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How Do You Know If You’re a Real Miamian?

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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Norman Braman Dodges Taxes For His Yacht, Kisses

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...
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Miami’s Five Best (and Cheapest) First-Date Attractions

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...
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50 Best Miami Bands of All Time: From 40 to 36

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'...
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Ray-Ray Armstrong Sues to Get Back on Miami Hurricanes

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...
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Topless Florida Woman Leads Police On Sexiest Chase Ever

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...
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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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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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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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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...