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Miami-Dade's Black Commissioners Have Failed the People

Alex Izaguirre​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 is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez on May 2 ... More >>

Miami CFO Larry Spring's House Of Disorder

City of MiamiLarry Spring is a money pit.​No wonder the City of Miami's finances are in the crapper. The man in charge of its purse strings, Chief Financial Officer Larry Spring, lost his mother's house in a foreclosure sale last year. If he couldn't keep up with his mortgage payments, how can any ... More >>

Louis Maxwell's forgotten murder, Part 1

City of MiamiLarry Spring is a money pit.​No wonder the City of Miami's finances are in the crapper. The man in charge of its purse strings, Chief Financial Officer Larry Spring, lost his mother's house in a foreclosure sale last year. If he couldn't keep up with his mortgage payments, how can any ... More >>

More 305 Hip-Hop: B.O. from Gunline Entertainment - "What I'm Into"

South Dade gets it in. We've told you a couple times before about Black Flag, B.O., Gunline Entertainment and Goon Muzik. Well Richmond Heights is at it again with their "Hottest Nigga In Da City," B.O., putting out another mixtape.The song in the above video is called "What I'm Into" with B.O. t ... More >>

Free Local Music: C-Ride's "The Arab Store" Album Exec Produced by Cool and Dre

C-Ride is a Carol City rapper well known in Miami's underground. You can hear his name ringing in the streets from Richmond Heights to County Line Road and past. He has a new album out called "The Arab Store" and it's available as a free download through his website. The album is executive produc ... More >>

Aboard the USS Bataan, A Desperate Daily Struggle To Help Injured Haitians

Frustrations came near a boiling point in Haiti this weekend, as Gov. Charlie Crist and President Obama bickered over who was to blame for a suspension of flights bringing injured Haitians to Florida hospitals.The USS Bataan has 74 severely injured victims aboard its floating hospital off Haiti's co ... More >>

"Miami State of Mind," Empire State Remix by D Shep and Veronica V

Jay Z's Empire State of Mind was an instant classic. It's still on the radio, it still gets stuck in your head when you hear it, and it still appeals to everyone from farmers to lawyers to middle school nerds to prison bound thugs.But if it does one thing other than ride, it makes you want a song ... More >>

Video: B.O. and Gunline Entertainment's "Tear My Ass" Gets a Dunk Ryder Single Deal

B.O. and Gunline Entertainment rep Richmond Heights, Peerrine, South Dade, goon muzik, and tearin' ya ass. Here's what Big O had to say about his song "Tear My Ass," after the jump.

Joshua Gallander, Whiteboy From VH1 Reality TV, Shows New Times What's In His Fridge At Work

Photos by Jacob Katel​ Joshua Gallander is a character. Literally. You and millions of other people around the world have probably seen him somewhere on VH1's reality show lineup (I Love New York, or I Love Money) in his better known as persona "Whiteboy." But when he's not working on tv, he's wor ... More >>

Olympic Speed Skaters File Miami-Dade Lawsuit, Win Settlement

Miami's an unlikely place for a pair of winter Olympians to end up. Back in 2008, a glimpse of bronze medalist speed skater Jennifer Rodriguez with husband KC Boutiette was a lot like spotting a polar bear in South Beach. The couple, who recently divorced, was one of the city's rare claims to Wi ... More >>

Final Night of Weirds Tonight at Churchill's!

Miami's an unlikely place for a pair of winter Olympians to end up. Back in 2008, a glimpse of bronze medalist speed skater Jennifer Rodriguez with husband KC Boutiette was a lot like spotting a polar bear in South Beach. The couple, who recently divorced, was one of the city's rare claims to Wi ... More >>

The Orange Man Cometh

South Miami's first murder in eleven years came after a brazen robbery

The Bitch

Shrinking Eyelets

In the Shadow of New Towers

Overtown is under pressure to change as property values skyrocket but violence remains pervasive

Letters from the Issue of June 10, 2004

Steel guitars, the Sambo Syndrome, scofflaw politicians, and Scully’s Tavern

Steel's the Show

A Southern-style church service is a magnet for eerie, heavenly harmonies

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Letters from the Issue of October 23, 2003

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The High Cost of Homeland Defense

Thanks to generous taxpayers like you, Miami's top Coast Guard officer has a very swanky address

Poor Miami: More Good Ideas

According to these folks, there's hope for America's most impoverished city

The Last Service Station

Why did the big oil companies want to put Ron Gregory and other independent operators out of business? That's right, to pad their profits.

One Less Good Man

Adolph King, Jr., fought to maintain an oasis in a menacing desert. The desert prevailed.

It's About the Money, Stupid

Long, long ago the county promised to build a sports complex in South Miami Heights

Grand illusions

When a gutsy group of homegrown entrepreneurs tried to turn around the black Grove, they failed miserably

A Historic Dip

Witnesses to the segregated history of Virginia Beach tell a sorry but inspiring tale

Florida City's Main Man

Hubert Albury is a fixture in South Miami-Dade's political scene. He also cooks a mean pigeon peas and rice.

Heart and Soul

Miami's soul-music era may be over, but singers like Bobby Stringer are struggling to revive the genre

Gospel Truth

Pastors in South Dade's black churches have discovered one sure way to attract male membership: Start a choir

Good Enough for Political Work

Pastors in South Dade's black churches have discovered one sure way to attract male membership: Start a choir

Going South

Civics and spirituality. Politics and prayer. In the ongoing battle against inertia, Goulds bares the conflicts at its core.

Nightclub Jitters

Deee-bass-ment It was a most unlikely discovery.

Black in the Red

Everyone expected Charles Howze's Z Mart to be a model for minority-run businesses in Dade. In a sad way it was: It went bankrupt.

Wicked Itch

If you don't know a bowler from a batsman or overs from innings, you probably don't know anything about South Florida's West Indian communities

From The Back of the Bus to the Driver's Seat

Miami's black community finally gets an honest shot at the county commission, and the scramble among candidates is on

Boneyard Ramble

Crushed in a garbage truck, poisoned by a landlady, crapped out-literally--during a dice game. These and more are buried in this county's cemetaries, and come Halloween night, they'll be dying to get out

The Quiet Riot

Crushed in a garbage truck, poisoned by a landlady, crapped out-literally--during a dice game. These and more are buried in this county's cemetaries, and come Halloween night, they'll be dying to get out