Hanukkah

Top Ten Lunch Spots in Miami

Do you often wonder what the hell a sanguich is? Are you tired of downing the same Publix sub every day? Do you consult your Spanglish dictionary every time co-workers rave about the ensalada César from the corner spot? Sounds like you need this: a re-initiation into all things lunch. So put down ... More >>

Matisyahu at the Arsht Center January 18

Matisyahu Doesn't "Really Love Shaving," But He's a Big Fan of Florida

The narrow crevasses between letters on our keyboard are vile, makeshift graveyards of curly black hairs peppered with hints of gray and, occasionally, red too. But these facial follicles tell a story, each a remnant of a stressful day at work anxiously spent twirling the hairs on our chinny chin ... More >>

Best Christmas Stocking Stuffers for Rappers: From Rick Ross to Kanye West

Each year 'round the holidays, Crossfade readies itself to receive an influx of letters from Miami-Dade County hip-hop heads asking the one question that plagues rap fans around the country: What should we stuff our favorite rapper's stocking with this year? Well, rather than replying to each let ... More >>

XXXmas: Ten Sexiest Christmas Songs

It's Christmas time! Yeah, we're all fucking excited. Or excited about fucking. We're not sure what it is about the holiday spirit, but all that humbuggery really gets our gifts ready for the ho-ing. We stockpiled our apartment with mistletoe, and we're not going to stop ordering takeout till we ge ... More >>

Not Your Bubbe’s Ball

DJ Khaled Christmas and Miami's Six Best Holiday 2012 Parties

Only boring people spend the season singing silly songs in the company of loved ones while getting stuffed full of fruitcake, sucking back Manischewitz, and forging lovely lasting memories. So be cool like Crossfade. Go get so wasted that you forget it's Christmas! Uhntz-uhntz with the Matzo crowd! ... More >>

Funkagenda at Gryphon December 15

Challah for Hanukkah: Step-By-Step Guide

The best holiday dinners go down a little like this: the host or hostess drops off a juicy, slow-cooked brisket, a platter of latkes, and a golden homemade challah atop a linen-topped dining room table. Eyes light up. Is it the candles or all the champagne? We just don't know. Everyone sighs and mur ... More >>

Lincoln Road Seashell Menorah Vandalized With "You Killed Jesus"

Lincoln Road's traditional seashell menorah was vandalized over the weekend when someone spray painted the words "You Killed Jesus" near the Holiday symbol. The giant menorah, which is displayed alongside a similar dreidel, was created by artist Roger Abramson and has become a Hanukkah tradition on ... More >>

Bubala Please: Gangbanging Through Hanukkah (Video)

Hanukkah starts a week from Saturday, December 8. Screw the song, We have a new favorite take on the holiday. Bubala Please is a new Jewish cooking show on YouTube and the first episode is (of course) a tutorial on making latkes.But if you think some little white haired bubbe is doing the frying, yo ... More >>

Black Moth Super Rainbow at the Stage October 30

SoBe Wine & Food Fest Tickets Now On Sale For Everyone

Everyone can rejoice! South Beach Wine & Food Festival tickets are now available for everyone who didn't (or couldn't) get in on the Mastercard privy access. Hooray! We peons are now able to choose from the wide variety of events to take place February 21 - 23, 2013. We here at Short Order realize ... More >>

Black Moth Super Rainbow Talks Devil's Night, Throwing Eggs at Born-Again Christians' Houses

Halloween is when babies in reflector vests go, "Twick or tweat," and smiling neighbors ask, "And what are you supposed to be, little girl?" The night before Halloween, however, is when the freaks come out. It's when the paint-huffers with missing fingers limp down the street in search of discarded ... More >>

Ten Most Musical Politicians Ever: Barry Obama, Mitt the Mormon Honky, and Others!

​The whole process of elections (from PTA to POTUS) is savage, cut-throat, and -- when we're lucky -- incredibly stupid. They will shake the hands of thousands of strangers. They will gorge themselves on local cuisine. They will kiss the stinkiest baby. If votes depended on it, a politician would ... More >>

Blue Collar Miami: A working-class joint wins with American comfort food and just plain comfort

Blue Collar Serves Simply Good Food

​Blue Collar on Biscayne Boulevard opens its doors tomorrow, and we dropped by for a visit to sample the food. The room's decor lives up to the blue collar name. Old metal lunch pails (the kind that steel workers take their meals in, not the ones with pictures of Scooby Doo) are nailed to the ligh ... More >>

New York Jets: Respected Rivals or Worst Team Ever?

​Miami's had a tough football year, and that's putting it nicely. But it's about to get even worse, when the city's droves of New York and New Jersey transplants take to the streets, the bars, and Sun Life Stadium clad in green to support the Jets in the last game of the regular season. On New Yea ... More >>

Certified Diva Mary J. Blige Added to Jazz in the Gardens 2012; But Where's Our R&B Pervs?

