Boston Culinary Group signed contract extension with LandShark Stadium to provide food and beverage services through 2021. [Hospitality-1st]AOL’s Digital City restaurant recommendations for Art Basel include Mr. Chow, Hakkasan, Michael’s Genuine, and Caviar Kaspia. [DigitalCity]An advertising agency specializing in part in food and beverage creates “No App For This” campaign…
Local funnyman Dave Barry usually introduces him as “The only guy I know who’s been a minister and a coke dealer.” That’s according to Sam Barry, his brother, a guy who used to ruin lives, save souls, and is now working for book publisher HarperOne and sidegigging as an author.Sam…
If you’ve ever pulled up to a red light and seen a fresh-shrimp salesman standing on the sidewalk with a cooler and a posterboard sign then you might live in Miami.Give thanks we live in a region where seafood is so readily available that entrepreneurs can sell fresh-catch on corners…
Another year, another Book Fair. This one brought all the usual greatness of authors, signings, sales, and readings, and reminded us of the existence of a festival-circuit touring vendor subculture. When we hit the food mall we instantly recognized the Asadero Colombia food stand and spinning meat/torture rack from this…
A South Dade man wants to build a soccer stadium between two farms in the historically agricultural Redlands. [RedlandRambles]Lee Klein is not the only guy who hates Mr. Chow. So does Anthony Bourdain. [AllPurposeDark]Cooking banana flowers Sri Lankan style. [BeeHeaven]Daily metro paper writes article about guy who eats hamburgers. [Herald]Swensen’s…
O.P.S. stands for Once a Piece of Shit. They are a Miami punk rock band. Tonight they open for old style Southern Cali hardcore punk band Battalion of Saints at Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti. If you’ve never been to a show there you should check it out. It will…
The Sugarcane Raw Bar and Grill is a new concept from the creators of Sushi Samba that will premiere during Art Basel 2009 in Midtown Miami and function in coercion with the Sushi Samba presented Graffiti Gone Global exhibition curated by street culture photo team James and Karla Murray.The restaurant…
Wendy Maharlika is the manager/waitress at Naoe in Sunny Isles, and she took part in a hot dog throwing contest on the Jimmy Fallon show the other night. This clip from the Jimmy Fallon show is from a feature they have called Hot Dog In A Hole. In this episode…
Though work’s not gone, thy week is done, in the city, the suburbs, and rurals. Give us this our daily blog. And go get us some wings, as we go get us some pitchers. And lead us not into another belligerent drunk, but deliver us some pizza when we get…
When Miami/Ft Lauderdale label Florida Boy Intertainment’s publicist called us Here at Crossfade we support music from Florida as a whole, so when Da Pretty Boyz’ people contacted us, we said sure, set up an interview. Da Pretty Boyz represent Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida and are an independent group signed to Florida…
In a three way partnership between The Market Company (Lincoln Road farmers market, Upper Eastside Green Market, Doral Farmers Market etc.), Paradise Farms (organic produce farmer for the restaurant industry), and Miami Victory Gardens (ready made raised bed gardens) Creek 28 restaurant in the historic Indian Creek Hotel on Miami…
Cape Cod Room (5937 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) at the Bath Club is Ken Lyon’s, the caterer and restaurateur, new northeast American seafood house specializing in what he calls comfortable, familiar food in a vintage room for a retro dining experience. Lyon says, “A lot of people in South Florida…
“Before there were blogs, there were webzines,” says Roofless Records head Matthew Preira, who started booking shows with Florida’s Underfoot as a kid. Then he transitioned from staging ska, punk, and hardcore events to four years of college booking bands, promoting campus fests, and getting acts to score films live…
She calls herself Ms. Jones, Broward County First Lady and according to her Myspace page “A fake bitch will take you were you need to go – A real bitch throws you her keys and says it needs gas!”She has a song called “Ice Cream” that follows the South Florida…
Last time we had a beer dinner it consisted of a malt liquor tall can and a bag of chips in a parking lot downtown. Little did we know that the Urbanite Bistro (62 NE 14 Street, Miami) is doing a better version of the same thing starting Friday, November…
Every bar/restaurant that’s into getting green should throw a good reggae night. What better for the kitchen than a high-life crowd of hungry people smoked out on the river?Waxy’s On The River (690 SW 1st Court) is taking a piece of the action with their new Reggae Wednesdays. $3 Budweisers,…
Just cause your cousin in Milwaukee can’t swim in November doesn’t mean you can’t. This is Miami dammit, home of 89 degree Fall Sundays.Grapeland Water Park (1550 NW 37 Ave) is open, and since Thanksgiving is coming up, they’re also collecting canned goods for the Miami Homeless Assistance Program.The food…
Monday, we brought you protest images from a spot near a West Miami Publix, where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers staged a protest. The CIW is a farmworkers union seeking a contractual commitment from Publix to ensure fair wages and conditions for workers. So far Burger King, Taco Bell, McDonald’s,…
(Sing to the tune of Home On The Range)Home, home, down in DadeWhere the rats and the roaches lay eggsWhere seldom is heardHow inspectors find turdsWhere you eat and are expected to pay.Who likes getting rat hairs in their teeth? How about a roach leg stuck to your lip?Here are…
DJ Purfiya is on the streets grinding.Not only is the team Slip-N-Slide DJ from southwest Florida not dead, he’s living with purpose.Last week we brought you news of the Purfiya death hoax that was circulated via Twitter.We also interviewed his former boss, Howard Roberts, CEO and founder of Firmlife Entertainment,…
The angel of death has swooped on Miami-Dade again. Here’s our most recent tally of restaurants that have fallen to the reaper’s scythe.Cheeseme – Nothin’ we can’t do ourselves with 2 wonderbreads, a Kraft single, waxpaper and an iron.I Corsini – Lee Klein said try harder.Hed Kandi Lounge – House…
Full time, nights, bilingual, new club…guess in some ways Miami Beach hasn’t changed much at all since 1988.The classified clipping at right was pulled from a November 1988 issue of the Miami New Times. The first two listings don’t name the place that’s hiring, but maybe somebody out there on…
