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Serafina Opens in Miami Beach

Serafina, the Italian restaurant chain that dominates New York City with its signature yellow and blue logo, has opened its first Miami location in the former Tudor House space at the Dream South Beach hotel.The restaurant, which has ten locations in Manhattan, East Hampton, White Plains, and Philad ... More >>

My Top Ten NYC Restaurants: What I Ate This Summer, Part Two

It's such a challenge to select only ten little restaurants in a culinary mecca like New York City, but I don't want to overwhelm you (or embarrass myself by publicly declaring every item I consumed over the summer). If you didn't catch the first part of my back to school essay on 'What I Ate This S ... More >>

Miami Is Setting Up a "Pop-Up Pool" in New York, But No One Can Swim In It

New York City can sometimes get a bit hotter than Miami. In fact, NYC's temperatures over the next few days will peak in the 90s, while Miami is projected to stay in the 80s. So, it's a nice gesture that the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau is sending the citizens of New York City a pool ... More >>

New York City Plans Ban on All Large Sodas and Sugary Drinks; Miami Should Be Next

In a monumental strike against the obesity epidemic, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced plans for a city-wide ban on all sugary soft drinks larger than 16 ounces during an interview in the Governor's Room at City Hall yesterday.The proposed ban would affect most enterprises that pedd ... More >>

Apocalypse Now

Acqua to Close at Four Seasons; Last Brunch This Sunday

Last oink this Sunday ​Acqua will be serving a "Farewell Brunch" at the Four Seasons Hotel Miami this Sunday, July 14. It's your last chance to indulge in the expansive buffet that includes a whole roasted pig, a sprawling raw bar, and a dessert display overflowing with 30-plus types of mini ... More >>

Blank City: A self-defeating user-friendly primer on the "no wave" science

Jacques Renault Talks Disco, NYC, and His On The Prowl Label

​Disco is back in a major way. Hotly-tipped international labels like DFA, Running Back, and Permanent Vacation are championing that exuberant vintage four-on-the-floor funk sound as more and more EDM snobs dare to cut loose and get their Saturday Night Fever on.At the forefront of this disco rev ... More >>

Four Arrested for Skimming $1.5 Million From ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York

​The Department of Justice has indicted four foreign nationals for stealing more than $1.5 million from bank accounts by using "skimming" technology to help themselves to the bank accounts of customers who used ATMs in Miami, Chicago, and New York City. Mihail Dragici and Ionel Dedlescu, both ... More >>

Electric Zoo Festival: Full Final Lineup Announced

​The Electric Zoo festival, which launched just last year, is New York City's somewhat latecoming answer to Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival and Miami's own Ultra -- better late than never, right? 2009's successful inaugural event at Randall's Island Park in Manhattan summoned over 26, ... More >>

Wynwood Art Walk: David Castillo, Gallery I/D, and Miguel Paredes

Pulgha World mosaic mural by Miguel Paredes.​In this week's art column, we previewed everything from aboriginal reveries to a high-stomping high school girl's drill squad to an orgy of experimental video, which are all part of this weekend's Second Saturday gallery crawl capped by a free concert b ... More >>

All a Trimble

FFF: Fruitcake

​'Tis the season to mock the poor fruitcake, arguably the most disrespected comestible of all time."There is nothing dangerous about fruitcakes as long as people send them along without eating them." ~Calvin Trillin"Fruitcakes make ideal gifts because the Postal Service has been unable to find a w ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch - Beer, Duck, Seedlings, Shots, Pigs, Chavez, and Ag

via pondspider's flickrWho you lookin at?​ October: season of growth and change. Sure, we don't have a typical American autumn, but here it's always fall as long as the coconuts do. Let the recent heatwave suffuse your being with the chaotic energy of the city, and let our food reflect it. We're a ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalGeorge Novack, Jr., son of the Fontainebleau's original owner and a Ft. Lauderdale convention planner, was found beaten to death in his hotel room in New York City. [USAToday]A North Miami Beach imam is facing deportation, so he's reaching out to Kendrick Meek. [Herald]The express lanes on I95 ... More >>

The Lead Launches This Thursday

New York Times media critic David Carr had a column yesterday about the somber mood of a bon voyage party for longtime New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan and the much more frivolous atmosphere of a shindig held by a handful of new-media wunderkinds, complete with rooftop hot tubs and blaring ... More >>

The Name Means “Brute Force”

Kings of Leon Rule

That Pizza Could Kill You

Langerado: No Vampire! Denied!

Honor the Hands of Fire

Celebrate 60 years of Candido Camero

Prodigy From Mobb Deep in Fort Lauderdale Today

Put Up Your Dukes

Local crime fighters get ready to rumble for charity

Grab Your Jerseys

It’s old-school, East Coast hardcore time!

Made with Love

Get funky-fresh dressed to impress at Kraftworks

More Good News for Miami Hip-Hop Heads

Broadway Hits the Gables

Miami Beach Says No to Pedicabs

Tasty 'Cakes

Tasty 'Cakes

Cam'ron

"Weekend Girl" (Koch)

A Killer Play

The Moroder the Merrier

Animal Collective

Hollinndagain (Paw Tracks)

The Miami Underground

Good intentions go only so far

Stage Capsules

Current shows

BEST OPEN-MIKE NIGHT

Magnum Lounge

Hair Church

Beastie Boys

To the Five Boroughs (Capitol)

Easy Skanking

The Slackers keep it true

Side Dish

It's the dog days of summer, so thank God Talula is here

BEST PLACE TO GRAB A BITE OF THE BIG APPLE

New York New York

Free Up Pizza!

Give us all-you-can eat pizza or die!

Best Delicatessen

New York's Big Apple Deli

The Arsonists

As the World Burns (Matador)

The Unkindest Cut

News of the Weird

Rites of Passage

Light at the Edge of the World