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CRUDOBAR with Guest Chef Noriyuki Sugie @ BREADBAR
BREADBAR continues its guest chef series with CRUDOBAR, featuring sashimi and tapas from Chef Noriyuki Sugie (previously of Asiate and Charlie Trotter), inspired by the restaurant/bakery?s artisanal breads.  Expect dishes ($9-$19) like blue fin tuna tartar with pickled fennel, dry caper…

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…

Happy Hour @ La Cantina
Happy Hour happens every day at La Cantina.  3 pm-7 pm daily, all cocktails are 50% off.

Green Corn Tamale Season @ El Cholo
It?s green corn tamale season at El Cholo.  Starting May 1 and lasting through October, the sweet tamales verdes will be available at all El Cholo locations.  It?s a tradition that dates back 85 years to the restaurant?s founders.  And in honor of the 85th anniversary of…

Cameo 1 Year Anniversary ? 02.09.2008
Cameo had her 1st birthday party last night, and she sure knows how to throw one helluva sexy, slutty party. What a tramp. The venue was filled with crazy kids ready to make it a wild night. I love meeting the strangest people in Miami. One guy told me he just got off […]

Cooking with Pacific Time

Chef Jonathan Eismann plates beef salad and dishes on his new Design District outpost.

DJ NorthernLight
A recent Miami transplant who just moved up from Key West, DJ NorthernLight has put together a sick mix full of tech and progressive sounds. Listen up. Check him out on MySpace

Cielo in Coconut Grove is closing it?s doors! 

Which means the Bohemia room is moving back to South Beach and Wednesdays. I don?t remember exactly where it is going to be held, but I will post that info ltr.

Hailing Hopleaf
It’s not exactly news, but the popular pub continues to impress with its exceptional beer list and rave-worthy eats.

Friday Night Live Featuring Too White Crew
Toast summer at this afterwork rooftop mixer, with live tunes by the ’80s rap cover band.

A Ginger Zinger
Le Colonial’s upscale Vietnamese fare demands a high-class cocktail to match.

$3.50 16-ounce pints and $5 25-ounce mugs of Sam Adams

Joan of Arc
American label Polyvinyl Records is promoting “Boo Human,” the latest effort from the Chicago band Joan of Arc,as their “most accessible, cohesive” work since 1998’s “How Memory Works.” Core member Tim Kinsella doesn’t necessarily agree with his boss’ assessment.

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New - Ichariba En: Akihabara
The menu here features Okinawan standards and gourmet Sangenton pork dishes, along with a big selection of awamori spirits, all at reasonable prices….

A subtle take on family life
Family drama is the default setting of serious Japanese cinema. No matter what genre first brings Japanese directors fame or fortune, be it Sci Fi/fantasy, yakuza epics or horror, they often end up making a family drama, especially if they want to establish their auteurist credentials. The Western used to play a similar role in Hollywood as the basic, return-to-roots American film genre. One recent case in point is Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who won a devoted fan following abroad for his original, deeply creepy horror films, beginning with his 1997 breakthrough “Cure.” He has gotten his best reviews in years, though, as well as a coveted invitation to the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics Week section, for “Tokyo Sonata,” a drama about a dysfunctional family, that features no ghosts whatsoever.

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Vote for London’s best bar and win £500 night out
The London Club and Bar Awards is asking you to vote for your favourite London bar. Cast your vote and you could win a night out at the winning venue, worth £500.

AFRIKA! AFRIKA! The magical circus adventure from the amazing continent. (17th Jan 08 to 30th Jun 08)
More than a hundred amazing artists, dancers, singers and musicians from many different regions of Africa present an enthralling mixture of breathtaking acrobatics, infectious rhythms and enchanting v…

Brasserie-big has had its day
Terence Conran’s landmark Quaglino’s was inspired by the large, classy matter-of-factness of Paris’s Bofinger and La Coupole. Now it is a shadow of its former accomplished self.

Chelsea sprouts The Botanist
The Botanist isn’t so much a brasserie as a chic, rolling restaurant — a culmination of owners Tom and Ed Martin’s gastropub empire.

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.

Coolhunted
For those in search of the next groovy thing, Taavo Somer, proprietor of Freemans and the new Rusty Knot, is the prey of the moment. His downtown anti-style wants to have it all ways all the time?ironic and earnest, neurotic and carefree, cool and cheeseball.

Mindless Self Indulgence
Self-aware electro-punk from New York

Eddie Izzard
Izzard, an Emmy Award-winning actor and revered comedian, used to perform in drag. For this tour, however, he’s gone back to performing as himself, in the appropriately-entitled “Stripped” tour.

Canvas Cafe and Gallery

Laid-back and comfortable.

Citizen Cupcake

sounds good-but….

The Dubliner" on a Tuesday Night

Quite place to read a book and enjoy a drink.

The Grove

Open long enough to catch on the way home. (Or on the way To in the mornings)

Funky Lemonade at Zanzibar
This funky, fresh night in Santa Monica features cheapie drinks and DJs Mr. Choc and Hapa spinning everything from classic hip-hop to electro and soul. Doors open at 9 p.m. and it’s $10 to get in, but if you RSVP and show up before 10:30 p.m., it’s only $5.

Das Bunker
Get your Goth on at Das Bunker

Best place to eat near Lincoln Road? 

We?ll be arriving in SoBe on Monday 30th after travelling from Scotland (circa 18hr journey all told). We?re a family of 4 with 2 kids (11 & 16)and would like to know of somewhere local to eat on our first night without travelling too far.

On a separate note - Gus, I?ve heard you previously worked at Tuscan Steak, any chance of you helping us with making a table reservation?

We also want to book Bartgon G at some point - is it better eating outside in the Orchard Garden?

Tracey

New SoBe restaurant? 

Anyone know where David Mokha is headed to? He is leaving Emeril?s at end of month, but I can?t figure out where to. Any ideas?

TIA.

CLOSED: Karu and Y

I guess it?s true what they say…things happen in 3s

The Hustler Store closed.

Cielo in Coconut Grove is closing.

The $20 million restaurant and nightclub Karu and Y has gone out of business.

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…

Cafe Heavens
If you have been feeling a pulling sensation lately, then doubtless this is because of the magnetic power of Tokyo's Heaven's cafe. Positively awash with trendy Tokyoites, give your eyes a much needed holiday as you soak in the quiet Zen-like simplicity of Kazusane Iwase's furniture, its gleaming wooden floors, and the clever use of space…

CSS put their crazy show back on the road
<< CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The group are now talking in Trama Studios in the comfortable Pinheiros district. It's hard to get a grasp on Sampa, as Sao Paulo is known locally. Helicopters, the preferred mode of transport for the megarich, buzz the leaden skies (it rains nonstop when we are here), while vultures circle too, redolent of the vast slums. Trevisan says that, in terms of a social scene, the city is "10 times bigger than London, but 100 times smaller."

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