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Burger Land Features Latin Burger and Taco on Travel Channel April 22

When burger aficionado George Motz ate at Miami's Latin Burger and Taco about three years ago, the owner of the popular pink-and-black food truck, Jim Heins immediately recognized him. Motz, after all, is the man behind the documentary film Hamburger America and author of a book and blog of the sam ... More >>

Sabado Gigante Celebrates 50 Years

VIDEO: Stray Cat Interrupts Local Weather Report

WLTV's chief meteorologist Eduardo Rodriquez was just trying to deliver the weather forecast on Miami's Univision station when he was unexpectedly joined by a stray cat who wandered in from the parking lot. This shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone, as well all know stray cats do whatever the h ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain No Reservations: The End Is Near

No Reservations, the final tour, premiered last evening. The series, which features host Anthony Bourdain eating, drinking, and behaving badly, has won both awards and a loyal fan base. In this, the first of the countdown to the end of Bourdain's Travel Channel show, we travel to Austin, Texas, for ... More >>

Cuban Radio Is Dying Because of Aging Hardliners and Miami's Changing Market

Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations: Final Season Starts September 3

Anthony Bourdain is moving on to greener pastures, and our hearts (and stomachs) will follow the writer, chef, and snarkmeister to CNN when he starts his gig at the cable news giant.For now, however, we have an entire new season of No Reservations to look forward to.Since it's Bourdain's last hurrah ... More >>

Bizarre Foods America: Miami Episode Airs Tonight

Watch Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Week in Miami here.Last December Andrew Zimmern hit the streets of Miami in search of our beachy playground's strangest eating experiences. For five days, the Travel Channel host dined on turtle, fry bread, and local seafood.Zimmern also interacted with the local...um. ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Inks Deal With CNN For New Show (Updated)

Anthony Bourdain is putting more on his plate to chew on. The author and host of Travel Channel's No Reservations has just signed on to host an as-yet-untitled weekend show on CNN, as part of the cable network's expansion from news-only to food and travel shows.Launching in early 2013, the show will ... More >>

Disney and Univision Launching Miami-Based Cable News Network

CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are about to get some Miami-based competition backed by one of the world's largest media conglomerates.Disney and Univision announced this morning that they are set to launch a 24-hour news network sometime in the next year, and the channel's operation will be headquartered i ... More >>

A New Year's Eve TV Guide for Proud Homebodies and Couch Potatoes

​VIP this, general admission that ... New Year's Eve is totally overrated. Why deal with hoards of drunk buffoons sporting ridiculously goofy 2012 sunglasses, overpriced prix-fixe menu options, and endless DUI checkpoints when you can slip into your Forever Lazy and ring in the New Year from y ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: He's In Miami, Bitch (Sneak Peek)

Laine DossAnthony Bourdain's in Miami (finally).​Anthony Bourdain filmed The Layover in Miami back in the summer and we've been dying to find out exactly what he did on the Magic City. He definitely went to some food trucks, stayed at The Raleigh Hotel, cruised on a boat, visited Blue Piano and at ... More >>

Luisa Fernanda at the Ziff Ballet Opera House through November 26

Fred Durst Is a Douchebag! Limp Bizkit Singer Scores Conveniently Titled CBS Sitcom

​Newsflash! Turns out that network TV execs' massive hard-on isn't limited to sitcoms starring rappers. Apparently, they find whiteboy rap-rockers supersexy and crazy funny too. Last week, we here at Crossfade chuckled about the fact that former Rollin 20s Crip, gangsta rapper, and proud daddy S ... More >>

Republican Univision Debate: Fear, Not Rubio, the Driving Factor

Five Republican candidates -- iincluding Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry -- have pulled out of a Univision debate in January. Why? Allegedly it is because of a comment the head of the blockbuster Spanish language channel's made to Florida Sen Marco Rubio's people attempting to blackmail him ... More >>

Woman Says Univision Lost Her Mother's Bones After Investigative Report

photo by Brian C. Goss via Wikimedia Commons​Ana Teresa Martin had only one simple wish when she agreed to let an Univision TV crew dig up her mother's bones and ship them off to a University of Florida expert: To find out whether she was secretly descended from the Russian Romanov dynasty. Who ca ... More >>

Obama Needs to See "Significant Changes" Before Normalizing Relations with Cuba

President Obama has rolled back some of the strictest policies regarding Cuba, including easing travel restrictions and allowing for more remittances. Though, in an interview with Univision this week the president made clear that he will not normalize relations with the nation until Cuba makes "sign ... More >>

Obama Bets on Bulls Over Heat

​When President Barack Obama wasn't talking about important things like Cuba in his interview this week with Univision, he took time to discuss the very serious topic of Bulls vs. Heat. We'll give you one guess as to what team the former Illinois senator is placing his wager.

Florida International University Disses Democracy

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition, Luke -- who is a candidate for Miami-Dade mayor -- has a few words for Florida International Uni ... More >>

Univision Mayoral Forum At FIU Snubs Non-Cuban American Candidates UPDATED

Does the Golden Panther Speake Spanish Only?​UPDATE: Univision says candidates invited to its forum were invited based on the amount of money they've raised for their campaigns and not because of their Cubaness. You'd expect a state-run university in Cuba to exclude candidates from participating i ... More >>

Florida's Swamp Snakes Are Now Reality TV Superstars

​Could The Real Swamp Snakes of Everglades City or America's Next Top Invasive Species be coming to your television set anytime soon? Possibly. Over the next two months, not one, but two cable channels are set to roll out reality television shows based on snakes living in the swamps of Florida and ... More >>

