Dine Out For Life Miami Tonight, Fight AIDS

Fight AIDS by going out to eat tonight at any of over 20 Miami-Dade restaurants including 8 Oz. Burger Bar, The Café at Books & Books, Chef Allen’s, Hakkasan, and miniBAR. They’ll each be donating a portion of their proceeds for the evening to Care Resource, a South Florida non-profit…

Burn Notice Shooting at Buena Vista Deli

The USA Network show Burn Notice, based in Miami, was shooting last night at Buena Vista Deli, it’s the building to left of the one in the above image.They made the restaurant’s patio into a big fruit stand and then gave away the set when they were done with it…

80s Punk and Hardcore Tribute at Churchill’s This Friday

You’ll have a hell of a time this Friday at Churchill’s with “Pogo! A tribute to 80’s punk and hardcore.” The show features local bands Trust No One, Knock Em’ Dead, Hardware Youth, Routine Scheme, and Unit Six doing covers of your favorite songs from back in the day. Whether…

Tupac Live On Stage For Night of Hip Hop Theater

“The hate you gave little infants f**ks everybody” is the breakdown of the THUG LIFE acronym Tupac Shakur had tatted on his belly. Before exploding metal cylinders sent his body to the pavement and his soul to Heaven’s ghetto, he’d already survived five bullet wounds, gone to prison, and spent…

Top 5 Local Food & Drink Joints You Should Know About

If you’ve ever walked out of a bar drunk and hungry and bought a gas station sandwich then you probably appreciate a joint with a menu.Miami-Dade is full of them. From Kendall to the Grove, Allapattah to the river, even on the 57th badlands edging Coral Gables some of the…

Crossfade Live at Swamp Stomp with Jahfe and The Lee Boys

Any given Saturday in Miami the bass, sweat, sex, liquor, music, and dancing flood the concrete tropics like a hurricane on South Beach. This year a bigger, better Swamp Stomp shook the wooden floorboards at The Bayside Hut to their core with more local soul than the Miami section in…

Llamabeats’ Spits Talks Setai, Timbaland, Lil Jon, Distant Relatives

Lurking in the trenches of obscurity, tomorrow’s super producers toil in darkened studios surrounded by empty malt liquor bottles and ashtrays full of blunt roaches.Or maybe they’re up and grinding at The Setai. Either way, Llamabeats Crew bring a sample heavy musicality to live guitar, bass, and key laced tracks…

Friday Food Funnies: One Liners, Jokes, and Food Quotes

The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world. — Robert Orben Practice safe eating — always use condiments. — Lynda MontgomeryDid you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a…

Swamp Stomp Music Festival 2010 Saturday Bayside Hut

Like Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver, “One day a real rain is gonna come and wash all this scum off the streets.” When that day comes to Miami (maybe with a big hurricane this summer), and all the bullshit, plastic, glass, and concrete is gone, we’ll be left with…

Oceanaire Seafood Room Brickell Hosts Chef’s Club

Monday night at The Oceanaire Seafood Room in Brickell, Chef Sean Bernal hosted the Chef’s Club, a semi-monthly meeting of some of the tri-county’s best food talent for eats, drinks, talkin’ smack, and hanging out. Just some of the chefs who came through were Alberto Cabrera (STK), Gonzalo Rivera (La…

Thugs, Bones, Harmony

“The hate you gave little infants f**ks everybody” is the breakdown of the THUG LIFE acronym Tupac Shakur had tatted on his belly. Before exploding metal cylinders sent his body to the pavement and his soul to Heaven’s ghetto, he’d already survived five bullet wounds, gone to prison, and spent…

Behind the Line: SAWA at the Village of Merrick Park

SAWA at The Village of Merrick Park in Coral Gables is a restaurant, lounge, and hookah bar in a vast, open-air shopping and entertainment complex off LeJeune and US1. The mall is an impressive testament to what a whole lot of hard hats and money can do. Never been? Drive…

Chow Down Grill’s Chef Talks Ingredients

You might have heard about new Surfside restaurant Chow Down Grill on Eater, Power Rankings, or even the restaurant’s construction blog on Facebook, but here’s what former China Grill executive sous chef and BLT Steak alum Joshua Marcus hasn’t told anybody:”I will be opening Chow Down Grill sometime in mid-May. It…

Top 10 Weed Munchies for 420

Today is 420, the international stoner holiday, and we’re in a legal-weed America (well, legal in some states for certain reasons). So, for all of you medical patients responsibly smoking marijuana for your bad back, cancer, glaucoma, hypertension, headache, stress, muscle pain, stomachache, comedy, fun, rest, and relaxation, we have…

Weekend Blog Watch: Twitter, Drugs, and Miami Food

Here are some recent highlights from Twitter about “Miami food.” vinisimo: Miami Wine & Food Festival http://bit.ly/cbV6fn  poeticlovestone: @Tahj_Mowry i thought Fatburger was a made up fast food chain until i went to Miami last weekend. I could never eat there tho. Afton_S: All the food in Miami looks the…