Burn Notice

Burn Notice Is Officially Ending

The years of brewing tension between the City of Miami and the producers of Burn Notice over their use as the Coconut Grove Expo Center as their filming hub are apparently at an end. Today, USA announced that the upcoming show's seventh season will be its last. Burn Notice has not only shot its la ... More >>

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20 Celebrity Mugshots from Miami-Dade Jail

It's not Friday yet, but there's no such thing as too many mugshots right? Miami attracts celebrities like moths to a light bulb, but unfortunately for some of them what happens in Miami doesn't stay in Miami. Miami-Dade's jail camera, AKA the in-house Paparazzi, has caught several celebrities check ... More >>

Rock of Ages Director Adam Shankman Predicts Miami Film Boom

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Donald Trump Wants to Build a Mini-Hollywood Film Studio City in Homestead

It's going to be the classiest, finest film studio in all of the world. Or at least that's what Donald Trump's company seems to think.The Trump Organization has unveiled plans to incorporate an 800-acre studio city down near Homestead in the southern reaches of Miami-Dade County dubbed, what else, T ... More >>

Marc Sarnoff's Miami CRA Film Studio Stalls, Pisses Off Industry Locals

Don't worry, Marc Sarnoff. We're just not all cut out for show business. The City of Miami's most frenetically incompetent commissioner -- he of the pop-up pedophile-thwarting parks, a personal arsenal of firearms, and lies about his family lineage -- noticed that South Florida is finally becoming ... More >>

New Times' "Pain and Gain": Murder, Drugs, and a Major Motion Picture

Read Pete Collins's three-part series "Pain and Gain."

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Sarkis Soghanalian, Miami's "Merchant of Death" Arms Dealer, Dead at 78

​Burn Notice doesn't tell the half of the absurd real-life characters who call Miami home. Take Sarkis Soghanalian, our very own "Merchant of Death," who sold Saddam Hussein his arsenal, profiteered from dozens of bloody wars, and whenever things went sour, traded his freedom for juicy CIA intel o ... More >>

Haven is Kitchen Heaven to Chef Todd Erickson

Haven Gastro-Lounge​When Haven's executive chef, Todd Erickson, came to South Beach for the first time back in January of 2010, he had no idea that he would fall in love with it. In fact, he was a little hesitant about the idea of moving to Miami. "I had never been down here. I'd been to northern ... More >>

Celebrity Autobiography exposes stars as the half-wits they are

Gyromaniakz Goes "Hollywood," Truckers Out West

Did Burn Notice's Jeffrey Donovon have a gyro?​Gyromaniakz, the new Greek truck to hit Miami streets has already gone Hollywood.Yesterday evening, the truck had a special assignment - serve dinner to the cast and crew of Burn Notice on location in Coconut Grove.Gyromaniakz owner Jason Caplan ... More >>

Eastern European B-girls in SoBe scam

Mad Cats

Burn Notice Star Jeffrey Donovan Convicted of Reckless Driving

Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan has pleaded guilty to reckless driving and will avoid DUI charges stemming from an incident in which he almost hit a police car on Miami Beach in 2009, reports TMZ. The deal with prosecutors will ensure that the actor doesn't face any jail time. 

A Round-Heeled Woman: MILF gets her mojo back

This Mortal Coital

Teddy Gunter of STASH Boutique Seen Eating... Kiddie Food and Bright Orange Mac and Cheese

Courtesy of Teddy Gunter​Teddy Gunter can offer you a dress formerly worn on Sex and the City or a torn up, corpse-bride style gown from the 1930s (just in time for Halloween). Gunter is a stylist and also the co-owner and archivist of Stash Wardrobe Rental, a fashion library of sorts.She owns the ... More >>

Starlite Cafe employees cry scam

Starlite Hotel in South Beach Under Investigation for Wage Violations

Lit-up with accusations of wage violations​The Starlite Hotel -- better known as that place next to Wet Willie's where you keep waking-up naked on Sunday mornings -- is under investigation for allegedly underpaying its staff.Ex-employees claim the Starlite Café, a restaurant attached to the hotel ... More >>

Lady Dick

Crazy Night At Miami Beach Hotel: Shooting, Hazmat Teams, And An Evacuated Prime Minister

