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Rick Ross, John McAfee, and Jeffrey Loria in 2013

What Will Become Of John McAfee, Marco Rubio and Jeffrey Loria?

Uncle Luke, 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 makes his predictions for the new year. What will happen in 2013 to capture people's attention? Who will do something to make us s ... More >>

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Thanksgiving Cocktail Recipe: Chad Phillips' Hip to Be Square

Believe it or not, Thanksgiving is only a few short days away. Friends and family are making the trek to Miami for a little well-needed sunshine and you're tasked with preparing a fabulous dinner. Don't stress because Short Order's got your back. We've asked Miami's hottest chefs and bartenders for ... More >>

Villa Mayfair To Reopen With Changes, Casual Vibe

When Villa Mayfair closed for the summer, there was speculation that the restaurant, which serves upscale Mediterranean/French fare accompanied by live D.J.'s might be a bit much for its artsy Coconut Grove locale. Then again, the chef is French and might just have wanted to spend a season soaking u ... More >>

Reader Mail: Chad Johnson Is a Wife-Beater With No Place in the NFL

Chad Johnson's Dismissal Shows The Dolphins Are Football's Most Hypocritical Team

Uncle Luke,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 criticizes Joe Philbin for letting go of Chad Johnson.The Miami Dolphins are the most hypocritical football organization to ever b ... More >>

Hard Knocks, Episode 2: Chad Johnson's Epic Groin-Kick to Dolphins Fans

Over the past decade, your Miami Dolphins have resembled a resident of Hiroshima that moved to Nagasaki during World War II to escape the likelihood of bombing. "It's probably much nicer and safer over there," your Dolphins say. Inevitably, they're pretty much screwed either way; it's always an emot ... More >>

Chad Ochocinco Johnson Promises to Be a Giant Loud Mouth This Year

Oh, thank Football Jesus! No, not you Tim Tebow. The real one. Whoever it is that answers our prayers.Chad Johnson may have changed his name back to something decidedly less crazy, but that doesn't mean he's all the sudden going to become the picture of maturity. He says that part of the reason he d ... More >>

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SoBeWFF Trucks on the Beach Ticket Giveaway, Part Two

Who you callin' shrimp?​Woohoo! We have a winner for yesterday's trivia question! Congratulations to Chad Thorson for guessing the closest answer. If we laid out all of the ice cream sandwiches Coolhaus plans to serve at Trucks on the Beach, the closing event at this year's South Beach Wine & ... More >>

The Chad Henne Era is Over for the Miami Dolphins

​The Miami Dolphins will have no more Chads hanging around next season. According to the Sun-Sentinel, the Dolphins are expected to part ways with quarterback Chad Henne officially next month. He now joins the long list of Dolphins QBs who've failed to live up to the legend of Dan Marino.

Chad Ochocinco Shops at Urban Outfitters; We Offer Our Styling Suggestions

​We at Cultist must confess a certain fondness for Urban Outfitters, purveyors of ironic tees, man-repelling women's attire, and hipster gadgets of all sorts. There's something comforting and innocent about the atmosphere inside the store, like being wrapped in a warm blanket of nonchalance and id ... More >>

T-Payne, Chad Ochocinco: Chef Stuart Shaw Stakes His Reputation Against Mom's Humble Pie

​You can't say that you can cook better than mom, but that's the premise of a new cooking show, Just Like Mama, which is set to begin filming in January. In it, Miami personal chef Stuart Shaw re-creates healthier versions of home-cooked meals that celebrities knew best.Shaw has been cooking ... More >>

Basketball Wives' Evelyn Lozada Sues Media Take Out for Claiming She Slept With Terrell Owens

Media Take Out is basically the wild, wild West of Internet gossip. "The most visited urban website in the world" trades freely in outrageous claims. OK, its top headlines right now include questioning Tupac's heterosexuality, praising Kanye's oral sex technique, and implying that Busta Rhymes has h ... More >>

Little Beard at Grand Central with North & South and Plains, August 12

Photo by Chad Bond​Little Beard With North & South and Plains Grand Central Friday, August 12, 2011 Better Than: Spending another Friday night watching TiVo-ed episodes of "So You Think You Can Dance" with my cat. Going into Grand Central is a confusing, disorienting experience. On the one ... More >>

