Mugshots Friday: Half a Head Returns

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…

Boteco: Where Brazil Fans Get Turnt Up for the World Cup

Too bummed to keep watching the World Cup because your team is a pack of chumps save for one bearded messiah? Suck it up, amigo. Practically every match this tournament has been a nail biter, and they’re only getting better today with two intraregional matchups sure to bring the ratchet…

Liberty City Is Like Baghdad

The violent conflict in Iraq and the street violence in Liberty City share a common, disturbing theme: Governments in both places have systematically disenfranchised a class of citizens to the point where they have nothing to live for. When that happens, people become all about survival. They develop a “kill…

Reader Mail: Nothing Wrong With Sharks in a Jar

MMA Murder Mystery Kudos to you: The story about Adelia Rivera unraveling the teenage love triangle that ended with the murder of her brother, Michael “Savage” Rivera (“Savage Love,” Kyle Swenson, June 26), is a great article and a fine piece of journalism. RIP, Michael. PinkDucky Blown away: This is…

Naked Taco: SoBe Joint Is Crazy Fun

As soon as you sit down at Naked Taco in South Beach, a bubbly waiter toting a frosty shaker measures out two grapefruit-tequila shots in heavy, preplaced glasses. “You have to be a little mad to have fun with us,” he says while shaking out the last drops of the…

Buns & Buns: Balance Could Lift Heavy, Rich Dishes

Buns & Buns established its affinity for the misogynistic era of the 1950s early last summer when it released a minute-long teaser video that opened with dozens of women’s tanned, oiled backsides sunbathing on an unidentified beach. “Incontestably, we all like our buns hot and steamy,” it said before cutting…

Liberty City Violence Is Like Iraq

Uncle Luke, 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, Luke finds parallels between inner city violence and wars abroad. The violent conflict in Iraq and the street violence…

Mugshots Friday: Hustle Too Hard

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…

EDM’s Five Biggest Hacks

What makes someone a hack? A hack purports to be something he’s not. It’s a person who holds himself above others on false grounds. The entertainment industry is full of them, and tons of people get into the music industry for the wrong reasons. We can’t help ourselves from feeling…

Redskins Loss at the Patent Office Changes Nothing

Civil rights activists are hailing the recent decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel six trademarks belonging to the Washington Redskins. The agency ruled the trademarks are offensive to Native Americans. But the ruling doesn’t mean anything. In fact, the decision will be overturned on appeal like…

Reader Mail: Yep, Florida Should Split Into Ten New States

Best of Miami Kudos, compadres: Thank you for giving us locals and visitors this complete information about the best of Miami (“Best of Miami 2014,” Miami New Times staff and contributors, June 19). Keep up the good work! Ana M. Bibas You messed up on this one, though: The fact…

Stay, LeBron: An Open Letter to King James

Dear LeBron, When I first read the news that you’d be opting out of your Miami Heat contract, I have to admit, I was more than a little upset. I imagine many Miamians had the same reaction, from the guy down the block with a picture of your face and…

Gawker Admits Plagiarizing Miami New Times, Suspends Writer

Everything I have ever said about Gawker is false. Everything. The gossip/news (or is it news/gossip?) website this morning admitted inadvertently stealing copy from Miami New Times. We didn’t bring it to their attention. The plagiarism related to a post last week by Miami New Times news blogger Kyle Munzenrieder,…

If Redskins Lose Their Patent, Aunt Jemima Better Watch Out

Uncle Luke, 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, Luke says the Redskins are protected by free speech Civil rights activists are hailing the recent decision by the…

Mugshots Friday: Money Laundering

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…

Ten Worst Celebrity Rappers

It’s usually weird when actors spit rhymes, but it’s even weirder when you find out the sparkly vampire hunk from Twilight wants to be a rapper named “Big Tub.” That’s the truth Robert Pattinson revealed on the couch with Seth Meyers on Late Night. The poor kid was self-conscious about…

Ten Softest Rappers in the Game

The mainstream rap game is servin’ up so many soft rappers, we should stop calling them MCs and start calling them TCBYs. Have you listened to the hip-hop charts lately? It’s like a damn 16-year-old girl’s mix tape in this mess. Someone must have let the dogs out, because all…

Five Signs You Might Be a Shitty Drummer

Drummers are a completely different breed of humanoid. We here at Crossfade believe that a solid drummer is the key ingredient to any good band — the very catalyst that emulsifies the piss and vinegar of rock ‘n roll into something tangible — and we love you for this reason…

Online Pimps Are Real and They’re Victimizing Kids in Miami

Uncle Luke, 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, Luke talks about the new scourge of online pimps. For decades, parents protecting their daughters from predators are used…