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Florida Culture Warriors Start Transgender Toilet Trouble

One quick look at these two, and I'm sure you could decide which public restroom they'd feel more comfortable using. Well, a group of moral crusaders in Gainesville thinks the muscle-bound man on the left ought to be using the lady's loo while the fabulous woman on the right should be in the little ... More >>

Swelter

One quick look at these two, and I'm sure you could decide which public restroom they'd feel more comfortable using. Well, a group of moral crusaders in Gainesville thinks the muscle-bound man on the left ought to be using the lady's loo while the fabulous woman on the right should be in the little ... More >>

MPLS Pop-Punkers Off With Their Heads to Play Goo on April 20

Minneapolis drunken life-hating poppy punk masters, Off With their Heads are coming back to South Florida for a (gross) Monday night event at Goo, on April 20.  This is one of those bands that is awesome live, puts out great records, and doesn't seem to give up on touring despite not being the ... More >>

Hardcore God Greg Ginn at Tobacco Road this Thursday night

Those of us familiar with the history of Hardcore Music know that Greg Ginn is not just the man, but a brilliant guitar god. He formed Black Flag in 1977, eventually releasing the band's records (as well as Bad Brains, Minutemen, Descendants, Sonic Youth, and lots more) on his own label SST. Blac ... More >>

On the Rodent

Some squirrels gather nuts for the winter. Others are nuts all the time.

Setting a Fine Example

Two members of For Squirrels die on the eve of the band's major-label debut

Piss and Vinegar

What not to ask Tom Gabel of Against Me!

Gotta Have Faith

Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough

Flickering Brightly

Read and listen at The Firefly

Soulphonics

Read and listen at The Firefly

Ska Is Dead 3

Read and listen at The Firefly

Hot Water Music

Read and listen at The Firefly

Tourist Trappings

Altcountry newcomers send a mint julep postcard from Holopaw

Night & Day

December 17 - 23, 1998

Rotations

December 17 - 23, 1998

After the Breakup

December 17 - 23, 1998

Sweetly Smiling Sister

December 17 - 23, 1998

Reverb

December 17 - 23, 1998

Reverb

December 17 - 23, 1998

We're with the Band

Superstars fly personal jets from concert to concert. Real rock bands rent a van and go. Natural Causes is a real band. They're renting a van. And we're going with them.

Canes Falter in ACC Tournament

Being a Hurricanes fan is a bit tough at the moment, but there's always baseball. Oh, there will always be the baseball team. One of the greatest programs in college baseball are perennial contenders, but things haven't worked out that well this year. A 36-20 record is nothing to ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalA racial slur was spray panted on a poster for North Miami mayoral candidate Andre Pierre. [Herald]More details on the MDC cuts. [Herald]A Bal Harbor police officer has allegedly confessed to sex crimes involving a seven year-old girl. [CBS4]The state is calling in Boba Fett, Dog, and other bou ... More >>

South Florida According to Brooklyn: More Bike Rally Talk

​Fort Lauderdale had its own alley cat bike race this last weekend, the River Rat race put on by Justin Brunetti, who does the South Florida Fixed blog. It was sponsored by the Bike Spot, Atlantic Bikes, and Keirin Cycles of Miami, and they all also donated their time by working at the race's chec ... More >>

Gainesville Legends Against Me! Come to Culture Room February 18

via againstme.net​When Gainesville anarcho-punks Against Me! released their fourth album, 2007's New Wave, the band's hardcore fundamentalist fans immediately swung into crisis mode, organizing counseling and puke circles for heartbroken indie kids nationwide. Understand though, the mass freakout ... More >>

Miami Lawsuit: Air Traffic Controllers Caused Plane Crash, Couple's Death

GAB via Flicker CC​Just after midnight last November, Gordon and Barbara Taylor climbed into a privately-chartered, two-propeller airplane at Key West International Airport. Gordon, age 51, had a bad kidney and was on his way to surgery in Gainesville. So the small plane took off northbound in the ... More >>

Guess Which Florida Towns Made The Advocate's "Gayest Cities in America" List

via advocate.com​The Advocate, America's oldest and most respected gay publication, doesn't want to hurt South Beach's feelings. No, the poor place has been through enough in the past few months. What with ACLU lawsuits, hate crimes, and meddlesome New Times reporters chronicling its decline as a ... More >>

Did Homestead Manager Cover Up a Crash Involving Mayor Steve Bateman?

Did a shredded tire cause damage to Steve Bateman's city issued SUV? I think not.​Back in late January, the City of Homestead contracted A&B Paint & Body Shop at 142 SW Fifth Ave. to repair significant damage to the front and rear of a city-owned Ford Expedition driven by Mayor Steve Batem ... More >>

Wrong: Miami Left Out of Top 40 Pot-Smoking Cities

Local pride took another hit today. Fresh off that embarrassing #4 party school ranking from Playboy, a Web site run by a white British blonde reports Miami is not one of the country's top 40 pot-smoking cities. ​ Tina Brown's The Daily Beast compiled a list of America's most stoned cities in hon ... More >>

Miami fails to make list of top pot-smoking cities

Local pride took another hit today. Fresh off that embarrassing #4 party school ranking from Playboy, a Web site run by a white British blonde reports Miami is not one of the country's top 40 pot-smoking cities. ​ Tina Brown's The Daily Beast compiled a list of America's most stoned cities in hon ... More >>

Man Dies While Trying to Save Two Drowning Children off Virginia Key

Two children were swimming yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. off Virginia Key near the Miami Seaquarium when they began to struggle. Two men heroically jumped in to save them. However, one man died trying to the save kids.The man, identified as Douglas Frank Butler, was visiting from Gainesville and ... More >>

