Opinion & Commentary

Reader Mail: Bud Selig Gets What He Deserves

The bluesy track starts with eerie piano chords and a spooky fiddle. Then a deep, raspy voice croons, “They stole my money, they took my home. Left me on the street, to die alone. I live in paradise, so they say. Things shouldn’t be this way. Paaaaaiiinnn, pain and gain.”That’s…

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 assesses the lack of faith in the world.On February 20, the holy spirit lifted 82-year-old Brownsville resident Emma…

Electronic dance music has conquered Miami. And America. And the world. For more than three decades, it had remained a mostly underground phenomenon, epitomized by illegal raves held beneath highway overpasses in the UK or after-hours parties thrown in downtown Detroit’s abandoned warehouses. But over the past few years, EDM…

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…

Telly Lockette Makes University of South Florida a Contender

Reader Mail: Race Isn’t an Issue With Latin Builders’ Charter School

New Times Says No to MLB

Driving on Krome Avenue is a journey through old Florida’s last frontier — a place before suburban sprawl, crippling traffic congestion, and overdevelopment choked our wonderful, incredible ecosystem.Whenever Banana Republican has to hop from North Dade to South Dade, we take the two-lane road so we can enjoy the blissful…

At first Banana Republican was torn. We didn’t know whether to curse or congratulate a gaggle of Hialeah police officers who trampled an impromptu “Harlem Shake” video shoot. Do we side with the two dozen young shakers, including a man dressed in a banana suit, who gathered in front of…

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…

In a city jammed with outposts of overhyped New York restaurants, Lucali in South Beach is an exception. At the pizzeria on Bay Road, just a few steps from the Pubbelly mecca, pizza-makers wearing white T-shirts roll out doughs with empty wine bottles, cut porcini mushrooms with a mandolin slicer,…

This much is clear: Miami’s sewers are deteriorating, and millions of gallons of wastewater are polluting Biscayne Bay. The county has proposed a $1.5 billion fix, but one local environmental group has now filed suit in federal court to stop the plan.Key Biscayne resident Judi Koslen and the environmental group…

Uncle Luke: Latin Builders Association’s New School Has No Diversity

Reader Mail: Tea Party Leader Is a Fraud and a Kook

Real estate developer Craig Robins is going all in to transform the Design District into the flossiest destination in Miami. He’s investing $312 million to bring in the biggest names in high-end luxury fashion, from Louis Vuitton to Hermès to Céline. To protect that investment, Robins spends 1 million bucks…

As hundreds of Venezuelans converged in Doral to celebrate the passing of the Bolivarian revolutionary Hugo Chávez, Miami’s number one Cuban exile radio provocateur, Armando Pérez Roura, spent yesterday afternoon proselytizing how Chávez’s death was a major blow to the Cuban government. The Radio Mambí commentator, in true spook form, told his…

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. Today, Luke gives props to a high school coach making it to the NCAA big leagues.I want to congratulate Telly Lockette…

Joseph Louis, executive director of Galata Inc., a Homestead social services agency, is challenging the findings of an audit that accuses his nonprofit organization of misspending part of a $500,000 Miami-Dade County grant. In January, Miami-Dade’s inspector general claimed Galata took $77,307 to settle unpaid payroll taxes with the IRS…

We can call vegans a lot of things: weirdly connected to the planet, strangely into fake cheese, but this really takes the dairy-and-egg-free cake. Naked vegan cooking is a thing now where vegans take pictures of themselves cooking vegan dishes in their birthday suits. Sometimes they’re alone; sometimes they’re in…