Jeff Kleinman

Celebrated 305 Day a few days early with an Uber driver whose horn was broken and who watched some Inter Miami video on his phone while driving past the new stadium.

Celebrating the South Beach Food and Wine Festival with a dish of dirty rice and several squirts of barbecue sauce

A day after the Super Bowl. That mean the bar is showing luge.

Breaking news: It’s 11 a.m. in South Florida and we’ve already hit today’s high. It’s all downhill from here.

Breaking news: It’s 11 a.m. in South Florida and we’ve already hit today’s high. It’s all downhill from here.

The Times Square ball will drop twice in 2026: Here's when and why For the first time ever, the Times Square ball will drop twice, once on New Year's Eve and again on July Fourth for the nation's 250th birthday.

For the first time ever, the Times Square ball will drop twice, once on New Year's Eve and again on July Fourth for the nation's 250th birthday.

When you send a text wishing Feliz Nochebuena and it auto-corrects to Felix Nosh A Bagel.

Today, I am heading to Sawgrass Mills mall’s 6 a.m. opening for #BlackFriday.

What will I find there?

Passes the pup test. #HappyThanksgiving

The right food is on the table. The kind with ridges from the can. #Thanksgiving

A colleague who made a small update on a news article today jokingly said I should stop the presses.

I did just that 25 years ago.

Here’s why:

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Business plan:

My better half didn’t take my takeout food order. But she did take my sauce order.

Because it’s all about the sauce.

Drop some rain on South Florida and what do you get?

I lost my credit card. I canceled and replaced. Then I found my credit card. I also found this.

The two-point conversion was sponsored by Dos Equis. Maybe Sara Lee should sponsor turnovers.

A Miami Beach you may not know I am a child of North Beach.

You may not recognize this Miami Beach. But it was my childhood.

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Remembering my mom on the sixth anniversary of her death. We didn’t have a memorial candle, so we lit a room freshener candle instead. She would have liked that!

Kraft and Heinz are splitting up?! Does this mean I can no longer legally put ketchup on my mac and cheese?

Granddaughters of Miami childhood education advocate David Lawrence die in Texas flood The girls were 8-year-old twins, Lawrence said.

A tragedy hits home www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

For years, our family headed to the shore of Dumfoundling Bay, where we watched a multitude of July 4 fireworks in the distance along the Atlantic coast. Mom and Dad would stay upstairs to clean up from our indoor picnic. We would then rejoin them in their cool apartment for dessert and TV specials

If it’s July 4, you know what aisle we’re in.

Freedom to pursue appropriate activities today — coffee, book, and later Impossible “meat.”

Independence Day A Time to Grill.

Dave Barry on some serious Fourth of July issues open.substack.com/pub/davebarr...

Getting used to the pizza cake in Chicago

When someone asks how I spent Saturday night, should I tell them?

Once I finish this, maybe I’ll get back to “The Power Broker” and “Hamilton.”

Seeing this in the magazine rack made me go full 1970s. So I bought some V-8.

In Miami, we made a poster of our famous Hurricane Andrew headlines from 1992.

Link: go.bsky.app/58d5T1b

Six-pack of info!

Editors leave legacies.

One invented the term “skyjack.” Another wrote the most famous headline ever: “Headless body found in topless bar.”

Me?

Hmm ... Let me see …

I did come up with the phrase “Toxic Tush.”

In newspaper days, a big story had to be told in 3 words that hit you on the head.