Put on your moon walkin’ shoes and remind everyone that Billie Jean was not your lover: Michael Jackson passed away from cardiac arrest exactly one year ago today. The King of Pop’s untimely death was greeted by a global outpour from fans, as everyone grieved and tried to find their…
Andrea Curto-Randazzo, who with husband Frank forms the chef/ownership team of Talula, mentioned in an interview published over the weekend that they are trying to sell their South Beach restaurant. We’re sorry, if not surprised, to hear the news, and thought we’d try to help the culinary couple by seeing if…
Valholla Entertainment continues its fight for dominance with a strong team of artists who are all poised to make their mark in the industry soon enough. To name a couple, there’s R&B artist Kirby Maurier, and hip-hop artist Phatz (who we’ve featured a few times already). But now there’s also Ramzez, who’s…
Self-titled EP (Smooth Lips Records)myspace.com/nobuhjest As cool and casual as it might be to sit here and make and odd and/or end out of the whole post – punk, post – hardcore, post – post – post – whatever debacle, I feel like I’ve been beating off into the frappe blender…
Banana Republican has a sneaking suspicion that Jenny Nillo is a ringer in an important state Senate race. Nillo is a former legislative aide to state Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who can’t run again because of term limits. Since last year, Alex’s brother Miguel has been locked in…
Naked on bikes for the BP spill
Letters from the issue of June 24, 2010
Uncle Luke talks sex at the strip club
Earlier this week Crossfade featured an interview with Mr. Flores and in that same interview we debuted a video of the track “Mean to Be Mean.” It was recorded this past fall inone take, like a well-oiled machine, with the lineup of Jose Flores (guitar/vocals), Gus Rod (guitar), Danny Palacios (bass),…
Any self respecting “Queer Issue” has to have a good six pack on the cover. Our sister publication up in New York, the Village Voice, managed to grab the most talked about abs in the land: that of the Situation.Yes, three of the boys (sorry fellas, apparently no softcore DJ…
The Jamaican drug lord whose gang once terrorized Miami is in custody, The Guardian is reporting. Christopher “Dudus” Coke was a Robin Hood in Jamaica. At least 73 people on the island have died in battles with police, who were trying to bring him in. The United States has called…
Local songstress CeCe Segarra has been positioned as the next dance-pop star from Miami, and while she’s largely just made club appearances up to now, she may finally have her breakout track. In a major coup for a relatively unknown new artist, she’s scored a feature from newly freed Gucci…
When we saw that the Wall Street Journal whipped up a stipple portrait of Conchita, the Ginger-wig-wearing Chihuahua that belonged to the late Miami socialite Gail Posner, Banana Republican got to thinking what a grand life these little bug-eyed rat-dogs lead. So we compiled a list of the five most…
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 confirms the champagne room is used for more than sipping bubbly in many Miami-Dade strip clubs after…
Tokyo Police Club wowed us at the Fillmore just last weekend when they opened up for Passion Pit. But their sugar-high charged sweet sounding tunes are no match for an alternative rock legend.Bassist for the Smiths (yes, that Smiths) Andy Rourke has taken it upon himself to remix Tokyo Police…
Dear Anders Gyllenhaal,It is not breaking news when the Wall Street Journal scooped you three days earlier.Cheers,Banana Republican…
Hey … Can you hear that rumbling, squawking, searing sound that seems to be emanating from Scotland’s west central lowlands? Is it getting closer and closer and closer? Is this freaking you out, too? Blame Glaswegian noise duo Janin and Charles of Blue Sabbath Black Fiji. Earlier this month J…
Fay Wray Fay Wray (No Idea Records)noidearecords.com I think about Loni Anderson with frequence. Call it a childhood thing, call it a semi-sexual thing, call it a Burt Reynolds thing; whatever it is, I’m not alone on this. And yes, this all relates back to erstwhile local punk legends Fay…
Basketball Wives, VH1’s Miami-set train wreck involving NBA-connected ladies, might be coming back for a second season, but one of the cast members won’t. Gloria Govan, the painfully boring and unentertainingly drama-free wife of the Orlando Magic’s Matt Barnes, will not return for her closeup, according to the Orlando Sentinel.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 writes a special online column about his favorite sports writer and commentator Dan Le Batard. Luke’s regular…
This week, on Bon Appetit’s excellent Foodist blog, the magazine’s restaurant editor and foodist himself, Andrew Knowlton, takes a look at what the nation’s old-guard dining critics think about Yelp — and other such citizen criticism, or cit-crit. Knowlton culls viewpoints from 17 of the country’s top restaurant reviewers, including…
Jacki-O has had a bit of tumultuous career since breaking out back in 2003. What made most first take notice was her single “Nookie” that was released under a partnership between Poe Boy and TVT Records. She has since parted ways with Poe Boy — TVT went under as well…
