Banana Republican kicked off 2012 by recognizing a local Internet cabal of rabble-rousers and muckrakers who have helped fill the investigative journalistic void in the Magic City. In a cover story back in January, we ranked the Top Ten activist bloggers who work incessantly to expose shady government officials and…
Barack, LeBron, and Trayvon: That Was 2012
Reader Mail: A Trailer Full of Dildos Isn’t Weird Art, It’s Garbage
Sure, there’s fun to be had when shooting food pictures with your iPhone. But, sometimes, while flicking through our Instagram feed, we shudder in disappointment. Do Instagramers really think that a flash-flooded shot of corn chowder looks appetizing? Or that a blurry photo of empty wine glasses merits a “like”?…
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 looks back on the year the Apocalypse didn’t happen.The world won’t end in 2012. Why? Because LeBron James…
Tammy Valdes, a former Golden Beach Police officer who recently won $233,000 in damages against the town for wrongful termination, has been criminally charged with illegal firearms dealing. Her husband Rafael Valdes, a Hialeah Police officer, is also facing a federal charge of making a material false statement in connection…
We say it every year … There’s far too much Christmas music on the radio, and not nearly enough Hanukkah songs floating around the FM airwaves to soundtrack our non-denominational celebration of hyper-consumerism known simply as “The Holidays.” All we’ve ever wanted for Christmas, damn it, is a sexy slow-jam…
There’s a big battle brewing between the Old Guard and the New Guard for the top leadership position of Florida’s Democratic Party. Several South Florida Hispanic Democrats are voicing their displeasure with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s move to support Tallahasee’s Allison Tant in next month’s election for the party’s state…
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…
Wow, y’all. Another year has come and gone. But what do we have to show for it? Sure, we had a lot of fun. We discovered a lot of new, hopeful artists and said goodbye to a few favorites. But we also saw the rise of some terrible pop bullshit…
As writers of all things food and drink, we take particular notice to the trends that rise and fall throughout the years. 2012 included its fair share of relatively new trends that make us wince, and it had even more stuff that has been building over the past few years…
Coaches Are Fired for Losing, Not for Being Black
Miami Dolphins Steal High School All-Star Game From Local Good Guy
Jesus Christ is particularly busy these days. The bearded leader of Christianity has been riding shotgun from shopping mall to shopping mall in the hearts of all his disciples ’round this 6,000-year-old planet that his dad built in six days, as the hyper-consumerist masses prep to celebrate JC’s birthday on…
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 gives the Dolphins a lesson in youth football.As the 2012 football season winds to a close, with Miami-Dade…
You’d think that after Demetrio Perez Jr. pleaded guilty in 2002 to defrauding a trio of frail elderly tenants in his low-income Little Havana apartments, Miami-Dade politicians would steer clear of the felonious former school board member. But then they couldn’t grease up to Perez and his deep pockets whenever…
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…
Dave Brubeck was a white guy who knew rhythm like no one has ever known rhythm. Son of a concert pianist and father of stunning jazz musicians, he died yesterday at age 91 — the same age as my father. In a sense, Brubeck was my dad — at least…
Black Football Coaches Get Screwed
Kratom: Drug Companies Want to Make It Illegal
Sari Maharani had barely opened the doors to her downtown Miami restaurant Little Lotus when she says her landlord was already trying to find a way to kick her out without just cause. Now the former paralegal of Indonsesian descent is locked in an epic legal fight with Abram Aminov,…
Back in 2002, Demetrio Perez Jr. had an epic fall from prominence. The then-Miami-Dade Public Schools Board Member was removed from public office following his 21-count federal indictment that he had been overcharging elderly tenants at his federally subsidized low income apartments in Little Havana for a decade.He ended up…
