neighbors for playing music too loudly. “He…
Cuban Downfall Us against them: Uncle Luke is right to slam Miami-Dade Commissioner Javier Souto for giving Cubans too much credit for building the Magic City (“Last Gasp,” Luther Campbell, February 27). Souto is part of the old guard, old politics, old thinking, and old reasoning. I am Cuban, and…
The confetti wafted onto his impossibly square shoulders. The Nashville audience stood and roared. Then a medal on a royal-blue ribbon was draped around Miami-Dade schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s neck. Last month, after more than five years of agonizingly hard work, the self-proclaimed son of “pretty dramatic poverty” who grew…
Miami winter is almost over, and we’ve barely experienced what it feels like to be cold. Does that mean we shouldn’t get the pleasure of having winter food? Salumeria 104 doesn’t think so. Chef Angelo Masarin likes simple and traditional Italian flavors. For him, no food is simpler than animal…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke responds to Spike Lee’s rant against gentrification. It took an incident close to home for Spike Lee, the…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Miami-Dade Commissioner Javier Souto tried to persuade his colleagues to derail an airport development project last week. The reason: The firm involved has business ties to Cuba. But the Bay of Pigs veteran and former state senator accomplished something very different. He showed he’s a filthy bigot. “The Latins here…
Torture Center Citrus is the worst: My nephew is bipolar and has been in almost every psychiatric hospital in both Broward and Dade counties, so I was interested in reading your investigation into the troubled Citrus Center in Hialeah (“Throwaway Kids,” Kyle Swenson, February 20). The story confirmed what we…
