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Twenty Percent of Miamians Don't Have Bank Accounts: Highest Rate of Any City

A higher percentage of Miamians don't have bank accounts than any other large city in America. A new survey finds 20.1 percent of Miamians have neither a checking nor a savings account. Another 21.4 percent are considered "underbanked," meaning while they do have a bank account, they rely more on th ... More >>

South Florida Is Ground Zero for Medicare Fraud

Pop-Up Veuve Clicquot Champagne Trailer Coming to the Moore Building

Trailers and booze have a long symbiotic history, but it usually involves pre-painted aluminum panels and Bud Select. Leave it to Veuve Clicquot to up the combo's class factor with an Airstream trailer tour. To celebrate the arrival of spring, the luxe champagne brand will tour the count ... More >>

2012 Village Voice Film Critics' Poll

Movies are alive in the age of McConaughey.

Election Night In Little Havana: Anger at Versailles Cafe, Elation at Obama HQ

As Florida vote counting goes to the wire tonight, what is clear is that this state -- and this city -- remains bitterly divided.That divide was apparent at two locations just blocks apart in Little Havana: there was elation at Obama campaign headquarters on SW 1st Street as a small band of voluntee ... More >>

The Federal vs. Haven: Big Texas Showdown in the MIA

While Miami is best known for palm trees swaying among neon-lit avenues, Texas is probably most famous for cattle, oil, lots of excess...and old fashioned duels to the death.Read Also:- Haven's Isaac Grillo Wins Inaugural Ultimate Miami Bartender Award at Magic City CasinoThat vision apparently has ... More >>

Who's Applying To Be University of Miami AD? An Exclusive Look at the Candidates

For the third time since 2008 the Miami Hurricanes are on the hunt for a new athletics director. Don't worry though, University of Miami President Donna Shalala says she has heard from literally hundreds of people who wants the job. "I'm getting hundreds of emails from people wanting the job," she t ... More >>

Hard Knocks, Episode Four: The Dolphins' Personality Problem

A funny thing is happening with this year's installment of Hard Knocks. Previous seasons focused on obvious, larger-than-life coaching personalities in Rex Ryan, Herm Edwards and Brian Billick, but the idea behind this year's inside look at the Dolphins was to cut out all that cute shit and pull bac ... More >>

Maybach Music's Rockie Fresh Announces Solo Tour, Hitting Miami on September 11

Rick Ross and Maybach Music Group just got some fly shit from Chicago, and you know they're gonna bring it down to the family. The newest signee to the Bawse's label is Chi-Town's fast-spitting swagmaster Rockie Fresh. He comes to MMG already two mixtapes deep and hailed by Complex Magazine as a fo ... More >>

French Express Label's Chris Malinchak Talks Crate Digging, Tropical Beats, and Good Vibes

The Dallas, Texas blog-turned-label French Express can do no wrong right now. Hotly-tipped artists on the young roster, like Jonas Rathsman, Perseus and Moon Boots, are stirring up a nu-disco storm in clubland. But the label's undisputed star is Chris Malinchak, an NYC-based producer with a gift fo ... More >>

Miami Residents Dine Out the Most in South Florida; Romeo's Cafe, Nobu Have Highest Check Average

It's official. Miamians dine out in restaurants more often than our neighbors in Broward and Palm Beach counties.According to a survey on Bundle.com, a website that tracks consumer spending by analyzing credit card data, Miami residents eat at restaurants 21 percent more often than the U.S. average. ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Announces Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Tour With Miami Show on July 24

Earlier today, Nicki Minaj announced 14 North American dates for her worldwide summer tour in support of new album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. "When I 1st started this shit there were a few cities/states I'd play ALL the time. Always showed luv," she tweeted. "Rlly wanted to get u guys for summer. ... More >>

Miami-Dade County Just Overtook Brooklyn to Become America's Seventh Most Populous County

