Stories and meals from Miami and beyond.
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Restaurant Reviews
Calories converted into words.
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Concert Reviews
I came, I saw, I wrote.
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Guides That Go Deep
The long way around.
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Essays, Etc.
Who let this happen?
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Stories that
require coffee.
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Read →Weekend at Grutman's
Spending a day with Miami nightlife kingpin David Grutman proved to be an unpredictable and bizarre glimpse into the daily life of Miami's powerful elite. Along the way: Hulk Hogan, Kim Kardashian, and Michael Bay.
Miami New Times
02
Read →The Origin Story of DJ Khaled
Weeks before his Snapchat antics launched him into another dimension of fame, a cover story tracing the improbable rise of Khaled Khaled, America's most unlikely superstar.
Miami New Times
03
Read →The Life and Times of Trina, Rap's Baddest Bitch
Trina is one of the most important female rappers in history and a criminally underrated member of Florida's musical family tree — in the weeks before her first album in seven years.
Miami New Times
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Read →Shell Shocked
South Florida is a critical nesting habitat for three species of sea turtles. Here, a look at how the animals are doing — and who's trying to save them from extinction.
Fort Lauderdale Magazine
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Read →Up All Night
On the eve of Miami Music Week 2017, one very long night in the heart of Miami's 24-hour entertainment district to check the pulse of the city's club culture.
Miami New Times
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Read →Pay-to-Play
When I first heard of rappers paying for stage time, I thought it was a pretty ridiculous concept. After nearly a year of reporting, I learned it's hardly the rarity I thought it was.
The A.V. Club
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Read →101 Years of Mac
Flying iguanas, drunken stories, and Don Johnson being an asshole: the oral history of Miami's greatest bar.
Miami New Times
Social Media
Content that
travels.
Restaurant Reviews
Calories converted
into words.
01
Read →Carbone
"It should feel like one big party in here, but instead it feels like a dozen little ones you're not invited to, all disconnected and competing for the kind of once-in-a-lifetime experience that just never materializes."
The Infatuation Miami
02
Read →Papi Steak
"Is now about when you expect us to proudly mount our soapbox to declare that Papi Steak doesn't represent the real Miami? Because if we're talking about the same Miami — the one that absolutely worships wealth — bad news: it sort of does."
The Infatuation Miami
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Read →Tâm Tâm
"You still kind of hope someone you know will walk by the floor-to-ceiling windows and glimpse you inside, mid-sip of a spiked frozen Vietnamese coffee, at which point they will mentally nudge you towards the 'cool' section."
The Infatuation Miami
Concert Reviews
I came, I saw,
I wrote.
01
Read →A Hungry Heart
The night I met Warren, the most heartbroken man at the Bruce Springsteen concert.
Miami New Times
02
Read →The Boss' Daughter
The idea of taking my boss' 12-year-old daughter to a Taylor Swift concert started as a joke. It did not stay that way.
Miami New Times
03
Read →A Concert in Mourning
Three days after the Pulse shooting, Miami's youth gathers proudly, unflinching, to see Weezer and Panic! at the Disco.
Miami New Times
04
Read →Day One of the Formation World Tour
The world watched as Beyoncé kicked off her Formation world tour in Miami.
Miami New Times
Guides
Guides that
go deep.
01
Read →The South Florida Dive Bar Directory
My ridiculous quest to try every single dive bar in South Florida.
The Infatuation Miami
02
Read →The Fort Lauderdale Classics
Writing about the restaurants that raised me.
The Infatuation Miami
03
Read →Where To Get Away From All These People
The guide that drove me to a crab shack in the middle of the Everglades.
The Infatuation Miami
Essays, Etc.
Essays,
Etc.
01
Read →Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked
I think I found the most awkward way to get published in the New York Times.
The New York Times
02
Read →The Last Thing Miami Needs Is Another Tulum-Inspired Restaurant
There's a new wave of restaurants in town that want to transport you to anywhere but Miami.
The Infatuation Miami
03
Read →We Didn't Know They Could Do That
A short story originally published in the Miami literary journal Sinking City.
Sinking City
About
After graduating from Florida State University, Ryan joined the Miami New Times staff in November 2013 as a web editor and eventually music editor, where he once had lunch with DJ Khaled.
Since then he's won first place awards from the Florida Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Florida Magazine Association, as well as third place honors in the 2016 Green Eyeshade Awards.
Since 2019, he has served as the editor of The Infatuation Miami, where he has written and edited hundreds of restaurant reviews and guides that span from Key West to West Palm Beach. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Billboard, Vice, A.V. Club, and Fort Lauderdale Magazine.