So Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera just called up to say that yesterday’s post trashing his proposal to ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers in Coral Gables was unfair. He claims to have said many other more intelligent things to a reporter than, “Some people look at leaf blowers as a necessity…
Chef/owner of Chow Down Grill Joshua Marcus doesn’t stock chopsticks. No way. No how. Why? It makes sense to him, but not to many others. At one time, it caused a bit of a stir on his Facebook and Twitter pages. We wanted to know what he had to say about the…
Here’s the news: Poe Boy and Strong Arm’s DJ 360 has just teamed up with Ball Greezy and his We Good Entertainment imprint. A native of Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Greezy is probably best remembered for his 2007 single “Shone. And this past summer, he was also part of the unofficial official…
When MTV announced Jersey Shore would film its second season in South Beach, Miami became the only place outside of Jersey to become infected by a Jersey-fied reality show. So last night’s South Park, in which the mountain town is suddenly overrun by “cabbage-muffed” Jerseyites, hit close to home. The…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is coming to bat for his homeboy, former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, this Friday. The pair will lay out their reasons for supporting amendments 5 and 6 on the November ballot at an 11 a.m. press conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Miami.The…
Aliens, military wackos, and the next war
Letters from the issue of October 14, 2010
Today is the day Italian electro outfit, the Bloody Beetroots, kick off the North American leg of its Death Crew 77 tour. Unfortunately, tonight’s show at Mansion won’t be a live performance, just a DJ set warmup. However, Bob Rifo and Tommy Tea were arguably DJs before this whole live show…
Pawel Kryj/stock.changCoffee, wine, chocolate, cheese…now, here come the olive oil tastings. You may have noticed these popping up, and I don’t mean someone handing out swigs from a pill cup at a food festival. These are sit down events, where one takes notes, and compares the fruitiness, nuttiness, or “grassiness”…
A petition filed this past September 10 with the state Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering shows the owners of Magic City Casino are serious about expanding their gambling operation beyond Flagler Street. The document asks division officials if Magic City’s owners can build a new facility for inter-track wagering and card…
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 dissects the worldwide UFO conspiracy.A propaganda campaign to prepare us for the next big war is underway…
With the recent Angelina defestation of the Metropole hotel it seemed a new era of peace and prosperity was about to rule through the Jersey Shore house. Even Sammi and JWoww made awkward attempts at burying the hatchet. But then a bigger bitch emerged: The Situation. The manchild didn’t get…
Bloggers Paula Nino and Riki Altman disagree about the merits of exposed kitchens. What follows are their disparate views:Paula’s P.O.V.:There’s something exciting about watching a chef and his team working behind the line to create your food. It’s a way to satisfy the curiosity of how the dishes at a…
¡Mayday! has been gearing up for the release of its latest album Stuck On An Island for the past year or so. According to the group, the album is an ode to making music in Miami and feeling separated from the rest of the music scene. Originally slated for a…
Man, we knew Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff could be a prickly son of gun, but his meddling in a billing issue shows he can be both petty and vindictive as well.According to a June 1 memo by former CRA Executive Director James Villacorta, Sarnoff tried to speed up a…
Letters from the issue of October 7, 2010
Gator hunting, Loon-style
Obama is Supernegro
There’s no doubt that Miami loves some Ricky Ross, AKA the Boss, the Teflon Don, the King of the Carol City Cartel. Yet deep down, we were all still a bit mortified when we found out that Mr. William Leonard Roberts II once served as a correctional officer at a…
Cobaya touts itself as an underground dinner club for local foodies eager to open their wallets and pallets to food experimentation by South Florida chefs.; Hence its name: Cobaya/Gourmet Guinea Pigs.The concept is not new. Call it a transient dinner, renegade party, occasional supper club or gourmet dinner club, it exists…
Blowfly Blowfly for President (Oops! Records) myspace.com/blowfly Well, it was about time that we reared our ugly, record-collecting, pretentious-asshole heads on the one and only Clarence Reid, otherwise known as Blowfly! Over the last eight years or so, Blowfly’s been enjoying a bit of a comeback with a whole new…
Miami-Dade Police Director James Loftus is no longer a member of the Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents more than 6,500 law enforcement officers in the county and several cities. In a memo sent yesterday to all county cops, Loftus says he quit the PBA over comments union leaders…