Florida Church Hosting "International Burn a Koran Day" on 9/11

This sign proudly sits outside the Dove World Church​The Westboro Baptist Church currently holds the title of most insane thing purporting to be a Christian church in America, but could a small congregation of horribly misguided Christians in central Florida soon be taking their pla ... More >>

Florida Church Told It Can Not Hold International Burn a Qur'an Day

This sign proudly sits outside the Dove World Church.​The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville was all set to host "International Burn a Koran Day" to commemorate the 9th anniversary of 9/11 in all their joyous, ignorant, bigoted glee. But the City of Gainesville has denied them the proper ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Lyric Book and Five Other Things to Burn With the Koran

MyFoxOrlando.comWhy are we not surprised that Terry Jones is a 'Braveheart' fan?​Gainesville pastor Terry Jones has set off a firestorm by planning "International Burn a Koran Day" for September 11 to protest the "religion of the Devil." As Jones posits on YouTube: "I mean, ask yourself: Have you ... More >>

International Burn a Koran Day: What else can we torch September 11?

MyFoxOrlando.comWhy are we not surprised that Terry Jones is a 'Braveheart' fan?​Gainesville pastor Terry Jones has set off a firestorm by planning "International Burn a Koran Day" for September 11 to protest the "religion of the Devil." As Jones posits on YouTube: "I mean, ask yourself: Have you ... More >>

Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton Condemn Koran-Burning Church, But Mayor Bloomberg Supports Congregation's Rights

Pastor Terry Jones​Pastor Terry Jones and his small Gainesville church known as the Dove World Outreach Center will continue with their plans to burn copies of the Koran, the holy book of Islam, on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks despite a growing backlash and warnings ... More >>

Diet Cokeheads, White Execution, and Bone Owl with new releases

Pastor Terry Jones​Pastor Terry Jones and his small Gainesville church known as the Dove World Outreach Center will continue with their plans to burn copies of the Koran, the holy book of Islam, on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks despite a growing backlash and warnings ... More >>

Needless Records' Adam Gersten Talks Jimmy Buffett, and His Need for an Intern

Adam Gersten is a hard-living lawyer who runs a record label.​Currently living what sounds like the premise of a television legal drama, Adam Gersten is a dude from Miami Beach who's found himself with the seriously serious job of being a Key West lawyer. Though Matlock and Sam Waterston do inspir ... More >>

Bardot's WMC 2011 Lineup: Eyes Lips Eyes, LazerDisk SexParty, Young Empires, and Others

Jill Weisberg​Speakeasy and small live music venue Bardot has really brought the 'burbs and the beach to Midtown since it opened a few years ago. North of Space and west of South Beach, it's right off the highway, so Winter Music Conference partiers will find their way there easily, with ... More >>

Terry Jones' Koran Burning Inspires Afghan Riot That Kills 12 U.N. Workers

​When lunatic Gainesville pastor Terry Jones announced his plan to burn Korans at his tiny church, no less an authority than Gen. David Petreaus warned that there would be consequences in places like Afghanistan where fellow religious lunatics look for any such provocation for bloodshed. Jones wen ... More >>

Assholeparade Charges Into Churchill's Pub April 22

via myspace.com/assholeparadeAssholeparade in action.​If Shakespeare got it right and brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then Assholeparade's Student Ghetto Violence is some Poor Richard's Almanack-level shit. Issued back in 2000, Student is the closest thing the Gainesville five-piece has to a ... More >>

Assholeparade at Churchill's Pub April 22

via myspace.com/assholeparadeAssholeparade in action.​If Shakespeare got it right and brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then Assholeparade's Student Ghetto Violence is some Poor Richard's Almanack-level shit. Issued back in 2000, Student is the closest thing the Gainesville five-piece has to a ... More >>

Miami missed the rapture for many sinful reasons

via myspace.com/assholeparadeAssholeparade in action.​If Shakespeare got it right and brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then Assholeparade's Student Ghetto Violence is some Poor Richard's Almanack-level shit. Issued back in 2000, Student is the closest thing the Gainesville five-piece has to a ... More >>

Help NOFX's Fat Mike Beat Foreclosure by Booking Your Vacation at His Vegas Punk House

Fat Mike playing pool at his Vegas Punk House.​Crossfade has experienced our share of punk houses. We've got stories about crossword puzzle face tattoos, a dumpster literally converted into a fridge, and losing an arm-wrestling match to a dog wearing an eyepatch and a Discharge butt-flap. One ti ... More >>

Cruisin' for a Bruisin'

Fat Mike playing pool at his Vegas Punk House.​Crossfade has experienced our share of punk houses. We've got stories about crossword puzzle face tattoos, a dumpster literally converted into a fridge, and losing an arm-wrestling match to a dog wearing an eyepatch and a Discharge butt-flap. One ti ... More >>

Gainesville Woman Tossed Used Condoms at Store Clerk Before Exposing Herself

​Jealousy is about as pretty as a bag full of used condoms.A woman in Gainesville stands accused of verbally assaulting a female store clerk at a Kangaroo convenience store, dumping a bag of used condoms on the counter, slinging one at the clerk, and, for good measure, exposing all of her private ... More >>

Gainesville's Elderly Are Being Tied Up, Stabbed, and Beaten at an Alarming Rate

Robbery suspect Michael Lynn Pierce​What in hell is going on in Gainesville? In the past week, two different elderly residents have been tied up and beaten by brazen robbers -- the latest in a spree of such crimes dating to last summer.Today 78-year-old disabled retiree Paul Quant is recovering af ... More >>

The Kills at Revolution January 28

Robbery suspect Michael Lynn Pierce​What in hell is going on in Gainesville? In the past week, two different elderly residents have been tied up and beaten by brazen robbers -- the latest in a spree of such crimes dating to last summer.Today 78-year-old disabled retiree Paul Quant is recovering af ... More >>