Opinion & Commentary

Ultra Music Festival: Be fair to African-Americans

Reader mail: Chris Paciello is safe from today’s Mafia

In October 2011, good news came early for beat freaks when Winter Music Conference announced the 27-year-old event would be growing — not only with new events but also with an expanded ten-day itinerary. Even better, organizers also eliminated the Sophie’s Choice they’d created last year by squabbling with Ultra…

Yesterday I received a press release about LongHorn Steakhouse opening in Hialeah. Normally, a restaurant opening in Miami is cause for a Short Order writeup and, sometimes, a first look at the eatery and its food. But this press release made some of our writers chuckle. After all, this wasn’t a new Design…

See Crossfade’s five favorite covers performed by Muppets. Courtney Love, seemingly always pissed and relentlessly exploiting her late husband’s name, is accusing Jim Henson’s Muppets of rape. According to TMZ, “Love believes Kermit the Frog and his gang of Muppet friends ‘raped’ the memory of her late husband Kurt Cobain”…

Say it ain’t so Jimbo! WPLG reports that Miami’s favorite low rent sea-side hang-out is finally shutting down after surviving through several hurricanes, a fire, and the city’s draconian bureaucracy. In 1954, shrimper Jimbo Luznar established his little beach head on Virginia Key, which became one of the most iconic…

Eight years ago, Xavier Saurez lost a county commission race to the man who now occupies the mayor’s seat on the 29th floor of Miami-Dade County Hall. But defeat has never stopped the X-Man, who last year won Carlos Gimenez’s former county commission seat. In the nine months he has…

Luther Campbell, 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 wonders when Miami and Miami Beach city officials will crack down on rowdy ravers.The video shows a large…

I cannot honestly claim any huge disappointment over BGR The Burger Joint’s decision not to serve the special St. Patrick’s Day Reuben Burger ($9.99) “loaded with Thousand Island dressing, sauerkraut and succulent, thinly sliced corned beef” that it was supposed to be proffering during the month of March. Nor did…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge. The co-educational mecca is famous for its scientific and technological training and research programs. Founded in 1861, and offering hi-tech classes that most of us will never qualify for, MIT has now ventured into accessible programs for the…

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…

​Luther Campbell, 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. In this special edition, Luke says Peyton Manning will not win a Super Bowl with the Miami Dolphins.Now that the Indianapolis…

It may be the best athlete food endorsement since “Macho Man” Randy Savage and Slim Jim, or it could be the worst since Mike Tyson and Pepsi, but Dunkin’ Brands Inc. announced Monday that LeBron James will promote pork donuts, among other products, in China and elsewhere in Southeast Asia,…

The Miami Herald ignores smart black voices

Reader mail: Skip Bayless is a racist tool

Bosco Henriquez snitched on Miami’s Latin gangs; then cops abandoned him to rape and deportation

Read Part 1 of the Bosco Enriquez saga.

Former nightlife impresario Chris Paciello’s triumphant return to South Beach just got a kick in the pants. This week, Miami New Times chronicles how the ex-club kingpin joined the ranks of other famous mob turncoats like Henry Hill and Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. Frank Owen — an investigative journalist who…

​Coconut Grove defeated Coral Gables by a mere seven votes of almost 2,000 cast in our first Snackdown, which ended last night at midnight.A neighborhood that has prided itself on weird ever since it was settled in 1825, decades before Miami became a city, the Grove fell behind, then clawed…

The Jersey Shore d-bags are safely ensconced back in Jersey, and not a single Kardashian has bothered to take us recently, but that doesn’t mean the reality TV epidemic is done with South Beach yet. The CW has announced that they’ll air The Catalina this summer, which, as the name…