For some people, Miami fashion will always bring to mind images of Gianni Versace's pastel suits on Miami Vice, but according to a new survey from the Global Language Monitor, Miami ranks among the top ten fashion capitals in the world...
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Hey, Miami, you wanna know how The Daily Beast knows you're gay? Because the Gay/Lesbian Index developed by demographer Gary Gates at UCLA's Williams Institute says so. The index measures the prevalence of same-sex households in metro areas, and the South Florida area made the top 20 with 4.81 same-sex households per 1,000. ...
In the late '80s to early '90s, Florida's music landscape was ravaged by a brutal bulldozer known as grindcore. Inspired by death metal, thrash, and classic hardcore, and driven by the DIY ethos of punk rock, groups emerged like locusts. They played faster than everyone else and blasted the world...
Essensia Restaurant & Lounge: Clean cuisine in a breezy outdoor setting
Who loves summer time? I know I do. Sure, it's hotter than hell in SoFla these days (next time they'll listen to you, Al Gore), and with a humidity index of, like, 975, opening the front door is practically like taking a shower, only in your own sweat. But it's...
Tonight at the News Lounge, ladies and gents will hunch over light boxes and scribble on note cards while a rowdy bunch behind them waits its turn. It's Drinking and Drawing, a sort of animated jam session where the artistically inclined come together over pints and highballs to create a...
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Every week, exiled Cubans are pissed about something. If it's not a Los Van Van concert, it's Hugo Chavez. Protesting outside Versailles is their idea of a Glee club, and their favorite pastime is tacking on new crimes, no matter how far-fetched, to Fidel Castro's long list of offenses. In...
People who say there's never anything to do in Miami need to get over themselves. Because according to the decidedly un-fun wisdom of statistic, Miami is the fourth funnest city in America!Portfolio.com gathered statistics on 14 types of fun businesses (this is from a business site after all), and then...
University of Miami is no longer Playboy's top party school
Almost like visiting a surgeon, an undertaker or a divorce lawyer, heading to a car repair shop is never a fun time. With Miami's reputation for dirty driving and traffic, it's something we've all had to do. Oddly, a new study by AutoMD.com shows that while Miami may be the...
This week's feature story, "Down on the Farm," chronicles an increasingly heated national battle over "factory-farmed" food. On one side: a phalanx of corporation- and family-owned farms across the country. On the other: the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States.Caught in the middle: independent farmers and voters.Voters? Indeed...
Breaking news from the best twitter in the land, Playboy's: the University of Miami is no longer the number one party school in the country. It is with a heavy heart that we report that the University of Texas at Austin is the new champion, thanks to its "big-time sports,...
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That condo you bought in downtown as an investment property in 2005? You might not be able to make a reasonable profit on it until sometime after 2030.Moody's Economy.com says housing prices in Miami-Dade and most other southern Florida counties won't recover until 2030. The predictions are based on Fiserv's Leading Case-Shiller...
In just a few years, DJ/producer Mark Henning has managed to rise from mere hobbyist -- juggling his fledgling musical pursuits and a full-time corporate job -- to internationally acclaimed touring artist. And it's all been by sheer virtue of his talent and uncompromising work ethic.Henning's musical development and sound...
For Romero Britto, luck and charm trump talent
As far as Latin American dictators go, Augusto Pinochet doesn't get nearly enough hate in these parts. I mean, this is what Miami does: hate Latin American dictators. Philly has cheese steaks, Orlando has theme parks, Miami has its undying hate for Latin American dictators.Oh, that's right! Pinochet was a...
On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants
Welcome to 2010. Newsflash Fontainebleau: Where mainstream, corporate, and alternative media cameras cannot shoot Lady Gaga, citizen cameras can, and this year they'll get better and more able to easily subvert your stupid rules.Here's video of Lady Gaga in a bikini (does her cock flop out the side? Is Lady...
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Notes from a Miami dominatrix
Cuban killer Luis Posada Carriles goes on trial
Using your own two feet as your primary means of conveyance in Florida won't just get you drenched in sweat most of the year, it's also more likely to put you in the path of danger.According to Transportation for America's Pedestrian Danger Index, the top four most dangerous metropolitans in...
Sean Penn is playing "journalist" once again and has landed in Cuba, a country that routinely censors journalists, ranks near the bottom of the Press Freedom Index and has imprisoned more journalists than any other country except for China. So it makes sense the ideological actor is donning his amateur...