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Fake Skeleton In Sunken Boat Freaks Out Fishermen, Doesn't Fool Police

Somewhere in Key West, a diver with a seriously sick sense of humor is laughing his ass off right now. A sponge fisherman diving near the Conch Republic on Monday presumably spit out his snorkel when he spotted a nearly intact human skeleton eerily strapped into the captain's chair of a sunken boat. ... More >>

Panthers in the Playoffs: A Florida Native's Made-Up Guide to Hockey Terms

Did you guys hear the Florida Panthers are in the Stanley Cup Playoffs? You guys heard of the Florida Panthers? You guys even heard of hockey?No? Well, great, this guide is for you. Being native Floridians we're glad that our team has finally broken their playoff slump. We'd like to send them positi ... More >>

Human Skull and Bones Discovered at Apparent Sacrifice Site in Hialeah Gardens (PHOTOS)

Richard "Kudo" Couto, the animal activist who has targeted illegal slaughterhouses in Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens, was prowling that area recently when he stumbled upon a scene worthy of Law & Order. He found what looked to be leftovers from an epic sacrifice. A container was filled with the r ... More >>

Miami's Ten Best Late-Night Restaurants

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play.​There's no doubt Miami is a late night town. With a large European and Latin American influence, we rarely think of dinner before 9 p.m. -- lon ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Set Times Available on Ultra App

​Normally, in year's past Ultra Music Festival's organizers send us a photo version of the artist set times the day before the festival takes place. But in keeping with this year's bigger-and-better approach, you don't have wait until then to know the set times.Head over to the iPhone App Store or ... More >>

Miami's Top Five Gastropubs

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play.​The first gastropub is generally considered to have been The Eagle, in London. Michael Belben and David Eyre launched it in 1991, and it was si ... 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 >>

The Super Bowl prostitution hoax

Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

Short Order's Snackdown: Which Miami Neighborhood Has the Best Dining?

​We're going to take a shot in the dark and say Miami has one of the top dining scenes in the country. Don't agree? Okay, perhaps we're only on our way. In any case, you clearly have a neighborhood where you prefer to eat.Maybe it's the Gables, you rich bastard. Or Wynwood, you hipster. Is it Litt ... More >>

Angie Varona: ABC's Nightline Decides Its a Good Idea to Broadcast Sexy Pictures of a 14-Year-Old

​Remember Miami-teen Angie Varona? She was the girl who unwittingly became an internet sex symbol at the age of 14 after her Photobucket account was hacked and her scantily clad, though not explicit, photos made the rounds on some of the seedier parts of the internet. Well, ABC News' Nightline in ... More >>

Miami Heat minority owner Raanan Katz sues an anonymous blogger

​Remember Miami-teen Angie Varona? She was the girl who unwittingly became an internet sex symbol at the age of 14 after her Photobucket account was hacked and her scantily clad, though not explicit, photos made the rounds on some of the seedier parts of the internet. Well, ABC News' Nightline in ... More >>

Floridians Google "Free Gay Porn" More Than Any Other State, Apparently

Here is some free gay porn for everyone. ​Free gay porn! Free gay porn! Complimentary homosexual pornography! Recordings of men having explicit sexual relations with each other you can watch without providing payment in return!Hopefully that should provide Riptide tons and tons of easy page views ... More >>

Miami Needs An Ethiopian Restaurant For Christmas

Paula NiñoShrimp tibs at the old Sheba​Some of the bloggers at Short Order are creating a holiday wish list for Miami's food scene. Also on the list is better service and a good deli.Querido Niño Dios, I'm going to make it easy on you. What I'd really like this Christmas is for an Ethiopian res ... More >>

Happy Recycle Day 2010

US Army ​We bet a five-cent aluminum can refund that you didn't know it was national Recycling Day. Sure, this green-friendly holiday isn't as popular as other made-up ones like Valentine's Day or Halloween, and Google isn't commemorating the day with a doodle, but "recycles" is trending on Twitte ... More >>

Sports Site Begs Chris Bosh To Not Get Married, Plagiarizes From Riptide

​The stereotype goes that men are afraid of commitment and dread the idea of marriage. For one sports writer that stereotype holds so true that he's literally begging Chris Bosh to not get married after proposing to his girlfriend this weekend in an article titled "Chris Bosh Wedding: Why It Will ... More >>

