Censorship

Supreme Court Stirs Up Controversy

Fahrenheit 2007?

Umoja: One Year Later, Still Controversial

iTunes Tells Buju Banton to "Boom Bye Bye"

Letters from the Issue of July 14, 2005

Dying newspapers, ATV defenders, and tough-talking college deans

Program Notes

Dying newspapers, ATV defenders, and tough-talking college deans

Program Notes

Dying newspapers, ATV defenders, and tough-talking college deans

Body Count Down

But the album's sales are up, up, up. No wonder so many more cops are dying now.

New Times Recommends

A presidential candidate we can all get behind

South Florida Blogosphere Finds Itself in All-Out War

Image via Random PixelsIf there are two prominent figures in South Florida's small blogosphere, they are definitely former Stuck on the Palmetto, current South Florida Daily Blog blogger Rick, and Val Prieto and company at Babalu. And they couldn't be more polar opposites: Rick is decisively libera ... More >>

Penile Codes

Erotic art has been accepted as a valid means of expression for thousands of years. But don't you worry about that, stranger. You're in Coral Gables now.

Fighting Cocks

Erotic art has been accepted as a valid means of expression for thousands of years. But don't you worry about that, stranger. You're in Coral Gables now.

No Butts

When Cable-TAP told them to cover their asses, the Alliance Film and Video Project called the ACLU in instead

Whatever. I Read What I Want!

Exercise your rights during Banned Books Week.

Newsroom or Classroom?

Old newspaper pros quit the FIU journalism school as academicians run the show

Love Amid Devastation

Old newspaper pros quit the FIU journalism school as academicians run the show

Letters from the Issue of August 31, 2006

"This movie was refreshing and poignant, and I had to go back twice"

Letters from the Issue of August 24, 2006

"I'm close to a million dollars in debt on this film"

Letters from the Issue of October 24, 2002

Bring back Robert Rosenberg!

Pro-Gay Pressure?

Divisions from within: Allies skirmish over free speech

Bravo to Books

Books & Books throws a weekend party for all its book-loving friends

Shake

If it ain't your party, you better fight for your rights

Shake

Bold booking draws top ratings, topples dictatorship, at Second Annual Latin Grammy Awards

It Takes a Cuban

After a legendary career as president of the Miami ACLU, John de Leon is heading even further south

Fair Weather Freedom Fighters

The Latin Grammys got the headlines, but brave and bruised theater director Alberto Sarraín got the honors

Carlos Cruz's Second Act

In his native Cuba he was a film star. Here in the States he's just another car salesman with a dream.

Natural Born Theater

One of the best plays this year tackles the funny topic of sex and violence

Frank Talk About Free Speech

Attorney Victor Diaz chats up the ACLU's Howard Simon

Best Actor

William Metzo

Cuba Ordinance 101

A New Times guide to busting the county's Cuba law

Speak Your Mind, Lose Your Job

A New Times guide to busting the county's Cuba law

Portrait of the Artist As a Communist Bureaucrat

Cuba's Minister of Culture Abel Prieto faces a daunting challenge: Sell Cuban culture to the world, but don't sell out the revolution

Tongue Repressors

Cuba's Minister of Culture Abel Prieto faces a daunting challenge: Sell Cuban culture to the world, but don't sell out the revolution

Free to Speak Her Mind

Cuba's Minister of Culture Abel Prieto faces a daunting challenge: Sell Cuban culture to the world, but don't sell out the revolution

How's That for School Spirit

Robert Joffee just wanted to empower the parents of Miami Springs schoolkids. What he got was a trip to jail.

Libertarian or Libertine?

Robert Joffee just wanted to empower the parents of Miami Springs schoolkids. What he got was a trip to jail.

In Havana, Telling It Like It Is

Robert Joffee just wanted to empower the parents of Miami Springs schoolkids. What he got was a trip to jail.

Notes from the Underground

Impoverished and imperiled, Cuba's independent journalists stubbornly cling to the notion of a free press

Letters

Impoverished and imperiled, Cuba's independent journalists stubbornly cling to the notion of a free press

Capitalist or Commie?

How a Miami businessman got rich doing business with Cuba - and lived to shout about it

Letters

How a Miami businessman got rich doing business with Cuba - and lived to shout about it

Letters

How a Miami businessman got rich doing business with Cuba - and lived to shout about it

Chiles Pornography

Hear ye! Hear ye! The state gets into a righteous - dare we say fundamentalist? - huff

Meet the Man Who Founded Southern Rap

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 prepares to be honored by VH1 and explains why Miami-Dade County is the birthplace of Southern hip-hop. ​I'm feeling g ... More >>

Uncle Luke pioneered Southern rap

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 prepares to be honored by VH1 and explains why Miami-Dade County is the birthplace of Southern hip-hop. ​I'm feeling g ... More >>

Operatic Casanova

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 prepares to be honored by VH1 and explains why Miami-Dade County is the birthplace of Southern hip-hop. ​I'm feeling g ... More >>

Odd Future Reignites The Perennial War Between Art and Feelings

Tyler, the Creator​The swag-hop absurdists of rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them are once again being called out for what critics decry as misogyny and homophobia in their lyrics. A few months ago, Sara, from Tegan and Sara, wrote a blog attacking Tyler The Creator, as well as his music ... More >>

Cuban Government "Kidnapping" Rotilla Music Festival, Founders Say

via YouTubeLos Aldeanos slammed the Cuban government at last year's Rotilla FestivalLast August, the Rotilla Festival brought 20,000 young Cubans to a beach near Havana for three days of rap, house, and electronic music. It was a rare moment of free speech in the tightly policed country: groups like ... More >>

Victoria's Secret

via YouTubeLos Aldeanos slammed the Cuban government at last year's Rotilla FestivalLast August, the Rotilla Festival brought 20,000 young Cubans to a beach near Havana for three days of rap, house, and electronic music. It was a rare moment of free speech in the tightly policed country: groups like ... More >>

Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe" and Five Other Rap Videos Banned by Viacom

​Nicki Minaj is too hardcore for BET. Viacom-owned Black Entertainment Television is refusing to air the rapper's "Stupid Hoe" music video. Evidently, naked Barbie dolls and fishnets are far too risque for the network. We've embedded the 210-second, Hype Williams-directed video below. You'll ... More >>