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Letters from the issue of December 9, 2010

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 gets in on the Transportation Security Administration body scanner controversy. The Transportation Security Administration employees get to…

La Roux performs at Mansion tonight. It’s a makeup date for the band’s South Beach show that was canceled back in August. Last month, when Elly Jackson and friends made-up their show at the Culture Room, the flame-maned singer’s vocals were somewhat lacking, according to New Times Broward-Palm Beach music…

​Wesley Snipes can learn a lot from Martha Stewart. He starts a three-year prison sentence tomorrow in Pennsylvania for tax-related infractions. But rather than accepting his punishment like a man, he bitched to Larry King last night on CNN about how “upset and disappointed that the system seems to not…

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 gets in on the Transportation Safety Administration body scanner controversy.The Transportation Security Administration employees get to see…

As we wandered through the Ice Palace in Wynwood this morning at the Pulse fair, we were drawn from across the hall by a gleaming blue and gold replica mosque. Hey, that’s beautiful, we thought, wandering closer. Then, as we drew near, we realized, Hey, that mosque is made of…

When Miami-Dade voters approved a $2.9 billion general obligation bond program six years ago, the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables was not among the list of projects slated to receive funds. Today, county Commissioner Rebeca Sosa aims to change that. She is sponsoring a resolution on the December 7 county commission…

Letters from the issue of December 2, 2010

Erik Spoelstra must go

One week before his ouster, Panama strongman Manuel Noriega was preparing to crack down on his opponents and rally his troops, according to Prudence Bushnell, at the time U.S. Ambassador to Panama.Bushnell’s analysis is among the first set of U.S. Embassy documents released by Wikileaks on Nov. 28, detailing her…

Chef Giovanni Arias, new head chef at Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa, recently talked with Feast Miami about his new gig. When asked what he brings “to the Canyon Ranch table,” Arias replied: “I can bring out the best of any ingredient and transform a simple and fresh dish to…

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, Uncle Luke comes to terms with the end of the Randy Shannon era.Saturday was one of the saddest…

We miss Snooki almost every single day, and when the crew headed off in their black Escalades at the end of Jersey Shore’s Miami-set second season back to whatever hell it is they came from we thought we’d never see her again (well, save for an odd club appearance here…

Here is a shocker. The Miami Dolphins finally scored more than 30 points this season. It was an offensive explosion for 471 yards that featured two big play touchdowns by running back Ricky Williams and undrafted rookie wide receiver Marlon Moore. Watching Williams gallop 45 yards for a touchdown that…

The last time we wrote about Miami Herald sports columnist Linda Robertson, we ribbed on her for being duped by a couple of Broward guys pretending to be real Russian basketball fans. But this time, we gotta give her props for penning a well researched piece on New Times columnist…

​For a company that’s in the business of providing light, FPL apparently likes to keep some things in the dark.Last month a jury found Florida Power & Light partly responsible for an accident at the Port of Miami in 2004 that left longshoreman Willie Walker crippled. Walker’s attorneys say FPL…

Oh, you thought you were finished with Brooke Hogan and her little VH1 reality TV show didn’t you, Miami? Well, apparently it’s coming back for a third season sometime soon, and almost on cue to remind us that the show and it’s cast members exist, Glenn Douglas Packard’s, Hogan’s gay…

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 recommends Pat Riley pull a Stan Van Gundy on Erik Spoelstra.Pat Riley needs to stop wasting time…

In an interview with Eater, Nigella Lawson promotes her new cookbook, Nigella Kitchen. Yet this curvaceous cookbook author, TV personality, and all around fabulous foodie who has a way of making even a grilled cheese sound sultry and sexy stands fast that she is not a chef.Eater: Why do you…

Magadog Self-titled (Moon Ska Reocrds) myspace.com/magadogtampa It’s hard to believe Magadog has been soldiering since 1992. This band (and this album in particular) recall a time in life when going to shows with a group of friends was 100-percent fun. I’m referring to cool Sunday night shows at the now-defunct…

​The food industry is hot hot hot. Chefs are hot hot hot. Restaurants are hot hot hot. Food networks and food festivals and food anythings are hot hot hot. Cookbooks are hot hot hot. Seems as though every chef in the world has written one this year – except for…

By now, Black Bobby’s a recurring character here on Crossfade. Last month we caught him on “Miami Ave,” and before that he was sparking a mini-war in our comments section with a Waka Flocka Flame dis. But if he shows up often here, it’s because he’s been hustling hard releasing mixtapes…