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  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Seven Sins: Village Voice Media Releases Our First eBook Anthology

    Every week writers for Miami New Times and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Cr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    George Rekers' Escort Denied Escort Award for Breaking Escort Code

    ​Remember George Rekers, the anti-gay activist and Baptist minister whom& Miami New Times caught procuring the services of a male escort from RentBoy.com in 2010? Well, what do you know, RentBoy.com's annual award show, appropriately called "The Hookies," is coming up, and the organization tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

    "What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 2011

    Lost Boys: New child-sex-trafficking research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker

    And sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

    ​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times.The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds.  Neither government officials nor ... More >>

  • Music

    October 6, 2011

    Das Racist at Grand Central October 9

    ​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times.The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds.  Neither government officials nor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Das Racist Scarfs Fast Food, Mangles Mikes, and Makes Fun of Michael Jackson

    Photo by Bek Andersen​In the hot-as-balls summer of 2009, three dudes from New York City -- rappers Himanshu "Heems" Suri and Victor "Kool A.D." Vazquez, and hype guy Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu -- banded together under the vaguely ominous moniker Das Racist, made some beats, spit some rhymes, smok ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    New Times Earns Three First-Place AltWeekly Awards

    ​Miami New Times and the Village Voice topped America's alternative newspapers in last week's awards handed out by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in New Orleans. Staff writer Gus Garcia-Roberts was given the nod for best feature for a story about fallen music entrepreneur Scott Storch ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    Letters from the issue of July 14, 2011

    ​Miami New Times and the Village Voice topped America's alternative newspapers in last week's awards handed out by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in New Orleans. Staff writer Gus Garcia-Roberts was given the nod for best feature for a story about fallen music entrepreneur Scott Storch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Get Their Facts Wrong About Underage Sex Trafficking

    via DNA Foundation's FacebookReal men get their facts straight.​Nobody is going to argue that underage sex trafficking is a good thing, but what happens when media panic spreads false information? Does it really help the cause? As part of the Village Voice Media's investigative series on The Truth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Dance Like a Zombie! Best of Miami 2011 Has Risen

    Photo by Michael McElroy​Have you ever seen a zombie shake some ass? Well, it happens more often than you'd think. And surprisingly, when they're not humping each other silly in the club, the undead go all Wacko Jacko for the choreographed dance steps from "Thriller." In this particular case, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Wu-Tang, Wild Flag, Fishbone, Yelawolf and More at Village Voice Media SXSW Party

    Photo by Mark BrubakerTimes New Viking​For those us far away from the indie music pilgrimage in Austin, Texas, known as South By Southwest, there's good news: In addition to members of the Crossfade team being there, our parent company, Village Voice Media, is all over it.In fact, VVM threw a litt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah Badu, and Eight Others Slated for Village Voice Media and Frank 151's The Showdown at SXSW 2011

    RZA and the rest of the Clan bringin' the Wu to SXSW.​Ah, SXSW ... Whether you arrive aboard a busted-ass '96 Ford Aerostar or your very own ultra-speed private Gulfstream business jet, everyone is welcome. Because in the end, we all eat the same breakfast burritos, right? As anyone who's visit ... More >>

  • News

    December 23, 2010

    What would immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

    RZA and the rest of the Clan bringin' the Wu to SXSW.​Ah, SXSW ... Whether you arrive aboard a busted-ass '96 Ford Aerostar or your very own ultra-speed private Gulfstream business jet, everyone is welcome. Because in the end, we all eat the same breakfast burritos, right? As anyone who's visit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Where Are WikiLeaks' Media Friends? UPDATED

    Julian Assange​UPDATE: WikiLeaks Betrayed by Amazon, Visa, Mastercard---and Worst of All, the MediaWhere are the First Amendment's establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down WikiLeaks?Hackers with computers, not hacks with press passes, have been the first line of res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Lauryn Hill to Headline University of Miami Homecoming Concert

    Photo by Rebecca Smeyne / via Village Voice​After some rumbling that Lauryn Hill could be making a rare live appearance at the Arsht Center turned out to be false, it turns out she's making a Miami appearance after all. The reclusive legend is set to headline this year's homecoming concert at the ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 2, 2010

    Miami's top happy hours

    From salty to sporty to sublime.

