In the Studio With Stonefox, and MP3 of the Day

Yes, I just blogged about excellent Boca-based trio (sometimes quartet) Stonefox. Well, these guys are playing some of the best rock and roll to come out of Palm Beach County (!) in a long time. Also, I’m working up a feature about them for the Broward – Palm Beach New…

Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Uncle Sam’s Music, South Beach1. Cielo Playtime, Various Artists CD2. Far, Regina Spektor3. Farm, Dinosaur Junior4. Octahedron, Mars Zolta5. Back and Fourth, Pete YornRadio-Active Records, Fort Lauderdale1. Anything Michael Jackson2. God Help The Girl, God Help The Girl3. West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Kasabian4. Farm, Dinosaur Junior5. Guns Don’t Kill People, Major LazerBackbone…

Miami Police Bravely Target Petty Crimes Against Rich and Famous

Miami has earned its rep as a world-class mecca of crime. Just this weekend, Miami Police gunned down a man stalking the streets with a machete. In recent weeks, a Metrorail guard was murdered on the job, a young man’s body — chopped into tiny pieces and stuffed into bags — floated…

South Miami Sleaze

Laz Parking is a local firm that contracts with the City of South Miami to issue parking tickets and operate meters. That means nobody likes ’em. And if you believe a recently canned meter maid (meter butler? meter macho?) named Michael Perdomo, that contempt is deserved. The 27-year-old former Laz…

The Week That Was: Showin’ How Funky Strong Is Your Fight

RIP Michael Jackson. RIP urban legend that Thriller was shot in Coconut Grove.Some tabloid claimed Alberto Cutié is gay, but he, obviously, denied this. In fact, he’s getting married to a real life lady tonight, in a church. Gloria Estefan bought a small piece of the Miami Dolphins, because she loves…

Outrage: Police Review Board Screwed Again By City Politicians

Back in the bad old days of 2002,  the City of Miami Police Department had some nasty habits: shooting dozens of people, beating suspects, ripping through the city on dangerous chases.City police averaged 80 shootings every year and killed 15 suspects — most black and poor. Things got so bad…

MP3s of the Day: Original Tracks by DJ Lee Or

The last time New Times caught up with DJ Lee Or, the tech-house minimalist was slamming Saturdays at South Beach’s Skyline Lounge. We dug the cat then, when he was wilding on Washington Avenue, and we dig the cat now that he has taken his Freakside Party to both the…

Flyer of the Week: Mary Jane Mondays at Jazid

A minute ago, still buzzing from the twin highs of payday and a certain psychotropic substance, I had the sudden realization: Green is a very good color. For a second, it seemed like a weird kind of intellectual smoke that meant precisely nothing, just floating past. Then, the rest came:…

Danielle Staub Comes Clean on Housewives‘ Reunion

The Real Housewives of New Jersey ended as wonderfully mysteriously as it started, with questions still left unanswered, the lines of relationships still left murky, and even a new scandalous plot twist or two added during the last few minutes of the reunion. But at-least Daniel Staub, the former model who’s younger…

Friday Food Funnies: Bread

Do you know on this one block in New York you can buy croissants in five different places? There’s one store called Bonjour Croissant. It makes me want to go to Paris and open a store called Hello Toast. ~Fran LebowitzSixteen years ago, a young woman, with a baby in…

Kourtney and Khloe Really, Really Excited to Be in Miami

Despite E!’s best attempts to create programming that leaves viewers’ near brain dead, this preview clip for Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami got us thinking. Why are they so damn happy to be in Miami? The 40-second clip basically consists of the sisters running around going, “OMG, We’re in Miami!”…

Letters from the Issue of June 25, 2009

Faulting Father Shame, shame: It makes me sick to my stomach to see how Alberto Cutié has been behaving with the media, as described in Francisco Alvarado’s June 18 story,” Happy Wedding Day, Father Cutié.” Even more important is how he has been behaving with Maxi Ratunuman, who is an…

Miami’s Medicare Racket: Eight More Indicted in $100 Million Fraud

Let’s go ahead and just christen it the cocaine trade of the Double-Aughts: Medicare fraud may be a lot less sexy, but it sure is keeping federal prosecutors in Miami busy.One month after busting up a $21 million, three-state ring, the feds expanded that investigation and charged eight Miami residents –…

On Food, Inc.

Those who have read the books Fast Food Nation or The Omnivore’s Dilemma, or articles such as Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear in Vanity Fair or Eat Shit and Die in Miami New Times, will find little to be startled over in Food, Inc. Yet those who haven’t been paying attention…

New North Miami Beach Mayor in Trouble

This past April, I wrote about ethics complaints filed against Myron Rosner, who was recently elected North Miami Beach mayor. Two female NMB residents accused Rosner of abusing his official position to get away with making renovations to his house without obtaining necessary approvals from the city council. They filed complaints…

Archive Diver: SKUM at Hi Volt Video Niteclub in the Grove Cinema 1988

This week’s Archive Diver brings you the billing for the Grove Cinema’s Hi-Volt Video Niteclub from June 22 – 28, 1988. Live musical acts featured that week included SKUM, currently undergoing a cinematic resurgence through a locally produced documentary by a former band member. The SKUM movie includes interviews with…