Opinion & Commentary

Hey, lost soul. Word is, you’ve been searching for some kind of trippy party shaman to lead you on a spirit quest to the center of your very own inner outer space. True? OK, then, it’s totally time you took a tab of that Space Voodoo Crystal stuff. Hence, today’s…

Well, that didn’t take long. WSVN and the Miami Herald report John Timoney is hanging up his Miami Police uniform. He’ll be gone by the beginning of the new year. Esquire once dubbed him “America’s Best Cop.” Miami New Times crowned him the nation’s worst cop. But rest assured, Timoney will…

*The party Heat_r is back up and running, bringing indie electro back to Fort Lauderdale, now at Exit 66. We heard it was pretty well-attended. The party’s ostensible web site, though, which was at heatrparty.com, seems to have been subsumed by a catch-all nightlife site called Nightcure.com — which hasn’t…

The morning breeze whips John Timoney’s rosy cheeks as he settles into his rowboat moored at the Miami Beach Rowing Club. He pushes off the dock and begins paddling up Indian Creek, soaking in the dry, mild November weather, pondering where his next gig will be.Maybe he’ll roll through Tomas…

A couple months ago, the City of Miami’s budget was about as well-balanced as Gary Busey on PCP. The Commission, Mayor Manny Diaz and the city’s three unions staged a vicious tug-of-war over who would feel the most pain in plugging a $118 million hole. But as Tomas Regalado prepares…

Our sister paper, New Times Broward-Palm Beach has done some pretty amazing reporting on the Scott Rothstein mess. Among the fallout from the alleged $57 million the Broward lawyer allegedly stole in a Ponzi scheme: South Beach.Gianni Versace’s former mansion on Ocean Drive, where a big buck restaurant and hotel…

Police arrested a Miami Southridge Senior High School teacher today on charges that he molested a 14-year-old boy on multiple occasions. The teacher, Frank Matthew Galatas, allegedly performed oral sex on the boy twice last month, says Officer Jeffrey Giordano, a spokesman for the Miami Police Department. Galatas, who is…

After Sleepless Night in Miami Beach this past Saturday, Crossfade’s Twitter friends (let’s follow each other, I’m at @Crossfade_SFL) and, uh, real-life people were raving about a performance by MASS Ensemble. This Malibu, California-based quartet performs a sort of global, downtempo trip-hop kind of thing, but the musicians do so…

When John Timoney swooped into the Magic City six years ago, watching him play up to the local media was like seeing Robert Duvall play Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. The sight of Timoney on his police bike taking out demonstrators during the 2003 Free Trade Area of…

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores.Top 5 Albums for the week of November 1 – 7Sweat Records, Miami1. No Seasons [LP], Jacuzzi Boys2. Hearts [CD], Awesome New Republic3. Embryonic [CD], Flaming Lips4. Operation Spacetime Cyderblock [LP], Kreamy ‘Lectric…

It’s a big night for Miami on cable reality TV tonight. Sadly, the second season of Miami Social hasn’t been picked up (yet?), but local locations serve as the backdrop for not one, not two, but three episodes of popular shows.As we mentioned, the girls of The City come to…

Hollywood band Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers have remained a recognizable presence on South Florida’s music scene for over a decade. They’ve released three records, and have a fourth on the way called ¡Socialismo Americano!, due out Thanksgiving week. For a peek into the upcoming release, Mr. Entertainment (a.k.a. Steve…

According to the Yacht Manifesto #1: “Yacht is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA.” Also, Yacht “seeks to explore frontiers and to expand awareness of extraterrestrial Intelligence” and “believes in an Afterlife,” but “does not…

Here we were thinking Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami was an authentic documentary looking at the real lives of two young girls trying to make it in the Magic City, but *gasp* new revelations seem to reveal that it was actually some sort of heavily manipulated pseudo-reality program milked for…

Every so often, Banana Republican daydreams of traveling the world with Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas, serenading her with the sweet sounds of the toot flute in Peru. I also fantasize about not spending a dime to visit Macchu Pichu and the like. I mean, while services are being whacked,…

DJ Purfiya is from the city of Palmetto, Florida, just south of Tampa. He’s affiliated with Miami’s own Slip N Slide Records as one of their official DJs.Wednesday, rumors hit the Internet — namely Twitter — that he had died due to complications of the flu. Yesterday we found out…

As far as I know, there were two Miami boyz playing in the World Series — A-Rod (Westminster) and Raul Ibanez (Sunset) — as well as a lot of Dominicans and others who spend significant time here. Though Hideki Matsui won the MVP — and he’s a Yankee I generally…

Last night, the monster magnet lodged at the end of my shopping cart dragged me, yet again, directly to the cookie aisle. I gazed in awe at the vast selection that lined the shelves, wondering where my favorite cookie jar filler could be found. Panic overrode the incessant drooling when…

​The last time New Times caught up to Dainamite, Miami’s hardest-working reggaeton artist was bouncing back and forth between a seminar called “A Millionaire’s Approach” (where he was the lone invited performer) and American Tévé (where he was about to make his third appearance in as many weeks). Well, less…

Christopher de los Reyes says Miami Beach needs a king, not a mayor

Barack Talk Get to work, big O: “No Justice” (James Lieber, October 29) was great. President Obama should read it and get rid of most of his treasury officials. He should put Brooksley Born, the lady who tried to regulate derivatives under President Clinton, in her place. He should put…