It feels good when you can enjoy a good piece of artwork and know the planet didn’t have to take a cut in order to make it great. Have a go at this free festival and rub elbows with locals green vendors, artists, and educators. Ride a bike, or walk…
Gas is over four dollars. Jesus didn’t come back. It’s April, and now we’re eight months from Mayan doom.But wait! There’s hope. While every other place is sucking money from our veins like a love scene in the Twilight Saga, Area 31 has come to the rescue. Starting today, it’s…
Sweet zombie Jesus! It’s Friday, y’all! You know what that means: let’s fast!Okay, so maybe we’re not all fasting for Passover Seder tonight. Maybe the rest of us are greatly anticipating what the Easter bunny will bring to our backyards Sunday morning. You better hope it’s not steamy and brown,…
Sometimes the Publix Bakery just doesn’t cut it. Jeffrey Loria, owner of the Miami Marlins, commissioned an opening day cake to celebrate the April 4 inaugural game (in which they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, by the way). About a month ago, Loria placed a phone call to the…
In an effort to help Share Our Strength, an organization that aims to end childhood hunger in the United States, eight Miami food bloggers are teaming up to make a dent in the charity’s donations with a bake sale, set to take place at the South Miami Farmers Market April…
It’s that time of year again when we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2012 issue in June. Until then, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.65. Pear Apple…
If you were at The Grind burger battle last night and didn’t shower before hitting the sack, you know you smell like shit this morning.The South Florida burger competition drew hundreds of guests to the Miami Entertainment Complex in Wynwood last night. Guests milled around the crowded and, uh, smoky…
Five Florida chefs are preparing for a battle of swine this Sunday at Cochon 555.The touring pork competition, which debuts in Miami this Sunday, April 1, gathers five of our top chefs, and gives them each a heritage breed pig and an open forum to create a nose-to-tail porcine experience…
It’s been a hard week. The kids were a mess, the wife’s been nagging, the husband’s been lazy – it’s finally Friday and you need another reason to drink.Short Order and Coconut Grove have your back (but, not your liver).Tonight we’ll be giving Coconut Grove its plaque for winning our…
It’s Friday, y’all. You know what that means:”Shots shots shots shotsshots shots shots shotsshots shots shots shotsshots shots shots shotsIT’S THE WEEKEND!”Yes, we rewrote the lyrics to LMFAO and Lil’ Jon’s song, “Shots.” If anyone has any qualms about it, please feel free to know we don’t give a damn.What…
It’s often the tiniest of places that go unnoticed for months. Then someone stumbles across them, loves them, and spreads the word so much that the little spaces become booming hot spots.That is exactly what happened to La Latina, a “new” areperia on NE Second Avenue, just east of midtown.It…
It happens to us all the time: you’re at the supermarket deli counter, waiting in what seems to be an endless line of people getting out of work, you look at the number on your little green ticket stub and it says 62. But the number in brightly lit red…
It’s that time of year again when we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2012 issue in June. Until then, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.68. Corn Bread…
Somewhere between the new tax-payer-funded stadium, Romero Britto drama, and the ridiculous sculpture with somersaulting marlins, we mustered up the curiosity to see what the Marlins Park kitchens will be whipping out.So throw on those rose-colored glasses, folks. The Miami Marlins, who open their season April 4 against the St…
South Florida activist group 1Miami is hosting a gathering this weekend in Hialeah and Little Haiti to bring Carnival Cruise Lines to the public’s attention. They say Carnival is figuratively “sinking Miami.” While most associate the cruise line with family memories, bad sunburns, and tanning oil, 1Miami faults it for…
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LeBron James just Tweeted a photo of the Miami Heat posing in hoodies in honor of Trayvon Martin.His Tweet reads, “#WeAreTrayvonMartin #Hoodies #Stereotyped #WeWantJustice.”We can’t remember the last time professional athletes took a stand on political issues or criminal cases.So far, the uploaded iPhone picture has received 41 comments, most…
Rafael Munga, 26, was arrested Thursday after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman inside her Fontainebleau penthouse suite, Miami Beach Police say.The victim said she woke up to a naked man climbing into her bed, according to a report by CBS Miami. She left the door to her suite open because she…
Broward state rep and House Democratic leader-designate Perry Thurston Jr. spoke with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Last Word last night about Governor Rick Scott’s decision to create a task force to look at the “stand your ground” law. While he sees the “prospects looking better,” MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capeheart…
It’s that time of year again when we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2012 issue in June. Until then, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.71. Grilled Wings…
Sweet holy Jesus, it’s Friday, y’all! For five grueling days we’ve been schlepping on with our ridiculously mundane lives. But finally — yes, finally — we’ve arrived at the best part of the week: the weekend! Oh, weekend, how we love thee.Anyway, have you prepped your livers for all the…
Venus Williams didn’t let a little Sjogren’s Syndrome get in her way at the first women’s singles match of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne yesterday.No, no, she showed that disorder who was boss and whooped Japan’s Kimiko Date-Krumm in a 77 minute-long short match (6-0, 6-3).The 31 year-old…
