Snackdown Semi-Finals: Coconut Grove vs. Downtown

Over the next few weeks, Short Order will be pairing eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods in a “Snackdown.” This is the first semi-finals entry. Today pits Coconut Grove against Downtown Miami. Which of these two is the better neighborhood for dining?Read our arguments and VOTE! Tweet it. Facebook it. Google+ it. Comment…

Snackdown: Coconut Grove, Downtown, Coral Gables Move Into the Semi-Finals

Over the next few weeks, Short Order will pair eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods in a “Snackdown”. This is the first semi-final round-up. This afternoon we’ll pit Coconut Grove against Downtown Miami. Which one is the better neighborhood for dining?Read our arguments and VOTE! Tweet it. Facebook it. Google+ it. Comment.For north…

Marc Sarnoff Punched Reid Welch, Witnesses Claim

Call us crazy. But if two people saw Banana Republican approach someone, sucker punch him or her, and then pin our victim to the ground, chances are we’d be taking a ride down to Miami-Dade County jail. In fact, any Joe Schmo would have been arrested for assault or battery…

Valentine’s Day Stickup: We’re Not Making This Up!

This happy news just in from Miami PD: On February 14, 2012, at approximately 1:20 p.m., a white male subject posing as a flower delivery man knocked on the door a house located at 30 SW 59th Ave. Once the victim (Scheryl Garcia) opened the door, the subject, armed with…

Snackdown: Aventura/North Miami Beach vs. Midtown/Wynwood/Design District

Over the next few weeks, Short Order will pair eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods in a “Snackdown”. This is the fourth entry. Today pits Aventura against Midtown/Wynwood/and the Design District. Which one is the better neighborhood for dining?Read our arguments and VOTE! Tweet it. Facebook it. Google+ it. Comment.For north of the…

Forget Facebook: Minorities Prefer Twitter

​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains why Twitter is the social media network preferred by minorities.Everybody is talking about Facebook’s forthcoming initial public…

Snackdown: Little Havana vs. Coral Gables

Over the next few weeks, Short Order will pair eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods in a “Snackdown”. This is the third entry. Today pits Little Havana against Coral Gables. Which one is the better neighborhood for dining?Read our arguments and VOTE! Tweet it. Facebook it. Google+ it. Comment.For north of the county…

Miami-Dade Nixes $3 Million Grant To Tax Evader After New Times Report

A recent New Times article helped convince Miami-Dade commissioners Tuesday to rescind a $3 million grant they had awarded to the family of shopping center developer Yoram Izhak.At the commission’s regular meeting, Commissioner Dennis Moss requested his colleagues reconsider a vote to help pay for the upgrade of Northside Shopping…

Coconut Grove Should Clobber South Beach in the Snackdown

Short Order’s Snackdown, our friendly little competition to see which dining neighborhood gets the most love, is heating up. We expected to see comments from readers expressing their choices, including a little point/counterpoint discussion. What we didn’t expect was that the fires would come from within our own ranks.Last week…

Here Weego: Bud Light Helps Rescue Dogs at Super Bowl

Long before cable television and the thousands of programming choices that we now have, television was born in the late 1920s. Its primary function was (and it may surprise some) and still is to serve as a means of communication during emergencies. That’s why we have those pesky emergency drills…

Snackdown! Downtown vs. Mid Beach

Over the next few weeks, Short Order will pair eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods in a “Snackdown”. This is the second entry. Today pits downtown Miami against Mid Beach in Miami Beach. Which one is the better neighborhood for dining?Read our arguments and VOTE! Tweet it. Facebook it. Google+ it. Comment if…

Coconut Grove Over South Beach? 50 Reasons That’s Just Dumb

As you may or may not know, Short Order is having a little Snackdown! Over the next few weeks, we will be pairing eight Miami-Dade neighborhoods and pitting one against the other in an NCAA-bracket sort of tournament. The first entry, last Thursday, was Coconut Grove versus South Beach.Admittedly this…