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Miami Ranked One of America’s Most Stressful Cities

Oh sure we've got decent weather and calming seas, but it's not exactly a surprise that for us living year round in Miami life can be stressful. Let's not even get started on our ridiculous traffic, horrible parking, and tanked economy. So it shouldn't be shocking to discover that Miami has ranked on Forbes list of most...
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Hot Graves Talks Erotic Corpses and the Heat Index

Hot Graves is a Gainesville-based D-beat/black metal combo making its way to Beelzebub's Cave this Saturday for a punk-and-metal meeting of the minds. Earlier today, Crossfade contributor Liz Tracy reported on Slashpine -- also performing at the Cave -- and its Florida-centric black metal ideology. Hot Graves has a similarly...
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Four South Beach Clubs Make “Most Expensive Nightclubs in America” List

Newsflash! South Beach is a cesspool of Sodom and Gommorrah-style excess! While most Americans are collecting pennies from public fountains, replacing the ground beef in their Hamburger Helper with cat food, and crapping their pants in fear of the dreaded double-dip recession, SoBe residents (and the superrich jetsetters they schmooze,...
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Get Laid Faster Than Booze With These Four Weird Drinks

​If Bacardi 151 is the most outrageous thing you've ever drunk, you have a lot to learn about drinking.Alcohol is so passé. Take these new-age libations to a vegan potluck, and we guarantee you'll get laid just as easily as you would if Captain Morgan were facilitating.Bonus: You'll remember the...
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Burger King’s Free Ice Cream: Contributing to Child Obesity?

Miami-based fast-food giant Burger King has announced an ice-cream giveaway in celebration of its foray into a full line of frozen treats, just in time for after-school snacking.From now through October 9, customers who order a value meal can also walk away with a free soft-serve cup or cone.After the...
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Six Greatest Weirdo Pop Queens of All Time

Rolling Stone created a Queen of Pop Index, ranking the top 16 female pop recording artists of the last two years by examining, according to them, "album and digital song sales, Hot 100 rankings, radio airplay, YouTube views, social media, concert grosses, industry awards, and critics' ratings." Mostly because of their limited timeframe,...
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Taste Grenade On a Plate: An Imlee Indian Bistro Dining Experience

We know the readers of Short Order are taste explorers always looking for that next food Nirvana. We are happy to introduce you to Imlee Indian Bistro, owned by brothers Manoj and Paresh Bhatti and located, humbly, in a shopping center in Pinecrest. From the doorway a three-foot-tall metal goddess...
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An Oyster Tutorial With Sean Bernal Of Blue Door Fish, Part Two

In celebration of National Oyster Day, we present the second installation of our oyster tutorial with Executive Chef of Blue Door Fish and oyster savant extraordinaire, Sean Bernal. Yesterday, he opened up the kitchen and gave us a lesson in everything mollusk related, and today we dive deeper into the...
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Derek Tresize, Vegan Bodybuilder: Meat Grows Muscles and Cancer

Derek Tresize has an unreal body. The 24-year-old has been bodybuilding on a plant-based diet for five years. This summer, he took third place in his class at the North American Natural Bodybuilding Federation competition, his second contest.He grew up a multitalented athlete in San Diego. At age 19, he...
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Miami-Area Congressional District is the Most Suffering in America

Gallup-Healthway's annual "Well Being Index" takes a wide-ranging reading of physical, emotional, and mental health of political districts on the state, metropolitan and congressional levels. The just-published statistics for 2010 don't give such a healthy diagnosis to Florida or the Miami metropolitan area, but perhaps most worrying is the fact...
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Miami: Third Most Dangerous City for Pedestrians

Warning: walking in South Florida may be dangerous, as if you already weren't aware. According to a new report by transportation reform group Transportation for America, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Palm Beach metro area is the third most dangerous city for pedestrians in the entire county, and Florida cities dominate the list...
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The ANDI Scale: Thrive vs. Burger King

A friend and I recently lunched at Thrive (1239 Alton Rd., Miami Beach). We split two entrées and a fresh juice. Our bill came to about $32. For $16, we each had half a portobello mushroom "pizza" topped with cashew nut cheese, a half portion of sweet potato and black...
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Miamians are Getting Fatter, According to Gallup Info

Gallup released its annual findings on metro areas' well-being last week, and the Miami-area didn't place all that high or low. Though, perhaps the biggest difference from last year's findings when it comes to Miamians is that we're getting a little more chubby. Gallup claims 23 percent of Miamians are...
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Miami’s Home Price Index Hits Lowest Level Since Peak

The nation may be slowly moving out of recession, but Miami's real estate market may not be out of the woods yet.  Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller Home Price Indices track national housing prices, as well as sales in twenty different metro areas. New numbers released today show that Miami's index,...
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Mel Breaks Out the Claws for WMC

Fashion Breakdown: Earrings from Patricia Fields, hair by Ayumi at Patricia Fields, lipstick by MAC called Lady Danger, Dress from Diesel, bag from H&M, cuff by Hermes, index ring by Pamela Love, claw ring by Made Her Think, others Urban Outfitters,and  shoes by Dolce Vita...
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Reggie Watts: Brilliantly Funny, Socially Profound, and Highly Listenable

Last night the Light Box, Miami Light Project's new intimate theater space at Goldman Warehouse in Wynwood, popped it's cherry with an hour and a half of delightful ridiculousness care of comedian/musician/acid-flash-back-inducer Reggie Watts. And what exactly is a Reggie Watts? He's hard to define (so read our Q&A with...