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October 13, 2011
Trend Alert: Vietnamese Cuisine, Epic Menus, and Man Food
This past week, my colleagues from Village Voice Media had a good showing the Association of Food Journalism awards, which I attended in Charleston. Around tables at dinner and during speaker sessions, topics such as how soon to review a restaurant after it has opened, the role of critics in ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Booze Like a Bootlegger With These Prohibition-Era Cocktails
Prohibition, the latest documentary by Emmy-award winning Ken Burns that airs October 2 through 4 on PBS, focuses on how the law that tried to prevent drinking was based in an effort to "cling to the myth of an agrarian Jeffersonian America that never really was," Burns told sister publication LA ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Mr. Joan Crawford
Prohibition, the latest documentary by Emmy-award winning Ken Burns that airs October 2 through 4 on PBS, focuses on how the law that tried to prevent drinking was based in an effort to "cling to the myth of an agrarian Jeffersonian America that never really was," Burns told sister publication LA ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Casey Anthony Mask Bidding Ends Just Short of $1 Million
eBayThe extremely creepy Casey Anthony mask that was going for around $24,000 on eBay yesterday morning ended with a $999,900 bid last night.In all, 105 bids were placed on the mask, which is said to be one of nine masks created by a sculptor for use in a Casey Anthony parody video.It's hard to t ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
The Last Supper? Meals to Eat Before the Rapture (May 21, 2011)
This could be very awkward on May 22.Billboards have popped up all over the U.S. declaring that Rapture, or Judgment Day, is May 21. That's less than a week away.Sure, the Bible said that no one will know when rapture will happen but that didn't stop Harold Camping, the president of a California- ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
Adam Gopknik, Gael Greene, Ruth Reichl, Jonathan Gold, and More Convene at Key West Food Writing Seminar
Greene famously slept with Elvis and ordered him an egg sandwich from room service. Foodies/literary geeks (often one and the same) might overdose on sensory/intellectual goodness when legends and legends in the making of the food-writing world convene in Key West for the 29th-annual Key West Lit ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere
Got an interesting post or bit of news to share? Email it to Charlie and we'll include it in Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere.Jan Norris grabs some tips from Art Ginsberg, AKA Mr. Food, on how to make a great brisket. South Florida Beer Blog hips us to the Beer Snob Pub Crawl, a beerventure conducted ... More >>
News
July 22, 2010
Educating Maria
On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants
Blogs
May 10, 2010
2010 James Beard Winners Announced
Last week, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2010 winners for food media and restaurants. Although South Florida had a few dogs in the race, Broward and Palm Beach didn't come up with any wins. But Miami's own Michael Schwartz of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink managed to snag Best Chef ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
LA Weekly Critic Jonathan Gold Profiled in The New Yorker
Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold blends in among the native dim sum.The latest issue of The New Yorker appeared this week with a profile of Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic for our sister paper, LA Weekly.The piece called "The Scavenger" by Dana Goodyear follows Gold ... More >>
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March 27, 2009
Chaos at Sunrise Middle School
Once upon a time, Sunrise Middle School had such a good reputation that some parents considered it better than private school. It is the only middle school around with a Montessori program. It has a gifted program. There's an accelerated group called the "Golden Hammers" (like other school gro ... More >>
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January 13, 2009
Reporter Bound for D.C. Seeks Gotcha Questions, Ball Gown, Proper Footwear
When I was a wee college student at FSU, my best friend and I decided to road-trip to DC for President Clinton's inauguration. There we were, two unprepared, underdressed 18-year-olds waiting for hours upon hours in the freezing cold for little more than a nanosecond's glance at a speeding lim ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2008
Top Dance Albums of 2008
Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from d ... More >>
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November 25, 2008
The Roots Performing in Miami for New Years Eve
Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>
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October 14, 2008
R.I.P. Gidget Gein, South Florida Native and Former Member of Marilyn Manson
Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>
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November 20, 2007
Tori Amos Goes Schizo
Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>
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November 7, 2007
Lil Wayne Brings the Flood
Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>
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May 10, 2007
In Honor of Mr. Gold, We Hereby End His Career...
Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>
Film
October 13, 2005
Keira, Get Your Gun
Domino chronicles the life of a model turned bounty hunter

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