Lewis BlackSaturday, January 24, 2009The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason TheaterBetter Than: Crying about things.The Bush Administration may be gone, but don’t think for a second that they’ve taken away all of Lewis Black’s targets. “People think stupidity left the country,” cracks Black. Well, it didn’t.Cases in point:…
Nightlife task force meetings in Miami Beach might be the only place you’ll find dudes with forearm tattoos and sideways baseball hats sitting at a conference table with a city commissioner and diplomatically discussing city policy. On Friday, the owners and managers of some of the Beach’s most popular entertainment…
This is horrible, and part of me feels like an ass for pointing this out, but last night I stopped by The Miami Herald’s website, because that is what one does in order to stay abreast of the important going-ons in our municipality, and I see this sad headline. It…
There was this horrible, senseless shooting in Liberty City. Sigh. Authorities want information on a masked gunmen. [CNN]The Speaker of the Florida House continues to lawyer up and refuses to resign as of yet. [Herald]Carl Hiaasen: “Republican lawmakers would rather invest in new asphalt than in your children.” [Herald]Two teen…
Some Moroccan guy was one of 2744 people who ran the ING marathon Sunday, He got lost, but still won in 2:16:40.. Almost 10.000 people ran the half marathon. Some, like me, really slow. I did the course in a a pathetic 2 hours and six minutes.My favorite moments were…
Obama was actually inaugurated! And one of those three billion people in attendance was a New Times writer! Most of us just watched in the conference room, though. Outgoing president Bush has left us speechless (in a bad way), but nut nearly as much as Aretha’s hat (in a good…
Several years ago the United States of America, the greatest country on the face of the Earth ever, faced off against known terrorist organization “The Confederate States of America.” We ended up kicking their ass, because that’s how we roll (I am technically Southern by birth, Northern by Heritage, thank…
Benedict XVI is the first Pope to take office in the information age, and as such will have to endure internet memes like these for all of his term. So it’s no surprise the holy leader of Miami’s biggest religion is taking on the internet. According to the AP, the…
Oh, look. Another controversial ad campaign. Guess who’s behind it? *Yawn* Crisping Porter + Bogusky. Seems, the ad wunderkinds have the Domino’s account. The pizza chain is now entering the sandwich sector, and going after Subway. Their recent ads indicated that according to a “taste test” consumers prefer Domino’s new…
Cigar Aficianado normally devotes its editorial content to, as the name suggests, cigars and the celebrities that love them. Yes, they’ve always been against the Cuban Embargo, but their February issue goes all Atlantic-esque high brow, ditches the smokey celeb portrait, and puts their political leanings front and center with…
We received a voicemail from an even-toned, religiously minded reader of this week’s feature, “Holy Hustler.” The story, which focuses on embattled Liberty City pastor Vincent Spann, had our reader weighing the good and bad aspects of the preacher — and returning a scathing verdict:I was reading your article about…
It is common knowledge among conservative bloggers that the mainstream media was totally in the tank for Barack Obama during the whole election, but now that he’s actually president, it seems they don’t really know what to do with themselves. So they’ve reverted back to the only thing they’ve known…
This past Tuesday, January 20, 2009, things changed forever. Something inside the American people clicked, something that will have repercussions for years to come. It was the realization that Aretha Franklin’s bow hat is friggin’ awesome, and we, as a country, would not rest until it become part of our…
Normally, posts about locally based musicians gaining national prominence with music videos being played on cable channels go up over on our music blog, CrossFade. But usually, those videos are being played on BET or MTV, not CNBC. Such is the case with Miami Beach resident Bill Zucker, whose “The TARP…
As gatekeepers to the illustrious Night & Day section, we have email inboxes that are assaulted with party flyers alllll day long. Some advertise nondescript functions that should never be discussed beyond a church bulletin board and others are cool as hell. But every once in a while we get…
Fidel Castro suggests in a column he might not be following international affairs in four years. Maybe because he’ll be dead? [CBS4]Anyway, here he is with the President of Argentina. His first new picture in some time. [Herald]The South Beach Comedy Festival may not be selling as many tickets this…
Every time Forbes publishes another list of “Top XX Best Cities for YYYYY” a part of us is so happy about the easy blog post that will ensue, but another part of us thinks, “ugh, another Forbes listacle.” This time around Miami is number six on the “Most-Wired American Cities”…
Enterprising videographer Jacob Katel spent a night in Pastor Vincent Spann’s Basic Training Deliverance Academy, which is featured in this week’s New Times’ feature story, Holy Hustler. The video documents conversations and give a great glimpse into this wild boot camp/addict rehab/Pentecostal church in troubled Liberty City.Let’s start in the…
Alonzo Mourning, one of the Heat’s most celebrated franchise players, announced his retirement today, rather than attempt a comeback after a devastating leg injury in 2007. “I truly feel it’s best that I retire,” Mourning said at a news conference. “When you’ve got something you love and you’re passionate about,…
Here, for reasons I do not fully understand, is a picture of reality television personalities Hulk and Brooke Hogan driving around South Beach in an Escalade-styled golf cart of sorts on Inauguration day. There’s an entire gallery at CelebSlam. As Mickey Rourke returns to glory for his role as an…
One has to wonder what was going through Sen. Mel Martinez’s mind when President Bush’s helicopter took off from Washington this past Tuesday. Before Bush chose Martinez to be his first HUD secretary, he was a little-known Florida fixture who had run an unsuccessful lieutenant governor campaign with some wingnut from…
This morning President Obama signed the order to close Guantanamo, as he has been promising to do for weeks, but it is unlikely the doors to the detention center will close anytime soon. That’s because no one is sure what to do with the 250 or so people still detained…
