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Indie Game: The Movie at O Cinema May 24-27

Rolling Stones' Rice Krispies Commercial and Four Other Musical Breakfast Ads

​Matthew Weiner's commitment to authenticity is second to none. His Mad Men series is a televised portal back in time, a weekly peek into 1960s Manhattan, the advertising industry, and all it entails--booze, cigarettes, depression, submissive wives, etc. But the 1960s were also a time of celebri ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach Parties You Are Not Invited To

FacebookIt's all about the Benjamins, baby. ​Whether you're an affluent jet setter or an artistic street kid, Art Basel Miami Beach and the plethora of satellite fairs, gallery exhibits, and public instillations attached to the four-day festival offer a little something for everyone. For Crossfade ... More >>

The Occupy movement needs you, Miami

FacebookIt's all about the Benjamins, baby. ​Whether you're an affluent jet setter or an artistic street kid, Art Basel Miami Beach and the plethora of satellite fairs, gallery exhibits, and public instillations attached to the four-day festival offer a little something for everyone. For Crossfade ... More >>

The Occupy Movement Needs You, Miami

​Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 assesses the Occupy movement sweeping New York, Miami, and other American cities.The tens of thousands of proteste ... More >>

Did Crispin Porter Rip-Off an Idea For Its Windows 7 Phone Ads?

​Despite a rocky beginning with those weird Jerry Seinfeld ads, locally-based advertising agency Crispin Porter Bogusky has continued to handle advertising for tech giant Microsoft. You might have remembered ads from last year advertising Microsoft's Windows 7 line of phones by highlighting Amer ... More >>

Four Seasons Accused of "Massive Fraud" by Condo Owners

Marc Averette via wikimedia commonsThe Four Seasons Hotel on Brickell Avenue​Growing up in communist Poland, Bozena Sawa secretly idealized the glittering luxury hotels that dotted capitalist Western Europe and the United States. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, she moved to New York and fell i ... More >>

Da Da Da Da Da Da, Five Other Ditties We Take for Granted

​On Monday, we met Bobby Kent, former San Diego Chargers musical director, and the man who claims he's responsible for 'da da da da da da... CHARGE!' However on Wednesday, Tony Fox, director of the USC Trojan Marching Band, told us that former USC student Tommy Walker came up with the stadium ditt ... More >>

Tim Hardaway's questionable business partners

​On Monday, we met Bobby Kent, former San Diego Chargers musical director, and the man who claims he's responsible for 'da da da da da da... CHARGE!' However on Wednesday, Tony Fox, director of the USC Trojan Marching Band, told us that former USC student Tommy Walker came up with the stadium ditt ... More >>

Girl with the Pearl Necklace

​On Monday, we met Bobby Kent, former San Diego Chargers musical director, and the man who claims he's responsible for 'da da da da da da... CHARGE!' However on Wednesday, Tony Fox, director of the USC Trojan Marching Band, told us that former USC student Tommy Walker came up with the stadium ditt ... More >>

Monday Tech News Roundup

Extra Ketchup via Flickr​Admittedly, the Miami New Times tech department isn't all that comfortable text messaging, let alone reporting scientific breakthroughs. We're as impressed by $15 laptop cooling accessories, as we are by 3-D holograms of Will.i.am. But that's the beauty of our blog; we lea ... More >>

Eduardo Saverin, Miami-Raised Facebook Co-Founder, Explains How To Be a Billionaire

via Facebook, naturally. Eduardo Saverin​Eduardo Saverin's life is pretty damn sweet. He's only 26 and worth somewhere between $1.1 and $1.3 billion, all because he had an early part in the development of Facebook. He was born in Brazil, but grew up in Miami before heading to Harvard where he beca ... More >>

Cloud Computing Lets a Florida Website Catch What the U.S. Census Missed

​By this point you've either seen the commercials on TV, heard about it on the radio, had someone knock on your door, or received a giant envelope in the mail -- the U.S. Census is everywhere. But how can you be sure that your vote is getting counted and the Magic City is getting all the funding i ... More >>

Astari Nite Celebrates Its EP Release This Friday

photo by kara StarzykIf it is true (as surely it must be) that in the world of pop music there is nothing truly new under the sun, then surely a budding pop star has no choice but to steal from the best of everything that's come before. Okay, so stealing from everything might make for a bit of ... More >>

