You can’t say that you can cook better than mom, but that’s the premise of a new cooking show, Just Like Mama, which is set to begin filming in January. In it, Miami personal chef Stuart Shaw re-creates healthier versions of home-cooked meals that celebrities knew best.Shaw has been cooking…
Attention all active duty military personnel and veterans, clear the chow hall and skip the parades, South Florida’s taking you out for lunch, and dinner. With proof of active duty military or veteran status, you can enjoy free grub at several restaurants. When you wake up in the morning, head over…
Jamaican-born hip-hop legend, actor, and father Heavy D died in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening. He was 44. On Monday, the singer collapsed at his Beverly Hills home. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he later died, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. No foul play…
We all know that times are tough, but in Marathon last night a scene straight out of Charles Dickens worst imagination played out when a brawl that erupted between neighbors over two slices of bread ended with a two-month-old baby getting sliced in the head with a knife.The trouble began…
Last month Gov. Rick Scott bragged that the unemployment in Florida had dropped a tenth of one percent, with 64,000 jobs added between January and July. True enough, but now it turns out that more than half those jobs were health care, food service and hotel gigs paying low wages…
Florida Agriculture commissioner Adam Putnam went on television this past weekend to warn that the giant African land snail can carry meningitis. If you eat it, that is. Who in hell would consider eating a slimy snail the size of a Chihuahua? Plenty of people, it turns out.The snail grows…
Miami-based Burger King is once again living up to its name. Last week the company announced it will release a giant, pizza-size burger in Japan over the holidays as an alternative to Christmas dinner that will get people saying, “Merii Kurisumasu.”Giant, Mexican-style burgers for Christmas in Japan. What? Talk about…
Police in Titusville, a town near the Kennedy Space Center, are investigating a gruesome tragedy this morning. Local police say a 19-month-old child was killed when his grandmother accidentally ran him over with a lawnmower…
Cory Smoot, the guitarist for satirical, costumed heavy metal band Gwar, has died at the age of 34. He was found dead on the tour bus by his bandmates while refueling in Pembina, North Dakota, before crossing into Canada. His death took place only hours after completing a performance at…
For fifty years, all Cuban property sales have been strictly under the cigar-stained thumbs of Fidel and Raul Castro — until today. The regime announced that starting next week citizens can own up to two houses, move without government approval, and buy and sell their houses. Some experts see a…
Considered Miami’s oldest bar, Tobacco Road was once a speakeasy, a gambling den, a gay bar, a strip joint, and blues bar. It has survived Al Capone, Prohibition, the Great Depression, deadly hurricanes, the Mariel boatlift, race riots, cocaine cowboys. And next Friday, Tobacco Road celebrates its 99th anniversary with…
Sean Grimburg’s Wellington burger is topped with bleu cheese and a foie gras-truffle-onion sauce. At BGR, his place in the Gables, they also serve a crisp pint of nutty-coffee flavored Maduro Cigar City Oatmeal Brown Ale. Try ’em this evening for BGR The Burger Joint’s first ever Artisanal Beer Tasting…
The Miami Culinary Institute cultivates culinary talent but doesn’t put it to good use, at least not at its new, high-end restaurant, Tuyo, which opened a few days ago on its top floor. With 40 students inducted last spring into Miami Dade College’s newest addition and 90 more this fall,…
The world’s population reaches seven billion today, according to the United Nations. That has led to a lot of hand wringing about how we feed future populations around the world.But what we really need to worry about is right here.In both Miami-Dade and the rest of Florida, the population has…
Olive oil, rosemary, and basalmic-glazed fig with mascarpone cheese. They sound like dinner, but they’re actually ice cream flavors made by Coolhaus, the architecturally-inspired ice cream sandwich food truck with unorthodox flavors, which debuts November 17. “The spirit of the food truck is catching on,” said Natasha Case, CEO of…
Walt Disney might be known best for sunny characters like Mickey Mouse, but that doesn’t mean it’s opposed to a little dark political skullduggery on the side. Disney is worst among big American corporations in terms of political transparency, according to the D.C.-based nonpartisan Center for Political Accountability.That means Disney…
When someone blurts out, “Fire! Fire!,” it is hard to not think images of Beavis’s bulging-eyeball, tense, clenched-fist fascination of fire. And how can anybody forget Butt-head’s heavily-aspirated laugh? After a nearly 14-year hiatus, Mike Judge’s loveable socially-awkward, porn-loving metal heads Beavis and Butt-head returned to MTV last night. The…
Time for a little Halloween honesty: Florida is terrifying. Serial killers Ted Bundy and Gary Ray Bowles have stalked our towns. Prehistoric, sharp-fanged creatures circle our swamps and oceans, hungry for blood. Real-life vampires kill their victims and slit their throats. In fact, the Sunshine State has enough real monsters…
Yesterday, after 18 months of construction and $44 million, Goya Foods opened a huge new distribution facility in West Miami-Dade to send goods to Latin America and beyond. One of those present was president of Florida operations, Frank Unanue, a member of the family that owns the nation’s largest Hispanic…
Miami Beach traffic is already hell — especially on Collins Avenue, where the lack of left-turn lanes combined with miles of buses and cabs waiting to get into tiny art deco hotel driveways equals nightmarish gridlock. It’s about to get even worse.The Florida Department of Transportation wants to spend $2.5…
