Miami-Dade Police Director James Loftus is no longer a member of the Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents more than 6,500 law enforcement officers in the county and several cities. In a memo sent yesterday to all county cops, Loftus says he quit the PBA over comments union leaders…
While Miami’s lone wolf MC Black Bobby continues to fight the good hip-hop fight, let it be known he doesn’t want to do so at a series of sausage fests. “A lot of hip-hop events I go to — or actually that I don’t go to — are just a…
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 gives President Obama an A on his midterm report card.Despite the mess he inherited from George W…
Crystal, a sprightly server at Starbucks in Miami Shores, says the pumpkin spice latte, which is only available a few months a year and went on sale in September, is really popular. Why? “There’s no fall here,” she says, “so we give people a sense of the season.” Bloggers Chuck…
When the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse finally opened in late 2007, the Magic City waxed rhapsodic: “Beautiful” and “elegant,” enthused one judge; “(People) will say, ‘That’s Miami!” exclaimed another. Even this publication swooned, naming the glass behemoth “Best New Building” and praising the “crystal ship .. plowing through waves”…
Sadly, time is winding down to the Macaroni Rascal’s tour of destruction in Miami, but last night the journey ended for Angelina. Yes, the life-sized rat in a mini-dress and bad mascara decided to once again pack up all of the extra Swiss cheese and various shiny things she found…
Buzzov*en …At a Loss (Off the Records) buzzoven.com For this week’s Blast From the Past we turn to North Carolina’s cleanest children, Buzzov*en, who in 1997 recorded a full-length album for former New Times scribe Tom Bowker’s Off the Records. Released in early 1998, …At a Loss is a tour…
Miami’s DJ NVS Styles has slowly gained notoriety over the past couple years thanks to his killer mixtapes. Most recently, he released the 2010 Get Wasted mixtape that scored him a nomination for “Best Rap Mixtape Of The Year” at the SEAs (Southern Entertainment Awards), where he received a total…
Jello pudding spokesperson and longtime funny man Bill Cosby used to host a CBS show called Kids Say the Darndest Things. He’d ask children random questions and hope for “cute” answers in return.Short Order staffer were recently on assignment (eating) and overheard a kid say darndest thing.Lady: What’s your favorite…
Former Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolaños continues his social media attack on the city’s mayor, Julio Robaina. This past September 26, via a Facebook status update, Bolaños informed his friends network about the generous amount of tax payer dollars that have been allocated to Hialeah’s communications and events department run…
Picture this: Courtney Love spins down a shame spiral, gets trapped by her fashion choices and confronted by über-designer Karl Lagerfeld, admits she wants to be “dignified like Chris Martin from Coldplay,” and hangs out with Michael Stipe. We never thought this would happen, but Courtney Love has become a…
This past Saturday night, Banana Republican witnessed a magical moment in Overtown proving that Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell has got it right when he says hip-hop has the power to bring people together. A true cross section of Miami’s hip-hop lovers came out to Ice Palace Studios to…
Letters from the issue of September 30, 2010
No, Tea Party. Yes, hip-hop!
Earlier this week came reports that petite princess of poofdom Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi had a secret near death experience while shooting Jersey Shore in Miami stemming from alcohol poisoning. She’s refuted the rumors, and in fact, she’s living life right now perhaps at a level higher than most of us…
We’ve been exiled from our own capitol! At least that’s what a purported email from Miami City Manager Carlos Migoya indicates. If the memo is real, Migoya isn’t too keen on city employees reading up on all the shenanigans he, his subordinates and his bosses are up to via Banana…
We’ve never hidden our disappointment and disgust with Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez’s administration. Voters handed him immense powers in 2007, but Carlos “El Fuerte” never materialized. And he sandbagged Miami-Dade taxpayers with the Marlins deal and most recently, his successful push to increase property taxes. The latter allegedly the motivation…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke starts a worldwide political movement.Around this time last year, undercover racist movement Take America Back began to take…
If you still haven’t heard of Parisian-born, Miami-based studio producer Uriel “Frenchie” Kadouch, it’s only a matter of time. His A-list accolades speak for themselves. By his early 20s he was already making beats for the likes of R&B stars Robin Thicke, Ashanti, and Cassie while also collaborating with hip-hop…
Bill Cooke hasn’t been this unhinged at the New Times since my boss photographed a mannequin wardrobe malfunction. The self-styled media watchdog behind blog Random Pixels and Loose Thoughts calls my feature on Jonathan “Ynot” Corso — the prolific graffiti artist killed in late July — a “glorifying [of] criminal…
Today, the Miami city commission has a number of special public hearings to decide the fate of the city’s budget and how to spend a whole lot of millions of dollars meant to alleviate slum and blight in Overtown and the Omni neighborhood, including a $220,000 salary and benefits package…
A couple weeks back, we introduced you to Active Child, the opening act for School of Seven Bells’ upcoming Miami show at Grand Central. But we were so busy geeking out over his choral harmonies and harp-plucking that we glossed over the main event itself.So let’s correct that: School of…
