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Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell made a promise she hasn't kept

Lynda Bell's Broken Vow To Voters

Miami-Dade County​When Lynda Bell narrowly won her county commission seat last November, the Homestead politician promised she would reform the way Miami-Dade County government operates. "I want to bring the public sector to reality, face-to-face with what the private sector deals with," she said. ... More >>

Carlos Gimenez lies already

Miami-Dade County​When Lynda Bell narrowly won her county commission seat last November, the Homestead politician promised she would reform the way Miami-Dade County government operates. "I want to bring the public sector to reality, face-to-face with what the private sector deals with," she said. ... More >>

Florida Marlins and NASCAR Own Our New Mayor Carlos Gimenez

​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, who lost in a bid to become Miami-Dade mayor, says new top man Carlos Gimenez bent over for the Florida Marlins and the ... More >>

Miami Heat White Hot Road Rally Tonight at American Airlines Arena

Miami Heat The Heat Dancers and Food Trucks - that's (white) hot!​Tonight you can watch the Miami Heat finish off the Chicago Bulls at the AAA Arena. We know what you're thinking -- this is an "away" game so how are you supposed to watch it at the arena in Miami? When it's the Miami Heat Wh ... More >>

Those Summer Nights

Miami Heat The Heat Dancers and Food Trucks - that's (white) hot!​Tonight you can watch the Miami Heat finish off the Chicago Bulls at the AAA Arena. We know what you're thinking -- this is an "away" game so how are you supposed to watch it at the arena in Miami? When it's the Miami Heat Wh ... More >>

Fuego Cuban Music Festival Canceled a Week After Its Announcement

Fuego Entertainment's president and CEO Hugo Cancio.​Cuban music aficionados and lovers of el cubaneo in general had reason to rumba in front of their computer screens last Wednesday when Fuego Entertainment dropped the news that it'd be producing the first-ever Fuego Cuban Music World Festival. ... More >>

How Interviewing Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, Luther Campbell, and Lil Wayne Got Me Addicted to ESPN

Trick Daddy is partly to blame for Prunk TV's ESPN addiction.​The weekend before last, I went to the NASCAR Ford 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway and it was amazing. I used my press pass to get right up on the track and it felt like my teeth were gonna explode. Kind of like the way they felt a ... More >>

Miami's Trending Topics Now Monitored by Twitter

​Maybe it's part of our city's slight inferiority complex, but we kind of felt left out when Twitter rolled out the ability to view trending topics by geographical region earlier this year and didn't include Miami in the trackable cities. Well, that great slight was rectified last week when the mi ... More >>

Riptide Takes Half a Million Dollars in Cars for a Spin

Add 150,000 miles, a few accidents, and some bird poop and you have my real-life car.I am probably the least qualified exotic car reviewer in the world.

Make Your Bed

Add 150,000 miles, a few accidents, and some bird poop and you have my real-life car.I am probably the least qualified exotic car reviewer in the world.

Chase the Green Flag

Add 150,000 miles, a few accidents, and some bird poop and you have my real-life car.I am probably the least qualified exotic car reviewer in the world.

Make Drag, Not War

Add 150,000 miles, a few accidents, and some bird poop and you have my real-life car.I am probably the least qualified exotic car reviewer in the world.

Miami Free Times: Christopher Hitchens, Andres Escobar, Helio Castroneves, and Sebastin Junger

A still from Sebastian Junger's doc Restrepo about the frontlines in Afghanistan. ​What's free in the 305 this week? With the exception of one World-Cup-themed film, it's the week of testosterone-fueled book readings. There's a cranky British intellectual, a suave racecar driver, an embedded journ ... More >>

Gerald Posner plagiarized New Times, PBS, and many others

A still from Sebastian Junger's doc Restrepo about the frontlines in Afghanistan. ​What's free in the 305 this week? With the exception of one World-Cup-themed film, it's the week of testosterone-fueled book readings. There's a cranky British intellectual, a suave racecar driver, an embedded journ ... More >>

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 >>

Star Invasion

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 >>

Zoom-a-Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

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 >>

Miami Is Burning: Local Drag Queen Wins Spot on RuPaul's Drag Race

Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she's been cast in the next season of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race. She wasn't cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to take the 12 ... More >>

Crotch Rocket Man

Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she's been cast in the next season of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race. She wasn't cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to take the 12 ... More >>

The Autobahn Comes to Hallandale

Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she's been cast in the next season of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race. She wasn't cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to take the 12 ... More >>

Kill Miss Pretty

Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she's been cast in the next season of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race. She wasn't cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to take the 12 ... More >>

Hogs on the Highway

Harley-Davidson’s Biker Bash does it for the kids.

Want to Be a Race Car Passenger?

Harley-Davidson’s Biker Bash does it for the kids.

Castroneves Charged with Tax Evasion

Harley-Davidson’s Biker Bash does it for the kids.

Life in the Fast Lane

It’s sportbike-racin’ time at the speedway.

The Future’s So Bright

You might need to wear shades to this Popular Science mall tour.

Homestead Crank That

You might need to wear shades to this Popular Science mall tour.

Automotive Expat

And MINI more.

The Ultimate Driving Experience

And MINI more.

Speed Demons

Take your aggression out on the track in Homestead.

Elvis Found Alive ... at the Elks Lodge

Take your aggression out on the track in Homestead.

Don't Even Mullet

Why rock and roll's ugliest hairstyle needs to die a quiet death of neglect

Sunglasses at Night

Why rock and roll's ugliest hairstyle needs to die a quiet death of neglect

Party Crashers

Malcolm Morley and jazz greats collide at MoCA

Wolf Eyes

Burned Mind Sub Pop

Foreign Affairs

Burned Mind Sub Pop

The Dead Only Quickly Decay

Burned Mind Sub Pop

BEST DISAPPEARING ACT

Grand Prix of the Americas

BEST SPORTS VENUE RENOVATION

Homestead Miami Speedway

Slumber Party

Favorite fairy tale is set to song

Baby Saving

Parents practice paramedics

BEST CHEAP THRILL

Wild & Crazy Bus Night

Not Leaving Las Vegas

A fresh debut from a young director, though the scene needs changing

Best Bike Shop

Broken Spoke Bicycles

The Main Drag

Welcome to the deadly, thrilling world of drag racing, Miami style. It's all about speed.

Falcon and Magluta

Welcome to the deadly, thrilling world of drag racing, Miami style. It's all about speed.

'Ad 'Mone on the Rise

Welcome to the deadly, thrilling world of drag racing, Miami style. It's all about speed.