New Year's

Brother Jimmy's BBQ to Open in South Miami

Brother Jimmy's BBQ is opening its second Miami location at the Shops at Sunset Place. The restaurant, scheduled to begin operation in the fall, will be located on the first floor of the shopping and dining center. The 6,540-square-foot location will feature the same sports bar-meets-barbecue joint ... More >>

Miami's 2013 Resolutions: Jeffrey Loria Needs to Shut Up, Jeff Ireland Needs to Man Up

Detox Cleansing Without Cravings or Fat Rebound

Now that the holidays are over and the smorgasbord of sugar cookies, fatty meats, cheese plates and cocktails of all kinds has come to a halt, many feel like such lard-asses that their instinct is to embark on a sudden and drastic plan of deprivation.Their New Year's resolutions to counterbalance th ... More >>

Miami New Year's Eve For Procrastinators: These Restaurants Still Accepting Reservations UPDATED

It's New Year's Eve and even though you swore that you and your cat were happy ordering pizza and downing a bottle of prosecco, you decided against the "It's-just-another-night-so-why-should-I-get-all-dressed-up-and-go-out" crap and are now scrambling to find a place to party.Break out your party du ... More >>

Five Food Traditions to Ring In the New Year

While mentions of food around New Year's are often limited to diatribes about holiday overindulgence and plans to forego various edibles in the coming year - food also plays a pivotal role in the cultural introduction of a dawning year. Various countries and cultures around the world have specific ... More >>

Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve Parties

Food Resolutions: What To Not Give Up In 2013

With 2013 looming closer and New Year's resolutions dominating your drunken conversations, you're bound to start hearing blasphemous phrases like, "I'm going to stop drinking." Can someone get this guy a shot? He seems to have lost his mind. About a quarter of American adults formed New Year's reso ... More >>

Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve 2013 Parties

When Miami throws an end-of-year blowout, it's guaranteed that everyone is going home broke. And drunk. And accompanied by some creepy-sexy stranger who'll ask for money in the morning. So if you wanna wake up in 2013 with empty pockets, a booze-damaged brain, and a bed full of hot mess, check out ... More >>

Haven Gastro Lounge Previews Huahua's Tacos Every Tuesday

If you're intrigued about the upcoming Huahua's Taqueria, the soon-to-open fast-casual taco joint by chef Todd Erickson, you merely have to head over to Haven Gastro-Lounge tonight for Taco Tuesday, featuring a sneak preview of Huahua's tacos.Tonight and every Tuesday (except for Christmas and New Y ... More >>

Guess Those Rock Star Boobs!

​While y'all were nursing a hangover on New Year's Day, one newly engaged musician kicked off 2012 with a topless Hawaiian snorkeling adventure. This rock 'n' roller's chest looks great for a 63-year-old woman but alarmingly droopy for a 63-year-old man. Sadly, however, this person is in much be ... More >>

Deadmau5's New Year's Day Pool Party at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach

​Deadmau5's New Year's Day Pool Party With Stephan Luke, Troy Kurtz, and Damaged Goods Fontainebleau Miami Beach Sunday, December 1, 2012 Better Than: A night without a jillion jiggawatts of bass. Trillion dollar hotel, international DJs, good-looking people getting wild and out of control? What ... More >>

Eight Great New Year's Day Brunches In Miami

Technically, on January 1 your resolutions to live healthier, better and wiser in 2012 should kick in. But the truth is, most of the world wakes up on New Year's Day with a hangover (which, usually comes paired with a tinge of regret) and a craving for comfort food. So why not start off the year wit ... More >>

Miami's Twelve Best New Year's 2012 Parties

Soar like a half-naked angel this NYE with Bob Sinclar.​Forget your personal trainer, chartered accountant, and life coach. We here at Crossfade are the highest authority on how to spend New Year's in Miami. And we say: "This is no time for moderation!" Go live out the dying days of 2011 in a ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2012: Deadmau5's Rat Riot at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach

Via facebook.com/deadmau5​Where will you be when the Mau5head drops on 2012? Well, if you happen to be a club rat worth his or her weight in gourmet cheese and all-you-can-drink champagne, then you're gonna be holed up at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach ordering entire wheels of Roquefort and endle ... More >>

Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri: Cooking With The Stars?

