Music Television is seemingly jumping onto the electro dance train, recognizing that beat freaks love making it rain web hits by reading about their favorite DJs on the internet — a practice Crossfade’s all too familiar with, Ultra. About an hour ago, MTV News posted its incomplete list of Best…
The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Public Affairs is suing Whole Foods in an attempt to “reinstate a former employee with full back wages and benefits after the company allegedly fired the worker for voicing and reporting workplace health concerns regarding a raw sewage spillage at its store in…
Curtis Jackson, best known as 50 Cent (pronounced fitty) unloaded a mixtape about an hour ago via Hulk Share, one of those download sites that looks mad shady. Evidently, The Big 10’s so popular that it’s caused a massive cyber traffic jam and subsequent comment uproar. Crossfade’s working on four…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Sure, it’s called the beautiful game. But occasionally, like local band (and rabid football fanatics) Lil Daggers will tell you, soccer’s just straight-up sexy. Sometimes, out there on the field in a sweaty pair of those short shorts, shit can get so hot that even the most talented and experienced…
Veldora Arthur, the disgraced Miami assistant fire chief who collected $120,000 in pay while she sat at home for seven months awaiting trial, could face a longer prison sentence if federal prosecutors have their way. On Sept. 30, a federal jury found Arthur guilty on three counts of mail fraud…
Anyone who followed the recall movement versus former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas knows the group that sought her ouster calls itself Miami Voice and is chaired by activist Vanessa Brito. Miami Lakes dentist David Bennett, who supported Seijas, certainly knew about Britto’s Miami Voice when he incorporated a non-profit…
Reader mail: “The only way Democrats can win is if they cheat.”
FAMU Robert Champion hazing death scandal is no Penn State
The Queen of All Media, Perez Hilton, is all about the latest Nielsen Soundscan totals, which feature a number of the gossip blogger’s faves, like Lady GaGa and boring old Adele. For Crossfade, though, Soundscan is a lot like the Grammys: It don’t mean shit. Yeah, great, the illiterate, Facebooking…
It is said that desperate times call for desperate measures. There is no denying that Rachelle Grimmer felt desperate when she shot her two children and then killed herself inside a Laredo, Texas food stamp office.Although the 38-year-old mother of two was obviously in dire straits, or at least believed…
Forget Las Vegas; get married at McDonald’s! The world’s largest fast-food burger chain has a lot of, shall we say, interesting items on its menu, such as the McLobster and the McAfrica burger. But three McDonald’s restaurants in Hong Kong offer something altogether different: weddings and engagement parties.The basic “Warm…
Everyone loves to get into the act for Christmas. For some reason, snowmen and brightly lit trees make everyone want to record a song. Adam Sandler, Paul McCartney, and David Bowie among those who have felt the need to share the holiday spirit. Now, Bitchin’ Kitchen’s Nadia G. gives us…
Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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, Campbell comes to the defense of Florida’s largest historically African-American university, which has been caught up in a deadly…
‘Tis the season for thievery, according to Adweek’s list of most shoplifted items during the holiday season. Filet mignon and Jameson whiskey are numbers one and two on the list.Though that might conjure images of rich men stuffing meat and booze into their suits, most shoplifting is done by opportunists,…
Over the past six months, state Rep. Erik Fresen has established himself as the go-to-politician for the gambling industry tycoons who want to bring gargantuan casino resorts to the Magic City. The lawmaker from Coral Gables is the mastermind behind one of two proposed bills that would allow Malaysian-based Genting…
After urban warriors load up on free breakfast compliments of the nearest big-chain hotel, their stomachs will need more.What to do? Drop into the nearest Olive Garden for some free bread sticks, or try the free chips and salsa at Chevy’s of course! Managers at these restaurants say there’s not…
There’s been recent buzz over a buffet restaurant in the UK that tacked on a three pound fee because a woman’s baby stroller was taking up space. According to the London Evening Standard, another woman at the same restaurant was also charged a fee for her six month old. Media…
You can say Max Rameau is a social activist trendsetter. Long before the Occupy Wall Street movement was even an idea, Rameau was leading the charge for the disenfranchised 99 percent with his Take Back The Land organization. Five years ago, Rameau came up with the brilliant idea of organizing…
I feel like restaurant roadkill after a sad experience Tuesday night when I attempted to eat at one of my favorite neighborhood spots, Joey’s in Wynwood. I was ousted from a table by people who were identified as “the owner’s friends” just prior to being seated. Now, I completely understand…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach editor Eric Barton this morning tells the story of a 23-year-old cub reporter who’s stuck in the middle of Miami Central High School recruiting allegations.This past November, South Florida Sun-Sentinel writer Dieter Kurtenback reported about the transfer of a star quarterback — whose family was apparently…
Our second annual Miami People issue, which profiled 30 of the Magic City’s most intriguing characters, drew a number of reactions from readers. Some of the highlights are below. Santería savior: It’s about time you embraced one of Miami’s own with your profile on Santería activist Ernesto Pichardo (“Spirit Guide,”…
