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Discovery Communications Inc.

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Adobo Wild Boar, Lionfish Tacos, and Snakehead Stew: Five Edible South Florida Invasive Species

    ​Florida Agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam went on television this past weekend to warn that the giant African land snail can carry meningitis. If you eat it, that is. Who in hell would consider eating a slimy snail the size of a Chihuahua? Plenty of people, it turns out.The snail grows up to e ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 30, 2011

    The Lowe's "Sacred Stories, Timeless Tales" explores myths from the past 5,000 years

    ​Florida Agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam went on television this past weekend to warn that the giant African land snail can carry meningitis. If you eat it, that is. Who in hell would consider eating a slimy snail the size of a Chihuahua? Plenty of people, it turns out.The snail grows up to e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Florida's Swamp Snakes Are Now Reality TV Superstars

    ​Could The Real Swamp Snakes of Everglades City or America's Next Top Invasive Species be coming to your television set anytime soon? Possibly. Over the next two months, not one, but two cable channels are set to roll out reality television shows based on snakes living in the swamps of Florida and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Marcel Vigneron's Quantum Kitchen: Molecular Gastronomy For Dummies

    Marcel's Quantum Kitchen - part cooking show, part science experiment​Marcel Vigneron is best known as the Top Chef Season Two runner up and molecular gastronomy dweeb. On the popular television competition, his shtick was dipping things in liquid nitrogen and pissing off the other contestan ... More >>

  • News

    March 17, 2011

    Steve Berke: Comedian for Miami Beach mayor

    Marcel's Quantum Kitchen - part cooking show, part science experiment​Marcel Vigneron is best known as the Top Chef Season Two runner up and molecular gastronomy dweeb. On the popular television competition, his shtick was dipping things in liquid nitrogen and pissing off the other contestan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Solar Mountain Partner Uses Copyrighted Footage Without Permission

    ​This past June 16, during a workshop where he pitched the Biscayne Landings site, lawyer Marc Douthit showed North Miami city council members and residents a 14-minute Discovery Channel film about Ski Dubai, an indoor snow resort in the United Arab Emirates. When a resident asked Douthit if he ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Discovery en Español's New Artsy Reality Show Could Feature Local Singer Josephine Bauza

    ​ Even if you're Hispanic and have lived in South Florida your entire life, you've probably never heard of Discovery Channel en Español. They've got lots of animals, travel, tornadoes, and quite possibly local singer Josephine "La Pepa" Bauza really soon. The channel (contact your cable provider ... More >>

  • News

    April 1, 2010

    Cuban spy Juan Pablo Roque's jilted ex-wife won $27 million for his deception

    ​ Even if you're Hispanic and have lived in South Florida your entire life, you've probably never heard of Discovery Channel en Español. They've got lots of animals, travel, tornadoes, and quite possibly local singer Josephine "La Pepa" Bauza really soon. The channel (contact your cable provider ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2010

    Miami's Chicken Busters are no more

    ​ Even if you're Hispanic and have lived in South Florida your entire life, you've probably never heard of Discovery Channel en Español. They've got lots of animals, travel, tornadoes, and quite possibly local singer Josephine "La Pepa" Bauza really soon. The channel (contact your cable provider ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Comedian Johnny Trabs and His Nuts Win Comedy Derby

    via myspace​In a city where pythons explode after snacking on alligators and robbers break into the wrong house and rough up abuelos instead of drug lords, you'd expect stand up comics to be growing out of the sandy soil like weeds. Instead, the local comedy scene often seems as quiet as the Wynwo ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2009

    Coconut Grove residents ruffled over missing peacocks

    via myspace​In a city where pythons explode after snacking on alligators and robbers break into the wrong house and rough up abuelos instead of drug lords, you'd expect stand up comics to be growing out of the sandy soil like weeds. Instead, the local comedy scene often seems as quiet as the Wynwo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 17, 2009

    Booty Call of the Wild

    via myspace​In a city where pythons explode after snacking on alligators and robbers break into the wrong house and rough up abuelos instead of drug lords, you'd expect stand up comics to be growing out of the sandy soil like weeds. Instead, the local comedy scene often seems as quiet as the Wynwo ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 5, 2009

    World leaders should see the Frost Art Museum's latest exhibits

    via myspace​In a city where pythons explode after snacking on alligators and robbers break into the wrong house and rough up abuelos instead of drug lords, you'd expect stand up comics to be growing out of the sandy soil like weeds. Instead, the local comedy scene often seems as quiet as the Wynwo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Review: Justin H. Long's "From Sea to Shining Sea" at Twenty Twenty Projects

    ​If you're young and male and highly educated, you've inevitably viewed the sea as a potential testing ground, an antidote of sorts to the education you didn't receive. And most likely, you chickened out, or we'd have read about it, because nearly every piece of literature about an intellectual pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Derick G. Makes Documentaries for Cash Money Records and Lil Wayne

