Just a few months ago everything was right in the world. South Beach was home to its own particular brand of party trash, and the world’s most famous guidos and guidettes were in their native Long Island/Statan Island/Rhode Island settings. Then MTV shook everything up and decided to set Snooki,…
When I first saw The Miami Herald front page headline this morning — “It’s Time To Add The ‘Spice'”, I thought reporter Elaine Walker was copying Short Order’s tallying of which restaurants were worth going to for Spice and which weren’t. But there was no critical commentary involved — probably…
DJ Spinna (no relation to New York based hip-hop producer of the same name) is a young gunn in the DJ game, but it seems that at age 17, he’s further along than his competition. Good song selection, quality graphic,s and great mixing — these are all elements that DJ…
As you may have heard, M.I.A. has a new album out. She also performed a string of North American tour dates before jetting off to Europe for the summer festival circuit. Part of that schedule originally included a set at Hard Summer Festival in Los Angeles and New York.Unfortunately, for…
Are you prepared for the most important night in Miami pop culture history? MTV unleashes the second season of Jersey Shore tonight at 10. It follows everyone’s favorite guidos as they hook up, drink, and fight their way through South Beach. This might bring a tiny bit of shame to…
A salary survey of 1,400 culinary professionals by StarChefs.com shows that Miami and New York executive chefs were paid more in 2009 than their counterparts in other U.S. cities. The average salary for an executive chef here was reported at $101,400 — not far from New York’s $101,500 and about…
Afrobeta needs little introduction to Crossfade readers, but the band is finally and deservedly gaining some serious international traction. Of course, there was that performance at the massive Glastonbury festival, and a gig with Booka Shade in Ibiza (!) around the same time. Now, they’ve also got a PR representation…
When he was a county commissioner, Miguel Diaz de la Portilla would pass the time spewing hate at Alex Penelas, who was elected Miami-Dade’s first executive mayor in 1996. Four years later, when he announced on March 29, 2000, his run for mayor against Penelas, Diaz de la Portilla got…
Hamid Karzai likely had Louis Maxwell killed, Part 3
Letters from the issue of July 29, 2010
Michelle Spence-Jones is innocent, dummy!
Ortanique’s Web site has an “Accolades” tab. One click on it lists 23 excellence awards. Esquire Magazine named it “Best New Restaurant in America.” And the eatery was placed on Zagat’s Top 10 Best Restaurant List nine times. The New Times has even shown its love more than once. Our…
Today, the Miami Herald splashed one of those Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce promotional brochures on the newspaper’s homepage and called it journalism. Citing a report by Miami’s Downtown Development Authority claiming condo sales increased 110 percent over the first six months of 2009, chamber spokeswoman reporter Toluse Olorunnipa proclaims,…
We’re Not Gay but the Music Is! (Self-released)gcib.com I think by now, in these recurring Blasts From the Past, we’ve arrived at the logical conclusion that South Florida has long been a a breeding ground for fringe acts who are heavy on the humor. Aside from the acerbic Black Irish humor…
At least one member of every reality show has to come out with a token pop single after his or her 15 minutes are over. It’s a rule. So cross this to-do off the Jersey Shore cast list with the latest painful announcement.Surprisingly, it’s not Pauly D, who, as a…
We’re just two days away from the what’s shaping up to be the most important moment in Miami-set TV show history since the premiere of Miami Vice. Yes, the start of Season 2 of Jersey Shore. The LA Times visited the set in May and came back with “exclusive” behind-the-scenes footage…
How do you get rap gold at this very moment? Easy equation. Add Rick Ross, flying high onnew albumTeflon Don’s critical claim and store-register success, to anything involving Nicki Minaj. Voila, the Boss’ take on Nicki’s track “Your Love,” which leaked to the Internet about six months ago.Parent label Universal…
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 revisits the ongoing saga of suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones.Turns out Michelle Spence-Jones was telling the truth…
What do you do if you have $59.2 million in unspent funds from last year’s budget earmarked for long-stalled projects at the Overtown and Omni community redevelopment agencies? If you’re Miami city commissioners Marc Sarnoff and Richard Dunn II, you use some of the money to pay your staff and…
In the August issue of Travel and Leisure Magazine Miami Beach is touted as a tourist destination gone “gaga” for dogs. Lincoln Road is seen as the epicenter of fashionable canine flaunting. But is this four-legged invasion a nuisance or can we peacefully coexist with our neighbors’ furry companions? Two…
A new local hip-hop group called Geek Squad may very well be the freshest underground hip-hop group coming out of Dade County since … well, ever.Geek Squad is made up of five members (who are also high school friends) Acey Ace, M.I.C, Specta, Sub-Konshiss, and Wolfman Stylez. The group is…
We hate to be the bearer of bad news, and we know you all will be absolutely devastated by this somber development, but it appears that Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian are done taking our fair city of Miami. Apparently, they consider it conquered, and for the third season of the show,…