Univision Wants to be The Number One Network in America in Five Years

​In five years the most watched shows in America could emanate from a massive television studio in Doral. No CBS, Fox, ABC or NBC isn't looking to relocate production from Los Angeles. Univision hopes to make those networks irrelevant, and wants to be the number one network in America. That may no ... More >>

Don Francisco, 70-Year-Old Host Of Univision's Sabado Gigante, Faces Chilean Paternity Suit

courtesy Univision​​Anyone who watches Univision's decades-long institution, Sabado Gigante, knows that host Don Francisco is kind of a baller. The 70-year-old variety show wizard is an unholy mutant blend of Bob Barker, Simon Cowell and Anderson Cooper, all in a body that stole George Hamilton' ... More >>

Miami Christian Group Protests Univision for Airing Interview with Openly Gay Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin​A South Florida church apparently thinks featuring a gay man on television is obscene. Oscar Aguero Ministry announced plans this weekend to picket the offices of Univision for airing an interview back on November 2 featuring a now openly gay popstar Ricky Martin discussing his sexual ... More >>

Is Cristina Saralegui Taking Her Show to Telemundo?

​Today Univision airs its final episode of El Show de Cristina, the 21-year-old talk show of Cristina Saralegui, AKA Spanish Oprah. Despite initial reports that the popular show's cancellation was a mutual decision, Saralegui has since said she was more or less forced out by the network. She won't ... More >>

Univision Refuses to Air Ad Telling Latinos Not to Vote

​The airwaves are rife with ads telling us who and what to vote or not vote for. What you don't see is ads telling you not to vote at all. A conservative group tried to air an ad telling Latino voters not to vote in Nevada on Univision, but the Miami-based network refuses to show it.

Cristina Thinks Univision Cancelled Her Because She's Too Old

Back in August, when Univision announced it was ending the twenty-year run of Cristina Saralegui's popular Miami-based talk show, El Show de Cristina, it didn't seem there was any behind-the-scenes drama and that the host's departure was voluntary. Now with three weeks to go before the final episod ... More >>

El Show de Cristina to End 20 Year Talk Show Run

​Cristina Saralegui, who is basically Cuban-American Oprah, is set to end her popular Miami-based Univision talk show, El Show de Cristina, on November 1 after a twenty-year run. Oh dear Lord, now all of those bored abuelas watch now?

Brazil Bash

Solar Mountain Partner Uses Copyrighted Footage Without Permission

​This past June 16, during a workshop where he pitched the Biscayne Landings site, lawyer Marc Douthit showed North Miami city council members and residents a 14-minute Discovery Channel film about Ski Dubai, an indoor snow resort in the United Arab Emirates. When a resident asked Douthit if he ha ... More >>

Over 2,000 Free Opera Tickets Up For Grabs

Photo by: Ken HowardWhat?!? Everyone in the audience got in for free?!​These days, we'd be lucky if we could afford to see a soap opera on network TV, let alone an opera at the Arsht Center. But thanks to a grant from the Knight Foundation, even the unemployed now have a chance to see fat ladies s ... More >>

Sarah Palin Only Knows About "Real America," Which Apparently Doesn't Include "Latin America"

Shocking news from Politico: Sarah Palin was apparently uninformed and failed to come to a simple understanding on issues while running for vice president! In this case it was issues relating to Latin America policy and Hispanics.A top adviser on Hispanic issues to John McCain's presidential campaig ... More >>

Bruce Weber's Liberty City Is Like Paris to Me Debuts on Sundance Channel This Month

via Sundance Channel​Google Image search "Bruce Weber," and it might be easy to dismiss the photographer as a bit obsessed with nudity in black-and-white. After all, Weber is responsible for just about every softcore porn-style image associated with Abercrombie & Fitch, not to mentio ... More >>

Bridget's Sexiest Beaches Obligatory Miami Episode Airs Tomorrow

Bridget Marquardt, who rose to fame as one of Hugh Heffner's three girlfriends on Girls Next Door, has the best job in the world. Basically she gets to travel the world touring beaches on Travel channel's dime for her new show Bridget's Sexiest Beaches. It's not going to win her a Noble prize or ... More >>

MegaTV Gets Univision's Disgraced Leftovers

Fernando del Rincón used to have a good gig on Univision's Primer Impacto, anchoring alongside his wife, Carmen Dominicci. Then things took a turn toward the telenovela. The pair split. Rincón had allegedly had an affair, and then Dominicci publically accused him of abuse. Univision fired her, wh ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern Meets Jimbo

Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel's popular Bizarre Foods series, will be at Jimbo's on Virginia Key tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday) in order to film part of the show's upcoming Beach Special.  Be there at 4:30 p.m. or later if you want to take part in the party -- and perhaps be seen as a bl ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Looking For Local Restaurants to Embarrass on National TV

There are so many reality tv shows on network television these days, that I've really lost track. Apparently the Fox television network allows this ornery British chef Gordon Ramsay to have not one, but two reality series run on it's airwaves. This second one which I've never heard of until now, "Ki ... More >>

Martinez and Diaz-Balart Finally Agree To Debate

Why So Paranoid?

At this webcast Gus Van Sant Q&A session, you can ask him yourself.

Movin’ On Up

See how the other half lives, HGTV style.

Premios Juventud

The Wild Things Are Here

Longo Time Gone

The underreported death of Miami's finest sports journalist

Suits vs. Roots

Did NBC "professionalize" Channel 51's Cuba coverage? Or just weaken it?

People's Choice

A brand-new label takes a chance on a little orphan has-been -- and wins

BEST LOCAL GIRL MADE GOOD

Chef Michelle Bernstein

Timing is everything

Rolando Barral's long, bumpy ride as the Johnny Carson of Latin TV

Best TV Station To Die In The Past Twelve Months

WAMI

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

The Secret Script