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Kentucky Derby

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Kentucky Derby Day Parties in Miami: Juleps, Hats, and Bourbon

    The 138th running of the Kentucky Derby is this Saturday and while it's been called the most exciting two minutes in sports -- it can also be said to be the shortest sporting event in the world.So how do you stretch two minutes into a day-long event? Wear silly hats and drink a lot of bourbon, of co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Kentucky Derby This Weekend: At Bourbon Steak, Make Your Own Mint Julep

    Bourbon Steak wants to be your Kentucky Derby headquarters, so it's plying you with promises of cheap booze and free food (works for us). From 5 to 7 p.m. on Derby Day (Saturday, May 5), plant yourself bar-side, where $5 mint juleps will be featured among an array of drink specials, including reduce ... More >>

  • News

    February 2, 2012

    Hialeah Park, Florida's greatest racetrack, battles mega-casinos and lawsuits

    Bourbon Steak wants to be your Kentucky Derby headquarters, so it's plying you with promises of cheap booze and free food (works for us). From 5 to 7 p.m. on Derby Day (Saturday, May 5), plant yourself bar-side, where $5 mint juleps will be featured among an array of drink specials, including reduce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Five Video Games That Are Definitely Not Making You Smarter

    ​Like a lot of kids, I nursed a healthy addiction to video games in prep school, trafficking kilos of cocaine across state lines on a graphing calculator from a desk in advanced Algebra. And according to gamer evangelists like James Paul Gee, this actually made me smarter -- it helped me create mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2011

    Southern Cocktail With a Twist: Lemongrass Mint Julep

    Photo by Anais AlexandreA cocktail to cure any ailment.​According to Merriam-Webster, a julep is a nectarous syrup, sometimes mixed with alcohol or medicine. (And who wouldn't be cured by that?)You have to admit there is a certain romantic appeal to pre-prohibition cocktails. A mint julep, the Ken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Gulfstream, Calder & Bourbon Steak: Kentucky Derby Watch Parties

    ​Women in big hats, tiny men wearing pink and cocktails full of leaves... it must be time for the Kentucky Derby!To experience all the action of Church Hill Downs in Florida, Gulfstream Park is about as close as you can get. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, to prepare for the first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Kentucky Derby Special: Top Five Horse Meat Dishes from Carpaccio to Pony Strogranoff

    via Wikipedia Basashi, or raw horse meat from Towada.​In honor of that annual American tradition taking place Saturday at 6:24 p.m, the Kentucky Derby, Short Order has compiled a list of the top five dishes made with the dinner of champions: horse meat. Now, before you let your preconceived ... More >>

  • News

    February 10, 2011

    Letters from the issue of February 10, 2011

    via Wikipedia Basashi, or raw horse meat from Towada.​In honor of that annual American tradition taking place Saturday at 6:24 p.m, the Kentucky Derby, Short Order has compiled a list of the top five dishes made with the dinner of champions: horse meat. Now, before you let your preconceived ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    Yuppie Rambo Richard "Kudo" Couto takes on the C-9 Basin, Miami-Dade's most lawless outpost

    via Wikipedia Basashi, or raw horse meat from Towada.​In honor of that annual American tradition taking place Saturday at 6:24 p.m, the Kentucky Derby, Short Order has compiled a list of the top five dishes made with the dinner of champions: horse meat. Now, before you let your preconceived ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    The Kentucky Derby = Mint Julep Recipe

    A Wild Turkey Julep​The Kentucky Derby takes off today, and if you're like me, that means Mint Julep time (I think there might be horses involved as well, but I've never been). Wild Turkey's Master Distiller Jimmy Russell has put together the following classic Julep recipe, which to no great surpr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    A Horse Named Radiohead Fails to Impress at Florida Derby

    ​There's a band named Radiohead, a band named Horse the Band, another band named Band of Horses, and now there's a horse named Radiohead, after the band. Got it?Radiohead, like his musical namesake, is from England. A 3-year-old chestnut colt whose trainer says he's a "cool, happy, curious horse," ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    Silent Liquidity

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  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Bet Five on Dirty Sanchez

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  • News

    May 1, 2008

    Big Brown Machine

    Saturday's Kentucky Derby favorite arrives fresh from South Florida.

  • News

    September 27, 2007

    British Ex-Millionaire Fights for Freedom

    Krishna Maharaj went from the high life to a life sentence — for a crime he might not have committed

  • Calendar

    May 17, 2007

    And They’re Off

    We’re going to the races, rent be damned

  • Culture

    November 9, 2006

    Gonzo, but Not Forgotten

    Ralph Steadman relates fear and loathing from the book-tour trail

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2004

    Derby Days

    Horses hit the turf

  • Calendar

    December 4, 2003

    Sexless Beast

    Celibate celebrity stays south for the season

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Horsing Around with Journalism

    How the Miami Herald screwed up its Kentucky Derby coverage

  • Calendar

    March 22, 2001

    To the Max

    Peter Max

  • News

    March 8, 2001

    The Last Pony Show

    Owner John Brunetti is determined to save Hialeah Park, but market pressures may spell doom after 76 years of racing

  • Culture

    July 22, 1999

    Jefferson in Virginia

    Twilight at Monticello: An Evening with Thomas Jefferson

  • Best of Miami

    May 13, 1999

    Best Bartender

    Sterling Warren Taurus Restaurant and Bar

  • Calendar

    March 11, 1999

    He Got Derby

    Sterling Warren Taurus Restaurant and Bar

  • Calendar

    April 3, 1997

    Calendar for the week

    Sterling Warren Taurus Restaurant and Bar

  • News

    February 15, 1996

    Moments in Time

    Cops, firemen, dogs, the circus: Photographer Jill Freedman deftly documents life's little happenings

  • Music

    October 21, 1992

    The History of Rock and Roll, Part 34

    If Chet Atkins never met Herbie, there'd be no Dire Straits

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