Opinion & Commentary

As the saga of Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito’s war with Mayor Tomás Regalado rages on, a new development could fuel the battle between the two estranged friends over illegal gambling in the city’s bodegas and cafeterias. New Times has obtained video footage of what looks like a man winning…

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition, Luke contemplates being county mayor now that the recall election against Carlos Alvarez is set.If Carlos…

MTV may have featured some unsavory folks in their reality shows in the past year (various Teen Moms, the entire cast of Jersey Shore, Heidi Montag) but the second season of From G’s to Gents, which promised to turn street thugs into refined gentleman, may have featured an actual murderer…

As far as restaurants go, Midtown’s Gigi is incontestably the hippest spot in all of Miami-Dade County. Who knew this city had so many good looking people until the big windows overlooking North Miami Avenue began framing their stylish faces?The intimate, sleek layout, warm atmosphere, and delightful servers make every…

Miami is a city of bubbles. We are currently in the midst of the Great Mugshot Bubble. One day, we’ll sit down at our computer at 8 am on a Friday morning and find… nothing. Dimly-lit photos of regular-looking perps in prison scrubs. But while it lasts, let’s do some…

Yesterday, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas was feeling extra generous with taxpayer dollars. She promised to transfer $750,000 in affordable housing funds from her district to the district of green Commissioner Jean Monestime, who caved to Seija’s suggestion that he take more time to reconsider his plan to rescind $1.5…

Gay Cowboys in Bondage Owen Marshmallow Strikes Again! (Sublapse Records) myspace.com/gaycowboysinbondag By now, if anyone were to scroll through these Blast From the Past columns, one key note would be the inherent humor that many musical acts from this great state have embodied through time. One of the better and…

Tainted Gold Buy smart: The question in the story about the South Florida supplier for Walmart is one of morality (“Cheated,” Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, January 6). Am I obligated to pay more for a product so that the people making that product can live better lives? Am I responsible for the…

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke lays out his ideas to fix Miami’s inner city neighborhoods. While it was nice to see Tony…

Snooki, you came into our town with a your poofy slippers, crystal vision sunglasses and miraculous poof and managed to leave with our heart. Undoubtedly, even we have to admit that based on the first episode of season 3 all things Jersey Shore are actually better when they’re set in…

The last time we checked in with Black Bobby, he was celebrating Lebron James in song and getting ready to release his latest album, Presidential Shit. Shortly after, though, he announced he was taking a break from music for the winter, to concentrate on promoting all the music he had…

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times This week, Luke lays out his ideas to fix Miami’s inner city neighborhoods. While it was nice to see Tony…

​By “hashing it out,” I don’t mean to imply that Adrianne Calvo and I got together, smoked hash, and sang Kumbaya with our mouths filled with chocolate chip cookies — although now that I think of it, that would have made a much more interesting post. Rather I had hurled…

Much talk is being made in local hip-hop circles of the “new Miami,” a widening circle of not necessarily similar-sounding, but similarly minded hungry local MCs. Among some of these diverse rising artists are Phresh James, Ghostwridah, LMS, Dynas, Saheed, Garcia — and a million others entertaining on Twitter that…

In 1931 Irma S. Rombauer self published The Joy of Cooking. It became the United States’ most published cookbook. One recipe in there is Chicken breast baked on a bed of mushrooms. A simple and tasty dish, I devoured it as a child (yes, even the mushrooms),Fast forward to 2011…

Welcome to 2011! Depending on how you look at it, you might be excited because it’s a new slate to improve your life and be a better person, or it could fill you with anxiety and woe. Personally, I like my cup full, then empty, then full again. Which brings…

Miami city Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is starting the new year with new office digs. As reported here previously, the Coconut Grove politician had been operating his law firm out of the townhouse he owns at 3000 Shipping Ave. until his enemies reported him to city code enforcers for allegedly running…

Gus Rescues LeBron He writes: Gus Garcia-Roberts is, in my opinion, one of the best writers in the local scene (“Comeback Queen,” December 30). They say long-form journalism is dead. But if all lengthy feature stories were written with as much insight, creativity, narrative prowess, and humor as he employs,…

It’s getting a bit into January to still be milking this end-of-year stuff, but as a serious student of prognostication I can’t let the opportunity slip by: I feel the need to share these shocking truths about the upcoming year with you. Plus my Ouija board was getting dusty.Here then,…