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Taco Fusion in Tampa: Still Serving Lion Meat Despite Denials

People became angry in Tampa recently when it was announced that city's Taco Fusion was serving lion meat. They also serve gazelle, kangaroo, ostrich, lion, beaver, otter, and other animals, but it was the king of the jungle that awakened the public's ire. In the face of much criticism, the followi ... More >>

Marco Rubio Wants You To Know He is Not Hashtag Jesus

Marco Rubio continues to be everywhere this week, including peering out at you from the news stand on the cover of Time magazine. The last remaining major news weekly splashed "The Republican Savior" in big, bold yellow letters across the Florida Senator, but Rubio has taking issue with the characte ... More >>

Marco Rubio Will Deliver the GOP's State of the Union Rebuttal In English and Spanish

Any doubts that the Republican party is pinning all hopes of recouping Hispanic voters on Miami's own Sen. Marco Rubio should be dispelled by the news out this morning: Rubio isn't just going to deliver his party's rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union speech next Tuesday, he'll be giving ... More >>

South Beach Author Michael Grunwald's The New New Deal Turns Washington, D.C., on Its Head

South Beach-Based Author Michael Grunwald Is Changing D.C.'s Mind About the Stimulus

In our nation's capital, real consensus happens as often as a noncreepy Rick Scott grin. Yet for the past couple of years, everyone in Washington, D.C., has agreed on this: President Obama's mammoth 2009 stimulus was kind of laughable. Green-energy initiatives? Saving America from financial ruin? Ha ... More >>

Five Cubans Ozzie Guillen Should Praise at His Press Conference Today

Poor Ozzie Guillen. Baseball season just got started and already the Miami Marlins skipper has inserted his foot in his mouth.The controversial Venezuelan born manager had the audacity to praise Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in an upcoming issue of Time magazine and all hell has broken loose in Miami' ... More >>

Ozzie Guillen Apologizes For Praising Fidel as Cuban Group Plans to Protest At Stadium

Yesterday, Ozzie Guillen backtracked quicker than Emilio Bonifacio evading a pickoff after Time magazine quoted him admitting he kinda respects Fidel Castro for not falling for the CIA's best exploding cigar tricks. Guillen now says he didn't mean to come off as a Fidelista, telling the Miami Herald ... More >>

Macarons are the New Cupcakes; Solo Has Them Starting Today

Lee KleinMacarons at Vida brunch at Fontainebleau​Macarons are absolutely the new cupcakes.I know this because I was watching ABC News and they said that "macaroons are the new cupcakes." The next day Time magazine came in the mail and in it was an article entitled "Will Macarons be the new cupcak ... More >>

Alberto Cutie: Post-Catholic Padre

Restaurants Lying About the Amount of Calories in Their Food? You Don't Say

​I knew it! Some restaurants, both sit down and fast food are downplaying the amount of calories in their menu items, according to an article at Time.com. Susan Roberts, who directs the Energy Metabolism Laboratory of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University, says that "healthy ... More >>

Portale, McInnis, Gorenstein, and More: Is The Classical Chef Dead?

C. Stiles Jeff McInnis​It was while watching the PBS show Point of View about the Un des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France pastry competition (Kings of Pastry) -- in which classically-trained pastry chefs undergo intense training and pressure to vie for the honor of being one of France's finest ... More >>

Dreaming in Cuba

Health Care Costs a Miami Family of Four $23,362 a Year, More Than Anywhere Else in America

​The average health care bill for a family of four living in the Miami area in 2011 will be $23,362. That's more than any other major metro area in America, and a 120.5 percent, or $3,969, more than the national average. Considering that national average for health care cost has more than doubled ... More >>

Marco Rubio Appears on Cover of Time With Republicans Who Make Him Seem Downright Normal

​Why, yes, that is Marco Rubio peering at you from the latest cover of Time magazine. Unlike yesterday's tea bagger beefcake calendar, the cover is for real. Rubio takes one of four special-edition covers that feature some of the most talked-about Republican candidates from across the country, and ... More >>

