Last week, I wrote a cover story on the slow death of Cuban American news talk radio in Miami. As the Hispanic population in Miami-Dade has gotten more diverse over the past decade, the frequencies for hardline right-wing programming focused on getting rid of the Castro regime has shrunk considerably.After…
Luke’s Gospel: Condoleezza Rice Is an Uncle Tom
Cuban Radio Commentators Are Just Like Castro
See also “Nicki Minaj ‘Voting For Romney’,” “Obama on Nicki Minaj’s Romney Endorsement,” and “Nicki Minaj Admits Romney Endorsement Was Total Bullshit.” Even if Mitt Romney may have Nicki Minaj’s endorsement, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate can’t count on her vote. She’s not registered. As noted by Hip Hop Wired,…
Read: “Michael Corleone Blanco lives in the shadow of his cocaine-queen mother””Jon Roberts, Smuggler in Cocaine Cowboys, Dies””Griselda Blanco, Miami’s Cocaine Queen, Assassinated In Medellin Butcher Shop””Cocaine king Max Mermelstein came out of hiding for a screenwriter”The golden years hasn’t turned out so good for most of the retired drug…
No Reservations, the final tour, premiered last evening. The series, which features host Anthony Bourdain eating, drinking, and behaving badly, has won both awards and a loyal fan base. In this, the first of the countdown to the end of Bourdain’s Travel Channel show, we travel to Austin, Texas, for…
See also “Nicki Minaj Not Registered to Vote,” “Obama on Nicki Minaj’s Romney Endorsement,” and “Nicki Minaj Admits Romney Endorsement Was Total Bullshit.” Hold up … Nicki Minaj is a Republican now? Everyone’s up in arms because of a new verse that the eccentric rhymestress slurred on Lil Wayne’s new…
See the full archive of Pepe Billete’s columns here.Dear Micky Arison:As owner of the Miami Heat, you’ve nurtured the evolution of a legacy that was humbly born in the late ’80s, developed in the ’90s, and unmistakably solidified in the new millennium. Your dedication to Miami sports revitalized a city…
Blanco had made a lot of enemies during her reign as Miami’s cocaine queen.
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 explains how minorities rise up the ranks of the GOP.During her speech at the National Republican Convention last week,…
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…
Chad Johnson Is a Wife-Beater With No Place in the NFL
Flo Rida and NFL Vets Give Back to Miami Instead of Blowing Cash at Clubs
If you are a green thumb in Brickell or somewhere in South Beach, you can rarely get your hands dirty. But if you have a balcony, then you’re in luck because you can build a pallet garden.The pallet garden is simply a wooden pallet from which a garden is made…
Read “Cuban Radio Is Dying Because of Aging Hardliners And Miami’s Changing Market.”On August 17, Roberto Rodríguez Tejera takes the center spot behind the news desk inside TeleMiami’s studio in the Flagami neighborhood of Miami. The veteran Cuban American journalist is flanked by former Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolaños, ex-Hialeah…
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 gives props to a local rapper and four football players giving back to the neighborhood.It’s a shame more…
When my co-worker brought in edible “presents” to the office from his Colombian mother-in-law, it wasn’t your typical box o’ chocolates or salt water taffy; instead these souvenirs were hormigas culonas, or big-butted Colombian ants and gelatina de pata de res — cow foot gelatin.Most of the reactions from my…
For the past couple of years, Norman Braman has carefully crafted his image as a do-gooder billionaire and civic activist by leading the recall of former Miami-Dade mayor Carlos Alvarez and, more recently, financing opponents against four sitting county commissioners because they saddled taxpayers with the Marlins Park boondoggle while…
Foodies, restaurant critics, and even food novices (often called ‘diners’) are aware that when it comes to service, Miami is somewhat lacking.Rude and negligent servers make you wait eons for a napkin or glass of wine, and respond with a barely concealed sneer when you dare to mention your frustration. I…
See also “Jennifer Lopez and Enrique Iglesias Announce Summer Tour — plus “Essential Enrique: From 1995 to ‘Tonight (I’m F#$%in’ You).'” Who is the real Jennifer Lopez? Well, earlier this month, the Australian edition of 60 Minutes praised the entertainer’s seemingly grounded, surprisingly un-diva-like demeanor during a recent interview. “I’d…
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…
See also “Ten Signs of the Dubpocalypse! From Bieber and Muse to Dubstep Cereal Commercials.” It’s over. Miley Cyrus is a woman now. And as we speak, she’s probably taking face-fulls of Borgore’s cake. The hedonistic, nasty-as-he-wanna-be brostepper released a confection-themed song about bangin’ bitches and they friends back in…
