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Japanese Iron Chef Comeback On Fuji TV

Do you remember watching Japanese Iron Chef with English subtitles? It was the best. Sometimes the Cooking Channel and Food Network air old reruns late at night when they think no one is watching (pfft... we're awake to notice). Still, it's something of a forgotten treasure.Luckily, a remake of the ... More >>

South Street Restaurant & Bar Moving Into Former Sra. Martinez Space

When Sra. Martinez bowed out of of the Design District back in July, we knew it wouldn't be long before the space would reopen with a new concept.Amir Ben-Zion, the man behind Gigi, Bardot, Cooper Avenue, and formerly Sra. Martinez, will be opening up South Street Restaurant & Bar, a Motown insp ... More >>

Vince Neil and Nic Cage's Five Grossest Strip Club Pics!

See also "Vince Neil Falls at His Vegas Strip Club: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown." Can you think of anything less arousing than Girls, Girls, Girls, a Vegas strip club where Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil runs around like a horny lil' piggy smearing his fake tan all over the highly plastici ... More >>

Marlins Facebook Account Hacked with Promise of "Free Pit Bull" Night

Earlier today, someone hacked into the Facebook accounts of several Major League Baseball teams and the Marlins were not spared. For a brief moment, the Marlins Facebook page promised the first 10,000 fans in attendance at the next game that they'd receive a free "fighting pit bull."

Welcome to Our New Livefyre Commenting System

Today, the Miami New Times rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation. Your voice -- and the opinions you voice in our comments section -- will now be amplified through a fancy new commenting program called Lifefyre ("live fire"). Read all about it below.

McDonald's Tops on Twitter and Facebook, Plus Other Fast Food and Social Media Findings

Burger King has seen 105% fan growth on Facebook since January. McDonald's follower growth on Twitter has seen a 118% growth in the same period. Mickey Dee's also responds quickest to tweets than any other chain -- an average of 29 minutes.Compare that to Burger King, which takes over 60 hours to re ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets for Lights Out Festival With Felix Da Housecat, RJD2, Felix Cartal?

See also "Lights Out Festival Promises 'a Jaw-Dropping Experience.'" Ever tried to achieve a state of PLUR-y ecstasy without the aid of entactogenic drugs? Well, neither has Crossfade. But if we were about to attempt such a thing, Dementia Events' Lights Out Festival at Soho Studios on July 21 see ... More >>

Win Free Remy Martin V, Just Guess The Stars

Lee Klein's take on Remy V (and a cocktail recipe). Remy Martin has just released a commercial for its line of cognacs. Typical for spirits campaigns, the commercial, entitled Staircase, features a beautiful power couple flirting over cocktails.Celebrities tapped for this new campaign are none other ... More >>

Best Cheap Beers: If You Must Buy at a 24-Hour Gas Station, Here Are Your Choices

Most of us working stiffs don't have mad cash to drop on huge quantities of good-quality beer. What is the alternative? Twenty-four-hour gas stations stocked with little rescue kits of mass-produced brew.There are many selections, but here is a list of ten that every beer fiend should consider when ... More >>

Madonna Flashes Nipple in Turkey and Makes Creepy Old Lady Face (NSFW)

Madonna really ripped the tits off Turkey last week. She also showed 'em. During "Human Nature," the 53-year-old pop star teased the crowd with flirty eyes and exhibitionism, publicly tweaking her nipple on stage and intentionally exposing her right breast for about two seconds. While it may hav ... More >>

Eduardo Saverin, Miami-Raised Facebook Founder, Slammed Over Renouncing U.S. Citizenship to Avoid Taxes

Ace Hood Talks Barack Obama, Strip Clubs, and Facebook Stock

See also "Best of the Best 2012: A Five-Part Guide" -- plus "Memorial Day 2012: Fifteen Best Rap Parties in Miami and South Beach." He's socially conscious, believes Mitt Romney doesn't stand a chance against Barack Obama in the general election, and would totally buy Facebook stock despite its sl ... More >>

