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Fresh Diet Inc. Deliver Gourmet Meal Plans For Healthy Lifestyles
Jacob Katel​Web enabled eating is here and a Miami upstart is taking the industry by storm.Fresh Diet Inc. is a gourmet meal delivery company founded on the fair shores of the 305 by a dude named Zalmi Duchman. The company currently operates kitchens and deliveries in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and South Florida.Clients use TheFreshDiet.com to do their menu planning, add/remove delivery days, enter their dislikes, and interact with the company, which
October 22, 2009Feds Dole Out $26 Million to City of Miami For Affordable Housing
Alex Izaguirre​The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent affordable housing developers in Miami-Dade County an early Christmas present. This past October 16, HUD secretary Shaun Donovan announced 18 south Florida cities will receive $69 million for community development grants, homeowner assistance programs, emergency shelter grants, and housing for people with HIV/AIDS.The pot of money includes $26.2 million for Miami, $1.4 million for Miami Gardens, $3 million for Miami Beach
October 22, 2009News Roundup
The Miami-Dade government promised it would cut pay to several workers to balance the budget, but sure is taking its time doing so, which is costing millions every week. [Herald]Alex Sink, Democratic candidate for Governor, will headline the state's biggest gay rights group's annual gala in Ft. Lauderdale. [NakedPolitics]Miami CIty commissioners will have their second reading and voting on Miami 21 today. [CBS4]There will be a few Global Warming rallies going on in town this Saturday. [Herald]Th
October 22, 2009BANG for Charity
October 22, 2009Jeff McInnis at Locust Projects, In Photos
All photos by Locust Projects, MiamiJeff McInnis demos it up.​What's a Design District exhibition space got to do with liquid nitrogen aided cooking?Everybody has to eat; especially starving artists, moreso ones with money. Food is universal.Last night, Chef Jeff McInnis from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach held a cooking demo and Q&A at Locust Projects (155 NE 38 Street, Miami).Locust Projects director Chana Sheldon said, "It's part of our series inviting professiona
October 23, 2009Miami Pit Bull Owners Plan Broward Get-Together This Weekend To Protest Ban
In this week's New Times, you read about how difficult it is for police to break up brutal dog-fighting rings -- even with tough new laws on the books. Unless cops see a fight in person, as they did in a Miami case, they rarely get the conviction.via Miami Coaltion Against Breed Specific Legislation​There's a flip side to that story, though, and it's Miami's idiotic attempt to stop dog-fighting before it happens. Miami-Dade has one of the country's oldest bans against the entire breed of pit b
October 23, 2009Ten Under $10 For the Weekend of October 23 - 25: WOW POW, Junior Boys, Alligator Alley RIP, and More
Junior Boys play the Vagabond on Saturday​Friday, October 23*Local live hip-hop-ish duo the Big Bounce -- made up of piano man Brendan O'Hara and beatboxer Komakozie -- play tonight at the mod Moonchine in Miami. It's a restaurant, so admission is technically free, but you'll have to buy dinner. Luckily the place is super inexpensive. Click here for full details. *Singer/songwriter/producer Gordon Chambers is the guest of honor tonight at the weekly Acoustic Flow event, which is a singer/
October 23, 2009NY Times Declares Rio Beach More Miami-esque Than Miami
via Erikogan's Flickr/CC2.0NOT MIAMI!​Apparently Miami is no longer "Miami" enough to be the premier Miami-esque area in the world. Read between the lines of this New York Times travel piece, entitled "Rio Hot Spot With Miami Vibe," and you'll learn that the Barra da Tijuca area in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro is the new Miami. Barra da Tijuca has the bad:To some, Barra da Tijuca is Rio de Janeiro's hottest new neighborhood, blessed with beautiful rock formations and a beach blanketed
October 23, 2009Flyer of the Week: Pay Your Final Respects to PS14 October 28
​Maybe it's bad taste to get on some kind of eulogy bender before the corpse is even cold, but the diagnosis is terminal and it's only a matter of time ... Your favorite hipster bar, PS14, is dying. So say goodbye, Miami, and make amends for all the wrongs you've committed against this party spot that's done you so right on so many nights. Then, once you've thoroughly cleansed your club karma, show up next Wednesday for the final installment ever of Finger Lickin', presented by scene s
