Kenya

Paradise: Love Vacations in Other People's Misery

Krups Best Brew: Eternity Coffee Roasters and Tinta y Cafe Vie for Title

The Magic City takes it coffee seriously. Many Miamians will tell you it's not blood, but thick, syrupy colada, that runs through their veins. Now the time has come to choose who will win the coveted title of "Best Brew," and two coffeehouses have risen to the top.Voting for the 2013 Krups ... More >>

Room 237 Argues The Shining Contains Everything

Lawsuit Filed in Florida to Challenge Barack Obama's Constitutional Eligibility, Because Apparently People Are Still Doing That

Oh, you thought we were done with all that Birther nonsense? Nope, not by a long shot.Michael Voeltz, a Broward county man who claims to be a registered Democrat, has filed a lawsuit in Florida claiming that Barack Obama was not eligible to be on the state's ballot because he's not a natural born ci ... More >>

Read Mail: Don't Mock Jesus on the New Times Cover

Four More Beers: Here's What We'll Drink When Obama Gets Reelected

Today is the big day. No, it's not the day you'll finally move out of your parents' house. It's the day when Americans choose who gets to hang in the White House for four years.Read Also:- Obama Beer? The President's White House Honey Ale- Here's What We Eat Should Mitt Win- Election Day Dining Deal ... More >>

Jason Mraz and The Real Bears: Soda is Very, Very Bad (Video)

For about a century, soda companies have been telling us that their products are the best way to do everything from quench your thirst to celebrate the holidays. Coca-Cola, especially, has set the tone by equating its product to happiness ("Have a Coke and a smile"); world peace ("I'd like to teach ... More >>

Miami Dolphins Obliterate the Oakland Raiders 35 - 13

Facing a below-average Oakland Raiders yesterday, it was generally believed the Dolphins had a very good chance of beating their former AFC rival and notching the first victory for both Head Coach Joe Philbin and QB Ryan Tannehill. Then Reggie Bush came out of nowhere and decided to show everyone hi ... More >>

2016: Obama's America: The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Makes Mangoes Exciting This Weekend

Picture a man and a woman, knives in hand, working their way through a jungle. The tree cover is so dense there's barely any sunlight, and the air is rich with the scents of rain and greenery. After what seems like hours, they reach their prize. Is it a hidden temple filled with gold statu ... More >>

Florida Birther Sues To Remove Obama From Ballot, With Support From Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Remember when Donald Trump and his friends were all, "Obama can't be president, he was secretly born in Kenya!" Then Obama released his original birth certificate from Hawaii and they were like, "Never mind!"If you thought that was the end of the argument, oh how wrong you were. The latest salvo fro ... More >>

Miami's Best Coffee Houses: Ten Places to Rev Your Caffeine Engine

​Miami is famous (or infamous) for its beaches, toned bodies, and hot nights filled with music. But dancing until dawn, then trying to make it through the day requires massive doses of caffeine. Thankfully, the Magic City is home to some wonderful coffee houses.From the little walk-up windows of d ... More >>

Basketball Wives Season Four: Why It's Already The Most Dramatic One Yet

​When we were first given the task to review Basketball Wives, we thought we had a knock-off Real Housewives on our hands. So like the serious journalists we are, we went to Wikipedia to do our research on the new project.There, the program description explains all the show's women were "somehow r ... More >>

Qanun, Featuring Rare and Ancient Musical Instrument, Showcases Dances of the World

​Oh, to lead the life of Tamalyn Dallal. In 1990, she founded Mid-Eastern Dance Exchange, the first belly dance studio in Miami Beach. Over the next 15 years, she trained many of the most successful dancers on the global belly dance scene (yes, there is one), including Amar Gamal, Bozenka, Hanan, ... More >>

Alaska Coffee Roasting Co. Migrates to North Miami

​Courtesy of Alaska Coffee Roasting Co.Michael Gesser​Fairbanks, Alaska. Miami, Florida. These two extremes now have something in common: "A coffee shop that walks the walk instead of talking the talk," comments owner Michael Gesser of Alaska Coffee Roasting Co. (13130 Biscayne Blvd., North Miam ... More >>

Christopher Andrew Headley's murderer is still on the loose

Watch a video about Chris Headley.

