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Memorial Day Burgers: Hard Rock Executive Chef Gideon Horowitz Gets Back to Basics

Memorial Day is fast approaching, so what does this mean for food? Burgers. Lots and lots of thick and juicy burgers. And grilling them over an open flame, turning raw slabs of bovine muscle protein into delectable, denaturized eats. It's all about the meat, the bun, and the grill. Everything else ... More >>

Florida Keys Deputy Arrested After Buying Drugs From Informant While In Uniform

Monroe County Deputy Jaime Miranda pulled into a Winn-Dixie parking lot Saturday night and left with a whole lot of beef -- the kind of beef that will get you a crap load of time in the joint that is. Miranda is accused of buying drugs from an informant, all while in uniform in his police car like D ... More >>

Calle Ocho 2013: A Guide to the Many Stages

Calle Ocho 2013: A 13-Stage Music and Entertainment Guide

Little Havana rises with the cock. Sunlight gleams off her concrete hips. She revels in her hot and sticky wetness. As fresh, juicy papaya scents float on palm tree breezes, she burns a sacred herb and swallows a cafecito with a piece of buttered toast. Today is her birthday, and soon 2 million fee ... More >>

Five Reasons Publix Isn't the Best Grocery Store Ever

Like Coke versus Pepsi or McDonald's versus Burger King, some business battles will be waged forever. After all, people have strong opinions about what they put in their pie-hole. The same goes for supermarkets. Some people are die-hard Whole Foods junkies; others (as former Northeasterners know) ... More >>

Most Pathetic Robber Ever Called His Mom for a Ride Home After Failing to Hold Up Convenience Store

Poor Zachariah Dalton Howard. After failing miserably at trying to rob a convenience store, the dejected would-be robber sulked over to another store. Not to rob it, but to call his mom so she could pick him up.

Ex-MDPD Cop In Excessive Force Lawsuit Was Fired After Skipping Emergency Calls, Attacking Reporter

Last week, we reported on a lawsuit accusing two Miami-Dade officers of excessive force in an arrest outside a Kendall nightclub in 2010. As it turns out, one of those officers, Jose A. Huerta, was recently fired after 10 years on the force. Turns out his firing, had nothing to do with lawsuit. Inst ... More >>

Top 10 Supermarkets: Freshest Food, Best Prices, Top Service

Billy is really tired. After a full day of work and the gym, he just wants to go home, eat and lay down. But Marcia called earlier and asked him to stop and grab some diapers and milk? Well, Billy-boy, we got your answer.There are several factors that make a supermarket good or bad. Consumer Re ... More >>

Tropical Storm Isaac: Hurricane Parties, Restaurant and Event Updates, Closings UPDATED

Tropical storm Isaac is barreling toward the Florida Keys and you only have to look outside your window to see that feeder bands are already affecting Miami-Dade. Before you head out to a store, restaurant, or bar we suggest calling them ahead of time to make sure they're open. Some events (especial ... More >>

$400,000 to Anyone Who Will Open Overtown Grocery Store

If you live in Overtown, there's nowhere nearby to purchase groceries.There's a site at 1490 NW Third Avenue where stores were located in the distant past. But it has been empty for years.Now authorities are offering big incentives to anybody who will open the site. The Southeast Overtown/Park West ... More >>

Publix Seafood Practices Rank 19 of 20 Stores Analyzed, Greenpeace Says

Wikimedia CCPublix seafood practices score a failing grade of 2.7 out of 10, according to the environmental group Greenpeace. A study by the organization's Carting Away the Oceans project (CATO) analyzed major grocers such as Target, Safeway, Whole Foods, and Winn-Dixie. Publix landed at 19 among th ... More >>

Calle Ocho 2012: An 11-Stage Music and Entertainment Guide

​It feels like only yesterday that we were shaking our hips with Gloria Estefan in a record-breaking 119,969-person conga line at Calle Ocho. But that was March of 1988, Reagan was in still office, and Miami New Times was only a fortnightly newspaper, not the massive multimedia empire that it is ... More >>

Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro has a bad attendance record

The Fresh Market South Beach Grand Opening Wednesday

​The Fresh Market is a lot like Santa Claus and Disney World. Sure you're a jaded non-believer, but then the automatic doors part. You get a simultaneous hit of classical music and the co-mingled scents of cinnamon, cheese, and coffee, and you gladly fork over your rent money for Manchego from Spa ... More >>

More Than 1,000 Thanksgiving Meals Handed Out at Marlins Stadium

​The yet-to-be-completed Marlins Stadium in Little Havana has had its share of controversy. But last week, the debates were set aside and charity prevailed. The Marlins hosted a celebratory Thanksgiving Meal Distribution afternoon. They partnered with several South Florida organizations including ... More >>

Thanksgiving Turkey Tips and Helplines (Video)