    We last spoke to local hip-hop shooter Derick G. back in June when he had just leveraged his still image work into the world of moving pictures, in high definition.Derick recently hit a new phase in his career when he gained unprecedented access to roll with Cash Money Records as a documentarian ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    South Florida According to Brooklyn: Q&A With Tommy Newman of Murderous Rampage

    ​This week I decided to try something new -- an interview. I asked my friend Tommy Newman of Murderous Rampage ten questions about his band. Here we go. Please let me know what you guys think. Brooklyn: What bands have you been in around South Florida, and what did they sound like?Tommy Newma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Scientists Worried Everglades Pythons Could Morph into Hybrid Man-Eating Monsters

    Last week, I wrote about a coalition of scientists trying to stop the next dangerous exotic invader from taking over the Everglades. via Wikimedia CommonsAt this point, it's probably just best to run and scream.​Dennis Giardina, a botanist who co-chairs the group, took me on a hunt for nile monito ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2009

    Letters from the Issue of September 3, 2009

    "There are people who get great sexual satisfaction from eating feces. That doesn't mean it should be on restaurant menus."

  • News

    August 27, 2009

    The God of Skeptics

    Heretics, nonbelievers, and doubters worship the Amazing Randi. So what will free thinkers do when he's gone?

  • News

    August 13, 2009

    Save Jaws

    A local victim of a shark attack — oops, a shark accident — defends the beasts on Capitol Hill.

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Miami Beach Shark Victim Defends Sharks

    Yeah, this movie probably didn't help humans feel sympathy for sharks.​Miami Beach dive-boat captain Michael Beach has always admired sharks as a primordial link to a lost age. "They're so primitive, so unevolved, and so unchanged," he explains. "When you see one in the wild, you realize you ... More >>

  • News

    March 5, 2009

    Letters from the Issue of March 5, 2009

    "Let him foolishly make money off of these animals, and we'll mop up the mess when something tragic finally happens."

  • Culture

    July 3, 2008

    Petrie's Dishes

    A rare traveling show gives life to the finds of a man who might have been the inspiration for Indiana Jones.

  • News

    June 12, 2008

    Shark Huggers

    Tourists can't wait to get next to them — even if they are eating machines.

  • Home Entertainment

    December 13, 2007

    Our Top DVD Picks Scheduled for Release This Week

    Tourists can't wait to get next to them — even if they are eating machines.

  • Music

    August 23, 2007

    Alphabet Aerobics

    Hip Hop Harry may not be the greatest rapper alive, but he's certainly the furriest

  • News

    April 5, 2007

    The Bodyguard

    Special forces. National ad campaigns. Watching the backs of the big guys. Meet this Eastern European hunk

  • Home Entertainment

    May 18, 2006

    The Brain Game

    Can Nintendo really make you smarter?

  • Calendar

    April 20, 2006

    A Joint Effort

    Wishing you a merry 4/20

  • News

    December 8, 2005

    The Fat of the Lens

    From man-breasts and money comes a local documentary film star

  • News

    November 17, 2005

    Still Angry

    Glades airboat guides live in limbo sixteen years after the National Park Service began buying up the swamps

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Dead Meat

    This time it just might be Mark "the Shark" Quartiano who ends up being filleted

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2005

    Night&Day

    This time it just might be Mark "the Shark" Quartiano who ends up being filleted

  • News

    February 17, 2005

    Wristy Business

    This time it just might be Mark "the Shark" Quartiano who ends up being filleted

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2005

    Festival Frenzy

    This time it just might be Mark "the Shark" Quartiano who ends up being filleted

  • News

    March 6, 2003

    The Last Deep Dive

    Pipin Ferreras and his wife Audrey repeatedly challenged the deep blue deadly sea. Finally the sea won.

  • Dining

    February 6, 2003

    In Need of Air

    Way, way underground in Oxygen Lounge, you'll need some O2

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    Is David Caruso Too Good to be True?

    That red-haired guy and CSI: Miami put us back on the media map

  • Dining

    August 15, 2002

    Norman to Open New Nest

    The king of New World cuisine is finally branching out

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    Swimming with the Sharks

    An eight-year-old's severed arm and a broker's chewed-off leg aren't enough to convince Florida to ban interactive diving

  • Film

    June 7, 2001

    The Big Swill

    Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming stir it up

  • Film

    July 20, 2000

    Memo from Miami

    The Latin film conference brought out the best and the worst about town

  • Dining

    November 19, 1998

    Borne to the Purple

    The Latin film conference brought out the best and the worst about town

  • Dining

    June 25, 1998

    The Thrill of the Grill

    The Latin film conference brought out the best and the worst about town

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    Letters

    The Latin film conference brought out the best and the worst about town

  • News

    May 22, 1997

    Adventures in Metaphorland

    7-Elevens, Laundromats, bowling alleys, People magazine, the Discovery Channel, Elvis. Poet Campbell McGrath mines deep into pop culture and hits a vein.

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