Sorry Joan Rivers, but we like our award recipients unwashed, uncouth, and unwilling. Let’s go to the red carpet of regional idiocy! 3. The Proposed Don’t-Feed-The-Homeless Rule We don’t usually give these awards to policies, but this clinched it: Though the change could draw objections, David Karsh, spokesman for Development…
Back in January when the New Times named Lil Daggers’ limited-edition Stragglers Tour EP to our “Best Local Albums of 2009” list, we said: “If you were either lucky or obsessed enough to score one of these exceedingly rare 10-inch discs at the outset, you’ll already agree Yuri, Ruben, Gabe,…
Conjuring up 9-11, which was carried out in part by terrorists who’d used phony student visas to enter the States, federal prosecutors charged two Miami women this afternoon with running a bogus school in Miami to sell fake visas to foreigners. Lydia Menochal, who is 58, and 75-year-old Ofelia Macia…
Even if our readers won’t be able to make it to Vancouver’s Biltmore Cabaret in April, special props to graphic artist Vincent Parker for his lobster-y lettered Surfer Blood/Turbo Fruits poster design. Check out a lot more eye-melting concert art, including another SoFla fave Blowfly, the Ruby Suns, Why?, and…
We realize there are probably some people who play their Creed records late at night, when no one else is awake, so as not to let anyone know their deep, dark secret: that they still listen to Creed.But didn’t most of us agree to pretend that Creed, Scott Stapp, and…
Last Thursday, Destroyio Records invaded Churchill’s again. And every species of Miami punk was there: Hialeah soccer hooligans, dreaded lezzies, Calle Ocho crusties, Subhumans squat rats, weekend anarchists, Misfits aerobics instructors, hardcore dudes with neck tattoos, etc. It was a mixed pit. Everyone sipped some kind of clear alcohol from…
Listen up taxpayers! Miami-Dade School administrators have put our kids at risk. No, not of failing, but of their school toppling on their heads. We’re talking little kids. Six year olds.How else to explain the sudden closing of North Miami Middle School and moving of kids from the North Dade…
While we update Crossfade a bunch of times a day, the Miami New Times still features a fresh crop of music news weekly, including features that go into more depth than the usual blog post. This week, Christopher Lopez gives the run-down on Choc Quib Town, a Colombian urban fusion…
Karl Thompson, accused of scamming victims in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, is sitting in jail awaiting trial on felony counts of grand theft, organized fraud, and resisting arrest without violence.Before his arrest this past October 6,the North Miami Police Department opened an investigation into Thompson after three victims alleged that…
Letters from the issue of March 4, 2010
Pisco Bus goes wild in Miami
Luke’s Gospel: Stop screwing Miami’s inner city and hire a black city manager
Suspended Miami city commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones is facing more criminal charges. A Miami-Dade grand jury indicted Spence-Jones on one count of bribery. She is accused of soliciting money from MDM Hotel Group, Inc., the developers of the Metropolitan Miami office and residential complex, and the Codina Group Inc., for her…
Because the cast of Jersey Shore will show up just about anywhere they’re invited, they’ve been on George Lopez’s TBS talkshow this week re-enacting scenes from this year’s slate of Academy Award nominated movies.Even though MTV hasn’t officially confirmed that season two will go down in South Beach, Snooki takes…
QuEStHow Thoughtful (mixtape)QuESt is a conscious rapper with a little bit of an edge and a lot ofcharisma. The 19-year old hip-hop wonder from Miami sounds like a pro who’s been doing it for years, when in reality, he didn’t really start recording seriously till a little more than a…
Oh you think it’s a game!? You think it’s a game?Liiiiiisten. DJ Khaled’s new album “Victory” dropped yesterday, and the response via Twitter proves that Miami’s biggest loudmouth knows what he’s doing.People around the world have something to say about it, most of them good things. One things for sure,…
Two years ago, I profiled Dhafir Harris, aka Dada 5000, backyard fight promoter and one-time member of Kimbo Slice’s entourage. Standing over six feet tall, weighing 275 pounds and sporting a mohawk that resembled a Spartan helmet, Harris cast a pretty menacing figure. But beneath the intimidating profile, Harris demonstrated the marketing…
Breakdancing will never die, it just looks cool. Above is a recently uplaoded video of the No Bodies Crew breakdancing in downtown West Palm Beach. They are an active, professional crew who will work for hire at bar and bat mitzvhas, parties and corporate events. But what’s South Florida’s breakdancing…
Usually we save the “Flyer of the Week” accolades for Friday, but here’s a last-minute entry that we have to share before it becomes null and void. We give you the yellow-and-black job heralding, uh, “a new kind of playas ball” at Sweat on Wednesday. Back in the days of…
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. Up this week: Miami is in trouble again. The town’s top bureaucrat — City Manager Pete Hernandez — has resigned and…
Marlon T. “X-Large” Moore sure looks like one of the dumbest criminals in Miami history.Late last year, the 38-year-old Miami native was arrested while on probation from federal prison for filing false tax claims — to the tune of $14 trillion. Yeah, trillion. With a t. If the IRS had…
It’s really a wonder that somehow the one-man entertainment machine known as Chad Ochocinco has not been on a reality TV show yet. If there’s a single player in the NFL who was made for trash television it’s him. He is, after all, Esteban: the most interesting football player in…