Miami-Dade County saw its population grow by 58,331 residents between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2011 according to the United State Census. That adds up to the fourth largest numeric growth by any county in the country. These estimates also make Miami-Dade the seventh largest county by population in ... More >>

Ann Coulter: Jeb Bush is "Embarrassing to the Republican Party"

​We're not sure that you can get more embarrassing than the current state of the GOP primary, and we're not the only ones who seem to think so. Even a still-anonymous top Republican senator seems to hope that a new candidate jumps in and take the nomination in a contested convention. His preferred ... More >>

The Super Bowl prostitution hoax

Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Announces Solo U.S. Tour With South Florida Concert on May 13

​Holy nostalgia, it's 1991 all over again! Pearl Jam's de facto captain, legendary singer-songwriter, and uke-man extraordinaire Eddie Vedder is bringing his one-man show to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, May 13. Announced earlier today, the grunge rock godfather's solo ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys Headed to Europe for 26-City Tour

​Admittedly, we were nervous about Jacuzzi Boys' upcoming European tour. But we quickly changed our tone when Hardly Art assured us it'd be a land-based trek. Phew, what a relief. European tours can be a real bummer. Shitty guides recklessly leading you into dangerously shallow waters, shoddy sa ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Postpone 2012 US Tour, Reschedule South Florida Gig

​Being the frontman of one of the biggest bands on the planet can be a real pain in the sesamoid bone and flexor tendon. Just ask Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis. The porn 'stachioed rocker recently underwent surgery to treat a bum foot, the result of "multiple" injuries. And regrettably, ... More >>

DJ Three Waxes Poetic About Ten Dance-Floor Weapons

​You'd be hard-pressed to find a more encyclopedic guru of house and techno than Chistopher Milo AKA DJ Three. And it's no surprise, given he's one of the most highly regarded tastemakers on the underground American EDM scene. The Florida native has been commanding dancefloors since the early '90 ... More >>

Art Basel's Open Bar Sculpture By Erwin Wurm Wants To Get You Drunk

​Art Basel Miami Beach and the surrounding bacchanal kicks off this week, and on the tenth anniversary of the festivities we've realized the entire week comes down to two factors: expensive artwork and free booze. So it's about time that an artist fully combines the two into one work. Austrian art ... More >>

Radiohead Kicks Off U.S. Tour in Miami on February 27

Photo by Sebastian EdgeRadiohead​Radiohead just released the first 10 dates of its 2012 US tour and we couldn't be any happier. Thom Yorke and his mates from Oxfordshire will be kicking things off at the American Airlines Arena on Monday, February 27. Since releasing its eighth studio album, The ... More >>

Mormons: Hate 'em or elect 'em

Lost Boys: New child-sex-trafficking research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker

And sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.

Rick Perry: Awful politician, genius campaigner

The Rapture's U.S. Tour Stops at Grand Central October 17

​When we last saw the Rapture, it was at Nocturnal, of all places, alongside the Miami Heat's DJ Irie and electro icon Felix Da Housecat. Odd lineup? Definitely. It was one of those liquor-sponsored events that took over the 11th Street nightclub on a weekday for the sole purpose of creating "br ... More >>

Rick Scott Calls New Times Article Inappropriate

​This past June, reporters from two of our sister papers, New Times Broward-Palm Beach and the Dallas Observer, hunted down a tip that Gov. Rick Scott has a brother residing in Texas who was living off government handouts and with a criminal record that included drug possession. It was mildly ... More >>

Rick Scott's Brother Is a Welfare Recipient With a History of Drug Charges

​Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a bill that requires all people seeking welfare take mandatory drug tests. Interestingly, it turns out Scott has a younger brother who receives welfare and seems to have a history of drug charges.

