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Just one week after picking up $4 million worth of campaign contributions at a Jay-Z-and-Beyonce-hosted fundraiser, President Obama received a ringing endorsement from Madonna during her concert in Washington, D.C. “Y’all better vote for fucking Obama, OK?” Madge told the audience. “For better or for worse, alright, we have a…

Uncle Luke, 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 wants Miami Police to reclaim the parks for the children.This past September 8, shortly after 9 p.m., things…

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls’ Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you stop…

While the Miami Herald wonders where Ana Alliegro – a key witness in a federal criminal probe of Congressman David Rivera – has disappeared to, The Strawbuyer blogger Mike Hatami has dug up her criminal record. And it appears the self-professed “Republican Political Guru and Conservative Bad Girl” likes to…

As movie fiends, we often find ourselves diving into film scripts. Films usually compel us with their love stories, or their horror, but sometimes, it’s the food that makes the movie a little (or a lot) more memorable. So we’ve compiled a list of the 5 best food movies. Your…

A quarter-century ago, my old, good buddy Mike Lacey came to Miami and decided to start a weekly paper. He wanted to move here, but a mugger and a prudent wife convinced him cocaine-fueled Miami wasn’t the place to raise a family.Today, Lacey bowed out. Along with his partner –…

If Planet Earth had testicles, they’d belong to Kendrick Lamar. Because, proverbially, homie’s got the world by the balls. With five critically acclaimed mixtapes and an independent release already under his belt, it’s easy to forget that the Compton MC’s first major-label LP hasn’t even dropped yet. The much-blogged about…

DJ Paris Hilton is super sorry, you guys. Yesterday, she pissed off a bunch of Dorothy’s friends by makings some rude and insensitive comments about the gay community. She didn’t mean it, though. Because she didn’t know her conversation was being recorded by a cab driver. But since everyone freaked…

For a guy who doesn’t believe in restoring felons’ voting rights, Mitt Romney sure likes to associate with accused criminals when he comes to Miami.Back in August, Romney held a rally at a popular Coral Gables fruit juice stand owned by convicted coke trafficker Reinaldo Bermudez.On Wednesday, when Romney waltzed…

“What’s your favorite restaurant?” That question, recently batted around at our weekly editorial meeting, got us all thinking. If we had to choose one favorite at gunpoint, what would that restaurant be, and why? Each week, a different Short Order blogger will celebrate his or her favorite eatery — be…

Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…

DJ Paris Hilton, heiress extraordinaire and total role model, has taken a break from dropping beats to drop some seriously insane comments about “gay guys.” Even though she seems like the type of girl who’d have a million gay friends, because she’s rich and skinny, it turns out that Paris…

Ask a Failed Musician is a new column from our sister music blog at Dallas Observer, in which Daniel Hopkins helps struggling musicians make sense of their careers and offers advice. Whether or not it will work, who knows? It obviously didn’t work for him. But then again, he was…

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A hysterical YouTuber named Copper Cab is asking, “WTF GANGNAM STYLE!!?” But we here at Crossfade just wanna know, “WTF LITTLE RED-HEADED XENOPHOBE!!?” This ruddy-faced teenager is either a raspy-throated troll. Or an insecure product of Tea Party America. His object of hatred: K-Pop sensation and crossover star Psy’s “Gangnam…

I have great love for both France and its people, as well as Key West. So it tickled my spine earlier today to read on KeysNet.com that a 23-year-old French tourist named Romain Alvany was ejected from a Duval Street restaurant around 2 a.m. for walking into the kitchen and…

There’s been a ton of talk going on recently about the video of Mitt Romney’s fundraiser in Boca Raton that was leaked to Mother Jones magazine. Yes, we’re talking about the one where he called 47 percent of Americans freeloaders. We found out that the private fundraiser had a price…

Uncle Luke, 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 ranks the least trustworthy names in local news.Miami has a lot of media personalities and journalists who are…

When you scrolled through your Facebook and Twitter timelines this weekend, how many updates would you say involved food? A lot. We know. If there isn’t someone rambling on about the presidential election or showing off that they’re getting their nails done or working out at the gym, the most…

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has been dead serious about cleaning up Florida’s elections. First, he targeted 180,000 suspected ineligible voters to strike from the rolls (though he ended up eliminating only 200 after the Department of Justice stepped in). Then, he severely restricted voter registration and reduced early voting.Yet strangely,…