Pitbull Meet-and-Greet at Miami Beach Liquor Store, Costs $121 or Six Bottles of Voli Vodka

See also "Memorial Day 2012: Fifteen Best Parties in Miami and South Beach." His last album, Planet Pit, peaked at the seventh spot on the Billboard 200 and it was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. But despite his international celebrity, "from the weed to the X, fr ... More >>

Eduardo Saverin, Miami-Raised Facebook Founder, Said He Cared Nothing For U.S. "Beyond the Mere Use of Its Resources"

For the first time, Facebook will put its stock up for public sale today. The company will instantly land at least $16 billion, pushing its value to well over $100 billion. Wunderkind CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be the obvious winner, but hundreds of other investors are also in line for a windfall.One ... More >>

Reader Mail: Metta World Peace Is a Scumbag

Miami-Dade Police Watched Occupy Miami's Facebook Page for Months

Miami-Dade Police Watched Occupy Miami's Facebook Page For Months Around Eviction

The email went out to a group of Miami-Dade cops February 22, just a couple of weeks after they'd busted up Occupy Miami's downtown encampment. The subject line was in ominous military-speak: "Occupy Miami: Situational Awareness." Inside, an MDPD Homeland Security detective named Maritza Aschenbrenn ... More >>

Sarasota's Tackiest Landmark Slammed Into By 62-Year-Old Driver

Miami has a ton of public art eyesores, notably a 

Free Curried Goat Tacos: Dos Equis Taco Truck In Miami Wednesday

If you've been waiting for the day a Dos Equis taco truck drives into your city, stay thirsty my friend. It's coming soon. The "most interesting" food truck in the world is on a multi-city tour and coming here on Wednesday, partnering with Jefe's food truck and chef Jack Garabedian to throw a 10-day ... More >>

Poll: Which Dirty Nickname Should We Give the Marlins' Home Run Sculpture?

You all are dirty! On Wednesday we asked Riptide readers to come up with the most vulgar possible name for the Miami Marlins' technicolor home run statue. We waded through the comments both here and on our Facebook page. After scrubbing ourselves clean in the shower with a wire brush to remove some ... More >>

Candlelight and Ocean Views: Miami's Ten Most Romantic Restaurants

Miami is, by definition, an extremely romantic city. Palm trees sway in the balmy breeze, lightly scented by the nearby ocean. So it comes as no surprise that a multitude of restaurants take advantage of Miami's sexy vibe -- adding candles, moonlight, and plenty of champagne and oysters for good mea ... More >>

Free Tickets: Harry's Pizzeria Hosts Greenhouse Pizzeria Pop-Up UPDATED

​Michael Schwartz is hosting another popup at Harry's Pizzeria. The fourth dinner, in what is turning out to be a much-celebrated series in Miami, features Cleveland's Jonathon Sawyer taking over the restaurant for a one-night-only meal Wednesday, April 4.Sawyer, Food & Wine Magazine's 2010 Be ... More >>

Belvedere, Bacardi, Svedka: The Ten Most Offensive Beverage Ads

​Belvedere vodka was lambasted in the press last week after the company posted an ad on its Facebook page depicting a man grabbing a woman from behind. The copy on the ad, "Unlike some people, Belvedere always goes down smooth", led people to comment on Twitter and Facebook negatively, like this t ... More >>

Trayvon Martin: No, That's Not His Facebook Page Showing "Gangsta" Photos

Update: Wonderfully, Business Insider touted the bogus photo as accurate in a story on how the media is badly reporting the Trayvon Martin saga. Their source for the photo: white power message board Stormfront. If you haven't come across the photo to the right, you probably will in the next day ... More >>

Top Winter Music Conference 2012 Parties For Monday, March 19

​What day is it? Has anyone seen our "I'm in Miami, Bitch" tank? We remember taking it off to jump into the Shelborne pool on Friday, but it was gone four hours later after we got out and dried off. Mid-March in Miami feels like a seemingly never-ending bleep-boop bender. Lock-jawed and loving i ... More >>

