Editorial Voice

Kirby Hocutt: UM’s real villain

Reader mail: “Andre Pierre made the mistake of being a clean-cut black dude”

This past August 28, shortly after firefighter Miguel Rodriguez arrived for work at the Miami International Airport station, he found an unsigned note in his locker. In big, bold block type, it read, “Hey you fucking black Dominican monkey do not come back to C shift nigger lover like you…

Between 1974 and ’78, America’s youth got hooked on a truly putrid form of faddish dance music called disco. The shirts were sickeningly shiny. The pants were excruciatingly tight. And Miami’s own KC (born Harry Wayne Casey), along with his Sunshine Band, provided the soundtrack for this sweaty, polyester-clad shuffle…

Divorce lawyer Maurice Kutner was feeling vindicated when he dialed up Banana Republican last week. “She lied about everything concerning me,” Kutner said. “It was very distasteful to experience this. I run my practice by the book.”Two years ago, a former client claimed Kutner had duped her into rejecting a…

Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 wonders when the NCAA will drop the hammer on former University of Miami athletic director Kirby Hocutt.Now that…

Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm, and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #5 Pentress, WV/Springfield, VA/Miami, FL 8/28/2011 After we said our farewell to the strange and epic Indian Meadows, we headed to Springfield, Virginia, (Thank you, Patrick and Karen!) to…

Welcome to Short Order Show & Tell, where one of us brings a local delicacy to our weekly staff meeting and we all weigh in on its deliciousness.To kick things off, we begin with the humble Kunafa, a sweet-and-savory pastry from Oriental Bakery in Brickell…

Even if you like charter schools, and I do, you gotta admit that drunken dancing shouldn’t take place there at night.The new allegations reported by NBC and the Miami Herald that a nightclub was operating out of Balare Academy on Quail Roost Drive ain’t the first. Wild times and perversion are a…

Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #4 Pentress, WV 8/28/2011 On the morning of the third day of V.O.V. 2011, our bodies were catching up with us. The driving, the confederate graveyards, the camping, and…

Sure, we here at Crossfade were fully aware that White Stripes, Raconteurs, and Dead Weather mastermind Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis) was a proud son of the Motor City. But we never expected that he’d come crawling out of the clown closet in full Juggalo regalia (Faygo-stained XXXL t-shirt,…

The Wu-Tang Clan has never been modest about its skill set. With hundreds of releases tied to the Wu-Tang brand, this now-legendary ’90s gangsta rap collective has always been upfront about what it brings to the table. If you know your Wu, you know nobody else cooks, serves, and keeps…

Michelle Spence-Jones nails Fred Grimm, Michael Putney

Reader mail: “Saying the NCAA’s treatment is like slavery is like saying boxing is like the Holocaust”

When it comes to North Bay Village Mayor Corina Esquijarosa, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle should follow Monroe County’s lead. There should be no mercy for individuals who screw over their fellow taxpayers.On August 19, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent Vincent Weiner was arrested on misdemeanor charges of…

​Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade’s road trip diary.  Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #3 Pentress, WV 8/28/2011 Our journey was long, arduous, strange and had already brought us to the doorstep of Dixieland, and the middle of Mountainland Nowhere, West Virginia. Before…

When a homie loses his life in the streets, there are all kinds of ways to honor his memory. You could say a prayer. Get a tattoo. Empty a 40 oz. bottle of Olde English on his grave. Organize an annual celebration of his enduring legacy. Write a musical tribute…

​Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #2 Pentress, WV 8/27/2011 Miami’s DWNTWN/Wynwood/etc. music scene has been talking (yelling?) a lot about venues lately. The firestorm started with Death to the Sun coordinator Ricardo Guerrero’s bold…

​When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez tapped one of his close confidantes to lead the county’s fire department, he ignored 29 other applicants to pick a guy who once booted African-Americans out of Miami’s fire union. No one was interviewed — not even Haitian-American Karls Paul-Noel, who was interim chief until…

​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 gloats about the dropping of criminal charges against African-American Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones. When Michelle Spence-Jones was being…

​The morning of August 21, a pesky intruder found itself caged in the lush back yard of Richard Chervony’s three-bedroom residence in North Bay Village. Bearing its fangs and emitting a guttural growl, the creature spied Chervony with its black doll eyes. Its furry, salt-and-pepper body and bald, pink tail…

Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm, and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #1 Richmond, VA 8/26/2011 This is Crossfade and Bleeding Palm reporting from Richmond, Virginia on the road to Voice of the Valley Noise Rally 2011.Despite the still-looming threats of…