Some of us are still recovering from Memorial Day Weekend, and we’re still sifting through the annual deluge of mixtapes that the weekend brings. Poe Boy, I.M.G. and Strong Arm DJs (Entice, Kronik, and Mister Hustla) used the weekend to flaunt their diverse roster of artists in a 15-track mixtape…
From time to time, we at Short Order like to offer a helping hand to our friends in the restaurant business by coming up with snappy new slogans for them to use — free of charge! Flip Burger Bar: For when the other 35 burger joints are just too darn…
Thanks, Gawker, again for tipping us off to an incredible Internet phenomenon, this time a dance craze from Brazil known as “surra de bunda,” translated roughly as “ass punch,” “punched by the ass,” or, well, you get the picture. Like all good dance crazes, it was born out of a…
Whenever Kat Stacks releases a new video, it’s like day-job Christmas. Last week we brought you up to date on the latest in the Internet-famous hip-hop escort’s saga, in which she was attacked in public by two men who tried to force an apology from her on Bow Wow’s behalf…
Ultrachic is a Miami band of Venezuelan ex-pats who rest at the crossroad of contemporary Venezuelan rock, uniting the golden age of acts like Sentimiento Muerto, Dermis Tatu, and Desorden Público with the newer crop of outfits like Zapato 3, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Caramelos de Cianuro. Actually, fans of…
A recent article on the website of Marketplace, the National Public Radio juggernaut, has the internet buzzing about whether food bloggers are annoying or helpful. As a food blogger, I’d like to weigh in on the debate. Let me preface this by saying that although I’ve been writing about food…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke tries to understand how a transsexual running for Congress can be against gay marriage.A few weeks ago,…
In this week’s Time magazine, John Cloud reports on a soy product that not only tastes like chicken, but shares textural similarities to a real bird too (Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat). Scientists at the University of Missouri are behind the new food; it was announced this…
Have you ever taken a close look at how much you spend on food? For some of us, coming face-to-face with that figure may be quite scary. But according to personal finance site, Bundle.com, the average household in Miami spent $6,219 on dining out and groceries in 2009 – less…
As waves slap the shoreline, littered with empty beer cans, Fane Lozman points to a pair of derelict sailboats anchored in the water near Pelican Harbor Marina on the 79th Street Causeway. The former Marine turned civic agitator fixes his gaze on a hairy man reading a book on the…
While most of the big-deal shows rolling through town lately have tended towards the loud and brash, this Saturday at Grand Central marks an evening for gentler souls. In honor of Poplife’s anniversary, the party returns to its Anglophilic indie-loving roots for a show headlined by Surfer Blood and the…
Charlie: How do you like your steak?Diane: Sitting in a pool of its own blood. Diane and Charlie Levine were on their “fourth or fifth date” when this conversational snippet took place. On the couple’s website yourmeattooth.com, it is noted that this “marks the moment they realized that they shared a…
State senate candidate Kevin Burns knows a thing or two about mounting debts. After all the former North Miami mayor played an instrumental role in convincing Miami-Dade County courts to create a mortgage foreclosure diversion program two years ago so folks like him stay in their homes. At the time,…
Sexlets: Viagra chewing gum, anyone?
Letters from the issue of June 3, 2010
Uncle Luke pioneered Southern rap
North Miami and Houston join forces for the sake of a brand new mixtape that mixes the flavors of two distinct artists. On one hand there’s Layce, a multifaceted rapper/producer/engineer and overall good businessman who’s representing Miami. Then on the other, you have Chingo Bling, a very animated, marketing-savvy rapper…
According to our tireless reviewer Esther Park, this year’s Best of the Best concert was even more intense than the last. With so many big-name artists scheduled to perform every year, there are always unexpected changes, pleasant surprises, and, it seems, a crazy sprint through the final leg of the…
Ah, Hialeah, Hialeah. You truly are the city of progress. One of my new friends on Facebook is Hialeah Cares, an unknown identity in the vast cyberverse of anonymity who has riled up Mayor Julio Robaina’s most vociferous critics. The back and forth has been quite entertaining. The wall post…
Short Order dined at Argentine staple Las Vacas Gordas on Normandy isle last night. While many people complain about the service (rightly so, we never received our appetizers and our waiter tried to hide the fact that the gratuity was included), there is one element that receives universal praise at…
First it was Hamas. Now the Gaza-bound, blockade-defying flotilla was helping Al-Qaeda too.So claims Israel’s Consul General to Florida and Puerto Rico, Ofer Bavly. “The so-called peace activists on board the flotilla with ties to Al-Qaeda and other terror organizations were interested in creating a media circus,” Bavly railed in…
We know Jersey Shore is a show that trades heavily on stereotypes, but did one of the cast members really have to go down the tired trail of becoming a coke addict while living in Miami? How cliché.RadarOnline reports one of the castmates evaded producers and went on a few cocaine…
