“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…
If you think that no reality show is complete without an injection of the 305, this may be the night you start watching the latest reality fluff to hit VH1’s Secrets of Aspen. The show premiered last week with a storyline that, though not the most exciting thing to be…
Thanks to the Miami-Dade public bus system — the bane of my carless existence, BTW — I missed the 8 p.m. start time for the January 6 Roofless Records show at Sweat. Luckily though, thanks to random PA problems, the chronically tardy nature of Miami’s hipster class, and a little…
As always, there were plenty of undeniably idiotic contenders for this week’s title, a couple of whom might have even taken top honors on a different week. Take, for example, this Totally Cliche South Florida Medicare Scammer, who allegedly blew millions on exotic cars- who’s to say Ihosvany Marquez doesn’t deserve the…
Kill two men in four days under questionable circumstances. Get caught with drugs in your system and suspended from work. Walk away from it all with $17,242.46. Not a bad deal, right? That’s exactly how much Adam Tavss, the former Miami Beach cop, earned from taxpayers when he quietly resigned…
First off let me start off by saying that last year sucked really bad, and I am definitely not sad to see it go. We gained some friends, but lost a few too. Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. But that’s the beauty of the beginning of the…
Dine On Giralda Without CarsTomorrow, January 8, from 6 p.m. to midnight, Downtown Coral Gables’ Restaurant Row (located on the 100 block of Giralda Ave. between Ponce de Leon Blvd. and Galiano Street) will feature al fresco dining and live entertainment as part of Giralda Under the Stars. During this…
Letters from the issue of January 7, 2010
Tarot cards predict vampires, Ikea orgies, and a crabs pandemic for 2010
