Last night’s Miami Social was all about children: the kind you want but can’t have, the kind you find are accidentally going to pop out in nine months, the kind you send away to Switzerland, and the kind that are 30-something professionals who live in South Beach. The main drama again…
Last summer, South Florida sank under a spectacularly burst housing bubble that had been inflated well beyond reason by speculators, absent investors, and more than a few outright criminals.In June ’08, the U.S. Attorney’s Office created a task force to track down the last — the fraudsters who helped dig…
Local drag queen Jessica Wild better get ready to work! Turn to the left. Work! Now turn to the right. Work! Sashay, you stay, because she’s been cast in the next season of Logo’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. She wasn’t cast in the traditional manner; she won an online casting competition to…
DJ Ryan Smith a.k.a Induce! flexes his house muscles on this live set from the Viceroy Hotel’s Club 50 way up on the 50th floor at the Icon on Brickell. Smith is an avid vinyl collector with thousands of pieces in his collection and he parlays that to great effect…
Uncle Sam’s Music, South Beach1. Playtime, Cielo2. Party Rock, LMFAO3. Fantasies, Metric4. Number Ones, Michael Jackson5. Fame, Lady GagaSweat Records, Miami1. Octahedron, Mars Volta2. The Ecstatic, Mos Def3. West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Kasabian4. Merriweather Post-Pavilion, Animal Collective5. Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors…
The Miami Dolphins are for sale to the highest musical bidders. Gloria Estefan and Marc Anthony have both recently bought minority shares of the franchise, leaving us all wondering: Who’s next? We’ve compiled a list of 10 most wanted musicians with a tie to Miami who would be great partial…
Ah, how I miss Joe Arriola. The boisterous ex-city manager was always good for a laugh. So it was nice to see Arriola, who appears to have shed a few pounds, as a guest on WBPT’s community talk show, Issues, this past July 24. During a 15-minute interview with host…
The Fourth Annual Florida State Rag Popping Championship took place July 28, 1988 at Tobacco Road. The competition was presided over by the International Rag Popping Association. According to the 1988 issue of New Times promoting the event, “rag popping is an eclectic mix of dance, rhythm, and juggling, all…
Bond Street, one of our best sushi establishments, is opening a branch in the tony Thompson Beverly Hills hotel (the flagship Bond Street is in NY – SoBe’s opened in 2001). One of the cooler treats at the new place will be soy sauce “caviar”, tiny dots of the dark…
First, check out New Times’ Warped Tour photo slideshows — click here for the bands, click here for the fans and the fashions.Saturday proved meteorologically unpredictable in West Palm Beach. This year’s edition of the Warped Tour had migrated pretty far north from its usual South Florida venues in Miami…
New Times does its best to get with pretty much every South Florida DJ, as long as they’re active. But DJ Erok’s so damn active that we can’t seem to get a hold of him. Oh, we sat down and interviewed the Galveston, Texas native for Head Spins months ago,…
The weekend’s International Bullriding Championship presented by Joana Bueno at the Bergeron Rodeo Grounds in Davie, Florida taught us many important lessons. For one, we learned that Brazilian cowboys, against whom a U.S. team were pitted for bullriding supremacy, take the sport quite seriously. We also saw that standing too…
Ben Novack Jr was into some crazy, crazy shit like amputee porn.Ft. Myers Beach fired their town manager because her wife stars in movie where her characters are described thusly: “Jazella Moore is a scandalous MILF. She’s already slept with her son’s friend once and was able to keep it…
Forget about the Aqua Girl thing and that Just Add Water party. Don’t think about the Standard and that rad view of the bay they have.This is the real Pool Party. The last time Pool Party played was at Sweat Records’ COLTOBERFEST 305, last October. No one has seen or…
Believe it … There are chimps living among us. And when these wild animals aren’t busy ripping the faces off unwitting citizens, they’re insidiously hard to spot. Cleverly camouflaged in people clothes with their hair cropped and parted smartly down the middle of the skull, they’re shopping in our supermarkets…
Yes, it’s no secret I hang out at the Poorhouse in Fort Lauderdale a lot. But here’s a new event worth mentioning at the bar: My Pod Mondays. It started a few weeks ago and is hosted by the place’s legendary bartender, Mr. Jon Owens. People interested in putting their…
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. ~Woody AllenNow that it’s fashionable to reveal intimate details of married life, I can state publicly that my wife, Alice, has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a…
Gregory Poux was killed last night around the corner from New Times, at the Windwood Car Wash on NE Second Avenue. The 34-year-old who lived up the street in Little Haiti was shot multiple times and then died at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The Miami Herald and cops portrayed the death as tragic. He cared…
Our sister paper in San Francisco notes that Miami-Dade’s new $200K housing director Gregg Fortner isn’t particularly well liked back home: Two quotes from the piece: “Fortner fell out of favor with [Gavin] Newsom after the mayor discovered a city-built playground at the Sunnydale development torched for the second time…
Murder (And Politics) Most Foul Goodbye, Jess: “‘Til Death” (Michael J. Mooney, July 16), about the woman who killed her estranged wife, is beautifully written but terribly sad. It seems like Jessica was a wonderful lady the world will miss a lot. I’ll have both of these women in my…
Stories from TattooLaPalooza at the Miami Beach Convention Center
