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Vodka and Yuca Croquetas: A Perfect SoBeWFF Pairing

Food and wine pairings have been a big thing for years. Beer and wine pairings have become increasingly common. Scotch pairings: you've at least heard of them. But vodka? You probably didn't know that people were into that outside of Russia or Poland. Well, sorry to break it to you, but it's a thing ... More >>

Marco Rubio Selling Water Bottles... For Real!

Look, ya gotta hand it to Marco Rubio. The young, conservative senator from Florida choked -- literally and figuratively -- while on national live television during the Republican response to the State of the Union address.The senator appeared sweaty and flustered before reaching for a bottle of wat ... More >>

Steve Angello at Amnesia Miami June 1

Swedish House Mafia Member Steve Angello's Most Inspiring Tweets!

Before he tackles Warsaw at UMF Poland or co-headlines Hackney Weekend in London with the likes of Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kasabian, Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello will swing through South Beach to get his Miami fix. The 29-year-old DJ is performing live at Amnesia Miami on Friday, June 1. But bef ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival Announces World Tour Stops in Argentina, Ibiza, Poland, Korea, Brazil

​Beware, beat freaks! The raving masterminds behind Ultra Music Festival have already colonized and conquered Downtown Miami in the name of electronic dance music, annually deploying an entire army of furry-booted troops and uhntz-uhntz-ing explosives experts to terrorize Biscayne Boulevard cond ... More >>

World's Weirdest Toasters: Jesus on Bread, Cook a Whole Breakfast, and Play the Radio

​The world of toasters just got a little weirder. Research firm IDC released a report predicting that 2012 will be the year when companies start making kitchen appliances that can Tweet and send us notifications via the web; this will include toasters.Until that happens, it might seem we must sett ... More >>

FIU in the Little Caesar's Bowl: Our Polish Correspondent Has the News

Our intrepid correspondent strikes out.​ Jacek Urbanczyk, Poland-based sports journalist, is Riptide's stringer for the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl in Detroit, between the University of Toledo and our very own Florida International University. It will be played on Sunday. He's in Detroit to dr ... More >>

FIU Football: Our Polish Correspondent Invades the Pizza Bowl

FacebookRiptide's Polish football correspondent, Jacek Urbanczyk​Who says an alt-weekly's blog can't have a foreign correspondent? Meet Jacek Urbanczyk, self-described "football journalist from Poland" and Riptide's stringer for the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl in Detroit, between the University of ... More >>

Miami art this week: DNA cloning at the Frost

Artspace MAGQ's cell-phone photography

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Ten Weird Vodkas: From Root Beer to Bacon and Bubble Gum

Raspberry, pink grapefruit, bubble gum and now "wild cherri" will be joining the flavored vodka market. Vodka withs something odd mixed in reminds us of the steak and potatoes ice cream we once chowed on in a little mountain place in Venezuela. But that's a story for another day. When you add someth ... More >>

Gourmet Leftovers, Pierogi Trucks, My Challenge To LeBron

​That's Right Lebron, I'm Talkin' To YouAs reported by Lesley Abravanel, LeBron James gave Barton G. some tweet love, writing that it "has the BEST presentation of food, drinks and dessert I've ever seen in my life".Listen up, LeBron: I'll go one-on-one against you in restaurant reviewing anytime, ... More >>

Dreams and Demons

Funkagenda and Magda

Funkagenda and Magda Both Spin at Space This Saturday

Photo via m-nus.comMagda make the tea​After a blowout weekend celebrating its 10-year anniversary, this Saturday Club Space presents a serious bill of out-of-town stars that should keep the lines at the door as long as ever. In the main room is London-based favorite Funkagenda, which hits Miami in ... More >>

Tribal Electro

Music-Related Movies at Romance in a Can European Film Festival

The Romance in a Can European Film Festival commenced last Thursday at the Tower Theater (1508 SW 8 St), and while we're not huge lovey-dovey advocates on Crossfade (romance, shromance!), there are two films on the slate this week that involve music directly in the plot. Here they are. For complete ... More >>

We’ll Call It Playground Redemption

The Fast Lane: Championship Racecar Driver Will Do Three Years in Ecstasy Case

Joyoendho via Flicker CCWhen it comes to the drug habits of the rich and famous, there's a thin line between hilarious and disturbing. Championship race car driver Mariusz Malyszczycki's relationship with ecstasy is something closer to entrepreneurial. The Polish speedster was busted in the middle o ... More >>

The Devil in the Magic City

Booze Hound: Pepsi Challenge, Belvedere IX-Style

Jose D. DuranBelvedere IX left us black and pink.To say we get courted for promotion is an understatement. We got harassed by P.R. whores asking us to talk about their products. Psst! Let me let you in on a little secret: Best way into a New Times writer's heart is to offer free booze. With the econ ... More >>

End of an Era

A new show at CiFo looks back at Bush's reign — and the mess he left.

Coral Gables Muckraker George Volsky Busts City Manager David Brown

He's going down for wasteful spending.

Peter Beste's Heavy-Metal Warriors Are Cool

Euros Gone Wild

Just kick it at Segafredo Brickell for your Eurocup fix.

Reel Wrap

Our critics review a sampling from week one of the film fest.

Bioperversity

Nature bares its teeth in a new Lowe exhibition

Keepin’ It Reel

Meet a master documentarian

Various Artists

Prog Is Not a Four Letter Word (Delay 68)

Life Works

Rockin' with Chopin

Crazy for Caviar

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

La Schwette Vedette

Nicole Guillemet has proved that she can direct the Miami International Film Festival; maybe next year we'll be talking about the movies

In the Ghetto

Polanski returns to Poland

Before the Lights Go Down

Poland versus Chediak: There was plenty of drama at the Nineteenth Annual Miami Film Festival

Time on His Side

The Miami Film Festival's new director tells his critics to wait and see

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of December 14, 2000

Tales Without Scripts

Two documentaries deliver a real taste of Jewish history

Festival of Highlights

Miami Jewish Film Festival

Polka Mania!

From his modest headquarters in Little Haiti, polka legend Li'l Wally Jagiello spreads happiness the world over

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Money Changes Everything

Close Encounters of the Third Reich