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April 3, 2012
DJ Laz and Power 96 Part Ways, Fans Suggest the Announcement is a Hoax UPDATED
UPDATE: Beasley Broadcast Group, Power 96's parent company just released a statement regarding Laz's departure."Effective today, DJ LAZ, who has been with the station for 22 years, has decided to move on and explore other professional opportunities."The rumors are in fact true, DJ Laz is no longer t ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Trayvon Martin's Email and Twitter Reportedly Hacked By White Supremacist
The racist smear campaign against Trayvon Martin has hit a stomach churning low. Gawker reports that a self proclaimed white supremicist using the internet handle "Klanklannon" has hacked into multiple email and social media accounts used by the deceased teen.
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March 26, 2012
Trayvon Martin: No, That's Not His Facebook Page Showing "Gangsta" Photos
Update: Wonderfully, Business Insider touted the bogus photo as accurate in a story on how the media is badly reporting the Trayvon Martin saga. Their source for the photo: white power message board Stormfront. If you haven't come across the photo to the right, you probably will in the next day ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Five Other Famous Body Parts That Deserve Twitter Accounts
The 2012 Academy Awards are old news, but they have left us with at least one lasting legacy: @angiesrightleg.The Twitter account written from the point of view of Angelina Jolie's leg, which her dress scandalously exposed during the red carpet and ceremony, boasts over 26,500 followers this morn ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Kids Pose With Assault Rifles To Support Hugo Chavez
Newt Gingrich isn't the only portly revolutionary stirring up trouble while running for president. Hugo Chavez, the Fidel-worshiping steward of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, has his own tough re-election fight on his hands at the moment.Instead of annoying robocalls, Hugo's supporters took a ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Michy's-To-Go is a No-Go (For Now)
Chef/restaurateur Michelle Bernstein might be opening a new "to-go" version of Michy's in the same neighborhood as her flagship restaurant, Open Media Miami reported yesterday.Chariff Realty Group posted the enticing rumor on its Facebook page. A picture of the groundbreaking ceremony of the 10,0 ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
South Beach's Mansion Nightclub Closed "For Forseeable Future"
Log onto mansionmiami.com and the nightlub's site has been scrubbed clean, except for a shocking three-word statement in big, bold red letters: "MANSION IS CLOSED." That same mysterious message also went out over Mansion's official Twitter feed and Facebook account earlier today, causing SoBe cl ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Swedish House Mafia's Masquerade Motel Miami 2012 Scheduled for March 23
Photo by Yesenia HernandezBabes in bondage at last year's Masquerade Motel on SoBe.Browsing Swedish House Mafia's social media pages is kinda like trying to decode the ravings of schizophrenic fist-pumper on bad acid. Earlier this week, we here at Crossfade mentioned that Axwell, Steve Angello, ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Coca-Cola Drops Holiday "Arctic Home" Coke Can
As another testament to the power of social media, Coca-Cola has abandoned the holiday save-the-polar-bear white Coke cans after a number of tweets and Facebook posts from confused consumers.Complaints were posted to the company's official blog, Facebook, and Twitter over how the white can resemb ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Occupy Art Basel is So Far Just a Tumblr Blog, a Facebook Page, and a Snobby Art Collector
Will Art Basel Miami Beach get a Wall Street-style occupation this week? The art fair warned gallerists of the possibility, and rumors are swirling. Now OccupyArtBasel.com is live, but right now it's just a Tumblr blog filled with a mini-manifesto and a Occupy movement related pictures and links. ... More >>
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September 24, 2011
Sun Life Stadium Swarmed By Thousands of Dragonflies, Miami Game Delayed
The kickoff of the Miami Hurricanes-Kansas State Wildcats game has been delayed 30 minutes due to lightning, but there's a far more baffling display of nature going on at Sun Life Stadium right now. The bowl has been invaded by thousands of dragonflies.
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July 6, 2011
Entenmann's Twitter Fail: #NotGuilty Hashtag About Death not Donuts
Bad tweet....bad, bad tweet....According to the Washintgon Post, baked goods company Entenmann's is doing emergency public relations backflips after someone at the makers of boxed coffee cakes tweeted "Who's #notguilty about eating all the tasty treats they want? on their official @Entenma ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
How Did You Survive The Great Three-Hour iPhone Outage?