October 23, 2009Let's Do it For Cheap
October 22, 2009Worst Dining Trends Of The Past Decade (According to Chicago Tribune, Michael Schwartz, and Short Order)
Courtesy of SoBe Wine & FoodDon't invite this man to your commune.​The Chicago Tribune website last week printed a list of the ten worst dining trends of the past decade, as decided by various movers and shakers in the American food world. Miami's own Michael Schwartz weighed in, his pet peeve being the communal table, which "assumes people who don't know each other want to sit together." (Gee Michael, didn't know you were so cynical; it will serve you well in your new blogging
October 26, 2009Gourmet Guinea Pigs Pay For Chef's Choice Dinner In Pictures
Jacob KatelThe menu.​ This past Saturday, high above the city, in the penthouse of a Midtown condo, thirty or so South Florida foodies got together to eat at the whims of Chef Jeremiah Bullfrog.The Cobaya Gourmet Guinea Pigs are a web enabled network of adventurous eaters who are looking for unconventional fare not available on Miami restaurant dinner menus. Kevin Jones of MiamiWineTasters.com said, "We find a chef with good skill and imagination and say we'll be the guinea pig. There's no res
October 26, 2009Urbanite Bistro's Three Course Dinner for $37 includes Free Parking for Arsht
Unattributed user-submitted photo via Yelp Downtowning​The holy trinity of art, food, and music, are making Downtown Miami a go-to destination for culture in Vice City.14th street's Urbanite Bistro is now offering a three-course, $37, tasting menu that includes a voucher for performance parking one block from the Arsht and is designed with theatergoers in mind. The offer is available Monday - Friday from 5 - 7 p.m. and includes apps like duck confit ravioli, wild mushroom empanadas, and coconu
October 26, 2009Food News Roundup: Dole Money, Bad Seed, Spin Fry, Cookie Diet, Algae Fuel, Wolfie Cohen, and Starchefs
Michael Carter, Dole's Executive Vice President and General Counsel said of a Miami judge's ruling that Dole won't have to pay Nica farmworkers $97 million, "The Court's ruling indicates that corruption and a total lack of due process is the norm for the Nicaragua judicial system." [RTTnews]CSI Miami's "Bad Seed" episode has rural America talking. [FoodSafetyNews]Dynamic Response Group has secured worldwide design, develop, market, and distribution for the commercial version of the Spin Fryer, "
October 27, 2009Suspect Charged in Murder of UConn Football Player Jasper Howard
University of ConnecticutJust one day after his friends, family members and teammates gathered in Miami for the funeral of murdered University of Connecticut football star Jasper Howard, police have made an arrest reports The Hartford Courant. 21-year-old John Lomax is being held by police on $2 million bail and charged with the murder. Lomax was not a UConn student but grew up in the area. Police believe he attended the party with John Fitgerald Hood, who was previously arrested in the cas
October 27, 2009Miami Cops Eat Dirty Meals Done Dirt Cheap, So Says Inspector
Order up. Pork Chops, Side of Bacon.​City of Miami cops want you to think they're clean. Clean arrests. Clean records. Clean city. But if you believe the State of Florida, the place where they eat is dirty, dirty, dirty. This past June, state inspectors cited a tiny café in police headquarters on NW Second Avenue with 23 "critical" violations. Among them: "encrusted" and "soiled" material on a slicer, no soap in the men's room, and reuse of dirty gloves. That's not the only problem a
October 27, 2009Breakfast at Timoney's: This Miami Police eatery breaks the law
October 29, 2009We Don’t Want Peace in This War
October 29, 2009Dead Men Talking
October 29, 2009Review: Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry Screening at Miami Art Space, October 27
Photo by Arielle CastilloJacuzzi Boys played after the drink-sodden film screening.​Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry ScreeningMiami Art Space, Wynwood, MiamiTuesday, October 27, 2009Better Than: Shopping for remaindered Ed Hardy clothes in that sad sample sale/clearance trailer on US1 down south.The Review:Last night's screening of Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry, a fun documentary about the tattoo innovator's life and times, was characterized by a crowd of people drunk as, well, sailors (as they say). Take a
October 28, 2009Wednesday Blog Watch: More on Alligator Alley's Closing, Fresh Basil Crew Wakes Up, and More
