Maybe the economy hasn’t tanked after all. How else can you explain shelling out $26,000 for dinner?hat’s how much it costs to enjoy La Castagne’s nine course truffle dinner for four. The Philadelphia restaurant conceptualized a dining event that is “the most extravagant and exclusive in the entire world,” according…
Luke’s Gospel: Cubans Go Liberal; Bye, Marco Rubio
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The world of EDM is basically one giant circus. You’ve got Steve Aoki doing acrobatics; David Guetta is running around in clown shoes; and Tiësto’s striking Jesus Christ poses as the most self-righteous ringleader ever. But all that’s been merely metaphorical until now. Cirque Du Soleil has teamed up with…
New York Times food critic Pete Wells has reviewed Guy Fieri’s new Times Square-area restaurant, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar.Well, it’s less a review than a fully-formed script for a Saturday Night Live episode in which a food critic asks the bowling shirt-attired television personality…why? Just why?Never have I sympathized…
Rappers make a name for themselves by writing thought-provoking verses laden with rhyme, rhythm, and raunch. Or they start enough beef that its impossible to Ask Jeeves about an MC without the aforementioned beefer popping up in the results. It seems as though Harlem-bred spitter A$AP Rocky is choosing a…
Rolling Stone just farted out a list of turds and called it the “25 DJs That Rule the Earth.” But we here at Crossfade have got more than a bone to pick with them about it. Not only is this list completely nonsensical and asinine, it plays like a tired…
If you’re lucky, you might catch a glimpse of a 54-year-old nipple at a Madonna concert. Ass, however, is going to cost you extra. Performing in front of a sold-out crowd at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, the Material Girl added stripping to her list of NSFW moments when…
After raising nearly a million bucks to unseat four Miami-Dade County Commissioners in the August 14 primary, it seems billionaire auto magnate Norman Braman threw in the towel. According to the last three financial reports for his political action committee Change Miami Dade Now, Braman only chipped in $80,000 for…
The closing of Sustain, the Midtown restaurant that emphasized local everything, elicited groans from some parts of the blogosphere. Months later, the space remains empty, but rumor has it the team behind the adjacent Sugarcane (and Lincoln Road’s Sushi Samba Dromo) has taken over the space and is planning an…
Oh PETA, I’ve got your number. You’re like that girl in college who always got drunk and flashed her boobs before vomiting on her shoes. You’ll do anything for attention.Look, I know that you’ve got an important message to get across, and we need animal rights advocates just as much…
The fact that Peter Rosello apparently filmed himself punching a homeless man in the groin has not stopped Peter Rosello from telling a judge that he’s not guilty of punching a homeless man in the groin.Rosello, the son of Real Housewives of Miami star Alexia Echevarria and step-son of Hialeah…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Now we know why Mitt Romney released a last minute campaign ad in South Florida trying to link Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro to Barack Obama. It was a desperation.Romney knew he had to to stave off the biggest surprise of the presidential election in Florida: Nearly half of Miami-Dade’s…
Carlos Miller: Not guilty! As one of Miami’s most fervent free speech activists, Miller was facing a criminal misdemeanor of resisting arrest stemming from a tussle with one particular member of Miami-Dade Police Department’s finest on January 31.While filming county and City of Miami cops clearing out Occupy Miami protesters…
Jermaine, America’s umpteenth most popular Jackson, is considering a homophonic surname switch. Michael’s barely relevant celebrity brother has filed a name-change petition in Los Angeles, according to TMZ. And yeah … Jermaine Jackson wants to legally become “Jermaine Jacksun” for “artistic reasons.” The artist formally known as Jermaine Jackson released…
Voter Suppression: Is Mayor Carlos Gimenez Like Fidel Castro?
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“What’s your favorite restaurant?” That question got us all thinking. If we had to choose one top dog at gunpoint, what would it be and why? Recently Short Order bloggers began celebrate their favorite eateries — be they celebrity-chef-driven or a neighborhood hole-in-the wall. Why? Because we’re tired of having…
While Floridians were busy re-electing Barack Obama, voters in Puerto Rico yesterday participated in a referendum posing a fundamental question to their political status with the United States: statehood or no statehood?The first question on the two-part referendum asked voters if they wanted to change their relationship with the United…
Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are ready. The two have been giving their visions for what the country will look like if they take 270 or more of the total 538 votes in the Electoral College. If Republicans take back the White House, here’s a list of what might…
In what might be another sign of the coming apocalypse, wait times for early voting stretched into an appalling four, six, even eight hours this past weekend. Blood sugar dropped. Sunburn reigned supreme. Adults and kids alike could be seen doing the potty dance. (Even dudes on a chain gang…