A real-life episode of Burn Notice essentially played out this weekend at a Miami Beach hotel, complete with a mysterious shooting death, a hastily evacuated foreign head of state, a deathly bad odor and a Hazmat team.It's not clear whether Bruce Campbell was involved -- but frankly, we're not ready ... More >>

Betty White Stars in CSI: Sarasota as David Caruso's Aunt Vivian

​Our dream mashup of Miami-set TV shows would involve Burn Notice's Michael Western holding back CSI: Miami's Horatio Caine as Crockett and Tubbs take turns pistol-whipping him while screaming, "Yeah, you think your little puns are funny? How's this for funny, punk?"Golden Girls star Betty White g ... More >>

Burn Notice Shooting at Buena Vista Deli

​The USA Network show Burn Notice, based in Miami, was shooting last night at Buena Vista Deli, it's the building to left of the one in the above image.They made the restaurant's patio into a big fruit stand and then gave away the set when they were done with it. I was getting a sandwich next door ... More >>

Burn Notice Renewed for Two More Seasons

The fourth season of Burn Notice, the number one series on cable, hasn't even hit the air yet, but USA has already renewed the Miami-set show for season five and six. In fact, the network's president Jeff Wachtel tells Variety that the decision to move the series from New Jersey to the sunny setting ... More >>

Headbanging Drama

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News Roundup

In order to move forward on that wonderful "Slot Machines in the Airport" idea, the County Commission ok'd the Airport's pursuit of getting a horse racing permit. [SFBJ]Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan traveled to Tallahassee yesterday to ask that the government facilitate the filming of more televi ... More >>

The Filling Station - A Downtown Miami Burger Joint With Character

Jacob KatelThe Filling Station crew.​ The Filling Station (95 SE 2nd Street) is Downtown Miami's only automotive themed hole in the wall burger joint. The interior boasts red brick printed wall paper, hurricane shuttered wallspace, and sayings like "My favorite animal is hamburger." The menu featu ... More >>

Burn Notice Star Jeffrey Donovan Arrested on Suspicion DUI

Jeffrey Donovan, who's filming the third season of his hit cable drama, Burn Notice, was arrested last weekend for suspicion of DUI, according to TMZ. The arrest happened July 12 in Miami. The 41-year-old actor was taken into custody, posed for this lovely mug shot, and was then relea ... More >>

Dexter, Burn Notice, and Crispin Porter Pick up Emmy Nods

The Emmy nominations are out today, and boy are they weird. But possibly in a really good way. Not tons to report on the local front. Dexter, Showtime's drama about a Miami-based serial killer, got nods in the "Outstanding Drama Series" catagory. Meanwhile, Dexter himself, Michael C. Hall, rece ... More >>

The Week That Was: Cat Killings and Reality TV Make Us Question our Religion

Former celebri-priest and confessed sex-haver Father Cutié became Lay Minister Cutié this week and joined the Episcopal church so he could marry his girlfriend. Though, he's not the first to change faiths in the name of love. The Cat Killer struck again. Once we catch this guy (gal? ... More >>

Burn Notice Will Stay in Miami

The city commission today voted to delay its plans of demolishing the Expo Center in Coconut Grove in order to accommodate Burn Notice. According to Coconut Grove Grapevine, the city will allow the show to remain based at the building until 2010, with a possible option of extendi ... More >>

How To Go Green For Memorial Weekend: Solar Cooking

image via yanealhoo's flickr So you say you've gone green, but how committed are you to the cause? You wear organic flip-flops with your organic socks, don't use air conditioning, sleep in a tent in your neighbor's backyard, surf the web on a solar-powered computer and only bathe in organic wa ... More >>

No Love for Locals

Rising stars from UM say state film commission favors out-of-towners.

Burn Notice Returns to TV

This semi-awkward shot seems to be the favored press photo accompanying coverage of the return of new episodes of USA's Burn Notice. Yes, it looks like a paparazzi shot of some unknown-in-America European power couple enjoying champers in spandex. Which is enticing in its own way, I suppose, but rea ... More >>

Burn Notice and Dexter: Fresh Miami Goodness