Geeks just can’t catch a break. The Comic Con Movie Tour, which would have featured Morgan Spurlock’s film, Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, has been canceled. The event would have taken place at the Fillmore on April 7, a day that all fanboys and -girls had eagerly marked…
Scientists may have discovered a link between ice cream and drugs.The issue of whether or not food can be addictive has been largely debated. Now however, researchers Kyle S. Burger and Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute, have found that there is in fact a link.MSNBC reports that Burger…
In a demonstration of government oversight reaching Orwellian proportions, a 4-year-old’s lunchbox was inspected and its contents deemed inappropriate for her to eat.The incident, which occurred at West Hoke Elementary School in North Carolina, is a perfect example of why the government should stay out of our kitchens and our…
Valentine’s Day is one occasion when most folks — even those of us who like to live outside the box, then take a chainsaw to it until all that’s left are infinitesimal flecks of cardboard — choose to go the traditional route, and showering our mates with flowers, candy, and…
The Sonic Beach in Homestead has lost it. And by “it,” I mean its wow factor, its novelty, its quality, and its mind.Homestead residents were so eager for its grand opening that hundreds of people showed up (including me) and waited in line for hours. And you know what? It…
McDonald’s has declared that it will no longer use “pink slime” in the manufacturing of its food products, ABC News reported yesterday.Much like you’re probably doing right now, when I first heard the news I asked myself, What the hell is pink slime?And much like most Americans, I had no…
There have been plenty of f’d up news stories coming out of South Florida, but the more and more I read about wampeters, granfalloons, and nut bags that make up the rest of our country, I start to think that it may, after all, be safe to drink the water.Freshman…
Maybe it’s that whole exiled-from-the-Motherland, terrorized-by-a-ruthless-dictator thing, but Cubans tend to be a little paranoid. Of course, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not watching you. And the fact that Michelle Obama, First Lady, Democrat, former WNBA power forward, closet lesbian, and professional beard, will be visiting South Florida…
Well, well, well. Who woulda thought that the notoriously Southern Paula Deen was actually a Cuban-American in disguise? Oh, no wait — she isn’t. It just seems that way, since like many of our abuelitas, she has been suffering from diabetes while pushing sugar-laden goodies down our eager throats for…
The highly anticipated anthology Best Lesbian Erotica 2012 was just released a few weeks ago. We’re pretty sure you think you have lesbians all figured out. Then again, right now some of you may be thinking, ‘What’s erotica?” Heck, some of you may even be wondering what an anthology is.Do…
We’re almost two weeks into 2012, but the food-related craziness from last year has apparently spilled over. We thought Miamians were nuts, but check this out. Tragedy struck an Ohio family after Paul Gilkey, 63, became upset when relatives served his terminally ill wife a snack.Gilkey had peeled an orange to…
A man (who apparently received oodles of bandannas and dark clothing for Christmas) is suspected of robbing two fast-food joints in Pennsylvania the same morning. Both robberies occurred during the early hours of December 31.According to CBS News 21, the suspect first hit a Wendy’s shortly after 6 a.m. on…
Once in a while comes along a story so bizarre, so fascinating, that all that needs to be done is some good, old-fashioned reporting of the facts.According to an article in the Digital Journal, on December 18, Mary Ellen Lisee, 45, repeatedly called 911 for help. Her reason, at least…
It’s been a hell of a year, folks. We’ve had a lot of food and food industry-related news this year, and not all of it has been pretty.As a nod to the upcoming year and as a way of reminiscing, I’ve gone back over my Fuming Foodie archives and amassed…
People are weird. Whether gobbling sofa cushions or creating demonic cheese sculptures, people have done some crazy stuff this year when it comes to eating and food.Companies are just as guilty (run by people coincidentally) and have also provided some wonderful food blog fodder throughout 2011.Even jailhouse inmates got in…
Ever since Michael Moore’s exploitive documentary, Bowling for Columbine, liberals, hipsters, and pseudo-intellectuals have fawned over our great cousin to the north.But perhaps Canada is not the peaceful, crimeless country depicted in Moore’s documentary — the one where people leave their doors unlocked and the murder rate of the entire…
It is said that desperate times call for desperate measures. There is no denying that Rachelle Grimmer felt desperate when she shot her two children and then killed herself inside a Laredo, Texas food stamp office.Although the 38-year-old mother of two was obviously in dire straits, or at least believed…
I love free stuff, Groupon, discounts, hook ups, and so on. But my obsession with not throwing away food when there is some other use for it stems from more than the fact I like to save a little coin.Americans generate more than 34 million tons of food waste annually…
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about a plan in Michigan to deny food stamp benefits to people who own cars worth $15,000 and up.At first I thought, “Well, yeah.” A $15,000 car can be a symbol of financial success. It’s not a sign someone is in dire straits…
The coolest, edgiest, and hippest graphic novelists will be lurking about the 305 November 13 through 20. There’s Denis Kitchen and his notorious Chipboard Sketchbook, Ben Katchor of The Cardboard Valise fame, and Michael Kupperman, whose graphic novel, Mark Twain’s Autobiography, recounts a “life” of Mark Twain in which the…
Reading the biography/history section of the Carpetbag Brigade’s website may cause seizures. The San Francisco group puts on visual extravaganzas using improvisation, acrobatics, music, circus antics, and butoh. This Saturday, the Carpetbag Brigade will perform their live show, “Callings,” as part of the much anticipated Sleepless Night, an overnight culturalpalooza…
Reading the biography/history section of the Carpetbag Brigade’s website may cause seizures. The San Francisco group puts on visual extravaganzas using improvisation, acrobatics, music, circus antics, and butoh (explanation below).This Saturday, the Carpetbag Brigade will perform their live show, “Callings,” as part of the much anticipated Sleepless Night, an overnight…
