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Lorena Garcia's Taco Bell Cantina Bowl Not a Core Shaker

Last night a select dozen or so people were invited to try celebrity chef Lorena Garcia's latest dish. The affair, held at Garcia's midtown Miami studio, was stellar. From the complimentary valet parking to the bartender serving cilantro-infused cocktails, the evening was five-star. Garcia's test ki ... More >>

Black Friday Endurance Shopping: A Nutritional Plan for Optimal Performance

Black Friday deals this year will be even better than usual. According to Bloomberg, if customers bought everything on the Toys "R" Us circular this year, they would save $12,500, up from $11,000 last year. Stores are opening earlier, giving you and the other ravenous holiday deal shoppers even more ... More >>

Ten Best Things to Do This Weekend

​Ugh, Black Friday. It's a nauseating, cross-country display of hyperconsumerism at its apex, retail's official kickoff to "the holiday season" and all it entails: generic Christmas songs, drastically reduced sale prices, parking-lot fender-benders, and never-ending checkout lines. Whether you c ... More >>

Five Crazy Black Friday Shopping Frenzies

​For many Americans, this Thursday will be a day of thankful reflection over a meal the size of which a third-world family has never seen. But according to the National Retail Federation, about 152 million of those folks (that's about half the population) can be expected to line the cold shopping ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of January 22, 2009

"Everyone is blaming the problems of this project on the tanking economy, without even thinking about the death of a once very popular Omni Mall."

Because B.O. is the Pits

Butcher of the Andes

A Peruvian soldier slaughters dozens, gets away with it, and heads for the subtropics

In Da Dog House

Dear Mama

You are appreciated

It’s Promtastic

Black Sheep

From Bitter to Sweet

Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Making TMarie

If you want to beat Britney Spears, you better start young

Best Pawnshop

Cash Inn Pawn Shop

Inside the Wasp's Nest

In the cloak-and-dagger world of a Cuban chief spook, Puerto Rican music magazines, wet beepers, and pregnancies can cause unexpected turbulence

His Name Is FM-2030

Liftoff to an Extraordinary Age: The Next 20 Years

The Fall of the Mall

Once a shopping mecca, Omni International has gone from bustling to busted

Waiting for a Shot at the Big Show

In the world of waiters, landing a gig at Joe's Stone Crab is like getting drafted by the Marlins, only better

Which Twin Has the Sony?

Two musicians with the same name. One got a big recording deal. The other got a lawyer.

Program Notes 24

Everything Must Go!

Videotapes! Drill presses! Toasters! Sphygmomanometers! If the Dade County Store's prices were any lower, they'd be insane!

Perry and Thrust

At Blue Note the old music world's en garde for exploring

The Sweet Buy-and-Buy