A modern-day nightmare swept greater Miami-Dade yesterday afternoon. AT&T's 3G cell service completely ceased to work, leaving thousands of iPhone and other smartphone addicts without on-the-go access to their precious, precious Twitters, Foursquare and Words With Friends. The unimaginable ho ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Best of Miami 2011: Best 15 Minutes of Fame
In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 16, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Best 15 Minutes of FameKat Stackstwitter.com/ihatekatstacks
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April 21, 2011
Northern Exposure
In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 16, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Best 15 Minutes of FameKat Stackstwitter.com/ihatekatstacks
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April 15, 2011
Win Sleigh Bells VIP Package Courtesy of Zignum Mezcal
Sleigh Bells and tons of Zignum Mezcal.Sleigh Bells is coming to town April 30. And with tickets only $15, there's little excuse for not going. Zignum Mezcal wants to help you get into the concert for free and provide you with booze while you're there. All you have to do is "like" Zignum's F ... More >>
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January 17, 2011
Join Miami's SoundCloud Global Meet-Up February 9
Since launching in 2007, SoundCloud has emerged as one of the most popular audio distribution platforms on the web. By allowing sound files to be distributed and embedded anywhere online, SoundCloud has expanded its reach across major social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter.It's bee ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Animal lovers declare war on Mayor Carlos Alvarez's Facebook page
Since launching in 2007, SoundCloud has emerged as one of the most popular audio distribution platforms on the web. By allowing sound files to be distributed and embedded anywhere online, SoundCloud has expanded its reach across major social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter.It's bee ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Mayor Carlos Alvarez Besieged By Animal Rights Activists on Facebook
Carlos Alvarez already has a cantankerous billionaire -- and 95,000 equally irate voters -- trying to get him canned. Now the Miami-Dade County mayor can't even find peace through Farmville: His Facebook page is under attack by animal rights activists.
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December 23, 2010
Buck This Heat
Carlos Alvarez already has a cantankerous billionaire -- and 95,000 equally irate voters -- trying to get him canned. Now the Miami-Dade County mayor can't even find peace through Farmville: His Facebook page is under attack by animal rights activists.
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December 17, 2010
Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System
We know how much you love the Captcha commenting system now in use on Crossfade. Who doesn't enjoy struggling to read nonsensical phrases to prove they aren't evil robots. We hate to break it to you, but Captcha is going away. Crossfade and the other Miami New Times blogs are switching to Dis ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System
We know how much you love the Captcha commenting system now in use on Short Order. Who doesn't enjoy struggling to read nonsensical phrases to prove they aren't evil robots. We hate to break it to you, but Captcha is going away. Short Order and the other Miami New Times blogs are switching to ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System
We know how much you love the Captcha commenting system now in use on Riptide. Who doesn't enjoy struggling to read nonsensical phrases to prove they aren't evil robots. We hate to break it to you, but Captcha is going away. Riptide and the other Miami New Times blogs are switching to Disqus ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Twitter Now Seen as a Valid Replacement for Overeating and Smoking
By waferboard via FlickrIs a Twitter addiction really comparable to this?We all know how hard it is to quit an addiction. You know, like that daily ice cream indulgence mid-afternoon (that used to be mine), or that nasty pack-a-day habit. But can social media giant Twitter really help with that? ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Flipboard Turns Social Media Into Personalized Magazine
OK, so we all know how annoying it can be to plug in to social media sometimes, and have to check all of the outlets, sift through spam bots, junk tweets, retweets, and boring statuses. But what if all of the most interesting information that comes from your social media outlets could be easily s ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
False Facebook friends at Gulfstream Park
OK, so we all know how annoying it can be to plug in to social media sometimes, and have to check all of the outlets, sift through spam bots, junk tweets, retweets, and boring statuses. But what if all of the most interesting information that comes from your social media outlets could be easily s ... More >>
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June 30, 2010
Social Media Day Hits Miami Today at 7 p.m., With Free Champagne!
We know that the moment we say anything is free, the masses head out in droves (free garbage, anyone?), but today's local Social Media Day, held at the Pelican Hotel, is so much more than just free champagne. Once you can see past the really basic fonts on the logo, you'll see the bigger picture: ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Is Antisocial Social Media Changing the Way We Interact?
