Enter WDNA Sweepstakes for Guitar, Hotel Stays, iPod, and More Prizes

WDNA is the realest Jazz station in Miami-Dade. Alright, so they’re the only one. No commercials, no heavy rotation, no computers choosing what songs to play, just real DJ’s selecting whatever tracks they want 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.Give them some money. They need the community’s support…

Top 10 Foods The Cast of Jersey Shore Misses on South Beach

Jersey Shore guidos and guidettes can only survive so long when taken out of their environment. MTV recently experimented on the species by sending the cast to South Beach and filming their reactions. As it turns out, when faced with the long-term deprivation of their native foods and habitat, los…

Musician’s Discount Center is a South Dade Vinyl Goldmine

Musician’s Discount Center can seem like it’s half way to Key West if you live in downtown Miami, Cuba if you’re in NMB, or Argentina if you’re in Broward, but for Cutler Ridge, West Kendall, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Florida City, and the whole Down South, the store is pretty much…

Weekend Blog Watch: New Chinese, Beer, Grits, Ribs, and Farms

Chinese food alá fresh-and-local on it’s way to Surfside. [PowerRankings]Novecento Sam Adams beer dinner coming on April 14th. [SoFloBeerBlog]Genuine Cart video recap from art walk, [GenuineKitchen], and a user review, [MiamiBro]Miami goes Alabama, eats ribs, fried green tomatoes, oyster po boy, and more. [BlindTastes]A Riesling paired three course dinner at…

New Wrekonize Track: “Don’t Stop The Music”

This newly uploaded Wrekonize “Don’t Stop The Music” track has an “it’s not rap, it’s hip-hop” sound to it. Maybe 1994 is the new 2010. Just kidding, that sounds stupid. Either way, between the clean production, lyricism, and nice mixing job the shit sounds like a professional song. Catch Wrekonize…

Let Them Eat Steak

The 15th annual Miami Wine and Food Festival is here, and the choices are endless: Eat to live or live to eat, vegetarian fare or meat, beer or wine, cheese and crackers, or barbecue. There’ll be smorgasbords, buffet lines, and all-you-can-eats. Miami is the freakin’ best. We have local, fresh…

Marlins Super Saturdays: Kevin Rudolf Says Heckle The Other Team

Let it rock!This Saturday April 10th, and at each of 13 Saturday home games this season Florida Marlins games become Super Saturdays, major concert productions with national caliber acts followed by fan giveaways and firework shows.At the end of this season’s first home game Nelly, Kevin Rudolf, and New Boyz…

Crazy County Fair Food: The Pork Parfait is Like BBQ Pig Ice Cream

Just look for the robot pig singing country music and you’ll find Porky’s, the traveling carnival-grub vendor currently in Miami at the Dade County Fair & Expo. The Indiana company’s claim to fame is its ice-cream-sundae style concoction of pulled pork, mashed potatoes, and barbecue sauce served in a big…

Sandbar Sports Grill, Ten Years Strong, Slanging Hurricanes Groveside

The Sandbar Sports Grill in Coconut Grove is gearing up for its tenth anniversary celebration, and that means more burgers, more beer, more sports on the plasmas, and many more late-night revelries, Sunday breakfasts, and midday Hurricanes.We stopped in for a bite last week and had the mahi-mahi wrap. Nothing says…

Food News Roundup: Whitney Port, Horse Meat, South Beach, and Reality TV

Miami-Dade County employees raise more than $300,000 for charity, part of which will go to Food for the Poor. [SFLCN]”Whitney Port and Roxy Olin snacking outdoors on ‘yogen fruz’ en route to the airport after debuting her new collection, Whitney Eve, in Miami.” [FOXnews]Politicians introduce legislation to ban the sale…

Crossfade Live: Iko Iko at Q American Barbeque

According to band leader Graham Wood Drout IKO IKO have been playing in Miami for over 30 years. We caught the legendary Dade County killers live at Q American Barbeque on the West End of Miami’s Design District on Saturday night. We asked the band if we could record some…

Short Order Moves to Cuba Until Food in Miami Improves

Sorry America, your food sucks. We’ve been waiting to tell you for a while as we saved up enough money to buy a field in the mountains of Cuba, grow our own crops, kill our own animals, smoke pot, drink mojitos, ride bikes, go camping, and take pictures all day.We’ll…

Dimebag Darrell, Live and Acoustic in Miami, One Night Only

Tonight, at the crossroads of Krome Avenue and the Tamiami Trail, Dimebag Darrell will play a special one night only acoustic set.Fan and promoter Sam Hamovich says, “Dude, if you’ve never heard Bag’s acoustic shit you’re fucking missing out. He’s like the Kenny G of metal. This new material he’s…

Luna Corner Pizza Special in MiMo

Luna Corner Pizza is the first Miami outpost of an Italian pizzeria that opened in Crema in 1968. They use proprietary oven technology to bake out their pizzas at what is designed to be a grab and go wait-time. We got our two slices no faster than at any other…

Addicted to Speed

Speedboats have always been tied up in guns, drugs, big money, and murder, so it’s no surprise that they were invented in South Florida. (Check out Thunder Man, the bio-pic of cigarette boat designer Don Aronow.) Well, go-fast boats aren’t just for cocaine trafficking anymore. They’ve got submarines for that…