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E-Cigarettes: Danger or Healthy Alternative?

Robb Bank$ at Green Room June 27

Underappreciated Butchers Want Your Appreciation

Whole Foods Market recently hosted a competition for butchers. Why? Many of us remember living in other parts of the country, and the world, where there was a butcher shop on every street corner. (Vegans: Reader discretion is strongly advised from here on in.)Rich, tender pieces of meat hung on stai ... More >>

Lil Wayne Settles "Lollipop" Legal Drama for $20 Million

It only took about 400 days, but Lil Wayne's $20-million "Lollipop" legal drama has finally been settled. Last year, producer Darius "Deezle" Harrison filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records for unpaid royalties from sales of Weezy's 2008 Gramm ... More >>

MillionYoung at the Vagabond April 13

Smashburger Finally Makes it to Miami UPDATED

The Classic Smash & fries​Billed as "the nation's fastest growing 'better burger' restaurant", Smashburger is unveiling its first Miami location (14730 Biscayne Blvd.) on Saturday, December 31 (a last-minute switch from next Wednesday, December 21). The popular chain has well over 10 ... More >>

Tracy Kontos, of MasterChef Season Two, Talks Gordon Ramsay and Her Best Dish

via FacebookMasterChef season two contestant Tracy Kontos​MasterChef season two contestant Tracy Kontos, of Coral Springs, took time out of her busy cooking schedule -- and fending off Gordon Ramsay -- to talk with Short Order about her experience on the Fox reality cooking show. One of six contes ... More >>

More Free Burgers, CG's Moves to Kendall

South Moon Photography/Alissa DragunThe CG Burger. ​The recent proliferation of burger joints has left a remarkable trail of options, so does Miami really need yet another burger chain? Last week Damn Good Burger opened with a burger give-a-way, and now CG's attempts to win fans with a similar bri ... More >>

Kiki Kannibal: A Story of Stupid Hair, Statutory Rape and Online Stalking in South Florida

​To most casual internet browsers, Kiki Kannibal is just some girl who achieved dubious viral internet fame back in the MySpace-happy days of 2006 for sporting one of the world's most hideous haircuts.Five years later, Rolling Stone details the quick rise and tragic personal fall of the ... More >>

Broward vs. Miami-Dade: Who Has the Best Burger?

Photo by Riki AltmanThe winner!​I just love a challenge. Actually, it's fairer to say I love being the guest judge at a challenge when other people have to cook for me. Who wouldn't want that gig? I not only get a free meal (or the equivalent of three or four meals, which is most often the case), ... More >>

800 Pounds of Pot Seized in Boat Two Miles Off Miami

​Rakontur is currently finishing up Square Grouper, their documentary on Miami's pot smuggling heydays, but that's not all in the past. The South Florida US Attorney's Office announced that they recently found a boat just miles off the coast of Miami packed with 800 pounds of pot. Four arrests hav ... More >>

To Catch a Predator

Awesome New Republic Passports, MacBook Pro Stolen in Montreal

Photo from tenthousandislands.blogspot.com​It seems another Miami band has gotten its gear stolen. New Times reported yesterday that Torche, currently on tour with Circa Survive and Coheed and Cambria, had a slew of equipment jacked in Chicago on Friday, including a guitar, bass, pedals, iP ... More >>

Miami Ranked 69th Best City for Moms (Giggity), Hialeah Ranked Worst in South Florida

Fictional Miami mothers from Meet the Fockers. Yeah, it was either this or The Golden GirlsThe Daily Beast is beginning to rival Forbes.com for the number of inane city rankings list, but why should we complain? It gives us easy blog fodder. In honor of Mother's Day, Tina Brown's Internet conce ... More >>

Awesome and Young

South Florida Producer Jim Jonsin Sues Lil Wayne Over "Lollipop" Royalties

​Coral Springs native and hip-hop producer Jim Jonsin is suing Lil Wayne's Miami rap collective for $500,000 in allegedly unpaid royalties for the smash hit "Lollipop". According to the suit, filed this week in New York federal court, Young Money Entertainment "failed to provide any accountings or ... More >>

WMC 2010: Nite Jewel, Tanlines & MillionYoung Break in Grand Central

Kyle MunzenriederNite Jewel preforms at Grand Central​Nite Jewel, Tanlines, Million Young ft. Awesome New Republican, Palm Trees and Night WaveGrand Central, MiamiWednesday, March 24, 2010Better Than: Still sobbing over the fact Studio A is dead and gone ...and actually a lot better than most of t ... More >>

Local Motion: The State Of, Frightdoll, and Andrew Bayuk

Local Motion: The State Of, Fright Doll, and Andrew Bayuk

​The State Of The Live Studio Sessions EP (self-released) thestateofmusic.com Drummer Nabedi Osorio and vocalist/keyboard Steph Taylor have become local favorites with their work as the State Of. Both play well, and share an excellent chemistry that, though it's kind of journalistically douchey t ... More >>

New Found Glory and Saves the Day

MillionYoung

Health Intact, New Found Glory Returns to South Florida, February 9 at Revolution (UPDATED WITH VEVO VIDEO INFO)