Facebook and Twitter Icons Make You Less Likely to Buy Embarrassing Products Online, UM Study Finds

​Online shopping was a boon to buyers who sometimes felt a little embarrassment when buying certain products. The web's anonymity may have made them feel like no one could judge them for, say, buying an industrial-sized vat of KY Jelly. But the mere presence of social media logos like Twitter and ... More >>

No, Facebook Users, MS-13 Gang Members Are Not Using Kids To Lure Miami Rape Victims

​A photo of a flyer is circulating Facebook that has Miami-Dade residents in a tizzy. We were going to ignore it, but it has concerned so many of our Facebook friends that we figured it needed debunking. The warning from the "Miami-Dade Sheriff's Department" that purports that MS13 gang members a ... More >>

SoBeWFF Grand Tasting Village: Where To Find The Good Booze

Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival/Facebook​The "Winebow Wine Pavilion" requires a powerful lesson in self-directed navigation (okay, the whole "village" is sort of a booze and food maze of confusion, see more for help on that here), but you don't want to miss out on international a ... More >>

Win a Free Weekend of Personal Training at BodyTrain City Miami

​Admit it: You have a weakness for The Biggest Loser. It's only natural. The show's a perfect blend of schadenfreude and fitness inspiration. But when the show ends and you're still comfortably wedged into your couch with a bag of Cheetos next to you, that inspiration disappears into thin air.Why ... More >>

Second Annual Chef's Challenge At Northwood Village

Northwood Village via FacebookNorthwood Village setting up tents for the Chef's Challenge.​The second annual chef's challenge, which pits local chefs against each other in a friendly little battle of wits and skills, will be held this Friday, February 24 at Northwood Village in West Palm Beach.The ... More >>

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 >>

Askultura, Michele Vargas Fund, and Bands For Dance Benefit at Churchill's Pub on March 2

​Art and politics can make strange, confusing bedfellows. German playwright (and all around Commie) Bertolt Brecht would tell you that unless your work directly protests the global capitalist hegemony by alienating the buorgeois theatre-going audience, it amounts to little but titillation for the ... More >>

Dumb Kid Steals Tomato Plant Because He Thought It Was Marijuana

​Sometimes we really worry about the state of Florida's youth. Kids today are so dumb they can't even get high correctly.A 15-year-old boy in Daytona Beach, Florida, recently got in trouble for stealing a tomato plant, which he only swiped because he thought it was a marijuana plant.

Forget Facebook: Twitter is for minorities

Forget Facebook: Minorities Prefer Twitter

​Luther Campbell, 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 explains why Twitter is the social media network preferred by minorities.Everybody is talking about Facebook's forthcomin ... More >>

Snackdown! Downtown vs. Mid Beach

​Over the next few weeks, Short Order will pair eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods in a "Snackdown". This is the second entry. Today pits downtown Miami against Mid Beach in Miami Beach. Which one is the better neighborhood for dining?Read our arguments and VOTE! Tweet it. Facebook it. Google it. Com ... More >>

Valentine's Day For Cynics: The Ten Worst Candies

​Remember when Valentine's Day was this sweet holiday where you gave your crush a pretty heart filled with chocolates? The heart would usually have a ribbon or some lace or a silk rose on it. Inside, the chocolates would be filled with cherries or caramel.Those days are gone. We guess that since r ... More >>

Breakfast Beer: Not Just For Alcoholics Anymore

​The craft beer movement has produced some surprising side effects for the brewery world; suddenly blueberries, cherries and chocolate are considered hops-friendly ingredients, giving beer a whole new aisle in your local liquor store. In fact, beer is so user friendly with food these days, we are ... More >>

Best To-Go Food for the Super Bowl: From Mini-Corn Dogs to Meatball Pizza

​It's almost time for the honored tradition of American pigskin played on a super scale, and if you you are entertaining at home this Super Bowl Sunday, the most important menu item to have on hand, obviously, is beer. Lots o' beer. And it's going to make you hungry, because those tricky brain rec ... More >>

Who Wants Free Tickets to Bruise Cruise Two-Day Kickoff Party in Miami?

