“Celebrity chefs bring plane food to new heights” blared the business section headline in Saturday’s Miami Herald. Charlie Trotter, Todd English, and our own Michelle Bernstein are highlighted in the article as pioneers of haute in-flight cuisine — and also as harbingers of “the airline industry’s economic revival”. Indeed, the…
Katherine Hirschfeld was enjoying Sicko, the documentary about the trials of uninsured Americans, until Michael Moore headed to Cuba. “I thought, ‘Oh no.’ It’s such a romanticized view,” says Hirschfeld, an Oklahoma professor who recently published a comprehensive book on Cuban health care. “It’s just repeating Cuban government propaganda…That, in…
Where: Nice Mon. 19695 NW 2nd Ave, Miami. What $15 Gets You: Jerk chicken meal, Jamaican beef patty, a drink. As I was traveling down Northwest Second Avenue one day, I noticed this green roofed building with a big yellow sign in front that said Nice Mon: Jamaican Restaurant and…
Early in the day this past July 19, Luis Lázaro Lara Morejón left his sunny oceanside room at the Solymar hotel in Cancún to buy groceries at a small market nearby. The tall, heavy-set 30-year-old Cuban exile from Miami was accompanied by his pretty, young Mexican girlfriend, María Elena Carrillo…
For almost a month, Miami Police Chief John Timoney has ignored the rules of the city he oversees. First a citizens’ panel and then a circuit court judge ordered him to fork over hundreds of pages of records related to a city probe into his free use of a Lexus…
Bryan Abboud was dining among the stars that weekend in July 2006. There were last-minute reservations at celeb-heavy Spago Beverly Hills. Chef Wolfgang Puck even passed by their table. Names like Anna Nicole Smith, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and French bombshell Lydie Denier swirled around his dinner companion, movie producer David…
In 1994, Rey Rubio and his pretty Puerto Rican wife Josefina bought a one-bedroom, one-bathroom shack at 19110 SW 128 Ct. in the Redland for $57,000. Since then, the couple has methodically transformed it into a three-bedroom, two-bathroom family spread accented with a beautiful stone-paved circular driveway. “The original structure…
April, the oldest dolphin at the Miami Seaquarium, and a resident of the park since 1970, died Tuesday morning. April was an Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin in her early forties. She had three offspring, Noel, Sky and Croix and four grandchildren, Denise, Aries, Rioux and Balboa. A necropsy will be performed…
I’ve always liked ESPN’s Jeffri Chadiha. He’s what a sports anchor/writer should be. Intelligent, insightful, and, most importantly, not a douche. Unlike scrotum slapping jackals like Skip Bayless or Sean Salisbury, who like to yell and spit and play the role of the tough ornery guy without saying much of…
Neil Henry, professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkley, published an op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle denouncing the evils of search engines like Google and Yahoo. He said that Google should be funding schools, among other things, to ensure that the quality of journalism doesn’t…
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder . . . the sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway now have a website…
For almost a month, Miami Police Chief John Timoney has ignored the rules of the city where he’s the top cop. A Miami citizens’ panel, then a state court judge, ordered him to fork over hundreds of pages of records related to a city probe into his free use of…
Tyrese came out to The Forge’s elite Soul Kitchen Sunday party with Busta, Fabolous, Meagan Goode, Dontrelle Willis and James Posey nearby. Fried chicken and waffles wasn’t the only star appearance made last night at The Forge’s “Soul Kitchen Sunday” party. The headlining end-of-weekend event hosted a handful of celebs…
In his never ending quest to turn the Miami Dolphins into the Dallas Cowboys, Bill Parcells is looking to land Cowboys assistant director of pro scouting, Brian Gaine. According to NFL stipulations though, Parcells is going to have to find his way around the rules (again? curse you NFL rules!)…
Photo by Wil “Supa” Avrilien Meagan Good and Thomas Jones coupled up with Sanaa Lathan and Wale Ogunleye for a SoBe Thursday night at Karu & Y. Ringing in the New Year doesn’t necessarily mean vacation is dunzo for notables taking time off in Miami. Thursday, January 3 had Miami…
Having played Rock Band, I can honestly say that it blows Guitar Hero out of the water. The Rock Band guitar just feels better than the Guitar Hero one. The spacing is better and it has a more solid feel to it. It’s still nothing like holding a real guitar…
Somewhere in this long ass article in the Boston Herald (once you get passed the part about Randy Moss being a complete asswipe and Tom Brady being a total shithead, you’re golden) a league source says the Dolphins — possessors of the number one overall pick — are intrigued by…
Welcome back to the first full work week since Christmas. The good news is that HBO’s The Wire returned for its fifth and final season last night. The show is the best thing on television hands down. This season’s theme is the media … should be interesting. If you already…
Photo by Tovin Lapan So this is what it’s like. It’s a golden retriever 2.0. Aquaman’s best friend. And talk about a chick magnet, my God! The ladies love these rubbery, squeaky, mischievous things. Big smiles and gleeful laughs follow their every trick, or playful flip of the fin. If…
They are the modern versions of monster stories. True Crime writers seek out such tales every day, finding them in two sentence-long police blotter blurbs, law enforcement sources lamenting the one that got away, or victims looking for justice. They pile on hours of research and interviews, building a case…
According to the New Haven Register, the Dolphins have offered Tony Sparano the head coaching job. The report also says that Sparano will accept it as soon as the Cowboys’ season is finished. The Cowboys are currently in the playoffs. Remember those? The report is considered significant because New Haven…
“The people here are serious people. They’re sincere [about their interest in the subject],” said Alicia Quaini, one of the members of the Fort Lauderdale-Miami UFO Group. The group gets together to watch videos dealing with UFOs and the conspiracies that surround them. The event is very low key, probably…
