Science and Technology

Top Ten Places to Take Out-Of-Towners

Hey there, tour guide. Looking to show your out-of-towners a good time? Frozen drinks at Wet Willie's sure sound like fun. How about Cuban sandwiches at Versailles and Sunday brunch on Lincoln Road? Or, perhaps, a drive to the Everglades for fried alligator. Yes, it's gamey. Yes, it tastes like chic ... More >>

Ten Best Bars on South Beach

Miami is a town that's all about the booze. Our idea of a fun night out is bar-hopping, shot-taking, and beer-chugging. And there's no better neighborhood to get our collective drink on than the party epicenter of the universe: South Beach. But with the plethora of pubs, bars, lounges, and other dr ... More >>

Miami's Top Ten Inexpensive Restaurants

Miami is a city laden with restaurants of little value. There are stylish joints, the kind where mediocre $24 tuna tartares and $30 chicken breasts, filled with fontina and foie gras, are the norm. There are hackneyed Asian concepts, the type where $20 sushi rolls are packed with fried shrimp, douse ... More >>

Miami's Top Ten Chefs

Chefs love talking about one another. They discuss talent. They obsess over who cooks better, who lacks integrity, who sold out, who travels looking for recipes to replicate. They talk about hype. They chat about expectations. They know what their colleagues are cooking. They have opinions about eve ... More >>

Miami's Best Argentine Restaurants: For Pope Francis's Installation

In the more than 2,000-year history of Catholicism, the religion has stretched its tentacles all over the world. Today there are about as many Catholics in Central and South America as in the rest of the world combined. With the installation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the first pope from the Americ ... More >>

Ten Best Late-Night Restaurants Post-Ultra

As Miami gears up for its biggest weekend of the year, so do the businesses that will be affected by it. After a battle with the city, Ultra Music Festival begins today in a two-weekend extravaganza that will bring more revenue to Miami than LIV sees the entire year. That's a big deal, considering t ... More >>

Miami's Best Fried Chicken: A Top Ten List

Eating fried chicken is no tidy affair. Golden brittle breading bursts after a gentle nibble. Bits of crust cascade beneath your chin. Juices flow. Fingers glisten. Lips gleam. (Call this gloss pollo frito; it sure as hell beats Chanel.) In Miami, a city brimming with restaurants of diverse ethnici ... More >>

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century

Greedy Lying Bastards Documents Climate-Change Horrors

Ten Best Miami Brunches

The debate over whether the best meal of the day is lunch or breakfast has been going on for millennia. Intense battles have broken out over the issue. But one day, a peaceful being came up with a compromise for the rivaling sides. The settlement was "brunch," a perfect middleman between the morning ... More >>

Promised Land: For Matt Damon and Company, the Message Is the Message

Congorock at Mansion October 19

Congorock on Blogging, Hipster Electro, and Whether EDM Is Actually Wimpy

EDM has America by the throat. But how did it get to be this way? Well, we can't say definitively. Although, it kinda started with blogging hipsters in 2006. Hell, some of the DJs making waves on the scene today started out as bloggers, like Italian electro badass Congorock. He remembers the good ... More >>

Tropical Storm Isaac: Welcome To The Cone of Concern, Miami

Riptide's crack meteorological team has just issued this update on Tropical Storm Isaac: 09:17:00 AM EST Due to favorable wind shear and hot ocean temps, by Monday TS Isaac is expected to rage with the devastating power of ten thousand nuclear bombs. It will personally find your house, smash each in ... More >>

NASA Mars Mission Menu: Sushi, Vegan Pizza (Video)

Now that the wily scientists at NASA are no longer busy launching shuttle missions, they have time to focus on their inner foodie. At Houston headquarters, they are in the early stages of planning a menu for a team of six to eight astronauts for a planned mission to Mars some time in the 2030s. A ma ... More >>