Castro Death Meter: Sex Machine Fidel is Now Only 56 Percent Dead, Experts Fear

​On Monday, Riptide sent recently-published photos of Fidel Castro sitting in a hospital-style wheelchair thingy to a team of high-priced lab-coat-wearing experts. The experts fed the photos, along with a copy of a new book in which a "former official" named "Ramon" claims that Fidel slept with a ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Geek Charm School 101

From The Great Geek Manual on Flickr.Sex is cool, being a sleaze bag to get it is not.​Not all geeks are pudgy, sex-starved dudes who sit at the computer all day. In fact, some are hot. But hot or not, the stereotype of the socially awkward technology nerd is no exaggeration. Boys will be boys. Pu ... More >>

Miami-based Psystar takes on Apple

From The Great Geek Manual on Flickr.Sex is cool, being a sleaze bag to get it is not.​Not all geeks are pudgy, sex-starved dudes who sit at the computer all day. In fact, some are hot. But hot or not, the stereotype of the socially awkward technology nerd is no exaggeration. Boys will be boys. Pu ... More >>

Miami's Poor Amongst The First To Get Their Hands on Windows' New OS

Citizens of Miami will soon be as happy as this adorable CP B created tool of advertising! ​Windows 7, the highly touted (if only because it apparently doesn't suck as bad as XP Vista) operating system from Microsoft, won't be available to the general public until October 22nd, but some of Miami's ... More >>

Castro Death Meter: Experts Estimate Fidel Is Now Only 63 Percent Dead

Not that dead.​Could it really have been only January that Riptide, having gathered information from high-level sources within the Versailles Cafée waitstaff, declared Fidel Castro was "Totally Dying This Time, for Reals"?  Now it seems El Supremo is less dead than ever. Recent pictures show ... More >>

Crispin Porter: Is Boutique Advertising Dead?

​Crispin Porter Bogusky has long been an anchor of Miami business. Cool, Coconut Grove and booming. But now it's on the decline, and this smells bad for the South Florida economy. Indeed, as the recession cools off spending among high end consumers, the falling fortunes of this leader in boutiqu ... More >>

Crispin Porter Named US Ad Agency of the Year

Crispin Porter Bogusky's bizarre Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates ads may have left me and you and everyone we know confused as hell, but now the Miami-based infant terrible of the ad world has been named US Ad Agency of the Year by AdWeek. Not inspite of the Seinfeld ads, but because of them:"The ... More >>

Bloggers Angry About Crispin's Latest Burger King Stunt

It seems like local advertising wunderfirm Crispin Porter Bogusky's latest shtick is to create campaigns that rile people up to the point they can't help but emotionally type overwrought, 1,000-word blog entries about them. How else to explain the captivating and confusing Microsoft ads staring Bi ... More >>

But Is He for Princess Saving Reform?

Gamers try to get out the vote in Miami.

Crispin Porter Bogusky Reboots Its Microsoft Campaign

Gamers try to get out the vote in Miami.

Wait, What Are You Trying To Sell Me?

Gamers try to get out the vote in Miami.

Crispin Porter Taps Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates to Make Microsoft Cool Again

Gamers try to get out the vote in Miami.

Psystar Strikes Back at Apple with an Anti-Trust Suit

Gamers try to get out the vote in Miami.

Forget the PS Triple

It’s all about the 360, baby.

Now The Battle Begins: Blu-ray At Center of Console War

It’s all about the 360, baby.

Text Adventure

Words get in the way of an otherwise stellar Lost Odyssey.

Future Shock

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

Hype Machine

Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

LAMC Part III

Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

Three's a Charm

A promising glimpse of the next Halo

Energy Flash

In with the old, in with the new

It Was Free Cuz I Stole It

The year in unfair shares

Coming Zune

Once again, Microsoft is chasing Apple in the hipster hardware game. Will it make sweet music this time?

Next Big Things

The five biggest attention-getters at E3

Turning the Tables

Remix Hotel offers techno junkies the fix of a lifetime

Back to the Future

The Xbox Live Arcade is a high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op

They've Got Game

Barbarians, brain-eaters, and beagles round out the best of 2005

Generation Next

Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war

Near Perfect

Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target

BEST LOCAL BOY MADE GOOD

Blake Ross

House of Pain

It's Kingsley against Connelly in a heart-wrenching battle

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

Don’t Get Holidazed!

Holiday Gift Guide 2001

Straight Outta ... Kendall

Holiday Gift Guide 2001

Swelter 8

Holiday Gift Guide 2001

Big Mac Attack

Hollywood meets Silicon Valley in the music industry's new modem operandi