Ever notice how New Yorkers have such strong opinions about what makes a person a "real" New Yorker? (The answer: You have strong opinions about what makes one a real New Yorker.) The phrase "Real New Yorker" has 802,000 Google results. The phrase "Real Miamian" nets only 347 results.We're a transient,...
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For the past couple of years, Norman Braman has carefully crafted his image as a do-gooder billionaire and civic activist by leading the recall of former Miami-Dade mayor Carlos Alvarez and, more recently, financing opponents against four sitting county commissioners because they saddled taxpayers with the Marlins Park boondoggle while...
When it comes to first dates and getting to know the real person behind a potential mate's OkCupid profile, sometimes dinner and a movie just don't cut it. It doesn't take Dr. Phil to figure out that a boring courtship can lead to a boring relationship life, which of course...
After wildin' out to the brutal, punk-y, funky, bass-y, fuzzy strains of only ten Best Miami Bands of All Time (i.e. Scraping Teeth, Frank Williams & The Rocketeers, Iko Iko, ANR, Miami Bass Warriors and Nuclear Valdez, The Goods, Locos Por Juana, Cynic, Avenue D), our ears are already freakin'...
Mary J. Blige and D'Angelo's Liberation Tour at the American Airlines Arena August 30
Imagine you're an 18-year-old freshman settling into your dorm room two days before you start school at the University of Miami. You hear news reports about a category 4 hurricane barreling toward your new home, but chalk it up to media hysteria. It couldn't be worse than the monsoons you'd...
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Read Also: Fill the Grill: Alfredo Montero Wins Round TwoJim Heins Takes Round One A packed house was in attendance for the 2012 Fill the Grill Competition finals at Whole Foods Market Coral Gables last evening, with many attendees having watched the previous two elimination rounds. As people took their...
At Miami Book Fair International, Irvine Welsh, Mark Helprin, and Bring Literary Heat
Ray-Ray just won't go away-way.>Last month Hurricanes senior safety Ray-Ray Armstrong was kicked off the team. The school still hasn't officially explained why, but he may have had something to do with either tweeting about improper meetings with a booster or a dinner he took with a friend who worked...
Ladies: If you want to surprise your boyfriend by popping into their house topless, by all means, don't let us stop you. There's a proper procedure to pulling off such a surprise, however, and that's to remove your upper garments in a hallway, on a front porch, or perhaps behind...
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...
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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Earlier today, someone hacked into the Facebook accounts of several Major League Baseball teams and the Marlins were not spared. For a brief moment, the Marlins Facebook page promised the first 10,000 fans in attendance at the next game that they'd receive a free "fighting pit bull." Updated...
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...
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 .....
Tonight, at last, it ends: Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals starts at 8:30 p.m., and it may well destroy the world as we know it. Okay, the game may only result in the destruction of a few TV sets and cars in the greater Boston and Miami areas,...
Old-time samba and bossa nova might come to mind when thinking of Brazil. But it's also the country that spawned one of electronic music's most forward-thinking artists. Since the late '90s, Rio de Janeiro-born composer, producer, and sonic mad scientist Amon Tobin has honed his own ever-evolving brand of electronica...
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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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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