Knowing that tomorrow will be Natacha Seijas’s last day as a county commissioner has us all queasy like a twelfth grader on the last day of school. It’s like Banana Republican is entering the unknown unknown, a surreal world without the poster lady for bad local government. Her departure had…
Rick Scott’s racist clemency rules
UPDATE: Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle stands by her decision to prosecute Michelle Spence-Jones for bribery, claiming the judge presiding over the suspended Miami city commissioner’s trial screwed up the verdict’s outcome.”We disagree with the judge’s interpretation of bribery law,” Rundle said in a statement released shortly after a…
Go ahead and call us degenerate gamblers. But we here at Crossfade are hardly alone in the belief that life is infinitely less boring when you’re betting on it. Whether the action is competitive vodka-guzzling, the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, or the arrival patterns of Miami-Dade County public transportation,…
In this week’s New Times, we profile Richard Moss, basic training director of Miami Dade College’s School of Justice, who has a troubled past. We investigate Moss, who was demoted from chief to commander when he was with the Broward Sherriff’s Office because of insubordination.The report also documents complaints filed against…
Natacha Seijas was right to worry about her name appearing on the same recall ballot as Carlos Alvarez. She was swept up in the voter tsunami that also took out the now former county mayor. Many local political pundits didn’t give Miami Voice, the political action committee that sought Seijas’s…
Mayoral candidate and Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell wants to get it on. At the ballot box. Not the champagne room. Now that voters have shown Carlos Alvarez the exit door, the onetime raunchiest man in hip-hop is calling on the county commission to set a date for another…
The Miami-Dade Elections Department is reporting that initial absentee ballots show an overwhelming majority of those voters want Carlos Alvarez and Natacha Seijas out of here. Early voting numbers and today’s election day results are still pending. Earlier this afternoon, like the rest of the precincts in Miami-Dade County, voting…
When I was a student at New York University, my boyfriend and I used to eat cheap Mexican food practically every day. At Panchito’s on MacDougal Street, you could get a giant platter of nachos and guacamole for about $6. Plus the place served alcohol to minors without batting an…
Six million of you have already endured it. Gawker asked if it was “the worst music video ever.” Meanwhile, foreign press like The Sydney Morning Herald wonders why it has overtaken the Japanese earthquake and tsunami devastation on Twitter.Of course, we’re talking about the gone-viral-for-all-the-wrong-reasons video of unknown Rebecca Black’s…
If you’ve paid any attention to television, radio, internet, or even smoke signals rising from a faraway tribe, you’ve no doubt heard a little bit about Charlie Sheen in the news lately. But let us go on record right here and now as saying that the man is, in our…
Today is it for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and County Commissioner Natacha Seijas, who are on the verge of becoming the first county elected officials to get recalled since the ’70s. An official poll and our informal poll show the two politicians are going down for the count, victims of…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 explains why Rick Scott is helping the criminal justice system keep African-Americans down. Last week, Florida Gov…
There’s this shared fantasy among neo-hippies, blissed-out druggies, and naïve first-time festival-goers that three-day music extravaganzas like Ultra Music Festival are all about fun and friendship. But here’s the real deal: The music festival experience is an arduous and often dangerous 72-hour trip into a deep, dance-y heart of darkness…
“This is a Miami restaurant,” Emeril’s Miami Beach’s new executive chef, Tim Doolittle, said to Clean Plate Charlie. It was by way of explaining why Emeril’s, named after New Orleans’ most recognized chef, doesn’t serve much in the way of food from that city. “It’s owned by a guy who became famous…
Natacha Seijas can feel good about one thing as she fights her recall. The campaign is creating work for one of her pals in a rough economy. The county commissioner’s anti-recall political action committee has spent $100,411 — nearly half of Seijas’ war chest — through Creative Ideas Advertising Inc.,…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special online edition, Luke encourages Miami-Dade residents to exercise your right to vote the bums out of office.People…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken in Miami-Dade County in the week previous. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain-out look more badass than we ever will . This is the italicized intro to that…
A Miami Lakes resident who supports Natacha Seijas has hijacked Miami Voice’s identity. On February 18, Dr. David Bennett, along with another Miami Lakes resident, incorporated a nonprofit organization bearing the same name as the committee seeking Natacha Seijas’s recall. Vanessa Brito, chairwoman of Miami Voice the PAC, is crying…
With the news that Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess is using county resources to help “set the record straight” about all the great and wonderful things he and his clan of bureaucrats do for us ungrateful residents, Banana Republican thought we’d go ahead and remind everyone about the disgustingly rich…
CBS and Sports Illustrated lie about black athletes
Letters from the issue of March 10, 2011
