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Ultra 2013 Starts Now! And EDM Has Conquered Miami, America, the World

Electronic dance music has conquered Miami. And America. And the world. For more than three decades, it had remained a mostly underground phenomenon, epitomized by illegal raves held beneath highway overpasses in the UK or after-hours parties thrown in downtown Detroit's abandoned warehouses. But o ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week 2013

Ultra Korea Announces 2013 Headliners: Armin Van Buuren, Carl Cox, and Avicii

Ultra Music Festival may have caught a little flak for expanding its Miami presence to two weekends, but nothing can stop UMF from total world domination. Did you know the Ultra brand takes its good time to four continents? There are Ultra fests in Brazil, Chile, Spain, and even Seoul, South Korea ... More >>

Godzilla and Flowers: The Films of Kim Jong Il

Afrobeta: Perfect Pair

Cloud Atlas: Your Past Lives Probably Didn't Love It Either

Shokudo Serves Asian Street Food In Design District

When Shokudo owner and general manager Yoko Takarada decided to lease the old bodega on Northeast Second Avenue in Miami's Design District, she first had to clear out the guy living in the back. That defines Miami's Design District -- fine-dining restaurants and stores with $20,000 couches sitting j ... More >>

Sakaya Kitchen's Richard Hales Planning 20 Locations In Florida And a Sit-Down Restaurant

In the near future, Sakaya Kitchen plans to open 20 stores across Florida and two more locations in our region, one in Kendall and another in Pembroke Pines. Chef and Owner Richard Hales is also developing a full service concept inspired by a trip to Tokyo and Seoul earlier this summer. A ... More >>

The Day He Arrives at Miami Beach Cinematheque

Quarterbacking Wynwood's Second Saturday

Korean Artist Kimsooja Turns Heads at MAM

The Day He Arrives at Cosford Cinema June 1-3

Haven's Summer Menu: Shrimp and Grits Ceviche, Crab Spider Roll, and Squid Fries

Chef Todd Erickson has created a new summer menu for Haven Gastro-Lounge, and it has some mighty luscious-sounding items. No surprise: Erickson has been one of Miami's most innovative chefs since opening Haven in May of 2011.Among the sprightly summer additions is a shrimp & grits ceviche, in wh ... More >>

Haven Launches Summer Menu: Squid Fries Made With Graham Cracker

With its one year anniversary fast approaching, Haven Lounge has revamped the menu to fit the season.The new nibbles will be available Friday at the Lincoln Road gastro-lounge. "These are just additions, not the full menu," says executive chef Todd Erickson. "I wanted to add familiar summer favorite ... More >>

An Adopted Miami Shores Woman's Search for Her Korean Family Pays Off

LeBron James Promotes Pork Donuts and Ice Cream in China

​It may be the best athlete food endorsement since "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Slim Jim, or it could be the worst since Mike Tyson and Pepsi, but Dunkin' Brands Inc. announced Monday that LeBron James will promote pork donuts, among other products, in China and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, accord ... 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 >>

Jellied Moose Nose, Baby Mice Wine, and More: Eight Foods Better Than Cannibalism

Our soul sister blog, Riptide, recently described a man who allegedly murdered a man and proceeded to consume his brain and eyeball. Hannibal Lecter would have at least added fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti.As a response, here's a list of eight things that would probably be even worse t ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: Stoned Seagulls, Strippers, and Chicken -- This is L.A. (A Recap)

The Travel ChannelTony Bourdain eats at In and Out Burger.​It's hard to believe that this is the season finale for The Layover. It seems like only yesterday that we first laid eyes on this hot mess of a show that follows Anthony Bourdain to the more pedestrian parts of the globe. So far this year, ... More >>

Everybody Sweat Now: MIA's Seafair Expo Sends Us Overboard

​In concept, staging an art fair on a snazzy, $40 million dollar yacht that only Google's Larry Page or Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud can afford seems like a grand idea. After all, who doesn't want to rub shoulders with the rich and snooty while checking out artworks in quarters as tight ... More >>

Never Thought We'd Be on a Boat

Pubbelly Sushi: Tasty, Creative Food at a Good Value in a Welcoming Pub Setting

Franco, Finally

Cuba Could Let Baseball Stars Play Overseas -- But Don't Expect U.S. Defections To Stop

The Pittsburgh Pirates have already offered this hot young shortstop a $4 million deal.​From Livan Hernandez to Vladimir Nunez, the underground pipeline of Cuban baseball studs fleeing their homeland for MLB fortunes has always run through the Magic City. As a star in Cuba's national league, a pla ... More >>

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Gabose's Korean Barbecue: Asian Food South Florida Needs

John ZurCharcoal grill at Gabose​The experience of Korean barbecue is distinct. And Gabose, of Lauderhill, is the only Korean restaurant in Broward, or Miami-Dade County, that affords its guests the opportunity to cook their own food over a charcoal grill. Gabose was started ten years ago. Curren ... More >>

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 >>

World Cup 2010: Hat Tricks and Fiestas!

Phtoto by Chris McGrath/Getty ImagesGonzalo Higuain of Argentina runs with the ball.Argentina 4, South Korea 1: As expected, Argentina has come out with guns blazing in this World Cup with two impressive wins thus far. None more than yesterday's 4-1 drubbing of South Korea. Striker Gonzalo Higuain s ... More >>

Churchill's Pub is Our World Cup Breakfast Headquarters

Jacob Katel8 a.m champion breakfast: two eggs, sausage, bacon home fries, toast, bottle of Budweiser - $9.25​Early this morning while Argentina was tricking on the Republic of Korea (Argentina 4 - 1), Short Order was drinking beer and grubbing English breakfast at Churchill's Pub. Owner Dave Danie ... More >>

Belatedly, Fidel Castro Condemns Israel Flotilla Raid, Gaza Blockade

El Mas Supremo got out of his crypt Wednesday to give us his two cents on Israel's attack of an aid flotilla heading to Gaza.​Writing in his irregular column, Reflecciones, Fidel Castro called the sinking of the flotilla "a brutal attack" caused by a "fanatic," uncontrollable Israel.On Sunday, as ... More >>

Dirty South Korea

Does Miami Really Have a Shot at Hosting the World Cup? Pepe Diaz Says Yes

When Riptide saw the news this week that an all-star band of celebrities and local power-players -- including the always busy Emilio Estefan and Alonzo Mourning -- was trying to bring the World Cup to Miami, we were tempted to laugh it off as a pipe dream.via Wikimedia CommonsWill this envelope say ... More >>

A New Edition to Your Weekend

O.H.W.O.W., It's Our House West of Wynwood!

A new NYC-Miami creative venture springs up, well, west of Wynwood.

Reusable Chopsticks: Save A Rainforest

MySpace Latino Connecting or Segregating?

Basel's Odysseus

Overnight with an artist through the hurly-burly of the very rich.

Ask the Food Critic: Where Can I Find Korean Fried Chicken?

Ask the Food Critic: Where Can I Find Korean Fried Chicken?

Happy Earth Day...China

Bands in Bloom

It's Soooo High School

And that's a compliment to Rian Johnson's teen detective noir

Iraq's Cinema of Longing

A conversation with director James Longley

The World According to Ki-duk

Korea's Kim Ki-duk transforms social philosophy into visual poetry

Miami International Film Festival

Starting anew, round two

Where the Heart Isn't

The Way Home is paved with canned sentiment

It's a Mad Mad Mad Cow World

Scary brain food

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Seoul Kitchen