via freshbasilcrew.comCop this new mix from Sweet Dick Vega on the Fresh Basil Crew blog.*While Crossfade attended the Friday-night edition of Alligator Alley's closing party, Mood Vane went to the Saturday-night jam, featuring Stonefox. Check out a couple photos, a bittersweet recap, and a little local-scene name-dropping here.*I had high hopes for the Fresh Basil Crew blog when it started, with its clean, bright layout and interestingly curated music selection -- but then there was a period th
October 28, 2009News Roundup
Tomas Regalado's vision for Miami for the next four to eight years: basic services and nothing else. [Herald]Miami-Fort Lauderdale has the most foreign-born residents than any other area in the nation, with 36.9 percent. [CBSNews]For once, Alan Grayson apologizes: He's sorry for calling that lady a "K Street whore." [Salon]Barack Obama can't even pronounce Kendrick Meek's name right, and it must hurt poor ol' Kendrick that there are pictures everywhere of Obama hugging Charlie Crist, while Meek
October 28, 2009Whilly Bermudez Thanksgiving Food Drive For Miami Rescue Mission
via whillybermudez.com​Whilly Bermudez is a right-handed, right-leaning, right-of-way, righteous republican, and as Tim Elfrink reported Monday on Riptide, he's got the support of Tubbs from Miami Vice in his run for a seat in the Florida House of Reps for the 116th district (unincorporated West Dade and Kendall).Right on!And in a move that may beguile liberals for generations to come, Whilly Bermudez is giving away food to poor people for free.According to a press release, "On Saturday - Nove
October 28, 2009Next American City: "Miami 21 is an Historic Moment in America's Urban History"
​Next American City is a quarterly magazine that covers the progress and change of cities across the nation, so you'd expect them have something to say about the Miami 21 zoning code that was finally passed earlier this month. In fact they say, "Miami 21 is an historic, and perhaps watershed moment in America's urban history."While we've been following the developments in the local media, it's nice to get some national perspective. For instance, we didn't know that the zoning code is the first
October 28, 2009Colorado Livetronica Hits the 3-0-5
October 29, 2009Video: ¡MAYDAY! "Red Carpet Affair"
Earlier this summer, ¡MAYDAY! released its Technology EP, which is available free for download via Bandcamp. Off that release, the guys have decided to release a video for the track "Red Carpet Affair." The video features Brooklyn musician and artist Andrew Strasser, a.k.a. Bad Brilliance, who was in town during the summer while preparing his exhibit, "Bad Brilliance in Miami," at the Bas Fischer Invitational. Check out the video, which was filmed mainly at Transit Lounge in Miami, above. And
October 29, 2009Celebrate Devil's Night with Quantic, Roberto Rodriguez, and Nickodemus at Electric Pickle This Friday
​If Halloween is for treats, then Devil's Night is for tricks! A little known tradition that originated in 1930s Detroit, Devil's Night (or "Mischief Night") involved the Motor City's youth engaging in pseudo-criminal behavior on the night of October 30 each year -- mostly acts of petty vandalism, like egging, soaping, or TPing. By the early '70s, however, the vandalism had escalated to more serious damage, such as arson, with property owners frustrated by the rapidly declining housing market
October 29, 2009On the List: Rising Up From the Dead Just in Time for Halloween
​Oooooohhh! This is the ghost of nightlife past coming to haunt your dreams of weekend debauchery. It's been a while since I've recapped all there is to do across the Magic City, but let's hope I can revive the column from the dead for what's left of 2009.If you've been vigilant you know that I've already written previews for The Other Hollywood at Awarehouse, Tera-Ween at Cameo, The Cat's Meow at the Raleigh, Playboy Halloween Party at the Shore Club, and "Devil's Disciple" After-party with B
October 30, 2009Random Venue Review: Pulp Live
CC by 2.0, via stopnlook's FlickrBring plenty of bills to Pulp Live -- performing bands, this means you, too.​This past weekend I made a belated first visit to Pulp Live, the venue on Oakland Park Boulevard that was known previously as the Metal Factory. I went to see friends play, so I won't review the actual music that night. When I go to a show to support a friend, I usually go as a "civilian," as it were -- I pay my cover charge if I need to, chill, and enjoy the experience without scribbl
November 2, 2009Head Spins: DJ Mednas (With MP3s!)
