Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling music at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to view past top sellers.Best-sellers for the week of June 28- July 3Uncle Sam’s Music, South Beach1. Wilco, Wilco2. Subliminal Sessions, Erick Morillo3. Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, Dave Matthews…

Message to Pols: Give Taxpayers Back that Dirty Money

Because I penned two posts on corrupt businessman Antonio Junior earlier this week, former New Times scribe Kirk Nielsen turned me on to an opinion piece he wrote for Poder magazine last year. My sometime wingman suggested that tainted political campaign contributions be returned to taxpayers. And when I say “tainted,”…

Friday Food Funnies: Silly Stuff

Sign on bakery window: Cake 66 cents; upside-down cake 99 cents.Diner: Waiter, do you have any lobster tails?Waiter: Certainly, sir. Once upon a time there was a little lobster…Sign at dairy farm: You can whip our cream, but you can’t beat our milk.One thing is for certain about organic farms:…

MP3 of the Day: “Is It Me” By Jim Camacho

As new numbers for jobs lost come out this month, everyone is filled with anxiety, anxiety about pursuing dream jobs vs. realizing responsibilities and weathering the economic storm. But at the same time everyone maintains hope, that ever-overused word that got pounded into our subconscious with Obama’s election. Musicians, however,…

More from the Antonio Junior File

Antonio Junior, a local businessman who last year admitted to accepting and giving bribes, was full of information the day he debriefed anti-public-corruption law enforcers about his involvement in ripping-off Miami-Dade taxpayers. In addition to dropping a dime on his pal and ex-county Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler, Junior revealed his connection to…

Letters from the Issue of July 2, 2009

Thug or No Thug Careful, you writer wimp: I’m a retired cop, and after reading Gus Garcia-Roberts’s June 25 article “Cracked Cowboy,” I suggest the writer be careful with people such as Jon Roberts. Taunting could cause them to cross the line and do real harm to you. Remember that…

MP3 of the Day: “Maybach Music Pt. 2” by Rick Ross

Rick Ross has got lots and lots of money, and he wants to keep reminding you of that. Why else name his new single “Maybach Music Part 2” — a sequel to, well, “Maybach Music?”But damn, the unemployment rate here in Florida alone is 10.2 percent as of May. Do…

MP3 Of the Day: “The Summertime” by Cat Shell

This past Thursday’s main music story in both the Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach tells the story of Cat Shell. She’s a young Boca singer-songwriter who performs material worthy of the torch-song divas of yesteryear, and you can read Lee Zimmerman’s full article about her here. As…

Gordon Ramrod Ramsay Filming Kitchen Nightmares at Fleming: a Taste of Denmark

The Sun-Sentinel reports that Gordon Ramsay is in town visiting three South Florida restaurants for Kitchen Nightmares, his popular restaurant intervention series on Fox. The world renowned chef/multinational restaurant owner, cookbook author and TV personality is known for animated outbursts with knucklehead restaurant staff as he attempts to jump start…

Notes From the Soundboard: A Michael Jackson Retrospective

Notes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade,  focused on pop music’s history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments.In the coming days, this headline will…

Meet Antonio Junior, But Don’t Call Him a Bagman

Well, at least Antonio Junior can take solace in knowing he made a killing as a minority partner in several deals involving Miami-Dade taxpayer money. And even though he ratted out his political godmother — ex-county Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler — and some of his other politically connected buddies (according to a…

Talavera, Indomania, Daniel Boulud, Chocolate and Marijuana

Indomania Will Take August OffPieter Both, proprietor of Indomania Restaurant on Miami Beach, will be taking his annual vacation back home to Amsterdam — meaning that, as per usual, the restaurant will be closed for the month of August. He also wrote to remind me that ever since I mildly…