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May 4, 2012
Stephen Colbert Searches for Florida's Elusive SuperPAC Madman
Josue Larose is perhaps one of Florida's most interesting political figures. He's not particularly influential or powerful, mind you. He ran for governor in 2010 and got 121 votes. But he has run for multiple offices, including three at once. He's also formed over 600 PACs and 64 SuperPACs. He's now ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Stephen Colbert Takes on Florida's "Stand Your Ground" Law, Geraldo's Hoodie Comments
There's very little levity to be found in the Trayvon Martin case, and so far the satirists have stayed mostly away from the story. Well, last night Stephen Colbert decided to take a swing at it by lampooning Republican candidate's reactions to President Obama's statements about the case, Geraldo ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
Stephen Colbert Lampoons Florida's Proposed Minimum Wage Reduction Bill
A new bill is working its way through the Florida senate which would slash the minimum hourly wage guaranteed to restaurant workers from $4.65 an hour to only $2.13 an hour. True, restaurants would still have to guarantee their workers at least $9.98 an hour with tips included, but several worker ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
Community Service
A new bill is working its way through the Florida senate which would slash the minimum hourly wage guaranteed to restaurant workers from $4.65 an hour to only $2.13 an hour. True, restaurants would still have to guarantee their workers at least $9.98 an hour with tips included, but several worker ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Video: The Daily Show Asks Rick Scott to Pee in a Cup
Remember in December when Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi was roaming around Tallahassee asking officials, including Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi to pee in a cup? Well, the package finally made it onto the air last night.
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February 3, 2012
Watch Rick Scott Refuse to Pee in a Cup on The Daily Show
Florida's law requiring the poor to pass a drug test before receiving welfare funds came under the scrutiny of The Daily Show last night. In an interview with Aasif Mandvi, bill supporter Representative Scott Plakon claimed that any recipient of taxpayer money should undergo drug testing. When Ma ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Major LOLs
Florida's law requiring the poor to pass a drug test before receiving welfare funds came under the scrutiny of The Daily Show last night. In an interview with Aasif Mandvi, bill supporter Representative Scott Plakon claimed that any recipient of taxpayer money should undergo drug testing. When Ma ... More >>
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January 5, 2012
Politics, Pandering, and Punch Lines
Florida's law requiring the poor to pass a drug test before receiving welfare funds came under the scrutiny of The Daily Show last night. In an interview with Aasif Mandvi, bill supporter Representative Scott Plakon claimed that any recipient of taxpayer money should undergo drug testing. When Ma ... More >>
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January 5, 2012
Pre-TV Funnies
Florida's law requiring the poor to pass a drug test before receiving welfare funds came under the scrutiny of The Daily Show last night. In an interview with Aasif Mandvi, bill supporter Representative Scott Plakon claimed that any recipient of taxpayer money should undergo drug testing. When Ma ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Hannibal Buress Talks Stand-Up, Sitcoms and the Miami Heat
Hannibal Buress has a big year ahead of him. His one-hour stand-up special is scheduled to premiere on Comedy Central this spring. He is also developing his own sitcom for FOX, which will feature Jonah Hill as executive producer. And he's kicking it all off with a headliner at the Miami Improv ne ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Getting Nutty Live
Hannibal Buress has a big year ahead of him. His one-hour stand-up special is scheduled to premiere on Comedy Central this spring. He is also developing his own sitcom for FOX, which will feature Jonah Hill as executive producer. And he's kicking it all off with a headliner at the Miami Improv ne ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Pam Bondi Hands Daily Show Reporter a Cup of Her "Urine"
Daily Show reporters aren't that used to politicians outsmarting them, so kudos to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for staying one step ahead of the political pranksters.After Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi asked Gov. Rick Scott for a cup of his urine yesterday, Bondi must have been tip ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Weiner Joke Genius
Daily Show reporters aren't that used to politicians outsmarting them, so kudos to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for staying one step ahead of the political pranksters.After Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi asked Gov. Rick Scott for a cup of his urine yesterday, Bondi must have been tip ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Virginia Key Grassroots Festival Lineup: Arrested Development and 24 Others
The Herd is stampeding toward SoFla. Almost 22 years ago, East Coast fusion rockers Donna the Buffalo led a mass gathering of its friends, fellow bands, and followers -- nicknamed The Herd -- to Ithaca, New York for the inaugural Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival. In the intervening decades, thi ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant
The Herd is stampeding toward SoFla. Almost 22 years ago, East Coast fusion rockers Donna the Buffalo led a mass gathering of its friends, fellow bands, and followers -- nicknamed The Herd -- to Ithaca, New York for the inaugural Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival. In the intervening decades, thi ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
The Miami Hurricanes Become the Joke on Happy Endings
