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Are You A Wine Snob? Find Out in Time for the Festival

For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. Think about the last time you shared a bottle of vino with friends. Unless you're a group of uppity wine connoisseurs or sommeliers, chances are the wine in your glass mean ... More >>

MLB Steroid Scandal: What's Next for New Times

Best Tapas Restaurants in Miami

Although originally from Spain, tapas have taken on a whole new identity in the past couple of years, becoming a global phenomenon. The word tapa comes from the act of covering (tapar). Eateries long displayed delectable Spanish meats like chorizo, lomo, and jamon Serrano beside their cheesy sideki ... More >>

Ryan Braun, Francisco Cervelli Confirm They Were Tony Bosch's Clients

On Tuesday, a week and a day after Miami New Times published online a report describing hundreds of pages of records from the office of a Coral Gables clinic, Biogenesis, the first professional baseball players have acknowledged involvement with owner Anthony Bosch. In statements issued Tuesday to ... More >>

Miami's Top Ten Cuban Restaurants

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Miami® online at bestof.voiceplaces.com. Miami is a city of exceptional things. It's where early mo ... More >>

The Tony Bosch Files: Nelson Cruz, Yasmani Grandal, Wayne Odesnik, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Yasmani Grandal, Jimmy Goins and Yuri Sucart's Records

On Monday, New Times released an investigation into Biogenesis, a local anti-aging firm run by Tony Bosch. Records obtained by New Times suggest Bosch was selling performance enhancing drugs to a number of professional athletes; throughout the week, we've been posting those records as they pertain t ... More >>

Miami's Best Eats and Drinks This Weekend

When Rebecca Black made that horrific music video "Friday," the only thing the poor girl wanted to convey was that it was just freakin' Friday. There is no soul out there that doesn't rejoice after hearing the news that it's the last day of the work week, when a full 48 hours of relaxation are on de ... More >>

Miami New Times' Dirty Dozen 2012

Miami Marlins Trade Yunel Escobar, Now Have MLB's Lowest Payroll

Yunel Escobar promised to be the strip-mined Miami Marlins' most interesting player next year. The Cuban shortstop had loads of talent, plus an unmatched ability to act incredibly dumb -- like last season, when he was suspended for writing the anti-gay slur "Tu Ere Maricon" on his eyeblack.Well, Esc ... More >>

Miami's Best Chicken Wings: Sakaya to Sparky's to Scully's

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.If you decide to go on a hunt for Miami's best chicken w ... More >>

Freedom Flask: Drink From a Bag, Next Big Food Trend (Unforgettable GIFs)

The Freedom Flask is a wearable liquid-dispensing invention for sneaking liquor into sporting events.We took it into the streets of Miami to test it, but replaced the vodka with water so Alex Rodriguez wouldn't get arrested.From the sands of South Beach to Lincoln Road to the Wynwood art walk, the d ... More >>

New Times Changes Up Food Team

For more than a decade, New Times has offered South Florida's most extensive food coverage. From our food blogs -- Short Order and Clean Plate Charlie -- to the Voice Places directory of restaurants to our weekly reviews, the coverage equals or betters any in the American Southea ... More >>

The Grind: Smoking Out Fine Burgers

​If you were at The Grind burger battle last night and didn't shower before hitting the sack, you know you smell like shit this morning.The South Florida burger competition drew hundreds of guests to the Miami Entertainment Complex in Wynwood last night. Guests milled around the crowded and, uh, s ... More >>

The Grind's Director Speaks Out: "We're Sorry and Have Learned From Our Mistakes"

​Everyone seems to be questioning the Grind's logic of having its burger battle event indoors. Obviously, grilling is done outdoors for a reason.But in an online statement, director Tony Albelo says months went into planning the event to ensure everything went smoothly, and they hired "HVAC contra ... More >>

LeBron James Now Only America's Sixth Most Hated Athlete!

​Good news for LeBron James! He's now only the sixth most hated professional athlete in America! That's down from second place on Forbes.com's list last year. Hell, as we've previously noted, he's no longer the most hated player in the NBA. That title now belongs to that guy who had exclusive acce ... More >>

Pizza Fiore to Open in Former Village Cafe Location Next Week

Photo by Alex Rodriguez ​We recently passed by Miami Shores' Village Cafe, which seems as if it had been open for an eternity. It was closed. Peeking in to see what was going on behind the blacked out windows we found chairs on top of tables and a ghost-like restaurant space. Then we noticed th ... More >>

Two Hooves Up: Edge Steak & Bar Knocks Our Bibs Off

Photo by Alex Rodriguez In the name of the cow, the sun and the holy anticucho skewers. Amen. ​Ah, isn't it refreshing when you dine at a restaurant and leave thinking, "that was worth every penny and pound and I'd do it again in a heartbeat"? Such was the case at Edge Steak & Bar. The amou ... More >>

Today: Slow Food Miami Celebrates Terra Madre Day. You Can Too.