Manny Diaz and Michael Bloomberg Team Up Against Gerrymandering

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is coming to bat for his homeboy, former Miami ​Mayor Manny Diaz, this Friday. The pair will lay out their reasons for supporting amendments 5 and 6 on the November ballot at an 11 a.m. press conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Miami.The pitch ... More >>

LeBron's Jerseys & The Ground Zero Mosque: Solutions

A group of Ohioans have offered to send LeBron James' former Cavaliers jerseys to the homeless of Miami, a purportedly generous gesture to help clothe poor folks. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has offered to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the proximity of Ground Zero, a purportedly generous ... More >>

Ground Zero Mosque: A Solution

This post has nothing to do with food, but it might give you something to chew on:As we all know by now, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has offered to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the proximity of Ground Zero, a purportedly generous gesture to help build trust between people of different fa ... More >>

Top 5 Miami Gas Stations to Eat At

via nostalgiafinder.comOil, blood, and Murray's Pomade.​Sure, there's that pesky oil spill dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of deadly crude into our fish basket. But when all the seafood is dead or infected, we can find sustenance in the industry that put us in this situation.Besi ... More >>

New Soy Chicken Is Just Like Chicken

​In this week's Time magazine, John Cloud reports on a soy product that not only tastes like chicken, but shares textural similarities to a real bird too (Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat). Scientists at the University of Missouri are behind the new food; it was announced this past ... More >>

More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others

Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

Time Honors A Village Voice Media Food Critic

​That would be Jason Sheehan, whose Dirty Cooking made Time Magazine's just-released list of ten best nonfiction books of the year: "A great tell-all by the Anthony Bourdain of greasy-spoon kitchens." Sheehan, a James Beard winner, just this week moved from being the restaurant reviewer for Westwo ... More >>

Time: Miami-Dade County Commission is "a Feckless, Corruption-Tainted Body"

via MiamiDade.gov​The sun still shines. The beaches are still some of the best in the world. The weather, unfortunate for this time of year, is still the same as it ever was. All of those stereotypical things that draw people to call Florida home have gone more or less unchanged, so what's to blam ... More >>

The Heat Is On

One gallery bucks the summer doldrums.

All That Teacher-Student Sex in Florida Gets National Shout Out

Via Gina, Flickr CCTime Magazine has a burning question: What's up with all the horny female teachers in Florida? The publication ran a story a couple days ago, inspired by Maria Guzman Hernandez. You know, the 32-year-old Hialeah teacher who was arrested for allegedly seducing a 15-year-old boy las ... More >>

Leonard Abess Makes TIME 100

Every year Time magazine makes a list of the 100 most influential people of that year. It is a big deal, because the American public loves lists. Those you would suspect make the grade: Barack & Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Oprah. A few surprising, but warranted inclusions: ... More >>

Prunk TV: Kevin Rudolf

Imagine if cyberspace had existed when Andy Warhol was alive. He would have been a vlogger, I'm sure. This one is for you Andy! The entire video below was made with my one-and-only Prunk Phone (my friends call it a "ghetto iPhone"). "Drunk" Ken recently called Rollins on the Prunk Phone, ... More >>

Time: When the big 'cane hits, we're f@#!ed

Some "Worsts" For the Year in Music

So Much Things to Say

Dirty Girl Does Miami

Perception Is Reality

Drugs, guns, violence, beauty, style, and the illusory world of Miami Vice

Night&Day

A spa of tranquility

This Week's Day by Day Picks

The Other E-Commerce

Ecstasy hysteria flourishes in Florida

Blues Travelers

Some young souls put a white-rock spin on down-home blues

The Buddha Brotherhood

In Japan the Soka Gakkai sect is religiously aggressive and politically ambitious. In South Florida it's about peace, prosperity, and positive thinking.

Night & Day

March 26-April 1, 1998

Beastie Boy

Canvasing the Caribbean

Miami Trite

How could one possibly describe Miami's fiscal meltdown without mentioning Don Johnson?

Swelter 8

Frankly Speaking

Zappa wasn't in it only for the money

Long Hot Summer

O Solo Mio

Going to the Keys

Eddie Palmieri and Hilton Ruiz go pound for pound

Daddies Dearest

Female Trouble