The makers of Cocaine Cowboys and The U are teaming up with a leading pro-marijuana activist to get Miami Beach Police to issue tickets to people caught with a small amount of marijuana in lieu of sending them to jail. During an interview at the documentary company’s new HQ off…
What, you thought a little thing like jail would slow down Lil Wayne? Weezy’s now pretty much the Most Famous Nonviolent Criminal in Rikers Island, and a little time in the pen can’t keep seemingly everyone’s favorite rapper down. Voila, his latest release, a quick verse on a remix of…
Any attempt at actually narrowing down the sound of the Providence, Rhode Island-based quartet Deer Tick ultimately comes up short. To the band’s credit, that’s because it actually defies definition. The fact the foursome often falls back on an alt-country approach may enter the equation, but equally important are elements…
With the 2010 World Cup underway, Banana Republican is always scrambling for a bandwagon to jump on. Nicaragua’s pathetic soccer team has never qualified for tournament play. Based on an entirely subjective, purely unscientific method of rooting for the most scandalous, the most immoral, and the most corrupt republics, here are my…
That magical moment is fast approaching: Our new, improved Best Of Miami 2010 edition is all set to hit the newsstands and online newsstand. Each year, when selections are released, it angers everybody from advertisers to food bloggers to regular folks who hold strong opinions on matters such as these…
Local rapper Swazy Styles’ made-for-summer jam “Birthday Suit” is definitely a polarizing song. The title alone looks ludicrous on paper, for one thing, and then there’s the fact that the song is built on a maddening, note-for-note sample of the Tetris theme song. Still, the song’s mash-up of tinny dance music…
For the past two years, Ex Norwegian has quietly been gaining national traction on the strength of some classic guitar-driven power pop that sounds as though it came from anywhere but here. Anyone still mourning the late, great Alex Chilton can take some comfort in knowing some of his musical…
UPDATE:Earlier tonight, we received a text from Dhafir Harris that tomorrow’s backyard brawl is off. Government interference, apparently. Via text, Harris explains: “Do 2 The Rapid Growth of BkYrd Fights DADA ran n 2 legal issues wit the local Authority’s.”Kimbo Slice’s short lived career in the Ultimate Fighting Champhionship notwithstanding,…
Let’s start by dispensing with the Willow jokes. Yes, the band took its name from the jumbo-size character played by Val Kilmer in that movie about mystical dwarves. Still, our MadMartigan guys finally got their asses into the studio to record some music.Without sword or sorcery, the rock and roll…
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cObama’s Whoomp! There It Is Controversywww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorFox NewsOn Tuesday, we discussed here the widely circulating Internet theory that it appeared as though Barack Obama had appeared in the video for Tag Team’s “Whoomp There It Is.” Apparently we weren’t the only…
Letters from the issue of June 10, 2010
Donna Milo: Sex-changed and bound for Congress
Some of us are still recovering from Memorial Day Weekend, and we’re still sifting through the annual deluge of mixtapes that the weekend brings. Poe Boy, I.M.G. and Strong Arm DJs (Entice, Kronik, and Mister Hustla) used the weekend to flaunt their diverse roster of artists in a 15-track mixtape…
From time to time, we at Short Order like to offer a helping hand to our friends in the restaurant business by coming up with snappy new slogans for them to use — free of charge! Flip Burger Bar: For when the other 35 burger joints are just too darn…
Thanks, Gawker, again for tipping us off to an incredible Internet phenomenon, this time a dance craze from Brazil known as “surra de bunda,” translated roughly as “ass punch,” “punched by the ass,” or, well, you get the picture. Like all good dance crazes, it was born out of a…
Whenever Kat Stacks releases a new video, it’s like day-job Christmas. Last week we brought you up to date on the latest in the Internet-famous hip-hop escort’s saga, in which she was attacked in public by two men who tried to force an apology from her on Bow Wow’s behalf…
Ultrachic is a Miami band of Venezuelan ex-pats who rest at the crossroad of contemporary Venezuelan rock, uniting the golden age of acts like Sentimiento Muerto, Dermis Tatu, and Desorden Público with the newer crop of outfits like Zapato 3, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Caramelos de Cianuro. Actually, fans of…
A recent article on the website of Marketplace, the National Public Radio juggernaut, has the internet buzzing about whether food bloggers are annoying or helpful. As a food blogger, I’d like to weigh in on the debate. Let me preface this by saying that although I’ve been writing about food…
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 tries to understand how a transsexual running for Congress can be against gay marriage.A few weeks ago,…
In this week’s Time magazine, John Cloud reports on a soy product that not only tastes like chicken, but shares textural similarities to a real bird too (Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat). Scientists at the University of Missouri are behind the new food; it was announced this…
Have you ever taken a close look at how much you spend on food? For some of us, coming face-to-face with that figure may be quite scary. But according to personal finance site, Bundle.com, the average household in Miami spent $6,219 on dining out and groceries in 2009 – less…
As waves slap the shoreline, littered with empty beer cans, Fane Lozman points to a pair of derelict sailboats anchored in the water near Pelican Harbor Marina on the 79th Street Causeway. The former Marine turned civic agitator fixes his gaze on a hairy man reading a book on the…
