Congressman Bobby Rush III, a black Democrat from Illinois, was escorted off of the floor of the House of Representatives the morning after donning a hoodie to show his support from deceased Florida teen Trayvon Martin. The moment came just a day after House Democrats held a forum to discuss…
Does a bear pee in the woods? That’s an easy question. Does a Florida meth-head pee in the woods? That’s apparently a more complicated question than one could ever imagine.Marcia Usher, 32 of Hudson, Florida, called 911 and reported that she was lost in the woods and didn’t know where…
In the midst of the Trayvon Martin controversy, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Beth Bloom has cited Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law to drop charges against Greyston Garcia after he fatally stabbed a car radio thief in Little Havana on January 25th. Though, Garcia apparently initiated the violence, never called police,…
Sometimes when you get a bunch of unsupervised kids with heightened emotions together, bad things happen.Though the vast majority of demonstrations at Miami-Dade high schools have been peaceful and orderly, a small group of protesters from North Miami Beach High School apparently lost control and decided it was a good…
Much has been made of the fact that Trayvon Martin was wearing a hoodie when he died, with Geraldo Rivera even suggesting that his choice in wardrobe was as much responsible for his death as George Zimmerman. Apparently the choice of attire of hung-over college kids sitting in chilly lecture…
Jeb Bush has spent the better part of the past four years not running for president and telling everyone about it, but what about a run for vice president? A new national poll shows that if leading candidate Mitt Romney picked Jebbers as his VP, it could make for a…
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Miami Beach police have done the world a great service by putting Amadou Balde behind bars. His most grievous crime: stealing other people’s drinks off a bar. We think we speak for all decent Miami Beach drinkers when say that when we pay for overpriced swill on the Beach, we…
Back in the ’60s, Coral Gables banned pickup trucks from being parked outside in residential neighborhoods and has stubbornly defended the zoning law ever since. But could a new era of pickup truck freedom dawn in the City Beautiful? Well, maybe, but the city continues to drag its feet, and…
There’s very little levity to be found in the Trayvon Martin case, and so far the satirists have stayed mostly away from the story. Well, last night Stephen Colbert took a swing at it by lampooning Republican candidates’ reactions to President Obama’s statements about the case, Geraldo Rivera’s now-infamous hoodie…
Ultra Music Festival’s MC introduced David Guetta as “the man that means more to electric dance music than anyone in the United States.” Hmm, of all time? Definitely not. At the moment? You could make a strong argument for that. Is he the DJ currently making the most money off…
On the one-month anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death, Sanford police have finally revealed the version of events recounted by George Zimmerman. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Zimmerman claimed that before he fatally shot Martin, the 17-year-old punched him in the nose and slammed his head into the concrete. That’s apparently the…
Rob Kardashian, the only member of America’s favorite family of fame monsters to have a Y chromosome, was briefly detained by Miami Beach police early Sunday morning after a confrontation with a paparazzo…
Say bye-bye to the Double A. Amway Arena, the original home of the Orlando Magic, imploded this weekend. Naturally, everyone loves the site of a 367,000-square-foot building being blown up by 600 pounds of dynamite, so watch the video below…
Reality, or something sort of like it, has finally caught up to Gov. Rick Scott. The Tea Party activists that help elect him? They’re apparently not so enamored of Scott any longer. The leaders of what remains of the movement are not too pleased with Scott’s performance as governor thus…
Back in the 1990s, Fatboy Slim helped establish the standard for EDM producers breaking through to the mainstream. A decade and half later, DJs and producers are once again showing up on Top 40 and what’s left of MTV. We’re not saying Slim has any sort of axe to grind…
We were superconfused during the first part of DJ Shadow’s Ultra Music Festival set last night. Just as we we were turning the corner to the Live Stage, we heard him announcing that it was his first time in Miami. But once we actually got a view of things, all…
We’re pretty sure that Duck Sauce exists for no reason besides giving A-Trak and Armand Van Helden an excuse to have as much fun as possible together reveling in big disco house excess, and that’s exactly what happened when the pair took the Main Stage at Ultra Music Festival yesterday…
Taking the stage in matching all-black, zip-up satin jackets and dark skinny denim, Miike Snow looked like members of some sort of Orthodox Hipster cult. The long beards sported by two members didn’t dissuade the comparison. And the faithful turned out, with one of the youngest crowds attracted to the…
Performance-wise, no Kraftwerk show is really more special than any other. The band’s very German mastery of automation, precision, and repetation renders the men on stage as close to robots as their Man-Machine album would suggest. To say one Kraftwerk performance is really any better than another is to swear…
It’s a question that really comes into focus during Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week. If the end game of capital-D Dance music is supposed to be getting everybody grooving together, why are there so many divisions? Why do some DJs always end up playing for the bottle-service crowd…
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