Dharma and Phaxas of OrganicArmaBand-breaking showcases don't get any bigger than College Media Journal's Music Marathon (aka CMJ). Sure, the Austin-based South by Southwest has more than a few moments to its credit. And yes, Miami's own Winter Music Conference can sometimes even be counted on as a place to...
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Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it's all about the love of the brew. If you...
You have to take message board user comments with a grain of salt - who knows what motivates people to say the things they do on the Internet. Often, absurd comments are a result of a mixture of anonymity and audience, a variation on the time-tested Greater Internet Dickwad Theory...
Christina Turner, a 45-year-old Fort Lauderdale woman, was downtown, letting men at the bar by her drinks. The next thing she remembers is waking up on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she may have been raped. As a safety precaution, she visited her doctor, who prescribed a...
Dutch DJ Tiësto is like clubland's equivalent to J.R.R. Tolkien's one ring. The recipient of multiple DJ awards from DJ Magazine and other publications, this arena-sized attraction is the one who rules them all. There are also plenty of antitrance advocates, of course, who would love to see Tiësto thrown...
Da Francesco's, the group that for five months operated the organic Italian restaurant of the same name in Palm Beach, was denied an injunction last week against 251 Partners that would have seen them take back control of their restaurant. The order came down by way of Palm Beach Circuit...
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Don’t Hate on the Ham
Seven months after its theatrical release in the United Kingdom and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a different title (it was formerly known as The Boat That Rocked) and most of its better bits excised. Writer/director Richard Curtis, paying homage...
For me, passing a barbecue stand on the side of the road is like seeing a leprechaun handing out gold bullion -- I pull my car over as fast as possible and get in line. So when I came across Troy's Bar-Be-Que this weekend, I had to check it out...
courtesy of punkhouse.orgIf you spotted John Joseph on the street and didn't know any better, you'd probably quicken your pace. Though he's now 47 years old, the New York hardcore god is a compact, tattoo-covered package of brawn who could easily kick the ass of a poser half his age...
The latest saga revolving around Jason Wetherington has come to an end. Wetherington, a former GOP staffer who boasted of having a sexual relationship with Charlie Crist in 2006, made headlines again in August when he was charged with stealing a wedding ring and other jewelry worth an estimated $19,000 from the...
As local gadflys go, Wes Blackman is one of the most thought-provoking; in fact, New Times gave this urban planner an award for "Best Blog" in 2009 for his insightful commentary about the city of Lake Worth. These days, Blackman is running for city commissioner and he has to make...
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photo by Kristi SwordNative South Floridian Roberto Lange is a busy guy. Aside from having his fingers in the production pot, working with indie up-and-comers like School of Seven Bells, he is also has been known to work with Prefuse 73. And just this past summer, he put out an...
Photo by Arielle CastilloJacuzzi Boys played after the drink-sodden film screening.Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry ScreeningMiami Art Space, Wynwood, MiamiTuesday, October 27, 2009Better Than: Shopping for remaindered Ed Hardy clothes in that sad sample sale/clearance trailer on US1 down south.The Review:Last night's screening of Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry, a fun documentary...
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Don’t Fail, Dolphins
Has one of the country's most iconic foods become as American as. . . tacos al carbon? In a word, yes. Clean Plate Charlie was scanning the NY Times food section a couple weeks back and came across this piece by John T. Edge, a real scholar of American and...
Here's a phenomenon that seems to run contrary to popular concepts of how markets work: As the economy falters, the jobless droves have pawned their gold; and yet that seeming flood in the market has done nothing to reduce the value of gold. On the contrary, gold has increased from...
In the techno-centric dance capital of Berlin, DJ/producer/label owner Steffen Berkhahn a.k.a. Dixon has played no small part in bringing about a broader stylistic eclecticism to electronic dance music, while paving the way for the current deep house revival. A veteran of Berlin's early '90s scene with roots in drum...
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Punk’s Not Dead
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Food Season on the Boob Tube
I never claimed to be an awesome cook. I've got two knock-em-dead recipes in my repertoire -- meatloaf and chicken marsala -- but otherwise it's a crapshoot as to whether anything that comes out of my kitchen is even edible. But, alas, my new beau has wined and dined me...
You know those little hexagonally packaged Tortuga rum cakes that people who get off cruise ships and airplanes tend to hand out the way fruitcakes go around at Christmastime? They're sweet and dry and taste like a distant relative to what someone's Bahamian grandmother might actually make and hand out...