A couple months ago, the City of Miami’s budget was about as well-balanced as Gary Busey on PCP. The Commission, Mayor Manny Diaz and the city’s three unions staged a vicious tug-of-war over who would feel the most pain in plugging a $118 million hole. But as Tomas Regalado prepares…
Our sister paper, New Times Broward-Palm Beach has done some pretty amazing reporting on the Scott Rothstein mess. Among the fallout from the alleged $57 million the Broward lawyer allegedly stole in a Ponzi scheme: South Beach.Gianni Versace’s former mansion on Ocean Drive, where a big buck restaurant and hotel…
Police arrested a Miami Southridge Senior High School teacher today on charges that he molested a 14-year-old boy on multiple occasions. The teacher, Frank Matthew Galatas, allegedly performed oral sex on the boy twice last month, says Officer Jeffrey Giordano, a spokesman for the Miami Police Department. Galatas, who is…
After Sleepless Night in Miami Beach this past Saturday, Crossfade’s Twitter friends (let’s follow each other, I’m at @Crossfade_SFL) and, uh, real-life people were raving about a performance by MASS Ensemble. This Malibu, California-based quartet performs a sort of global, downtempo trip-hop kind of thing, but the musicians do so…
When John Timoney swooped into the Magic City six years ago, watching him play up to the local media was like seeing Robert Duvall play Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. The sight of Timoney on his police bike taking out demonstrators during the 2003 Free Trade Area of…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores.Top 5 Albums for the week of November 1 – 7Sweat Records, Miami1. No Seasons [LP], Jacuzzi Boys2. Hearts [CD], Awesome New Republic3. Embryonic [CD], Flaming Lips4. Operation Spacetime Cyderblock [LP], Kreamy ‘Lectric…
It’s a big night for Miami on cable reality TV tonight. Sadly, the second season of Miami Social hasn’t been picked up (yet?), but local locations serve as the backdrop for not one, not two, but three episodes of popular shows.As we mentioned, the girls of The City come to…
Mike Torrey is a San Diego based architectural photographer with a new book out called “Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu’s Terraces of Enlightenment.”Mike will be in town for the Miami International Book Fair and will be on a panel with a National Geographic photographer and a pilgrimage organizer on Saturday, November…
Hollywood band Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers have remained a recognizable presence on South Florida’s music scene for over a decade. They’ve released three records, and have a fourth on the way called ¡Socialismo Americano!, due out Thanksgiving week. For a peek into the upcoming release, Mr. Entertainment (a.k.a. Steve…
According to the Yacht Manifesto #1: “Yacht is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA.” Also, Yacht “seeks to explore frontiers and to expand awareness of extraterrestrial Intelligence” and “believes in an Afterlife,” but “does not…
Here we were thinking Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami was an authentic documentary looking at the real lives of two young girls trying to make it in the Magic City, but *gasp* new revelations seem to reveal that it was actually some sort of heavily manipulated pseudo-reality program milked for…
Every so often, Banana Republican daydreams of traveling the world with Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas, serenading her with the sweet sounds of the toot flute in Peru. I also fantasize about not spending a dime to visit Macchu Pichu and the like. I mean, while services are being whacked,…
DJ Purfiya is from the city of Palmetto, Florida, just south of Tampa. He’s affiliated with Miami’s own Slip N Slide Records as one of their official DJs.Wednesday, rumors hit the Internet — namely Twitter — that he had died due to complications of the flu. Yesterday we found out…
As far as I know, there were two Miami boyz playing in the World Series — A-Rod (Westminster) and Raul Ibanez (Sunset) — as well as a lot of Dominicans and others who spend significant time here. Though Hideki Matsui won the MVP — and he’s a Yankee I generally…
Last night, the monster magnet lodged at the end of my shopping cart dragged me, yet again, directly to the cookie aisle. I gazed in awe at the vast selection that lined the shelves, wondering where my favorite cookie jar filler could be found. Panic overrode the incessant drooling when…
The last time New Times caught up to Dainamite, Miami’s hardest-working reggaeton artist was bouncing back and forth between a seminar called “A Millionaire’s Approach” (where he was the lone invited performer) and American Tévé (where he was about to make his third appearance in as many weeks). Well, less…
Christopher de los Reyes says Miami Beach needs a king, not a mayor
Barack Talk Get to work, big O: “No Justice” (James Lieber, October 29) was great. President Obama should read it and get rid of most of his treasury officials. He should put Brooksley Born, the lady who tried to regulate derivatives under President Clinton, in her place. He should put…
Looks like Phil Davis is finally heading to the pen.The ex-Miami judge, who wriggled out of jail time in a federal sting operation in the early ’90s by admitting a raging cocaine habit, was found guilty of fraud today.Prosecutors built a case against Davis involving a non-profit he founded in…
*Lots of fun stuff over at the Sweat Records site, but act fast on this first one. You can get that new JESP record that we wrote about last week, for free, from this download link. Or, you can also bite the bullet and support a local artist and, ahem, do…
Like some buff God-looking dude, Jon Gaiser (a.k.a. Gaiser, a.k.a. Fraktion) emerged from his bedroom studio in a blaze of blue light. The genius was naked, except for a sweaty sheet wrapped about his waist, and he stroked his beard while muttering this rote quote: “My bedroom has always been…
If you missed it, and it’s your kind of thing, you missed out: NeckFace’s Devil’s Disciple opening at O.H.W.O.W. was one of the best parties on Halloween. And Busy P’s set at the afterparty at Poplife didn’t disappoint, either. As much as we wanted to hate on it and find…
