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Jorge Gonzalez

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Memorial Day 2012: Fifteen Best Rap Parties in Miami and South Beach

    See also "Memorial Day 2012: Six Best Electronic Music Parties Around Miami." The Beach is about to get flooded, son. At this very moment, there are 250,000 rappers, DJs, celebs, porn stars, strippers, and regular people packing the Hummer full of champagne, cash money, and 12 changes of clothes. ... More >>

  • News

    May 24, 2012

    Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower Needs to Go

    See also "Memorial Day 2012: Six Best Electronic Music Parties Around Miami." The Beach is about to get flooded, son. At this very moment, there are 250,000 rappers, DJs, celebs, porn stars, strippers, and regular people packing the Hummer full of champagne, cash money, and 12 changes of clothes. ... More >>

  • Music

    May 24, 2012

    Top 15 Memorial Day Weekend Parties in Miami

    See also "Memorial Day 2012: Six Best Electronic Music Parties Around Miami." The Beach is about to get flooded, son. At this very moment, there are 250,000 rappers, DJs, celebs, porn stars, strippers, and regular people packing the Hummer full of champagne, cash money, and 12 changes of clothes. ... More >>

  • News

    May 17, 2012

    Miami Beach: Corruption Central

    See also "Memorial Day 2012: Six Best Electronic Music Parties Around Miami." The Beach is about to get flooded, son. At this very moment, there are 250,000 rappers, DJs, celebs, porn stars, strippers, and regular people packing the Hummer full of champagne, cash money, and 12 changes of clothes. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez Promises Reforms As He Fights For His Job UPDATE

    Miami Beach residents are happy, the city is a well-oiled machine and -- despite a string of embarrassments by the police and a mass FBI corruption bust last month -- the majority of city employees do good work. That was City Manager Jorge Gonzalez's upbeat message, at least, to an angry, packed roo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Miami Beach Cop Punches Handcuffed Spring Breaker In the Face (Video)

    The Miami Beach Police Department's brass probably winces anytime they hear the words "You Tube" these days. After this past year -- when their cops were caught on tape killing a Memorial Day Weekend visitor and speeding recklessly around South Beach -- amateur video is a recipe for MBPD heartburn.T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Miami Beach Officials Arrested In Bribery Sting Had Awful Records, Yet Still Made Six Figures

    When the FBI swooped into Miami Beach last week to arrest seven city workers for extorting thousands from a South Beach club, the higher-ups in City Hall shouldn't have been shocked. The Miami Herald got their hands on the personnel records of the five code officers and two fire inspectors busted by ... More >>

  • News

    April 5, 2012

    South Beach Plans for Memorial Day Weekend: Traffic Loops and DUI Checks

    When the FBI swooped into Miami Beach last week to arrest seven city workers for extorting thousands from a South Beach club, the higher-ups in City Hall shouldn't have been shocked. The Miami Herald got their hands on the personnel records of the five code officers and two fire inspectors busted by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    South Beach Prepares For Memorial Day Weekend: Traffic Loops and DUI Checks on Tap

    ​Congrats, South Beach residents! You've survived the beer-bonging, glowstick-waving trafficpocalypse of spring break and Miami Music Week. Now enjoy the fresh air and (semi)abundant parking while it lasts, because you're only a few weeks away from the massive crowds of Memorial Day weekend.Even w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Sebadoh, Jacuzzi Boys, and Plains at Grand Central in Miami, January 18

    ​See the full 30-photo Sebadoh at Grand Central slideshow. Sebadoh With Jacuzzi Boys and Plains Grand Central, Miami Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Better Than: "Brand New Love" on a boat. Less than 24 hours before setting sail aboard the first-ever Weezer Cruise, totally essential alternative t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Art Thief Jorge Gonzalez Arrested Again After Defrauding Victims Out of Millions

    ​Just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Dade Police have taken Jorge Gonzalez, an alleged art thief, out of the galleries and into the slammer. Police believe more of Gonzalez's victims may be out there, however, and that the total amount of his fraud and theft could have cost victims more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Carlos Noriega Is Done As Beach Chief; Bid Him Farewell By Remembering His Biggest Screw Ups

    ​The reign of Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega is all but officially over. The chief was scheduled to retire on December 31st, but City Manager Jorge Gonzalez has announced that the chief will use his leftover vacation days, and has now officially relinquished control of the department. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Three More Miami Beach Cops Punished For Lying, Failing Duties In Drunken ATV Crash UPDATED

    Derick Kuilan, right, on the night of the crash​For weeks after a joyriding Miami Beach cop crashed his ATV following a night of on-duty drinking on Ocean Drive, some in the department have argued that a couple rogue cops were to blame. That argument won't hold water today with the release of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Miami Beach's Jerry Libbin Wants An Urban Beach Weekend Curfew

    ​Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin says a curfew imposed for next year's South Beach Memorial Day festivities may be in order.Libbin, in response to two police shootings that left seven injured and one dead early Monday, wrote on his Facebook page that the "mayhem on the streets of Miami Beach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Police: Miami Beach CIP Director Charles Carreño Assaulted Assistant to the City Manager Emanuel Mayer in City Hall

