Opinion & Commentary

Next Wednesday’s show at the Fillmore Miami Beach by Band of Horses caps off a pretty awesome April at the venue. The show also marks, however, a preview for fans of the ex-Seattle/now South Carolina band’s third studio album, the upcoming Infinite Arms. It drops on Columbia/Fat Possum/Brown on May…

Sweatstock’s sweatiest moment came at the end. By the time noise-punk duo No Age finally stumbled onstage around 9 p.m., the crowd was bigger, drunker, and more chaotic than it had been all day. Fans of every kind packed a pit bounded by NE 2nd Ave., Sweat Records’ north-facing façade,…

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 New Times. This week, Luke takes on Marion “Suge” Knight’s $1 million lawsuit against Kanye West and South Beach’s Shore Club, which was recently…

So the new Paragon movie theater that’s due to open in Coconut Grove this June will permit patrons to bring cocktails. Great. We already have a situation where going to the theater entails having to sit among food-obsessed Americans noisily stuffing their bloated faces with popcorn because of an utter inability…

Saturday was the absolutely perfect day to run around, buy records, drink a moderate amount of Strongbow cider, and consume a cornucopia of live music. Except: impressive Record Store Day events were planned for both Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale, and Miami’s Sweat Records, and there are 27.5 miles separating…

We’re only two episodes into Basketball Wives, and I’m pretty sure this entire series is about two things: hefty promotion for the Miami restaurants and clubs that allow the cast to film, and the drama caused by Royce Reed’s constant cooch gooshing.Yes, MIA on Biscayne and Philippe Chow’s Philippe Restaurant…

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, Jimmy gets a hit and Lee gets the nod.Prior to May 1977, Jimmy Buffett was just another wannabe singer/songwriter who did his time in Nashville…

After another shitty day at a shitty job in a shitty city, I decided to relax by listening to an old LP of sci-fi movie sound effects and watching shadows on my bedroom walls while blitzed on acid. At the time, this seemed like the best way to spend the…

Megan wanted a millionaire, instead she got a DUI.Megan Hauserman, the prolific reality TV star, was arrested yesterday morning on Miami Beach for driving under the influence. At about 3:15 a.m. police observed her 2008 BMW weaving between lanes and traveling 75 mph in a 55 mph zone. Police claim her…

Phil Spinella, owner of A&B Body Shop in Homestead, insists the damage he repaired on Mayor Steve Bateman’s city-issued SUV was caused by a blown tire.”There is no question about it,” Spinella said via a telephone interview. “The tire’s rubber housing took out the rear bumper. That’s what we billed…

We had some strange and creepy ones this week. Let’s get down to it: 5. Paul Edwards, busted for murder by his alleged victim’s beyond-the-grave text message. So cops investigating a missing female sent their top suspect, her boyfriend and Miramar resident Edwards, a text message from her phone number reading,…

We checked in with Developers Diversified, the folks in charge, among other things, of stocking Miami’s fastest growing neighborhood with new restaurants, to see what was coming up. The spokesperson let us know that they were “excited to announce the opening of Egyptian Pizza Kitchen and Hurricane Grill & Wings…

Even the show’s producers understands why no one wants to be associated with the Jersey Shore. Apparently the show was interested in filming scenes at Rapids Water Park up in Palm Beach County, and Jose Lambiet got a hold of the contract MTV requires all potential shooting locations to sign.The…

Looks like Food & Wine isn’t the only national culinary magazine that has trouble locating Miami on the map. The latest issue of Food Arts (April 2010), a glossy industry publication “at the restaurant and hotel forefront”, reports two exciting new Miami restaurant openings: Pacific Time debuted in the Design…

Oscar Alfonso (right) and Joe Geller (center) lost their hand-picked city manager Matthew Schwartz (left).​This past Tuesday night, a coup went down in North Bay Village. The city commission voted 3-2 to fire city Manager Matthew Schwartz. Before he left the city commission meeting, Schwartz addressed the audience. “I wish…

Dance with Death Spine-tingling: Incredible writing (“Dead at Dawn,” Natalie O’Neill, April 8). Reading this sent chills down my neck with each sentence. Powerful, powerful stuff. We live in such a simultaneously beautiful and violent city. Ryan An American tragedy: An extraordinary piece of writing. This is what journalism used…

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 claims Major League Baseball has a plan to phase out African-American players and replace them with black…

Webbz brings the long awaited God’s Plan project to life. Its technically a mixtape, but most definitely sounds and plays out more like a street album. And with Dade Dilla, Midus and God himself serving as executive producers – God’s Plan has some of Webbz’s best work yet.The mixtape starts…

Last week, we raved about Panic Bomber’s latest effort, Discipline, calling it his best work to date. If you haven’t heard it, do it so now. After that, thank Richard Haig and YYZ Records who have made the Discipline EP Remixes a free download.None of the reworkings match the catchy…