​Just before Christmas, Chanukkah, and Kwanzaa hijacked our editorial focus, we here at Crossfade checked up on the annual Jazz in the Gardens music fest. And unfortunately, we were kinda bummed. We referred to the lineup as "lackluster." We complained about Kenny G's saxophone sucking. We called ... More >>

Miss Jewish South Florida 2011: Babes and matzo balls

Christmas vs. Hanukkah: Which is the Better Foodie Holiday?

via SodaHeadFire burns tree. Fire wins?​The other day in a meeting, the Short Order bloggers got into a tizzy about which holiday had the better bites: Christmas, AKA Santa's birthday -- or is it Rudolph's? -- or Hanukkah, the eight days of lights not being turned off or something. This actually g ... More >>

Sandra Lee's Ten Most Epic Holiday Fails

Food NetworkSandra Lee and the Kwanzaa Cake. Epic fail for all seasons.​Sandra Lee: Satan's spawn or hapless purveyor of crap television? We're not sure. On the one hand, this drunken Barbie could very well be the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it, with her semi-homemade recipes, ... More >>

Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band at Fillmore Miami Beach December 20

Miss Jewish South Florida 2011: Babes and Matzo Balls at Miami's "Main Hanukkah Party"

Direct from the Holy Land via SoFla.​Christmas. To some, it represents the birth of Jesus Christ, the immaculately conceived love child of a Galilean woman named Mary and a theistic being referred to as God. But for 18 Jewish gals aged 17 to 26 from the South Florida metropolitan area, December ... More >>

Bad Jew BBQ Music Party Next Week at Next @19th

via uncrate.com"It takes a Bad Jew to make good BBQ."​'Tis the season to celebrate your inner Jew and think Kosher barbeque sauce. Next@19th is a center committed to engaging the Jewish community of South Florida. Next Wednesday, December 21, at 8 p.m., the center will host its second annual Music ... More >>

Shmaltz Brewing and Jewbelation: A Hanukkah Beer Contest

Courtesy of Shmaltz Brewing Company/Facebook​In case you are unaware of the current trend, American craft beers are now receiving the attention they deserve. I suppose it makes sense that if the U.S. melting pot is going to be making beer, there will literally be something for everyone. Representi ... More >>

Sweat Records' Black Friday Garage Sale Promises Deep Discounts and No Stampedes

Oh, Black Friday! Every year after Thanksgiving, a shopping warzone breaks out as holiday cheer and good tidings soon give way to flying elbows and weeping grandmothers who scream in the deep-throated, craggy, ten-packs-a-day roar of a truck driver at a strip club, "Christmas shopping season is fuc ... More >>

DFA Records' Secret Show, Moby, Macy Gray Added to Bardot's Art Basel Lineup

​In terms of show announcements, the weeks leading up to Art Basel Miami Beach are like Crossfade's never-ending Hanukkah. Every day, we get a new gift, as one culturally relevant musical act after another proclaims its mission to rock the Magic City, Basel-style. Just a short time ago, Bardot ... More >>

Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band Announce Miami Beach Hanukkah Show

​We've gone all verklempt. What a treat! Woody Allen, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, will be visiting Miami Beach on the first day of Hanukkah. To think, of all the cities in the world, Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band chose ours to kick off the Festival of Lights with a sp ... More >>

Seven Pretty, Evil, and Homicidal Easter Eggs

via evris28This egg is disgusted by your decorating skills.​Oh, you thought your children were so talented because they affixed a bunch of stickers to a hard-boiled egg and it looks cuter than a baby bunny sliding down a rainbow atop a unicorn? Well, we hate to inform you, but your child is a simp ... More >>

Go Celebrate the Season With the Recording Academy's Florida Chapter Tonight at MIA

​Ah, the holidays ... Whether you celebrate Christmas or Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or a Festivus for the rest of us, the season represents the same stuff: peace on earth, good will towards your fellow man, and totally crazy parties. Lots and lots of them. Case in point: The Recording Academy's Florida C ... More >>

Sassy Semites

Post Hanukkah Wish: A Good Deli in Miami

​Some of the bloggers at Short Order are creating a holiday wish list for Miami's food scene. Click here to read some of our other wishes.Dear Hanukkah Harry,I realize yesterday was the last night of Hanukkah but I forgot about my most sincere wish! Please, please deliver me a local deli that has ... More >>

Made it Out of Clay

Blowfly Does XXX-Mas Is a Timeless Wad of Dirty Cheer

Hoe, hoe, hoes!!!​Blowfly Blowfly Does XXX-Mas (Pandisc Records) myspace.com/blowfly Christmas comes early this year with that thick, juicy, protein-filled wad of Blowfly love that you've tasted so many times over the last five decades. A true visionary, Clarence Reid, AKA Blowfly, decided to ... More >>

Dr. Ferdie Pacheco and Luisita Sevilla Pacheco Seen Eating...Tomato Soup at Buena Vista Deli

Courtesy of Ferdie and Luisita Pacheco​The Pachecos are a true Renaissance couple. Dr. Ferdie Pacheco is known as "The Fight Doctor," and most famously as Muhammed Ali's physician and corner man. A famous talker, Pacheco was also a TV sports analyst for decades. He's also a prolific painter and wr ... More >>

Borscht Belt on the Beach

Hells Yeah

It’s NYE and we’re shaking it all night long!

Fill Your Belly

Till it shakes like a bowl full of jelly.

Eight Crazy Nights

Did you light your menorah yet?

Fresh New Kicks

All we want for Christmas is at Puma.

Good to Go

Cooking ’cue for friends? Market Grill’s gotcha covered.

Eight Crazy Nights in One

Sure Beats Manischewitz

Faire Enough

Rockin’ Hanukkah

Night&Day

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You Wish!

Online, there's a virtual culinary gift for everyone

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