Fossil Fuel Energy Production

Greedy Lying Bastards Documents Climate-Change Horrors

Who's Behind Those Ridiculous Obama Gas Price Attacks? Oil Companies and Pro-Israeli Activists

Miami-Dade voters have been inundated with political ads for going on six months now, but among the most visible -- and probably the most risible -- are the billboards all over I-95 and now the full-page Miami Herald ads showing Obama bowing to a Saudi sheik and blaming the Prez for higher gas price ... More >>

Federal Tax Loopholes: Big Corporations Profit From This Mafia-Like Protection Scheme

America's Fracking Gold Rush Portends the Greatest Environmental Disaster of a Generation

America's Petro-Terrorists

Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S. economy, one barrel of oil at a time.

Carrot Express: Wholesome Food (And a Car Wash?)

"Eat hummus and get gas" might be an appropriate marketing slogan for Carrot Express, a health food counter located in the Texaco station at Alton Road and 18th Street in South Beach. Or maybe not. Some might misinterpret this as a reference to the gastro-intestinal effects of garbanzo beans, as opp ... More >>

Panhandle Tourism Official Spent $710K in Taxpayer Money on a Boat, Is Now Missing

You think South Florida has the state's most corrupt local officials? Not all the time. The stink of corruption likes to settle itself evenly across this great state.Mark Bellinger, the director of the Okaloosa County Tourist Development Council, resigned this week after the local sheriff's office a ... More >>

Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Bay of Pig's Feet

Since America began closing mental institutions in 1955, the streets have been deluged with mentally unbalanced individuals unable to care for themselves. (Blame JFK for that guy you see on your way to work every morning, who sits at the curb mumbling about spacemen and radioactive jelly beans.)As I ... More >>

U.S. Inspectors Approve Cuban Oil Rig 70 Miles Off Florida Coast, Ros-Lehtinen Slams Obama

When it comes to Cuba, President Obama can do little right in the eyes of exilio politicians. When he eased travel restrictions to the island, for example, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen accused him of undermining democracy on the island. Now she's slamming Obama for his decision to order U.S. inspectors ... More >>

Eliu Gonzalez, Florida City Sea Hustler, Pleads Guilty to Defrauding BP Out of Oil Spill Funds

We're betting this is what Gonzalez looks like.​BP was recently ripped off to the tune of six figures by an enterprising hustler named Eliu Gonzalez. The 37-year-old Florida City resident was indicted in April for forging documents to claim $110,116 in lost fishing income due to the Deep ... More >>

Rick Scott Supports Oil Drilling in Everglades

​What the hell sort of strange Pandora's box did Michele Bachmann reopen by suggesting she'd support drilling for oil in the Everglades. Now, Governor Rick Scott is dipping into the Tea Party's hive mind, and has said he's support some drilling for oil in the Everglades as well. Its ludicrous ... More >>

Seun Kuti and Egypt '80 at Manuel Artime Theater July 29

El Carajo: Almost As Expensive As Sra. Martinez!

All photos by Laine Doss Keep walking past the pumps, the gum and the condoms to find the restaurant.​Few Miamians probably know that "el carajo," translates to the crow's nest of a Spanish Gallion. Almost everyone knows, however, that it is slang for almost anything too far away ... More >>

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Oil Reportedly Washes Up on Key Biscayne

​Just a year after the BP oil disaster in the Gulf and just in time for Earth Day there are reports of oil washing up on the beach at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park in Key Biscayne. Oil has also been spotted on the shores of John U. Lloyd Beach State Park in Dania Beach.

Today's Oil Spill Anniversary Is Last Chance to Sue Companies Responsible

Last chance to sue Transocean, at least until the next environmental disaster.​Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 rig workers and released 206 million gallons of crude into the ocean. And while the oil spill undoubtedly ... More >>

Taxis Adding $1 Surcharge Due to Rising Fuel Costs

​With gas prices slowly creeping once again to $4 for a gallon of regular, transportation is getting more expensive for us all. Even citizens who jet about town in taxis will start feeling the pain as cabs in the Miami area will start charging a $1 surcharge due to the recent rising fuel costs.