via myspace.com/djmednas​Miamians take a rightful pride in our reputation as the northern-most capital of South America. But if we're ever going to truly be considered a world-class city, it'll be because of cats like DJ Mednas. Mednas, who derives his moniker from a mix-up of his given name, Mehdi Nassiri, was born in Casablanca and raised in both Marrakech and Tangier. Like many a Moroccan, Mednas crossed the Straights of Gibraltar and ended up in Madrid, where he spent seven years, som
November 2, 2009Regalado, Bower, and Robaina: Vote Against Them With Your Toenails
Alex Izaguirre​Tuesday is local Election Day. Turnout is sure to stink. Mayors in Miami, Miami Beach, and Hialeah are certain to be elected in landslides.This is odd, because the local economy is in its worst condition since 1989. Race relations are at a 20-year low. And government is cutting services like a butcher slices up a pig.Vote, folks. Vote against Julio Robaina and scare him. The trickery in Hialeah, as witnessed by the scandalette over Katharine Cue's residence and conflicts at the
November 2, 2009The Beach Chronicles Gives South Beach a Neo-Noir Facelift
Courtesy of The Beach Chronicles​Miami gets animated in a new graphic-animated novel from creators Gianfranco Bianchi and Kevin Sharpley. The duo teamed up to create a sexy, gritty action-thriller set against the backdrop of South Beach.Titled The Beach Chronicles, the series is the antithesis to the rampant depictions of Miami culture as being only about coke-laced, club-hopping yuppies with bad tans, and instead brings dark, edgy, fashion-forward allure to every smartly written plot. Each ep
November 2, 2009Global Cuba Music Fest Returns as Part of Sleepless Night on Saturday at the Fillmore Miami Beach
​A joint project by FUNDarte and the Miami Light Project, the Global Cuba Fest returns for its third annual edition this weekend. But where last year it was a multiple-day, stand-alone event with daily concerts that weren't cheap, organizers have wised up this year. It's now being mounted in one evening, as part of the Sleepless Night art shebang all-nighter this Saturday on Miami Beach. The line-up has a definite jazz bent this year, a genre sorely under-represented in Miami's current musical
November 3, 2009Absentee Ballot Voting High in Miami and Hialeah
Let's hope it's not a '97 repeat, but a large number of absentee ballots have been returned so far in local elections today where polling place turnout has been low. The City of Miami sent out 27,223 absentee ballots, and as of yesterday 15,108 were returned. That's roughly 15 percent of the City's registered voters who could vote by absentee ballot.Hialeah, a city with more than 88,000 registered voters has had 9,500 out of 17,093 ballots sent out. Miami Beach, with more than 46,000 voters
November 3, 2009Head Spins: DJ Mednas, Miami's internationalist house man
November 5, 2009The 2009 Miami Book Fair offers a strange brew of talent
November 5, 2009Miami Election Results: Regalado Landslide
Tomas Regalado will be Miami's next mayor, winning with about 72% of the vote. Joe Sanchez, his competitor and fellow City Commissioner, netted a disappointing 28%. We'll do more thinking about this tomorrow, I'm sure, but for now the results. Miami Mayor: Tomas RegaladoMiami Commissioner - District 3: Frank CarolloMiami Commissioner - District 4: Francis Suarez (44%) heads to a runoff with Manolo Reyes (40%)Miami Commissioner - District 5: Michelle Spence-Jones
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November 5, 2009Silicon Beach: November Events
​Daylight savings time is making our afternoons dreary and darker, but there's nothing depressing about this month's social media calendar. Here are several events in the 305 that you don't want to miss.New Times writers, staffers and fans (including yours truly) will be bowling and sipping cocktails at Lucky Strike on South Beach this Friday, November 6 from 7 - 9 p.m. Come and knock down some pins with us at our third tweetup this year. RSVP at the twtvite.On Wednesday, November 11 social me