Expect an Even Rainier Than Normal Summer in Miami

We're just weeks away from the start of South Florida's wet season. Which, not to bum everyone out, means it's almost time for our daily mid-afternoon rain showers. Meteorologists predict that this summer could see even more rainfall than average this year. In terms of water levels and such, that's ... More >>

Coral Reefs Are Being Decimated, All for a Few Gaudy Trinkets

New DoorMetrics App Promises to Revolutionize Nightclub Entry

Finding a way to get into the club is a rite of passage for Miami's younger generation. If you don't already know someone at the door, you better show up with the right ratio of males to females or you'll be hovering at the front for hours. Wouldn't it be great if the people at the door already knew ... More >>

The Grind's Director Speaks Out: "We're Sorry and Have Learned From Our Mistakes"

​Everyone seems to be questioning the Grind's logic of having its burger battle event indoors. Obviously, grilling is done outdoors for a reason.But in an online statement, director Tony Albelo says months went into planning the event to ensure everything went smoothly, and they hired "HVAC contra ... More >>

Judge Cites "Stand Your Ground" to Clear Greyston Garcia in Little Havana Stabbing

​In the midst of the Trayvon Martin controversy, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Beth Bloom has cited Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law to drop charges against Greyston Garcia after he fatally stabbed a car radio thief in Little Havana on January 25th. Though, Garcia apparently initiated the ... More >>

Food Blogging For Dummies: We Offer Ten Tips

​It was bound to happen. Food Blogging For Dummies by Kelly Senyei is available for pre-order on Amazon. This 320-page book will, no doubt, speak to the 75 remaining people in the world who still do not have a food blog.If you can't wait for the book to come out (or you're too cheap to shell out t ... More >>

Miami's Top Five Nightclub Sound Systems

​Miami residents are faced with tough decisions every day. Beach or pool? Take I-395 or I-195? SPF 30 or SPF 15? Put the top down or leave it up? The list is endless. Another FAQ for MIA heads: "Which club should I head to tonight?" And indeed, the Miami nightlife scene never sleeps, with new clu ... More >>

Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft

​Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any. (Relax -- I'm in my PJs.) This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention, porn's f ... More >>

A Printer That Can Print Cupcakes?

​Using a printer to bake cupcakes sounds as crazy as using a jigsaw to cut a meatloaf, but the technology is out there and could provide the answer to your laziness. One of the many techie-foodie goodies recently unveiled at the Consumer and Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the Imagine 3D printer ... More >>

Miami's best blogs: Honorable mention

Is Your Smartphone Spying On You? Miami Lawsuit Targets "Invasive" Carrier IQ Software

photo by John Karakansantis via Wikimedia Commons​What if your smartphone has secretly tracked everything you've done for the past two years: every Google search, every website, every key stroke -- not to mention everywhere you've traveled? Sounds like a paranoid fantasy from Enemy of the State, b ... More >>

Stuart Lawley's dot-xxx domain fight

BurgerKing.xxx: No Porn For You!

​Last week on December 6 when the new .xxx internet domain meant for pornographic websites went on sale to the general public, non-porno companies and universities rushed to buy up their .xxx equivalents out of fear that promising smut peddlers would cash in by using their brand image with the new ... More >>

.XXX Sites Are Live Thanks To Stuart Lawley, A South Florida Brit Who Beat the Bush Admin

via ICMRegistry.com​On Tuesday, the new .xxx domain went live on the Web, drawing in more than 100,000 adult sites. The man behind this new .xxx empire is a British millionaire living in South Florida who had to navigate an outraged Christian Right and outlast the Bush Administration to found his ... More >>

Myth Buster

Reader mail: "Global warming no longer exists!"

