Back in 1988 the American Arts and Entertainment Academy Inc. threw what they called the “First Miami music awards.” Nominees included Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, MC Shy D, 2 Live Crew, the Gucci Crew II, Jerry Rushin (WEDR radio), and “more than 200 others.”All you had to…
What to say about local DJ Danny Daze that hasn’t been said before? Daze has been one of the most in demand DJs around the country for the last few years and he keeps busy with side projects like DiscoTech and Señor Stereo. Is it any surprise we picked him…
Fredric Karlton, a first-time candidate for Miami Beach City Commission, is getting a rude introduction to the city’s gutter politics. The 49-year-old real estate investor’s perceived enemies initiated a Miami-Dade ethics commission inquiry into allegedly improper business dealings with his childhood chum, Commissioner Ed Tobin. It went nowhere. And now,…
Besides Young Money’s still-really-underground Nicki Minaj, the term “mainstream female rapper” is one usually heard before “ain’t doin’ shit.” Kim tried to come back with a song that was so 2002 that I nearly called my mom to ask her money for books and a plane ticket home from college, Foxy popped up on…
Kudos to Miami Herald reporters Matt Haggman and Scott Dolan, who today whacked Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez really good. Turns out our dear alcalde fuerte was doling out raises to his favored employees while taking the ax to the rest of the county budget. Of course, don’t forget yours truly…
has sicced a lawyer on local blog Random Pixels for posting its shots of Dolphins cheerleaders, because, really, pix of hot chicks in miniskirts is pretty much the only hope that paper has left, and, got dang it, they’ll fight tooth and nail for it.Miami Social, perhaps the greatest show…
As a little runt in the late ’80s, I owned a rabbit’s foot keychain. And really, didn’t everyone? Back then, lucky bunny body parts were still a genuine fixture of pop culture. Today though, the hallowed tradition of carrying a severed rodent’s leg on your person as some sort of…
The Miami Herald’s skullduggery against local blogger and photographer Bill Cooke is getting serious. Miami’s only major daily has sicced Ian Ballon, a big-dog intellectual property lawyer based out of Greenberg Traurig’s Los Angeles office, on the canterkerous shutterbug-agitator. On his bio page, Ballon lists among his accomplishments winning a…
This weeks’ Friday Food Funnies doesn’t have anything to do with food, but my head is still on a Jamaican vacation of sorts. The video starts getting funny around the 58-second mark — presumably as the ganja starts kicking in:…
Few things are more depressing to us than diluted condiments. So imagine the head-scratching when on a recent visit to Lime Fresh Mexican Grill in midtown Miami, rogue ice chunks are found inside the containers in its chilled salsa bar.Why on Earth water down these zingy batches of house-made condiment…
A few months ago I wrote about the new anti-tether law that Joe Sanchez got approved in Miami-Dade County this past March. That was a step in the right direction to protect who can’t speak for themselves. That was real progress. Which is why I’m even more pissed off, in…
So after weeks of very little excitement as far things that I would like to do, all of a sudden this weekend is chock full of some of my favorite things.First off Lucas Leyva and a few names I associate with the Borscht Film Festival, as well as some of…
Crispin Porter + Bogusky has long been an anchor of Miami business. Coconut Grove-cool and booming. But now it’s on the decline, and this smells bad for the South Florida economy. Indeed, as the recession cools off spending among high-end consumers, the falling fortunes of this leader in boutique advertising…
Jesus in Shades So sorry: “In the Name of the King” (Gus Garcia Roberts, August 13) is a well-written investigative report. It is unbiased and straight to the point. But the front page is a disaster. Why in the name of God are you pimping Jesus Christ? Will you next…
Over the past four weeks, I’ve written a news article and several blog posts about Sean Casey, a 35-year-old Bostonian who was charged with DUI manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of Mary Montgomery in 2001.To recap, Casey is serving a 12-and-half year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2006 after…
The final, frenzied countdown to party time has begun. In exactly three days, the Magic City’s most discerning club rats — and fanatical apparel collectors — will swarm the Awarehouse for Saturday’s Sweat X Iggy Pop T-Shirt Release. (If you haven’t yet RSVP-ed, get on the list right now. Note:…
In this year’s City of Miami elections, the theme is “Taking It Back to the Old School,” considering Frank Carollo, brother of mercurial ex-Mayor Joe Carollo, is running for Joe Sanchez’s seat. And then there is Francis Xavier Suarez, who wants to replace Tomas Regalado on the commission dais. Francis…
Fantasma Productions was one of the top independent promotion and performance companies in the United States. It was founded and run by John Stoll. He owned the Carefree Center in Broward which housed Comedy Corner, where Larry The Cable Guy got his start. Stoll died in 2008. Click here to…
Miami-Dade Criminal Court Judge John Thornton denied Sean Casey’s request to unseal transcripts of secretly recorded conversations the convicted hit-and-run driver had with his attorney and therapist in 2004.The judge’s ruling almost certainly brings an end to Casey’s quest to overturn a plea deal that in 2006 sent him to prison for…
Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) has launched a petition drive to ban poultry litter being used as cattle feed. Poultry litter consists primarily of chicken shit, feathers, spilled feed and bedding material that accumulate on the floors of the buildings that house chickens and turkeys. It can also include stuff…
Just before 9:30 p.m. July 13, Officer Eric Guzman flashed his lights and pulled over next to a litter-strewn grass field on NW Fifth Avenue, a few blocks north of the Miami River.Guzman, a five-year veteran of the Miami Police Department, had spotted a man who matched the description of…
So while every other registered blogger spent Sunday night with the premiere of Mad Men, True Blood, or the ol’ Adult Swim standbys, Riptide watched the debut of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami. Don’t ever say we’re not committed to our jobs. We can’t promise to do this every week,…