November 4, 2009Our Music Recommendations From Among the Official Sleepless Night Events on Saturday
photo by Ben ThackerLanzallamas Monofonica play the Rhythm Foundation stage.​Sleepless Night returns this Saturday to Miami Beach. Staying up all night there is nothing new, but the event is way more high-falutin', asking you to stay awake for things like opera and experimental dance. That can seem like a tall order in this town, but the last edition was surprisingly well-attended, and it's nice to at least say you did something cultural, no? (You can read a general explanation of it here.)I h
November 5, 2009Legendary Cuban Band Septeto Nacional Back After 76 Years
It's a measure of the new exile tolerance that a heralded band from Cuba is headed for Miami, and -- at least so far -- no one is talking about protests, pain or politics. ​The Septeto Nacional made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, where it won a Gold Medal by spreading the Afro-Cuban music made popular in the 1930s called "son." That was long before the Buena Vista Social Club Ry Cooder made famous. Now, they're not only going back to the Windy City, but the
November 5, 2009So Raw Organizers Switch It Up and Present a Show Tomorrow with Free Admission, Cheap Beer
via myspace.com/ridersofallahYussuf Jerusalem​We loved the So Raw festival, and it's heartening to know the cool people behind it have organized a couple shows since then. I'm happy to report this small trend is combining with that of the latest re-discovery of the American Legion Bar, in Legion Park on Biscayne and 64th Street. Get to know and love this place -- it's a rare spot within the City of Miami borders with no-hassle parking, extremely cheap drinks, clean facilities, and a seeming at
November 5, 2009London's Zuma and NY's Shake Shack to Arrive in Miami 2010
New York's Shake Shack arrives to Miami at 1111 Lincoln Road in 2010.​After facing success in London, Hong Kong, Istanbul and then Dubai, where does a contemporary Japanese restaurant go to continue on it's golden culinary path? Why Miami, of course! At least that's the way German chef Rainer Becker sees things, since he's expected to bring the first American Zuma to the main floor of the Epic Miami Hotel & Residences in downtown Miami next spring.PR reps couldn't comment on what the resto
November 6, 2009Miami Gets Its Very Own Eater
​Good news Miami! Food site Eater has deemed us worthy enough of our very own section on its site. Helmed by Miami Herald gossip columnist Lesley Abravanel, the Miami section of Eater is sure to keep us in the loop of the Magic City's foodie scene. Plenty of local blogs have also gotten some link love including Food For Thought, Mango & Lime and, of course, Short Order. In fact, critic Lee Klein is even has his own tag. But what does Eater mean for Miami? Who better to answer that question
November 6, 2009Silicon Beach: Local Geek Helps the Homeless
Robert Murray, local geek, is inspired to do good.​Robert Murray, a freelance Flash and iPhone developer, is practically a Miami native considering he's lived here since 1990. But it was a recent trip to New York City that inspired him to set up the city's first Social Media for Social Change event.Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) started out as a grassroots movement in the northeast with Bostonian Gradon Tripp at the lead. The idea was simple, but brilliant: if we're all talking o
November 6, 2009Ten Under $10 For the Weekend of November 6 - 8: So Raw Redux, Femme Fest, Sleepless Night, and More
photo by Jipsy / Nefariousgirl.comRadioboxer plays a FLIFF party at Cinema Paradiso​Friday, November 6*Like we recommended earlier today, the Jacobs Ladder EP release party at Churchill's in Miami tonight, where $10 entry also gets you a copy of the band's new disc. Click here for full details. *And the similarly recommended Astari Nite, plus a million other bands, at White Room in Miami tonight. We're actually missing full details on cover but it's either free, or definitely $10 or less.
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