Can Super Bowl Sunday be the only day of the year in which we actually look forward to commercials? Each year, advertisers fall all over themselves trying to top each other for ratings, consumer approval and a coveted Clio award. Advertisers pay dearly for one of the 70 spots during…
McDonald’s has declared that it will no longer use “pink slime” in the manufacturing of its food products, ABC News reported yesterday.Much like you’re probably doing right now, when I first heard the news I asked myself, What the hell is pink slime?And much like most Americans, I had no…
Germans are notoriously kinky. But when it comes to watersports, at least 12 Deutsches are drawing a hard line at simulated restroom piss play. According to TMZ, several women have complained about mouth-shaped urinals inside a Rolling Stones memorabilia museum restroom in Germany, calling the porcelain novelty toilet demeaning and…
What would you do to get a glimpse of Justin Bieber? Personally, we here at Crossfade would stop at nothing short of an epic backstage break-in, tying up security guards and stealing their clothes, crawling through air vents, and oh-so-sensually seducing tour bus drivers. But, uh, we’d definitely draw the…
As popular culture continues to be consumed by a seemingly inexhaustible inferno of idiocy – dubstep trickle down, reunion shows, Drake, the list goes on – the Recording Academy is putting on their best Nero costumes and getting their fiddles nice and tuned. Yes. That’s right. It’s fucking Grammy season…
There have been plenty of f’d up news stories coming out of South Florida, but the more and more I read about wampeters, granfalloons, and nut bags that make up the rest of our country, I start to think that it may, after all, be safe to drink the water.Freshman…
Sticks and stones may break their bones, but words really hurt Nickelback. According to a recent article on rollingstone.com, Nickelback is “annoyed with all this constant ridicule.” They’re sick of taking cheap shots from critics for their lame brand of mainstream radio rock, and they’re especially pissed off about petitions…
Well, well, well. Who woulda thought that the notoriously Southern Paula Deen was actually a Cuban-American in disguise? Oh, no wait — she isn’t. It just seems that way, since like many of our abuelitas, she has been suffering from diabetes while pushing sugar-laden goodies down our eager throats for…
When punk rock sneeringly ejaculated onto the music scene in the 1970s, it was all about volume, attitude and, most importantly, the rebellious nihilism of young disillusionment. But in 2012, self-proclaimed punk rockers look like massage therapists at a Winnie the Pooh spa. Just take a look at The Other…
The “N” word … Nickelback. Just writing it makes us want to vomit. While many of you can’t stomach Chad Kroeger’s crappy alt-rock crew either, Crossfade’s recent petition to stop Nickelback from playing the BankAtlantic Center on May 5 has triggered a vicious comment war. Nickelback supporters have derided us…
I recently went to Mercadito’s Taqueria in Midtown. It had been a long day at the office and a solid, close-by taco lunch was in order. I pulled up the menu online and the blood drained from my face. “Where are the rajas?” I thought.I quickly dialed the main number…
We’re almost two weeks into 2012, but the food-related craziness from last year has apparently spilled over. We thought Miamians were nuts, but check this out. Tragedy struck an Ohio family after Paul Gilkey, 63, became upset when relatives served his terminally ill wife a snack.Gilkey had peeled an orange to…
Girl Scout cookie season officially starts today in South Florida, and you know what that means, don’t you?Yup, dozens of little green hustlers swarming all over you whenever you try to enter a supermarket or big-box retail establishment. Trying to sell you boxes of overpriced chemical-laden cookies that are basically…
The bad economy has been hard on everyone, and apparently depressed people without jobs no longer eat to dispel their feelings. Hostess, which just emerged from bankruptcy in September of last year, is at it again with an impending refiling reported by the Wall Street Journal.WSJ cites the $860 million…
David Lee Roth isn’t so sad and lonely anymore. The 57-year-old “gigolo” has reunited with his Dutch-brothers-from-another-mother — Eddie and Alex — and he’s gearing up for Van Halen’s North American tour, hitting the BankAtlantic Center on April 10. The only problem: It’s not 1978. Shortly after midnight last night,…
Today the voters of New Hampshire will trudge through miserable weather and vote for their preferred Republican candidate in the presidential primary. You are probably familiar with all of the folks running by now: Newty, Mittens, Sneezy, Grumpy, etc. If they look a bit pale and green around the gills,…
TMZ interviewing KISS frontman Gene Simmons about controversial Christian virgin and Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow? Sounds like one of those “…walks into a bar” bits, only the punchline doesn’t give you a case of uncontrollable giggles. It just makes you wanna puke. But whatever … The KISS creep is…
A man (who apparently received oodles of bandannas and dark clothing for Christmas) is suspected of robbing two fast-food joints in Pennsylvania the same morning. Both robberies occurred during the early hours of December 31.According to CBS News 21, the suspect first hit a Wendy’s shortly after 6 a.m. on…
50 Cent is dying. “I’ll be honest,” 50 Cent tweeted January 2, “I don’t think I’m gonna live much longer. That’s why I started my street king movement.” The 36-year-old rapper isn’t terminally ill. He’s just “conscious that life is short” and admittedly “not suicidal.” Nevertheless, Curtis Jackson has been…
Once in a while comes along a story so bizarre, so fascinating, that all that needs to be done is some good, old-fashioned reporting of the facts.According to an article in the Digital Journal, on December 18, Mary Ellen Lisee, 45, repeatedly called 911 for help. Her reason, at least…
While y’all were nursing a hangover on New Year’s Day, one newly engaged musician kicked off 2012 with a topless Hawaiian snorkeling adventure. This rock ‘n’ roller’s chest looks great for a 63-year-old woman but alarmingly droopy for a 63-year-old man. Sadly, however, this person is in much better shape…
It’s been a hell of a year, folks. We’ve had a lot of food and food industry-related news this year, and not all of it has been pretty.As a nod to the upcoming year and as a way of reminiscing, I’ve gone back over my Fuming Foodie archives and amassed…
