Watching last night’s election results pour in, Banana Republican could only take solace that Dorrin Rolle is no longer a Miami-Dade County commissioner and that state legislators will no longer have the ability to draw their own districts. Other than that, the 2010 election was a complete buzz kill.While votes…
Shores is one of the newer additions to the ever-expanding catalogue over at No Idea Records. Comprised of Brian Przybylski on guitars, vocals and bass, alongside John Massel on drums, this duo’s debut album, Coup de Grace, has been two years in the making and it will finally be released…
Read the Johnny Salton memorial piece from this week’s print edition of New Times. The Psycho Daisies Pushin’ Up Daisies (Sublapse Records) psychodaisies.com Arguably more of an EP than an LP, this vinyl-only release contains seven tracks of the finest blues-influenced psychedelic punk rock that you will ever come across…
On Monday night, the South Miami city commission took a giant leap forward in the pro-marijuana debate. Commissioners voted 3-1 to push the Florida Legislature and the federal government to authorize the medicinal use of marijuana making South Miami the first city in the state to realize the healing power…
Looks like four of Miami Beach’s boys in blue didn’t get to eat any doughnuts this past October 27. The cops, probably ornery from their lack of sugary dough treat intake, took out their frustrations on a volunteer collecting signatures for the petition to decriminalize possession of small amounts 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. This week, Luke addresses the NFL’s crackdown on helmet-to-helmet hits.The No Fun League needs to stop fining defensive players for…
Remember Annabelle DeSisto? She was the girl this season The Situation picked up at club Space, only to refuse to smoosh with him and dropped the classic line, “I never said anything about checkers old man.” She also happens to be a former Miss Teen Florida. Well she gave her…
After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It’s not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north to a pretty little building at 4500 Biscayne Blvd., where we will occupy the second floor.The space is larger than…
After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It’s not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north on Biscayne Boulevard to a pretty little building at 4500 Biscayne Boulevard, where we will occupy the second floor.The space…
The Basicks Basick RNR Party (Records of Rebellion) One of the cooler little records to come out in the spring of 1996 was this first effort by Miami’s the Basicks. Hearkening back to that youthful element of rock and roll, Basick RNR Party talked about fucking, drinking, and drugging with…
As the 2010 election cycle winds down in the next six days, Banana Republican would like to congratulate lobbyist and campaign consultant Steve Marin for pulling in the big bucks. And if any of his candidates still vying for an elected seat win On November 2, we can only imagine…
Coconut Grove ghost tour: Real or nonsense?
Letters from the issue of October 28, 2010
Rick Scott acts like a drug addict
Turns out Papa Dios doesn’t take prayers from Hank Adorno. The South Florida Business Journal reports that the Florida Supreme Court has suspended the prominent Miami attorney from practicing law. And he has 30 days to prove to the court why he shouldn’t be barred permanently. The decision stems from…
More than two decades ago, I sat down to work in a sterile office in Doral, and a young woman next to me began swearing like a sailor. “Coño,” she said louder than any office voice I had ever heard. “This salad sucks.”Mindy Marques Gonzalez was the little sister 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, Luke denounces Rick Scott.Voters next week will decide Florida’s new governor. Rick Scott, the Republican, has announced plans…
Next time President Barack Obama is in town, Ada Rojas may want to steer clear of his motorcade. Or hope that her boss, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, melts his icy relationship with the city’s boys in blue before the next presidential visit.On October 11, Regalado’s resident affairs and special events…
Our long, local nightmare is over. Actually, it was more like a slightly upsetting drunken fever dream, but whatever the case, last night we said “So long, farewell, auf Guido-sehen, goodnight” once and for all to our most infamous temporary residents: the cast of Jersey Shore. Amazingly, despite the fears…
Eater reports that students from a Johnson & Wales Food Management Services class will be prepping and serving meals on Jefe’s Original Fish Tacos and Burgers Truck as part of their Food Truck Restaurant Experience assignment. So far so good, but the notice goes on to note that there will…
Cuthbert Harewood has a dream — a dream that one day even the neighborhood of Liberty City, sweltering with the heat of violence and poverty, will be transformed into an oasis of peace and Pizza Huts.But Harewood’s grandiose vision has a simple beginning: renaming two blocks along NW 71st Street…
The Psycho Daisies Snowflakes Falling on the International Dateline (Psycho Daisies Records) psychodaisies.com It was never my fingers on the neck of a killer guitar. I can read on bass if told properly. I can muster a heavy beat on drums if allowed. But I’ll never be the type of…
