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SoBeWFF 2013: The Good, the Bad, and the Crowded

Each year, more than 50,000 people attend the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's various seminars, dinners, and parties. Most events sell out far in advance despite the usual complaints of high ticket prices, next-to-impossible parking, and long lines to get a bite of food.People rave about ... More >>

SoBeWFF 2013 Events Everyone's Talking About

For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. A look at the full events lineup of the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival can be dizzying. There are more celebrity chefs than you can shake a ladle at and more ... More >>

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 >>

Sexiest Toques at SoBeWFF and Where to Find Them

For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. As human beings, we are subject to the undeniable laws of attraction. If something looks good, we gotta have it. And if you've got an interest in food, neck-breaking sex ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists

Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S. economy, one barrel of oil at a time.

Eros: Straight Community Invited to Shake Up Those Balls Playing Bingo on Biscayne

Bingo lovers will be happy to know that there's a new place in Northeast Miami where you can shake up those bingo balls. Eros, a gay lounge, has been open for about a year at 8201 Biscayne Boulevard and is, as of last week bringing in bingo nights.They are planning plenty of future surprises includi ... More >>

North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre's House Is In Foreclosure

​North Miami's embattled mayor, Andre Pierre, has already survived enough scandals to knock five or six normal politicos off their perch -- from the wacky (driving a luxury car gifted from a mysterious "friend") to the sinister (accusations of wiretapping his enemies offices, corruption probes by ... More >>

Jeremy Alters, big-time Democratic fundraiser, fights off legal challenges as he wins big in court

Jeremy Alters, Top Dem Fundraiser, Wins Big Class-Action Cases But Fights Lawsuits

​Call it an American life lesson: The bigger you win, the more people want in on the action. At least that's how Jeremy Alters says he's been feeling lately. In the past two years, Alters has become Miami's class-action-lawsuit king, raking in more than a billion dollars in settlements from defect ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival Cheap Seats: Tickets Under $100

​Although the South Beach Wine & Food Festival is still a month away, the time to get those tickets is now. Indeed, some of the more popular events are sold out. You've already missed the meaty Burger Bash, BBQ & The Blues hosted by Food Network's "Iron Chef" Michael Symon, and Paula Deen' ... More >>

Blame Canada: Hawkesbury Food Bank Broken Into Over Christmas Eve Holiday

​Ever since Michael Moore's exploitive documentary, Bowling for Columbine, liberals, hipsters, and pseudo-intellectuals have fawned over our great cousin to the north.But perhaps Canada is not the peaceful, crimeless country depicted in Moore's documentary -- the one where people leave their doors ... More >>

Occupy Miami Presents Occupalooza II With Raffa and Rainer This Saturday

Photo from myspace.com/raffaandrainer ​Sleeping in tents and marching the streets with Occupy Miami has been more pleasurable than painful, thanks in part to the protesters' spirited musical showcases. In contrast to a slew of other more serious events designed to dilate your political mind, the ... More >>

Occupy Miami Protesters Target Bank of America, Plan Mass Account Cancellations UPDATED

photo by Brian Katt via Wikimedia CommonsThe Occupy movement started with mass outrage against Wall Street, and while Miami may not be home to the slimy realm of Gordon Gekko, protesters outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center are turning their economic outrage onto the local equivalent: the ... More >>

Bank of America Announces End to Debit Card Fees As Occupy Miami Descends

​Hey, Miami, you're welcome. Thanks to the nationwide Occupy movement -- including the 305's very own budding revolt at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center -- Bank of America just announced it's no longer planning to rip off debit card users by charging them five bucks a month. One for Occ ... More >>

Occupy Miami: Snoring, politics, and Dead Can Dance

A Night in the Life of Occupy Miami: Snoring, Politics, and Dead Can Dance

It is 8:30 p.m. and Occupy Miami's general assembly is raging outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami. This gathering of about 60 borderline yuppies, people stylin' with handbags, bike folks, and South American grandfather revolutionaries started two hour ... More >>

Finding MiMo

Haitian deportation process is unfair

Box Full of Rotting Chicken and Goat Parts Evacuates Miami Bank

​The Miami-Dade police bomb squad was called into inspect a suspicious package at a bank in Southwest Miami-Dade. What they found inside wasn't so much detonable as it was disgusting. The box contained disemboweled parts of chickens and a goat. 

