Email Author Jacob Katel

2009 Stories by Jacob Katel

• Field Report: Redlands Green Bean Pickers in Pictures

  published Nov 20, 2009

  Last year, Janine Zeitlin wrote an article for New Times called "Ignored and Cheated: Farm Workers Earn Nada in America's Greenbean Capital."Yesterday, South Dade-based Short Order reader Michelle con... More >>

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  David Lombardi Talks Wynwood Cafe District

  published Nov 20, 2009

  The Wynwood Cafe District is a zoning effort on the part of business leaders, residents, artists, real estaters, and local government to promote foodlife and nightlife in Wynwood by allowing liquor li... More >>

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  Lunch Eater: Spuntino Bakery & Catering - Chicken Sandwich

  published Nov 20, 2009

  If you were driving south on North Miami Avenue around 2:30 p.m. a couple days ago between 14th and 11th Streets you might have seen Short Order eating a sandwich off the trunk of a dirty Toyota Corol... More >>

• Video: Jim Morrison Interview in Miami, 1970, Talking About The Doors' Miami Incident

  published Nov 19, 2009

  Lizard King Jim Morrison, one of the most influential American rock singers ever, was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943.He went to UCLA film school, graduated, and hung out on Venice Be... More >>

• Burger Beast to Attempt Four-Pound Burger This Weekend, Scores Production Deal

  published Nov 19, 2009

  What's a four-pound burger to a monsterr Nothin'. Who can pick a restaurant up by its fry chimney and shake out all its fast food through the drive thru window and into their mouthr The Burger Beast. ... More >>

• Chef Cooks Lobster To Death, Feels No Mercy, Here's Why

  published Nov 19, 2009

  If you've ever heard a lobster's scream as it's cooked alive in boiling water or recognize the sound of claws hammering at the plate glass and steel of an oven door then you may have worked in a resta... More >>

• Video Ad: Dynamix II vs Viking Techno Conga at Respectable Street Cafe

  published Nov 18, 2009

  Beware! Strange European techno dancing may erupt in the streets of West Palm Beach for Dynamix II at the Respectable Street Cafe on Wednesday, November 25, 2009.According to the YouTube description f... More >>

• Joshua Woodward Murder Update: Was The Panty Powder Misoprostolr

  published Nov 18, 2009

  Josh Woodward was arrested in the suspicious death of his girlfriend's unborn child, a 13 week old fetus. There was talk of a mysterious white powder found in her underwear.According to TMZ, police in... More >>

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  Traveling French Cheese Ambassador on Whole Foods Tasting Tour

  published Nov 18, 2009

  Say cheese!French cheese ambassador Cecile Delannes is on a Whole Foods America tour giving out samples and educating consumers on behalf of The French Cheese Club, "an association of five family owne... More >>

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  Morgan's Restaurant Opening in Wynwood for Art Basel, Hopefully

  published Nov 18, 2009

  Get ready for real homecooked food in Wynwood. Morgan's Restaurant is a conversion from a house built in the 1930's that offers two stories worth of direct views into a neighborhood on the rise. Windo... More >>

• Learn Christmas Songs on Guitar at George's Music in West Palm Beach

  published Nov 17, 2009

  Christmas music ain't for everybody. Some people even think it sucks. But, a lot of people like it, even Bob Dylan, who just cut a whole album of Christmas songs.One thing's for sure, there are plent... More >>

• Food News Roundup: LandShark, Art Basel, No App, Bordeaux, Bahamas, and Benihana

  published Nov 17, 2009

  Boston Culinary Group signed contract extension with LandShark Stadium to provide food and beverage services through 2021. [Hospitality-1st]AOL's Digital City restaurant recommendations for Art Basel ... More >>

• Sam Barry Plays Harmonica, Talks Cocaine at Miami Book Fair

  published Nov 16, 2009

  Local funnyman Dave Barry usually introduces him as "The only guy I know who's been a minister and a coke dealer." That's according to Sam Barry, his brother, a guy who used to ruin lives, save souls,... More >>

• Captain Phyl's Seafood Trucks Sell Keys-Fresh Seafood in Miami

  published Nov 16, 2009

  If you've ever pulled up to a red light and seen a fresh-shrimp salesman standing on the sidewalk with a cooler and a posterboard sign then you might live in Miami.Give thanks we live in a region wher... More >>

• Miami Book Fair Foods: Greek, Colombian, Thai and More

  published Nov 16, 2009

  Another year, another Book Fair. This one brought all the usual greatness of authors, signings, sales, and readings, and reminded us of the existence of a festival-circuit touring vendor subculture. W... More >>

• Weekend Blog Watch: Soccer Farm, Mr. Chow, Banana Flowers, Burgers, Oysters, and Canapes

  published Nov 16, 2009

  A South Dade man wants to build a soccer stadium between two farms in the historically agricultural Redlands. [RedlandRambles]Lee Klein is not the only guy who hates Mr. Chow. So does Anthony Bourdain... More >>

• O.P.S. Miami Punk Rock Band Opening For Battalion of Saints Tonight at Churchills

  published Nov 13, 2009

  O.P.S. stands for Once a Piece of Shit. They are a Miami punk rock band. Tonight they open for old style Southern Cali hardcore punk band Battalion of Saints at Churchill's Pub in Little Haiti. If you... More >>

• Sugarcane Raw Bar & Grill Coming to Midtown via Sushi Samba Creators

  published Nov 13, 2009

  The Sugarcane Raw Bar and Grill is a new concept from the creators of Sushi Samba that will premiere during Art Basel 2009 in Midtown Miami and function in coercion with the Sushi Samba presented Graf... More >>

• Twilight Stars Get Wieners In Their Mouths On Jimmy Fallon Show

  published Nov 13, 2009

  Wendy Maharlika is the manager/waitress at Naoe in Sunny Isles, and she took part in a hot dog throwing contest on the Jimmy Fallon show the other night. This clip from the Jimmy Fallon show is from a... More >>

• Q&A With Da Pretty Boyz' J Remy

  published Nov 12, 2009

  When Miami/Ft Lauderdale label Florida Boy Intertainment's publicist called us Here at Crossfade we support music from Florida as a whole, so when Da Pretty Boyz' people contacted us, we said sur... More >>

• Creek 28 Restaurant's Chef Kira Volz and Her New Chef's Garden

  published Nov 12, 2009

  In a three way partnership between The Market Company (Lincoln Road farmers market, Upper Eastside Green Market, Doral Farmers Market etc.), Paradise Farms (organic produce farmer for the restaurant ... More >>

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  Behind the Line at Cape Cod Room

  published Nov 12, 2009

  Cape Cod Room (5937 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) at the Bath Club is Ken Lyon's, the caterer and restaurateur, new northeast American seafood house specializing in what he calls comfortable, familiar ... More >>

• Video: Ms. Jones, "Broward County First Lady"

  published Nov 11, 2009

  She calls herself Ms. Jones, Broward County First Lady and according to her Myspace page "A fake bitch will take you were you need to go - A real bitch throws you her keys and says it needs gas!"She... More >>

• Urbanite Bistro Monthly Beer Dinner for November

  published Nov 11, 2009

  Last time we had a beer dinner it consisted of a malt liquor tall can and a bag of chips in a parking lot downtown. Little did we know that the Urbanite Bistro (62 NE 14 Street, Miami) is doing a bett... More >>

• Waxys On The River Goes Reggae Wednesdays with Kulcha Shok Muzik

  published Nov 11, 2009

  Every bar/restaurant that's into getting green should throw a good reggae night. What better for the kitchen than a high-life crowd of hungry people smoked out on the riverrWaxy's On The River (690 SW... More >>