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The Occupy movement needs you, Miami

Reader mail: Not all black areas look like Overtown

Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby and his horsey sidekick Pokey, would have been 90 today. Clokey spent more than 50 years perfecting claymation and stop-action film techniques.Kids just cared about Gumby and Pokey. Clokey died in January, 2010 at the age of 88. He asked that contributions be made…

​Seems Lil Wayne laid off the sizzurp for a brief second to respond to Luther Campbell’s ultimatum that President Carter needs to start investing more time helping Miami’s less fortunate souls or else. Last night, Young Weezy, via his handle @LilTunechi, tweeted, “This Nigga Luke trippin!!! I ain’t feelin khaled rite…

Someone needs to sit down and finally sketch out the ultimate South Florida punk rock family tree. Because, we’re willing to say at any given moment in the past, say, 10 years of Miami punk and hardcore, each sub-scene (Friday night mohawk, oogle, hardcore boy, hardcore boi, etc.) has had…

The head of Miami-Dade’s semi-public economic development arm is in tune with Miami’s raunchiest columnist. Beacon Council President Frank Nero told the Miami Herald today that he believes plans by companies from Malaysia and Las Vegas to build mega-casino resorts in downtown Miami “would serve as vacuum cleaners that suck…

The Pennsylvania-based company Kalan LP, a distributor of novelty items like inflatable beer pong games and shot glasses that say “You must be Irish because my penis is Dublin,” is now distributing a line of marijuana-shaped candies, and it’s blowing up a storm among the right. Which got me thinking…

A disgraced former Miami-Dade County commissioner and a Hialeah businessman once banned from getting county contracts are making big bucks off the red-light camera blitzkrieg in South Florida. Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions (ATS), which has installed red-light cameras in 22 cities in Miami-Dade and nearly 80 cities across the state,…

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 assesses the Occupy movement sweeping New York, Miami, and other American cities.The tens of thousands of protesters…

In the past few years, we’ve all heard numerous Tiger Woods wiener jokes. In fact, The Somewhere in Augusta sports bar has a special Tiger Woods Homewrecker hot dog (it’s a foot-long, in case you were wondering).But at the Frys.com Open yesterday, a man threw a hot dog at Woods…

What’s a writer to do when an interest piece has already been written and reviewed by a fellow blogger? Try a different angle. Just from the name Gelato Nostro, one can derive that Italian style ice-cream is the main attraction. Oscar, one of the partners of this establishment, recommended that…

Seventy-two cats have been killed and 14 have died after an outbreak of disease at the Miami-Dade Animal Shelter. About 40 more healthy felines have been been moved r due to the disease, which is called panleukopenia. A group called Undercats 4 Life is attempting to find homes for some of…

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…

​It’s embarrassing to admit, but Crossfade isn’t any closer to deducing the identity of the “anonymous owner” threatening to release a sex tape featuring ’90s West Coast gangsta rap martyr Tupac Shakur. Our drive to apprehend the culprit is insatiable. And while constantly refreshing the internet’s most tawdry gossip sites,…

Reader mail: Genting casino will help Miami’s economy

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…