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Cuban restaurant recommendation

We?re staying in Miami area for 4 days, but in reality 2 days out of 4 are spoken for. Really want to try some good Cuban food and not sure if we should had over to Little Havana (Versailles or Le Caretta) or stick to something in SoBe (YUCA, Puerta Sangua, etc).

TIA.

Live music during the week in Miami? 

I?m interested in checking out the live music scene in Miami.  Unfortunately, I won?t be in town on the weekend.  Any suggestions Mon-Thursday (June 16-20)?

Bachelor Party for 30-somethings

Hi!

Please help!  My friend wants to go to South Beach for his bachelor party.  But I?ve never been there before!

We?ll be bringing about 10 guys down for a weekend in June.  Looking for a good nightclub for a Saturday night.  These are guys in their mid-30?s, mostly married, but still into having fun, so we?re looking for a place that?s a little bit more sophisticated.  I imagine it?s hard for us to get in so we don?t mind ponying up for bottle service if we have to.

Does anybody have any advice?

Thanks in advance!

Adobe Media Player is Open to “Longtail Publishers,” Too

Adobe’s newly introduced desktop application for video, Adobe Media Player, features content from mostly big publishers like CBS. But it’s a platform for long tail producers too, Beet.TV has learned.

The platform allows consumption of videos from any show that has media RSS feed, according to Deeje Cooley, Adobe’s Chief Internet TV Evangelist and co-creator of the Adobe Media Player.

This is similar to iTunes where there are both bona fide publishers and smaller publishers who’s shows are simply searched and pulled via media RSS.

Getting users to a show on the Adobe Media Player, which involves an initial file download, is being made easier by a sort of widget or “badge” which publishers can use around the Web. Once a user clicks on the “badge” they are brought through the download process and directly to a subscription. The badges are just coming online.

I caught up with Deeje earlier this month at Streaming Media East.

– Andy Plesser

Posted on Beet.TV on Friday, May 30, 2008

http://www.beet.tv/2008/05/adobe-media-pla.html

You know, there might be a business here
Gary Vaynerchuk’s daily “video blog” has 25,000 downloaders per episode. He gives it away free but what if he charged?

Review - Touzan - Kyoto
Ceramics, sake bottles and patterned tiles embellish the minimalist modern Japanese design at Touzan. Private tatami rooms have been reinterpreted as dining alcoves created by suspended blinds, while the main dining area looks out onto a wide Japanese rock garden. On the Grand Menu, perennial favourites like tempura, nishin soba and Kobe beef sit alongside more exotic fare like seared sea cucumber entrails….

05/12-20. Colombian guest chef at the Westin.
Chef Leonor Espinosa, the owner-chef of one of Bogota’s top restaurants - Leo Cocina y Cava - will be bringing her innovative modern Colombian cuisine to Tokyo when she guest-chefs at Victor’s restaurant…

View @ Twenty four: London (30th May 08)
Attica in a previous life, 24 is one of the most high-tech venues in London, and is the first fully interactive bar in the world. Equipped with the latest state-of-the-art lighting and bar technolo…

Introduction to Personal Styling Event - Hosted by a Celebrity Stylist (10th May 08)
Hosted by our top celebrity stylist, Zoe Lem, stylist from the BBC? s What Not To Wear and to countless celebs such as Robbie Williams, Cat Deeley, Ant and Dec etc, the event will enable you to learn …

Look Back and Laugh
Remembering the Baggot Inn, where comedians went to chill after they killed.

The 25th Hour of Florent Morellet
As his legendary 24-hour French diner closes for the first time, it is being mourned as the sad passing of an era. But Morellet regrets nothing.

Crooked Disco
Crooked Disco is back again with Tag Team night?an impressive roster of DJ duos. Featuring Proper Villains (Jon [s] and Jesse Mann), Sound Advice ( K. Ross and  Elsewhere), and lovable Crooked Disco residents DJs Morsy and Kester round out the night with disco and classic house jams,…

Stone Temple Pilots
If being in a band is a lot like being in a relationship, we fear for the members of Stone Temple Pilots. Singer Scott Weiland, never exactly reliable, is set to retake the helm of one of the ?90s’ biggest grunge bands just a few weeks after being kicked out of Velvet Revolver, which he formed…

Bohemian Carnival @ DNA Lounge

Calling all Carnies!

Mighty SF

Mighy is one of the best

3 reviews - last on 12/02/06 by Duane

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic Where: Walt Disney Concert Hall,

Fifth Anniversary Tasting Menu @ Grace
Grace celebrates five years with a five-course tasting menu from chef Neal Fraser.  Starting May 6, the special menu will be available for the rest of 2008.  It?s a greatest hits list of Grace?s finest:  Dungeness crab salad with English peas, mint and meyer lemon…

$15 @ 15
Echo Park newcomer 15 has been accused of encroaching on the neighborhood with its pricey, fussy fair, but here?s a peace offering:  Daily from 5 pm-6:30 pm, you can snag a 3 course tasting menu for $15.  The selections change weekly, but the first course might include a choice of…

$7 martini-of-the-day at Nic’s of Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills bar without the Beverly Hills bar tab

DayBreak May 28: Brooke Siegel, DailyCandy.com
Booke Siegel, Miami Editor of DailyCandy.com, discusses lingerie, jewelry, brunch and other summer trends. For more information visit DailyCandy.com.

DayBreak May 29: Signature Shorts
Stephanie Norman and Ceci Fernandez discuss Signature Shorts, a series of one-act plays, festival running May 29 through June 22 at the Arsht Center. For more information visit CityTheatre.com.

DayBreak May 30: Bonnie Clearwater & Dominic Molon
Bonnie Clearwater & Dominic Molon discuss MOCA’s new exhibit Sympathy for the Devil, launching today and running through September 7. For more information visit MocaNomi.org.

There Will Be Blood: Shakeout Inevitable in Crowded CDN Industry, Dan Rayburn

It’s another bubble that will burst. The number of companies and entering the content delivery network space is not sustainable, says Dan Rayburn, director of Streaming Media and an authority on the content delivery network business.

According to Dan’s reckoning, some $282 million in venture funding has been raised over the past 12 months for CDN players in an industry that has total revenue of $410 million. He says a dramatic consolidation is inevitable within the next 18 months.

Not cheery news for the industry gathered at the Streaming Media East show in New York this week. I interviewed Dan yesterday.

– Andy Plesser

Posted on Beet.TV on Wednesday, May 21, 2008

http://www.beet.tv/2008/05/there-will-be-b.html

Will ?amateurs? save democracy from the ?professionals??
The author of “the cult of the amateur” claims that only “professional journalists” can be relied on to report news, and bloggers are “ruining it”, except it’s patently obvious that professional journalists have completely failed in their duty and apparent capabilities for reporting accurately or honestly.

Standing Bar S
Sorry, chaps, Standing Bar S is a bar for ladies only. More like the interior of a Mariko Mori installation than a watering-hole, the aesthetic is sleekly minimal, tempered here and there by strategically placed potted plants. As the name suggests, it is a standing-room only affair…

TV dumbos drum up big following
As Forrest Gump said, stupid is as stupid does. And in Japan, these days, it does pretty well. The latest pop outfit to take the nation by storm is Shuchishin, a male trio with a unique selling point: their ignorance.

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