University of California-Los Angeles

Thanks to Shawn Marion, the Heat Now Have More Options

Golden Boy

Udonis proves he’s king of the hill

Ocean Specific

Udonis proves he’s king of the hill

An Offbeat Page from the Annals of Ponzi History

Larson died -- where else? -- in Florida, running from the SEC.

Hey, It’s Winnie Cooper!

Danica McKellar is grown up, but still studious.

Migrant Song

Los Tigres del Norte sing the tales of those who can't.

He's Really Doing That

DVD releases for the week of January 16, 2007

Shiver and Shoot

A UM star headed for the NBA detours to the Czech Republic

Ready, Willing, and Able

The UK's CandoCo defies stereotypes to claim its place on the world stage

Stage Capsules

Current shows

Stage Capsules

Current shows

Devil Inside

Blame those funky white bitches — it's all their fault

Om Together Now

Blame those funky white bitches — it's all their fault

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Blame those funky white bitches — it's all their fault

City Slackers

Poverty, dancehall, and sound systems in modern-day Kingston, Jamaica

Do the Math

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

Internet Network News, September 20, 2010

Elian Gonzalez: Still mum after all these years

His Name Is FM-2030

Liftoff to an Extraordinary Age: The Next 20 Years

The Year That Was ... Pretty Good

Even New Times critics liked what they saw

Pop Icons Redux

Sugar Town

News of the Weird

Sugar Town

Night & Day

May 13 - 19, 1999

Rock the Swamp

May 13 - 19, 1999

News of the Weird

May 13 - 19, 1999

Rotations

May 13 - 19, 1999

Uncommon Law

Sam Thompson, hard-charging dean of the University of Miami's law school, has high hopes, strong opinions, and a tendency to attract trouble

Balsa Wouldn't

Sam Thompson, hard-charging dean of the University of Miami's law school, has high hopes, strong opinions, and a tendency to attract trouble

Hablas Computer?

Sam Thompson, hard-charging dean of the University of Miami's law school, has high hopes, strong opinions, and a tendency to attract trouble

News Roundup

LocalThe Westboro Baptist Crazytown Travel Club for Bigots and Assorted Loonies is coming to town to protest the hell out of whatever really. [Herald]Four South Florida Chrysler dealerships got the axe. [CBS4]There's 63 cases of Swine Flu in Florida now, and yet no one really cares anymore. [CBS4]Sp ... More >>

RIP Michael Jackson: A Look Back at His Only Performance in Miami

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop and one of the most iconic entertainers of the past three decades, has passed on. The story is obviously developing, but reports claim that Jackson was rushed to Ronald Reagan UCLA medical center shortly after noon Los Angeles time. He was found not breathing, and ar ... More >>

Warped Tour Preview: The Classics - Bad Religion

How time flies. I first caught Bad Religion as a very young teenager at the 1998 edition of the Warped Tour, and they were a classic act then. The genres represented on this tour have widened a whooooole lot since then, and the face of punk and its offshoots has changed considerably as well. But Bad ... More >>

Police Arrest Suspect in Overtown Mass Shooting That Wounded 12

Flanked by the victims' sobbing family members, Miami Police Chief John Timoney announced this afternoon the arrest of a suspect in a brazen mass shooting in Overtown.via Miami Police DepartmentRodney Lashawn Miller was arrested early this morning for his role in a July mass shooting.​Police nabbe ... More >>

New World Faculty Art Show Opens Tonight

Ceramics by artist Susan Banks​That tired old adage "Those who can't do, teach" has never been true in the art world. If you can get accepted to a topnotch MFA program, you can study with John Baldessari (UCLA), Michael Asher (CalArts), Peter Halley (Yale), or a myriad of other well-accompli ... More >>

Hialeah Homecoming

Meet Jennine Capó Crucet, the next literary big thing.

Video: Jim Morrison Interview in Miami, 1970, Talking About The Doors' Miami Incident

Lizard King Jim Morrison, one of the most influential American rock singers ever, was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943.He went to UCLA film school, graduated, and hung out on Venice Beach, where he and Ray Manzarek started The Doors.There's a famous incident that took place at Dinne ... More >>

R.I.P. Francisco Aguabella, Afro-Cuban Jazz Great

​ Francisco Aguabella left Cuba in the 1950's and quickly established himself as a master conguero and bata musician in the American and nascent Afro-Cuban jazz scenes. Noted for his fluidity and energy, he was a sought-after performer who shared the stage with musicians as varied as Frank Sinatr ... More >>

Before He Hired an Escort, Rekers Tried to Spank the Gay Away

George Alan Rekers​What do you do with a little boy who likes cross-dressing and playing with dolls? If you're George Alan Rekers, you "extinguish" the boy's feminine behavior with a sometimes violent Pavlovian regimen while your scientific team observes through a one-way mirror. That's what the B ... More >>

Man Up

Rekers's Spanking Science

Ayahuasca: Believers call the Amazonian plant a sacrament; the state calls it illegal

Rekers's Spanking Science

Macho meets homo in the laudable but terrible La Mission

Rekers's Spanking Science

Ronald Reagan immigration amnesty 25 years later

Today, amnesty is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Al Golden Named Head Coach of Miami Hurricanes

The last time Al Golden coached a college football game he lost to Miami of Ohio. The next time he coaches a team it may very well be Miami of Florida. ESPN reports that Golden, the current head coach at Temple, has been offered the vacant position as the Hurricanes' head coach and is likely to acce ... More >>

Urban Meyer and Randy Shannon Land Gigs on ESPN

​Former UF coach Urban Meyer and former UM coach Randy Shannon saw their careers as heads of two of Florida's big three college football teams come to an end after this season for very different reasons, but they both appear to be headed to the same place: ESPN of course. Meyer, who won two nation ... More >>

Randy Shannon Reportedly Interviewing for Maryland's DC Job

Where pretty sick of trying to follow the Randy Shannon job hunt as apparently interest from Texas and UCLA lead nowhere, but according to an ESPN reporter Shannon is going to interview for the Defensive Coordinator position at Maryland. Yes, Maryland would be a rival ACC school. Yes, Miami and Mary ... More >>

New Study Shows Maple Syrup High In Antioxidants

Dr. Navindra Seeram​At a recent annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists announced findings that suggested maple syrup contains as many as 54 antioxidants. Lead researcher Dr. Navindra Seeram, from the University of Rhode Island, has been studying the relationship between plants ... More >>

Miami Resident Is One of the Oldest in the State

​Mary Dimakis was born so long ago that when she moved into the Roads, there were few paved streets in the neighborhood. Dimakis will soon turn 108, making her the second-oldest resident in South Florida. The oldest, at 111, is Antonia Rivera, who lives just a few miles away. Dimakis ... More >>

Student athletes suffer the stings of concussions while lawmakers fail to help

​Mary Dimakis was born so long ago that when she moved into the Roads, there were few paved streets in the neighborhood. Dimakis will soon turn 108, making her the second-oldest resident in South Florida. The oldest, at 111, is Antonia Rivera, who lives just a few miles away. Dimakis ... More >>

Racism Starts at Home Then Progresses in School

​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 addresses the absence of bigotry in children.When I drop my 2-year-old son off at day care, I am so amazed at how ... More >>

Kids aren't racist, schools are

​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 addresses the absence of bigotry in children.When I drop my 2-year-old son off at day care, I am so amazed at how ... More >>