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Gyptian at Mansion This Sunday; Read About the Origin of "Hold Yuh"

    Rising dancehall king Gyptian has made a definitive bid for the song of the summer with "Hold Yuh," his inescapable song built on that tinkling piano riddim coming out of seemingly every car. It's spawned any number of remixes -- the most famous with Young Money darling Nikki Minaj -- and wound up o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Apparently 140 Characters Is Enough

    How do you sum up your day in 140 characters on Twitter? At the 140 Character Conference in New York Tuesday and Wednesday, live, ten-minute speakers spread out from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Luckily, there were no mentions of what anyone was eating or how much someone loves Justin Bieber. Everything Twitte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Around the Voice: Dum Dum Girls' Past Gets Unwrapped

    I Will Be reluctant to answer questions about my past​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.Owl City has a song called "Hello Seattle" and Seattle Weekly likes that fact.The story b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Around the Voice: Actor Donald Glover Can Rhyme Better Than Joel McHale

    Donald Glover's flow is serious, so stop laughing at his jokes​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.An in-depth look back at N.W.A. frontman Eazy E resides in Phoenix New Times.SF ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Weekend Blog Watch: Buy Local, The Good Life, Topless Photo, Smoked Out

    Jacob KatelStay tuned....tomorrow Short Order goes Behind The Line at Gibraltar on Grove Isle.​It's been too long since we've highlighted recent posts from other local food blogs, eons in web time, so here's a roundup from just some of Short Order's many contemporaries.New farmers market in the he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    SXSW: Surfer Blood Play VVM Party, Get New York Times Write-Up, Love Thee Oh Sees

    Photo by Shannon CottrellGetting sleepy, J.P.?​As promised, Surfer Blood got the Village Voice's SXSW showcase started right on Saturday. VV's Camille Dodero confirms that the guys from West Palm Beach are "the nicest kids ever," and posted some nifty snaps from the other acts, including the Pains ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Around the Voice: The Flaming Lips and Gil Scott-Heron State the Obvious

    Wait, he's not new here?​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.In the Dallas Observer's bumper crop of content: Surfer Blood mourns the loss of Jay Reatard and confirms that even Pitch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Surfer Blood to Play With Superchunk at Village Voice Media's SXSW Showcase

    Photo by Ian WitlenSurfer Blood​Zach Baron, at our sister paper the Village Voice, called Surfer Blood's million-show spate at this past fall's CMJ a "coronation." By now, with the glowing reviews for Astro Coast, and rumors it's entered both the Billboard Heatseekers and Top 200 charts, that seem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    South Florida Voters and Winners in the Village Voice's New Pazz Jop Poll

    ​It's January, which means it's time for another edition of the Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop poll of music critics. Yes, it's probably the latest, high-profile wrap-up of the best music of 2009, but it's also the biggest in sheer number of voices -- some 697 voters submitted ballots this ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Miami New Times Swallowed Up By SF Rag? No Way. Reporter Greg Bensinger Screwed Up.

    ​Just the other day, Bloomberg news published a turd-filled story about the future of our newspaper chain. In half English, half Portuguese Creole, the reporters said something about Village Voice Media being forced to bankruptcy court. A paper that's part of the chain, SF Weekly, lost a judgment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Miami New Times Announces MasterMind Awards

    Miami New Times, the Southeast's top alternative news weekly, is giving away $4,000 in awards to local artists. As part of our annual Artopia® celebration, artists of all stripes -- filmmakers, fashion designers, visual artists, performance artists, writers  - can apply for a MasterMind Award. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Miami New Times Announces MasterMind Awards

    ​Miami New Times, the Southeast's top alternative news weekly, is giving away $4,000 in awards to local artists. As part of our annual Artopia® celebration, artists of all stripes -- filmmakers, fashion designers, visual artists, performance artists, writers -- can apply for a MasterMind Award. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    CMJ '09: Surfer Blood at Cake Shop NYC

    Photo by Rebecca SmeyneSurfer Blood performing Tuesday afternoon at Cake Shop.​CMJ is in the full swing in New York and reports are already coming back from our sister paper, the Village Voice. Zach Baron, in particular, reports on Surfer Blood's performance at Cake Shop. Unfortunately, the West P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Wish You Were There: Village Voice Media at the Pitchfork and Siren Festivals Last Weekend

    photo by Nick Lucchesi, Riverfront TimesThe Flaming Lips. Who else?This past weekend, Nick Lucchesi, a correspondent from New Times' St. Louis sister paper, the Riverfront Times, headed to the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. In a nutshell, here's what he found:*David Yow of the Jesus Lizard has still ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    R.I.P. Michael Jackson. Coverage Around the Web