Calle 13 Cancels May 27 Show in Miami

​Almost a month ago, we received word that Puerto Rican tag team Calle 13 was planning a Miami show on May 27 as part of its initial 11-city Entren los Que Quieran US tour. At the time, there was no venue. And details were sketchy. But still, we got all riled up and started ranting wildly about ... More >>

The Heat's Road to the NBA Championship

​The day is almost here. After one of the most scrutinized regular seasons afforded to any team in just about all of NBA history the Miami Heat are set to platy their first play-off game with LeBron James and Chris Bosh joining Dwayne Wade in red and black tomorrow. They'll face off at home ag ... More >>

Calle 13 Announces First 11 Shows for Entren los Que Quieran U.S. Tour With Miami Gig May 27

Calle 13's Residente and Visitante go guerrilla again.​With ten Latin Grammys and even a pair of standard gold-plated gramophophone statuettes stashed in the safe, it's been a solid minute since Calle 13's Residente and Visitante could be legitimately called underground guerilla rappers. The ... More >>

Lil Wayne Announces I Am Music II North American Tour With Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross

Photo by DJ Scoob Doo via weezythanxyou.comLil Wayne's hitting the highways with Nicky Minaj and Rick Ross.​Ever since he made the break from Rikers back in November, we've been so hyped about Lil Wayne's inevitable trip across these United States that we could barely sleep. Or shit. Our goggles ... More >>

Truth Is in the Detail

Well, Duh: Miami Has Fourth Worst Commute in America

​There are certain things that studies and data analysis don't really need to tell us, like, for example, that the commute-time traffic in Miami is pretty horrible. Yet, whenever these scientist or mathematicians or data-obsessed journalists tell us something we already know, and perhaps rank it, ... More >>

Gerald Posner Busted for Stealing From Our Sister Paper, Houston Press

Last time we wrote about Gerald Posner, we showed -- in excruciating detail -- how the disgraced South Beach author appears to have plagiarized at least 35 passages from dozens of sources in two books, Why America Slept and Secrets of the Kingdom. photo by Bill Cooke​That story came a few w ... More >>

Gerald Posner Plagiarized in Why America Slept and Secrets of the Kingdom, Research Shows

Photo by Bill Cooke Gerald Posner​In this week's Miami New Times, we write about new evidence that Gerald Posner plagiarized dozens of passages in his 2003 book Why American Slept and in 2005's Secrets of the Kingdom. After the jump, you can check out all the proof. But first, a little back ... More >>

A report from Juarez, the bleeding front line of the war on drugs

Behind the Scenes Photos from Univision's Viva El Sueno

Jacob KatelWalking the red carpet.​ Last week Crossfade got invited to Greenwich Studios in North Miami where Univision is filming their new mega reality talent competition Viva El Sueño. Univision was holding an industry preview of the program for big-wig executives, rich, important and famous p ... More >>

Uncle Julio's Fine Mexican Food Opens Tomorrow in Mizner Park

When you think about it, Mizner Park is sort of like an overstuffed, smothered burrito. There are all the fancy Boca ladies sporting expensive jewelry - they're the cheese. There are the teenage children of wealth driving around in cars worth more than the valets who park them make in two years - th ... More >>

WMC 2009: Rum and Coke with a Squeeze of Drop the Lime at Bacardi B-Live Press Party

Michelle SolomonA-Trak spinning at Bacardi B-Live.If you were one of the 300 "regular" folks, or the 150 or so "press" types who got invited to the Bacardi B-Live Press Pool Party on Tuesday night, say a hefty thank-you prayer to the God of Groove.Inside the basement Japanese restaurant, Fountainble ... More >>

Budget Ballin'

To hell with the economy! South Florida's lawless exotic rental car industry keeps rolling.

Letters from the Issue of October 23, 2008

"Any story that involves strippers and hip-hop that's not derogatory but informative is cool with me."

Kirk Franklin

Raw Metal

Old rockers offer soundtracks for sleaze

Home Folk

Neither rain, nor cops, nor crabby neighbors can stop South Florida's house concerts

More to the Point

Killer Joe

Rotations

Dynasty

Program Notes

Chain, Chain, Chain

China Beach