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May 23, 2012
Seven Sins: Village Voice Media Releases Our First eBook Anthology
Every week writers for Miami New Times and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Cr ... More >>
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May 15, 2012
Miami Once Again Ranked America's Sixth Best-Read City by Amazon
For the second year in a row, Amazon.com has compiled a list of America's best-read cities. And for the second year in a row, Miami has come in sixth on the list. It's a ranking that leaves us feeling proud but perplexed.
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May 3, 2012
Hedy Goldsmith's Cookbook Available For Presale: We Have a Preview
2012 is turning out to be a good year, indeed, for Michael's Genuine Food & Drink pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith. The modest and talented chef is on her way this weekend to New York City for the annual James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on Monday, May 7, whe ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
Sheet Suspenders Inventor Maria Thornhill Claims Ex-Partner Stole Her Business
In 1988, Maria Thornhill invented a nifty gadget called Sheet Suspenders, elastic bands that tuck in bed sheets without having to lift a mattress. By 2008, she'd sold more than $3 million worth of the devices and turned thousands in profits. It was an American success story -- at least until an old ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Coffee In Pods Cost $50 Per Pound
Single-serve pod coffee machines are all the rage in America these days. Single-serve coffee is now the second most popular means of making a cup (after drip brewers). Last year, 7 percent of coffee consumed in the U.S. was made with a single-serve brewer; in 2010 it was 4 percent.The current pod cr ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Five More Stupid Movies Based on Hasbro Toys
They came for G.I. Joe, and we said nothing, because we always thought G.I. Joe was kinda dumb.Then they came for Transformers, and we said nothing, because Michael Bay is unstoppable and anyway, Megan Fox is hot.But then they came for Battleship, and we realized that soon, there would be no chil ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Party With Porn Stars on New Year's Eve 2012: Abella Anderson, Alexis Texas, and Daisy Marie
What's the best kind of New Year's Eve porn party? Well, you could always strip naked at your laptop and host a smutty celebration for one by counting down to midnight and popping a nice bottle of spumante as a powdered pair of hairless balls drop on some poor 20-something's pretty face. Or .. ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
The Year's Ten Weirdest Food Calendars
Buying calendars is a kind of a new concept. Growing up, we usually got a calendar from some local shop. Dad got a calendar filled with either babes in bikinis (or less) or cars from the local tire shop, mom placed one on the kitchen wall filled with either flowers or mountain streams -- a gift f ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Great Christmas Gifts for the Food-Obsessed Man
Santa's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh.Every Christmas it's the same thing -- what do you get a man? Sure it's easy if money's no object -- get a Porsche and call it a day. But what if your budget is under $50? We've put together a list of sure-fire gifts that he'll love and that w ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Great Christmas Gifts for the Food-Obsessed Woman
Uwe Hermann/Creative CommonsIt's the present - not the thought that counts.Santa Claus is due for his yearly breaking and entering campaign, and you're worried that you're not going to be able to find the perfect present for the female foodie in your life.Let Short Order do the shopping for you. ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
Bacon Stocking Stuffers: Ten Gifts Under $20
ThinkGeek.comBacon makes the perfect gift for kids of all ages.Christmas is right around the corner and you're on a mission to find a gift for the bacon lover in your life. Sure you could go to the grocer and buy a package of meat, but why not be creative and get him or her something that require ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
The Occupy movement needs you, Miami
ThinkGeek.comBacon makes the perfect gift for kids of all ages.Christmas is right around the corner and you're on a mission to find a gift for the bacon lover in your life. Sure you could go to the grocer and buy a package of meat, but why not be creative and get him or her something that require ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
The Occupy Movement Needs You, Miami
Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke assesses the Occupy movement sweeping New York, Miami, and other American cities.The tens of thousands of proteste ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Darth Vader Toast, Light Saber Chopsticks: Ten of The Craziest Star Wars Cooking Tools Ever
Today, September 16, marks the release of the eight-disc set of Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Star Wars fans can rejoice in seeing 40-plus hours of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Han Solo and , most importantly, Jar Jar Binks, in spectacular remastered digital film (including thousands of spooling fee ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Seraphic Fire's Recording of Brahms's Requiem Kicking Ass on Billboard's Classical Charts
Hey, you totally out-of-control choral music fanatics! Turn down that hyper-climactic fugue for a second and listen up ... Local ensemble Seraphic Fire, fronted by artistic director and conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley, just released its version of Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, a fresh ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Five Accessible Cookbooks to Elevate Your Cooking Game
How's your cooking game? Sure, your eating game is up to snuff, but food tastes even better when you know how it's made. The key to mastering the art of cooking at home is to become well-rounded, and that means tackling your weaknesses. In the words of Mr. Miyagi, "first learn stand, then learn fly. ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
Drink Your Own Urine
Let's face it. Between the current hurricane season and the impending apocalypse, there's a better-than-average chance we are in for some sort of disaster in the near future. Fear not, Miamians, you will not go thirsty.Enter the LifePack ($28.84 from Amazon.com), a portable water filtration devic ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
Level From Alukard Talks Vigilante Justice, L.A., and Rock Of Ages
This is what happens at an Alukard show.Just because Miami doesn't have any alternative music on the radio, it doesn't mean the city isn't producing radio-worthy rock. Alukard has been making the 305 headbang since forming in 2003. And now with its freshly digitized (iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby) se ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Miamians Shop Online More Than Any Other City
You might not know it from trying to find parking at Aventura Mall, but apparently Miamians love to do a good bulk of their shopping online. More than residents in any other major city in America, actually, and by a large margin.
