Heidi and the El Cats is a true Lake Worth invention. The Heidi in question (last name Jacobsen) was born in Toronto and worked as a fashion designer in New York before making her way to South Florida. It’s on our sunny shores that she befriended Cliff Guest, a Miami…
Michael Elwood Gochenour, best known for opening Elwood’s Dixie Bar-B-Q in Delray Beach in the early ’90s, has died just shy of his 60th birthday. Many friends and supporters have posted tributes to his memory at the live haunt’s Facebook page remembering the Delray Beach music and barbecue pioneer. Gochenour’s…
New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2011 is live! This week and next, County Grind will bring some more information about winners relevant to our audience.West Palm Beach’s western community is home to the best twins since Aphex Twin, the Dewars. None are more deserving of the coveted Best Live…
New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2011 is live! This week and next, County Grind will bring some more information about winners relevant to our audience.Only a quarter-century old, Ryan Alexander has proven himself worthy of the Best Young Guy title.Between his work running Brew Urban Cafe in Victoria Park,…
President Obama has called for Anthony Weiner’s resignation. If you’ve been living under a rock the past couple of weeks, Weiner is the New York congressman now famous for tweeting a photo of underwear-clad bratwurst to a Seattle college student. Classy, right?Obama isn’t the only one urging the man who…
Folks are gathering this evening to remember the good works of Michael Gochenour, the man who brought Elwood’s Dixie Bar-B-Q to Delray Beach. Since he was found dead in his home over Memorial Day Weekend, there has been an outpouring of support from the community he helped lift up with…
Saxophonist Clarence Clemons suffered a serious stroke over the weekend but is in stable condition, according to reports from earlier this week Update: R.I.P. Clarence Clemons (1942-2011)The longtime Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band member is based in Singer Island near West Palm Beach. According to a message from…
The 311 Pow Wow Festival, a weekend gathering of music and unity August 4 to 6 at Suwanee Music Park, has filled out its artist lineup with five additional performers.Thus far, the fest has proven to be a lightning rod — those for it and against it have already made…
Not long after Katy Perry’s weekend performance at the BankAtlantic Center, she unveiled “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).” The clip stars her alter ego, Kathy Beth Terry, a geeky teenager who drinks and has a kick-ass body underneath all the dork. I had hoped that Kathy T. would make an appearance…
It is with a great deal of pleasure that we unveil the 2011 Best of Broward/Palm Beach issue for your perusal. With 235 categories, this issue is awfully close to a daily affirmation of our culture-rich area — if you take the weekends off.County Grind readers are not the only…
The most glamorous man in show business, Bryan Ferry, is coming to the Fillmore in Miami Beach on September 29. What separates Ferry most from his ’70s glam contemporaries — besides his lasting music — is simple: He is as much sexy style as he is sexy substance. His work…
Most of the time, hearing a song like Lil Wayne’s latest masterstroke, “Dear Anne (Stan Pt. 2),” brings out a flood of emotions directly connected with the content (a semicreepy letter to a fan) or the beats (Swizz Beatz’ wise repurposing of t.A.T.u’s “30 Minutes”). After several listens, though, the…
Dick DaleWith Laramie Dean, the Gutter QueensRespectable Street, West Palm BeachMonday, June 13, 2011Better than: Joey Buttafuoco’s stupid curly mullet. On a rainy night in West Palm Beach, several heavily modified vintage cars lined the sides of Clematis Street. Among them was an outstanding late-’50s Chevy Bel-Air station wagon and…
The Coasters were part of that era that prefigured the rock revolution of the ’60s. Rock ‘n’ roll was still in its infancy, and harmonies were more potent than a full instrumental arsenal. So when Carl Gardner, lead vocalist of the Coasters — and more recently, a resident of Port…
West Palm Beach’s Clematis Street is about to get a fresh wave of surf culture, courtesy of a new restaurant called Longboards. Located in the street’s 500 block in the space previously occupied by Ray’s Downtown (Blues), the eatery is opening in grand fashion on Saturday, July 2.Just to play…
When it comes to improving the public transportation system in South Florida, every little bit counts. Kudos to Fort Lauderdale alt-country act Harvey and the Buckets for getting into the mindset for “Downtown Trains” — which probably isn’t about the Tri-Rail system, but still. How much heartbreak can you really…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen.This week, Sea Things.We mentioned Sea Things a couple of months back after West Palm’s Sumsun did a remix of his track “Sad Girls.” Since…
One of the roughest, rawest musicians of our time, Seth Putnam, has passed. The 43-year-old instigator of the visceral grindcore act Anal Cunt died of a heart attack on Saturday.Outside of those who regularly imbibe in music that throttles listeners to the brink of complete exhaustion and frustration, Anal Cunt…
Update: R.I.P. Clarence Clemons (1942-2011)Saxophonist Clarence Clemons, a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and a recent Lady Gaga collaborator, has suffered a stroke. According to Roger Friedman’s Showbiz 411, Clemons is at his home in the Singer Island section of Riviera Beach.”I am told that members of…
“The California Dreams Tour” Starring Katy Perry With Robyn BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Saturday, June 11 Better than: Getting every single Disney character to sign your autograph book.Last time America’s premier pop chanteuse, Katy Perry, was in South Florida, she played to “a handful of people,” she said. Saturday at BankAtlantic Center, she…
Fat Joe, best-known for the song “Lean Back,” is looking like he’s been dining on Lean Cuisine of late. The rapper’s fresh physique came into the public’s consciousness earlier this week when he premiered the “Drop a Body” video looking like the body of an 88-pound weakling had been shed…
If you thought you’d missed your chance to don your best ’80s rocker costume alongside Russell Brand and Tom Cruise, you can breathe easy. Rock of Ages, the musically inclined film that brought you Mount Trashmore Hollywood Edition and convinced Alec Baldwin to forget about his “newly discovered medical condition,”…
