Ground Zero Islamic Cooking School: The Curriculum

Overlooked in the brouhaha over the Ground Zero Islamic Center is the cooking school to be located within the building. Although the place is still years from completion, Short Order has obtained preliminary descriptions of five courses to be included in the curriculum.1. Burqa in the Kitchen: How to Make…

Jersey Shore Damage Report: Launch Them Into Space

Last night was the penultimate episode of season two of Jersey Shore, and judging from next week’s previews of the gang hitting up the Everglades, the last with the majority of the action happening in Miami. It’s sort of a shame, we were just getting used to watching the gangs’…

Blowfly Does XXX-Mas Is a Timeless Wad of Dirty Cheer

Blowfly Blowfly Does XXX-Mas (Pandisc Records) myspace.com/blowfly Christmas comes early this year with that thick, juicy, protein-filled wad of Blowfly love that you’ve tasted so many times over the last five decades. A true visionary, Clarence Reid, AKA Blowfly, decided to jump the holiday bandwagon with this delightful take on…

Spreading Dry Animal Feces and Other Leaf Blower Dangers

​So Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera just called up to say that yesterday’s post trashing his proposal to ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers in Coral Gables was unfair. He claims to have said many other more intelligent things to a reporter than, “Some people look at leaf blowers as a necessity…

Joshua Marcus of Chow Down Grill Is a Chopstick Nazi

Chef/owner of Chow Down Grill Joshua Marcus doesn’t stock chopsticks. No way. No how. Why? It makes sense to him, but not to many others. At one time, it caused a bit of a stir on his Facebook and Twitter pages. We wanted to know what he had to say about the…

Ball Greezy and DJ 360 Team Up for Long Time Coming

Here’s the news: Poe Boy and Strong Arm’s DJ 360 has just teamed up with Ball Greezy and his We Good Entertainment imprint. A native of Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Greezy is probably best remembered for his 2007 single “Shone. And this past summer, he was also part of the unofficial official…

South Park Illustrates Our Worst Fears About Jersey Shore

When MTV announced Jersey Shore would film its second season in South Beach, Miami became the only place outside of Jersey to become infected by a Jersey-fied reality show. So last night’s South Park, in which the mountain town is suddenly overrun by “cabbage-muffed” Jerseyites, hit close to home. The…

Bloody Beetroots Remix the Chemical Brothers’ “Dissolve”

​Today is the day Italian electro outfit, the Bloody Beetroots, kick off the North American leg of its Death Crew 77 tour. Unfortunately, tonight’s show at Mansion won’t be a live performance, just a DJ set warmup. However, Bob Rifo and Tommy Tea were arguably DJs before this whole live show…

Magic City Casino Owner Moves Forward With Poker Room Plan

A petition filed this past September 10 with the state Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering ​shows the owners of Magic City Casino are serious about expanding their gambling operation beyond Flagler Street. The document asks division officials if Magic City’s owners can build a new facility for inter-track wagering and card…

Jersey Shore Damage Report: The Situation’s Bitchuation

With the recent Angelina defestation of the Metropole hotel it seemed a new era of peace and prosperity was about to rule through the Jersey Shore house. Even Sammi and JWoww made awkward attempts at burying the hatchet. But then a bigger bitch emerged: The Situation. The manchild didn’t get…

Are Exposed Kitchens Entertaining or Distracting?

Bloggers Paula Nino and Riki Altman disagree about the merits of exposed kitchens. What follows are their disparate views:Paula’s P.O.V.:There’s something exciting about watching a chef and his team working behind the line to create your food. It’s a way to satisfy the curiosity of how the dishes at a…

A Lobbyist’s Wife Gets Her Way at Miami CRA

Man, we knew Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff could be a prickly son of gun, but his meddling in a billing issue shows he can be both petty and vindictive as well.According to a June 1 memo by former CRA Executive Director James Villacorta, Sarnoff tried to speed up a…