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Coachella 2012: Snoop, Dre, Santigold, and Other Top Moments From Sunday, April 22

See LA Weekly's complete Coachella coverage -- plus the top moments from Friday, April 20 and four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips' Biggie Smalls "hologram." By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more ... More >>

Bourdain: Short Order "Offended" Me and My "Sense of Pride"

On Monday evening, the season eight premiere of No Reservations took Anthony Bourdain to Mozambique.The next morning, I blogged that the episode was a departure from most of Bourdain's usually snarky world view. A few hours later, Bourdain Tweeted the following:

Blondie at Hard Rock Live March 25

On Monday evening, the season eight premiere of No Reservations took Anthony Bourdain to Mozambique.The next morning, I blogged that the episode was a departure from most of Bourdain's usually snarky world view. A few hours later, Bourdain Tweeted the following:

Five Places In Miami To Drink Away Your Holiday Week

​The good news is you're off this week and your old friends are in town. The bad news is the post-Christmas and pre-New Year's Eve days are costly; between making Mom tear up with your thoughtful gifting and planning for NYE debauchery, you're broke.We know you'd love to spend the day out with you ... More >>

Five Art Rock, Electroclash, and Country Suggestions for Next Muppets Tribute Album

​Since you obviously have good taste, you must be looking forward to Disney's soon-to-be-classic The Muppets coming out this Thanksgiving. You won't have to wait till November, though, to conjure up memories of these furry little guys. Pitchfork reported that on August 23, Weezer, Andrew Bi ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2011 Announces Lineup With Eminem, Girl Talk, DFA 1979, and 122 Others

​It's time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land 'cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August's three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don't wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend ... More >>

CBS and Sports Illustrated lie about black athletes

​It's time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land 'cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August's three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don't wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend ... More >>

CBS and Sports Illustrated Lie About Athlete's Criminal Record

​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 explains how the criminal justice system destroys young black men in Miami-Dade County.A couple of major news organizatio ... More >>

Thomas Friedman Answers Questions

​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 explains how the criminal justice system destroys young black men in Miami-Dade County.A couple of major news organizatio ... More >>

Middle East Politics 101

​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 explains how the criminal justice system destroys young black men in Miami-Dade County.A couple of major news organizatio ... More >>

Concert Review: Cinema Sounds No. 6 at the Tower Theater, April 3

photo by Katherine TuttleAnimal Tropical's Jose Castello plays along to 'The Skeptic's Operetta.'​Cinema Sounds No. 6The Tower Theater, MiamiSaturday, April 3, 2010
Better Than: A regular night at the moviesThe review: 
Walking down the street in a bustling Little Havana neighborhood on Saturd ... More >>

Take down slums, not politicians like Michelle Spence-Jones

photo by Katherine TuttleAnimal Tropical's Jose Castello plays along to 'The Skeptic's Operetta.'​Cinema Sounds No. 6The Tower Theater, MiamiSaturday, April 3, 2010
Better Than: A regular night at the moviesThe review: 
Walking down the street in a bustling Little Havana neighborhood on Saturd ... More >>

Six Questions With Music is a Weapon

Jeffrey Delannoy​Music is a Weapon has been making some noise for a couple of years. This coming Saturday they will be rocking the Vagabond alongside local Spanish-language punks G2 and Dutch DJ's Saskia Rocks and Geza Weisz for the big-top party Cirque Excentrique; featuring "Party Monster" ... More >>

Rebuild Liberty City and Overtown Instead of Tearing Down City Commissioners

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. Up this week, Luke assesses the latest criminal charges against his pal Michelle Spence-Jones and what he would do to fix Overtown and Liber ... More >>

$1.5 Million Dress to Be Shown at Miami International Fashion Week

​So, one fashion week in town just ended, but another will begin this Thursday when Miami International Fashion Week kicks off. Yeah, it's confusing, but this one has a $1.5 million dress. Uh, does that mean the recession is over?Beirut-based designer Jad Ghandour and Danesha Luxury will present t ... More >>

Old-school South Beach DJ Ruben Pagan returns as King Domino

​So, one fashion week in town just ended, but another will begin this Thursday when Miami International Fashion Week kicks off. Yeah, it's confusing, but this one has a $1.5 million dress. Uh, does that mean the recession is over?Beirut-based designer Jad Ghandour and Danesha Luxury will present t ... More >>

The Next Conversation

​So, one fashion week in town just ended, but another will begin this Thursday when Miami International Fashion Week kicks off. Yeah, it's confusing, but this one has a $1.5 million dress. Uh, does that mean the recession is over?Beirut-based designer Jad Ghandour and Danesha Luxury will present t ... More >>