Man Who Abducted Woman from Gas Station and Raped Her is on the Loose

​Last night, a woman returned to her car after making a purchase at a Chevron gas station in Kendall. She got in the drivers seat shortly after midnight and prepared to pull away when she felt a firearm press up against the back of her head. A man had climbed into her backseat and waited for her. ... More >>

Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation at Bayfront Park Amphitheater, October 26

via facebook.com/massiveattack ​As we wrap up 2010, Crossfade looks back at the best live performances of the year. View the full list of Miami's Best Concerts of 2010. Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation October 26, 2010 Bayfront Park Amphitheater Even before the actual music started, the Mas ... More >>

LeBron James' Polls Worst Than Everyone in Person of the Year Voting Except for BP's Tony Hayward

Remember how LeBron James' was included on Time magazine's teaser poll leading up to their annual "Person of the Year" honor? Well, he just found out about it and he's absolutely humbled. "I just heard that. It's pretty cool. It brings a smile to my face," he told reporters. That smile might tu ... More >>

Thievery Corporation and Massive Attack at Bayfront Park Amphitheater, October 26

via facebook.com/massiveattackMassive Attack bathe in rainbows.​Massive Attack and Thievery CorporationBayfront Park Amphitheatre, MiamiTuesday, October 26, 2010Better Than: No doubt the MGMT show was probably awesome, but if I could have split myself and watched both, I'm pretty sure this is wher ... More >>

People Expect Obama to Be SuperNegro

​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 gives President Obama an A on his midterm report card.Despite the mess he inherited from George W. Bush, Barack Obama has ... More >>

Gulf Oil Spill Sticking With Us: Top Five Things We Thought Went Away But Really Didn't

Taint gone: the oil spill is with us for years to come, whether we like it or notYesterday scientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a report on the dangers to humans and wildlife still posed by the gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To the cha ... More >>

Tony Hayward Kiss-off: Top 10 "You're Fireds" in U.S. History

Peter Souza on Wiki Commons "If you talk bad about me, your'e gone." Not since Beelzebub was dumped from heaven by the big guy himself has somebody been so deserving of losing their job as BP's CEO Tony Hayward. The greasy executive will be officially stepping down Oct. 1 and his departure go ... More >>

Lobster Miniseason Begins Tomorrow

Florida Lobsters. ​Lobster enthusiasts should gas up their boats. Lobster miniseason begins tomorrow. Or tonight at 12:01 a.m. to be exact. The two-day lobster hunt is an opportunity for novice fishermen to be out on the water, drink, and, of course, catch lobsters.If this is your first time on th ... More >>

Oil Finally Stops Gushing Into Gulf, Says BP

​It took those fucktards at BP nearly three months, but they've finally stopped the leakage of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. So they say. The company says all valves have been shut on a new cap, thus stopping the flow at exactly 2:25 p.m. today. Gee, and only 4,200,000 gallons of oil managed to spi ... More >>

High Chance Oil Spill in Gulf Of Mexico Will Affect South Florida

NOAA​Scientists predicted today that the BP oil spill has a 61-80 percent chance of reaching South Florida. Unlike the west coast, which is likely to not be affected at all, the Florida Keys, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami have "a greater probability due to the potential influence of the Loop Current," ... More >>

Spain’s One-Armed Bard

Spain’s One-Armed Bard

Oil Spilling Bad Guys Charged With Polluting The Ocean (Nope, Not BP, Sadly)

One leaky oil boat down! One gushing, horribly out of control well to go.They wantonly spilled oil into the ocean, lied to federal regulators and bent the rules, prosecutors say. Now they're looking at serious prison time for their crimes against the environment.Yay! Justice at last for the BP spill ... More >>

Marco Rubio, Hurting From "Drill, Baby, Drill" Support, Scuffles to Address Leak

Every day that the shattered remains of the Deepwater Horizon keeps bleeding oil into the Gulf, Marco Rubio seems to fall a little farther behind his nemesis Charlie Crist in the polls.The biggest reason? Charlie gets to strut around Pensacola Beach every day in rolled up shirtsleeves, talking about ... More >>

Photo: Hands Across the Sand South Beach Protest From the Sky

Photo by Alissa Christine​This past Saturday, about 1,500 people held hands on South Beach, spanning ten blocks, to protest offshore drilling. Partially a response to the BP oil spill devastating the Gulf Coast, the protesters also promoted a clean energy future. We just got this awesome aerial ph ... More >>

Naked on bikes for the BP spill

BP Oil Spill Benefits Cuba, Fidel Castro

While Deepwater Horizon continues spewing black crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Cuban commies might be rejoicing. That's because the oil spill could be the strongest argument yet for ending the embargo.El Máximo and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has signed an offshore drilling deal with C ... More >>

