Luther Campbell doesn’t just have taxing strippers and decriminalizing marijuana on his mind. This past April 25, as he cruised from one special event to another in downtown Miami, the county mayoral candidate and New Times columnist offered up his plan for local government reform. “If you run for office,…
Letters from the issue of May 5, 2011
Miami’s black commissioners must go
Some of the worst mistakes restaurants can make occur at the beginning of the dining experience or before you sit down. Many have to do with hosts and hostesses, but they are usually just messengers delivering the repercussive news of bad management decisions.1. When you’re making a reservation by phone,…
Tonight’s in-store show at Sweat Records, brought to you by the people behind the Death to the Sun series, presents rowdier fare than usual. Original headliners, the ominously named Brooklyn duo Unstoppable Death Machines, have canceled. but there’s still plenty of weirdness. To wit, touring circus Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt,…
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 — who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez on May 24 — calls…
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. In this special edition, Luke praises George W. Bush, President Barack Obama, and the U.S. soldiers who took out Osama…
Raleigh Flowers lives in a three-bedroom condo with brand-new kitchen cabinets and freshly painted walls in a lushly landscaped residential development in west Hialeah. It is certainly a home fit for a Hialeah Police major earning at least $3,500 every two weeks. Except this cop doesn’t have to pay rent…
My old buddy Bob Norman is shipping outta New Times Broward Palm Beach and heading for the TV news. Bob has been the franchise player at that paper for years — ably assisted by the likes of a staff that has included stars like Sam Eifling, Ed Newton, Tony Ortega,…
The Honeymoon Series begins this Saturday with Datsik, continuing with Zeds Dead May 6 and Borgore June 17. Back in the LSD-soaked ’60s, a big boxy San Francisco building named the Fillmore Auditorium was routinely overrun by love-crazed hippies, radical longhairs, speed-addled bikers, middle-aged beatniks, and endless other freaky types…
In case you missed it, we’ve embedded the 12-minute ESPN E:60 segment on Dhafir Harris, aka Dada 5000, and his backyard brawling tournaments. Although the feature rehashes Harris’ story and the illegal aspect of his events first told by New Times, the footage of dudes beating each other to a…
Letters from the issue of April 28, 2011
Gimenez, Robaina are soft-money whores
The man once dubbed “Mayor Loco” and who showed up at a constituent’s house in his bathrobe when he was Miami mayor is still a formidable rainmaker. Xavier Suarez has picked up $109,950 in campaign contributions in his second bid to become a county commissioner.Suarez is running against former state…
The Mad Dog bled aqua and orange until his last breath. Former Miami Dolphins tight end and local sports radio personality Jim Mandich died Tuesday evening after months of battling cancer. For anyone who has rooted for the hometown NFL franchise, Mandich ranks right up there with Dan Marino and…
Thought the recall election would change things at county hall? Think again. If campaign money is any indication, former state Rep. Esteban Bovo is a shoo-in for the Miami-Dade Commission seat representing northwestern parts of the county vacated by Natacha Seijas. And he is beholden to a lot of special interests…
Roach Motel What the Hell, It’s Roach Motel (Destroy Records) myspace.com/roachmotelrules Take the Dead Kennedys’ linguistically progressive rants, the social critique via saxophones of CH3, water it down with the mind-altering misused politics of Minor Threat, add a half-cup’s worth of the youthfulness of Youth Brigade, and mix in a…
It’s time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land ’cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August’s three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don’t wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend…
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 — who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez on May 24 — follows…
After North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre’s wife caught unhinged activist David Leven on camera calling her the politically incorrect words for — excuse our French — African-American, female dog, and the feminine sexual organ, Banana Republican decided to dig up other embarrassingly bigoted moments in South Florida politics:…
I get a lot of complaints (or suggestions) that I don’t promote local hip-hop enough. And I apologize. But as a matter of fact, I’ve really been enjoying the local stuff recently. So much so, that outside of my usual appreciation for old-school rap (say ’83 through ’94), the only…
Last time we checked on Hank Adorno, the once prominent Miami attorney was indefinitely suspended from practicing law after a Florida Bar investigation found he had violated nine bar rules.This week, the Daily Business Review reports the Florida Supreme Court decided to suspend Adorno for three years, the harshest punishment…
