This time of year, everything should be decided using tournament brackets. Riptide picks our breakfast by scrawling our kitchen’s options on a whiteboard. Yogurt and oatmeal always get knocked out in the first round, and Honey Bunches of Oats is highly seeded. Today a champion will emerge after a long year…
Local South Florida music bloggers unite! Well, that’s REVMiami’s idea anyhow. Yesterday, the lovely logo we see above popped up on another South Florida music staple site, Made in Miami Music. The idea is simple: so many folks are toiling away covering their local scenes around the country without a…
Do not try to wrap your pretty little head around this track, “Crossing the Frozen Lands.” Nah. That is not the way art works, at least not for me and I’m only a heady guy when it involves booze and whores and narcotics… think about it baby! You’re in the…
Today, to avoid being formally charged with violating county ethics rules, the South Dade couple settled a complaint brought by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust.An ethics investigation revealed the Forbes did not disclose payments they received from various sources on their 2005, 2006, and 2007 financial disclosure…
Just a few items we cultivated from in this week’s New Times Broward-Palm Beach print edition.In Music: Alkaline Trio rolls through Revolution next week, Aretha Aretha Aretha, Miami’s Raffa & Rainer rocks a Fort Lauderdale CD release party, and there will be Jazz in the Gardens this weekend.Night Watch: “Large…
Miami Lakes Councilman Richard Pulido can’t stop acting like the town jerk. The part-time college professor continues to pick on town Clerk Marjorie Tejeda.Earlier I reported how Tejeda complained to town Manager Frank Bocanegra that Pulido created a hostile work environment for her.Well at the town council’s last meeting this…
Letters from the issue of March 18, 2010
Luke’s Gospel: Take down slums, not politicians like Michelle Spence-Jones
A well-toned blonde in a red feathered headdress, a thong, and nipple tassels looks down from high above a long, narrow club decked out in cushioned gold walls occasionally licked by a swirling green laser light. Perched on a black swing, she pumps her shapely calves to the tune of…
As Rick Ross preps the release of his fourth studio album, Teflon Don, Rick Ross gathers a team of DJs to collaboratively release an official mixtape that will serve as the warm-up of sorts for the album. The mixtape is interestingly titled A Timeless Audemars Piguet Collection. Presumably a play…
Just in case all of this “music blogging” has gone to everyone’s heads, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! [The Guest Lab]…
Last fall, MTV’s reality show Jersey Shore was a surprise smash hit. Despite its being criticized for negative stereotypes of Italian-Americans, astonishing numbers of viewers tuned in to see the self-proclaimed guidos and guidettes frolic in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Undoubtedly one of the biggest stars of the show was Mike “the Situation” Sorrentino,…
Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Gorillaz – Plastic BeachBroken Bells – Broken BellsJoanna Newsom – Have One On MeCharlotte Gainsbourg – IRMYeasayer – Odd Blood…
In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.This week, Ramirez, Crossfade and record buyers all agreed that a new Gorillaz album is a big deal, and nearly as many…
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. Up this week, Luke assesses the latest criminal charges against his pal Michelle Spence-Jones and what he would do to…
So Jersey Shore is officially coming to South Beach for season two, but before the cast mates arrive, they’ll have to undergo a series of medical tests.We’re not sure if it’s for our safety or theirs. Lord knows what kind of health havoc they could wreak on our great city. I…
When Liberty City’s Chad Ochocinco does something, he doesn’t half-ass it. Especially when that something is utterly ridiculous. The man changed his last name to Ochocinco, after all.So when it was announced he’d make the inevitable jump to reality TV by being a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, it was…
Some students attending St. Kevin Catholic School in Southwest Miami-Dade were given an unexpected introduction to their religion’s death ritual.On the morning of February 10, sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders had to attend the funeral mass for the mother-in-law of school principal Myra Constantino. The “celebration of the life of Josephine…
Shaquille O’Neal’s trade to the Heat may have been good for the team, but apparently bad for his marriage.His very-soon-to-be-ex-wife Shaunie has blamed the entire city of Miami for their pending divorce, or more specifically all the hoochies in the arena who show up in bras and panties.”Miami is a…
Just a few items we tackled in this week’s New Times Broward-Palm Beach print edition.In Music: Pitbull is throwing a party on Sunday. Carnaval Miami and Calle Ocho’s guest list includes T-Pain, Flo Rida, Sean Paul, Spam Allstars and a million or so of their closest friends. Someone was also…
It’s once again that time of the week– when a bearded, wild-eyed Riptide climbs down from that mountaintop hoisting stone tablets bearing the names of the last seven day’s most elite numbskulls. Without further ado, your morons of the week: 5. The city of Haikou It’s being called the “Miami…
Blast From the Past is a weekly column on Crossfade re-examining classic releases from Florida music of yesteryear. To read previous installments, click here. 2 Live CrewBanned in the USA(Luke Records) Well, it was bound to happen within these pages: 2 Live Crew. It would be downright irresponsible to revisit…