Google TV Gives Apple TV a Run For its Money

​The wave of the TV watching future possibly came with the advent of TiVos and the ability to DVR your favorite shows, leaving you to come and go as you please. Or maybe it was through Hulu and YouTube, when television watching was transferred from the big screen to the computer screen. But now Go ... More >>

Apparently 140 Characters Is Enough

How do you sum up your day in 140 characters on Twitter? At the 140 Character Conference in New York Tuesday and Wednesday, live, ten-minute speakers spread out from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Luckily, there were no mentions of what anyone was eating or how much someone loves Justin Bieber. Everything Twitte ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: "Stampede" by Rebel

via myspace.com/rebelstation​Miami trio Rebel has one of those band names that's maddening to Google. Luckily, New Times summed up everything you need to know about this Anglophilic trio in a recent feature. In short, it's been a long road to the band's current sound. The threesome, who trace thei ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Tiger Woods Ranks Higher Than Jesus Christ and Santa Claus on Google

Image via Nevada Tumbleweed's Flickr/CC 2.0​Tiger Woods will probably upstage Jesus Christ at every Christmas church sermon this holiday season, if we were to use Google as a gauge of human inquiry. At approximately 7 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve, the world golf champion garnered 50,000,000 return re ... More >>

Philly MC Amanda Blank plays two Miami Beach shows December 2

Image via Nevada Tumbleweed's Flickr/CC 2.0​Tiger Woods will probably upstage Jesus Christ at every Christmas church sermon this holiday season, if we were to use Google as a gauge of human inquiry. At approximately 7 p.m. EST on Christmas Eve, the world golf champion garnered 50,000,000 return re ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Geek Charm School 101

From The Great Geek Manual on Flickr.Sex is cool, being a sleaze bag to get it is not.​Not all geeks are pudgy, sex-starved dudes who sit at the computer all day. In fact, some are hot. But hot or not, the stereotype of the socially awkward technology nerd is no exaggeration. Boys will be boys. Pu ... More >>

Wednesday Blog Watch: Panic Bomber Calls Out Clueless Promoters, and Cassettes Still Live

Panic Bomber lays the blog smackdown, kind of.​*Richard, a.k.a. Panic Bomber, over at Atomisk calls out a clueless promoter, LOLZ ensue. No, an unpaid local opening band should not have to provide YOUR PA and backline to save money, cheapskate. Applause to Richard for calling people out on their ... More >>

Cookie Monster Veggie Monster: Top 5 Unhealthy Vegetable Meals

I'm still the Cookie Monster biatch!​One of the top 10 searches on Google this hour is Cookie Monster Veggie Monster, and we are happy to report that the good old blue and cookie lovin' Cookie Monster the world knows and loves is here to stay, he will not be replaced by Veggie Monster as internet ... More >>

Get Toto-lly Entranced

I'm still the Cookie Monster biatch!​One of the top 10 searches on Google this hour is Cookie Monster Veggie Monster, and we are happy to report that the good old blue and cookie lovin' Cookie Monster the world knows and loves is here to stay, he will not be replaced by Veggie Monster as internet ... More >>

Meet the Cast of Miami Social, You May Want To Immediately Lose Their Number, But At Least Say Hi

Top row: Katrina, Ariel, Maria, George. Bottom row: Hardy, Sorah, Michael. Miami Social is everything you hate about Miami Beach. It is the reality television iteration of guest list culture, of egotistical 30 somethings who've mistaken a sense of self for being able to get a bottle of Goose co ... More >>

Despite First Porn App for iPhone, Score Group Remains Wary

Did you hear? You can now get titties delivered every day to your iPhone via a new app. The latest version of the iPhone OS includes parental controls, so Apple finally backed down and seems to be allowing a bit of porn in its app store. The application Hottest Girls sells for $1.99 and deliver ... More >>

Hollywood Officials Really Close to Figuring Out Well-Known Graffiti Crew Isn't One Dude

Hollywood cops and politicians are hot on the trail of a "bold graffiti master" defacing their city's walls- once they figure out that they're actually after not one guy, but a crew of them.Yep, yesterday the overall feeling of security among South Florida's graffiti writers improved an estimated 12 ... More >>

Waoh, Miami Herald Website Puts Up Registration Wall?

