Ultrachic is a Miami band of Venezuelan ex-pats who rest at the crossroad of contemporary Venezuelan rock, uniting the golden age of acts like Sentimiento Muerto, Dermis Tatu, and Desorden Público with the newer crop of outfits like Zapato 3, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Caramelos de Cianuro. Actually, fans 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 tries to understand how a transsexual running for Congress can be against gay marriage.A few weeks ago,…
In this week’s Time magazine, John Cloud reports on a soy product that not only tastes like chicken, but shares textural similarities to a real bird too (Tastes Like Chicken: The Quest for Fake Meat). Scientists at the University of Missouri are behind the new food; it was announced this…
As waves slap the shoreline, littered with empty beer cans, Fane Lozman points to a pair of derelict sailboats anchored in the water near Pelican Harbor Marina on the 79th Street Causeway. The former Marine turned civic agitator fixes his gaze on a hairy man reading a book on the…
While most of the big-deal shows rolling through town lately have tended towards the loud and brash, this Saturday at Grand Central marks an evening for gentler souls. In honor of Poplife’s anniversary, the party returns to its Anglophilic indie-loving roots for a show headlined by Surfer Blood and the…
Charlie: How do you like your steak?Diane: Sitting in a pool of its own blood. Diane and Charlie Levine were on their “fourth or fifth date” when this conversational snippet took place. On the couple’s website yourmeattooth.com, it is noted that this “marks the moment they realized that they shared a…
State senate candidate Kevin Burns knows a thing or two about mounting debts. After all the former North Miami mayor played an instrumental role in convincing Miami-Dade County courts to create a mortgage foreclosure diversion program two years ago so folks like him stay in their homes. At the time,…
Sexlets: Viagra chewing gum, anyone?
Letters from the issue of June 3, 2010
Uncle Luke pioneered Southern rap
North Miami and Houston join forces for the sake of a brand new mixtape that mixes the flavors of two distinct artists. On one hand there’s Layce, a multifaceted rapper/producer/engineer and overall good businessman who’s representing Miami. Then on the other, you have Chingo Bling, a very animated, marketing-savvy rapper…
According to our tireless reviewer Esther Park, this year’s Best of the Best concert was even more intense than the last. With so many big-name artists scheduled to perform every year, there are always unexpected changes, pleasant surprises, and, it seems, a crazy sprint through the final leg of the…
Ah, Hialeah, Hialeah. You truly are the city of progress. One of my new friends on Facebook is Hialeah Cares, an unknown identity in the vast cyberverse of anonymity who has riled up Mayor Julio Robaina’s most vociferous critics. The back and forth has been quite entertaining. The wall post…
First it was Hamas. Now the Gaza-bound, blockade-defying flotilla was helping Al-Qaeda too.So claims Israel’s Consul General to Florida and Puerto Rico, Ofer Bavly. “The so-called peace activists on board the flotilla with ties to Al-Qaeda and other terror organizations were interested in creating a media circus,” Bavly railed in…
We know Jersey Shore is a show that trades heavily on stereotypes, but did one of the cast members really have to go down the tired trail of becoming a coke addict while living in Miami? How cliché.RadarOnline reports one of the castmates evaded producers and went on a few cocaine…
It hasn’t even aired yet, but it seems like we can add the Basketball Wives reunion special to the hall of fame of insanely dramatic recap specials. This might be the first where an cast member actually got arrested.Throughout the season, the girls all agreed on only one thing: Sandra, an alleged groupie…
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 prepares to be honored by VH1 and explains why Miami-Dade County is the birthplace of Southern hip-hop…
From blood-stained guajiros to litigious ex-convicts to shameful rappers to slithering billionaires, this week proved that moronic behavior knows no boundaries of class or race. In South Florida, pea-sized brains can be found in all sorts of heads. 5. Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who forgot to pay his sex offender bill…
As we reported in a January investigation, toxic Chinese drywall is forcing thousands around Florida to make an impossible choice between abandoning brand new homes or exposing their families to dangerous fumes. The state continues to drag its feet, protecting politically connected builders. The federal government still hasn’t decided how…
One of our favorite local music events last year was the So Raw Festival, a two-day summer jam that showcased some of the best local and international lo-fi, garage, and straight-up rock and roll around. Oh, and did we mention the promoters graciously included free booze with the low, low…
Miami is not a communist country
Religious Ties No faith: What does Jonathan James’s religion have to do with the events (“Hack Pack,” Tim Elfrink, May 20)? Why are none of the other accused perpetrators’ religion mentioned? Is Tim Elfrink embarrassed that Albert Gonzalez, Christopher Scott, and Stephen Watt are Catholic? Of the four individuals this…