​Thanksgiving is a time when families gather around the dinner table for a fabulous, decadent meal of perfectly made golden brown turkey with all the trimmings. The only problem is that unless you're Martha Stewart, you probably won't get it right.Questions run through our minds like how do I th ... More >>

Janet Whisby Barr Arrested for Hiring Hitman to Kill Her Husband in 2003

​In 2003, a man came up to Jeffrey Ricardo Barr outside of his home in North Miami and shot him in the head, leaving Barr dead on the sidewalk. For years, his murder remained a mystery, but now, eight years later, police have arrested his wife, Janet Whisby Barr, claiming that she arranged for a h ... More >>

Some Grocery Totes Contain Lead

Photo by Ily GoyanesSick of lax government regulations.​They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. That may be, but what about the road to learning disabilities in children and fertility problems in adults? Who knew that being environmentally conscious could make you sick?If you are ... More >>

Mary's Coin: Best Place for Laundry, Food, and Coffee

Jacob KatelThe 6 a.m. shift begins.​Mary's Coin Laundry and Cafeteria opened in 1982 as a simple wash house. It had been converted from a plant nursery and Bahamian-style wooden shack that had been around for 55 years. Then, Victor Sanchez, a construction worker and son-in-law of the Mary for whom ... More >>

Goodbye Wallflower Gallery, For Now

It was the end of the '90s and I found myself without a car and relying on Miami's public transportation. It was Sunset Drive, a couple doors down from the liquor store and across from the Winn-Dixie and the sun was at its blistering best and I was on a bench, my feet stretched before me. Waiting. A ... More >>

For the Super Bowl, Sideline Shrimp Dip and Touchdown Trash

Tony Chachere's is the only pre-made seasoning a Cajun will use, a friend told me when I mentioned I was testing one of the Louisiana company's Super Bowl recipes. Chef Kelly Williams​Tony's corporate chef Kelly Williams, a CIA grad and Louisiana native, shared a few Super Bowl-inspired recipes an ... More >>

Publix Pulls Free Calendars After Including Islamic New Year

​For years Publix has been giving away free calendars to its costumers as a simple little thank you. This was nice and all until Jeff Katz and Joyce Kaufman, conservative blowhards on 850WFTL, complained that December 7th was marked as Islamic New Years, and not as Pearl Harbor Day. That's the pro ... More >>

It’ll Fall off the Bone

Food News Roundup - Haiti, Cuba, Hunger, Top Chef, Nachos, and Opium

Rotten food donations leave Haitians hungry. [SunJournal]Wal Mart Stores experiments with latin themed super store Mas Club, while Winn Dixie adds signs in Spanish and stocks ethnic merchandise. [WallStreetJournal]Florida Chef Ron Duprat represents for Miami Haitians on upcoming season of Bravo's To ... More >>

A New Way to Chew Your Yuca: Organic Tribal Stone Crackers from Explorer's Bounty

Explorer's Bounty Boiled... fried... and now stone-ground and baked.  Miami-based natural foods company Explorer's Bounty is venturing into the unleavened market, launching Tribal Stone Crackers.  This 100 percent certified organic snack is the first of its kind in the world to be made fro ... More >>

Interview With Chef Jeremiah of Bullfrog Eatz, Rick Ross' Personal Chef

Image via myspace.com/bullfrogeatz Chef Jeremiah Bullfrog is a professional caterer and personal chef to the Boss, Rick Ross. Short Order recently spoke to Bullfrog via email and asked him a few questions.New Times: What's your name, where you from, what do you do, how did you get started?Chef Jerem ... More >>

Shear Happiness

It's spring, and that means the Marlins are back.

The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or ... More >>

We Want Our Baby-Backs

Yee-haw! Head on down to Ribfest, y’hear?

Eat the Pigskin, Don't Watch It

Eat the Pigskin, Don't Watch It

Sorry, but Whole Foods is Awesome

Sorry, but Whole Foods is Awesome

Hope Lodge to Close Its Doors

Not So Good Old Days

Portrait of a Dealer

He's young, lives in Kendall, has a day job, and sells blow at a reasonable price

Selected Events for the Week of May 26, 2005

Pooch Kicks

As book adaptations go, Because of Winn-Dixie's no dog

The Bitch

Winter White

Letters from the Issue of October 23, 2003

BEST WEEKEND GETAWAY

Parmers Resort

Ice Cream Man

County Jail's #1 Problem?

Parking -- that's right, parking

Oh, Canada by the Bay

Pangea

Death of a Maiden

Déjà was a survivor in Miami's perilous world of transsexual hookers -- that is, until she met a customer named Bowlegs

Don't Look for the Union Label

For two years Goya Foods has waged a war to prevent its workers from unionizing. Now things are starting to get really ugly.

Windfalls

Best Junk

Flamingo Plaza

Definitely Not Kosher

Did the Meat People bamboozle four Orthodox Jews about a nonkosher brisket?

Load Trip

Four angry young drunks drive to the top of the local rock heap