Food NetworkRay and Fieri to host Celebrity Cook-Off​First there was Dancing With The Stars, which re-introduced us to such has-beens celebrities as Donny Osmond, Florence Henderson, Drew Lachey, and most recently Chaz Bono. Despite our repeated efforts at tying this to the end of the world (or be ... More >>

Miami's Favorite Musicians Share Their Failed New Year's Resolutions

​Welcome to 2011! Depending on how you look at it, you might be excited because it's a new slate to improve your life and be a better person, or it could fill you with anxiety and woe. Personally, I like my cup full, then empty, then full again. Which brings us to something else that accompanies ... More >>

Top Ten Dumb-Ass New Year's Traditions

Yes, Dick Clark is a dumb-ass new year tradition.​Stupid traditions ... Like assholes and opinions, everyone has one. You've groaned when your mom forced you to follow hers. Or you've nervously complied when trapped at some boring New Year's Eve party with your brand-new girlfriend and her extend ... More >>

Miami New Year's Eve 2011 Dinner Specials

If you are thinking of ringing in 2011 with a good dinner, now is the time to secure a reservation. In fact, some restaurants are already booked solid -- Thinking of celebrating at Area 31? Think again. However, there is still plenty out there to choose from. Here are some of the better deals out th ... More >>

Rusty Pelican, Morton's, Panorama: Nurse that NYE Hangover

Flickr​After one hell of a night partying, it is now New Year's day and the last thing you want to do is cook. If you have an ounce of energy and self respect left, you may want to try out some of these places that are open on New Year's Day. You can relax, recharge and refuel with probably a lot ... More >>

Tracy Young Talks Real Housewives of Atlanta, Ex-Girlfriends, and Her Genesis VIII Party

DJ Tracy Young.​All you pop culture junkies might recognize DJ Tracy Young from The Real Housewives of Atlanta where she recently made a cameo alongside ex-girlfriend Kim Zolciak. But if that's the only reason you know her, you're crazy. Since 1991, Ms. Young has racked up a total of 40 Billboard ... More >>

Epicure Markets Offers Ready-made Holiday Dinners

Courtesy of Epicure Markets​If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here's a taste of what you're missing. Click here to subscribe.Don't want to cook for the holidays but don't want to eat out either? Epicure Markets in Miami Beach and Sunny Isles Beach are offering ... More >>

Christian Bale, Calista Flockhart, Michael Moore Need Weight Loss Intervention

With New Year's Day only a few weeks away, weight problems are on everybody's mind. And, while normal folk have people who love, help, and support them through dietary lifestyle changes, most celebrities do not. Michael Moore, known for his controversial documentaries as well as his rugged good loo ... More >>

Notre Dame Coach Thinks Lack of Nude Beaches in Texas Gives Him Advantage Against Miami

​The Miami Hurricanes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish will meet for the first time in two decades in this year's Sun Bowl in a renewal of one of college football's most intense historic rivalries.Of course, a lot of things have changed in those two decades, and both teams finished with a painfully m ... More >>

Head Spins: Scott Blankenship

Wish You Were There: Phish's NYE AAA Show on YouTube

While some people just don't get that the wave of fan videos is unstoppable -- hello Fontainebleau on New Year's Eve, and the entire Universal Music Group -- other bands have welcomed that kind of participation and sharing from the beginning. People have been trading concert tapes since the technolo ... More >>

That 6-Year-Old Italian Boy Wasn't Miami's Only New Year's Shooting Victim

Less than an hour after midnight New Year's Eve, a bullet fell from the sky and plunged into the chest of a 6-year-old Italian tourist hanging out in the Design District with his family. ​City leaders were horrified and immediately set about to help the victim: Miami's good image. OK, OK, ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Phish, Lady Gaga, and Simian Mobile Disco

Vacation is over, South Florida. After two weeks of back-to-back long weekends, we are finally returning to our same ol' routine for a while at least. In case you were elsewhere visiting ungrateful relatives, here is what you missed over the weekend:Phish at American Airlines ArenaPhoto by Ben Thack ... More >>

Concert Review: Phish's Four-Night Run at the American Airlines Arena, Miami

photo by Ben Thacker​Click here to view a slideshow from Phish's New Year's Eve show. PhishAmerican Airlines Arena, Miami December 28 through 31, 2009Better Than: Langerado? Not so sure, but Phish's comeback in March may or may not have contributed to the demise of South Florida's belove ... More >>

News Roundup: Brrr, It's Cold Out There

You're right -- it is really cold out. In fact, it's the coldest cold snap in about a decade. [Herald]Paul Michael Merhige, the man alleged to have killed four family members during a Thanksgiving massacre, was found in a motel room in the Keys thanks to a tip from an America's Most Wanted viewer. [ ... More >>

Wish You Were There: Lady Gaga New Year's Eve Miami Beach Fontainebleau

Welcome to 2010. Newsflash Fontainebleau: Where mainstream, corporate, and alternative media cameras cannot shoot Lady Gaga, citizen cameras can, and this year they'll get better and more able to easily subvert your stupid rules.Here's video of Lady Gaga in a bikini (does her cock flop out the side ... More >>

News Cafe and Area 31 Return; Two More New Year's Eve Options

ReopeningsRemodeling is finished, and the iconic News Cafe on Ocean Drive has returned to serving informal fare 24/7. The water supply at downtown Miami's Epic Hotel has been cleared and Area 31 is back in biz -- with seatings left for New Year's Eve: Cocktail reception, five-course meal, champagne ... More >>

