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November 18, 2008
Ego Trippin': Rakontur's Clubland Finally Hits the Web
The brain-trust behind Cocaine Cowboys and its sequel are now exposing the nasty underbelly of the nightlife business. This week
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October 13, 2005
Miami: See It Like a Drug Dealer
During Miami's cocaine heyday in the Eighties, weird and interesting and scary things happened all over town all the time. Our coke map of Miami is by necessity incomplete, but even selected highlights make the point: Blow knew no neighborhood boundaries.
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October 13, 2005
Confessions of a Trafficker
Jon Roberts was a big-time Miami coke dealer who did time in the big house
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June 25, 2009
60-Something Kilos, Er, Candles
Jon Roberts was a big-time Miami coke dealer who did time in the big house
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October 2, 2009
Recap: Roc Raida Fundraiser at Electric Pickle, September 30
photo by Bernard HackerDJ Roc Raida Tribute and Benefit Show at Champion SoundElectric Pickle, Miami Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Better Than: Watching DJ routines on YouTubeFull Disclosure: I'm a resident DJ at this party, under the name Sire Esquire.The Review: Tribute events ar ... More >>
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March 4, 2010
Letters from the issue of March 4, 2010
photo by Bernard HackerDJ Roc Raida Tribute and Benefit Show at Champion SoundElectric Pickle, Miami Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Better Than: Watching DJ routines on YouTubeFull Disclosure: I'm a resident DJ at this party, under the name Sire Esquire.The Review: Tribute events ar ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others
Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
Happy Birthday, Über-Smuggler Mickey Munday!
Magnolia PicturesOf all of Miami's '80s-era cocaine cowboys, Mickey Munday is our favorite. Jon Roberts is a little too batshit-insane for our taste. Max Mermelstein adopted a false identity and died broke. Griselda Blanco scares the shit out of us and has absconded back to Colombia. And Manny No ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Mickey Munday: Twilight Cowboy
Magnolia PicturesOf all of Miami's '80s-era cocaine cowboys, Mickey Munday is our favorite. Jon Roberts is a little too batshit-insane for our taste. Max Mermelstein adopted a false identity and died broke. Griselda Blanco scares the shit out of us and has absconded back to Colombia. And Manny No ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Bernice Steinbaum: Fighting for Art
Magnolia PicturesOf all of Miami's '80s-era cocaine cowboys, Mickey Munday is our favorite. Jon Roberts is a little too batshit-insane for our taste. Max Mermelstein adopted a false identity and died broke. Griselda Blanco scares the shit out of us and has absconded back to Colombia. And Manny No ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Letters from the issue of December 2, 2010
Magnolia PicturesOf all of Miami's '80s-era cocaine cowboys, Mickey Munday is our favorite. Jon Roberts is a little too batshit-insane for our taste. Max Mermelstein adopted a false identity and died broke. Griselda Blanco scares the shit out of us and has absconded back to Colombia. And Manny No ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Cocaine Smuggler Mickey Munday Does Spoken Word
C. StilesIf you're a fan of firsthand accounts, Michael O. Munday is something of a local treasure. Almost every one of his colleagues is dead, in prison, or underground. But 65-year-old Mickey Munday -- as the served-his-time cocaine megasmuggler is known -- just won't shut up. Now the gre ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Coke-smuggling legend Mickey Munday does spoken word
C. StilesIf you're a fan of firsthand accounts, Michael O. Munday is something of a local treasure. Almost every one of his colleagues is dead, in prison, or underground. But 65-year-old Mickey Munday -- as the served-his-time cocaine megasmuggler is known -- just won't shut up. Now the gre ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Michael Corleone Blanco lives in the shadow of his cocaine-queen mother
C. StilesIf you're a fan of firsthand accounts, Michael O. Munday is something of a local treasure. Almost every one of his colleagues is dead, in prison, or underground. But 65-year-old Mickey Munday -- as the served-his-time cocaine megasmuggler is known -- just won't shut up. Now the gre ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Dhafir Harris, AKA Dada 5000, Gets National Press Ahead of Dawg Fight, New Rakontur Doc
C. StilesDhafir Harris, AKA Dada 5000, king of back-yard fights, has plenty to be thankful for. Three years ago, the Perrine native decided being a member of Kimbo Slice's entourage wasn't for him, so he set out to become the P.T. Barnum of Miami's back-yard fighting circuit. We chronicled the earl ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
American Desperado: Co-Author Evan Wright On Coke Cowboy Jon Roberts' Memoir
A couple of years ago, I went to the Hollywood home of former mega-smuggler Jon Roberts-- featured in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys-- hoping to do a profile on the quiet life of a retired criminal lifer in the 'burbs. It didn't turn out that way. After a couple of interviews, Roberts deman ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Jon Roberts, Smuggler in Cocaine Cowboys, Dies
Jon Pernell Roberts, the megasmuggler featured in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, has died at the age of 63. Film company Rakontur's Billy Corben tweeted yesterday: "Just got word that Jon Roberts from Cocaine Cowboys passed away. Thankful he gave us the opportunity to tell his story." And the ... More >>