    *CNN's complete coverage.*Rolling Stone's extensive tribute, with links to coverage throughout the RS archives.*SPIN magazine remembers Michael as a hero, not as a punchline.*At New Times' sister paper LA Weekly, an exclusive interview with longtime MJ lawyer Bob Sanger.*Also at the LA Weekly web si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Insider Account of the M/V Maersk Alabama

    Last week, the nation was captivated by the unfolding story of the M/V Maersk Alabama and the Somali pirates that held the ship's captian, Richard Phillips, hostage until the U.S. Navy took action four days later. It sounds like something straight out of a movie (come on: distant lands, pirates, co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    News Roundup

    LocalThe race-based deal for the Marlins Stadium has crumbled before our eyes. [SFLTimes]USA Today notices that San Francisco, Miami, Minneapolis or Cleveland may soon be without a daily newspaper. This is sad because then they'll have to read USA Today. There's always the fine Village Voice Media p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Village Voice Releases its Annual Pazz & Jop Poll

    via www.villagevoice.comTV on the Radio's win for best album was not exactly a stunning upsetNew Times' sister paper, the Village Voice, has been running its annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll since 1971. And while it's among the last in the "best-of" national roundups, it's been one of the most i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    MAP Magazine Folds After Only Six Issues

    Saturday night, wandering the urban wasteland known as Wywnood, I stopped by the Bombay Saphire lounge behind the David Castillo Gallery. As I drank some gin, club soda and lemonade concoction, MAP Magazine publisher Michael Sheehan greeted me and nonchalantly told me "I'm closing MAP." Mouth agape, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Cute Puppies Will Save the Media

    Riptide and his best friend both feel lucky to have snapped up gigs in the ever-dying media industry right out of college, especially considering the fate of some of our classmates. This comes with the added thrill that occasionally our respective companies get gossiped about on Gawker and, now, hot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Around the Voice - Metallica, Metallica, and more Metallica

    Riptide and his best friend both feel lucky to have snapped up gigs in the ever-dying media industry right out of college, especially considering the fate of some of our classmates. This comes with the added thrill that occasionally our respective companies get gossiped about on Gawker and, now, hot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Around the Voice - McCarren Pool, Guitar Hero and the Democratic National Convention

    Riptide and his best friend both feel lucky to have snapped up gigs in the ever-dying media industry right out of college, especially considering the fate of some of our classmates. This comes with the added thrill that occasionally our respective companies get gossiped about on Gawker and, now, hot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2008

    Around the Voice - Dancehall Violence, Billy Bob Thornton and The Art of Screaming

    Riptide and his best friend both feel lucky to have snapped up gigs in the ever-dying media industry right out of college, especially considering the fate of some of our classmates. This comes with the added thrill that occasionally our respective companies get gossiped about on Gawker and, now, hot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2008

    Craze and Dave Nada at The Vagabond August 14

    Riptide and his best friend both feel lucky to have snapped up gigs in the ever-dying media industry right out of college, especially considering the fate of some of our classmates. This comes with the added thrill that occasionally our respective companies get gossiped about on Gawker and, now, hot ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2008

    Minimal Techno

    Riptide and his best friend both feel lucky to have snapped up gigs in the ever-dying media industry right out of college, especially considering the fate of some of our classmates. This comes with the added thrill that occasionally our respective companies get gossiped about on Gawker and, now, hot ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 8, 2007

    The Return of the Great Ginger Blooze

    Riptide and his best friend both feel lucky to have snapped up gigs in the ever-dying media industry right out of college, especially considering the fate of some of our classmates. This comes with the added thrill that occasionally our respective companies get gossiped about on Gawker and, now, hot ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 27, 2006

    Bands and Barbecue

    The connections between expertise in music and food are fascinating and numerous

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    April 14, 2005

    The Bamboo Kids

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    March 17, 2005

    Buzzing in the Bassbin

    M.I.A. is blowing up in New York, but will she go pop?

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    January 13, 2005

    Basshead

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