For the third time in a little over a week, a Miami sports team has been the butt of a joke on a national sitcom. First there was South Park's minor dig at the Dolphins, then The Office had a little fun at Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat's expense. Continuing the trend last night, ABC's Happy Endin ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Stephen Colbert Wants Dwarf Tossing (and Baby Juggling) Legalized in Florida
We're just surprised it took Stephen Colbert so long to give his opinion on Florida's dwarf tossing ban. You might remember state Rep. Ritch Workman caused a hubbub by suggesting the ban should be repealed because it's an example of "Big Brother government" that prevents "dwarfs from getting jobs ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
Fred Durst Is a Douchebag! Limp Bizkit Singer Scores Conveniently Titled CBS Sitcom
Newsflash! Turns out that network TV execs' massive hard-on isn't limited to sitcoms starring rappers. Apparently, they find whiteboy rap-rockers supersexy and crazy funny too. Last week, we here at Crossfade chuckled about the fact that former Rollin 20s Crip, gangsta rapper, and proud daddy S ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Snoop Dogg Lands NBC Sitcom, Starts Wearing Cosby Sweaters
Murder was the case in 1993. But Snoop Dogg walked away a free man and into the collective heart of American pop culture. Now 18 years later, he's trying to crip walk onto primetime television. MTV News (via Deadline Hollywood) is reporting that NBC is working on Snoop's "family comedy project" ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Miami Company Making Porn Parodies of Taxi Driver, Training Day and True Grit
Porn parodies of sitcoms -- sitcums, we suppose -- are the hottest XXX trend since breast implants, but there're only so many laughers primed for sexy satire. God help us before parodies of Yes, Dear and Mr. Belvedere are unleashed. So, Sensuous Diamond Productions, a newly launched, Miami-b ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Stephen Colbert Takes on Allen West and Debbie Wasserman Schultz Feud
The spat between Rep. Allen "Black David Letterman" West and Rep. Debbie "home perm after model" Wasserman Schultz rocked the political world yesterday, so of course it wound up on The Colbert Report last night. And being the faux right-winger he is, Stephen Colbert had to wonder "what kind of th ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
Ashton Kutcher, Opponent of Underage Sex Trafficking, Appears on Billboard With Naked 17-Year-Old Boy
Real men don't buy girls -- but it's cool if they stand next to naked boys.No one is saying bearded celebrity pretty boy Ashton Kutcher is wrong for using his public influence to help combat underage sex trafficking. But when we published a feature calling him out for his obviously phony stats, h ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Stephen Colbert Starts His Own Rick Scott Letter Writing Campaign
In a miscalculated move to try and boast public support, Florida Gov. Rick Scott's website asked his fervent supporters, all five of them, to sign their name to a pre-written letter and send them off to Florida's newspapers letter to the editor section.Well, at least one fake conservative pundit ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Stephen Colbert Bashes LeBron James
Everybody has an opinion about the Miami Heat's loss, including Stephen Colbert. America's favorite fake pundit took on LeBron James and the Miami Heat last night in his spor repor, explaining, "Everyone knew they were destined to win, and personally I'm offended they were forced to prove it by p ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Mock Treatment
Everybody has an opinion about the Miami Heat's loss, including Stephen Colbert. America's favorite fake pundit took on LeBron James and the Miami Heat last night in his spor repor, explaining, "Everyone knew they were destined to win, and personally I'm offended they were forced to prove it by p ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
The Daily Show: Rick Scott is Like Florida's Psychotic Stepdad
We're really surprised it took this long for The Daily Show to sink its teeth into Florida Gov. Rick Scott. There's certainly ample material. The guy's political career is like a bad satire that somehow became real. Last night, Scott got the ire of Jon Stewart in a roundup of the nation's new bat ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Sykes Out
We're really surprised it took this long for The Daily Show to sink its teeth into Florida Gov. Rick Scott. There's certainly ample material. The guy's political career is like a bad satire that somehow became real. Last night, Scott got the ire of Jon Stewart in a roundup of the nation's new bat ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Have Hart
We're really surprised it took this long for The Daily Show to sink its teeth into Florida Gov. Rick Scott. There's certainly ample material. The guy's political career is like a bad satire that somehow became real. Last night, Scott got the ire of Jon Stewart in a roundup of the nation's new bat ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Amanda Lepore, Justin Bond, and Cazwell Ringing In New Queer's Eve at Lords South Beach
Courtesy of Peace BisquitCazwell and Amanda LeporeIn a recent episode of NBC's 30 Rock, Jenna was sad 'cause she was going to miss out on going to Elton John and Tom Ford's New Queer's Eve. She had broken up with her cross-dressing boyfriend Paul, just as they were planning to go together as ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Jon Stewart Addresses the Rick Sanchez Controversy And Then Salvages The Guy's Career
Rick Sanchez's foot-in-mouth anti-Semitic tirade against Jon Stewart and The Daily Show left the world with two questions: 1) Is he gonna get fired? and 2) How much fun is The Daily Show going to have with this? The answers were "yes" and "a lot." Stewart ripped Sanchez apart last night ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Rick Sanchez Fired By CNN
After an ethnically-insensitive tirade against The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, CNN host and former Miami local news anchor Rick Sanchez has been fired by the network. Sanchez was ultimately done in by his big mouth.
