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Held November 18 at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove, Refresh Miami was tame but very tropical. The location just about upstaged last month's meeting at the Mayfair Hotel, what with the Mutiny being a grand dame of the 1980s, notorious for drug activity and crazy parties when Coconut Grove...
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Bayfront Rocks to the Occasion
You don't need fancy statistics and indices to tell you the obvious: Traffic in Miami sucks. Alas, we still have fancy statistics and indices to make it official. According to IBM's Commuter Pain Index, Miami has the third worst traffic in the nation. Additionally, the index shows these to be the...
Lithium from Bolivia could reshape Miami and the world
Miami 2009: The seven signs are in place that the End Times are nigh
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Sandwich Slingers and Zingers
We're not sure what the editors of Vogue would think, but the Global Language Monitor has an interesting ranking of the world's top fashion hot spots. The Austin, Texas-based company used its Predictive Quantities Index to make the list, a measure that, according to GLM's website, is "a proprietary algorithm that tracks words and...
Here's the bad news: According to a new study of the 100 most populous metro areas in America by the Brookings Institution, the Miami area, including the rest of South Florida, is one of the 20 economically weakest metro areas in the country. Here's the good news: We're only 82,...
According to the Millman Index, the average total medical costs for a family of four rose 7.4% in the past year to $16,771. Miami has the heaviest costs in the entire country, with an average of $20,280. That costs includes employer contributions, deductibles, and co-pays. Americans pay about 15.2% of...
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Tat-Time Stories
New York Dolls Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale Better than: A half-authentic tribute act. Maybe I'm a natural-born negative creep. Or maybe my inner lonely planet boy has been shocked out of his bubble a few too many times by the cruel, harsh realities of our post-punk...
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Jerry Powers, the man behind Ocean Drive, refuses to surrender
Now this is an interesting promotion. As regular Crossfade readers know by now, ZZ Top and Aerosmith are playing the BankAtlantic center on Monday July 13. Aerosmith is doing a big promotional push on their newest video game: Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and part of that promotion involves you. Before each...
Gallup, Healthways, and America's Health Insurance Plans have teamed up to create a state by state, and congressional district by district well-being index. The index is based on the World Health Organization's definition of health as "not only the absence of infirmity and disease, but also a state of physical,...
Integrated Asset Services released their latest IAS360 House Price Index, and as you might expect, the news isn't good. Between January of this year and January 2008 housing prices have dropped a total of 28.4% in South Florida. That's 29.1% in Broward, 18.8% in Palm Beach, and a whopping 32.3%...
I counted three Venezuelan girls in bikini's that made me want to defect on the next plane to Caracas.
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Rush to Justice
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Pint-Size Preacher
Miami's heat index seems finally to be falling. Nights don't feel like an asphyxiophilia's (look it up) dream. While we still have a few more months of crazy weather and hurricane threats, the city's low-season is finally coming to an end and with it come back the tourists and big...
via Wikimedia Commons Palin proudly wears a coat made of the toupees of all the male politicians she beat out. After months of speculation, turns out Gov. Charlie Crist won't be number two on the Republican ticket. Instead McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah "PUMA bait" Palin. Buzz that Crist would...
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