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It’s impossible to speak of local nightlife and electronic dance music culture without mentioning Space, Miami’s quintessential megaclub. Ten years ago, the club...
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The Miami Gay Men’s Chorus is preparing a big celebration in honor of the City of Miami Beach’s 95th birthday. And, of course, when any gay men’s chorus is...
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With a name like Black Blondie on the bill, you'd be forgiven for expecting a female-fronted New Wave band with Afrobeat influences. Though the mostly female Minneapolis band...
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Miamians have always had trouble turning down another drink, even during Prohibition. Three years after the 18th Amendment banned “intoxicating liquors” in 1919, a...
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By the bright light of day, Miami resident Clarence Reid is a mild-mannered 65-year-old songwriter who once penned hits for Top 40 stars such as KC & the Sunshine Band and...
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When 125,000 Cuban exiles fled to Florida in the Mariel Boatlift, many people believed Castro opened prisons and mental hospitals in order to infiltrate the United States with...
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Many a decadent Magic City bash has been declared a success despite the fact that sloshed attendees can’t even remember what went down. But Miami-based arts therapy...
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Why do human beings always see themselves in everything: craggy rock formations, diffuse cloud clusters, dense swirls of paint on canvas? Basically, we're just a bunch of...
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By Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp
Published:
May 6, 2010
The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his "smooth, sweet,...
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Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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...
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First, a special Loon Over Miami Mother's Day poem à la MIA:
Roses are red, violets are blue,
And sometimes, moms, you act slightly askew,
Causing us, your grown...
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With Governor Jan Brewer's April 25 signature affixed to Senate Bill 1070, Arizona is poised to direct all law enforcement agencies to adopt Sheriff Joe Arpaio's policy of...
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It's a travesty. An outrage. Mess with Jorge, Josh, or Freddi — but don't fool around with Hanley.
At 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, Florida Marlins wunderkind Hanley...
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Last October, teachers began to disappear from the white hallways inside Shenandoah Elementary School. Substitutes replaced them. Kids wondered what had happened.
It turns...
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The buyers of the failed Biscayne Landings project in North Miami have a novel idea for the city-owned, 193-acre site just off Biscayne Boulevard near Florida International...
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Rothstein Loves Money
Here comes da judge: I'm just a spectator to the circus described in "Crazy Love" (Lisa Rab, April 29). But one problem with the portrayal of the...
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DJ Contra began life in Munich, Germany, on the left side of the Berlin Wall. He spent his teen years around Washington, D.C., and as an adult, he finally wound up in Miami....
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The best DJs dig deep into the sounds they're spinning. And that doesn't mean just the components of a given track — the structure of the beat, the motion of a melody,...
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Mixtape of the Week is a weekly department reviewing the latest local hip-hop mixtapes on Crossfade, New Times' music blog. Visit blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade to read it...
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Electric Bunnies have been disappointingly quiet lately, but while the band hibernates, erstwhile member Teepee has taken flight as a solo artist. Born Eric Lopez-Zareno, he's...
