Desperate times call for desperate promotions — and dumb promotions — and even desperate and dumb promotions within desperate and dumb promotions. Starting tonight, the Mayfair Hotel Lobby Bar begins its’ Mad Men Mondays promo. From 5:30 pm. to 7:30 p.m., guests can partake of drinks for just $3.50 each;…
A former assistant director at the City of Miami Building Department, Christine Morales got caught on film doing just about everything but her $100k-a-year job. Welcome to Miami: A UM student got a gun pointed at his head during his first day of class for matching the description of a motorcycle thief…
Greetings to all my friends in the Bermuda Triangle, this is your boy, The Notorious Nastie. I am very excited to announce that this special New Times blog has been established to document the Otto von Schirach Speakermelt Tour. We will be spreading the power of Bass to many countries…
These days it has become exceedingly rare to see a show flyer that’s been produced entirely without the aid of a computer. (I mean, we as a people are so obscenely wired that it seems the next logical step should be embedding a Bluetooth into my skull and/or seamlessly interfacing…
Ready for the weekend? Well, you might think you are, but not until you download this DJ mix by local mix-master Sean Drake, also known as Mister Drake. Formerly a resident DJ at Pawn Shop Lounge, Drake has been away from the music game for a while. He made his…
You know a destination restaurant is worth the effort when not a drawbridge, cargo train, nor interstate construction can come between you and your meal. Such was the case when a gaggle of Grove- and Gables-based Tweeters severed the data stream for a few hours to taste real life in…
Two missionaries in Africa get apprehended by a tribe of very hostile cannibals who put them in a large pot of water, build a huge fire under it, and leave them there. A few minutes later, one of the missionaries starts to laugh uncontrollably. The other missionary can’t believe it. …
Oh Churchill’s. Everyone has a favorite (or a few favorite) awesome funny, strange, or just appalling memories of the place. (Anyone remember when a girl just peed on the dance floor during a Municipal Waste show a few years back? Also, personally, I will sadly never forget this chicken-mascot porn…
These days it’s rare to find a new reggae act who embodies the genre’s traditional roots. But such is the case with Rootz Underground, a six-man band formed 10 years ago out of “di yard” — Jamaica. They not only sound right, but act right, singing conscious lyrics of justice…
Work Stinks: Happy Labor Day!
Magnum Force Racial baloney: Regarding “Who Was That Mugged Man?” (Gus Garcia-Roberts, August 27): I think it is ridiculous the police are still on the lookout for two young black men with dreadlocks. I hope the two innocent young men find a good lawyer and demand some DNA testing. It…
In the vast suburban everywheres of the North, there is a surplus of Sublime-obsessed white boys who smoke reefer as if it were a bodybuilding supplement for the brain. They jam incessantly, knocking out funky pseudo-ska while backed by their great-aunt’s analog drum machine. And during band breaks, each individual…
According to Wikipedia, Overkill is “an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey.” Their studio discography encompasses 14 albums from 1985 through 2007.Their wikiography also says Overkill formed out of the ashes of a punk band called the Lubricunts — awesome name.The ad on the right promotes…
Want to send your kids to college? Remodel your home as a shrine to Michael Jackson? Fund the first all-hamster space trip to the moon? Whatever your dream, Ryan Seacrest wants to pay for it. Maybe. If you beg for it. Executive producer Seacrest, whose previous producing credits include Keeping Up…
Local live hip-hop favorites ArtOfficial are officially on the verge. Part of this is because the band is all over the social network, on just about every site you can think of. Even Flickr. While looking for Flickr photos of shows from the past weekend, I found these photos the…
To read the previous installment of Jacobs Ladder’s tour diary, click here. These are the on-the-road chronicles of Miami band Jacobs Ladder as it completes its ninth national tour, brought to you by bassist Sammy Gonzalez.Bands, if you’re heading out on the road and want to share your own tour…
More than two decades ago, Rene Martinez satisfied his lust for violence by engaging in some serious gangbanging. Throughout his teenage and young adult years, the former leader of the Latin Syndicate racked up more than 21 arrests for, among other things, rumbling on the streets of Miami Beach, smashing…
Facing a $427 million deficit, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez promised he would thin out the county executive offices by 10 percent in his proposed budget. The Herald has written a fair amount about this lately. So have we. What you might not know is that two of them with monster salaries…
In early June, a biker was pedaling along the 79th Street Causeway when he noticed a suspicious-looking plastic bag bobbing in the murky water. The cyclist called the cops, who found human body parts inside the bag. So began a three-day saga, as several more bags stuffed with human remains…
It was a horribly slow news week. Not going to lie. Then Charlie Crist goes ahead and dumps something we could have squeezed an entire week of posts out of on a Friday. You sly, media savvy bastard.While Charlie Crist sits in Tallahassee serving out the reaming days as Governor…
ince wandering away from the pseudo-industrial barrios of their native Uruguay almost a half-decade ago, the dark, druggy boys of Monoblock — Martin TC and Guikle — have survived and thrived by zigzagging through the secret underground tunnels that connect all international party meccas. Thus far, the techno-house experimentalists have…
Being a Miami native, I’m always curious to hear what folks think about my hometown. And, as you might suspect, I’m not afraid to ask. When it’s bold-faced name folks, I get even more curious. Not that their thoughts are any more or any less important than those of plain…
