Before Lil Wayne went away, as they say, he was the omnipresent rapper. Lil Wayne was on everything, to the point that when our sister paper the OC Weekly ran this (what seemed obviously) satirical story saying he would collaborate on a High School Musical soundtrack, people actually believed it. Now, the…
52-0. That’s how many times incumbent county commissioners have won at the polls since 1994. And it certainly looks like Jose “Pepe” Diaz, Javier Souto, or Dorrin Rolle will keep that winning streak alive by the time the polls close tomorrow.Diaz, who raised $325,000 to crush an opponent who collected…
Sniffing the winds of bloggy change, it seems like with the turning of the seasons is coming a backlash to the wave of feel-good, dreamy beach-rock that dominated this summer. This is silly for several reasons:1) Backlash is hilarious when many of these bands have yet to release a full-length…
Sorry, folks, we weren’t here to recap last week’s Jersey Shore because someone literally cut the cable wire outside our house and then we got a debilitating sore throat. It was horrible. Not as horrible as actually watching this show, but still horrible.But we’re back to documenting the antics of…
Subliminal Criminal S/T (Space Cadette Records) If we lived in different times, Ed Matus would be the type of gent who holds doors open for ladies, organizes fox hunts, gardens organically and holds the secrets of the glue that has for some bizarre reason made South Florida a hub of…
With the primary election six days away, undecided voters usually turn to the Miami Herald’s editorial board to help them decide who is the best candidate for the job. Unfortunately, Miami’s only daily failed miserably when it came to its picks for District 2 county commissioner and District 35 state…
DJ Khaled’s We The Best empire seems to be growing slowly but surely. Khaled is currently working on his 5th studio album, We The Best Forever – which is not to be confused with his previous album similarly titled We The Best, which spawned the name of the record label…
Gotohells Six Packs & Race Tracks (Stiff Pole Records) In honor of Richard “Big Stiff” Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I’ll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, Stiff Pole Records,…
Javier Souto should have been sent out to the political pasture a long time ago.But lobbyists and special interests know they can cajole the rambling county commissioner to do what they want. So they make sure he stays in power. And even though 71-year-old Bay of Pigs veteran is more…
Letters from the issue of August 19, 2010
Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito should be fired
Don’t like ink smudges? Didn’t feel like battling an insulation-needing bum for a print edition of our humble newspaper? Birdcage in desperate need of liner? No worries, Crossfade’s got you covered. Our print music coverage, home of weekly features more in-depth than most of the posts on this blog, is…
Is it a bad thing? I certainly think not. I’m glad he’s back behind the skins, screaming and aided by Didi Aragon on vocals and guitars, Bavie Grafals on vocals, violin and percussion and Ana Farina MacKliff on bass and vocals. The mix is punkish and New Wave in makeup…
The management team searching for a new executive chef for the Oceanaire Seafood Room in downtown Miami evidently didn’t have to travel very far. They announced yesterday that Kareem Anguin has been promoted to replace recently departed Sean Bernal. Anguin, from Jamaica, is a graduate of Johnson & Wales (uh-oh) and…
This past weekend, a friend invited me to watch Eat, Pray, Love, the movie based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s book chronicling her self-discovery after a divorce. Said quest for self-awareness was achieved by traveling to Italy to carb-load (eat), India to live at an ashram (pray) and Bali where she meets…
Saturday, nu-disco duo the Golden Filter returns to Miami a third time, this time at Grand Central. But the Golden Filter is more than just syrupy snyth ballads, they pack a visual punch too. Their videos and photography only add to the dream-like sequence you get when listing to their…
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 says it’s time for Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado to fire police Chief Miguel Exposito. Last week in Overtown, an…
The Naked TruthNaked Pizza is gearing up for an opening on Washington Avenue. The debut can’t come too soon, because South Beach residents are really hungry for yet another pizza chain outlet.No Hormones, No Steroids, No AsterisksLime Fresh Mexican Grill, a Florida-based company, has become the first restaurant chain to…
Last Wednesday, shortly before dawn, Rolando Bolaños logged on to his Facebook account to update his status regarding his favorite subject, Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina. The ex-Hialeah Police chief informed his network of friends about a $200,000 private loan Robaina received from a city vendor in 2002. Three days earlier,…
The latest Street Wars event (its sixth incarnation) was received with a little confusion due to a last minute venue change, but still went off instead at White Room versus the original Coral Gables location. Still standing from the aftermath of the event is a mixtape that was put together…
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez hasn’t said a peep about the corrupt actions of some of his close friends in the Miami-Dade Police Department, which speaks volumes about hizzoner’s willingness to combat violations of the public trust when it involves his boys in brown. It’s time for Alvarez — a…
Miller Dawkins, despite his crimes, was an African-American hero