Photo by Matt Grayson​New Found Glory's 2000 self-titled second album was what really catapulted the Coral Springs quartet into bona fide national stardom. Released before "emo" had become a dirty word, the mood of the album's boisterous but sensitive pop-punk was perfectly encapsulated on its cov ... More >>

MP3s of the Day: Free EP from MillionYoung, Playing the Vagabond This Friday

courtesy of Danger Village​The Coral Springs-based act MillionYoung has been hailed as South Florida's own bona fide entry into what is cringe-inducingly called "glo fi" or "chillwave." (The latter word actually started as a joke on the parodic blog Hipster Runoff.) In fact, impending blog hype lo ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Millions, Crop Loss, Maiden, Discounts, and Jin

Wyoming's Gordon Food Service buys a million square foot distribution center in Hillsborough county, between Orlando and Tampa, for "rapid growth" in Florida. [MLive]Severe crop loss throughout Florida thanks to that no good, sock doubling, two sweatshirt wearing, wearing a blanket around the house, ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch: Dim Sum, Iron Maiden, Bogotá, Wine Shoe, and Bagels

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/ / CC BY 2.0We are watching like a hawk.​Here are some recent posts from the local fod web.Jewish family goes Tropical Chinese for Christmas dim sum. [FoodForThoughtMiami]Rock N Roll Ribs, Iron Maiden's drummers' restaurant, opens in Coral Springs. [CleanPlat ... More >>

Art Basel Music: Millionyoung at the Multiversal Group Show, December 6

via myspace.com/millionyoungmusic​The term "chillwave" might have been coined sarcastically by the parody blog Hipster Runoff, but the music blogosphere has taken it and run with it. A sort of 2k9 reiteration of the old "downtempo," these producers are influenced more by Animal Collective than Mas ... More >>

Video: Cyrus Bolooki of New Found Glory Talks About His Band's Upcoming New Video

Last week I dropped in on Jacobs Ladder at the Dungeon recording studio in North Miami Beach, where they were working on a new EP. (Pictures and video are coming later this week.) The producer on the project is Cyrus Bolooki, drummer of Coral Springs' biggest pop-punk exports, New Found Glory. Alt ... More >>

Top Ten Beers and Places To Drink Them In South Florida

image via nikonvscanon's flickr​ Today's top ten comes courtesy of Dave Crisafi, the dude behind the South Florida Beer Blog. He says "It's always good to figure out how to introduce the average beer drinker to new flavors. You have to know what everything tastes like and what it's similar to in o ... More >>

Undercover Fed Busts Major Bonanno Mob Ring In South Florida

An undercover FBI sting unraveled a South Florida wing of the infamous Bonanno Crime Family, leading to charges this morning against 11 members who are accused of running a dizzying criminal empire.Allegedly, the men smuggled cigarettes and committed bank and mail fraud. They laundered money, sold d ... More >>

Beerfest, Beer Wars, and Beer By Itself

Thoughts from all over: -Saturday is the 12th Annual New Times Original Beerfest, in case all the fanfare has eluded you. Show up at 7 p.m. with $25 in hand (or buy tix in advance now - highly recommended), and you'll be rewarded with four hours of non-stop beer sampling, eating, and live music. If ... More >>

Kicking cars and punching cops: Highlights from Gaza Protest Arrests

An 18 year-old from Coral Springs was busted for wielding brass knuckles and a pocket knife, a petite middle-aged woman shouted "baby killers!," and a mob of protesters chucked rocks at a cop car. The Israeli-Palestinian protest Sunday on Biscayne Boulevard was a loud, colorful microcosm of hate - w ... More >>

Timb and Andrew Bayuk Tonight at Atmosphere Lounge

Tonight there's a going to be a good set of music going on over at Atmosphere Lounge in Fort Lauderdale. Coral Springs-based folks singer Andrew Bayuk will be on hand singing songs of love, of protest, of peace, and of passion. He's been grinding away in South Florida's indie music scene for years ... More >>

Butta Verses Video--"If I Die"

Coral Springs-based hip-hop artist, Butta Verses, is still riding the buzz of his critically acclaimed new disc, Reality BV. National hip-hop blogs have been giving the record overwhelmingly positive reviews and it's all deserving since Butta definitely brought his A-game lyrically on the album. ... More >>

New Benihana Location to Open in Coral Springs in 2009

New Found Glory Signs With Epitaph

Sun-Sentinel Shocker: People On The Internet Have Blogs

News Roundup

What's Your Foodie Rating? The Omnivore's Hundred

Letters from the Issue of January 10, 2008

"How do you reconcile Thorp's catty comments with the original glowing review?"

Letters from the Issue of February 15, 2007

"There are plenty of white whores riding poles and collecting dollar bills in G-strings."

Night&Day

Playing Favorites

For this critic the many charms of My Favorite Year outweigh its many flaws

Catch It Live

BreakFest

High Notes

Falsettoland, the 26th Street Theatre's baby step out of the South Florida mainstream, pays off

Home Folk

Neither rain, nor cops, nor crabby neighbors can stop South Florida's house concerts

A Good Kinda Jerk

Jerk Machine

For the 'Burbs

Letters

Program Notes