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  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Food Stamps Traded for Drugs and Cash, Welcome Crackdown Coming

    Florida is notorious for Medicare fraud, and we also have more than our fair share of food stamp fraud. At least Miami residents can console themselves with the fact that our food stamp defrauders are not as shameless as those in other states.EBT cards, modern-day food stamps, are being traded for c ... More >>

  • Music

    March 15, 2012

    WMC 2012 Record Collectors Show at the Beachplex March 24

    Florida is notorious for Medicare fraud, and we also have more than our fair share of food stamp fraud. At least Miami residents can console themselves with the fact that our food stamp defrauders are not as shameless as those in other states.EBT cards, modern-day food stamps, are being traded for c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Seahorse-Shaped Cheeto on eBay: Cheehorse to the Highest Bidder

    ​A seahorse-shaped Cheeto -- one of the few nonreligious or Founding Father-shaped items that people see in edible objects -- is up for auction on eBay. For instance, a chicken nugget resembling George Washington caused a bidding war that sent the price skyrocketing to $8,100, according ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Jose Reyes' Dreadlocks Sell for $10,200

    ​The Miami Marlins' new star Jose Reyes had to cut off his dreadlocks for $105 million, but online they only sold for $10,200.Reyes agreed to sheer his trademark dreads in order to meet the Marlin's grooming rules. The haircut was aired live on the MLB network, and the dreads were put up on auctio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Target Responds to Jason Wu Vultures at Midtown Miami, Says More Pieces Will Be In Stock

    ​If you lined up to get some pieces from high-end designer Jason Wu's limited edition budget-priced line at the Midtown Miami Target store on Saturday morning, you were stymied by a couple who quickly swooped in and bought the entire stock. Riptide has reached out to Target, and while they didn't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Alexx: Punky Pin-Up

    ​Fashion Breakdown: Blazer from Zara; skirt and bustier from eBay; shoes by Guess; anchor charm necklace by Mike in Oklahoma City; hair cut, colored, and styled herself.

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    World's Weirdest Toasters: Jesus on Bread, Cook a Whole Breakfast, and Play the Radio

    ​The world of toasters just got a little weirder. Research firm IDC released a report predicting that 2012 will be the year when companies start making kitchen appliances that can Tweet and send us notifications via the web; this will include toasters.Until that happens, it might seem we must sett ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Tom Cruise's Miami Pool Water for Sale on eBay

    ​How much money would you pay for a four-ounce bottle of water alleged to have come from a pool in which Tom Cruise swam? If your answer is anything less than $130, you're out of luck. That's the current highest bid on an eBay auction for water taken from the Soho Beach House pool.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Diana: Spooky, Rockin' Hipster

    ​Fashion Breakdown: Led Zeppelin T-shirt; red cross necklace; LeSportsac bag; Batman button pin and skull stockings from eBay; skort and Docs from Goodwill; pony from Peru.

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    John Lennon's Tooth and Four Other Really Weird Pieces of Music Memorabilia

    Love, love me tooth. John Lennon's tooth.​The English are notorious for rock music and poor oral hygiene. Now, for about $16,000 (£10,000), you can buy the best of both. Diehard Beatles fans with entirely too much disposable income will have the chance to bid on one of John Lennon's nasty teeth. ... More >>

  • News

    October 13, 2011

    The Occupy movement needs you, Miami

    Love, love me tooth. John Lennon's tooth.​The English are notorious for rock music and poor oral hygiene. Now, for about $16,000 (£10,000), you can buy the best of both. Diehard Beatles fans with entirely too much disposable income will have the chance to bid on one of John Lennon's nasty teeth. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    The Occupy Movement Needs You, Miami

    ​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 assesses the Occupy movement sweeping New York, Miami, and other American cities.The tens of thousands of proteste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    eBay User Who Bid $1 Million For Casey Anthony Mask Just Wanted to Scold Seller

    ​Remember last week, when a latex mask of accused murderer Casey Anthony garnered a top bid of $999,900 on eBay? Yeah, that didn't make any sense. Today, it does: The purported buyer just wanted to scold the seller in eBay's feedback section.

