Editorial Voice

Lil Wayne, Puff Daddy, and DJ Khaled get a deadline

A watchdog agency is accusing Charles Hankerson, once considered a no-nonsense principal, of instructing a subordinate to illegally forge the signatures of two teachers at Miami Northwestern Senior High. The forgeries were made on documents that changed the grades of a student-athlete. This allowed the teenager to meet academic eligibility requirements…

Media Take Out is basically the wild, wild West of Internet gossip. “The most visited urban website in the world” trades freely in outrageous claims. OK, its top headlines right now include questioning Tupac’s heterosexuality, praising Kanye’s oral sex technique, and implying that Busta Rhymes has herpes. Miami reality star Evelyn Lozada…

Five Republican candidates — including Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Perry — have pulled out of a Univision debate in January. Why? Allegedly it is because of a comment the head of the blockbuster Spanish-language channel made to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s people while attempting to blackmail the senator…

Back in June, we were treated to the inner world of that most annoying breed of restaurant-goer — the Yelper. In Funny or Die’s parody, we’re treated to Tricia and Johanna Yelping about everything from the disappointing sunset to their own apartment (‘weird smell, cat not attentive”)…

​It’s great to have Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman as a pal when you don’t want to pay a city bill. Consider the case of Prime Home Builders, a company owned by a family of real estate developers that has donated more than five grand to Bateman’s re-election campaign. On November 16,…

​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 doesn’t like how Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled use Miami but don’t give back to the Magic City…

In the hot-as-balls summer of 2009, three dudes from New York City — rappers Himanshu “Heems” Suri and Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez, and hype guy Ashok “Dapwell” Kondabolu — banded together under the vaguely ominous moniker Das Racist, made some beats, spit some rhymes, smoked way too much weed, and…

Each week’s edition of Show & Tell gets more adventurous. It’s organ time! Usually ceviche is the first dish that comes to mind when thinking of Peruvian food, at least for nonnatives. That’s what some Short Order writers thought even before the white Styrofoam box was opened; they were in…

Alex Izaguirre The only way Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross can salvage this season is if he convinces John Gruden to leave the Monday Night Football television booth. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head man is the only candidate out there who can come in and quickly fix the shit storm…

​A Florida commission appointed by Republicans will likely vote today to move up the state’s Republican primary election to January 31.Though party muckety-mucks are still working on a compromise that could delay the election until February 21, the decision will probably create chaos.Given last week’s victory of Godfather’s Pizza founder…

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…

Luther “Luke” Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition, Luke remembers the man who had him arrested for singing obscene lyrics.Nick Navarro was the Made-For-TV-Sheriff…

Kids aren’t racist, schools are

Reader mail: Seminoles and Miccosukees will oppose Genting casino

[jump] The project drew from an eclectic array of South Florida rock acts, with proper nods to punk, indie rock and various psychedelic iterations. The classical-style rendition of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” by The Baby B-Strings and KDK-12’s abstract “Endless, Nameless” are the most exciting contributions to the collection because…

North Bay Village Mayor Corina Esquijarosa now has more time to fight the recall effort against her. She’s been laid off from her job as a project representative for the city of Miami Public Facilities Department. Esquijarosa’s position, which paid her an annual $97,000 salary and benefits package, was eliminated…

Two Miami lesbians are getting the shaft from a town clerk in New York.Of course, Deirdre DiBiaggio and Katie Carmichael can’t get married in Miami Beach, where they live in a $400,000 home near Alton Road and 42nd Street. DiBiaggio is an attorney. Carmichael is a filmmaker.Rose Marie Belforti, from the…

In this week’s Miami New Times, we take a peek at the brewing battle over the The Genting Group’s grandiose plan to redevelop the Miami Herald’s storied waterfront home into a gigantic casino resort,  Leading the criticism is former Miami Mayor Joe Carollo, who warns the Malaysian gambling conglomerate is trying to…

Luther “Luke” Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 addresses the absence of bigotry in children.When I drop my 2-year-old son off at day care, I…

Slashpine Travelogue Wolves in the Throne Room The Chop Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, September 23, 2011 It’s hard to reckon the episode we experienced in Florida’s backwater over the weekend. It was was meant to be a quick detour on our way to the Death to the Sun festival…

9:59 a.m. We’re wrapped in a towel, hair dripping, hands dry. Instead of performing the usual Monday morning ritual of frantically dressing and shoveling cereal down our throat, we’re crouched in front of our laptop, preparing to blow our wad. Sting’s steely blue eyes are staring back at us. We’re…