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Firewall Food Truck Brings Hand-Crafted Pizza on Wheels

See also Dos Equis Brings the Most Interesting Food TruckIf you thought pizza on wheels only went as far as a teenager going door to door for Domino's, think again. Miami's latest pizza phenomenon is a converted bus complete with what the owners say is Florida's first wood-burning oven on...
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Surfer Blood’s John Paul Pitts Arrested for Domestic Battery in Lake Worth

Usually, Surfer Blood is all about beach-y, positive vibes. On March 31, though, the band's singer-guitarist John Paul Pitts was booked by the Palm Beach County Sherrif's Office on a domestic battery charge after a confrontation with his then-girlfriend. As reported this afternoon by Pitchfork, the indie rocker was originally...
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Shakira’s “Addicted to You” Video May Result in Sex Rehab

How often do we here at Crossfade find ourselves alone in the dark, fondling a laptop while watching steamy videos and wondering, "Is it time for another stint in sex rehab?" Oh, maybe three or four or five or six or seven times per day. And we blame Shakira .....
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Zevia With Stevia: An Office Taste Test

No, this isn't some new, tween-targeted Disney Channel show about twins in middle school. Zevia is a fairly new soda brand, mostly sold in specialty food shops like the Fresh Market. Instead of using sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, aspartame, or unicorn laughter as a sweetener, Zevia uses stevia.Zevia, which sells for about 99 cents...
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Michael Schwartz Announces Michael’s Genuine Home Brew

We were waiting for the day that Michael Schwartz would put his name on a genuine brewski. And that day is today.Today, Schwartz announced the arrival of Michael's Genuine Home Brew. This classic American ale is craft brewed in Gadsden, Alabama, by the Back Forty Beer Company specifically for Schwartz,...
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Tales of the Cocktail: New Indie Spirits You Should Try

There was a time when spirits were distilled by family-run companies. Small batches of rye, bourbon, or rum were made and distributed. In time, large corporations started buying out these small companies until it seemed like most every item in your local liquor store could be traced back to a...
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Four Restaurants That Dish for a Cause

Restaurants have always been part of a community's charitable scene, usually by either hosting fundraisers or donating gift certificates to be used in charity auctions. But we've been seeing a new wave of philanthropy in restaurants that we hope to see much more of. Restaurants have been increasingly partnering with local...
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Win Lunch or Dinner at Smashburger (Update: We Have Winners)

Smashburger, the relatively new burger chain to open in Miami, may not be a name on everyone's lips, but the company is aiming to change that. The chain of fast-casual restaurants features fresh 100% certified Angus beef that starts out as a meatball, of all things. The ball, which comes...
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Presidential Poll: Obama Is Chocolate, Romney Is Vanilla (Ice Cream)

With the GOP convention getting a soggy and late start this week and the Democrats having their shindig soon afterward, we are now full force in the middle of the 2012 presidential campaign cycle. With that comes daily polls from pretty much every single politically charged think tank, university, and...