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Italian Gelato is Full of Artificial Ingredients

A five-foot fluorescent sign depicts an ice cream cone topped with pink, green and ivory gelato. Across many of Rome's narrow cobble-stone streets, gelato shops announce their presence with illuminated signs that also list words like artisanal and natural. Inside the shops, displays feature overflow ... More >>

Beats Antique at Culture Room October 10

Miami's Five Worst Journalists

The Five Worst Media Personalities In Miami

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke ranks the least trustworthy names in local news.Miami has a lot of media personalities and journalists who are full of it. They u ... More >>

Pagano's Pressure Cook Goes National

​Ralph Pagano's perpetual road trip is now going to reach a national audience with the Travel Channel's recent acquisition of Pressure Cook for syndication. It's been a big year for him; since leaving STK behind, he has taken over as the executive chef and EVP of hospitality for Gulfstream Park, w ... More >>

Writing the World

Miami's top ten hardcore punk bands

Punk Ain't Dead! Miami's Top Ten Hardcore Punk Bands

Churchill's, home to all Miami's punks.​One day soon, a flood may come and drown all of Miami in the Biscayne Bay, but for now, the city stinks, God is broke, and the youth are getting restless. The politicians hate the workers and the poor, the pigs take every opportunity to slam your face in the ... More >>

15 Food Statistics That Should Make You Cry

2 million: Dogs and cats abused and killed by the international fur industry each year -- including by the Burlington Coat Factory, which used to sell "Mongolian Dog Fur" that was made from domesticated dogs. Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).24: Number of cats it takes to make a fur coat i ... More >>

Infographic: What are the Most Common Last Names in Florida?

​No one in South Florida is keeping up with the Joneses. That's because there's probably not that many Joneses here. Instead, we're trying to keep step with the Garcias, Gonzalezes and Wilsons. National Geographic has put together a pretty stunning map to represent the prevalence of common surname ... More >>

Meet Suzanne Beard, the Amateur Photographer Who Discovered the Biscayne Bay Piano

courtesy Suzanne BeardBeard's photo of the mystery piano has set off an international buzz.​Early this month, Suzanne Beard heard a crazy rumor from her neighbors in Quayside Towers: Someone had abandoned a grand piano in the middle of Biscayne Bay. So on January 8, Beard -- an avid amateur photog ... More >>

Go Green or Go Home

Bitch, Behave

Lousy Parking in the Grove, Part 3. We Need These Joints

Courtesy of National GeographicCocoWalk​Coconut Grove has been a fickle neighborhood for many restaurants. While some owners open in hope of becoming the next GreenStreet Cafe, others close in a matter of months. What might be hindering the prosperity of establishments in the Grove is the unfriend ... More >>

Slippery When Wet

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington go to war for Restrepo

Loitering in the Library

At Botanic Garden, Protesters Call Educator's Firing Absurd

via Carolinelewiseducation.com Caroline Lewis​Hayes Bowen, a firefighter with a green thumb, has done manual labor at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for eight years. The 48-year-old volunteer happily shoveled and pruned the stunning landscape, where plants and reptiles looked as if they' ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Social Media Year in Review

Via Optical Illusion's Flickr​Rising up from a rather sleepy 2008, 2009 was a banner year for social media in Miami. Heck, social media became so important, the Miami New Times decided to hire a local freelance writer to dish on the scene! Here's an overview:1. ClubsSocial Media Club South Florida ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Travel Writer Uses Twitter to Explore Miami

Andrew Nelson (center) surrounded by new Twitter friends at Scotty's Landing.​Andrew Nelson (@andrewnelson) found a new way to explore Miami that didn't involve a glossy brochure or lengthy travel guide. Instead, he crowdsourced his travel plans on Twitter, relying on the advice of locals to plan ... More >>

Mike Torrey, Machu Picchu Photog, Talks Food in Peru

via Mike TorreyGet high in the Andes.​Mike Torrey is a San Diego based architectural photographer with a new book out called "Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu's Terraces of Enlightenment."Mike will be in town for the Miami International Book Fair and will be on a panel with a National Geographic phot ... More >>

Dolphin Slaughter Movie Isn't Just for Animal Rights Fanatics

Riptide is a bit contrary by nature. So when we heard that critics from Rolling Stone and New York Magazine were raving over The Cove -- an environmental exposé-meets-heist documentary starring South Miami guy Ric O'Barry -- we secretly wanted to hate it. But when filmmakers showed the first publ ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ ICUE

The turntable just got tossed.

Kind of Like a Moon Over Miami

Magic City Kitty - Strip Club Mania

Naked Punch

Blake Fisher's nudes in nature pack a wallop.

Chillin' in the Bachelor Pod - Life as a Dolphin

The View from the Top

The Dog Whisperer is Coming to Town

Glug, Glug, Click

Tim Calver shoots in mermaid territory

Lincoln-Douglas It Wasn’t

"As the chair, you had the power to say something, and you didn’t"

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Grandmasters in Guayaberas

Little Havana's chess connection vies for the national crown

Altered States

T.D. Allman takes on Dubya

BEST NEWSSTAND

Worldwide News

Medium Fare

Making contact and getting spirited

Back to Boyhood

Artist rides the wild surf

Island Man

Chris Blackwell moves into the digi-Web-world-global-video age

Travels Through Faith

Faith

Picture Memory City

"Habana, Mayo 1997"

Eighth Wonder

Mysteries of Egypt

Goin' Down Slow

Miramar's Grady Champion has got the blues

Techno Trashing

Calendar for the week

The Sunshiney, Funshiney World of Cannibal Corpse

Actually, an autopsy of the nastiest band in death metal

Malignant Humor

Something Fishy