Erik Maza

Los Afganos asesinan a Louis Maxwell: Segunda Parte

Letters from the issue of July 15, 2010

Letters from the issue of July 1, 2010

G2: Miami-Cuban Punk Rock Goes Hard In the Magic City

C. StilesG2 band practice.​Miami New Times editor-in-chief Chuck Strouse has limited us to six F-words per post (what is he, the state police?), so we'd just like to say fuck communism, fuck Fidel, fuck censorship, fuck political repression, fuck the system, and fuck the tyranny of evil! Free ... More >>

Best of Miami 2010: Best Quote

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Photo by Erik MazaMichelle Spence-Jones (center)​"They don't know this nappy-headed child of God has her armor on!"Wonky TV dramas have nothing on the real-life soap ... More >>

Letters from the issue of June 10, 2010

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Photo by Erik MazaMichelle Spence-Jones (center)​"They don't know this nappy-headed child of God has her armor on!"Wonky TV dramas have nothing on the real-life soap ... More >>

Letters from the issue of March 25, 2010

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Photo by Erik MazaMichelle Spence-Jones (center)​"They don't know this nappy-headed child of God has her armor on!"Wonky TV dramas have nothing on the real-life soap ... More >>

Cuban killer Luis Posada Carriles goes on trial

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Photo by Erik MazaMichelle Spence-Jones (center)​"They don't know this nappy-headed child of God has her armor on!"Wonky TV dramas have nothing on the real-life soap ... More >>

Letters from the issue of February 25, 2010

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Photo by Erik MazaMichelle Spence-Jones (center)​"They don't know this nappy-headed child of God has her armor on!"Wonky TV dramas have nothing on the real-life soap ... More >>

Miami Beach Police Plays Mind Games Using Fake Cop Cars

So you're speeding down the MacArthur Causeway in your beat-up Toyota when you spot a Miami Beach Police cruiser. Only it's the same cop car you've seen there for the past month. It hasn't moved an inch. It's been glistening in the morning, slumbering at night -- but there's no driver. Where could t ... More >>

Riptide Rides Van Van Protest Bus

Los Van Van landed in Miami like a lit match dropped on an ancient anthill.Erik MazaRuckus at the concert​On Sunday, hundreds of grizzled Cubans came out of the woodwork -- Westchester, Little Havana, Hialeah -- to protest the popular band's concert at the James L. Knight Center.They came bearing ... More >>

Spence-Jones to Guv: See You In Court

After today's executive order suspending her again, the next big date in the Michelle Spence-Jones saga is Tuesday afternoon.  Erik MazaSpence-Jones at a victory rally after being re-elected as District 5 commissioner. ​Earlier this week, Spence-Jones' attorneys asked a Miami-Dade judge for a ... More >>

Spence-Jones Won't Be Suspended for at Least Four Days

Photo by Erik MazaMichelle Spence-Jones talks to the press after she was declared the winner with 53 percent of the vote.​Click here to view photos as we followed Michelle Spence-Jones on campaign day.The morning after suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones won a special election and d ... More >>

Miami Election: Low Turnout Expected, Spence-Jones Chases Last Minute Voters

At noon today, Michelle Spence-Jones was at her Liberty City headquarters furiously calling supporters to come out and vote for her.Again. The message to her troops regarding today's hotly contested Miami City Commission election.was clear: "I just don't want nobody sitting around doing nothing aro ... More >>