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Anthony Bourdain No Reservations: Last Stop, Brooklyn

After eight years of travel to far and exotic places, Anthony Bourdain has ended his tour with No Reservations "in a place as strange as Brooklyn" (That, by the way wasn't Bourdain, but one of the opening lines of Sophie's Choice by William Styron).Brooklyn is indeed a strange place. The "fourt ... More >>

Miami's Best Sub Shops: Footballs, Shacks, Three Brothers, and Hungry Bears

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Miami native Chelsea Antoun has an important task this a ... More >>

Miamians Have the Most Sex in America, According to Trojan Condom Survey

Either you're too busy staining your sheets with sweat and other bodily fluids to read this right now, or your secret suspicions that everyone else in town is constantly getting laid are about to be confirmed. According to a Trojan Condoms survey, Miami is America's sex capital. We rate first not on ... More >>

How Do You Know If You're a Real Miamian?

Ever notice how New Yorkers have such strong opinions about what makes a person a "real" New Yorker? (The answer: you have strong opinions about what makes one a real New Yorker.) The phrase "Real New Yorker" has 802,000 Google results. The phrase "Real Miamian" nets just 347 results.We're a tr ... More >>

Lil Wayne Settles "Lollipop" Legal Drama for $20 Million

It only took about 400 days, but Lil Wayne's $20-million "Lollipop" legal drama has finally been settled. Last year, producer Darius "Deezle" Harrison filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records for unpaid royalties from sales of Weezy's 2008 Gramm ... More >>

Man on a Ledge goes thud

Miami's top ten underground rap and hip-hop acts

Five Tasty Spots to Stop For Aligator, Fuel, and Coffee On Your Drive Across Florida

Joni Williams​So, you went away for the holidays. And now it's time to hit the long road home. Or maybe your home is a wintry wonderland and you're driving down for some fun in the Magic City sun.Either way, we know how it is. The race to get here can be a real drag. The last thing you want is to ... More >>

Miami's Top Ten Underground Rap and Hip-Hop Acts

​New Yorkers still think they run hip hop. Canadians say, "It ain't dead. It lives in the North." L.A. radio plays more Pitbull than we do. Houston is still leaning off a never-ending cup of codeine. NOLA's doing it in the dark. Philly, Detroit, and Chi-Town are mad because it's winter. In Miami ... More >>

Real Estate Report: Miamians Want to Move to Other Parts of Florida, New Yorkers Want to Move to Miami

​Real estate listing supersite Trulia has compiled its first Metro Movers Report, based on data culled from page views of its site. The report shows where Americans are looking to move and where they're looking to leave.Apparently Miamians have no intention of departing our warm weather, but they ... More >>

Gabrielle Hamilton: Miscreants in the Kitchen at Miami Book Fair

Photo by Melissa Hamilton​New Yorkers know her as the chef/owner of Prune and a prolific writer whose work has appeared in nearly every major food magazine, the New Yorker and The New York Times. Now Hamilton will most likely be known around the country as the author of Blood, Bones & Butter ( ... More >>

Ten Really Annoying Things Miamians Need to Stop Doing Now

Just kidding. There are no ushers in Miami movie theaters.​Our sister paper in New York City just published a list of ten things that city's citizens need to stop doing. But let's face it: Even when you consider the number of Williamsburg hipsters, Miamians are still way more annoying than N ... More >>

Free Music: South Florida Spitter J'lynn's "To the Top"

Photo by Sneek Peek​From Brooklyn to the Sunshine State, rapper J'lynn Irving, who simply goes by J'lynn, splits his time between New York City and the South Florida suburbs. Three years ago, J'lynn moved to SoFla with his mom and started working on his rap career. Influenced by fellow New Yorke ... More >>

Herald The Dragon: Miami's Only Daily Bets On Asian Gambling Giant

Miami Herald bets on ass kissing.​A dragon from the Far East has devoured the Miami Herald business section's soul. Last week, the newspaper's Business Monday pullout featured a five-page cover story and two side bars about the Genting Group, the Malaysian gambling conglomerate that wants to build ... More >>

Miamians Shop Online More Than Any Other City

​You might not know it from trying to find parking at Aventura Mall, but apparently Miamians love to do a good bulk of their shopping online. More than residents in any other major city in America, actually, and by a large margin.

