Just a few items we tackled in this week’s New Times Broward-Palm Beach print edition.In Music: Pitbull is throwing a party on Sunday. Carnaval Miami and Calle Ocho’s guest list includes T-Pain, Flo Rida, Sean Paul, Spam Allstars and a million or so of their closest friends. Someone was also…
It’s once again that time of the week– when a bearded, wild-eyed Riptide climbs down from that mountaintop hoisting stone tablets bearing the names of the last seven day’s most elite numbskulls. Without further ado, your morons of the week: 5. The city of Haikou It’s being called the “Miami…
Blast From the Past is a weekly column on Crossfade re-examining classic releases from Florida music of yesteryear. To read previous installments, click here. 2 Live CrewBanned in the USA(Luke Records) Well, it was bound to happen within these pages: 2 Live Crew. It would be downright irresponsible to revisit…
Letters from the issue of March 11, 2010
Luke’s Gospel: Before South Beach got boring
“Don’t judge a book by its cover” is how the old saying goes. Same applies with music. Don’t judge certain albums, or in this case, mixtapes, by their covers. J.NIC$ (pronounced jay-nix) is a versatile emcee/rapper/artist out of the northern side of Dade County — or uptown as he calls…
Our favorite reality show that we loved to hate, Miami Social, didn’t do so well in the ratings. So it seemed it wouldn’t get a second season.But industry bible the the Hollywood Reporter says Bravo is adding a fifth franchise to the Real Housewives series. No, not in Miami, but in Beverly Hills. But…
On July 23, 2004, Steve Shiver plunked down $1.5 million for 4.2 acres in a severely depressed neighborhood of Homestead. The city’s former mayor and ex-county manager had become the proud owner of a laundromat, grocery store, office complex and 44 rundown cinder-block “shotgun” row houses for low-income tenants.It was convenient…
The website Where the Locals Eat wants people to pick “America’s favorite food” through an online game that pitches 64 dishes like burgers, sushi, pizza and nachos head-to-head against each other in brackets. You know, like they do for the NCAA basketball tournament except there’s no real playing of any…
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. Up this week: He tackles VIP bottle service and a plan to roll back last call at city bars and…
Find out what your neighbors are listening to without putting your ear up to the keyhole by reading our Moving Units column. Mike Ramirez over at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Radio-Active’s Top 5 Releases for March…
Rumble at the Rock 2Hard Rock Live, HollywoodFriday, March 5, 2010Better Than: A $50 Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino players club card. Dhafir Harris sat near the door to the fighters waiting room just outside the Hard Rock Live’s main staging area. A black hoodie draped over his high-top…
Yet another installment of MP3 of the Day, which ideally appears on a daily basis here at Crossfade. If you’re in a South Florida act, or know one we at the New Times Broward-Palm Beach office should co-sign for, please drop a line to mp3ofthedaysofla@gmail.com.On the single, “Phone Home,” West…
Freaknik: The Musical – T-Pain & DJ Drama clipT Pain | MySpace Music VideosGood afternoon! Broward-Palm Beach’s contributions to Crossfade this week were greatly enhanced by Lil Wayne (and his dentist) but we can’t ride that pony forever.Nas is coming! Plus, local art-punks Alexander took over Poor House on Saturday…
Despite some early hype as a potential favorite, local girl Michelle Delamor was voted off American Idol last night.What’s the deal? She had pipes, and, well, some people who made it this week did not.There’s only one explanation: She sang Creed.But as we said yesterday, America is too embarrassed to…
Four food-related movies — two of which you’ve probably never heard of — are up for an Academy Award on Sunday in various categories.Meryl Streep’s performance in Julie & Julia, the movie based on Julia Child’s book My Life in France and Julie Powell’s novel Julie & Julia, is nominated…
Sorry Joan Rivers, but we like our award recipients unwashed, uncouth, and unwilling. Let’s go to the red carpet of regional idiocy! 3. The Proposed Don’t-Feed-The-Homeless Rule We don’t usually give these awards to policies, but this clinched it: Though the change could draw objections, David Karsh, spokesman for Development…
Back in January when the New Times named Lil Daggers’ limited-edition Stragglers Tour EP to our “Best Local Albums of 2009” list, we said: “If you were either lucky or obsessed enough to score one of these exceedingly rare 10-inch discs at the outset, you’ll already agree Yuri, Ruben, Gabe,…
Conjuring up 9-11, which was carried out in part by terrorists who’d used phony student visas to enter the States, federal prosecutors charged two Miami women this afternoon with running a bogus school in Miami to sell fake visas to foreigners. Lydia Menochal, who is 58, and 75-year-old Ofelia Macia…
Even if our readers won’t be able to make it to Vancouver’s Biltmore Cabaret in April, special props to graphic artist Vincent Parker for his lobster-y lettered Surfer Blood/Turbo Fruits poster design. Check out a lot more eye-melting concert art, including another SoFla fave Blowfly, the Ruby Suns, Why?, and…
We realize there are probably some people who play their Creed records late at night, when no one else is awake, so as not to let anyone know their deep, dark secret: that they still listen to Creed.But didn’t most of us agree to pretend that Creed, Scott Stapp, and…
Last Thursday, Destroyio Records invaded Churchill’s again. And every species of Miami punk was there: Hialeah soccer hooligans, dreaded lezzies, Calle Ocho crusties, Subhumans squat rats, weekend anarchists, Misfits aerobics instructors, hardcore dudes with neck tattoos, etc. It was a mixed pit. Everyone sipped some kind of clear alcohol from…