If you're hankering for some last minute plans this weekend, do something that benefits you and the rest of the world. Slow Food, a global organization promoting good, clean and fair food, is hosting two events for December 10, Terra Madre Day.Translated to Mother Earth, it's a day to celebrate and ... More >>

Sneak Peak at Pearl Restaurant & Champagne Lounge, Opening December 10

Photo by Alex RodriguezPearl circa 2011.​The iconic South Beach hot spot, Pearl Restaurant & Champagne Lounge, is making its official comeback December 10 -- six years after closing to the public.From 1999 to 2005, Pearl (second floor of Nikki Beach) was a favorite among A-List celebrities bac ... More >>

Phuc Yea!: Pop-up Restaurant Has Ten Days Left

Alex RodriguezViet-nom before they're gone​Last call! Miami's first pop-up restaurant, Phuc Yea!, has officially started the '10 Day Countdown til [they] Peace Out' of the local food scene.While we're all sad to see the quaintest and dankest place go, here are the perks to enjoy before they bid ad ... More >>

Muscle Maker Grill: Get 15 Percent Off!

Photo By Alex RodriguezGet your VIP ticket to the gun show​Heads up, Miami! New Jersey-based Muscle Maker Grill in midtown Miami is offering 15 percent off all meals through the new year. All you have to do is "Like" it on Facebook or follow on Twitter.The health-conscious hot spot serves tasty, n ... More >>

Miami Takes the Heat to Vote, Awaiting a Winner for 2011 Eater Awards

Photo by Alex RodriguezCan you hear it sizzle?What do you get when you put together the three hottest restaurants in Miami? Well, nothing really ... except maybe a lot of heat. That is, until a successor is chosen at the 2011 Eater Awards Gala in New York City tonight. Only at that point will the bl ... More >>

What's Wrong with LeBron?

​It's no secret LeBron hasn't been playing like himself lately. Explanations have ranged from his girlfriend cheating on him with Rashard Lewis to fatigue from playing too many minutes to lacking Michael Jordan's killer instincts.The simple answer -- he's choking. Literally.Choking is a real, reco ... More >>

LeBron James is the 10th Most Powerful Celebrity in the World According to Forbes

​Forbes has tallied up the world's most powerful celebrities, and the Miami Heat's own LeBron James comes in at number three. Though he's not that most powerful athlete (Tiger Woods somehow still takes that one), he is the most powerful celebrity athlete from a team sport. Besides Woods, only A-li ... More >>

Miami Sports Teams that Pay Players the Most Suck the Least

​Remember the time that the New York Yankee's Alex Rodriguez's annual salary was greater than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins combined? Well, the Marlins have agreed to increase their payroll in anticipation of moving into their own ballpark, and now A-Rod only makes about 57 percent of w ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh to Michelle Obama: You're No Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model

​Chubby radio ranter Rush Limbaugh called out First Lady Michelle Obama for eating ribs with her daughters while on a ski break in Vail, Colorado. Rush said that while the nation's number one mom wants everyone to "basically eat cardboard and tofu. No calories, no fat, no nothing -- gotta sto ... More >>

Bill Clinton Ate Dinner With Cameron Diaz Then Went to Ochocinco's Birthday Party

​South Beach apparently has a hot new party it boy, and his name is former President Bill Clinton. Yes, Bubba hit up the town last night in grand fashion. First, he dined with Cameron Diaz and Alex Rodriguez at Prime One Twelve before crashing football loony Chad Ochocinco's star-studded birthday ... More >>

Exclusive: Arkadia's Lineup Brings Sander Kleinenberg, the Shapeshifters, and More (Plus New Club Photos)

​Miami has been buzzing about the Fontainebleau's latest nightclub addition, Arkadia, ever since Drake hosted his birthday party there on October 23. Guests like LeBron James, Alex Rodriguez, and Edward Norton baptized the space in the name of Grey Goose before it had even opened to the public.Cro ... More >>

Dwyane Wade Says He's "in a New York State of Mind"; Shut Up, Dwyane Wade

​Dwyane Wade went into his meeting with the New York Knicks today and told reporters he's in a "New York state of mind." Shut up, Dwyane Wade. Don't you even play with our hearts like that. For months, you've been telling us you're probably staying in Miami. You know what happened to the ... More >>

Stormin’ to Omaha

Marlins Preview: That Silence You Hear Is Miami Preparing for Another Baseball Season

