Panic Peddling Bad spin: Your main thesis that gay people are leaving Miami Beach “in droves” and heading to Fort Lauderdale is absurd. (“Escape From South Beach,” Natalie O’Neill, January 14.) I don’t know what you intended with your sensationalist headline and poorly spun story, but I think you’ve succeeded…
Florida Renaissance Festival at Virginia Key Beach Park this Saturday
For a story in this week’s Miami New Times, I dialed up a few of the ladies suspended West Miami Mayor Cesar Carasa befriended during his sojourns to the Dominican Republic. This past November 30, Carasa was arrested on two misdemeanor counts of exploiting his public position. The unemployed real…
Do You See Double From Too Many Single Malts?Next Tuesday, January 26, at 6 p.m., Chop House Miami will hold a Glenlivet Scotch Dinner. Outstanding single-malt Scotch whiskies will be paired with appropriately exquisite cuisine and fine Mederos cigars. Bobby Figgs of Chop House will host the festivities with the…
Here’s our footage of Wyclef live from Haiti back in 2006 for a free concert to 50,000 on Jacmel Beach. The show was sponsored by his foundation, Yéle Haiti.Wyclef admits that his Yéle Haiti organization has made mistakes in the past, but denies that he ever personally profited from them…
The folks who set up the Haiti earthquake relief donation site at First Street and Alton Road in Miami Beach need to raise $50,000 to send air-conditioning units and generators for the Project Medishare hospital being set up in Port-au-Prince to treat victims. You can make your donation here.What this…
My editor told me about a dinner he’d had at Talula and noted the lack of customers. He thinks it deserves better, while my take is that there is a reason for those empty seats. He wrote down his thoughts, and I responded:Miami New Times editor Chuck Strouse: I love…
Fuck y’all know about ENOUGH!? Probably not enough. Well, there’s not enough Miami punk rock. Not enough people going to shows. Not enough bands, not enough venues, not enough glass to break, levels on the volume knob, beer to drink, fences to jump, bikes to ride, skateboards to thrash, mosh…
“They put all the bodies in the streets, lined up. There was a school, about 60 kids. The whole school dropped down. You’re talking about three stories, all the kids dead.”– Jimmy Louis, talking about tragedy in Haiti”My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard, and we are very proud…
Just the other day, Bloomberg News published a turd-filled story about the future of our newspaper chain. In half-English, half-Portuguese/Creole, the reporters said something about Village Voice Media being forced to bankruptcy court. A paper that’s part of the chain, SF Weekly, lost a judgment to the San Francisco Bay…
Radioboxer ain’t fuckin’ around. And they want you to know it. They’ve started off the year on a mean tear. First, there was a gig at everyone’s favorite punk/rock haven, Churchill’s, last Thursday. Then on Saturday, they rocked the Design District courtesy of Bardot. And they’ve got more opportunities still…
Gotta love college radio.Listen to this: The Spam Allstars are Miami as fuck. Everybody knows that. Well, everybody in Miami. In Cambridge, Massachusettes, not so much. At least not on Spherio, a weekly radio show on WMBR, the MIT university radio station. Their January 8th show, archived online, evidences Spam’s…
Last night, South Florida’s two top weekly newspapers (said modestly) Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach donated $5,000 to Partners in Health (PIH), perhaps the most important charity in returning Haiti to normalcy after this week’s monstrous earthquake.And we are challenging alternative newspapers across the country to give more. We’ll match…
Like vampires, hipsters are allergic to the sun. Sometimes even moonbeams. So, last Saturday, it only made sense that the Electric Pickle’s upstairs romper room was darker than a fucking coffin for Lil Daggers’ set. The only light in the room was the ambient glow of BlackBerrys mid-text and a…
If Riptide had been handing out trophies for 30 years of moronic behavior, Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson would have each filled three-car garages with our awards by now. Robertson is a TV beggar who looks like every Botox-addled evil old white man you ever met, and even though his dumb…
All over Facebook, Twitter, television newscasts, and radio broadcasts, reporters and ordinary folks have been encouraging relatives, friends and anyone who cares to donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake fund, the humanitarian relief effort spearheaded by the non-profit organization founded by Haitian-American entertainer and part-time Miami resident Wyclef Jean.According…
Every night, before he goes to sleep, Hank Adorno must get on his knees, fold his hands, and thank Papa Dios he hasn’t lost his license to practice law.Last year, the Florida Bar found that the civil attorney and prominent Miami citizen violated nine bar rules when he orchestrated a $7…
Smear, Screw, Help We smeared ’em: What the hell kind of investigative reporting is “Homesick” (Tim Elfrink, January 7)? In more than three years, no one has done a comparative analysis between “good” drywall and the drywall made in China? It is not rocket science or expensive to determine what,…
In the early- to mid-aughts there was a huge deluge of post-Strokes revivalists that flooded and clogged the scene. Sometime around 2006, it all hit critical mass, Casablancas and Co. went on indefinite hiatus, and the thing began to die. Meanwhile, a new trend — electro-tinged, indie pop mash-ups –…
The song title “Eating, Drinking, Shitting,” a single off Murderous Rampage’s recent self-titled album, doesn’t inspire much, at least at first. If anything, it has the opposite effect, bringing to mind back-to-the-basics, Jurassic-age living. And it’s a pretty tame title as far as the genre goes (think Embalming Theatre’s “I…
The stoner metal hardliners ain’t gonna like this one, but, shock, horror, Allen Blickle, drummer of the awesome Savannah quartet Baroness, has musical taste besides sludge and doom. (Drummers, because of their scarcity, always seem to be the musical oddballs in bands, though.) Stereogum posted yesterday his remix of Surfer…
Even before she was arrested and suspended from office this past November 13, Michelle Spence-Jones let everyone know she would not go out without a fight. No one has forgotten how she proclaimed during her swearing-in ceremony that “they don’t know this nappy-headed child of God has her armor on.” Where…