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May 27, 2011
Miami is the Sixth Most Well-Read City According to Amazon
According to the stereotypes, Miami is supposed to be a bit of a shallow city and not exactly an intellectual hot spot. Yet, we're apparently the sixth most book-looking city in America according to Amazon.com sales data. The book-selling super site totaled all book, magazine and newspaper sales ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Video: Afrobeta Goes Digital For "Play House"
It's finally here! The official music video for "Play House," the first single off Afrobeta's first full-length album Under the Streets. The video is vastly different from the kitschy teaser trailer shown on the band's website. That project, which was directed by local filmmaker Fro Rojas, ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Amazon: Miami is America's Sexiest City, Miami Gardens One of the Least Romantic
Miami loves their romance novelsApparently Miami's reputation as a sexy city even extends to our book shelves. Based on sales data, Amazon.com has ranked Miami as one of the most romantic cities in America, and the number one sexiest. Which basically means we're buying a ton of sex toys off Amazo ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
Top Five Edible Stocking Stuffers From Chocolate to Liquor
photo kitten via FlickrWho doesn't like to receive sweet treats in their Christmas stockings? They should taste right and embody Christmas cheer.
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November 24, 2010
Re-Kindle Your Love Affair with Black Friday via Amazon
FacebookBlack Friday is a vicious "holiday." It's a wretched display of hyper-consumerism, and anyone--who isn't homeless--that spends the night outside of a big-box retailer deserves to choke on a wishbone. Saving a few bucks on a 42-inch LCD television is rad, but not if you risk giving passers ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Lupe Fiasco Goes From Rap to Rock with New Band Japanese Cartoon, Paying Tribute to Joy Division
The cover art for Japanese Cartoon's In the Jaws of the Lords of DeathYou probably know Wasalu Jaco best for all of his hip-hop collaborations. With Lupe Fiasco as his stage name, he's worked with the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Neptunes, and Pharrell Williams, Justice, and Rihanna. But now h ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
Blast From the Past: The Jackie Papers - Uckfay Ooyay
The Jackie Papers Uckfay Ooyay (Stiff Pole Records) www.stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard "Big Stiff" Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I'll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, Stif ... More >>
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September 6, 2010
Blast From the Past: Baccone Dolce's - Barbecued Cats
Just as delicious as the horns... and then some! Baccone Dolce Barbecued Cats (Moon Ska Records) www.moonskaworld.com Aspeta un minuti ... or don't. It isn't so much as the delicious Italian treat as it is a bygone era where the Floridian peninsula ruled the ska-airwaves. And (apparently re-eme ... More >>
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August 31, 2010
Blast From the Past: The Pink Lincolns - Suck & Bloat
The Pink Lincolns Suck & Bloat (Stiff Pole Records) www.stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard "Big Stiff" Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I'll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, St ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
The Genuine Kitchen: Florida Lobster 13 Ways, Plus a Recipe for Miniseason
Ben Fink, Ben Fink PhotographyWhat lies beneath is tasty.The Genuine Kitchen column features recipes and tips for your home cooking by James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Schwartz and his team at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink. His first cookbook, Michael's Genuine Food: Down-to-Earth ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
Last Minute Father's Day Gift Ideas for the Tech Geek in All of Us
We're not going to tell you to get your dad an iPad or the new iPhone because really, anyone can tell you that. We've poked and prodded, and come up with what we think are the most useful and most innovative tech gadgets your dad will enjoy this Father's Day, minus the pre-orders and long lines. Hap ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
Musical Missionary Label's Debut Record Release Tomorrow
Musical Missionary has played various roles in fostering Miami's underground dance music scene in recent years, from artist bookings and party promotions, to philanthropy through the "Dance for a Cause" parties in 2009 and the more recent "Sunday School for the Generous" DJ marathon at Electric P ... More >>
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August 24, 2009
Casual Sax & The Saxual Revolution Out Tomorrow!