Girl with the Pearl Necklace

Jorge Uscamayta, Skycap Arrested In Luggage Scam, Is Dad Of Bomb-Strapped Bank Robbery Victim

via Miami-Dade CorrectionsJorge Uscamayta was arrested along with more than 20 other baggage handlers yesterday.​How's this for a truly bizarre crime connection? Last night, Miami-Dade police announced the arrests of more than 20 curbside baggage handlers at MIA on charges that they'd taken cash b ... More >>

Alex Sink Picks Up Endorsement From Every Major Newspaper in the State

In an age when the broadsheets are struggling and anyone can make their own mini-endorsements on Twitter or Facebook, do newspaper endorsements still matter? The Democratic Governor nominee better hope so. She's walked away with the support of every major newspaper's editorial board in the state. Th ... More >>

Coral Gables Bank, Scene of Last Month's Hostage Situation, Robbed Again

via FBIThe suspect in this mornings heist was caught on tape​The Bank of America in Coral Gables that just weeks ago was the scene of a bizarre hostage crisis, has been robbed yet again. The latest robbery went down around 10 a.m., when a man entered with what appeared to be a gun a gave a teller ... More >>

North Miami Beach Senior High on Lockdown After Robbery Attempt

​In today's news roundup: A local high school is on lock down, not one but two separate incidents of Carbon Monoxide poisoning sent 13 people to hospitals, a deadly crash on I95 kills two, while a boat crash near Haulover Marina send a woman to the hospital. The only good news in today's news wrap ... More >>

Hostage Crisis Unfolding at Coral Gables Bank of America Near UM Campus (Update)

​A Miami PD SWAT team has surrounded a Bank of America near the University of Miami and shut down nearby Coral Gables streets as negotiators try to talk down an armed robber holding at least one hostage inside.UM sent students an alert about an hour ago warning them to stay away from the bank ... More >>

Thieves Slash Tires, Offer Help, Then Steal Your Cash

​In today's roundup of crime and assorted horrible things: Thieves in South Miami-Dade slash your tires and then snatch your cash, a mysterious ocean bacteria can kill you, seven men hold up an Office Depot, and giant ad towers are probably coming to downtown. 

HalfMoon Empanadas Delivers Quality Downtown

Photo by Danielle Alvarez​Apparently, when traditional empanadas are stuffed with bacon cheeseburgers and priced lower than happy meals, demand skyrockets. HalfMoon Empanadas has been successfully serving both classic and Americanized crescent-shaped treats to the South Beach crowd since 200 ... More >>

Concert Review: Weezer, We Are Scientists, Crash Kings and Gringo Star at SunFest's New Music Night

Photo by Ian WitlenWeezer's Rivers Cuomo amps up himself and the SunFest crowd Wednesday night​SunFest New Music Night With Weezer, We Are Scientists, Constellations, Crash Kings Gringo Star, Locksley, and These United States West Palm Beach Waterfront Check out Ian Witlen's slideshow of photos f ... More >>

Destroy Your Sweaters

Getting Screwed by Overdraft Fees? Banks Just Lost Big in Miami Lawsuit Over Abuses

How many times has this happened? Desperate for a caffeine jolt, you stumble into a Starbucks and order a $2 tall coffee. As usual, your wallet is bereft of cash, so you whip out the debit card to pay the bill. courtesy Channel R, via Wikimedia Commons​In your sleep-deprived state, you forge ... More >>

CocoWalk Served With $98 Million Foreclosure Suit

via PMAT​CocoWalk, the crown jewel of downtown Coconut Grove, has been hit with a $98 million foreclosure lawsuit filed by Bank of America, putting the future of the shopping, dining, and entertainment center into question. CocoWalk was bought by PMAT Real Estate Investments, a New Orleans-based f ... More >>

President Obama fails to go after those responsible for the financial meltdown

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 >>

WSJ: Fontainebleau on the Verge of Defaulting On Huge Loan

It's been a tough summer for Miami Beach's most iconic hotel. via Wikimedia Commons ​The global Arma-recession has grounded flocks of would-be vacationers at home in Hamburg and Milwaukee and Bogota. A massive storm collapsed the roof at LIV. And Ben Novack Jr., heir ... More >>

GOP's Twitter Attacks Alex Sink's Working Mom Credentials

The News Service of Florida's article about Alex Sink's appearance at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner this weekend on Miami Beach contains some praise from an unlike source: former Republican Party of Florida chairmen David Johnson.   "The farming background could help in North Florida and th ... More >>

Report: Jeff Atwater To Announce CFO Bid Tuesday

So the game of political musical chairs continues. The Orlando Sentinel says current senate President Jeff Atwater is going to throw his hat into the CFO ring on Tuesday. Atwater, a Republican from North Palm Beach, served in the state house from 2001-2003 and has been in the senate since then. ... More >>

South Florida According to Brooklyn: Environmental Posers

Photo by Justin Namon, thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. What I'd like to talk about today is an event I went to last week at the Bank of America tower downtown in honor of Earth Hour 2009. A friend of mine was working the event, and cal ... More >>

Roam and Stare for No Charge

This Fiesta Won’t Stop

Until Sunday, that is.

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