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Tongue and Cheek To Open in SoFi: We Chat With Chef/Partner Jamie DeRosa

Jamie DeRosa has finally announced the project he's been working on since leaving his position as executive chef at Tudor House in July 2012 with partner Michael Reginbogin.Tongue and Cheek, which will open in the former Kane Steakhouse spot in SoFi, will serve "approachable, ingredient-driven, Amer ... More >>

Whitney Houston, Actress: Surveying the Great Diva's Checkered Film Career

SoBeWFF: Paula Deen's Sunday Brunch a Stylish Southern Affair

​The Loews Miami Beach Hotel's ballroom was filled with the good smells of Southern home cookin' yesterday at the annual Paula Deen Sunday Brunch. The room's crystal chandelier glistened as guests took their seats (most welcome after a weekend spent trying to juggle a plate and wine glass while st ... More >>

Post Diabetes: Paula Deen Talks Sweet Tea, Miami Cruise and Ghosts

​This past Tuesday Paula Deen announced to Al Roker that she has been living with type 2 diabetes for about three years and that she and her family will become spokespeople for Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals' diabetes medication, providing healthy recipes and eating tips on the pharma's website.I in ... More >>

Celebrity Chefs' Million Dollar Mansions: Look What Cooking Can Buy

​Nearly all celebrity chefs have one thing in common -- a fairytale-like rise from poverty and obscurity to fame and fortune.Paula Deen (who just announced she has type 2 diabetes), was a young bank teller in Savannah, Martha Stewart used to babysit for New York Yankees' kids, and Guy Fieri's big ... More >>

LeBron James Proposes to Girlfriend Before Lauryn Hill's South Beach New Year's Eve Bash

Photo by Seth Browarnik/WorldRedEye.comMs. Lauryn Hill and Nas serenading the James.​After two kids, a decade-long courtship, and zero NBA championships, LeBron James has finally asked high-school sweetheart Savannah Brinson for her hand in marriage. Having turned 27 years old approximately 24 ho ... More >>

Mos Def Challenges BET, Oprah, and Obama to Pay Tribute to Executed Prisoner Troy Davis

Photo by Marta Xochilt Perez​On September 21, 2011, at 11:08 p.m. in Jackson, Georgia, a death row inmate named Troy Davis, convicted 20 years ago for the murder of off-duty Savannah policeman Mark MacPhail, was executed by lethal injection. For decades, though, Davis, his supporters, and many j ... More >>

Kane Steakhouse is able, but it's not Miami's greatest

View a slide show of Kane Steakhouse.

Florida Woman Dies From Being Exposed to Toxic Fumes at a Georgia McDonald's

Yesterday at a McDonald's restaurant in Pooler, Georgia a woman died and nine people had to be taken to the hospital after inhaling toxic fumes inside the restaurant.I know what you're thinking, and no, the chemical fumes were not coming from the kitchen. So far, police believe chemicals from c ... More >>

City Hall's Special Masters, Interview Part Two

Photo by Riki Altman​ I assume, by the looks of this monster bar, that you're planning to have some killer drinks to go along with the menu. SH: We've got a pretty diverse wine list and specialty cocktails with fresh juices. I'll talk about one drink called the Special Master... There's an inter ... More >>

Erasure at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day One, March 25

Benassi fans left trash, empty space in their wake​Adding dance-rock originators Erasure and Duran Duran was a smart move for Ultra organizers. The performances should have bridged the psychic gap between old synth work and the newer acts on the live stage -- and anyways, who doesn't love some goo ... More >>

Two MP3s From Athens, Georgia's Witches, Playing Sweat Records This Sunday

Photo by Mike White (deadlydesigns.com)​​Ignore the one-word, menacing-sounding name and the Georgia provenance, because Witches, performing this Sunday at Sweat Records, are not a doom or stoner-metal band. Those kinds of bands are generally associated with Savannah, anyways, and this trio orig ... More >>

Iron and Wine at the Fillmore Miami Beach, November 18

Marta Xochilt PerezIron and Wine's Sam Beam.​See the full Iron and Wine slideshow. With Nomo The Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, November 18, 2010 Better than: Cheap beer chilled in the river and chugged at noon. Unlike weak revivalists, fourth-generation freaky folks, and other bullshitters, S ... More >>

Did LeBron James Get Engaged Last Night?

Two gossip blogs are reporting that LeBron James finally popped the question to Savannah Brinson, his longtime girlfriend and mother of his two kids, last night. Is King James following in the footsteps of his recently engaged teammate Chris Bosh and about to head down the aisle? 

