House and Home

Miami community development expert Cecilia "C.C." Holloman's legacy is empty coffers

Social Q's Thanksgiving Edition: For Those Edible Dilemmas

​It's a safe bet that at some point, we will come across awkward social situations. For example, at your Thanksgiving dinner party when you've whipped up an entire spread only to realize many of your guests keep Kosher -- and that fork you used to check the roast also acquainted itself with the cr ... More >>

Pumpkins, Seedlings and Beer at Fairchild's Edible Garden Festival (Photos)

​People strolled through Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's Edible Garden Festival this past Saturday and Sunday to be entertained and informed about planting their own gardens.There was something for everyone. Kids got to pick their favorite pumpkin, adults sampled fall beers and ciders, and eve ... More >>

'Night, Mother at the Pelican Theatre through September 25

​People strolled through Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's Edible Garden Festival this past Saturday and Sunday to be entertained and informed about planting their own gardens.There was something for everyone. Kids got to pick their favorite pumpkin, adults sampled fall beers and ciders, and eve ... More >>

Beached at Lester's

​People strolled through Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's Edible Garden Festival this past Saturday and Sunday to be entertained and informed about planting their own gardens.There was something for everyone. Kids got to pick their favorite pumpkin, adults sampled fall beers and ciders, and eve ... More >>

Food Frenzy in Coral Gables

​People strolled through Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's Edible Garden Festival this past Saturday and Sunday to be entertained and informed about planting their own gardens.There was something for everyone. Kids got to pick their favorite pumpkin, adults sampled fall beers and ciders, and eve ... More >>

Camilo Sesto Will Survive the Apocalypse! See the Sexagenarian Pop Singer at the AAA May 14

Camilo Sesto: Just as resilient as Twinkies and roaches.​When the world ends, only the Twinkies and roaches will survive. Oh, and Camilo Sesto. If you laughed at that jab, it's because you actually know Camilo Sesto. And if you're familiar with the sexagenarian Spanish pop singer, then chances ... More >>

Peter Kastan Wants You to Grow a Vegetable Garden in Your Condo

Coral Gables@Home Tour of the Kitchens This Saturday; Peak and Eat

​Want to check out swanky homes while noshing on delectable treats made by some of the Gables' favorite restaurants? This Saturday CoralGables@Home hosts the second annual Tour of the Kitchens.It all kicks off with a tour of Snaidero Showroom, where certified kitchen designer Julia Johnston gives ... More >>

Everything But the Kitchen Sink

​Want to check out swanky homes while noshing on delectable treats made by some of the Gables' favorite restaurants? This Saturday CoralGables@Home hosts the second annual Tour of the Kitchens.It all kicks off with a tour of Snaidero Showroom, where certified kitchen designer Julia Johnston gives ... More >>

Midtown Miami's Long-Stalled "World Gardens" Project Finally Bites the Dust

What the gardens were supposed to look like.​If you've been to Midtown Miami in the last eighteen months and wondered why the large center park is doing its best impression of Sarajevo, here's your answer: Good ol' fashioned mismanagement, coupled with a testy garden designer notorious for d ... More >>

Applied Design

What the gardens were supposed to look like.​If you've been to Midtown Miami in the last eighteen months and wondered why the large center park is doing its best impression of Sarajevo, here's your answer: Good ol' fashioned mismanagement, coupled with a testy garden designer notorious for d ... More >>

Thanksgiving Day Entertaining

What the gardens were supposed to look like.​If you've been to Midtown Miami in the last eighteen months and wondered why the large center park is doing its best impression of Sarajevo, here's your answer: Good ol' fashioned mismanagement, coupled with a testy garden designer notorious for d ... More >>

R.I.P. Johnny Salton: Fuzzy Guitar Heaven, BBQ Chicken and Soft Thighs

trashfever.com​So far, 2010 has been a bad year for old-school South Florida musicians, from Lisa Hodapp to Dave Shibler to Norm "Sugarbone" Sloan, many of the people who set the groundwork for the musical awesomeness we enjoy nowadays are passing. It's been bad. Some time ago, I had the pleasure ... More >>

Adoptions of Black Cats Halted in Palm Beach Until After Halloween

​Palm Beach County is apparently full of sadistic weirdos and people who love exuberant parties, so it only makes sense that three animal shelters in the county have banned adoption of black cats until after Halloween. The shelters fear that the cats may be harmed due to All Hallow's Eve ... More >>

Fairchild's Edible Garden Festival Teaches Sustainability

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden​October 23 will mark the third year of the Edible Garden Festival at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. The festivities last from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. They will continue the same time the following Sunday."'Going green' has become more and more popular each year ... More >>

Win A Free Kitchen Makeover!