"Naked" Bike Ride a Symbol of Community Activism

Photo by Justin Namon/WorldRedEye.comProtesters talk with the local media.​Click here to view photos from this event.Saturday afternoon about 100 people gathered outside the BP gas station on NE 10th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. For one hour, a horde of social activists, students, artists, cycli ... More >>

Alex Sink Recruits BP Critic, Clinton Consultant James Carville For Governor Race

Alex Sink is pulling out the big guns for her flailing gubernatorial campaign: swampthing James Carville. Sink campaign e-mail​While her campaign has seesawed from bad  to "who's that?" since it kicked off, things have recently taken a turn for the worse. In this month's Quinnipiac poll, she ... More >>

Around Town: World Cup Parties, Naked Bike Rides, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Passion Pit

It's all about balls this weekend.​Thanks to our proximity to South America, Miami cares a little bit more about the World Cup than most U.S. cities. Still, it's no England, where half of all workers bees are expected play hooky from their day jobs to watch a little footie at the pub. On the other ... More >>

Scientists: Oil Could Reach East Coast in Weeks

​BP has yet to cap the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and as millions of more gallons of oil rush into the waters as new National Center for Atmospheric Research predicts that spill could start affecting the Atlantic Coast in a matter of weeks with Miami's shores some of the first hit.Six powerfu ... More >>

Drunk Dad Ronald Devers Tries to Pick up Toddler Left on Bus

Yesterday, Gayle Kelson purposefully seemed to leave her 2-year-old daughter on a city bus and faces a charge of child neglect. The girl was taken into protective custody, but her father showed up to get her. The only problem: He was drunk.Ronald Devers showed up to court slurring his words and wear ... More >>

BP Protest in Downtown Miami Looked to Bring Awareness

Protester at the BP station at NE 10th Street and Biscayne Boulevard.​I wanted to organize a lil' protest against BP and offshore drilling. It had been exactly one month since the oil spill began. One month of non-stop poison continuously flowing into the Gulf, making its way toward the Loop Curre ... More >>

More Oil Spill Reactions From Miami Seafood Chefs and a Fisherman

via http://www.flickr.com/photos/18773952@N00/292143657Dead fish.​Now that the BP Oil Spill has hit the Mississippi Delta and toxic seas lap at unprotected marsh, Miami's eyes are on the slick with greater fear for our coastline than even before.We spoke to more local chefs, a restaurant owner, an ... More >>

Oil Spill Reactions From Miami Seafood Chefs and Owners

via U.S. Coast Guard​A shark can smell a single drop of blood in one million drops of water.Twenty-nine days later, and oil continues to flow from a hole 5,000 feet below the ocean's surface. BP's actions continue to threaten the Gulf and maybe the Atlantic's commercial fishing industry. Today, th ... More >>

Don't Panic! (Yet) Those Tar Balls In Key West Didn't Come From The BP Oil Spill

As you can see above, a pretty solid freak-out hit Duval Street yesterday when upwards of 50 tar balls turned up in the ocean and on beaches around Key West. But not to worry! Turns out these floating blobs of disgusting petroleum didn't come from the massive BP gusher in the Gulf. Which is, we gu ... More >>

Area 31's Menu Unaffected by Gulf Oil Spill... For Now

Area 31 not yet feeling the effects of the oil spill.​Wondering whether that ungodly oil slick off the coast of Louisiana is going to spoil your next seafood feast at Area 31 Restaurant, located on the 16th floor of the Epic Hotel. Well rest assured, BP's big mess shouldn't stop you from enjoying ... More >>

Jon Stewart Takes on Rekers' "European Gaycation" on The Daily Show

​The George Rekers and the rent boy scandal is at once very, very sad but also very, very hilarious. Following the mixed results of Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert, last night Jon Stewart took on the scandal on The Daily Show in a segment titled "European Gaycation."In the clip below starting at abou ... More >>

Pitchfork Captures Surfer Blood Playing "Floating Vibes" in a Sunoco Station

Surfer Blood's "Floating Vibes" clip, filmed by Pitchfork and currently streaming here, could be an official video judging by its multiple camera angles and gratuitous product placement. No pajama shots like their last one, though. Read a liveblog of the thrilling action in the garage (did Weezer ev ... More >>

Can You Canoe?

The Teté Offensive

And the trend continues -- five-star prices for three-star quality

Hungry Is the Hunter

Lawmen, developers, and environmentalists have made Everglades hunters feel like an endangered species