Over here at Crossfade, when we’re home alone, chained to our computers and wasting away from lack of food, booze, and human company, we like to live vicariously through Twitter. (It’s also good for checking when to actually pay attention to some long, boring crap like the Grammys.)And so it…
You can always count on Jose “Pepe” Diaz to give Miami-Dade residents a reason to impose term limits on county commissioners. Seriously, who is advising Diaz? Scott Rothstein?How else can you explain the scam Diaz wants to pull on county taxpayers. Last week, he unveiled a legislative measure that would…
Miami trio Rebel has one of those band names that’s maddening to Google. Luckily, New Times summed up everything you need to know about this Anglophilic trio in a recent feature. In short, it’s been a long road to the band’s current sound. The threesome, who trace their own roots…
Woodward Brooks finally lost his badge for his bad cop behavior. This past February 3, the 46-year-old lawman was kicked off the Surfside Police force following his arrest on three felony counts of official misconduct, grand theft, and filing a fraudulent insurance claim.This is the second time the tiny beachfront…
To my unfocused eyes and deranged mind, this flyer wasn’t just a paper advertisement for some inevitably awesome show. At the time, it looked like the symbological key to a psychedelic netherworld. Those three goth-y faces, the double snakes, and that triangular gloam getting sucked into a squiggly vortex …..
Last night’s New Times banger got off to a lukewarm start. But by 10:30 p.m., the crowd was finally ready to fucking party. With unknown quantities of free Barefoot pinot grigio and a couple hundred pisscups of Magic Hat #9 turning their brains to sponges, people shed their inhibitions and…
Three Miami-Dade police officers lied under oath last year when they told a judge that they read a suspect his Miranda Rights during a traffic stop that led to a felony weapons charge, federal officials say. The three officers — patrolmen Jorge Luis Gonzalez and Alkibiades Dodge, and Sgt. Waell…
Can it be only last week that we were invaded by hordes of screaming, mildly retarded tourists? It seems they have left some of their finest morons, many of them in jail cells throughout the county. Let’s take a look at the Morons of the Week: Super Bowl Aftermath Edition…
Sure red meat makes you horny. And Spanish fly is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs. But what red-blooded American wouldn’t want a cereal mascot to keep his or her hunger satisfied on Valentine’s Day, too? As to what each one could provide in the lovin’ department, well…1. Tony Tiger’s a…
For years, the trashy elements of South Beach have coincided in a relatively peaceful, if not complementary, harmony with its more highbrow and sophisticated forces. Leave it to the power of Jersey Shore to upend all of that.While MTV has yet to confirm reports that the trash-tastic show will film…
To view past editions of Blast From the Past, click here. CokeCoke (Sound Triangle Records)One of the perils of collecting Florida music is the often confusing and frustrating searches one can often endure. There are many reasons for this: small print runs, obscure bands, even more obscure “record labels” and very…
If you’re an old person (25+), then your iPod’s probably still packed with crap like the Strokes, the White Stripes, and Radiohead’s monumental monument of momentous music, Kid A. And all that stuff’s fine or whatever … But maybe it’s time to take a couple steps out of 2000. The kids…
The letter arrived at the judge’s chambers in 2003, signed by a public defender-turned-convict named Anthony Genova. He had been busted for drunk driving, was a self-described Xanax addict, and did time for bankruptcy fraud. It was addressed to his old courthouse buddies — judges and attorneys — explaining he had found Jesus behind bars. His…
Trash Talk A real pain: I can’t believe these a**hole writers are telling out-of-towners how to get pain pills (“Super Blow,” Michael J. Mooney and Gus Garcia-Roberts, February 4). It’s hard enough to get them for my real pain, let alone telling people how to score just to get high…
*It’s been a while since we checked in on REVMiami, Ric Delgado’s webzine that aims to capture the underground music and arts culture of the city — well, mostly along the Biscayne Corridor. It’s been almost a damn year and he’s still at it, for which he deserves major kudos…
It’s all but officially confirmed that season two of the immensely popular reality-TV train wreck Jersey Shore will be shot in South Beach, and we have no doubt that 90 percent of the time, Snooki, the Situation, JWow, and the five others no one cares about will be indulging in…
The image above is of the sleepy-looking beachside town called Hallandale, Florida and gives no indication of the city’s Black musical history. But the Palms in Hallandale, just north of Miami, otherwise known as the Million Dollar Palms, was a major stop on the Chitlin Circuit, a nationwide string of…
Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega met with gay leaders earlier this afternoon at city hall, promising changes one week after the ACLU announced a suit charging that Beach cops regularly harass gay men in Flamingo Park. Noriega stressed that the two officers at the center of the ACLU suit…
Reality-TV princess Snooki was in Miami over the weekend and declared on her Twitter page: “I’m comin asap I’m movin to Miami!”Looks like she’ll get her wish, because MovieLine.com reports that season two of the breakout MTV hit Jersey Shore will be shot in South Beach.The website claims the show will begin…
News that Rep. Kendrick Meek is sponsoring NASCAR driver Mike Wallace’s car in this weekend’s Daytona 500, as well as being part of Wallace’s pit crew, had Banana Republican scratching his peel.The South Florida Democrat, who is giving up his congressional seat to run for the U.S. Senate, does not…
While most of the city was freaking out over the Super Bowl, some other legends were in town on Friday night: Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead. In a pretty unusual booking for downtown Miami, the two touched down at the recently revamped Bayfront Park Amphitheater…
After a seemingly endless heyday, rap-rock eventually became one of the most reviled musical artifacts of the end of the last millennium. But it’s been more than a decade since then. Fred Durst has disappeared from everywhere except Twitter, and critical darlings like Cage are starting to rhyme over guitars…