photo by Adam T. Bailey, via flickrWe text. We BBM. We instant-message. We Facebook-chat. Welcome to the antisocial social-media generation, where communicating with others is just a click away, and avoiding face-to-face confrontation is the wave of the future. When I was in school, I communicate ... More >>
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February 12, 2010
Silicon Beach: Social Media Club Shows You Can Set Your iPhone on Stun, Scotty
Feb's Social Media Club meeting took place on Tuesday at Citrix headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. The theme was "Social Media Predictions for 2010." Predictions started long before when the club crowdsourced by asking others to post their predictions online by among other things, tweeting with the ... More >>
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November 27, 2009
Silicon Beach: Social Media For Social Change Helps Local Charity
Via Blanca Stella's FlickrGreat people, great intentions, great causes and a great time.Riptide already introduced readers to Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) when we interviewed Robert Murray (@robertmurray) earlier this month. At long last, the Camillus House fundraiser took place on Thur ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
Silicon Beach: Social Media Club South Florida, November Edition
Richard Tucker of Cruise Deals hearts Miami's social media community.This month's Social Media Club South Florida was a massive tweetup to wish Social Fresh Cruise guests a warm bon voyage, Miami style. The event took place November 11 at the Doubletree Grand Hotel on Biscayne Bay.Joining the wel ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Silicon Beach: November Events
Daylight savings time is making our afternoons dreary and darker, but there's nothing depressing about this month's social media calendar. Here are several events in the 305 that you don't want to miss.New Times writers, staffers and fans (including yours truly) will be bowling and sipping cockta ... More >>
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June 5, 2009
When Tweets Lie
The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that there's a Chad Pennington imposter tweeting on Twitter. The quarterback's supposed account talked about various meals and get-togethers with teammates, according to the story. Pennington said he isn't a member of any social networking websites.But what ab ... More >>
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May 1, 2009
Rumors on the Twitter-nets: Mel Martinez to Resign Early
Here's a prediction by national Republican political operative Roger Stone via PoHo via the St. Pete Times' Adam Smith's Twitter: Roger Stone predicts; Mel Martinez resigns soon; Crist appoints caretaker - Jim Smith - and announces his candidacy for Sen.A prediction by one guy posted on another gu ... More >>
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March 30, 2009
The Top 100 Twitter Users in Miami
Well, it happened. This weekend I got this email: "[Your Mom] is now following you on Twitter!" Along with that, and the major amounts of discussion about twitter during my Grandfather's 75th birthday dinner last night, Twitter has now officially jumped the shark. For me anyway. Knowing your mom rea ... More >>
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March 24, 2009
Supermodel Hooks Up With Local Diabetes Foundation
via dipalbhadge's flickrSupermodel Izabel Goulart sends heart beats racing upwards, and jaws down to the floor, but all she really wants to do is keep blood sugar levels stable. The Victoria Secret Angel was announced today as the International Ambassador for the Diabetes Research Institute Fo ... More >>
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March 18, 2009
MIA Customs Officials Keep Us Safe From Teddy Bear Threat
via Flavouz's flickrTheir eyes were watching eyes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Miami International Airport noticed that the glass eyes on a shipment of teddy bears from China were poorly secured, and could be a choking hazard to small children. They sent the bears off for further test ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
A-Rod and Limbaugh Are Apparently Exactly the Same
by Rex Lameray via Belltown Messenger's FlickrRush Limbaugh and Alex Rodriguez both have their past drug struggles with pain killers and steroids respectively, they also both have multi-million dollar pads in South Florida. That is where the comparisons end to the untrained eye. But Robert Zimmerman ... More >>
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February 16, 2009
Happy Meaningless Federal Holiday!
by Maria Sputnik Today is the day we set aside every year to remember our presidents and what great men they surely must have been buy Egyptian cotton sheets at the department store's two-for-one sale. Yes, it is Presidents' Day. At first, I thought about putting together some sort of fun list of ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
New Times Groove On Battle of the Bands: Your Guide, Part 2
Tonight, Friday the 13th, in a hard luck city in a bad luck wind, Miami New Times Promotions presents four bands battling for the chance to play a show in NYC with free airfare and accommodations. Last week Afrobeta and Tristan & The Juice made it to the finals. Tonight, two more winners will ... More >>
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January 16, 2009
Facebook Puts an End to Ritual Friend Sacrifice for Free Whoppers
Burger King, the attention-craving Miami-based fast-food giant, took its Internet-whoring marketing activities to a new level with the Whopper Sacrifice Facebook app. The app asked Facebookers to delete ten of their friends, who were then notified they'd been dumped for a free Whopper. Of course the ... More >>
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January 5, 2009
Rick Sanchez's Crack Shame
Rick Sanchez is our favorite twitter friend ever, but when he started tweeting last night about heady topics such as God, Hitler, and Torquemada, we thought he might be on something. Then he posted, "i am high on crack right now might not be coming to work today." Aha! Rick Sanchez, we always knew i ... More >>
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December 19, 2008
Sexy New Developments in Insider Trading Scheme
We posted a link in the news roundup to this story about the Miami Beach men who were arrested as part of a Lehman Brothers insider trading scandal, but there's a part of our brain that shuts down when confronted with too much business-numbers-money nonsense. Now we have sexy new information! Like a ... More >>
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December 17, 2008
Does It Offend Rick Sanchez, Yeah?
Oh No! Someone's mixed Catholic imagery and sex! How provocative! How controversial! How unoriginal.Rick Sanchez, everyone's favorite former Channel Seven newsman, dedicated a good portion of his Twitter-fueled CNN show yesterday to the latest cover of Mexican Playboy that shows a model who may be c ... More >>
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November 20, 2008
E-40 to Perform at Sobe Live Tonight, First 200 People in Free
Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>
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November 7, 2008
Miami Blogdom As First Lady Fashion Critic
Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>
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September 18, 2008
The Chronicles of I Set My Friends on Fire, Episode 1
Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>
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July 26, 2008
The Vagabond Shut Down For the Weekend UPDATED
Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>
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May 30, 2007
MySpace Secret Show: Marley Bros.
Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccat ... More >>
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