This week Short Order’s Archive Diver brings you a June, 1988 ad for the Irish House Pub at 1430 Alton Road on Miami Beach.For a pub established in 1938 that operated at least 50 years much doesn’t exist in the way of google records. However, Sunpost June 8, 2006 archives…
The Miami Cat Killer sliced, diced, chopped, skinned, and gutted his way to infamy, but the outpouring of pet sympathy it sparked proves one thing, people love animals.The Pet Postcard Project gives you the opportunity to prove it. For every postcard you make and send in using a picture of…
Like free booze? Wanna learn how to make a Bacardi Mojito? Guess what Miami? Bacardi has teamed up with South Florida’s own Borrow A Bartender to provide your next party of 40 or more people with 2 hours of free interactive bar service including free Bacardi Superior, Limon, and Raz,…
Here are excerpts from a recent email interview with local hip hop photographer Derick G.”I started in the music industries by getting on music video sets. The ball really started rolling when i was on set of “we takin over” by DJ KHALED featuring a star studded line up …Akon…
Robert Is Here fruit stand has stood at the same location since 1960 and is a South Dade landmark. The place got its name from the sign a 6 year old Robert used to get folk’s attention back when he started with a box of his dad’s cucumbers and a…
Before the advent of the internet ocean creatures played cards shell to shell. Now they battle it out online. This weekend blog watch brought to you courtesy of superconnectivity. Be sure to inlude hand crank web access in your hurricane preparedness kit. Here’s some weekend data that flowed across the…
Here’s a video of Glocca Morra playing at The Bubble in Ft Lauderdale on June 6 in their first show since signing to Livid Records. The show was thrown by the Independent Artists Working Network…
This week marks the release of the Miami New Times Best Of Miami 2009. Thanks to the powers of the global information super highway you can actually leave your opinion in the form of a comment on each and every entry. Short Order encourages any and all feedback, humor a…
BLT Steak Miami Beach takes Chef Laurent Tourondel’s formula for success and applies it to Dade County. Read Lee Klein’s New Times review of the joint here and Victoria Pesce Elliot’s Miami Herald review here.BLT Steak Miami Beach’s Chef De Cuisine Sam Gorenstein says “I was born in Colombia and…
Don Slesnick from Miami New Times on Vimeo Don Slesnick, The Slesmeister, El Slesarino, The Slesinator, Slesny Snipes, Slesley Nielsen, whatever way you chop it up, Mayor Don Slesnick of Coral Gables is an alright dude. In the following video he tells Short Order he cannot legalize marijuana, talks Zinfandel,…
Walking home from Omni Station last night some kid sitting on a bike’s handlebars as his buddy pedalled south on Miami Ave. waved his hands and said, “Listen to that jazz music” in a mocking tone. So I stumbled into a mostly empty Electric Pickle at around 11 and tried…
Clouds of screaming devil birds rise from the swamps and descend on the flesh of the city to feast on the blood of our people. Mosquitoes suck.Will a Miami Ceviche keep them from biting you? Short Order called several Peruvian joints out of our extensive restaurant database to find out…
At 12:10 p.m. this Thursday, the Florida Marlins will play the St. Louis Cardinals. Cardinals are stupid. Wikipedia says they’re “seed eaters.” What kind of lowlife hippie bird is runnin’ that ball club anyway? Cardinals are red, like communists, and we heard St. Louis smells bad. Watch the Fish crush…
Carlton “King” Coleman is one of the most musically influential dudes to ever set foot in Dade County. Read this great New Times profile on him from 2003 to find out how some say he invented rap music, but first enjoy “The Boo Boo Song.”…
Nathan’s Famous Inc.(NASDAQ:NATH), the Coney Island, Brooklyn birthed company known the world over for its hot dogs, used to “wholly own” the Miami Subs Corporation as a subsidiary.They sold it back in 2007 for $850,000 cash and “a secured promissory note for $2.4 million, payable over four years,” according to…
Destinee aka Maiden Dade aka Rita N. is a Dade County Hip Hop impresario, performer, recording artist and member of the THC Crew.Crossfade recently spoke to her by email about culture, technology and the music business. All you entrepreneurs out there take note. Destinee is a focused business woman who…
World-renowned Tool supercomposer Maynard James Keenan is also a winemaker. To prove it, he’ll sign your bottle of one of his Caduceus Cellars fine wines today and only today at the Coral Gables Whole Foods Market (6701 Red Rd.).The grapes are grown by Merkin Vineyards in Arizona, and it’s way…
Welcome to Archive Diver – Short Order Edition, where we scour past print issues of Miami New Times for interesting food related content. Today we bring you a “Wet Paint Cafe” advertisement from 1988. Back then, Lincoln Road offered a decidedly cracked-out vista. The Cafe owner’s prescience to the potential…
Arrrr ye scurvy lot, Short Order’s keepin it pirate today and givin ye free booty, Pirate’s Booty that is. In our continued quest to secure giveaways for our loyal readers we’ve pillaged and plundered our way into a treasure trove of puffed rice and corn snacks. We’re giving away three…
Patrick Bachelier sells fresh, high quality seafood and specialty products to some of the finest, quality minded chefs in South Florida, like Michelle Bernstein. He is the tri-county and Caribbean salesman for Gary’s Seafood, an Orlando company that has been privately owned and operated since 1990 and whose motto is…
And now Crossfade presents a fan-made Florida Supercon 2009 music video set to a rousing techno soundtrack that will make you want to “Here We Go Again.” If you don’t know what Florida Supercon is, picture a Star Wars Convention type environment populated by fans of cosplay, anime and…
Burger King started in Miami in 1954, and they’re still headquartered here at 5505 Blue Lagoon Drive, but the past 55 years have taken the company on a bottom line quest for global domination. According to BurgerKing.com, the corporation operates more than 11,100 restaurants in 65 countries. Apparently Whoppers are popular around the world, but…
