NBA Summer League action is not for the casual fan; it’s normally akin to watching pick-up games at your local park, except the guys playing have way better gear. The thing is, sometimes you can actually learn something. Every once in awhile a player like Hassan Whiteside will come out…
Craving an Ex-pat Cuban sandwich from Sparky’s? Or maybe shroom buns from Gigi’s? What about a pan con minuta from La Camaronera? Thanks to Favor, which launched in Miami last Friday, you can get all of the aforementioned and just about anything else your heart and stomach desires (so long…
When Dinner Lab, the world’s largest member’s only pop-up supper club, launched in Miami last year you had to pay $150 annual fee to get access to their exclusive one night only events. But now, in an effort to grow Miami’s dining community and network and increase the fr equency…
I’ve been navigating the alcohol-infused waters of the Miami nightlife since I was 16-years-old. In total, I’ve spent 25 years in Miami club land. And for a good chunk of those I’ve been working as a promoter for various musicians and parties all around the Magic City. I put together…
Since August 4, 2009 a group of adventurous diners — led by formidable and candid local food bloggers/fans David Rosendorf (Frodnesor), Chowfather (or “Chowpapi”), and Steve Berry (Blind Tastes) — without a need to know what they were getting into for the evening food-wise began an underground dinner club concept…
Miami is about to enter the worst sports week of the entire year. Over the past decade July 10th-16th has proven to be the least active seven day stretch for local fans. Only Christmas Day rivals these next few days when it comes to inactivity in sports, and even then fans…
On a weekend where the United States of America celebrated it’s 239th birthday, we also got to celebrate the female footballers that saved their fireworks for the Fifth of July. An absolutely frantic offensive pace to start the match by the United States netted them four goals before the Japanese ladies could…
How do you define The United States? Well, technically by our borders and a complex set of laws that govern it, but it’s really so much more. It’s the land of opportunity, of hard work, and the American dream, and dammit we think Miami exemplifies as good as or better…
What was going on in your life around June 26, 2003? Believe it or not, that was twelve years ago — the time from kindergarten graduation to high school prom. Twelve years is enough time for three different United States Presidents to call the White House home. Michael Phelps won…
The Miami Heat brain trust of Pat Riley and Micky Arison needs to stop messing around with team superstar Dwyane Wade. Riley should tell Arison to open up his $7.1 billion wallet and make Wade the highest-paid player on the Heat. Since being drafted in 2003, Wade has been forced…
After an entire calendar year of the NBA gods pissing in the Miami Heat’s Cheerios, the powers that be finally decided to send a little sunshine to Biscayne Bay last week in the form of 6′ 6″, 220-pound Duke University forward appropriately named Justise. Nobody expected Justise Winslow to last…
Let’s be honest: few fans know much about the NBA Draft. Even if you watch college basketball religiously, chances are you don’t have the time in your day to keep up with everything an 18-year-old playing in Iowa does. Plus, the NBA Draft is oddly close to the end of…
Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, and everyone associated with Fox News has blood on their hands. By constantly spreading hatred of African-Americans and other minorities, Fox News and its commentators inspire domestic terrorists like Dylann Roof to commit atrocities. The 21-year-old’s murder of nine African-Americans…
Just when the city of Cleveland thought the Cavaliers losing in the NBA Finals was all for naught, Nike comes along and saves the day with quite possibly the cheesiest LeBron James ad of all time. The excuse-filled piece of television is borderline embarrassing for all parties involved, including the…
Today’s biggest news may just hit Miami harder than any other city in the world. Pope Francis has released his Encyclical, “Laudato Si’” on the Good of the Common Home. It states that It is time to change the way we act toward the earth. It starts out thusly, defining…
It’s not that hard to say: “The Miami Heat.” That’s the name of the team that LeBron maybe-kinda-probably-on-purpose couldn’t remember during a Finals interview. It’s been almost a year since LeBron left the Heat, yet it seems as if subtle shots — from both sides — are getting more and more frequent…
It’s the time of year when DB Bistro goes a bit casual Americana and bizarre things happen. Among them: six types of house-made sausages floating around three-course whole hog feasts for up to eight people, and pistachio and raspberry baked Alaska’s flambéed tableside. In other words, the DBGB pop-up is…
Dwyane Wade continues to drop hints that he’s leaning toward opting out of his Heat contract, and seems to be increasingly considering leaving Miami. The dispute, at heart, is all about money: Not just money, but promised money. Wade took some pay cuts to help assemble the Big Three teams and…
Caitlyn Jenner’s coming-out party doesn’t help the transgender community move forward. Though Caitlyn, formerly known as Bruce, is on the cover of Vanity Fair and stars in her own E! reality show, it’s clear the onetime decathlon champion is just looking to cash in on her transition from a man…
Today’s top hip-hop artists have no sense of righteousness. During the golden era of rap from the 1980s to the 1990s, there were so many of us really speaking to the black experience. Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice-T, NWA, and 2Pac were just a few of the acts that…
The deep dish-or-New York-style pizza debate isn’t an easy cut. More so when the former at South Beach’s Pi Pizzeria comes with a piece of cardboard astray under a thick layer of tomato sauce. It came with a thousand apologies, an offer of a new pie, and ended up taken…
Miami sports fans need to tune in to The Andy Slater Show on 940 WINZ-AM. I’m not saying that just because I’m a guest host on his daily show today, which airs from 2 to 4 p.m. Slater is changing sports talk radio by doing old-school, shoe-leather reporting. He’s the…
