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Pink Slime and Now Mad Cow? Skip the Beef, Opt for a Homemade Veggie Burger Instead

Emily CodikVeggie Burger from Green Gables CaféOn Tuesday, the USDA confirmed the detection of Mad Cow disease in a California dairy cow. Even though the agency also announced that American beef and milk continue to be safe for consumption, reports have already surfaced of countries like Indonesia ... More >>

Basel Artist Charged With Smuggling Exotic Animal Carcasses to Make Bizarre Sculptures

Enrique Gomez de Molina's sculptures are to die for. Literally.The Miami-based artist was charged today with illegally smuggling exotic animal parts -- including birds of paradise and the world's cutest animal, a slow loris -- into Florida from Indonesia. Then he stitched, glued, and stuffed the par ... More >>

Negroni's Trio's "Sabado En La Noche" Rocks the F#*% Out

Drummer Nomar Negroni is the Tommy Lee of Jazz​Way back in 1966, Paul Revere and the Raiders put out a song by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart called "(I'm Not) Your Stepping Stone." The track exploded to fame when manufactured pop band the Monkees recorded it, and later achieved cult status thanks to ... More >>

Little Lotus: Asian secret in downtown Miami will bloom big

See a photo slide show of Little Lotus.

Lucky Oriental Mart Has Pocky, Mochi, and Milkfish

John ZurPocky is a must-try Japanese cookie snack. ​Located off Bird Road, Lucky Oriental Mart is an Asian grocery store stocked with foods and products from China, Japan, Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Stroll the aisles and your curiosity will be piqued by col ... More >>

The Restaurant at the Setai: Pretty, precious, pricey

John ZurPocky is a must-try Japanese cookie snack. ​Located off Bird Road, Lucky Oriental Mart is an Asian grocery store stocked with foods and products from China, Japan, Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Stroll the aisles and your curiosity will be piqued by col ... More >>

Spilling the Beans

John ZurPocky is a must-try Japanese cookie snack. ​Located off Bird Road, Lucky Oriental Mart is an Asian grocery store stocked with foods and products from China, Japan, Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Stroll the aisles and your curiosity will be piqued by col ... More >>

Gado Gado Recipe From Icebox Cafe

Photo by Riki AltmanLeggo my gado gadoNow that you've pounded down more fruitcake, egg nog, and sugar cookies than you care to remember, try eating something good for you, like Icebox Café's gado gado. Robert Siegmann and Andrea Landini--whom we interviewed last week, remember?--discovered this dis ... More >>

World Hunger: Good News, Bad News

​First, the good news: The number of chronically hungry people in the world has dropped for the first time in 15 years, according to "The State of Food Insecurity in the World" report that will be jointly released by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and ... More >>

Christy's Mega Shrimp Cocktail

Photo by Danielle Alvarez​Christy's in Coral Gables serves shrimp that look as juiced up as the male stars of Jersey Shore. Locals often frequent the upscale eatery on the corner of Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Malaga Street simply for the shrimp cocktail. It gives new meaning to the famed oxymoron ... More >>

Egyptian mummies at the Bass

Photo by Danielle Alvarez​Christy's in Coral Gables serves shrimp that look as juiced up as the male stars of Jersey Shore. Locals often frequent the upscale eatery on the corner of Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Malaga Street simply for the shrimp cocktail. It gives new meaning to the famed oxymoron ... More >>

Art this week: Fanged demons and fried pork rinds

Photo by Danielle Alvarez​Christy's in Coral Gables serves shrimp that look as juiced up as the male stars of Jersey Shore. Locals often frequent the upscale eatery on the corner of Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Malaga Street simply for the shrimp cocktail. It gives new meaning to the famed oxymoron ... More >>

Miami local art shows

Photo by Danielle Alvarez​Christy's in Coral Gables serves shrimp that look as juiced up as the male stars of Jersey Shore. Locals often frequent the upscale eatery on the corner of Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Malaga Street simply for the shrimp cocktail. It gives new meaning to the famed oxymoron ... More >>

Art This Week: From Torture to the Strange Drug Ayahuasca

Photo by Danielle Alvarez​Christy's in Coral Gables serves shrimp that look as juiced up as the male stars of Jersey Shore. Locals often frequent the upscale eatery on the corner of Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Malaga Street simply for the shrimp cocktail. It gives new meaning to the famed oxymoron ... More >>

Top 10 Weird Donuts From Our Global Donut Tour

via Neil T​Donuts, donuts, they're the bestGive me pain inside my chestHope to donuts I don't dieFrom their skin: fresh, hot, and friedHere are our Top Ten Weirdest Donuts from Around The World.