Win 1 remodeled kitchen, 1 year of groceries, 2 "celebrities"​Panda Kitchen & Bath, in cahoots with Whole Foods Market (and Miami New Times, among others), is offering a total kitchen makeover plus one year of free groceries -- the two worth over $14,000 combined! Here's how it works:You visit ... More >>

More Americans Will Drink Milk Than Beer During Super Bowl Telecast

Lee KleinCan we possibly become any more disillusioned?​From The Neilsen Co.: During the two weeks leading up to Super Bowl Sunday last year, Americans purchased 49.2 million cases of beer. More cases of beer were sold in the two week period prior to July 4th, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Father's Day ... More >>

Nature Gourmet, Vegetarian & Vegan Catering for South Florida, Chef Interview

via naturegourmetcaterers.comChef Julez​ Sometimes it seems like a world meat conspiracy is afoot. Are evil, global agrifarm executives fighting a secret war against the vegetarian and vegan elements to keep them on the fringe if in existence at all?Yes.For those who support the meatless revolutio ... More >>

Red The Steakhouse Is Run By Dummies

The email read: "You're invited to Red, the Steakhouse Cocktail Party sponsored byMiamiARTzine.com."It was an Art Basel-related promotional affair, and I foolishly assumed there would be cocktails, maybe somebody from MiamiARTzine, and an art exhibition. Instead, a bevy of befuddled and incredibly u ... More >>

FFF: Calvin Trillin's Revised History of Thanksgiving

​The following passages have been excerpted from a story in Third Helpings, by Calvin Trillin, which can also be found as part of Trillin's The Tummy Trilogy, (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: New York, 1994): I have been campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed from turkey to spaghe ... More >>

Look Who Showed Up at the Miami Babylon Book Reading

Bill CookeTrisha Posner (left), Irene Marie, and Tara Solomon​Just last week, investigative journalist Gerald Posner complained to the New York Post that no one in town would throw a party for the release of his new book detailing the cocaine-fueled history of Miami Beach, Miami Babylon. Not ... More >>

Burton Dale's Organic Farming 102 - How To Grow Your Own Food

Last Friday we brought you the first installment of Burton Dale's response to a few emailed questions regarding organic farming. Here's part II, where Burton explains how you can do it yourself."How can the average working person get in on the action?  Most working people do not own land of an ... More >>

Eat for Education

Last Friday we brought you the first installment of Burton Dale's response to a few emailed questions regarding organic farming. Here's part II, where Burton explains how you can do it yourself."How can the average working person get in on the action?  Most working people do not own land of an ... More >>

Mature bachelors: Send this lovelorn lady your resumé

(Full disclosure: Yes, we're blogging about an advertiser, but only because we find it supremely entertaining. The graft has nothing to do with it.) The woman to the right is Beverly, and she's tired of going on a few dates with a man only to discover he's actually not a lawyer but a pizza boy, or ... More >>

Bankruptcy, Butchery, Buzz-Sawed Palms

De Hull battled hurricanes, code enforcers, and banks. Then he ran into a steamroller of a neighbor.

Palm Beach Bargain Basements

De Hull battled hurricanes, code enforcers, and banks. Then he ran into a steamroller of a neighbor.

Rent to Moan

The condos at Dadeland Place are selling, but dwellers feel dissed.

The New Traditional Labor Day Menu

The condos at Dadeland Place are selling, but dwellers feel dissed.

The New Traditional Labor Day Menu

The condos at Dadeland Place are selling, but dwellers feel dissed.

Orchid Adoption Day

The condos at Dadeland Place are selling, but dwellers feel dissed.

Floating on Air

Bringing new meaning to real-estate inflation

Two Plays Running

Ayckbourn's House and Garden run concurrently, with each spilling crazily into the other

Water Works

Ayckbourn's House and Garden run concurrently, with each spilling crazily into the other

BEST EDIBLE PLANTS

Fruit and Spice Park

Dr. Décor

Pastel is from Venus, wood floors from Mars, it's

BEST PLACE TO ROLL ON ECSTASY

Space 34

BEST PLACE TO SIP CUBAN COFFEE WHILE SELECTING A MODERATELY PRICED PINOT NOIR

Best Time Wine and Gourmet 305-443-6070

BEST FLORIST

Jenny's Flowers

BEST TOURIST TRAP

Casa Casuarina

Room with a Vue

Vue's Jonah Buffa wants you to know his band doesn't just stand there like the Strokes

What's So Funny?

The Dinner Party has a hard time deciding whether it's farce or tragedy

Best Place To Buy A Whole Roast Pig

Diaz Supermarket

Best Neighborhood Hardware Store

Paradise Hardware Store

Best Power Babes

Janet Reno and Donna Shalala

Night for Treedom

Festival of the Trees

Interior Outfitters

ROOM

Playing With Fire

That roaring inferno you see was started intentionally, and if it can be kept under control, it'll do more good than harm

Letters

That roaring inferno you see was started intentionally, and if it can be kept under control, it'll do more good than harm

Swelter

That roaring inferno you see was started intentionally, and if it can be kept under control, it'll do more good than harm