Natural Disasters

Andre Berto: Right Hooks for Haiti

Rina Shrivels Back to Tropical Storm Status, No Longer a Threat to Miami

​Yesterday it seemed that Rina was poised to reach category three strength winds with an eventual turn near South Florida. Today, Rina has dissipated back to tropical storm status and is now projected come no where near us. Jeez, Rina, what a loser.

What a Mission! Party With Heat Lightning, Dino Felipe, and Bleeding Palm Tonight

Photo by Bleeding Palm​For a hot and humid second, it looked like The Heat Lightning's What a Mission extravaganza was gonna get smashed by whiplash winds and brutal thunderstorms. According to predictions filtering out of the National Hurricane Center, tropical storm Emily was headed straight ... More >>

A Foodie Hurricane Survival Kit

All photos by Laine Doss Keep pate instead of Spam in your hurricane kit.​Tropical Storm Emily is churning her way through the Caribbean and, according to the National Weather Service, Miami is in the "cone of death", with Emily predicted to affect us around Friday evening. Everyone in sou ... More >>

Tropical Storm Emily Prepared to Mess Up Your Weekend

​While it's not projected to directly hit South Florida, or any part of the state for that matter, Tropical Storm Emily has all the makings of one of those classic, seriously annoying hurricanes. So, even under the best-case scenario, prepare to have a serious dampening damper put on your weekend.

Praying for Life: Haiti's Health Care Crisis Examined in This Week's New Times

George MartinezA woman prays in Port-au-Prince's Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, in ruins since last year's devastating earthquake​The squad car tears through the dark streets of Port-au-Prince. It screeches around tight corners well after midnight. Then it slams to a gravely stop in front o ... More >>

No, 70 People Were Not Trapped in an Airport Hangar Due to Central Florida's Crazy Weather

via Bay News 9​It's in the 80s and perfectly sunny here in Miami, but our state-mates in the central part of Florida aren't enjoying the same good weather. An apparent tornado that ripped through Tampa has left many areas in Central Florida in disarray. But a report carried by numerous national me ... More >>

Eat at Sushi Samba and Help the Japan Relief Efforts

​Sushi Samba has announced a unique way to contribute to the Japan relief efforts following last Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami. When you purchase a special Japan relief sushi roll for $12, all the proceeds with be donated to those affected by what has been recorded as the largest-mag ... More >>

Pearl of the Antilles

​Sushi Samba has announced a unique way to contribute to the Japan relief efforts following last Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami. When you purchase a special Japan relief sushi roll for $12, all the proceeds with be donated to those affected by what has been recorded as the largest-mag ... More >>

Lil Wayne vs. ¡Mayday!: Download "On Fire" Before the Hurricane Comes

​With Lil Wayne's street date -- November 5, bitches! -- only 41 days away, the world better start preparing for a monsoon deluge of strange and skeezy spitting over spacey creep beats. Now, we've already been warned about Mr. Carter's plans to make it rain with I Am Not a Human Being, Tha Carter ... More >>

Hungre Rapper, a Roofer, Hip-Hop Artist, and Wannabe Reality Star, Has a Plan So Nuts It Could Work

via hungrerapper.comThe Hungre Rapper hopes to hunt hurricanes, fix roofs, and film it all for a reality show. Want to invest?​The signs went up about a month ago, stapled high on light posts along I-95, the Julia Tuttle Causeway, and Biscayne Boulevard. They're nothing more than a hand-scrawled m ... More >>

Catastrophe in the Caribbean

via hungrerapper.comThe Hungre Rapper hopes to hunt hurricanes, fix roofs, and film it all for a reality show. Want to invest?​The signs went up about a month ago, stapled high on light posts along I-95, the Julia Tuttle Causeway, and Biscayne Boulevard. They're nothing more than a hand-scrawled m ... More >>

RumChata: Rum and Rice Makes Everything Nice

Photo by Christina Staalstrom​Having spent five years in Mexico, I am an horchata lover. Fortunately, the recent influx of Mexican restaurants to Miami has made it easier to find this sweet refresher locally. Some versions are better than others, but that is a different entry....Horchata is a swee ... More >>

Tap Tap Screens The Quake For Free Today & Tomorrow

​It's easy to feel good about having texted money in to Haitian relief efforts after the January earthquake. The unfortunate reality may be that those moneys didn't contribute to much of any actual relief.Tonight and tomorrow at Tap Tap the public is invited to a free screening of a Frontline docu ... More >>

