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World Cocktail Week Starts Today: Doma Polo Bistro Introduces Molecular Mixology Cocktails, Pre-Prohibition Classics

With World Cocktail Week running from May 6 to 13, it's the perfect time to pause and take stock of Miami's rapidly improving mixology landscape. Lucky for us, more than a few creative minds are hard at work creating craft cocktails these days, leaving the Red Bull vodkas and Jack and Cokes in the w ... More >>

Miami Chinese New Year: Champagne, Lion Dances and Kokohana Cocktails

2013 has been around for 23 days and counting, so those memories of champagne toasts, sparklers and epic hangovers may feel like forever ago. But the Year of the Snake is about to arrive, so the celebrations are about to begin, again. Come February, some of Miami's finest Asian establishments are o ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia Headlining Ultra Music Festival 2013 With Opening, Closing Night Sets

When Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and Steve Angello announced their career-ending One Last Tour, saying goodbye to 26 cities across every continent, we here at Crossfade lamented, "Miami's not included." But we also doubted "a group who had a huge hit called 'Miami to Ibiza' an ... More >>

Shokudo Miami: A World Resource in Buena Vista

The Bazaar by José Andrés Mesmerizes With Nods to Spain and Miami

Just as the preparation cart for my liquid nitrogen caipirinha pulled up to the table at the 3-month-old Bazaar by José Andrés on Collins Avenue, I spotted three tacos nestled in compartments of a chrome serving platter. They were folded in what seemed like some sort of rice paper. A cool smoke th ... More >>

Eduardo Saverin, Miami-Raised Facebook Founder, Slammed Over Renouncing U.S. Citizenship to Avoid Taxes

Eduardo Saverin, Miami-Raised Facebook Founder, Said He Cared Nothing For U.S. "Beyond the Mere Use of Its Resources"

For the first time, Facebook will put its stock up for public sale today. The company will instantly land at least $16 billion, pushing its value to well over $100 billion. Wunderkind CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be the obvious winner, but hundreds of other investors are also in line for a windfall.One ... More >>

Cricket Lawsuit: Silicon Valley Millionaire Claims Corruption is Destroying Game in U.S.

Ask your average American Joe about cricket, and he'll picture noblemen, dressed in white livery, sipping cups of tea while a sickly servant polishes their finely carved bats. But a new lawsuit claims the state of cricket in the U.S. is anything but aristocratic. A Silicon Valley millionaire is now ... More >>

Hotel Drama: Setai Ousts Management at Midnight, Eden Roc Takes Theirs to Court

Big drama at two of Miami's best known hotels this weekend, as two iconic resorts had some dramatic shake-ups on the business side. The owners of the Eden Roc, a Miami Beach classic, are taking their management company to court. Meanwhile, the owners of the Setai, a member of the new guard of Miami ... More >>

Miami's Top Five Hangover Hangouts

​Winter Music Conference is here and many people -- tourists and locals alike -- look forward to it all year long. It's a chance to watch and listen to some of the biggest names in music and, of course -- get ripped beyond existence. There's no denying that many patronize the week-long event while ... More >>

Republican Candidates Eats: Romney Removes Chicken Skin, Perry Calls BBQ Roadkill

​​Today the voters of New Hampshire will trudge through miserable weather and vote for their preferred Republican candidate in the presidential primary. You are probably familiar with all of the folks running by now: Newty, Mittens, Sneezy, Grumpy, etc. If they look a bit pale and green around t ... More >>

Lantao Asian at Refurbished Surfcomber Hotel

Lee KleinKorean BBQ ribs​There's a new Asian restaurant on South Beach that you don't know about yet. For just over a week now, Lantao Kitchen Cocktails has been up, running, and serving a menu of gansig (snacks), bo ling (noodle bowls), shala (salads) zhuban (entrees), shuanfang (sides) -- ... More >>

Lincoln Diaz-Balart Lies While Shilling for Genting In Herald Op-Ed Piece

Lincoln Diaz-Balart wants you to bet on Genting.In Saturday's edition of the Miami Herald, former U.S. Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart penned an opinion letter shilling for his client, Genting, the Malaysian-based gaming conglomerate that wants to transform the last prime piece of downtown Miami's w ... More >>

Simpsons Top Secret Food Blog Photo Leaked (Photo)

Courtesy FoxThe Three Mouthkeeters break bread with bloggers​Last night's Simpson's episode, "The Food Wife", had Marge, Lisa, and Bart blogging about food (including the best places to eat in Springfield).The episode was jam-packed with foodie references, including a don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it ... More >>

The Simpsons Are Food Bloggers: It's Not That Easy (Video)

​I've been waiting with baited breath for the day to finally arrive. "The Food Wife", the long awaited Simpsons episode which has Marge, Lisa, and Bart food blogging, airs this Sunday on Fox.In anticipation of this 30-minute episode, Fox has released four teasers (probably because they were about ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: A Sneak Peek (Video)

Laine DossAnthony Bourdain drives a red Corvette (and we hide in a shrub).​There's no secret that we love Anthony Bourdain. He's witty, snarky, smart as hell and has managed to parlay these talents (along with mad writing skills and, the ability to cook) into every foodie's dream job. Unlike fell ... More >>

