Here is a shocker. The Miami Dolphins finally scored more than 30 points this season. It was an offensive explosion for 471 yards that featured two big play touchdowns by running back Ricky Williams and undrafted rookie wide receiver Marlon Moore. Watching Williams gallop 45 yards for a touchdown that…
The last time we wrote about Miami Herald sports columnist Linda Robertson, we ribbed on her for being duped by a couple of Broward guys pretending to be real Russian basketball fans. But this time, we gotta give her props for penning a well researched piece on New Times columnist…
For a company that’s in the business of providing light, FPL apparently likes to keep some things in the dark.Last month a jury found Florida Power & Light partly responsible for an accident at the Port of Miami in 2004 that left longshoreman Willie Walker crippled. Walker’s attorneys say FPL…
Oh, you thought you were finished with Brooke Hogan and her little VH1 reality TV show didn’t you, Miami? Well, apparently it’s coming back for a third season sometime soon, and almost on cue to remind us that the show and it’s cast members exist, Glenn Douglas Packard’s, Hogan’s gay…
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 recommends Pat Riley pull a Stan Van Gundy on Erik Spoelstra.Pat Riley needs to stop wasting time…
In an interview with Eater, Nigella Lawson promotes her new cookbook, Nigella Kitchen. Yet this curvaceous cookbook author, TV personality, and all around fabulous foodie who has a way of making even a grilled cheese sound sultry and sexy stands fast that she is not a chef.Eater: Why do you…
Magadog Self-titled (Moon Ska Reocrds) myspace.com/magadogtampa It’s hard to believe Magadog has been soldiering since 1992. This band (and this album in particular) recall a time in life when going to shows with a group of friends was 100-percent fun. I’m referring to cool Sunday night shows at the now-defunct…
The food industry is hot hot hot. Chefs are hot hot hot. Restaurants are hot hot hot. Food networks and food festivals and food anythings are hot hot hot. Cookbooks are hot hot hot. Seems as though every chef in the world has written one this year – except for…
By now, Black Bobby’s a recurring character here on Crossfade. Last month we caught him on “Miami Ave,” and before that he was sparking a mini-war in our comments section with a Waka Flocka Flame dis. But if he shows up often here, it’s because he’s been hustling hard releasing mixtapes…
Luis Bofill got his start in Cuba’s Nueva Trova movement of the late ’70s with the group Cuba Nueva. From there, he would cut a mean rug as an exciting interpreter of standards and for generating an infectious blend of jazz, rumba, Latin, and Afro-beat. He’s been calling Miami his…
How’s this for a truly bizarre crime connection? Last night, Miami-Dade police announced the arrests of more than 20 curbside baggage handlers at MIA on charges that they’d taken cash bribes. One of those “skycaps” is 62-year-old Jorge Uscamayta.If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s evidently the same Jorge…
Most sports teams get it. Anything in print is good for them. The Miami Heat has never understood this. On Monday, the team banned Esquire writer Scott Raab after he called LeBron James a “gutless loser” and other choice terms. Raab is writing a book about LeBron.This ain’t the first time…
Without admitting Jim Morrison was railroaded by Miami-Dade’s criminal justice system 40 years ago, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle says her office won’t fight Charlie Crist’s pardon of The Doors iconic dead lead singer.The county’s top cop claims the recession is the reason she won’t try to uphold Morrison’s…
Letters from the issue of November 18, 2010
Jay-Z is no devil worshipper
Two Miami New Times freelance writers, Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock, have been named as among the most significant contributors to gay America this year.They join Ricky Martin, Johnny Weir, and Julianne Moore (go figure) as members of the Out 100, who are being honored this week in Manhattan…
Considering our new governor loves Arizona’s controversial immigration law so much he wants to create a similar one in Florida, we think Rick Scott should also consider the Grand Canyon state’s acceptance of medical marijuana. By a slim margin, voters said yes to Proposition 203 on November 2, making Arizona…
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 debunks rumors spread on blogs and YouTube that Jay-Z is down with the Illuminati.People who depict Jay-Z…
Elastic Bond returns to our ears with the deliciously danceable “Frecuencia Natural” (“Natural Frequency”). Though sung in Spanish by the always alluring and inviting Sofy Encanto, this track certainly carries their signature Latin rhythm and groove, but the spacey touches of electronica and the quasi-salsa/cumbia breakdown there got me bopping…
When Lazaro Morera’s father passed away October 29, the unemployed Cuban-American thought he had the funeral covered. He was wrong. Despite having paid $2,540 to Funeraria Latina Nacional at 151 NW 37th Ave. for his dad’s prearranged burial six years ago, the funeral home’s owner, Rafaiy Alkhalifa, would not honor…
Miami’s Best Pizza, a 40-year mainstay on South Dixie Highway near University of Miami, is always packed. There’re children with noses smudged up against a glass partition watching cooks spin dough in the air, children playing on video game machines that line the walls, children huddled by their parents on…
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. Today, Luke comes to Cam Newton’s defense.There is a campaign to destroy the reputation of Auburn Tigers quarterback Cam Newton, and…