Kreyol Carnival

​It's easy to feel good about having texted money in to Haitian relief efforts after the January earthquake. The unfortunate reality may be that those moneys didn't contribute to much of any actual relief.Tonight and tomorrow at Tap Tap the public is invited to a free screening of a Frontline docu ... More >>

Kick It Kreyol

​It's easy to feel good about having texted money in to Haitian relief efforts after the January earthquake. The unfortunate reality may be that those moneys didn't contribute to much of any actual relief.Tonight and tomorrow at Tap Tap the public is invited to a free screening of a Frontline docu ... More >>

Kreyol Carnival

​It's easy to feel good about having texted money in to Haitian relief efforts after the January earthquake. The unfortunate reality may be that those moneys didn't contribute to much of any actual relief.Tonight and tomorrow at Tap Tap the public is invited to a free screening of a Frontline docu ... More >>

Soledad O'Brien Peddles Documentary in Hot Pink Dress and Killer Heels

The University of Miami's Cosford Cinema's breezeway was decorated with a sweet Bacardi cocktail layout last night. High tables were dressed in green and orange hues of the "U." Nearly 200 people came to catch a sneak peak of CNN's Soledad O'Brien's newest documentary, Rescued. The one-hour doc des ... More >>

Contest: Win Free Tickets for Dashboard Confessional's Lynn University Memorial Shows April 30

Photo by Ian Witlen​Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba is doing Lynn University a solid following a tragedy that rocked the Boca Raton campus earlier this year. The January 12 earthquake in Haiti claimed the lives of four students and two professors who were in the country providing care to t ... More >>

Hero for Haiti Jim Goodnow needs a ride to the island

Photo by Ian Witlen​Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba is doing Lynn University a solid following a tragedy that rocked the Boca Raton campus earlier this year. The January 12 earthquake in Haiti claimed the lives of four students and two professors who were in the country providing care to t ... More >>

Punch and Duty

Photo by Ian Witlen​Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba is doing Lynn University a solid following a tragedy that rocked the Boca Raton campus earlier this year. The January 12 earthquake in Haiti claimed the lives of four students and two professors who were in the country providing care to t ... More >>

Thou Art Fair

Photo by Ian Witlen​Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba is doing Lynn University a solid following a tragedy that rocked the Boca Raton campus earlier this year. The January 12 earthquake in Haiti claimed the lives of four students and two professors who were in the country providing care to t ... More >>

Shipping Containers Could Provide Housing Relief in Haiti

​After Hurricane Katrina, a group of researchers at Clemson University devloped the SEED Project, aimed at turning shipping containers into temporary housing in the event a similar storm hit the Caribbean. The idea was only a concept, but in the wake of Haiti's earthquake, the team ... More >>

Obama Inspires; Bobby Jindal, the Anti-Crist, Offers Nothing

It's been said so many times the economic problem is as much psychological as monetary that it must be true. Conveniently, we've just elected a president in part on the basis of how much he's inspired us and given us hope. Last night, in his biggest speech since the inauguration, President Obama sat ... More >>

Humanitarianism? Never Heard of It.

President Bush will finally leave the White House next week, which means the United States now stands a chance at reversing our reputation as douchebags of the universe. Before departing office, however, Dubya decided he would give the good people of South Florida a little farewell gift: another ba ... More >>

Another Goddamn Hurricane?

President Bush will finally leave the White House next week, which means the United States now stands a chance at reversing our reputation as douchebags of the universe. Before departing office, however, Dubya decided he would give the good people of South Florida a little farewell gift: another ba ... More >>

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Savage Station

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Hurricane Relief for Haiti

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Hurricane Chris

Chris Cole insists a divinely inspired storm will one day wipe Miami off the map

Idiot Wind

After Hurricane Andrew destroyed Susan Alberti's home, county bureaucrats stepped in to finish off what was left of her life

Ready, Set, Blow!

After Hurricane Andrew destroyed Susan Alberti's home, county bureaucrats stepped in to finish off what was left of her life

Memphis Blues Again

When Piano Bob and the Snowman won a prestigious W.C. Handy Award, they had no idea they'd end up duking it out with another Miami band in a Memphis alley.