Middle East Best Food and Bakery Behind the Scenes In Pictures

Jacob KatelAli Aziz in his bakery. Custom order of Spanakopita for a regular Greek customer fresh out of the oven in foreground.​ Middle East Best Food (1711 Coral Way) is an ethnic food shop, a bakery, and tribute to owner Ali Aziz's iron clad work ethic. He has run three stores in Miami over alm ... More >>

Bruno Pronsato at Electric Pickle this Friday

​Steven Ford, alias Bruno Pronsato, is one of those rare but increasingly ubiquitous contemporary techno producers with a background in some disparate instrumentalist music genre (see Adultnapper, who started out as a hardcore punk rocker, or No Regular Play, whose Greg Paulus hails from indie fol ... More >>

So Irregular

​Steven Ford, alias Bruno Pronsato, is one of those rare but increasingly ubiquitous contemporary techno producers with a background in some disparate instrumentalist music genre (see Adultnapper, who started out as a hardcore punk rocker, or No Regular Play, whose Greg Paulus hails from indie fol ... More >>

No Regular Play Perform at The Bunker this Saturday Night

​No Regular Play is the Brooklyn-based production duo of Nick DeBruyn and Greg Paulus (originally of indie darlings Beirut). Part of a new American generation of EDM producers rooted in more instrumentalist-based music forms, their experimental genre-bending take on house and techno defies all exp ... More >>

Wish You Were There: Village Voice Media at the Pitchfork and Siren Festivals Last Weekend

photo by Nick Lucchesi, Riverfront TimesThe Flaming Lips. Who else?This past weekend, Nick Lucchesi, a correspondent from New Times' St. Louis sister paper, the Riverfront Times, headed to the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. In a nutshell, here's what he found:*David Yow of the Jesus Lizard has still ... More >>

Mika

photo by Nick Lucchesi, Riverfront TimesThe Flaming Lips. Who else?This past weekend, Nick Lucchesi, a correspondent from New Times' St. Louis sister paper, the Riverfront Times, headed to the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. In a nutshell, here's what he found:*David Yow of the Jesus Lizard has still ... More >>

More Shriek Than Shrek

photo by Nick Lucchesi, Riverfront TimesThe Flaming Lips. Who else?This past weekend, Nick Lucchesi, a correspondent from New Times' St. Louis sister paper, the Riverfront Times, headed to the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. In a nutshell, here's what he found:*David Yow of the Jesus Lizard has still ... More >>

Of Montreal

photo by Nick Lucchesi, Riverfront TimesThe Flaming Lips. Who else?This past weekend, Nick Lucchesi, a correspondent from New Times' St. Louis sister paper, the Riverfront Times, headed to the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. In a nutshell, here's what he found:*David Yow of the Jesus Lizard has still ... More >>

Let's Put on a Show

Bobby Macintyre creates a place for local musicians to collaborate

Could Be Verse

A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again

The Taste of Lebanon

A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again

Porous by Design

Architect Zaha Hadid blurs the line between interior and exterior

Back to Basic Beirut

Graze at the Lebanese lounge at South Pointe

BEST GUN SHOP

Miami Police Supply

Just Can't Quit

Twelve years later Miami's pop-punk trailblazers are back on track

BEST ACTOR

Peter Haig

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

Ring in the New Gears

So there is a sleeping theater giant waiting to be awakened in Broward

Fair Game

A terrorism survivor and expert digs into the bin Laden dilemma

Everything Irie

Watcha gonna do, Inner Circle, make one of the hottest recording studios in the nation?

Random Acts of Adolescence

West Beirut

Loud and Fast Doesn't Always Rule

West Beirut

A Man Out of Time

Repeatedly sideswiped by fame, singer-songwriter Dennis Britt braces for one last lunge at the big time

Swelter 12

Repeatedly sideswiped by fame, singer-songwriter Dennis Britt braces for one last lunge at the big time

Swelter 5

Repeatedly sideswiped by fame, singer-songwriter Dennis Britt braces for one last lunge at the big time

Show of Force

Repeatedly sideswiped by fame, singer-songwriter Dennis Britt braces for one last lunge at the big time

The Play's Still the Thing

Repeatedly sideswiped by fame, singer-songwriter Dennis Britt braces for one last lunge at the big time

Women on the Verge of a Breakthrough

On-stage and behind the scenes, a diverse and determined group is carving off a big piece of the local rock

Science Affliction

On-stage and behind the scenes, a diverse and determined group is carving off a big piece of the local rock

The Worst of Miami

And the rest of the United States. Scraping Teeth grinds to the top of the bottom.

Swelter

And the rest of the United States. Scraping Teeth grinds to the top of the bottom.

Swelter

And the rest of the United States. Scraping Teeth grinds to the top of the bottom.

Swelter

And the rest of the United States. Scraping Teeth grinds to the top of the bottom.

Swelter

And the rest of the United States. Scraping Teeth grinds to the top of the bottom.