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Casey Anthony Mask Sells For Almost a Million Bloody Dollars

    eBay user prophunter"Innocent"​After receiving 105 bids, a latex mask modeled on Florida's favorite not-quite-murderer sold on eBay for $999,900 last night. Don't worry -- shipping was free."Prophunter," the Los Angeles vendor who listed the mask, wrote in the item description that "Halloween is o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Five eBay Father's Day Gifts on Sale Near Miami Right Now

    eBay user tonystradingpostYou can get your mother sent to the hospital for less than $20!​Father's Day is Sunday and you haven't bought him anything, you ungrateful pud. Here are some items you can bid on as of Friday afternoon to thank the man who watched your mom give birth to you. They're all w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Box of Justin Bieber's Hair, Yes Just the Hair, Will Be Making Appearance in Miami

    ​Justin Bieber, either a cherubic being sent from heaven with the voice of an angel or an obvious agent sent from hell bent on destroying the world depending on your point of view, recently cut his trademark hair. Ellen DeGeneres, who coincidentally now shares a similar coiffure to the Biebz, dec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    California Wine Lover's Cookbook

    ​Sometimes cookbooks can do more than tell us how to prepare food. For example, a glance at the 1983 publication of California Wine Lover's Cookbook, by Malcolm Hébert and the Wine Institute and Wine Appreciation Guild, shows us just how much things have changed in the food world over the past 27 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    The Basicks' Basick RNR Party Is Pure Rock Like Leather Jackets in Miami

    ​The Basicks Basick RNR Party (Records of Rebellion) One of the cooler little records to come out in the spring of 1996 was this first effort by Miami's the Basicks. Hearkening back to that youthful element of rock and roll, Basick RNR Party talked about fucking, drinking, and drugging with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Blast From the Past: The Pink Lincolns - Suck & Bloat

    ​The Pink Lincolns Suck & Bloat (Stiff Pole Records) www.stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard "Big Stiff" Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I'll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Blast From the Past: Subliminal Criminal - S/T

    Scanner's on the fritz, enjoy Ed's all-knowing visageSubliminal Criminal S/T (Space Cadette Records) If we lived in different times, Ed Matus would be the type of gent who holds doors open for ladies, organizes fox hunts, gardens organically and holds the secrets of the glue that has for some bizar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Lunchboxes: Erotic, Thematic, Enigmatic

    Kids are going back to school this week and that means it's time to whip out that lunch box. But even we older kids need to eat lunch, and what better way to save a buck than to bring your lunch to work. Like any accessory, a lunch box makes a statement. So choose yours carefully.1. I just want to b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Blast From the Past: The Pink Lincolns - Sumo Fumes

    Pink LincolnsSumo Fumes(Stiff Pole Records)www.stiffpolerecords.com In honor of Richard "Big Stiff" Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I'll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, Stiff Pole Records ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Throwback Video: Miami Disco Band Hemlock Performs on KidsWorld, 1979

    Hemlock was a Miami disco band in the late '70s that had a hit dance single called "Disco Break." It got them a 12-inch record pressed by Warner Bros., and a soundtrack credit on a teen comedy called Swap Meet. We found Hemlock on YouTube in a video uploaded earlier today by a user named Herb ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2010

    For Romero Britto, luck and charm trump talent

    Hemlock was a Miami disco band in the late '70s that had a hit dance single called "Disco Break." It got them a 12-inch record pressed by Warner Bros., and a soundtrack credit on a teen comedy called Swap Meet. We found Hemlock on YouTube in a video uploaded earlier today by a user named Herb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Feds Find Plundered Peruvian Artifacts For Sale on eBay, Return Them To Lima

    A little tip for the would-be Indiana Jones profiteers out there: Don't sell your illegally plundered ancient artifacts on eBay. photo courtesy ICE Got some hot, plundered ancient artifacts? Don't sell them on eBay.​One seller learned that lesson the hard way last April, when Immigration a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    RPOF Sells Charlie Crist Oil Painting for $7,700

    via eBay​When Charlie Crist announced he'd be leaving the Republican Party of Florida, the RPOF realized it had no more use for its fancy, slightly awkward-looking oil painting of the governor that used to hang in party headquarters. So, like a crazy ex who desperately wants the world to know they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Pictures of Charlie Crist Allegedly Snorting Cocaine Hit eBay

    ​The Republican Party of Florida is acting like a woman scorned after Charlie Crist veered a little too far "to the left" for Tea Party activists' tastes. So they sent him packing with everything he owns in that box to the left. But everything they bought -- please, Charlie -- don't touch. That's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Moving Units: Radio-Active Records' Top 5 Releases for April 13-19

    Quoting Christopher R. Weingarten: Record Store Day AKA "eBay Eve"​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Based upon the amount of this column devoted t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Musician's Discount Center is a South Dade Vinyl Goldmine

