The letter arrived at the judge’s chambers in 2003, signed by a public defender-turned-convict named Anthony Genova. He had been busted for drunk driving, was a self-described Xanax addict, and did time for bankruptcy fraud. It was addressed to his old courthouse buddies — judges and attorneys — explaining he had found Jesus behind bars. His…
Trash Talk A real pain: I can’t believe these a**hole writers are telling out-of-towners how to get pain pills (“Super Blow,” Michael J. Mooney and Gus Garcia-Roberts, February 4). It’s hard enough to get them for my real pain, let alone telling people how to score just to get high…
*It’s been a while since we checked in on REVMiami, Ric Delgado’s webzine that aims to capture the underground music and arts culture of the city — well, mostly along the Biscayne Corridor. It’s been almost a damn year and he’s still at it, for which he deserves major kudos…
It’s all but officially confirmed that season two of the immensely popular reality-TV train wreck Jersey Shore will be shot in South Beach, and we have no doubt that 90 percent of the time, Snooki, the Situation, JWow, and the five others no one cares about will be indulging in…
The image above is of the sleepy-looking beachside town called Hallandale, Florida and gives no indication of the city’s Black musical history. But the Palms in Hallandale, just north of Miami, otherwise known as the Million Dollar Palms, was a major stop on the Chitlin Circuit, a nationwide string of…
Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega met with gay leaders earlier this afternoon at city hall, promising changes one week after the ACLU announced a suit charging that Beach cops regularly harass gay men in Flamingo Park. Noriega stressed that the two officers at the center of the ACLU suit…
Reality-TV princess Snooki was in Miami over the weekend and declared on her Twitter page: “I’m comin asap I’m movin to Miami!”Looks like she’ll get her wish, because MovieLine.com reports that season two of the breakout MTV hit Jersey Shore will be shot in South Beach.The website claims the show will begin…
News that Rep. Kendrick Meek is sponsoring NASCAR driver Mike Wallace’s car in this weekend’s Daytona 500, as well as being part of Wallace’s pit crew, had Banana Republican scratching his peel.The South Florida Democrat, who is giving up his congressional seat to run for the U.S. Senate, does not…
While most of the city was freaking out over the Super Bowl, some other legends were in town on Friday night: Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead. In a pretty unusual booking for downtown Miami, the two touched down at the recently revamped Bayfront Park Amphitheater…
After a seemingly endless heyday, rap-rock eventually became one of the most reviled musical artifacts of the end of the last millennium. But it’s been more than a decade since then. Fred Durst has disappeared from everywhere except Twitter, and critical darlings like Cage are starting to rhyme over guitars…
Over the weekend, Florida International University men’s basketball coach Isiah Thomas denied a Foxsports.com report that the Los Angeles Clippers were courting him to be the NBA team’s president, general manager, and coach.During his postgame conference following the Golden Panthers’ latest home loss, Thomas said, “I’m very happy here at FIU…..
Locos Por Juana are fuckin’ awesome, and we’ve got the proof. Welcome to our first edition of Crossfade Live, where we bring you our original high definition concert recordings from bands and venues all over South Florida.Today we bring you a full, live album we recorded Friday night at Jazid. If you’ve…
As the New Times reported last week, Monotonix’s trip to South Florida ended when only twelve minutes into its set, the band’s singer Ami Shalev stopped to say: “After more than 700 shows, I think I finally broke my leg.” Seemed like a joke at the time, but it turned…
Here’s a track from the forthcoming collaborative effort between some of South Florida’s most notorious, adept and unfortunately under-recognized musicians. We’re talking here about Bobby Tak (formerly of the Bobs and New Wave sensations the Cichlids), guitar master Charlie Pickett, and Ian Hammond (of the DT Martyrs).I’ll be examining their…
Turns out North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso is not so neighborly. James Carter, a mortgage broker who lives next to Alfonso’s three-bedroom waterfront house at 7520 W Treasure Dr., says his property gets completely soaked in water every time hizzoner turns on the sprinklers.Carter says he’s angry that the…
Word on the street is some kind of athletic contest will take place in the Miami area this weekend. Such frivolous spectacles do not interest Riptide. We are more fascinated by contests of the mind — or, more specifically, finding out who’s been really dumb in the county this week…
From Miami New Times Editor Chuck Strouse:I hate Girl Scout cookies. They started just as the first World War ended in Muskogee Oklahoma. That’s right, the year of the Russian Revolution, they were peddled in a high school cafeteria. That was just five years after the Girl Scouts themselves got…
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma BombeckNot all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.~Dave BarryMTV…
Can’t blame Commissioner Katy Sorenson for calling it a day. Sixteen years is a long time to spend battling the unreformable majority on the county commission.For a decade and a half, Sorenson has consistently been the voice of ethical reason on an elected body that has often voted in favor of…
It’s Friday and the radio’s reporting a current temp of 83 degrees. Your Datsun’s dash clock is busted but your Casio wristwatch reads 7:39 p.m., which means this trip is still on schedule, but barely. You’re bored, sick of the public airwaves and things like the weather, so you press…
We’re not sure if this is a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare, but the prospect of the Jersey Shore cast coming to South Beach for season two just got a little more real.TMZ reports producers sent a letter to Mynt Lounge asking if they’d be able to shoot footage for…
Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega certainly picked a terrible day to leave the Beach for an out-of-state conference. First came a fiery meeting with the City Commission, when the police union decried plans to force them to help make up a city budget deficit. Then, lost amidst the sound…
