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Florida Man Calls 911 Eighty Times to Demand Kool-Aid, Hamburgers, and Weed

If you're going to call 911 eighty consecutive times, you'd better have a damn good reason: snakes biting your eyeballs, bikers armed with medieval weapons circling your house, multiple missing limbs. A 34-year-old man in Tampa did not have a damn good reason for calling 911 eighty times last Sund ... More >>

Mugshots Friday: Dolphins Fans and Your Crying Aunt

Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that ... More >>

Ten Flavored Vodkas We'd Like to See in Stores

Arguably, 2012 was the year that flavored vodka jumped the shark. Once limited to simple, (semi) natural flavors like cherry, vanilla and citrus, this year the industry made inroads into liquid flavors we never thought possible. From salted caramel and chocolate covered cherry to Fruit Loops and PB& ... More >>

Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson Aren't Fat: An Open Letter to America

What the hell is wrong with you, America? Look at you, sitting there covered in Cheeto dust, hearts pumping pure Coca-Cola, and you're making fun of this nation's beautiful pop tarts because they happen to put on 25 pounds? We here at Crossfade are tired of these finger-pointing, gut-busting shena ... More >>

Labor Day Events in Miami: Stomp Fruit, Get a Tan, Go to the Mattresses

This weekend marks the official unofficial end of summer. In most parts of the country, that means one last beach weekend before the bikini goes into mothballs. Here in Miami, though we've got plenty more sunny days in store for us this year, it's still a three-day weekend. And excuse to party. We'v ... More >>

Hard Knocks Episode One: Thank God For Chad Johnson

Thank God for Chad Johnson. Last night, the "Look At Me" wide receiver was the star of the first episode of Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Miami Dolphins on HBO. You get the feeling the Dolphins brain trust of General Manager Jeff Ireland and Head Coach Joe Philbin picked up the boisterous play ... More >>

Reader Mail: Blame Republicans for Unfair Work Practices

Ten Most Musical Politicians Ever: Barry Obama, Mitt the Mormon Honky, and Others!

​The whole process of elections (from PTA to POTUS) is savage, cut-throat, and -- when we're lucky -- incredibly stupid. They will shake the hands of thousands of strangers. They will gorge themselves on local cuisine. They will kiss the stinkiest baby. If votes depended on it, a politician would ... More >>

Bizarre Foods America Season Opener: Ten Foods We Want Andrew Zimmern to Eat

​Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern has made a career out of eating everything that walks, swims, or crawls. He admits to refusing only two things offered to him -- ever. Street food in Delhi that was made with sludgy water and moldy chicken intestines.Our omnivorous friend takes to the airwaves to ... More >>

Ten Straight-Edge Bands With Hilarious And/Or Terrible Names

​Last night, Washington D.C. straight-edge stompers Coke Bust ripped open Churchill's Pub like a moody Norse God leveling some mountains out of ennui. And really, would you have expected any less with a band name like Coke Bust? Straight edge is usually pretty serious business. So while not entir ... More >>

Art Basel Music: TV on the Radio Brings All the Energy to Ricochet Miami, December 2

​TV on the Radio Spotify's Music Loves Art Ricochet Bar & Lounge Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: A Big Mac. Last night, eating a double cheeseburger, drinking a Perrier, and considering trying Spotify's Kool-Aid, about two hundred people took iPhone pictures of TV on the Radio at R ... More >>

Top Five Ridiculously Outrageous Rock Star Rider Requests

Crossfade's rider demands a fountain of pink Kool Aid.​After the money, sex, and drugs, the best part of being a rock star is the ability to ask for absolutely anything -- even shit you don't really want -- and then throw a nuclear-strength temper tantrum when you don't get it. The ridiculously o ... More >>

Fried Kool-Aid, Fried Bubblegum, and Brain-Freeze Burgers: Florida Fairs Are Coming

​"We try to keep it as new as we can. You've really got to stay ahead of the customers," says veteran food vendor Dennis Reas. He and wife Cheryl are based in Indiana but travel with their food truck to various festivals and fairs around the country. In case you weren't aware, the state-fair seaso ... More >>

In The Ides of March, Clooney's political thriller, intrigue drowns out argument

Vodka Gummy Bears Bring Together Our Favorite Vices

All photos by Alexandra Leon​When e-how.com has an article detailing exactly how to make vodka gummy bears, you know you've gotta try it. According to the directions, the gummies need to chill in a glass full of vodka for five days.Over the past week, these little guys marinated in a boozy pool in ... More >>

Gay Cowboys in Bondage's Owen Marshmallow Strikes Again!

