Today, the Miami Herald splashed one of those Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce promotional brochures on the newspaper’s homepage and called it journalism. Citing a report by Miami’s Downtown Development Authority claiming condo sales increased 110 percent over the first six months of 2009, chamber spokeswoman reporter Toluse Olorunnipa proclaims,…
We’re Not Gay but the Music Is! (Self-released)gcib.com I think by now, in these recurring Blasts From the Past, we’ve arrived at the logical conclusion that South Florida has long been a a breeding ground for fringe acts who are heavy on the humor. Aside from the acerbic Black Irish humor…
We’re just two days away from the what’s shaping up to be the most important moment in Miami-set TV show history since the premiere of Miami Vice. Yes, the start of Season 2 of Jersey Shore. The LA Times visited the set in May and came back with “exclusive” behind-the-scenes footage…
How do you get rap gold at this very moment? Easy equation. Add Rick Ross, flying high onnew albumTeflon Don’s critical claim and store-register success, to anything involving Nicki Minaj. Voila, the Boss’ take on Nicki’s track “Your Love,” which leaked to the Internet about six months ago.Parent label Universal…
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 revisits the ongoing saga of suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones.Turns out Michelle Spence-Jones was telling the truth…
What do you do if you have $59.2 million in unspent funds from last year’s budget earmarked for long-stalled projects at the Overtown and Omni community redevelopment agencies? If you’re Miami city commissioners Marc Sarnoff and Richard Dunn II, you use some of the money to pay your staff and…
In the August issue of Travel and Leisure Magazine Miami Beach is touted as a tourist destination gone “gaga” for dogs. Lincoln Road is seen as the epicenter of fashionable canine flaunting. But is this four-legged invasion a nuisance or can we peacefully coexist with our neighbors’ furry companions? Two…
A new local hip-hop group called Geek Squad may very well be the freshest underground hip-hop group coming out of Dade County since … well, ever.Geek Squad is made up of five members (who are also high school friends) Acey Ace, M.I.C, Specta, Sub-Konshiss, and Wolfman Stylez. The group is…
We hate to be the bearer of bad news, and we know you all will be absolutely devastated by this somber development, but it appears that Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian are done taking our fair city of Miami. Apparently, they consider it conquered, and for the third season of the show,…
Dolphins running back Ricky Williams is looking for a way to pay down some his debts and is reportedly in talks with the production company behind Chad Ochocinco’s VH1 dating show to star in a reality show. No word on what the format will be, but since he got hitched…
The Miami-set season of Jersey Shore will be dropped onto the world in exactly a week, but one thing audiences won’t see in the next installment of the pop-culture train wreck is acknowledgment of the cast’s growing fame. Producers want to keep the illusion the castmates are the same random,…
José Luis de Jésus Miranda, leader of Miami-Dade-based congregation Creciendo en Gracia and the self-proclaimed “Man Christ,” has announced the world will go all apocalyptic July 1, 2012. That’s when Miranda claims his physical body will be “transformed, dressed in immortality and incorruptibility.” It also happens to be Miranda’s 66th birthday. New Times profiled…
Haulover Beach naturists partake in World Record Skinny-Dip Challenge
Uncle Luke schools LeBron James and Chris Bosh on living in Miami-Dade County
Louis Maxwell murdered by Afghan Army, Part 2
Letters from the issue of July 22, 2010
Cesar Carasa’s smooth tongue didn’t do him any good in court. Late yesterday, a Miami-Dade jury found the former West Miami mayor guilty of exploiting his official position. The loquacious Cuban American politician ran up more than $70,000 in calls to women in the Dominican Republic on his city-issued cell-phone. Prosecutors…
Big Jimmy Johnson news day, we suppose. He wasn’t at home during the bizarre standoff at his mansion yesterday, because he’s off filming reality TV. The 67-year-old former head coach of the Hurricanes and the Dolphins (and, oh yeah, some sort of team somewhere in Texas) will be a cast…
Could Florida’s Senate race get any weirder? First, we have revelations that Jeff Greene (also buddies with Mike Tyson and Heidi Fliess) hosted Lindsay Lohan on his yacht during a New Year’s Eve vacation on St. Barts. Now we learn that governor and Senate candidate Charlie Crist stayed at the…
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 schools LeBron James and Chris Bosh on what to do and what not to do in Miami-Dade County.Now…
Donald Richard sure had some nice tools in the garage of his house at 13241 SW 52nd Ter. The Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department electrical shop supervisor stored a $70, ten-piece Irwin vise set and a $1,000, 432-piece Craftsman professional mechanics tool set inside two Craftsman chests valued at $725. Richard…
Miami-Dade’s top cop is great at putting on a show for the local media. Flanked by her public corruption lieutenants and other law enforcers last November 13, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle stood before a roomful of reporters to announce the arrest of then-Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, as well…