As Kyle Orton Talks Stall, Stephen Ross Promises Dolphins Will Add Another Quarterback

Another year without a true successor to Marino?​Rest assured, Dolfans, your team's hunt for another quarterback isn't over. Owner Stephen Ross told the media today he expects the team to sign somebody. Possibly even anybody. Just don't hold your breath hoping that anybody is necessarily going to ... More >>

Top Five Fan-Made Miami Heat Rally Songs and Videos for the 2011 NBA Finals

Ha! Yeah right. No fuckin chance Texassholes​Damn near everybody in Wade County knows wassup. It's time to put Dallas in the furnace, turn the Heat up, and watch em' burn, baby! Burn!And since we the best and all, here are the five best new fan-made songs and videos rallying for our hometeam to st ... More >>

Sol Kitchen Delivers Good Food For Your Super Bowl Party

Jessica Ramirez​ If you're having people over for the Super Bowl and want to feed them good food -- but don't feel like doing the work -- Sol Kitchen may be able to help.  Owned by Steve Berry and chefs Kurtis Jantz and Chad Galiano, the company started offering food packages for ... More >>

Chad Ochocinco Rolls Through South Beach in Super Truck, Ditching the "Ochocinco"

via Bossip​Chad Ochocinco isn't known for subtlety. The guy can't even catch lunch at the relatively low key David's Cafe II on South Beach without a healthy helping of ridiculous. Yeah, the Miami native plowed through the back streets of South Beach in a giant gas-guzzling "super-truck" this ... More >>

The Amazing Race contestant fires black employees

Chad Waltrip, Amazing Race Contestant, Accused of Racism in Firing Three Black Employees

via CBS Waltrip and girlfriend Stephanie Smith on The Amazing Race. On the show, Smith warned that Waltrip "gets out his anger or energy by yelling at other people."​When Chad Waltrip appeared recently on the CBS reality TV show The Amazing Race, three of his co-workers in Miami say they ha ... More >>

Rickenbacker Fish Company Is New, Fresh, And Organic

Rickenbacker Fish Company Restaurant and Fresh Fish Market is brand new, and located right at the end of the Rickenbacker Causeway -- a guppy's throw from the Rusty Pelican and possessing equally breathtaking views of Biscayne Bay and downtown Brickell.The menu looks to be a typical driftwood-inspir ... More >>

25 People, Animals or Things We'd Rather See Play QB Than Tyler Thigpen

Last night, in perhaps the most dire example of the Marino Curse ever, the Miami Dolphins suffered only their second shutout on their home field in the past 40 years in a 16-0 pummeling by the Chicago Bears. Yes, with Brandon Marshall went out with a hamstring injury. And, yes, the coaching was part ... More >>

Is Chad Ochocinco's Pigeon-Birthing Saga a Fraud?

Liberty City native and Cincinnati Bengals star Chad Ochocinco has been tweeting up a storm about the bizarre saga of his pregnant pigeon. He even expressed frustration upon learning that pigeons lay eggs and do not give live birth. Today he tweeted pictures of the newly hatched pigeon babies. Probl ... More >>

Dolphins Host the Patriots Tonight: Keys To Victory

Last week, it was against the Jets on Sunday Night Football. Tonight, it's the Patriots on Monday Night Football. That's two straight weeks the Dolphins face an AFC East rival in the national spotlight. Also, it's two straight weeks they face a team with an insufferable fanbase. So tonight is a must ... More >>

After Braving World's Biggest Clusterf%&k, Riptide Wins Audience With Muhammad Ali

You might be surprised at what he had to say about LeBron. Anybody who believes reporters are free-thinkers has not seen us when we get in a herd. We get our cattle-brain on in locker rooms, press conferences--and at last night's much-hyped re-opening of South Beach's famed 5th St. Gym, with i ... More >>

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Mixtape Of The Week: Ya Boi Chad - Live Band & A Mic

​A lot of Miami's more prominent rappers usually represent neighborhoods north and even way-north of Flagler street, but the southern end of the county has rarely had much talent make it to the forefront of the local hip-hop scene. Here to change all of that is a Goulds-based rapper by the name of ... More >>