FPL's $268 Million Early Cost Recovery A Ripoff, Pols Say

If you have electricity in your house, you have paid FPL $268 million ostensibly to build two new reactors at Turkey Point. You'll probably pay nearly $200 million more in 2012. Problem is, those reactors may never be built. Last week we warned that the utility's Turkey Point pla ... More >>

Coral Reefer Madness

Turkey Point Reactors Vulnerable to Global Warming, Experts Warn

​"We are the most vulnerable metropolitan area in the world when it comes to sea level rise," says University of Miami professor Harold Wanless. Sitting in his office, the avuncular geologist paints a bleak picture. Global warming is a fact, and the results are already visible: hurricanes are gett ... More >>

Life Cycle

First Twitter-Themed Cruise to Set Sail from Miami in November

Hopefully there won't be many Fail Wale sightings. ​A Dutch airline had already booked up an entire flight to Miami using Twitter, so it was only a matter of time until a cruise ship company tries the same. This November, Norwegian Cruise Lines will set sail with what they're claiming is the world ... More >>

Toxic Holocaust at Churchill's Pub August 10

Scott Arciszewski, UCF Computer Student, Charged In Anonymous Hacking Crackdown

Scott Arciszewski​Federal prosecutors this morning charged 16 hackers linked to the Anonymous ring that targeted PayPal last year. Among those charged: Scott Matthew Arciszewski, a 21-year-old computer major at the University of Central Florida, who the feds say hacked into an FBI-linked firm then ... 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.

Shrimp, Tang and Urine: Ten Crazy Astronaut Food Facts (video)

Astronauts chowing down at zero gravity​According to NASA, the last Space Shuttle Launch of STS-135 will take place at 11:26 a.m. this morning (be sure to put on the TV).  Just as space flight has evolved, so has the Astronaut's diet of what used to be Tang and tubes of ham salad and c ... More >>

Video: The Last Space Shuttle Launch From Florida Ever

​Florida is no longer the preeminent launch pad to the stars. Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off into space from the Kennedy Space Center today for the final time, marking the end of NASA's historic space shuttle program. The event leaves both the future of American space explo ... More >>

Correction: Planet Pit App for iPhone 4

Not the Planet Pit app for iPhone 4.​Yesterday, Crossfade published a blog reviewing Pitbull's new Planet Pit app for the iPhone 4: "Is Pitbull's New Planet Pit App Worth Its $9.99 Price Tag?" But we accidentally purchased both the iPad-only version of the app, and another official Pitbull app, ... More >>

Florida Republican Congressman Wants to Investigate Rep. Weiner's Alleged Bulge Picture

​Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns of Ocala is very interested in his Democratic colleague Anthony Weiner's alleged bulge pictures. More specifically, he's interested in making sure that members of congress are safe from cyber attacks and hacking. Stearns was on Bill O'Reilly last night and sai ... More >>

Miami Lakes councilman used Facebook to skirt Sunshine Laws, resident says

NOAA Predicts Up to 10 Hurricanes this Year, 18 Named Storms

​Miami's least favorite time of year, Hurricane Season, kicks off officially on June 1st, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above average Atlantic season with as many as 18 named storms, ten hurricanes and six major hurricanes.

Brain Games

Latin Burger Tops in Twitter Followers, GastroPod #2, Fish Box #3

Jefe's owner Jack Garabedian tweets to attract customers.Food truck owners in Miami are an entrepreneurial breed. These men and women don't really have a typical profile. Some are chefs looking to start their own kitchen. Others are restaurant owners looking to start a supplemental mobile oper ... More >>

Nanotechnology: "The Next Big Controversy in Food"

Michael Passoff, activist and one of 2009's "100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics."​What is nanotechnology? Michael Passoff, a senior strategist with shareholder activist group As You Sow, recently wrote an article about nanotechnology and its use in food manufacturing. "Nanotech is alre ... More >>

Five reasons Turkey Point could be the next nuclear disaster

Ryan Roman of Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings is a Funny Guy

Spain's Asador Etxebarri, where Ryan Roman hopes to eat himself to death and have his ashes scattered.​After following Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings on Twitter, we knew we had to find out more about this funny food loving character. Blogger Ryan Roman has something to say about everything and ... More >>