Blue Moon Over Miami: Star Gazers Experience Special Event on New Year's Eve

Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer will be going into it's fifth decade on the air since debuting in the '70s. That's quite a feat for any TV show, but the new year might be extra special for the locally produced TV show which airs on public television stations internationally hosted by Horkheimer, the dir ... More >>

Phish Afterparties With the Heavy Pets, and New Year's Eve Festivities at Tobacco Road

via myspace.com/cityofgodLocal pop-minded six-piece City of God plays the Road on New Year's Eve.​The Vagabond and White Room aren't the only downtown Miami venues opening their doors to the Phish crowds who will invade starting any minute now. A little further south, Tobacco Road starts its own s ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Spend New Year's Safely and Frugally With Social Media Tools

Image via Wikimedia Commons​Ah, New Year's Eve in South Beach -- pocketbook gouging at its finest! Club buzz says Lady Gaga is the hottest sold-out party in the nation this New Year's Eve. LIV at the Fontainebleau Hotel is charging $800 general admission -- drinks, food, and party favors not inclu ... More >>

Phish Afterparties and NYE at the Vagabond with Orchard Lounge, Aquaphonics, Particle

Here's more in immediately useful news over the next few days if you're into this sort of thing. As we've mentioned here, the Vagabond has its own events planned every night of this week, with Phish afterparties starting tonight. If you're in town for the show and are the traveling-for-music-festiva ... More >>

Lady Gaga's New Year's Eve Party Sells $1 Million in Tickets; Brody Jenner Sells a Few Dozen

Queen of New Year's Eve​New Year's Eve is almost upon us, and that means one of the biggest nights of the year for Miami Beach. In fact, the Fontainebleau has one of the hottest New Year's Eve tickets in the world. We'll give you a hint: Whoever's counting the dough coming in must be screaming, "R ... More >>

The New Year's Eve EDM Lowdown

Miami's big-room nightclubs usually go all out for New Year's Eve celebrations by booking some of the biggest names in international dance music, and this year is no exception. Here's the lowdown on some of the top NYE parties going down on Thursday night: ​Cocoon Label Party at Nocturnal's Eden T ... More >>

Free New Year's Eve Party, Upcoming Concerts at Magic City Casino

via magiccitycasino.com​Thanks to whatever changes in the gaming and racing laws (it's hard to keep track), there's finally a pseudo-casino within City of Miami limits: The Magic City Casino. It's in a new building on the site of the old Flagler Dog Track, in that west-ish area of the county betwe ... More >>

Dim Sum at Hakkasan, More NYE Deals, Cochinillo Confitado on TV, and Hooray for Barton G.

​Dim Sum at HakkasanStarting January 2, Hakkasan will be offering Dim Sum for lunch every Saturday and Sunday.  Menu is still being finalized, but count on the famed steamed dumplings, and some deep fried congee, too. The first service of the year will be something of a practice run. Prices w ... More >>

A Dozen New Year's Eve Scenes For Under $100

In alphabetical order:8 oz. Burger Bar: New Year's Eve After Party at 1:00 a.m. with DJ. Open all night, weekend brunch debuting 9:00 a.m. New Year's Day. 305.397.8246, No cover, $5 cocktail and beer specials.  Atrio/Level 25 at the Conrad Hilton: Four course dinner, champagne, open bar all nig ... More >>

Locals Welcome Phish Phans This Sunday With "Landarado" at Churchill's

​The upcoming three weeks in South Florida are pretty much heaven on earth for "phans" and other chilled-out festival-loving types. Phish's four-night stand at the American Airlines Arena begins on the 28th, and, of course, kicks off on New Year's Eve, with a bunch of other livetronica-type afterp ... More >>

NYE 2010: Simian Mobile Disco at the Shore Club

Simian Mobile Disco​Is it Winter Music Conference yet? No? How odd. Because that seems to be the only time British electro-house duo Simian Mobile Disco ever make it down to Miami. Not that we are complaining. When we heard they were on the bill for Shore Club's New Year's Eve celebration we may o ... More >>

Phish to Celebrate New Year's Eve in Miami Again With a Four-Night Stand, Act Now For Tickets

via phish.portals.musictoday.com/​Alright, nobody really believed that Phish would stay away forever after their "final" concert in 2004. The only thing surprising about the beyond-jam-band gods' reunion last year is that, perhaps, it didn't come sooner. And they must really like Miami, even thoug ... More >>

The Italoboyz

Portentous Pork

New Year’s hams can be as varied as your wallet is deep

Bavaria Beckons

Crazy for Caviar

Opium Dream

A New Year's Reverie

You Say You Want a Resolution?

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