Bob Marley Song Re-Released to Help Fight East African Famine

Photo by Laine DossMaasai Boy, taken in Amboselli, Kenya​We interrupt our coverage of $100 dinners, fancy wine tastings and being generally blessed to remind you (and ourselves) of just how lucky we are to live in Miami (and the United States). While we're living the "good life" (and pretty much ... More >>

Eternity Coffee Roasters Coming Downtown: One Cup at a Time

​Starting June 1, we will be able to scratch off "one-cup-at-a-time coffee shop" from the list of what Miami sorely needs. That's the date Eternity Coffee Roasters opens its doors downtown (just north of the Brickell Bridge, across from the Chase Bank building at 117 SE Second Avenue). Eternity wi ... More >>

African Cats: Kings of the jungle get March of the Penguins treatment

Spilling the Beans

The Tea Baggers Are Coming! The 5 Angriest Speakers At Doral's 'Taking America Back' Conference

via Huffingtonpost.comDo not be confused if this woman accosts your car in Doral today.​If your daily commute takes you through Doral -- and may god have mercy upon your soul for that -- you may notice some usual sights around the exclusive Doral Golf and Spa Resort this morning: grown men dressed ... More >>

LeBron, Implants, Spankings and a Tea Party Tirade

If Riptide posts a blog, and no one comments on it, did it ever really get posted? Since Riptide would be nothing without them, here is a list, in no specific order, of this week's best mouth offs.1. Dr. Paul Perito had a bone to pick with Riptide after returning from his penile-implant marathon in ... More >>

Rick Scott Promises to "Look Into" Obama's Birth Certificate

via Internet WeeklyBirther in chief, Lou Dobbs​Following in the footsteps of Marco Rubio, Republican Governor Candidate Rick Scott has found himself flirting with the birther movement. When speaking today at a rally in Central Florida's uber-retirement mecca, The Villages, he was confronted w ... More >>

Behind the Line: Imlee Indian Bistro

All photos by Jacob KatelMumbai native Chef Shreyas Jagtap behind the line. Yeah, that's fire.​Imlee Indian Bistro's commitment to traditional, authentic North Indian cuisine is proven daily on the palates of all who eat there. Brothers Manoj and Paresh Bhatti have owned the place since 2003. Mano ... More >>

Gaia Ristorante: The Full Story

As Short Order reported last week, Gaia Ristorante, the latest venture of seasoned restaurateur Tom Billante, has opened at 101 Ocean Drive (Hilton Bentley Hotel)-- which I erroneously cited as the site of Billante's last Ocean Drive venue, ViVi. In fact, Prime Italian has moved into that space, and ... More >>

Out of Africa

Wolfgang Roth tells the history of a continent.

MTV Hosts First Ever African Music Awards

As I was cruising the blogosphere over the weekend, I came across an interesting story that definitely caught me by surprise. MTV, home to all things exploitive and pop, just held their first annual African Music Awards in Abuja, Nigeria this past Saturday. It's a move that could bolster more visibi ... More >>

Help Africa, Do Yoga

Piano Man on a Mission

Kristopher Hull is zeal on wheels.

Weekly News Wrap - Iowa Caucus, Kenya, E. Coli and more

Shades of Truth

Does Barack Obama embroider his own history for political effect?

Letters from the Issue of September 28, 2006

"She created more blight than she removed"

Low Yield

The Constant Gardener ripens into a distasteful thriller

Low Yield

The Constant Gardener ripens into a distasteful thriller

Until Proven Guilty

24 HOURS. 1 FULL MOON. 265 Arrests.

Burning Spear

Fixin' to Die

My Life Without Me strums lively chords in the face of death

It Began in Africa

Three decades after its conception, David Fanshawe still finds African Sanctus very much in demand

The Sweat Science

Postmodern boxing's hype & politics

Music from the Morning of World Music

The good, the bad, and the boring on re-released Nonesuch Explorer Series

Heavy Heavy Heavy

From baaad Afro-rock to really good highlife, dig this Afro-pop

Shake

Music never looked so good

Cleaning Up Krome

Lawyers Tina Fassnacht and Stacy Taeuber are all-purpose advocates at the West Dade immigrant camp

In Good Hands

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

With Kidnappers Like These, Who Needs Social Workers?

James and Emma Somerset came to Miami to rescue their son's girlfriend. They wound up going to jail for kidnapping.

Calendar for the week

Birds Do It, Bees Do it

But is that any excuse for Matthew Block's lawyer to send Shirley McGreal a card that shows zebras doing it?

The Art is the Matter

The curtain rises on Act II of the Dade Performing Arts Center Story. Is this a comedy or a tragedy? Depends on who you ask.