Opinion & Commentary

Tobacco Road turns 97. What would you like to do before you’re that old?

Already more than $2 billion over budget and more than three years behind schedule, Miami International Airport’s north terminal is about to suck more money from Miami-Dade County.This Friday, aviation department bureaucrats will ask the county commission’s airport and seaport committee to sign off on adding $46 million to a…

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top Five Albums for the Week of November 23 – 29 Sweat Records, Miami 1. Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures 2. Swords, Morrissey 3. Warp20 Series, Various Artists 4. Through the…

Free Pizza With BaselLuna Corner Pizza (6815 Biscayne Blvd.) is throwing a grand opening bash this coming Saturday, December 5th, from noon to 6:00 p.m., right smack dab in the middle of the Taste of MiMo festival, right smack dab in the middle of Art Basel. Free tastings of gourmet…

Behind The Music Miami Part 2 follows host Mayweather Live through Miami Recording Studio, where Triple X produces and engineers what he calls “urban Latino music, “and Suthun Boy Studio, where Gorilla Tek makes beats.Suthun Boy talks about Liberty City’s Pork N Beans projects and why living there is all…

The saga of “Erin” — the nude, giant-posteriored female character that artist Daniel Fila first spray-painted onto a wall on Biscayne Boulevard at NE 37th Street in 2003 — has been rife with plot twists. First, a pushy conservative artist, presumably offended by the giant cheeks marking Miamians’ commute, whitewashed the figure…

Chris Brown is not a nice guy. He’s not a good guy. And he doesn’t deserve a break, no matter what Kanye West, Terrrence Howard, or Akon say. Nor does he deserve anyone’s money Sunday when he performs at Revolution. Anyone remember how he beat the crap out of Rihanna…

The following passages have been excerpted from a story in Third Helpings, by Calvin Trillin, which can also be found as part of Trillin’s The Tummy Trilogy, (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: New York, 1994): I have been campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed from turkey to spaghetti carbonara…

Here are some jokes we collected from across the internets. Happy Thanksgiving.-Why can’t you take a turkey to church?Because they use such FOWL language-What did the turkey say before it was roasted?Boy! I’m stuffed!-Imagine… if the Pilgrims had shot a bobcat instead of a Turkey, we’d be eating pussy for…

Scarlet Letters Pulp fiction: Regarding the cover story about the South Dade pimp and his brothel, “Gilded Cage” (Natalie O’Neill, November 19): Wow, is this real? What kind of journalist writes as if she is writing a best-selling book? Amazing story. The only problem — if indeed it is a…

Like the amplified and remixed white noise of a midnight tide shift as seen on TV, there are squalls and snarls of late-summer indie-pop bleeding from a bedroom studio in Macon, Georgia. All software synths, samples, drum machines, and dreamy vocal layers — this is the faraway, New Wave-y work…

The sad saga of Marlon “X-Large” Moore has come to an end with a decidedly un-X-large prison sentence.Moore, you may remember, was arrested this summer after one of the best diabolical schemes ever hatched somehow failed to net him a $14 trillion payday. Fresh out of the federal pen after…

Last night, Banana Republican spoke with a political consultant who worked on Francis Suarez’s campaign who insisted the new commissioner did not have private discussions with his new colleagues about who to pick to replace Angel Gonzalez.The city commission — down to three members with the ouster of Gonzalez and…

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Top Five Albums for the Week of November 16 – 22 Sweat Records, Miami 1. Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures2. No Seasons LP, Jacuzzi Boys 3. Hearts, Awesome New Republic 4…

The opening night for the Modernesque Burlesque troupe at Respectable Street Saturday was a glamorous sequin-filled celebration of movement and the female body. It was also “new, fresh, and unused,” in the words of the cheeky mistress of ceremonies Torchy Taboo, age “none of your fucking business.” Looking like a…

Newly elected Miami City Commissioner Francis Suarez may have unwittingly scuttled plans to appoint a replacement for Angel Gonzalez, who last week resigned from the commission as part of his guilty plea deal with prosecutors.Commission Chairman Marc Sarnoff has called an emergency meeting for tomorrow to address the two commission…

Yesterday morning, Crossfade contributor Lee Zimmerman gave a pretty thorough run-down of Jackson Browne’s show this past Saturday at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Still, sometimes a YouTube video is worth a thousand words, and these two snippets capture a couple themes present in Zimmerman’s review. First, despite the solo-acoustic style…

Miami-Dade County commissioners are gearing up to revamp the Miami Metro Action Plan Trust, the social and economic redevelopment agency created in the wake of the racial riots that rocked the county during the ’80s.On December 1, the commission will vote to reconstitute the trust into the Miami-Dade Housing Civil…

They had a sign up: the lobsters were flown in. How cruel is that? Think about that — let’s say you’re a lobster, you’ve never been on an airplane before — what else can you think, but you’ve won the lobster sweepstakes? ~Richard JeniWith a wok, in the privacy of…

Lizard King Jim Morrison, one of the most influential American rock singers ever, was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943.He went to UCLA film school, graduated, and hung out on Venice Beach, where he and Ray Manzarek started The Doors.There’s a famous incident that took place at Dinner…