​Gay Cowboys in Bondage Owen Marshmallow Strikes Again! (Sublapse Records) myspace.com/gaycowboysinbondag By now, if anyone were to scroll through these Blast From the Past columns, one key note would be the inherent humor that many musical acts from this great state have embodied through time. ... More >>

Competitive eating, pickle style

Wynwood gallery roundup: O. Ascanio, Dorsch, and OHWOW

Interpol's gig at the Fillmore stirs up Terrors from drummer's past

Ice Trays That Think Outside the Cube

August in Miami can be unbearably hot. Sipping something cold full of ice cubes seems like the best alternative to cooling down. No need to settle for a standard square ice cube tray anymore. Here are a few of our favorite ways to express yourself through ice!Ice Invaders​For the true gamer in eve ... More >>

Jersey Shore's "Situation" Inflated Ego Caused Problems While Filming in Miami

via InterviewPictures like this one should cut anyone's ego down to size.​The Miami-set season of Jersey Shore will be dropped onto the world in exactly a week, but one thing audiences won't see in the next installment of the pop-culture train wreck is acknowledgment of the cast's growing fame. Pr ... More >>

Furthur

Hunting Down the Newest Products at the Americas Food & Beverage Show

Photo by Riki AltmanBeware the Dolce Shot.​Finding the latest, greatest, newest goods at the 12th Americas Food & Beverage Show Tuesday wasn't all that difficult--and it would've been really easy if I was on the hunt for an energy drink or liquid sexual enhancer. It seemed as if every tenth bo ... More >>

Flyer of the Week: Yacht at Electric Pickle November 14

​According to the Yacht Manifesto #1: "Yacht is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA." Also, Yacht "seeks to explore frontiers and to expand awareness of extraterrestrial Intelligence" and "believes in an After ... More >>

They Fight for You, Against Each Other

Enagic's Kangen Water is Ionized Right Here In Miami. Get Your PH Up

Jacob KatelSpray-on hydration. Enagic USA is a company in the water industry that specializes in sales and manufacture of ionizing machines. What the hell are those and what exactly do they do? It's difficult to understand, but supposedly it's good for you. Basically it processes water in a way that ... More >>

CNN Profiles Miami's "Kool-Aid Kids," Children Born with HIV

Every week at Jackson Memorial Hospital, teens and young adults who were either born with HIV or infected at a young age meet. They call themselves the Kool-Aid Kids. They've defied the odds and lived to a time when HIV is a manageable, albeit chronic, disease. CNN recently profiled them, and today ... More >>

The Dream Will Be Televised

See for yourself at the MBC.

Skateboard Film Pits Overtown Against Sistrunk

Go behind the scenes of this hood war.

Big-Bucks Benchwarmer

A straight-from-high-school phenom stays intimate with the Heat bench

Letters from the issue of March 29, 2007

"Tattoo an exit visa on Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda’s ass and send him back where he belongs."

The Missionary

Shawn Beightol's education crusade is seeking believers

Only Time Will Tell

Whisper Campaign

Who is thedirtmiami.com? Plus: Timoney drinks.

Fear and Loafing in Wynwood

Spaces practicing the art of staying cool during the summer

Cape of Good Hope

Letters from the Issue of , 2002

Italian food, paid mercenaries, and crackhead Santas

Letters from the Issue of February 3-9, 2005

Hospital attacks, Mad Doggie Disease, art liquor, Cali memories

The Sociology of Suds

Overtown gets clean at Mister Lee's

Under the Table and Off the Books

If you're desperate for work, if you must see a doctor, if you need shelter, Miami's shadow economy will provide

Taste Matters

And it should, when you have to lick and lick and lick

Chowder Down

Seafood treat, deep in the heart of Kendal

Rave, Inc.

A look at what sells and what sells out at Thee Sixth Annual Zen Muzik Festival

Gender Bent

Michelle Rodriguez puts the Grrr in Karyn Kusama's Girlfight

Hiking, Camping, and Gay Bashing

The Boy Scouts earn a merit badge for intolerance

The Old Gringos

With local interest on the wane, a graying biker gang resolves to head south of the border. Como se dice "raisin' hell"?

Shake! Shake! Shake!

Venice, Anyone?

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