    ​ Musician's Discount Center can seem like it's half way to Key West if you live in downtown Miami, Cuba if you're in NMB, or Argentina if you're in Broward, but for Cutler Ridge, West Kendall, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Florida City, and the whole Down South, the store is pretty much just down the ... More >>

  • News

    April 1, 2010

    Golden gals gone nude at the World Erotic Art Museum

    ​ Musician's Discount Center can seem like it's half way to Key West if you live in downtown Miami, Cuba if you're in NMB, or Argentina if you're in Broward, but for Cutler Ridge, West Kendall, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Florida City, and the whole Down South, the store is pretty much just down the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Special Edition Gibson Guitar Designed by Lebo for Auction, Benefiting Haiti Relief Effort

    Help out Haiti and this could be yours.New Times and Gibson Musical Instruments are pleased to announce that we've put up for auction a Special Edition Reverse Flying V Gibson Guitar designed by South Florida artist Lebo. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the auction will go toward Partners i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    In Memory of Jay Reatard and Teddy Pendergrass

    via myspace.com/jayreatardJay ReatardRemember that retard guy with the moppy hair and flying-V guitar that was supposed to perform at Churchill's last January but didn't? You know? The guy from Memphis who called himself "Jay Reatard?" He died Wednesday, apparently in his sleep after complaining of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    News Roundup: Manny Headed to Harvard; Voters Head to Polls

    It's Election Day! All over again! Voters in Districts 1 and 5 will head to the polls to replace Angel Gonzalez and maybe Michelle Spence-Jones. [CBS4]Former Mayor Manny Diaz is headed to Harvard to be a resident fellow at the JFK School of Government. Guess this means his name is complete ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Video: Ugly Jordan Bandits Smash-and-Grab a Miami Foot Locker

    The fashion police are also investigatingTwo apparently related burglaries have police worried that a crime ring with really bad taste is preying on local shoe merchants. In the wee hours of December 30, five to six masked men in two cars crashed their way into the Foot Locker at 1076 Sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Throwback Video: Dimebag Shreds with Pantera Live in West Palm Beach 1997

    Dimebag Darrell lives!Every last tiny speck of brain matter splatted against the Columbus, Ohio stage he was riffing on when he was killed by a crazed gunman may have already been sold on Ebay, but the legend of Dimebag lives on through recorded documentation of his music.The video above features ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Watch Crispin Porter Bogusky Interns Rap, Hump Things in Coconut Grove

    I never had an internship. No one would have me. (OK, I got offered one at the Miami Herald once, but I was still in my "I don't think I really want to go into journalism -- it's a dying field" mode. Which turned out to be ironic on so many levels.) So, I have always been curious about th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    Crispin Porter Bogusky Interns Successfully Auctioned Off

    Officially, edgy advertising firm Crispin Porter Bogusky decided to auction off the services of their interns as a way to compensate the underpaid labor, but probably just to remind everyone how quirky the company is and get some press. Brammo, a maker of electronic mini-motorcycles, won the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Commemorate Your Ponzi Scheme Losses with a Nice Decorative Tile

    Have you been swindled out of your life savings in a massive Ponzi scheme? Are you looking for the perfect way to remember all those heady days of 15 percent returns before the market collapsed? Do you just love R. Allen Stanford's manly Texas mustache? via eBay listing We suggest you buy en ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2009

    Put some poetry in your bank

    Have you been swindled out of your life savings in a massive Ponzi scheme? Are you looking for the perfect way to remember all those heady days of 15 percent returns before the market collapsed? Do you just love R. Allen Stanford's manly Texas mustache? via eBay listing We suggest you buy en ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2008

    Buy, Buy Birkin

    Stalk the purse of your dreams.

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2008
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    December 17, 2007
  • Home Entertainment

    November 8, 2007

    A Little Sucky-Sucky

    Two vampire classics are back. Unfortunately, this time, they bite.

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2007

    Ikea: More Useless Crap?

    Two vampire classics are back. Unfortunately, this time, they bite.

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2006

    Still a Player

    Two vampire classics are back. Unfortunately, this time, they bite.

  • Shops and Wares

    May 12, 2005

    BEST LAUNDROMAT

    Miami Coin Laundry

  • Shops and Wares

    May 13, 2004

    BEST PAWNSHOP

    I-95 Pawn

  • Music

    January 8, 2004

    Sites and Sounds

    A collector's guide to shopping for music in cyberspace

  • Best of Music

    May 15, 2003
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