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via Neil T​Donuts, donuts, they're the bestGive me pain inside my chestHope to donuts I don't dieFrom their skin: fresh, hot, and friedHere are our Top Ten Weirdest Donuts from Around The World.

Mothers Day Restaurant Roundup Part I

image via KevinDooley's flickr Mothers Day is on Sunday, May 10th, Are you ready? Do you care? Will you go out to eat? Short Order is here to give you the opportunity to plan ahead by surveying various restaurants around town.We recently dialed up some numbers out of our extensive restaur ... More >>

Florida Death Metal Legends Malevolent Creation Play Culture Room on April 12

Originally from Buffalo, New York, in the late Eighties, Malevolent Creation flew south and quickly became ensconced in the Sunshine State's hugely unlikely but now-legendary death metal scene. It quickly scored a coveted deal with Roadrunner Records, then the ultimate home for death metal, early gr ... More >>

Fedde Le Grand

Originally from Buffalo, New York, in the late Eighties, Malevolent Creation flew south and quickly became ensconced in the Sunshine State's hugely unlikely but now-legendary death metal scene. It quickly scored a coveted deal with Roadrunner Records, then the ultimate home for death metal, early gr ... More >>

Soups, Soaps, and Industrial Lubricants

Originally from Buffalo, New York, in the late Eighties, Malevolent Creation flew south and quickly became ensconced in the Sunshine State's hugely unlikely but now-legendary death metal scene. It quickly scored a coveted deal with Roadrunner Records, then the ultimate home for death metal, early gr ... More >>

World Bank: Biofuels Caused Food Prices to Soar 75%

Originally from Buffalo, New York, in the late Eighties, Malevolent Creation flew south and quickly became ensconced in the Sunshine State's hugely unlikely but now-legendary death metal scene. It quickly scored a coveted deal with Roadrunner Records, then the ultimate home for death metal, early gr ... More >>

Tomorrow, Teach a Friend to Homebrew

Originally from Buffalo, New York, in the late Eighties, Malevolent Creation flew south and quickly became ensconced in the Sunshine State's hugely unlikely but now-legendary death metal scene. It quickly scored a coveted deal with Roadrunner Records, then the ultimate home for death metal, early gr ... More >>

Herd on the Street

The DIY ethos gets a busy workout at MIU

Bali Low

In trying to please everyone, oftentimes you end up pleasing no one

From the Cold

Dmitriy Klevenskiy imports caviar-quality jazz

Sound and Vision

Psyberpixie controls the images

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

Psyberpixie controls the images

Mango-festo

Cluckin' Good Time

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The Neighborhood Fish Farm

Egg Rolls On

The Chinese Restaurant is authentically tasty

Well Hello Bali

The Chinese Restaurant is authentically tasty

Glorious Gamelan and Jaipongan Jive

They got the beat, Indonesians

Sum of Love Café

A return to the comfy hippie hangout days at Café Buena Vista

Seasoning of Saigon

Pretty saucy for a Vietnamese eatery in America

Crouching Tilapia

Chung Hing Oriental Mart

The Oriental's Mandarin

Café Sambal

Food for Thoughtless

Tobias Schneebaum is a weird guy, but that doesn't mean his story is compelling

Fanfare Ciocarlia

Baro Biao, World Wide Wedding (Piranha)

Music of Indonesia

Sulawesi, Maluku, and Indonesian Guitars

Best Place To Buy An Opium Bed

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Gorilla Warfare

Vilified by animal protectionists, indicted for smuggling, praised by the feds. Matthew Block surprised everyone. Maybe even himself.

Dead On Arrival, 119 Times Over

Indonesian crab-eating macaques are favored by medical researchers. But if Miami primate dealer Matthew Block's late-August shipment was bound for the lab, it never got that far.