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Greening Up: An Important Video on South Florida's Young Farmers

David Laws thinks organic farming is almost like civil disobedience. "Organic farming is by definition against the grain," says Laws, the farmer behind Treehugger Farms in Davie. "There's a huge monstrous, mechanized market out there that's really out to stop all that we are doing. But things are ... More >>

Bill Telepan Pop-Up at Harry's Pizzeria

Bill Telepan, chef at the Upper West Side restaurant Telepan in New York City, dedicates his time outside the kitchen to Wellness in the Schools, an organization focused on inspiring nutritious eating and fitness in public schools across the country. You may have seen Telepan, alongside the organiz ... More >>

Edible Garden Festival at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden This Weekend

It's not fall in Miami until Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden hosts its annual edible garden festival and scarecrow contest.Read Also: Slow Food Miami Hosting Pies & Thighs Pie Contest & PicnicThe two-day family event features a host of talks, lectures, and garden tours that will show you h ... More >>

How To: A DIY Pallet Garden For Apartments With Balconies (Photos)

If you are a green thumb on Brickell or somewhere in South Beach, you can rarely get your hands dirty. But if you have a balcony, then you're in luck because you can build a pallet garden.The pallet garden is simply a wooden pallet from which a garden is made. It fits perfectly on a small balcony. A ... More >>

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 >>

'Night, Mother at the Pelican Theatre through September 25

Beached at Lester's

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

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

Thanksgiving Day Entertaining

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 >>

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 >>

Rat Shit and Roach Eggs: Top 5 Places Not To Eat This Month

​(Sing to the tune of Home On The Range)Home, home, down in DadeWhere the rats and the roaches lay eggsWhere seldom is heardHow inspectors find turdsWhere you eat and are expected to pay.Who likes getting rat hairs in their teeth? How about a roach leg stuck to your lip?Here are our Top 5 places N ... 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

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 >>

Palm Beach Bargain Basements

The Party Crasher - Dwyane Wade is Celebrated, and for Good Reason

Drool-Worthy Designs

Soak up inspiration at the Home Design & Remodeling Show.

The New Traditional Labor Day Menu

The New Traditional Labor Day Menu

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

Hysterical Home Décor

Water Works

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

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

Interior Outfitters

ROOM

Blinded by the Light

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

War and Peacocks

A squabble between two South Dade neighbors has the feathers flying

War and Peacocks

A squabble between two South Dade neighbors has the feathers flying

Letters

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