Todd Terry, DJ Sneak, and Lucho at the Vagabond, March 9

Todd Terry with enthusiastic furry hat wearing fan. ​Todd Terry's InHouse Records PartyThe VagabondWednesday, March 9, 2011Better Than: WMC on South Beach.Upon first arriving at Vagabond for a night of house music, we were greeted with a few dancers grooving to an MGMT remix. And the main room's d ... More >>

Elitist National Magazine Endorses Luke For Mayor

Michael McElroyLuke promises a tax on that bouncing booty!​You know Uncle Luke is the true front runner when even the New Yorkers are telling Miami-Dade voters to elect him county mayor. New York magazine officially joined the movement today." Writer Amos Barshad notes "it doesn't take a friggin' ... More >>

Adrenalina Skateboard Marathon: A New Times reporter attempts 26.2 miles for ten grand

Ground Zero Mosque: A Solution

This post has nothing to do with food, but it might give you something to chew on:As we all know by now, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has offered to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the proximity of Ground Zero, a purportedly generous gesture to help build trust between people of different fa ... More >>

Proof From Twitter Research: Floridians Happier Than Rest of the Bitter Nation

​A group of researchers from Harvard and Northwestern Universities have compiled three years worth of data from Twitter to take a snapshot of the mood of the nation over the course of the day. The results are visualized state-by-state, and what seems striking is that compared to the rest of the na ... More >>

Migration Data Shows Northeasterners Continue to Invade Miami While Miamians Move North to the South

via Forbes.com​Forbes.com has a fascinating interactive map up that uses IRS data from 2008 to show the migration of Americans on a county-to-county basis. Above is that data for Miami-Dade. Red lines represent migration patterns where more Miamians moved to a county than people from that county m ... More >>

Best of Miami 2010: Best Power Couple

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Rubell Family Collection​Mera and Don RubellWhen it comes to art collectors in town, there are the Rubells, and then there's everybody else. Martin Margulies has his ... More >>

ESPN Says Dolphins Made Jason Taylor an Offer, His Agent Says Otherwise

Fans are the biggest losers in Jason Taylor's decision to head to the Jets, but we're still not sure exactly with whom to be angry: Taylor for heading out of town or Bill Parcels and company for apparently not caring too much that Taylor was packing his bags. This morning, ESPN r ... More >>

The 25 worst moments in dance music history

Hialeah Actress Catherine Keener Returns to Miami for Tonight's Festival Premiere

Catherine Keener has played the smart, neurotic gal in so many indie flicks, we assumed she was born in the land of Woody Allen -- New York City. But the actress was actually born and raised right here in Miami. She's a graduate of Hialeah's Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High School.  (We voted ... More >>

Roger Sanchez

Old PS14/Max Fish Space Reopening January 18 as ... Bar!

Photo by JipsyAn interior view of the Max Fish pop-up bar during this past Art Basel Miami Beach.​Finally. A place to hang out in downtown Miami that's not a club or a "lounge" or a restaurant or a venue of any kind, just a bar, and one that's cheap but not depressing and full of bros. Okay, okay, ... More >>

Did You Hear About the Morgans?: Now playing

Five Best Restaurants To Close in 2009

lee kleinNo more pâté at Pied​Au Pied de Cochon: "Just what we needed", we crowed back in July -- a dazzling 1940s-style 24/7 indoor/outdoor South Beach bistro serving country French fare in a fun setting. And boy those mustard-coated, bread crumbed pig trotters were tasty, as were the lamb chop ... More >>

Does Great Food Make Us Unhappy?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its long anticipated happiness ratings last week. The study, using data collected from 1.3 million people across the country over the past four years, found that the happiest folks tended to live in states with a high quality of life. No surpri ... More >>

Sang's Chinese Food Delivers

This Cantonese cuisine impresses despite the tired décor.

Damn, It Really Did Last Forever

New York Billionaire Eyeing Possible Florida Senate Run

I don't know if you've been following the recent mess going on in the New York State legislature, but one of the key figures behind it reportedly considering a run for Mel Martinez's soon-to-be vacated senate seat. Lucky us!Tom Galisano is the billionaire founder of Paychex, a payroll proc ... More >>

Roll Over Beethoven

And a Child Shall Lead Them

DJ Riz of Crooklyn Clan

Last Night: Billy Joel at Hard Rock Live

Sayre BermanBilly JoelFriday, January 2, 2009
Hard Rock Live, HollywoodBeing a piano man in a rock 'n' roll world can be a precarious proposition. Unless you have the cool of, say Jerry Lee Lewis, with the attitude and swagger to match, it's tough not to look like a dweeb sitting stationary behind ... More >>

Looks are Deceiving

Fabulous ladyboys claim their prize

Float On and Suffer Well

Gabba Gabba Birthday!

More than a Melody

Think Billy Joel meets Broadway meets ballet

A Frank Philosophy

For the love of the frankfurter, there's Dogma Grill

Generous Miami ... Say What?

Here's a surprise. We're a hot spot for celebrity chefs and charitable diners

The Flesh Made Word

News of the Weird

Killer B.'s