Chad Ochocinco To Appear on Basketball Wives, Dating Evelyn Lozada

​Liberty City-native Chad Ochocinco failed to find love with his own VH1 reality show, but as luck would have it he's apparently found love another star from the channel's reality TV line-up: Basketball Wives' Evelyn Lozada, the ex-fiancé of former Heat player Antoine Walker and owner of a s ... More >>

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Local Filmmaker Fro Rojas Directs N.E.R.D "Hot N' Fun" Promos

With Pharrell Williams spending a lot of time in Miami for the past few years, he is basically become a local act. But if you need an even stronger local angle, FriendsWithYou-decorated cars aside, you only have to look at the promos circulating around the interwebs for N.E.R.D's new single "Hot N' ... More >>

Concert Review: State Radio at Culture Room, February 11

​State Radio With Big D and the Kids' TableCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, February 10, 2010 
  Better Than: Watching your live Dispatch: Zimbabwe DVD for the 12th time. State Radio plays smart rock.More specifically, it's educated, punk-infused alt-reggae with socially co ... More >>

Chad Ochocinco Appears to Be Enjoying This Week's Miami Festivities

Yes, he's wearing a Snuggie.​We've long known Cincinatti wide receiver and Miami native Chad Ochocinco has a somewhat colorful personality -- we were sort of tipped off when he legally changed his last name to a bad Spanish translation of his jersey number -- but he seems to be really coming into ... More >>

Cider Flows Freely at the Bull Bar in Delray

​Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. The Bull Bar 2 E. Atlantic Ave.Delray Beach 561-274-8001, thebullbar.comAcross from the Bull Bar was a park with an "ice skating rink" and a giant Christmas tree all decked out in blue, purple, red, an ... More >>

Miami Dolphins Preview: The Robot Era Begins

wikimediaSee the game for them, if not for Chad.​We've had the worst luck with our quarterbacks since Dan Marino retied in 1999. And now, with Chad Pennington's shoulder turning to shredded wheat last Sunday, it looks like the Chad Henne era is upon us sooner than anticipated. Henne comes with a r ... More >>

Brickell Life Blogs Club 50 as Bathroom With Best View In Miami

Ever stood at a urinal, looked to your left and said, "Damn. That's one hell of view?" We're talking about looking out the window you sicko. And if you wanna catch a Biscayne vista that may be unparalleled in all of Miami Dade's club restroom facilities then step to Brickell quickfast.You've prob ... More >>

When Customers Are More Than Just a Name on The Menu: Frod's Black Garlic Aioli at Neomi's

Chad GalianoO aioli, where art thou​Remember that Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry David has a sandwich named after him on his favorite deli's menu, but he's none too pleased with its unappetizing contents?  To add insult to injury, he has no say with the owner as to his namesake's fa ... More >>

The Hangover: Brian Antoni and Nick D'Annunzio's Totally '80s Birthday at Club 50

Photo by Jipsy​Rewind your Walkman to Friday's totally '80s birthday party for aged-to-perfection Brian Antoni and Nick D'Annunzio at the The Viceroy at Club 50. This duo teamed up on a mission to resurrect their '80s glory days. One of the headline names was enough to drag me across the bridge ∠... More >>

The Chefs Club, Where South Florida's Best Chefs Eat, Network, Make Deals and Bust Balls In Pictures

Jacob Katel​ The mafia's got a way of referring to itself called "this thing of ours." Chefs are the same, not a mob, but a network of bosses, underbosses, and soldiers who put in work to bring home the fattest envelopes and be recognized for their accomplishments. It's no secret society, the rest ... More >>

Be Organic Catering Company Launch Organic Takeover to Get Miami and the World Eating Healthy

Jacob Katel Be Organic members show off samples of their finishing sauces Be Organic is a catering operation on a mission to spread the gospel of healthy food that tastes good. Founding members Chad Cherry, Roosevelt Desir, Kirk Nelson, and Andre Walker are on what they call a "takeover tour ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalMiami commissioners will vote on whether to build a new children's courthouse today. [Herald]And F.D.O.T. is expected to finally make a decision on the Port of Miami tunnel this week. Gee, so many things are coming to a head this week. Once you commit $2.1 billion to help a private enterprise l ... More >>

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