There's literally no way to read any story on MiamiHerald.com right now without registering. Every link, whether from an inside or outside source takes you to a registration page. They say registration is free and easy, but it's also annoying.Sure, for regular readers all they have to do i ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays: Poser - "Give It Up"

Ah, thank Google Alerts for bringing this gem of South Florida music past to our inbox. The Sunset Strip story is one that has been told, but what of bands elsewhere in the country who were plying the same sound? One of these, it seems, was a band called Poser based in Ft. Lauderdale. (Perhaps "po ... More >>

Go Cork Yourself

A cool new website launched this week helps readers identify local restaurants that operate with a BYOB policy, and also provides the establishments' wine policy and corkage information. Southeast Florida is one of ten metropolitan areas covered by GoBYO.com. The free online service also provides di ... More >>

Kill Miss Pretty

A cool new website launched this week helps readers identify local restaurants that operate with a BYOB policy, and also provides the establishments' wine policy and corkage information. Southeast Florida is one of ten metropolitan areas covered by GoBYO.com. The free online service also provides di ... More >>

NOM Against Gay Marriage

Brave Floridians of every stripe of ignorance went to the polls last November and banned any practical, legal recognition of gay relationship forever... or at least until society evolves beyond its prejudices, which history shows it tends to do. The gays can marry in Iowa and Vermont now, so it's ... More >>

Miami's Favorite Shock Jock vs 24 Hour Fitness vs Coconut Grove's Favorite Blogger

Miami's reigning number one public intellectual (and I say that with all due respect) Enrique Santos was out picketing the Shaq 24 Hour Fitness in Coconut Grove this weekend. Depending on which side of the story you believe, either he got kicked out for being a fatty in the eyes of the holy fitness ... More >>

No Sugar on my Walls, Thanks

Mary Kidder, a trustee of the Columbus Museum of Art, strolled through Art Basel Miami Beach this past December and out of all the work there decided she really liked this piece by William Cotton called "Ribbon Candy." It is a portrait of a woman with ribbon candy festooned to her head. Mary Boone ... More >>

Well, that didn't take long: A-Rod's 'roid-providing cousin identified as Miamian

Yuri Sucart's Google search will never be the same again. On Tuesday, Alex Rodriguez held a press conference saying his cousin provided and injected him with 'roids. A day later, ESPN has identified that cousin as Kendall resident Sucart, A-Rod's right-hand man. His name has today's top rank in Goog ... More >>

Impressions of the Delray Beach Garlic Festival

I decided to spend Valentine's Day - at least the day part of it - at the Delray Beach Garlic Festival, a weekend-long ode to the clove going down at Old School Square. The fest had a lot going on: there were vendors aplenty, hocking garlic-based sauces, dips, spreads, and salsas. There was a garlic ... More >>

South Florida Makes Big, Queer Reality TV Show History

In the event that you've had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you may have missed South Florida's double-time queer cast previewed on Real World Brooklyn. The show's 21st season premiers January 7 and will follow its first-ever transgende ... More >>

News Roundup

In the event that you've had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you may have missed South Florida's double-time queer cast previewed on Real World Brooklyn. The show's 21st season premiers January 7 and will follow its first-ever transgende ... More >>

Perpetually Nude Dude Has No Problem With Deciding Others' Morals

In the event that you've had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you may have missed South Florida's double-time queer cast previewed on Real World Brooklyn. The show's 21st season premiers January 7 and will follow its first-ever transgende ... More >>

StreetWorks - Toe Jam Backlot's Famous Monsters

In the event that you've had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you may have missed South Florida's double-time queer cast previewed on Real World Brooklyn. The show's 21st season premiers January 7 and will follow its first-ever transgende ... More >>

Screw the Corkscrew

In the event that you've had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you may have missed South Florida's double-time queer cast previewed on Real World Brooklyn. The show's 21st season premiers January 7 and will follow its first-ever transgende ... More >>

Map Out A Strip Club Spree

In the event that you've had better things to do than watch MTV deteriorate into a steaming sewer of reality programming, you may have missed South Florida's double-time queer cast previewed on Real World Brooklyn. The show's 21st season premiers January 7 and will follow its first-ever transgende ... More >>

Futbol Hooligans, Stand Up!

Miami FC takes names and kicks ass, not in that order.

Duke It Out

Handicapping MoCA's next Battle of the Bands.

Dirty Type

Google Trends reveals South Florida's penchant for salacious searches.

45 Second Reviews

Google Trends reveals South Florida's penchant for salacious searches.

Ripe and Juicy

Google Trends reveals South Florida's penchant for salacious searches.

All One People

Google Trends reveals South Florida's penchant for salacious searches.

What the Doc Shoulda Ordered

Could there be anything worse than hospital fare? Nope.