Mike Torrey is a San Diego based architectural photographer with a new book out called “Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu’s Terraces of Enlightenment.”Mike will be in town for the Miami International Book Fair and will be on a panel with a National Geographic photographer and a pilgrimage organizer on Saturday, November…
According to organizers, attendance at Americas Food & Beverage Show up 10%. [Herald]Australian reality-tv star Tabatha Coffey loves Cuban food and Cuban coffee. [NBCmiami]This blog beat the Herald on the Natural Choice Vending interview by over two months. [Herald] [ShortOrder]Miami company releases two new products to help allergists determine and…
Young American makes $1,500 for all the balls he put in his mouth. Meatballs that is.World champion professional competitive eater Joey Chestnut has just won the first ever Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating Competition in Las Vegas.Steve Martorano is a South Florida restaurateur with a namesake joint, Cafe Martorano, in Ft…
Boynton Beach country girl Amber Leigh rocked the stage at Homestead’s Ribfest yesterday from 2 to 3 p.m. The video above is her rendition of the Charlie Daniels Band classic “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Amber Leigh throws in a Led Zeppelin fiddle breakdown.Amber Leigh’s web site describes her…
Does your grocery store support modern slavery in the fields of Florida? A Florida farmworkers union says that Lakeland, Florida based grocery chain Publix continues to buy produce from growers recently convicted of actual human slavery.Heavy beatings, knife wounds, arms in chains, forced living in box trucks, these are the…
Chicken entrepreneur Kerry Burns claims he brought the Buffalo wing to Miami back in 1986 when he opened Miami Wings restaurant in Cutler Bay.Well, he sold that joint and is now doing health food. His new project is called Mr. Smoothie & The Wrap Guy, a concept he’s partnered up…
Anybody feel Hurricane Ida roiling through the Ocean last night? Hurricane season is not over folks, stay prepared. Here are some recent local posts from throughout the food community.Ever wish your fast food was faster, less personal? Go to Japan. [BurgerBeast]Blogger claims best burger in South Florida can be found…
What is Whopper Bar? A high-falutin’ fast food joint with an upscale interior, 22 topping choices for a Whopper-based menu, the fatter-patty casual dining upgrade burger, Whopperistas handling and building your order, a “visible toppings theater,” and a Burger King Studio merchandise kiosk. So far the only Whopper Bar in…
You worked all week at your desk job, factory, kitchen, office, street corner, or couch, and now it’s time to let loose and let that weekend energy plow you over like a bulldozer. So things are tough all over; jobs, school, money, healthcare, war, that kind of stuff, but we’re…
DJ Purfiya is from the city of Palmetto, Florida, just south of Tampa. He’s affiliated with Miami’s own Slip N Slide Records as one of their official DJs.Wednesday, rumors hit the Internet — namely Twitter — that he had died due to complications of the flu. Yesterday we found out…
Yesterday we exited the New Times building and saw a raised up Monster Energy truck pulling up. We figured it meant free drinks in our future so we stopped and asked what they had for us.One of the broads handed me a couple of cans while the other took a…
One of the top 10 searches on Google this hour is Cookie Monster Veggie Monster, and we are happy to report that the good old blue and cookie lovin’ Cookie Monster the world knows and loves is here to stay, he will not be replaced by Veggie Monster as internet…
A sea butcher is the knife artist behind the filet of fish on your plate. In the case of the Oceanaire Seafood Room, the sea butcher is Ezequiel Canul, a.k.a. E-Z.He 9-to-5’s his way through the day in a freezing cold seafood walk-in where he breaks down all the seafood…
Check out this killer guitar solo from Radio Galaxy’s performance at the Wednesday night blues jam at Titanic Brewery by the University of Miami in Coral Gables.Click here for Radio Galaxy’s myspace.Like blues music? Check out the jam tonight from 9 p.m. to midnight with an open blues jam hosted…
How can you tell a politician’s lying? If his lips are moving? What about if they are eating? Monday, we saw Mayor Manny Diaz at a press conference at the Roots In The City garden and urban farm in the middle of Historic Overtown (NW Third Avenue and Ninth Street).We…
Ron Wood is one of the world’s most famous bass guitar players thanks to his tenure with the Rolling Stones. But did you know that back in the ’80s he was part owner of a live music venue on Miami Beach called Woody’s? Well, it’s true. Woody’s Miami Beach was…
Dick Cami opened Cami’s Seashells in 1986. That budget seafood house is the blueprint for upscale-casual-cheap seafood chains in South Florida that have been a mainstay ever since. But before Cami’s Seashells there was Peppermint Club, the legendary NYC and Miami rock and roll clubs famous for the twist, that…
Mayor Manny Diaz is like the Bill Clinton of Miami, people just like the guy. Well, maybe not everybody, but here he is at the Roots in the City urban farm in Overtown (NW Third Avenue and Ninth Street, Miami) talking collard greens with South Florida historian Marvin Dunn, who…
Canadian companies attend America’s largest food and beverage show, coming soon to Miami Beach. [GovMonitor]Miami-based Benihana restaurants to donate 100% of Fiji Water sales revenue to Best Buddies charity for month of November. [Reuters]8th annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival this weekend at Markham Park, a short jog north in Broward…
Dimebag Darrell lives!Every last tiny speck of brain matter splatted against the Columbus, Ohio stage he was riffing on when he was killed by a crazed gunman may have already been sold on Ebay, but the legend of Dimebag lives on through recorded documentation of his music.The video above features…
Hey artist! are you broke, hungry, like booze? Life Is Art has got your back.Life Is Art Inc. hosts a popular artistic meeting ground for an everyone is welcome crowd. At each event a different speaker addresses a topic unique to their field.This month’s Creative Connections Artistic Networker is set…
A placita, or little plaza, is a fortified central patio or courtyard found in buildings all over the world, but especially Spanish style ones in Mexico and the Southwest U.S. Placita Los Girasoles (15970 SW 177 Avenue), of sunflowers, is a fruit and produce market and nursery in the Redlands…
