This is the first in a series of posts on the Bike Blog’s Bike Fears – those niggling questions that we try to avoid every time we mount that two-wheeler and ride into battle (or traffic). We start with this one: Do Helmets Make People Want to Kill You? They’re…
Who you callin’ Fatburger? A contemporary Asian fusion restaurant is going to debut down the street from Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in the Design District. Chef will be Timon Balloo, who has worked locally at Chef Allen’s, Azul at the Mandarin Oriental, and La Broche (in fact he spent…
Pieter and Ineke Both of Indomania, which only started up on the Beach a few months ago, will be closing shop and taking August off so they can return to Amsterdam — jeez, these Dutch people are lazier than the French! They say it’s to see family and look for…
The first time I ever went to Colombia, I arrived in Bogota close to midnight. Starving, my friend and I ventured a few blocks away from our hotel in the unfamiliar city and quickly found a corner hot dog stand. Before we had time to object, the hot dog man…
Whoah, Cowboy Curtis! I think the secret word for today is nipples. Much like the pronunciation of the letter “L” in salmon, there’s something about a Stetson in Miami that just seems…wrong. First off, where are the cows? Sure, there were some pastures off of the Turnpike back in the…
The June afternoon is surprisingly cool at this secret location in the Everglades. Rich moss and strange plants — strangler figs, palm apples — lace the ghostly gray trunks of cypress trees that stretch from the water to a dense green canopy. Below the high, clear waterline, weird fish dart…
When Alan Murphy bought his two-story white 1924 Mission-style home in the historic Buena Vista East neighborhood seven years ago, he paid $1200 annual tax. Now he shells out five times that: $6200. Like hundreds of thousands of other Florida residents, the trim, 51-year-old Murphy had high hopes the legislature…
Yamil Piedra swabs his shaved head with one bar napkin and then grabs another to smooth his dark, caterpillar-thick eyebrows. At six feet four inches and 230 pounds, with silver dog tags and two crosses dangling from his neck, he grabs the mike and looks out at the 170 people…
Tobacco Load Filed under: News Last Thursday night, the honchos of more than a dozen local premium cigar makers were gathered in a single smoky room for the first time ever. Nick Perdomo, proprietor of Tabacalera Perdomo, a handmade-cigar shop in Doral, hosted the industry barons, among them the owners…
Greener Miami has been contacted by the good people from ABC’s Wife Swap reality show. Apparently they need an environmentally conscious family for the program. Has your family had a group hug around a tree lately? Read the entire blog entry here…
Stuck on the Palmetto posted an item this morning discussing the results of a poll that revealed one third of Miami residents would ignore hurricane evacuation warnings and hunker down at home instead. Read the full item here…
How many City of Miami officials can you fit in a bus stop? Well, four – because that’s how many people Miami’s much-touted brand-new bus stops accommodate at one time. That meant that Miami mayor Manny Diaz, City Manager Pedro Hernandez and City Commissioners Joe Sanchez, Angel Gonzalez, and Michelle…
Nine years ago, Miami-Dade County awarded a no-bid contract to a group of politically connected businessmen to develop an office building on county-owned land at 2525 NW 62 Street, adjacent to the Martin Luther King Jr. Metrorail Station. The development team was headed by the BAC Funding Corporation, a Miami-based…
The sixth annual Miami Spice restaurant promotion deal kicks in on August 1st and continues through September. This season brings more than eighty participants, each of which will be offering special three-course prixe fixe lunch menus for $22, dinners for $35. Be discriminating with your selections — my guess is…
So, it’s Friday afternoon, and you still don’t have any plans for the weekend. Never fear! Critical Miami is on top of it. Thank Jehovah for people like them, who always know what’s going on, or people like me would always be watching reruns on Nick-at-Nite. This weekend, you can…
John Lucente, chef de cuisine at Touch Restaurant and Lounge for the past three years, has been battling cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. To help, Touch is hosting a fundraising dinner, “Touched By John,” on Sunday, July 29th, at 7:00 p.m. All profits will go to…
It seems that wrestler/reality show dad Hulk Hogan is selling his Miami Beach mansion. The N. Bay Road home is on the market for $18.9 million. So let’s see…his monthly mortgage payment is around $100,000, and his annual taxes (according to the county tax collector’s site) are a cool $68,867…
Last night, the heads of over a dozen local premium cigar makers were gathered together in a single smoky room for the first time ever. Nick Perdomo, owner of Tabacalera Perdomo, a handmade cigar shop in Doral, hosted the cigar barons, among them the owners of Camacho cigars, Toraño cigars,…
In response to the Sun-Sentinel’s new website design, Critical Miami criticized the inefficiency of some publications in making their news more accessible and consistent with recent trends: The problem with most newspaper websites is that the newspapers are trying to make the internet work their way, rather then adapting themselves…
It’s been 10 years since Gianni Versace was shot and killed on the steps of his Ocean Drive mansion. Check out the New York Times’ excellent story looking back at the murder and Versace’s impact on the fashion world; also click on the slide show for some pictures of the…
It’s between the Pringles and the Hawaiian Punch How else to interpret the sight of sushi being sold at Walgreen’s? For those who think this signals the raw fish craze has jumped the shark — sorry, but that happened years ago, when Publix and Costco started hawking it. Like the…
Thuds to punching bags and the hum of chitchat quiet when the 215-pound heavyweight stops jabbing invisible foes and starts grinding to piped reggae. As his wife joins in the ringside catcalls, Elieser Castillo squats, his chin-length, sun-tipped dreads shaking until his groin is within inches of the mat. The…
