A little while ago, we posted a track by Ice Berg called “Stop Look & Listen,” which was meant to be a teaser for this then-upcoming mixtape Strictly For The Streets 2: Color On Color. On July 4 exactly at midnight, the tape was released, and in minutes garnered hundreds to thousands…
Banana Republican is watching a projection screen inside a chilly classroom with no desks.On the screen, a police officer in a tan uniform talks to a middle-aged man in farmer duds on the side of a rural road. It looks like a scene from the TV show Cops, except Banana Republican is…
The girls of Jersey Shore came through Miami like a wrecking crew hell bent on bitch slapping anything that got in their way. They left a pile of beaten and bruised bitches and bros lying on the floor in their wake of tanning gels and hair sprays.Unfortunately this is not…
Ten years ago this past June 28, Elián González was returned to his father in Cuba, and Alex Penelas’s rising political star imploded. Miami-Dade’s then-county mayor dug his own grave in 2000. Sure he won a second term as mayor, but he double-crossed Al Gore during the presidential election and…
Greasy Kid Stuff (Smooth Lips Records)pinkai.com Truants? Cute Catholic High School kids in leather jackets? Social deviants? Future business leaders of America? All of the above? Yes and no. But mostly yes. Pin Kai’s small reign of terror was one marked by incredible creativity and a lack of intentional direction. That’s…
We just received this invitation for a DJ Khaled Fourth of July event at Sobe Live and noticed this incredible boast: “Featuring Appearances by THE WHOLE WORLD!” Either the Whole World is a new R&B group, or this place is gonna be packed!I mean, seriously, Khaled? The entire friggin planet…
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 analyzes Elena Kagan’s nomination to the highest court in the land. I’m happy to see that Barack…
Al Gore is finally free from Tipper
Letters from the issue of July 1, 2010
World-renowned DJ Mick Boogie has built a stable collection and archive of past mixtapes that comes second to none. Always taking the road less traveled, it seems, Ohio-born Boogie definitely comes up with great concepts and themes for his own mixtapes.Enter two of the most anticipated rap releases of the summer. Big…
The 55-year-old brother of former Miccosukee Indian Chairman Billy Cypress is pleading guilty to two counts of DUI manslaughter. On February 19 of last year, Thomas Cypress was behind the wheel of his truck on Tamiami Trail when he swerved into oncoming traffic and had a head-on collision with a…
So an Orthodox Jew foot doctor walks into a houseful of cameras… Uh, yeah, Andrew Gordon of Miami Beach will be a contestant in CBS’s long-running Big Brother summer series. He’s so dedicated to his religion that he’ll be observing Shabbat while in the house. That means he somehow won’t…
MTV has released the official trailer for the upcoming Miami-set season of Jersey Shore. We’re about to bear witness to the atrocities that were committed in our city by the only people in the world who actually make our natives seem pale in comparison. In true guido style, it contains…
*Miami Spice is gearing up for another run. As always, there will be restaurants where the Spice price represents real value, and restaurants where you’d be better off dining à la carte. It will run from August 1 through the end of September, and tickets have just gone on sale…
It’s been a little more than a year since North Miami Beach residents accused Mayor Myron Rosner of abusing his official position to sidestep the city’s zoning and building regulations when he added a room and a pool to his residence and made other home improvements.It looks like Rosner will…
Last time we spoke to Askultura they were telling us about their new EP, You Stank, We Skank. Well, now the band is ready to release it, and in case you’ve never heard their music we’ve got their track “Domestic Insecurities” here for you to listen to after the jump.Askultura’s…
Swazy Styles is one of the more polarizing figures coming out of the local rap scene right now. People either love or really hate his song “Birthday Suit,” a shameless party-rocker which hinges on a sample from the Tetris theme song, of all things. This is a song aimed squarely at females…
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 discusses Al Gore’s sex scandal and his pending divorce from wife Tipper.I want to congratulate former Vice…
Hemlock was a Miami disco band in the late ’70s that had a hit dance single called “Disco Break.” It got them a 12-inch record pressed by Warner Bros., and a soundtrack credit on a teen comedy called Swap Meet. We found Hemlock on YouTube in a video uploaded earlier today…
Oh, boy. This is gonna be fun.The Short Order bloggers decided it’s high time we gave the slapdown to some Miami eateries that charge too much, serve bland eats, pay more attention to their decor than the diners, and generally put a bad taste in our mouths, literally and figuratively…
A real-life episode of Burn Notice essentially played out this weekend at a Miami Beach hotel, complete with a mysterious shooting death, a hastily evacuated foreign head of state, a deathly bad odor, and a hazmat team.It’s not clear whether Bruce Campbell was involved — but frankly, we’re not ready…
Every once in awhile Mother Nature fucks up real bad and rolls a poor three-faced freak off the reproductive assembly line. We’ve all seen kittens and piglets and even human babies with five eyes, two and a half mouths, and one kaleidoscopically malformed nose. Back in the dark ages, these…
