Nine more individuals have been criminally charged in the ongoing federal investigation into a $40 million ponzi scheme in Hialeah. The arrests come in the wake of news reports that the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are investigating Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina for alleged loan sharking, mortgage fraud and…
Here’s a track from our very own MC Serum off his upcoming sophomore release, P. C. P. (Pre-Campaign Propaganda), which is slated to drop this month. That’s good news for fans of his 2008 compilation mixtape Calm B4 the Brainstorm and 2009’s full-length debut Brainstorm Troopah. While I haven’t heard the…
As Waylon Jennings might have put it, we were looking for Miami’s up-and-coming dining scene in all the wrong places. Like, for instance, the Design District. When Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink took off, followed by Fratelli Lyon, Michelle Bernstein’s Sra. Martinez, and Jonathan Eismann’s mini-empire, it appeared that the…
All in the Family Different strokes: What a wonderful story about the two gay men who had to travel out of the country to adopt a baby (“Gaybies!” Leslie Minora, January 27). It embodies the true meaning of family. In a world with over six billion people, there is no…
Banana Republican just got an exclusive video from North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre responding to the outrage from Councilman Scott Galvin and city residents over his ordering 43 police-style badges for his three full-time staffers and his “volunteers.” The Haitian American politician wants to make it perfectly clear to everybody…
Natacha Seijas should just get on her broom and fly off whenever a pesky journalist confronts her for comment about the recall against her. As we write this, the Wicked Witch of Northwest Miami-Dade is probably brewing up some diabolical potion for her latest media nemesis, GenTV reporter Claudia DoCampo,…
The Essentials Fast Music in a Slow Town (Safety Net Records & Tapes) The Essentials were part of the early South Florida punk explosion of the late ’70s and early ’80s. And this EP, Fast Music in a Slow Town, is a sweet blend of straight-up punk rock with touches…
If you believe the Other Voices column published in the Miami Herald Sunday, Village Voice Media is a big bad monster. After all, we own Backpage.com, which is the “market leader in online sex ads.” And those ads allegedly traffic millions of underage girls — particularly this week, when the…
Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife Raiza Villacis-Robaina gave out high interest loans to individuals other than accused ponzi schemer Luis Felipe Perez. And Hialeah Councilwoman Vivian Casals-Muñoz prepared the mortgage documents that secured the loans the Robainas provided to Perez, former Councilman Guillermo Zuñiga, and Hialeah business owners…
It just isn’t fair that Taco Bell is getting all the free press these days concerning integrity of ingredients — or lack thereof. Granted, nobody is accusing McDonald’s or Burger King of faking beef content, but what about the other stuff that goes between the buns? The sauce lathered upon…
Okay, okay, so the guy who won Miami’s ING marathon Sunday, Tesfaye Sendeku Alemayehu of Ethiopia, did it just 2:12:57, just about the time I was finishing the half marathon, or actually before me because it took regular Joes 10 to 15 minutes to get over the start line. And…
Most of what people associate with dubstep is the wall-rattling warped basslines that come at club-night peak hours, or even — yikes — just the kind of wobble that’s now being filtered down in a lite version to the likes of Britney Spears. But dedicated fans of the genre recognize…
Pigs are the smartest domestic animal on the planet. Sorry Rex and Smokey. There’s proof.We know what you’re thinking — swine live on farms, wallow in mud, and eat slop. Not exactly rocket science. In the Bahamas however, there are some members of the porcine population that lounge around the…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that…
1. When you see duck l’orange on the menu, you think about what a neat ice cream flavor it would make.2. You do your grocery shopping at the freeze-dried foods aisle in Target’s camping department.3. The meal you served your cat Missy last night: 9 Lives Tuna & Egg Foam…
Forget the heart shaped box of chocolates and pastel-colored sweethearts with romantic messages. This year, go for something that will make your lover’s jaw drop and hopefully make it an evening to remember. Here’s a selection of our five fave ways to say “I love (want) you”.Edible candy G-string and…
The top individual donor to the political action committee seeking to block Miami-Dade Commissioner Natacha Seijas’ recall is a Hialeah businessman who was barred from getting county work. The campaign treasurer’s report for Abre Los Brazos shows that Zitro Inc., a company owned by Hector P. Ortiz, contributed $10,000. In…
Local band six-piece Araka cribs its name from a piece of Spanish slang that means “Watch out!” With billing like that, the music had better be suitably in-your-face. Luckily, Araka delivers, although not the aggressive attitude the name might imply. Rather, the multiculti act commands attention with a bright, brassy…
Seeing Red Tunnel vision: Regarding your article about former diplomat and Castro-foe James Cason running for mayor of Coral Gables (“Mission Gables,” Francisco Alvarado, January 20): People in Coral Gables do not vote based on Cuban issues alone; they are too smart and sophisticated. They do not want anything to…
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 educates readers on hip-hoponomics. This month, Oprah Winfrey launched her own network – OWN – and she’s…
The alarm bells reached peak decibel in November, when Dallas Police Sergeant Louis Felini told the The Dallas Morning News that between 50,000 and 100,000 prostitutes could descend on the metroplex for the Super Bowl. The call to outrage had sounded. His estimate was astonishing. At the higher figure, it…
Ricky Martin, Crossfade’s favorite author, recently performed in front of about 200 people at a special mini-concert for an upcoming MTV Tr3s series called Studio Tr3s. We were lucky enough to be at the studio for the production, and saw firsthand how a bicultural, bilingual variety show comes to life…