Genting casino will kill Miami and Miami Beach

New Seasonal Menu Items Coming to the Setai

Lesley ElliottAlaskan king crab red curry with peas and sweet potato. ​It's no easy task consolidating every type of Asian cuisine from India and China, to Singapore and Malaysia, into a menu that maintains the identity of the chef behind the door. Executive Chef David Werly came to The Setai last ... More >>

Maruta's Mitchell Luna Talks the Metal Food Chain and the State of Grindcore in 2011

​Mitchell Luna has been shrieking like a banshee and roaring like a mutant Cookie Monster since he was a teenager. As the vocalist for cult 2000s metal and hardcore bands like tech-spazz outfit Tyranny of Shaw, goof-grind supergroup Animatronic Terror Noise, and purely pummeling Last Universal ... More >>

Little Lotus: Asian secret in downtown Miami will bloom big

See a photo slide show of Little Lotus.

Fatboy Slim Talks American Independence, Pool Parties, and Laser Attacks

​It's been 235 years since the Founding Fathers won us our freedom from all those evil, red-clad limeys. The war is so over. And yet Brit club-killer Fatboy Slim (AKA Norman Cook) seems to be plotting a counterattack for this Fourth of July. Admittedly, Crossfade is frazzled. And you should be wo ... More >>

Brew at the Zoo Miami, April 30

Laine Doss​View photos from Brew at the Zoo 2011 here.On Saturday night, you could have removed all wildlife from Zoo Miami, and it would have still been overrun by wild animals: a species known as frat boyalis to be exact. Said crazy mammal was observed square dancing to Otis Day and the Kn ... More >>

Downtown Miami's no-panhandling zone displaces homeless

Fontainebleau Restaurants Go Pink For National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Hakkasan​Miami Spice came to a close yesterday but restaurants at the Fontainebleau Hotel are continuing to offer a prix fixe menu during October.Starting Sunday and through October 31, Scarpetta, Hakkasan, Vida and Gotham Steak will serve a $39 prix fixe "Bleau Goes Pink" menu to coincide with Na ... More >>

Rick Ross Sex Tape Allegations, Pitbull Hooks Up With Kodak, and More Local Hip-Hop News

Photo by David "Dro" Rosario​Rick Ross controversies are back in the news again. It seems that constant foe 50 Cent used his website (ThisIs50.com) to post this unclear video of someone with a close resemblance to Rick Ross in a racy video clip. It was said to have been recorded way before Ross b ... More >>

Mitchell Luna and Maruta Blast the World at Churchill's This Thursday

Courtesy of Mitchell Luna​In the late '80s to early '90s, Florida's music landscape was ravaged by a brutal bulldozer known as grindcore. Inspired by death metal, thrash, and classic hardcore, and driven by the DIY ethos of punk rock, groups emerged like locusts. They played faster than everyone e ... More >>

72nd Bar & Grill in South Miami

Grab a burger and beer at this neighborhood eatery.

Nino Pernetti's Caffe Abbracci Cookbook

​Nino Pernetti graciously sent me a copy of his then just-published cookbook after I'd done a short interview with him about it for Short Order  in 2008. The subtitle, His Life Story and Travels around the World, pretty much describes the narrative, in which Nino's co-authors Ferdie Pacheco a ... More >>

Letters from the issue of February 11, 2010

Sang's Chinese Food Delivers

This Cantonese cuisine impresses despite the tired décor.

Head Spins: DJ Omi

New York's loss is South Florida's gain.

The Week That Was: Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight

photo via JustJaredPhotographer (and Miami resident) Bruce Weber shot Michael Jackson back in 2007 for the cover of L'Uomo Vogue. It was one of the pop icon's last major photo shoots.RIP Michael Jackson. RIP urban legend that Thriller was shot in Coconut Grove.Some tabloid claimed Alberto Cutié is ... More >>

Darren Emerson

Album Review - GU36: Bogota by Darren Emerson, DJing at Shine this Friday

via www.windishagency.comDJ and producer Darren Emerson was once in dub-strewn acid house collective Underworld. And lest you forget, he opens and closes his new mix compilation, GU36: Bogotá with the then-progressive trio's 1993 epic "MMM Skyscraper I Love You." The two CDs this bookends are Emers ... More >>

Last Night: Tom Waits at The Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Undercover Boy Wonder

International turntablist DJ I-Dee's life on South Beach is low-key. No surprise: He's too young to buy a drink.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wit's End

It's time to throw Jack Sparrow overboard

See the World, One Couch at a Time

I didn't want a bunch of dudes who could beat me in my sleep.

Catch of the Year

Classic American seafood finds a sequel in Miami

Letters from the Issue of March 8, 2007

"We are swimming in a sea of pollution."

Galleries of the Dolls

Su-en Wong and Hackworth Ashley lampoon stereotypes and stars

Juan's Birthday Bash

Sambal Stumbles

Good for sushi and sake, but bad for dinner

The Bitch

Junkie

Off the Rails

Even with the radiant Gong Li, Zhou Yu's Train is a wreck

The Politics of Drinking and Dining

Vote and eat for free!

Big in Taipei

Jessi James Campo tries to make it back home

Drive-by Architecture

Lack of Concentration Camp

The Size of Their Toys

COPEX separates the men from the boys