Swazy Styles is one of the more polarizing figures coming out of the local rap scene right now. People either love or really hate his song “Birthday Suit,” a shameless party-rocker which hinges on a sample from the Tetris theme song, of all things. This is a song aimed squarely at females…
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 discusses Al Gore’s sex scandal and his pending divorce from wife Tipper.I want to congratulate former Vice…
Hemlock was a Miami disco band in the late ’70s that had a hit dance single called “Disco Break.” It got them a 12-inch record pressed by Warner Bros., and a soundtrack credit on a teen comedy called Swap Meet. We found Hemlock on YouTube in a video uploaded earlier today…
Oh, boy. This is gonna be fun.The Short Order bloggers decided it’s high time we gave the slapdown to some Miami eateries that charge too much, serve bland eats, pay more attention to their decor than the diners, and generally put a bad taste in our mouths, literally and figuratively…
A real-life episode of Burn Notice essentially played out this weekend at a Miami Beach hotel, complete with a mysterious shooting death, a hastily evacuated foreign head of state, a deathly bad odor, and a hazmat team.It’s not clear whether Bruce Campbell was involved — but frankly, we’re not ready…
Every once in awhile Mother Nature fucks up real bad and rolls a poor three-faced freak off the reproductive assembly line. We’ve all seen kittens and piglets and even human babies with five eyes, two and a half mouths, and one kaleidoscopically malformed nose. Back in the dark ages, these…
Put on your moon walkin’ shoes and remind everyone that Billie Jean was not your lover: Michael Jackson passed away from cardiac arrest exactly one year ago today. The King of Pop’s untimely death was greeted by a global outpour from fans, as everyone grieved and tried to find their…
Andrea Curto-Randazzo, who with husband Frank forms the chef/ownership team of Talula, mentioned in an interview published over the weekend that they are trying to sell their South Beach restaurant. We’re sorry, if not surprised, to hear the news, and thought we’d try to help the culinary couple by seeing if…
Valholla Entertainment continues its fight for dominance with a strong team of artists who are all poised to make their mark in the industry soon enough. To name a couple, there’s R&B artist Kirby Maurier, and hip-hop artist Phatz (who we’ve featured a few times already). But now there’s also Ramzez, who’s…
Self-titled EP (Smooth Lips Records)myspace.com/nobuhjest As cool and casual as it might be to sit here and make and odd and/or end out of the whole post – punk, post – hardcore, post – post – post – whatever debacle, I feel like I’ve been beating off into the frappe blender…
Banana Republican has a sneaking suspicion that Jenny Nillo is a ringer in an important state Senate race. Nillo is a former legislative aide to state Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who can’t run again because of term limits. Since last year, Alex’s brother Miguel has been locked in…
Naked on bikes for the BP spill
Letters from the issue of June 24, 2010
Uncle Luke talks sex at the strip club
Earlier this week Crossfade featured an interview with Mr. Flores and in that same interview we debuted a video of the track “Mean to Be Mean.” It was recorded this past fall inone take, like a well-oiled machine, with the lineup of Jose Flores (guitar/vocals), Gus Rod (guitar), Danny Palacios (bass),…
Any self respecting “Queer Issue” has to have a good six pack on the cover. Our sister publication up in New York, the Village Voice, managed to grab the most talked about abs in the land: that of the Situation.Yes, three of the boys (sorry fellas, apparently no softcore DJ…
The Jamaican drug lord whose gang once terrorized Miami is in custody, The Guardian is reporting. Christopher “Dudus” Coke was a Robin Hood in Jamaica. At least 73 people on the island have died in battles with police, who were trying to bring him in. The United States has called…
Local songstress CeCe Segarra has been positioned as the next dance-pop star from Miami, and while she’s largely just made club appearances up to now, she may finally have her breakout track. In a major coup for a relatively unknown new artist, she’s scored a feature from newly freed Gucci…
When we saw that the Wall Street Journal whipped up a stipple portrait of Conchita, the Ginger-wig-wearing Chihuahua that belonged to the late Miami socialite Gail Posner, Banana Republican got to thinking what a grand life these little bug-eyed rat-dogs lead. So we compiled a list of the five most…
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 confirms the champagne room is used for more than sipping bubbly in many Miami-Dade strip clubs after…
Tokyo Police Club wowed us at the Fillmore just last weekend when they opened up for Passion Pit. But their sugar-high charged sweet sounding tunes are no match for an alternative rock legend.Bassist for the Smiths (yes, that Smiths) Andy Rourke has taken it upon himself to remix Tokyo Police…
Dear Anders Gyllenhaal,It is not breaking news when the Wall Street Journal scooped you three days earlier.Cheers,Banana Republican…
