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Michelle Braun: Notorious L.A. Madam's South Florida Adventure

Kayaking for Dummies

Jim Greer: Racism and Dead Bodies Ahead

Shell Lumber: Hot Dogs Are Life

By 8 a.m. crews are already lining up outside of Shell Lumber on the corner of U.S. 1 and 27th Avenue. Yet it's not plywood or tool parts they're after. It's hot dogs, bratwurst and mini hamburgers. The half-block-long hardware store has been in business 84 years and remains a popular supply shop f ... More >>

At Alessandrina Lerner's Mind-Body Cleanse, Miami Can Shed Toxins Without Spending A Fortune

Many people I know who go to extremes in the world of health have been driven there by extremely negative or toxic experiences. Alessandrina Lerner is no exception. A French expat, Lerner was handed over to the care of the state at the age of 14 when her alcoholic father was deemed a risk to her saf ... More >>

Willie Nelson at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts February 7

Hot Florida Crime Trend: Stealing Credit Cards to Pamper Your Feet

​Our feet are our most utilitarian and thankless body part. Laboring under the weight of our body to trudge us from place to place, all the while getting little love from anyone outside of foot fetish message boards. Sometimes you just have to pamper your paws. Though, as two dumb Florida criminal ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival Tickets Go On Sale Today

Laine DossBourdain will be back at the 2012 SBWFF​Tickets for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival go on sale today.If you attended last year's event you might recall Anthony Bourdain's Wheel of Death, Paula Deen riding Robert Irvine, or Guy Fieri making pizzas for one thousand of his closest ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival Opens Ticket Presale For Amex Holders

​The 2012 South Beach Wine & Food Festival comes to town February 23-26 and promises to once again be the premiere foodie event in Miami. Festival favorites like Burger Bash ($225) hosted by Rachael Ray and Paula Deen's Sunday Brunch ($150) will be joined by some intriguing new events like Con ... More >>

Eat, Drink, and Be Charitable

Eat, Drink, and Be Charitable at the 16th Annual United Way Miami Wine & Food Festival, April 14-17

A bird's-eye view of the Taste & Toast event at last year's festival​Sure, the South Beach Wine & Food Festival gets all the foodie shine in February. And certainly, that festival is unparalleled in its opportunities for hobnobbing while overindulging. But when it ends, it leaves a dry hus ... More >>

Kylie Minogue's Gonna Do the Locomotion at BankAtlantic Center May 7

Georges Biard​Kylie Minogue, the Australian pop princess who burst onto the music scene in 1988 with "Locomotion," just announced a 2011 North American tour. But even though Miami's been named the 15th Gayest City in America, the Magic City didn't make the tour schedule. Instead, fans will have to ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival: Five Events Under $151

Photo courtesy of South Beach Wine & Food FestivalMing Tsai at last year's Dim Sum & Disco​As we mentioned last week, tickets to the 2001 South Beach Wine and Food Festival go on sale on October 25. But with so many high-priced tickets, how do you choose where to spend your dollars? Here a ... More >>

Gotham Steak's Cote De Boeuf is a Pricey Five-Pound Meal

If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here's a taste of what you're missing. Click here to subscribe.Courtesy of Fontainebleau Miami BeachGotham Steak's $250 cote de boeuf.​Were you born with a platinum spoon in your mouth and an American Express Centurion card in ... More >>

Ronald Reagan immigration amnesty 25 years later

Today, amnesty is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Crist Campaign Used Party Credit Cards, Too

​Charlie Crist has been hemming and hawing about Marco Rubio's "questionable" spending on the Republican Party of Florida's American Express cards, saying stupid things about back waxes and "true conservatives." So naturally, campaign finance reports show that Crist's campaign also charged money o ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Fest Preview

​Tickets for the 2010 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival go on sale this coming Monday, October 26, 2009. The Festival is scheduled for February 25 to 28, and unlike past years there will not be a second block of tickets sold in early 2010. So Monday is, like, the day to buy. A comp ... More >>

Dwyane's Disaster

The Miami Heat superstar sure picked a dubious business partner.

A Gentler Gourmet

Eat out for less during Miami Winter Spice.

Miami Spice Braces the Cold

The effects of the economy are being felt in every industry imaginable, most of all the ones that entertain and nourish us. The restaurant industry, from celebrity chefs right on to busboys, dishwashers, and even food producers and farmers are more than feeling the pinch. Fine establishments in Cora ... More >>

Miami Spice Braces For the Cold

The effects of the economy are being felt in every industry imaginable, most of all the ones that entertain and nourish us. The restaurant industry, from celebrity chefs right on to busboys, dishwashers, and even food producers and farmers are more than feeling the pinch. Fine establishments in Cora ... More >>

Gay Hate in Miami Beach

A condo association rejects a dream tenant and his partner.

Crispin Porter Taps Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates to Make Microsoft Cool Again

Magic City Kitty - Can A Guy Get Some Leather & Lace?

Wok It Out

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Run and Gun

Glock-wielding men throw lead in the Glades

All Wet

M. Night Shyamalan steps up the lunacy with Lady in the Water

Eat to Defeat Hunger

The Color of Money

Basel high rollers are jetting into town ready to blow big bucks

A Real Villagio

Sanitized by the Herald

Letters from the Issue of October 21-27, 2002

Porn merchants, freedom fighters, park advocates, and your waitress Tiffany

The Bitch

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Share Our Cents

Making nice in Miami can mean chowing down for the hungry

The New Deal

Starting fresh, Jerry Seinfeld once again works hard for nothing

Spiced to Taste

Prix fixe promo starts slow, then heats up

Selling Miami Spice

Reasons why Miami should be the food and wine fest capital

Get in Line to Dine

Buffet central

Loretta Lynn

Still Country (Audium/Koch)

Side Dish

Jerry's Famous Deli Inc.

The Van Buren File

From deep within the Miami Police Department comes a convoluted tale of sketchy videotape, allegations of official misconduct, and two tickets to the Stanley Cup finals

Taken for a Ride

How an impressionable young fellow got himself scammed by a British con man. And how he got revenge.

The Art of the Matter

None Pho Me, Thanks

Simon's Symbiosis

The Great Florida Grape Stomp

Prohibition-era legislation forbidding mail-order booze shipments has local wine lovers whining

So Long, Mila!

Miami is going to miss you. Your vision for the city. Your political savvy. Your cosmopolitan sophistication. Your utter gall.

The Kindest Cut of All

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