Shake Shack Introduces New Dogs, Drink, and Dessert

Restaurateur Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack has released four new items nationwide and we were invited to the Coral Gables location to try them out. The first item is the blood orange lemonade ($2.50 – $3.15). It tastes more like a punch than a lemonade, but you can definitely taste the…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: Ruben Ubiera

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: Bookleggers Public Library

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Baker Acted

Freda Josephine McDonald, AKA Josephine Baker, was working as a maid by the age of 8 and married by the time she was 13. But the widespread racism in the United States in the early 20th Century was too oppressive for the expressive Baker, and she accepted an invitation to…

Bird Road IHOP Slammed Yesterday During Free Pancake Day

Free flapjacks flew from the kitchen yesterday at the International House of Pancakes on Bird Road, near the Palmetto Expressway. Every February, IHOP offers one day of free pancakes to benefit charity. Although the griddlecakes are gratis, donations are encouraged, and 100 percent of any funds received go to charity. We strolled…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: Reed van Brunschot

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: Nate Delinois

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Josephine Baker

Josephina Baker, aka “La Baker,” was a notorious black performer who left the United States because of oppressive segregation. Claiming France as her new Motherland, Baker performed her signature songs and dance moves (including her famous “banana dance”) for new audiences, eventually becoming one of the most photographed and sought…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: Manny Prieres

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: Daniel Reskin

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: The Gutter Film Series

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: The Overthrow

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Julia Child’s Chocolate Almond Cake Available at Soyka (Recipe)

Towards the end of last year, Les Dames d’Escoffier Miami, a local organization dedicated to honoring Julia Child, celebrated what would have been the Dame’s 100th birthday with a series of events.Taking part in the birthday bash at the Freedom Tower event was Soyka, who became so enamored of Child’s…

Mastermind 2013 Honorable Mention: Pioneer Winter

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

MasterMind 2013 Honorable Mention: Kevin Arrow

Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We’ll be profiling those honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners…

Kate Middleton’s Food Aversion Therapy: Leading Hypnotist George Bien Explains

Britain’s sweetheart, Kate Middleton, has developed an acute aversion to food and is doing something to stop it.The duchess, who is expecting her first child this summer, is undergoing hypnosis to manage her hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), or acute morning sickness.She has been suffering severely from food aversion, even spending some time in the…