    The scene of the crime: Miami Beach City Hall.​Just after 7 p.m. last Tuesday inside Miami Beach City Hall, two high level bureaucrats settled a heated argument the old school way: With some good ol' fashioned fisticuffs.Police broke up the brouhaha after Charles Carreño, the Capital Improvement ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    MP3 of the Day: Plains - "Stuck in the Night"

    Newer-ish outfit Plains is poised to release a brand new 7" single this Friday at Bar and here at Crossfade we're pleased to share with you the B-side to that effort, "Stuck in the Night." This band comes with a pretty good pedigree. Technically the brainchild of Honor Roll's Michael McGinnis, he's ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2010

    Miami Beach cops are paid up to $225K and face lawsuits galore

    Newer-ish outfit Plains is poised to release a brand new 7" single this Friday at Bar and here at Crossfade we're pleased to share with you the B-side to that effort, "Stuck in the Night." This band comes with a pretty good pedigree. Technically the brainchild of Honor Roll's Michael McGinnis, he's ... More >>

  • News

    January 21, 2010

    Miami Beach spending $5 million for spotty Wi-Fi

    Newer-ish outfit Plains is poised to release a brand new 7" single this Friday at Bar and here at Crossfade we're pleased to share with you the B-side to that effort, "Stuck in the Night." This band comes with a pretty good pedigree. Technically the brainchild of Honor Roll's Michael McGinnis, he's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Why Are Miami Beach Taxpayers Spending $5 Million on Wi-Fi that Doesn't Work?

    The announcement came in October with much ado and a "wire cutting" outside Miami Beach City Hall.Image via Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The free wi-fi works great here on Lincoln Road, but good luck logging in at your condo.​"We are the first in the country to have a free citywide hotspot," City Manag ... More >>

  • News

    September 17, 2009

    Baby Got Fatback!

    Why are so many cities laying off little guys and not cutting executives' porcine salaries?

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2008

    Political Contracting 101

    Why are so many cities laying off little guys and not cutting executives' porcine salaries?

  • Music

    October 25, 2007

    Ricardo Villalobos

    Fabric 36 (Fabric Records)

  • Music

    August 25, 2005

    Jorges

    Fabric 36 (Fabric Records)

  • News

    February 10, 2005

    Up in Flames

    A fire inspector tickets his employer

  • News

    July 29, 2004

    Current Events

    A fire inspector tickets his employer

  • Music

    July 8, 2004

    The Brand

    Grenadine (Sauna)

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST GADFLY

    A.C. Weinstein

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Welcome to Fabulous Tallahassee

    Where your humble state legislators work hard by day and play hard by night

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2004

    New Ice Age

    Improved rink offers smoother skating

  • Music

    November 27, 2003

    Everybody Looks Like a Rock Star

    This fall in the subtropics, guitars are finally drowning out the clave

  • Music

    November 20, 2003

    The Long Haul

    The Brand work hard for fame and glory. Got a problem with that?

  • News

    June 5, 2003

    Beating Whitey II

    Around and around on the MIAB/black-owned hotel deal

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    A Cabbie's Crusade

    Javier Peña is a maverick cabbie on a mission to turn the notorious Miami taxi industry into a respectable profession. So far he's been threatened, shot at, fined, and fired. In other words, he's making progress.

  • News

    February 6, 2003

    Beating Whitey

    Developer Donahue Peebles is as handsome, smooth, articulate, & nasty as he needs to be

  • Music

    November 14, 2002

    Shameless Copy

    Chilean classics Los Prisioneros come back, this time imitating themselves

  • Music

    October 31, 2002

    Cool Like What?

    South Beach survives the hipster apocalypse

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Rebel Without a Causeway

    A Hollywood backlash -- what's Miami Beach's mayor to do? Shoot the messenger.

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Smooth Operators

    Miami Beach and urban hip-hop make up for last year

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    As Nasty as He Wants To Be

    Miami Beach sours on Luther Campbell's Memorial Day freak show

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    Anatomy of a Party

    How do you prepare for a holiday bash with 400,000 guests? Very, very thoroughly.

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    What a Difference a Bay Makes

    On the Beach side gay life flourishes, but on the Miami side it's Anita Bryant déjà vu

  • News

    July 12, 2001

    Blacker than Thou

    When the Marlin Hotel canceled Louis Oliver's Friday-night soiree, it sent a mixed cultural message

  • News

    June 28, 2001

    The Color of Hip-Hop

    As Miami Beach soon will learn, it's not black or white -- it's green

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    South Beach as Thug Central

    Will Puffy, Pink, and Cash Money Crew replace Versace, Madonna, and Ingrid Casares?

  • News

    November 30, 2000

    Lots of Contention

    Quik Park's Hank Sopher has made a quick buck from garages and vacant lots. Now politicians are wondering if he's selling the public short.

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    The Sanchez Solution

    Ramon Saul Sanchez is an exile leader with charisma, style, and a strong sense of drama

  • News

    February 10, 2000

    Fine Young Cannibals

    The reporters providing us coverage of Elian Gonzalez seem to recognize they're taking part in a shark feed. And they just keep chomping.

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    Chairmen of the Outboard

    A 50-year-old Biscayne Bay institution builds a dock to the 21st Century

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