Miami Central Opens Season Against Camden County, GA in Battle of Speed vs. Size

Fast or Fat? Miami Central faces off against Georgia champs Camden CountyThey grow their boys a little bigger here in Georgia. But as our mother always told us, size doesn't matter. Right? The speedy Miami Central Rockets start their season tonight against the heavy (hitting) Camden County Wi ... More >>

Concert Review: Deftones at the Fillmore Miami Beach, August 25

Photo by Ian WiltenDeftones lead singer Chino Moreno performing at the Fillmore Miami Beach.​Click here to view photos from Deftones at Fillmore Miami Beach.DeftonesWith BaronessThe Fillmore Miami BeachWednesday, August 25, 2010Better Than: Watching any other rock band with a DJ in its lineup.The ... More >>

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LeBron's Girlfriend Not Happy With Move to Miami

via Celebrity Gossip​At least one person in LeBron James's inner circle wasn't thrilled with his decision to "take his talents to South Beach": Savannah Brinson, his longtime lady love and mother of his two sons. She's not worried about James ruining his legacy, the Heat unfairly reshapi ... More >>

Miami Ranked First Among Cities Long Overdue for a Major Hurricane

​The grim weathermen of Weather.com have put together a list of the vulnerable cities that are long overdue to fall victim to a major hurricane, and guess who took top honors? Yes, that's right, Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Besides Hurricane Andrew, a major hurricane (Category 3 or stronger) ha ... More >>

The Deftones Play the Fillmore Miami Beach August 25, Opening Act is Baroness!

The Fillmore Miami Beach has been absolutely slaying with its indie-type bookings lately, but here's a new announcement from the venue to make a thinking-man's metal fan weep tears of joy. Sacramento legends Deftones will headline the venue on August 25, the band's first show in South Florida in a ... More >>

Green Sky and Shroud Eaters

MP3s of the Day: New EP From Green Sky, Playing a Sweat In-Store This Saturday

​Pity the hapless hipster who wanders into Sweat Records this Saturday night looking for a copy of Vampire Weekend's Contra. In an unusual but welcome change, the evening's in-store takes a turn away from the mellow indie and towards the grimy, in a four-band show organized by local trio Green Sky ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Baroness Drummer (!) Remixes Surfer Blood's "Swim"

Photo by Ian Witlen​The stoner metal hardliners ain't gonna like this one, but, shock, horror, Allen Blickle, drummer of the awesome Savannah quartet Baroness, has musical taste besides sludge and doom. (Drummers, because of their scarcity, always seem to be the musical oddballs in bands, though.) ... More >>

The year’s top ten list for metal music features four ties

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 >>

Kreyol Rapper Mecca a.k.a. Grimo's Thoughts On TPS for Haitians

Mecca aka Grimo is an American of Haitian descent who raps in English and Kreyol for Wyclef's Sak Pase Records label. Listen above for his interview with Cheryl Mizell on WEDR 99 Jamz's Community Voices show from 6 - 7 am on Saturday.Did you know that Haitians fought in the Siege of Savannah in 17 ... More >>

2008's Top Underground Metal (etc.) Releases, Pt. 2

6. Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect (Hydra Head)Technically not a heavy release, but how can we discount Justin Broadrick, founding member of both Napalm Death and Godflesh? Fed up with the single-minded bludgeoning of those classic acts, Broadrick's intention from the start in forming Jesu was so that h ... More >>

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day

Well, shiver me timbers.

Food for Thought

Celebrity chefs set the stage for a show of sustenance

Music and Art

Hometapes brings a little Southern hospitality to Miami's rock scene

BEST FRIED CHICKEN

Restaurant MWoods

Letters from the Issue of October 21-27, 2002

Porn merchants, freedom fighters, park advocates, and your waitress Tiffany

Current Art Shows

Our critics survey the local art scene

They Work Hard for the Money

Atlantis Playhouse's plucky production of The Life conjures the poetry of the lower depths

Current Art Shows

Our critics survey the local art scene

Season Opener Part II: The Comeback Kids

Get ready, this season is dishing up a lot of new restaurants

It's in the Can

Romancing Miami's restrooms

A Snooze Runs Through It

If you love watching golf, you'll love Robert Redford's new movie

Dish

Woods Keeps Up the Swing

Prayer Ribs

Neo-Screwball Strikes Out

Mama Superior

Get Back at the Shack

Good Grief

Readers Digest

Another Year Devoured

A Confederacy of Munches

Program Notes

Her Brother's Keeper

When Mary Dixon's elderly brother wandered off, she thought he'd come home that night. Two months later, when she finally found him, she didn't know what to think.