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, Stiff Pole…
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 goes to bat for Wyclef Jean.Wyclef Jean should have the opportunity to become Haiti’s president. He should…
That’s Right Lebron, I’m Talkin’ To YouAs reported by Lesley Abravanel, LeBron James gave Barton G. some tweet love, writing that it “has the BEST presentation of food, drinks and dessert I’ve ever seen in my life”.Listen up, LeBron: I’ll go one-on-one against you in restaurant reviewing anytime, anywhere. I’m…
Pretty much every word Sean Rowe ever spoke was poetry. Even after he was hit by a train and survived. I don’t say that as praise. I’m not fawning. He just had a way about him.He arrived in Miami in 1989 to work at the Miami Herald, where I was…
Call 305-441-5966 and you will reach Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff’s private law office, located at 3000 Shipping Ave., a two-story residence right next door to the property he calls home.Since before he was elected commissioner in 2006, Sarnoff has remained steadfast that his business address is absolutely legal and that…
Some people thought the second season of Jersey Shore wouldn’t work because the formerly anonymous guidos had become media superstars. Others thought the move to Miami Beach would take away some of the magic. So far, that hasn’t been the case. What’s really dragging down the second season is that…
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, The Button South in Hallandale was the place for punk and heavy metal. Every night, sweaty hordes of South Floridians would converge to rock out, head-bang, and hail Satan until sunrise.Now, The Button South is rising from the sulfurous ashes, at least for…
DJ EFX has been heavy on the South Florida mixtape scene and definitely left a mark on creating highly demanded instrumental mixtapes – as well as “Best Of” mixtapes. And more recently over the past couple years, EFX has been driven in the “Music Video DVDs” market that not a…
Pobrecito Julito. Hialeah’s mayor can’t catch a break these days. He is battling the city unions over pensions and the city budget. He is dodging questions about his business relationship with $40 million Ponzi schemer Luis Felipe Perez, as well as inquiries about personal deals he has made with city…
Regardless of which, these guys brought something to our little scene that bordered on the weird and we were so thankful for it. Before skinny jeans and plaid hoodies, before our local hipster glitterati found its inherent genre-blending, Pool Party concocted a seamless transition between punk rock pop, electro, techno,…
Sex and astrology at Taurus in Coconut Grove
Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado needs to go
Letters from the issue of August 26, 2010
Still fairly new to the scene, in a few short years DJ Troy Kurtz went from “Who?” to one of the Overthrow’s resident DJs and half of TKO (a side project with local DJ Damaged Goods). Now he’s released a proper (first?) mini-mix that shows off a style few get…
Florida Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria and team president Dave Samson have been exposed for the treacherous, no good, low down, lying dogs they are. Sports blog Deadspin got a hold of the Marlins’ financial information which shows the team turned a profit the last two years and that the team…
With one of the most brutal primary elections in the bag, it’s time to sift through the carnage. Let’s start with the winners.The Dark Side of the Force: Using $50 million of his own money, tea party favorite Darth Sideous Rick Scott powered his way past Bill McCollum to win…
Will Bill McCollum and Kendrick Meek hold back the two millionaire candidates? Will Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado’s blossoming political machine get his daughter a seat on the Miami-Dade School Board? Will Dorrin Rolle survive his scandalous year to win another term to the county commission? Will David Rivera overcome a brutal…
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 calls out Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado. Miami really needs to get rid of Mayor Tomas Regalado. It’s…
Before Lil Wayne went away, as they say, he was the omnipresent rapper. Lil Wayne was on everything, to the point that when our sister paper the OC Weekly ran this (what seemed obviously) satirical story saying he would collaborate on a High School Musical soundtrack, people actually believed it. Now, the…
52-0. That’s how many times incumbent county commissioners have won at the polls since 1994. And it certainly looks like Jose “Pepe” Diaz, Javier Souto, or Dorrin Rolle will keep that winning streak alive by the time the polls close tomorrow.Diaz, who raised $325,000 to crush an opponent who collected…
Sniffing the winds of bloggy change, it seems like with the turning of the seasons is coming a backlash to the wave of feel-good, dreamy beach-rock that dominated this summer. This is silly for several reasons:1) Backlash is hilarious when many of these bands have yet to release a full-length…
Sorry, folks, we weren’t here to recap last week’s Jersey Shore because someone literally cut the cable wire outside our house and then we got a debilitating sore throat. It was horrible. Not as horrible as actually watching this show, but still horrible.But we’re back to documenting the antics of…