Wikimedia Commons via user Djh57. If Hanley Ramirez does some amazing shit but nobody's there to see it... it's still amazing.​They live, as quietly as cloistered monks, among us. They wash our dogs, write our blogs, prepare our taxes, and, you know, do other things people do for a living. ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Kate Hudson and A-Rod, the Cookie Diet, Wall Lounge at the W Hotel South Beach, and Football Playoffs

Kate Hudson and Alex Rodriguez breakup? A-Rod spotted partying in Miami at Wall Lounge at W Hotel South Beach and eating at Solarium above The Delano all alone. [AceShowbiz]The awesomely named Linda Gassenheimer's recipe for shepherd's pie. [DemoChron]Pensacola high school football coach laments cos ... More >>

News Roundup: Dumb Cops Finish First; SEC Probes Miami

This makes a lot of sense looking back at it: Miami Dade College was responsible for administering tests to Miami-Dade Police officers to be considered for promotions, but the college screwed up the process. So cops who didn't get good scores were sometimes promoted, while office ... More >>

The Week That Was

DJ Seasunz, a well established local DJ, drove around in his car with the dead body of his 18-year-old girlfriend before turning himself into police. He's being charged with second-degree murder and was denied bond.Miami's best known graffiti crew, MSG, is heading to divorce court as one of the co-f ... More >>

Celebrate Another Win for Score

Phillies' Raul Ibanez: A-Rod Is Green with Envy

It's Ibanez's world and we're all just trying to live in it.Sitting next to a beautiful woman for 12 hours in first class on an airplane is the perfect situation. You want to avoid boredom, so small-talk is perfectly acceptable. And she can't walk away because she has to remain seated and buckled pe ... More >>

Report: Shaq's House Sold With $19 Million Discount

via Kevin TomlinsonThere once was a time, before the real estate crash, before the credit crunch, and before the global economic meltdown, when Shaquille O'Neal figured he could sell his Star Island mansion for between $32 and $35 million. That was 2005, and this is now. Joan Fleischman reporte ... More >>

Give Thanks -- You Almost Got Stuck Rooting for the Florida Flamingos

All team names are far from created equal. Some basic math: Celtics > Raptors; Red Sox > Devil Rays; Colts > Texans; and everyone on a field, rink, or pitch outside of Anaheim laughed their asses off at the Mighty Ducks until they wised up and lost the Disney adjective a few years ago.via Wikimedia ... More >>

News Roundup

Local 70 samples have been taken from patients in Florida suspected of having swine flu. Only three were sent along to Atlanta because they weren't found to be something else, and the results from those three could come back today. [CBS4] WSVN is suiting Nielsen, the ratings people, for being a mon ... More >>

A-Rod and Limbaugh Are Apparently Exactly the Same

by Rex Lameray via Belltown Messenger's FlickrRush Limbaugh and Alex Rodriguez both have their past drug struggles with pain killers and steroids respectively, they also both have multi-million dollar pads in South Florida. That is where the comparisons end to the untrained eye. But Robert Zimmerman ... More >>

News Roundup

Oh, ZBT the UM frat caught up in another drug mess has been temporarily suspend. Police said pot and a pill for ADHD treatment (adderall?) were sold at the house. [JustNews]A Charlie Crist adviser,  Alan Mendelsohn, is linked to one of these many, many ponzi schemes. [Pulp]Marc Sarnoff is the n ... More >>

News Roundup

Your Miami Dolphins did it! Some how! Some way! They took their division, are heading to the play offs, and made the greatest season to season turn around in NFL history. Not only that but to get their they beat the Patriots, who last year came ridiculously close to joining the '72 Dolphins in per ... More >>

Madonna Meets with Former FARC Hostage in Argentina

Only a week after wrapping up the U.S. version of her Sweet and Sticky tour here in Miami, Madonna is now making headlines in Latin America. But this time, it's not just about her closeted romance with slugger Alex Rodriguez.Yesterday afternoon, Madonna, who is currently in Argentina on tour, met w ... More >>

News Roundup

Riptide had a lovely Thanksgiving. Short Order cooked an amazing turbaconducken, Crossfade lead us in musical prayer, and step-sibling Nude Celebrity Death SUV brought tons of bargain bin wine, which it proceeded to chug relentlessly. Anyway, we are back today in a somewhat tryptophan impaired effor ... More >>

Your Completely Shameless Celebrity Gossip Update

All of Riptide's usual channels of gathering topics for posts are clogged -- absolutely clogged -- by celebrity gossip coming out of the big Fontainbleau shindig and Vicky's Secret show this past weekend. So lest we be tempted to devote whole posts to each of these subjects, let's just get it over ... More >>

Easy on Rudy

The newspaper of record plays softball with the schools chief.

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Flower Bar gets repotted in a new neighborhood

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MLB 2K6 throws more chin music than strikes.

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