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September 15, 2010
Stephen Colbert Takes on Uncle Luke's Ground Zero Mosque Column
For the second time this year, a story premiering on this humble little blog, Riptide, has served as fodder for jokes on The Colbert Report. First, Stephen Colbert took on homophobic, rent-boy-lovin' George Rekers, and last night, the host roasted New Times columnist and 2 Live Crew founder Luthe ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Burritos, Tacos, and Beaners
For the second time this year, a story premiering on this humble little blog, Riptide, has served as fodder for jokes on The Colbert Report. First, Stephen Colbert took on homophobic, rent-boy-lovin' George Rekers, and last night, the host roasted New Times columnist and 2 Live Crew founder Luthe ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Too Black for Hollywood
For the second time this year, a story premiering on this humble little blog, Riptide, has served as fodder for jokes on The Colbert Report. First, Stephen Colbert took on homophobic, rent-boy-lovin' George Rekers, and last night, the host roasted New Times columnist and 2 Live Crew founder Luthe ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
The Hold Steady on Colbert; Playing Heineken Inspire Festival Next Friday
Can't wait to hear what lead singer Craig Finn had to say to our Broward-Palm Beach music editor, Reed Fischer, when he interviewed him for next week's paper? Shaking in your shoes at the thought of waiting another week to see The Hold Steady perform live next Friday at The Moore Building with the C ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Eyes Have It
Can't wait to hear what lead singer Craig Finn had to say to our Broward-Palm Beach music editor, Reed Fischer, when he interviewed him for next week's paper? Shaking in your shoes at the thought of waiting another week to see The Hold Steady perform live next Friday at The Moore Building with the C ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
Top 10 TV Moms Who Cook For Mother's Day
Your mom can't cook. Or that's what you always said. You watched those ladies on the tube, and thought it looked so damn easy. Hell. some of 'em were even hot. Well, that was all made up, you jerk. So before you nail mom again for another year -- starting this Sunday on Mother's Day, check ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Art Basel Music: Ladytron, Hollywood Holt, and FIGO DJ a Party for "Darth Stewie" at the Vagabond, December 2
Yes, that's "Stewie" as in the misanthropic infant star of The Family Guy. And while this event's connection to "art" is rather tenuous, who among our very coveted young demographic doesn't like The Family Guy? So stay with me here while I explain the concept of this Wednesday night party at the ... More >>
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July 16, 2009
Dexter, Burn Notice, and Crispin Porter Pick up Emmy Nods
The Emmy nominations are out today, and boy are they weird. But possibly in a really good way. Not tons to report on the local front. Dexter, Showtime's drama about a Miami-based serial killer, got nods in the "Outstanding Drama Series" catagory. Meanwhile, Dexter himself, Michael C. Hall, rece ... More >>
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May 5, 2009
Goodbye, Kath & Kim, You Strange Little Show
When Kath & Kim debuted, we were pretty sure the show was set in South Florida. There was talk of driving on I-95 and Gloria Estefan Boulevard, and a deal was in the works to include the Marlins in an episode, but by the end of the season, the characters were talking openly about living in Cen ... More >>
News
June 5, 2008
Letters from the Issue of June 5, 2008
"They know the courts will do nothing to them, so basically these thugs have a license to do whatever they want."
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May 10, 2007
Funny Man
Tracy Morgan’s coming, ankle bracelet and all
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December 28, 2006
Amigos in High Places
Tracy Morgan’s coming, ankle bracelet and all
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May 25, 2006
New Times's Top DVD Picks for the Week of May 23, 2006
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Music
October 13, 2005
Shania Twain
"Shoes" (Mercury Nashville)
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September 1, 2005
Tutu-torial
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Music
December 16, 2004
Xzibit
Weapons of Mass Destruction Sony Urban Music/Columbia
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April 29, 2004
Comedy, Bitch!
Chappelle shows at the Improv
Culture
January 3, 2002
Rescue 9/11
This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter
Film
July 26, 1994
A Dog and His Boy
This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter
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