Video: South Beach Was Racist Once

It’s not that long ago that Miami Beach was proud to be a racist entity. Segregation meant that by law the beach was only for whites. This week, South Beach will go insane with Super Bowl parties for everybody to enjoy, but don’t forget what a fucked up place it used…

Top 10 Super Bowl Appetizer Recipes: Bacon Edition

Super Bowl time is here again, and that means parties, food, and beer, preferably at a friend’s house where they have a big screen, someone else cooking, and endless beer. Most people are not that lucky, though, so we’re hooking you up with our Top 10 Super Bowl Appetizer Recipes:…

Weekend Blog Watch: MGFD, NAOE, Broccoli Raab, Slow Fish, and Ounce Math

Gut reaction to Michael’s opening in the Caymans. [PowerRankings]NAOE continues to rock worlds, point, blank, period. [Chowfather]Local CSA member ruminates on broccoli raab, and how to prepare it. [EatingLocal]Shooting Michael’s Genuine cook book. [GenuineKitchen]Exploring local seafood sourcing for a Slow Fish dinner. [MiamiDish]Paradise Farms are sellouts at the Coral Gables…

Hialeah Park Horse Races Music Video

Here’s a Dade history doc I made about Hialeah horse racing at the Hialeah Park Race Track with an original soundtrack. Frank Sinatra and a lot of other famous people used to go to the Hialeah Park Race Track. It opened in 1921 and is one of the oldest recreational…

Top 10 Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials From the 1980s

This Sunday, February 7, football rules the airwaves when Super Bowl 44 beams out live from Miami, and millions of dollars worth of commercials for crap you don’t need and foods that kill-slowly connive their way into your subconscious, wallet, and fridge.The more things change, the more they stay the…

B.Y.O.Balls

Her panties slide down her hips and fall to her rental shoes. She’s a cougar, and she giggles excitedly as you hike up her skirt in a dark corner of the bowling alley. Love this ain’t, but being single in February does have it perks, and this Friday night at…

What is a Dub Plate?

A dub plate used to refer to an acetate disc used in mastering studios to test recordings before mass producing the vinyl.Caribbean battle music in DJ vs DJ soundclashes took on the dubplate to create exclusive remixes to popular songs usually with the artist shouting out the name of the…

Crappy Food at Hakkasan?

One thing about words online: People misspell them all the time. Here’s an example of how it can go terribly wrong, such as when a pricey, opulent joint that everybody seems to love gets its name traded for a word that sounds like “shit master.”Whatawegottaspellitoutforyuh? That’s Hakkasan, not Kakkasan, and…

Pollo Tropical’s Free Super Salsa Bowl Tailgate Party

How many tomatoes does it take to fill a giant stainless-steel salsa bowl?Find out Super Bowl Sunday when the Miami Gardens Pollo Tropical (19500 NW 27th Ave.) across the street from Sun Life Stadium hosts a free family tailgate party and Guinness World Records event.In addition to free Pollo Tropical samplings, a…

Front of the House at the New Nikki Beach Restaurant, South Beach

Nikki Beach Miami (1 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach) is the flagship for a global enterprise that boasts outposts in exotic and far-flung locales such as Koh Samui, Qatar, Cannes, and Cyprus.The South Beach branch started it all in 1998, and the father-and-son Penrod team has kept it alive and made…

Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Carnita

It worked in L.A. with Mexican/Korean food, so when is somebody down here gonna open a Caribbean taco shop? We’re talkin’ jerk pork with pickled cabbage and sweet plantain. Or how ’bout fried goat chunks and Honduran farm cheese. Here’s what you might have missed this week:…

Top Five Uncle Luke Videos

We don’t advocate theft, but when our little buddy stole a II Live Crew tape from the Spec’s by what’s now Sunset Place sometime in the ’90s it changed our life. Luke taught our eight year old self to cuss out politicians (“Fuck Martinez, Fuck Fuck Martinez”), and told us…

Michelle Bernstein’s Check, Please! Season 3 Premieres

We might have to get a TV.Michelle Bernstein’s awesome, public television restaurant review show, Check, Please!, premiered January 18.They haven’t started streaming the episodes online yet, but you can catch the show Mondays and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. on WPBT Channel 2…

Big Rims, Candy Paint

Some University of Miami rich kids have nice cars, but they’ll be looking bootleg when East Coast Ryders are in town. This Saturday, the Rock ‘n’ Ride Car Show and Concert will take over UM’s BankUnited Center, attracting every NFL player with a whip in the 305 and featuring local…

Drink Motor Oil, Piss Whiskey

Studies show that a single molecule from the gravel in the parking lot at Churchill’s (5501 NE Second Ave., Miami) contains enough rock ‘n’ roll to fuel a car for 100 miles. Scientists say the force is so strong at this corner of Little Haiti because there’s nowhere else to…