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Pisco Bus goes wild in Miami

Luke’s Gospel: Stop screwing Miami’s inner city and hire a black city manager

Suspended Miami city commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones is facing more criminal charges. A Miami-Dade grand jury indicted Spence-Jones on one count of bribery. She is accused of soliciting money from MDM Hotel Group, Inc., the developers of the Metropolitan Miami office and residential complex, and the Codina Group Inc., for her…

Because the cast of Jersey Shore will show up just about anywhere they’re invited, they’ve been on George Lopez’s TBS talkshow this week re-enacting scenes from this year’s slate of Academy Award nominated movies.Even though MTV hasn’t officially confirmed that season two will go down in South Beach, Snooki takes…

QuEStHow Thoughtful (mixtape)QuESt is a conscious rapper with a little bit of an edge and a lot ofcharisma. The 19-year old hip-hop wonder from Miami sounds like a pro who’s been doing it for years, when in reality, he didn’t really start recording seriously till a little more than a…

Oh you think it’s a game!? You think it’s a game?Liiiiiisten. DJ Khaled’s new album “Victory” dropped yesterday, and the response via Twitter proves that Miami’s biggest loudmouth knows what he’s doing.People around the world have something to say about it, most of them good things. One things for sure,…

Two years ago, I profiled Dhafir Harris, aka Dada 5000, backyard fight promoter and one-time member of Kimbo Slice’s entourage. Standing over six feet tall, weighing 275 pounds and sporting a mohawk that resembled a Spartan helmet, Harris cast a pretty menacing figure. But beneath the intimidating profile, Harris demonstrated the marketing…

Breakdancing will never die, it just looks cool. Above is a recently uplaoded video of the No Bodies Crew breakdancing in downtown West Palm Beach. They are an active, professional crew who will work for hire at bar and bat mitzvhas, parties and corporate events. But what’s South Florida’s breakdancing…

Usually we save the “Flyer of the Week” accolades for Friday, but here’s a last-minute entry that we have to share before it becomes null and void. We give you the yellow-and-black job heralding, uh, “a new kind of playas ball” at Sweat on Wednesday. Back in the days 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. Up this week: Miami is in trouble again. The town’s top bureaucrat — City Manager Pete Hernandez — has resigned and…

Marlon T. “X-Large” Moore sure looks like one of the dumbest criminals in Miami history.​Late last year, the 38-year-old Miami native was arrested while on probation from federal prison for filing false tax claims — to the tune of $14 trillion. Yeah, trillion. With a t. If the IRS had…

It’s really a wonder that somehow the one-man entertainment machine known as Chad Ochocinco has not been on a reality TV show yet. If there’s a single player in the NFL who was made for trash television it’s him. He is, after all, Esteban: the most interesting football player in…

We’ve known this since January, but E! has made it official: The two slightly less famous Kardashian sisters will return for a second season of Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami.Of course, because the personal lives of the Kardashians seem to be all-consuming whether you read the tabloids or not, you probably…

​With all the negative publicity that has engulfed the affluent oceanfront town of Golden Beach, you would think its officials might want to act with a little more caution.First, CBS4 exposed the town’s decision to allow Lt. Robert Barrio to remain on the Golden Beach police force even though he…

No event this large and ambitious can operate without a few bumps. Still, this year seemed bumpier than ever. Here, in alphabetical order, are five screw-ups — three of which we experienced. Two others were reported to us by multiple sources, including other food writers:Best of the Best: Many of…

The least hospitable spot of the SBWFF was the Media Hospitality room, where complimentary tickets to media outlets were doled out. The cluster of FIU student volunteers and a BrustmanCarrino PR rep were pleasant enough, even if the latter exuded all the cheer of a mortician. But they were not…

Everyone’s dreamt about discovering a drippingly delicious pizza planet. But only Orlando’s Yip Yip had the courage to cross the cosmos in pursuit of pepperoni.Before becoming interstellar explorers, though, Jason Temple (Yip 1) and Brian Esser (Yip 2) were just like the rest of us. They watched the stars, dreaming…

One of the most distinct trends in this year’s Ultra Music Festival lineup so far is the presence of several so-called “livetronica” acts, crossover artists from the jam scene whose experimentation is more with bleeps and bloops than guitar noodling. One of the best is Colorado’s Pretty Lights, the stage…

While adding local blog RSS feeds from the Crossfade blogroll to my Google Reader, I noticed a disturbing number of dead links, which made me momentarily sad. Props to The 305, South Florida Classical Review, Radio-Active Records, The HoneyComb, South Florida Punk, Penned Madness, Crown the South, Sweat Records  and…

The despicable Communist Party newspaper in Havana, Granma, yesterday posted an article (here in English) on its homepage about this week’s Posada Carrriles column that I wrote. They seem to like me. It’s rather annoying.One difference between the English and Spanish. While the English version just reports what I said…

En un club de Westchester, un hombre de 82 años habla con un grupo de amigos.  No hay mucha luz, pero se notan sus ojos azules, cejas grises, y panza grande. Habla con amigos y a veces sonríe. Parece un típico viejo – con una excepción: sus brazos, pecho, y…

President Obama has officially nominated a candidate to take over as U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida: former Janet Reno aide Wilfredo Ferrer.​Ferrer, who currently works for Miami-Dade County, becomes the first Cuban-American lawyer nominated by a Democrat to the slot. He’ll need confirmation from the Senate before…