There’s something almost all great destination cities across the globe have in common: a tacky tourist zone that locals have almost completely ceded to visitors and tend to avoid like the plague. In New York it’s Times Square with its Guy Fieri restaurants and Sesame Street-knock off character. In New…
Food Network stars often get a bad rap. Many self-proclaimed foodies and professional restaurateurs alike will tell you that their sensationalizing of cooking desecrates the art of the industry by turning it into a cheapened, profit-driven entertainment source. I happen to disagree. Whether you find these people to be cultural…
Gourmands and caffeine addicts alike have celebrated the birth of Miami’s quality coffee scene. Roasting outfits and cafés like North Miami’s Alaska Coffee Roasting Co., Eternity Coffee Roasters and of course Panther Coffee have helped transform the city from a land with little to boast beyond its ventanitas into a…
It’s been over half-a-decade since Stephen Ross purchased the Miami Dolphins from Wayne Huizenga, and it seems as if slowly-but-steadily, he has finally turned around the franchise. Heading into the 2015 season everything feels very new car smell around the team, and it allcomes directly from Stephen Ross’s hard work. Dolphins…
As if it wasn’t hard enough to stand on stage in front of a stone-faced crowd and tell jokes, women comedians in Miami have to deal with misogynistic jeers, too. In a scene long dominated by men, sometimes the heckling even comes from fellow male comics. When 25-year-old Dominique Gelin…
Like many other Cuban Americans in Miami, Neyda Borges was shocked to hear President Obama’s December announcement that the U.S. would re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. The 34-year-old teacher, who works at Miami Lakes Educational Center, immediately turned on CNN in her classroom. Down the hall, two teachers with opposing…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This spring, words like “sumac,” “za’atar,” and “tahini” will become increasingly common in local food circles. The first two refer to spices, while tahini is a sesame-seed paste most notable for its integral role in making hummus. All three are ubiquitous in “Middleterranean” cuisine, which just so happens to be…
Last week, Disney announced that a new princess would soon be coming to television: Elena of Avalor. She will be Disney’s first Latina princess. The news, of course, spread like wildfire and many news outlets were celebrating Disney’s move toward cultural diversity. Hell, even Saturday Night Live included the story…
If you and a spouse/mate/lover/friend head out for dinner, sometimes it ain’t easy. As the plates keep landing on your table for two, dinner becomes a game of Jenga. The half-eaten bowl of Brussels sprouts balances at the table’s edge. A slight reach for a morsel of meat risks sending…
Fidel Castro is dead. I’ve lived the majority of my life under the watch of the admittedly impulsive eye of the exile community. I’ve celebrated Fidel’s death in the streets of both Hialeah and la saguesera at least three times in the past 15 years, but this time the news…
In what has been hailed as possibly the most memorable — and moving speech — of the night at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday, Gina Rodriguez took home the honor of Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy for her role as Jane in the CW’s…
The Delta Gamma sorority at the University of Miami released its 2015 recruitment video Thursday. What do bright-faced gals need to join the ranks? Aviator sunglasses, an endless supply of cut-off shorts, and pearly-white teeth — at least according to the video. For more than three minutes, the group of…
Where has T double D been? Yes, yes Miami’s maestro of trill had a recent run-in with the law over cocaine, gun possession and driving with a suspended license. But more importantly the hometown hero has been putting in work in the kitchen. This explains the recent weight gain. But…
How you hanging in there Miami? I know, I know – you don’t want to talk about it. But we need to talk about this. He’s gone. He left and I know it hurts, but it is what it is. These things happen, people change and they move on and…
Sweet-sour cranberry sauce is a Thanksgiving staple. But unlike most dishes that adorn holiday tables, it is highly unpredictable, second only to your aunt’s turkey, which for decades has been a coin toss between bone dry and poultry sashimi…
After the recent midterm elections there are now five states where marijuana is completely legal. Almost half the country has medicalized or decriminalized pot. Colorado made so much tax revenue from selling legal bud that they are giving a rebate to citizens so even non-smokers have a pocketful of green…
In a case that demonstrates everything that’s wrong with our overly litigious society, a $60 billion corporation is suing a sustainable-food startup because (drum roll, please) the behemoth is losing customers to the underdog. Unilever, the corporate overlord of Hellmann’s and Best Foods mayonnaise brands, has filed suit against Hampton…