So ... Wanna get fellated with Blowfly and the Bruise Cruise?​After being brutally rocked 'n' rolled for seven hard, sweaty, superintense hours at last year's Bruise Cruise kickoff party, everyone was totally exhausted. Eyes were bleary. Hair was messed. Mascara was smeared. It was basically an a ... More >>

Bacon Stops Nosebleeds, and Nine Other Incredible and Inedible Uses for Tasty Fried Pig

​People love themselves some bacon. They idolize it. Worship it. Some would probably inject it into their veins, if bacon heroin existed. And we're positive that there's a growing minority out there who are mad jealous of Kevin Bacon solely for having the last name "Bacon."Think we're being as dra ... More >>

What's Michelle Obama Really Doing in South Florida?

Maybe it's that whole exiled-from-the-Motherland, terrorized-by-a-ruthless-dictator thing, but Cubans tend to be a little paranoid. Of course, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching you. And the fact that Michelle Obama, First Lady, Democrat, former WNBA power forward, close ... More >>

South Beach's Mansion Nightclub Closed "For Forseeable Future"

​Log onto mansionmiami.com and the nightlub's site has been scrubbed clean, except for a shocking three-word statement in big, bold red letters: "MANSION IS CLOSED." That same mysterious message also went out over Mansion's official Twitter feed and Facebook account earlier today, causing SoBe cl ... More >>

Santigold Announces Concert at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach on January 19

​When Santigold called to tell Crossfade that she'd be in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, we squealed with delight like the Disney-fied version of those piglets penned outside Primary Flight. But after about 15 minutes, we got sad, thinking, "Well, she hasn't hit the Beach since ... November 2009 ... More >>

Drunk Driver Totals Row of Corvettes at Miami Chevy Dealership

​The Chevrolet Corvette is a proud icon of the American motor industry. It is not built to be a crash barrier for drunk drivers, yet that's exactly what happened at Tropical Chevy in Miami Shores earlier this month. In the early hours of December 14th a drunk driver lost control while driving down ... More >>

Five Best Places to Grab a Hangover-Soaking Bite For New Year's Eve

​If there's one thing that New Year's Eve will almost always guarantee, it's a room-spinning-head-banging hangover the next morning- err... afternoon. We've compiled a list of the top five places to nip that hangover in the bud before it even happens (and if you hit up one of our super late-night ... More >>

Five Better Alternatives To Burger King's New Chef's Burger: Think Price!

​Burger King recently announced its new Chef's Choice burger to much hype. The official press release describes the meat sandwich in flowery and loving terminology. "Superior from every angle, this 5.5 ounce flame-grilled burger is made with seasoned ground chuck and is topped with thick-cut bac ... More >>

Occupy Art Basel is So Far Just a Tumblr Blog, a Facebook Page, and a Snobby Art Collector

​Will Art Basel Miami Beach get a Wall Street-style occupation this week? The art fair warned gallerists of the possibility, and rumors are swirling. Now OccupyArtBasel.com is live, but right now it's just a Tumblr blog filled with a mini-manifesto and a Occupy movement related pictures and links. ... More >>

Salumi Shop Meets Trattoria Arriving Soon in Midtown

​Midtowners can soon rejoice in the cold cut happiness that is Salumeria 104 (3451 NE 2nd Avenue, Suite 104), a one-stop shop for cured meats, homemade breads and specialty products imported from Italy. The newcomer, scheduled to open on December 12, will also serve as a neighborhood trattoria, of ... More >>

17,000 People Hate Jay-Z and Kanye West

Photo by Sayre BermanMiami loved the Jiggaman. But Facebook's full of haters.​As we pointed out yesterday, 210 people on Facebook absolutely abhor DJ Khaled. But that's only a fraction of the haters who think Kanye West is a "complete wanker" and that Jay-Z "is a disgrace to the music business." ... More >>