Ryan Smith a.k.a. Induce! and Sven Barth, collectively known as Casual Sax and the Saxual Revolution's hotly, in some circles, anticipated full length album will finally be hitting record store shelves tomorrow morning! Ever since they dropped "Baby I'm Black (But Only from the waist down)" back ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Sol Ruiz's Outlander CD Brings Tropical Folk Style Cuban Psychedelic Music
Sol Ruiz's Oultander is a 6-song disc I got in a cardboard sleeve from producer Bobby Macintyre of Studio 71.He says: "Sol is the songwriter and she plays acoustic guitar. I played drums, produced, engineered, and mixed it. Jesse Jackson plays some Dobro slide guitar, and some cuatro. Lorenzo Corti ... More >>
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May 15, 2009
Must-See-TV People Live at the Shore Club this Saturday
What do you get when you take Greg Grunberg and Adrian Pasdar from Heroes, Teri Hatcher and James Denton from Desperate Housewives, mop-topped Bob Guiney from The Bachelor, and Jesse Spencer and Hugh Laurie from House? Yes, the cast listing for the 2015 season of VH1's Surreal Life, but also The Ban ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
So They Think They Can Sing
What do you get when you take Greg Grunberg and Adrian Pasdar from Heroes, Teri Hatcher and James Denton from Desperate Housewives, mop-topped Bob Guiney from The Bachelor, and Jesse Spencer and Hugh Laurie from House? Yes, the cast listing for the 2015 season of VH1's Surreal Life, but also The Ban ... More >>
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May 1, 2009
PG-13 Talks Panther God and the Future of Circuitree Records
Today, PG-13, aka Paul Gaeta, releases his second record into the wild: Panther God (click here for a preview). Really it should be his fourth , but between his 2007 debut, the humbly titled Seven Songs for my Friends and the beginning of God's creation some thieves broke into his apartment and sto ... More >>
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January 20, 2009
Charlie Pickett Gets His Due
About 20-some-odd years after the fact, Dania Beach alt.country.punk.roots pioneer, Charlie Pickett, is finally getting some of the props in mainstream media that he deserves. South Florida natives and music nerds that are in the know have been clocking this guy's career since the late 1970s when h ... More >>
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December 25, 2008
Holiday Shopping for Big Shots
Gift ideas for Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter, Mayor Carlos Alvarez, and Related Group chairman Jorge Perez.
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December 15, 2008
An Interview With Ted Allen
C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>
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October 2, 2008
Invasion of the Amazon Women
Big girls, little guys, lots of fun.
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July 23, 2008
Classic South Florida Album Commanding Big Bucks
Big girls, little guys, lots of fun.
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January 30, 2008
Jacki-O: Rapper, Label Head, and now... Author?
Big girls, little guys, lots of fun.
Music
December 20, 2007
Picture Perfect
The Vice Photo Book�s music portraits are worth a thousand notes.
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October 8, 2007
CD Review: Ministry - 'The Last Sucker'
The Vice Photo Book�s music portraits are worth a thousand notes.
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July 14, 2005
Serious Black Ink
The Vice Photo Book�s music portraits are worth a thousand notes.
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August 5, 2004
Hair Church
The Vice Photo Book�s music portraits are worth a thousand notes.
Music
January 8, 2004
Sites and Sounds
A collector's guide to shopping for music in cyberspace
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May 29, 2003
Lost in the Amazon.com
A thoroughly unscientific look at what your friends and neighbors read, watch, and hear -- or not
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May 17, 2001
Best Local Website
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May 11, 2000
Best Book By A Local Author
Fathers Aren't Supposed to Die: Five Brothers Reunite to Say Goodbye
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