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…
Welcome to Short Order Show & Tell, where one of us brings a local delicacy to our weekly staff meeting, and we all weigh in on its deliciousness.Today we test out the notion of ice cream for breakfast with The Frieze’s “Grapenuts ‘N’ Raisins,” one of the more intriguing flavors…
By a three to two vote, an Ecuadorian court last week upheld a $42 million verdict against journalist Emilio Palacio and three others. All work for El Universo, that nation’s largest newspaper. And all were sentenced to jail for a column Palacio wrote that severely criticized the president…
A possible conflict has forced Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to sit out the awarding of a $50 million contract to a local construction company that employs his son Julio and uses his other son Carlos Jr. as its lobbyist. Munilla Construction Management submitted the lowest bid out of seven firms…
Miami-Dade commissioners, in one of those crazy late night donnybrooks, passed a $6 billion budget Friday morning, but kept their cozy office deals and proposed to cut back on cops and other public employee salaries.That is what I call hypocrisy.According to this morning’s Herald story, the commissioners held onto a…
Team Breezy isn’t just a gang of crazy wife-beaters and delusional, masochistic teenaged girls. All types — tweens, thugs, and grandmas alike — revel in Chris Brown’s immense talents, even after he slugged Rihanna, trashed Good Morning America’s studio, and spewed homophobic slurs at the paparazzi. Of course, no one…
It seems premature to say that the South Beach Wine & Food Festival is already a subject of talk about town, but they recently released the 2012 line-up, and we already spoke to Lee Schrager to get the inside scoop. Plus, Wine Enthusiast’s Toast of the Town is this Friday…
The public corruption unit at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office is getting quite a makeover. Longtime unit chief Joe Centorino will soon depart to take on a new gig as executive director of the Miami-Dade ethics commission. And assistant state attorney Richard Scruggs is now working the gang detail, Banana…
Genting casino will kill Miami and Miami Beach
Reader mail: “Eminem is the greatest rapper alive”
One Million Moms has an issue with Schweddy Balls.Moms, an online branch of right-wing, conservative, pro-life American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Mississippi, has taken umbrage with Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls Ice Cream. On their website they claim: “Ben & Jerry’s announced their newest ice cream flavor which sounds…
In the wake of the recent Nocturnal nightclub shooting that killed one, hospitalized others, and sent hundreds stampeding through Downtown Miami, we found evidence of stabbings and shootings at another area establishment, the Cafe Society (1994 NW Third Ave., Miami), way back in 1948. The front page of the Miami…
In the beginning, Domo Genesis dropped Rolling Papers, an ode to getting high in the guise of mixtape. Pardon the pun, but it was dope. Now, Odd Future’s squinty-eyed stoner is back with a new mixtape, Under the Influence. Yesterday afternoon at 4:20 p.m., Domo released his sophomore effort via…
You want to eat fresh fish. You want it glazed, or baked in parchment with fresh dill and lemon. You want the skin crisp from the broiler and the meat moist and juicy. Instead, you’re looking down at a plate of stinky fish in all of its odoriferous glory. How…
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, Campbell explains why the Genting Group, the Malaysian gambling company that bought the Miami Herald and Omni properties,…
Some things are so good they should not be f*cked with: Starsky and Hutch, rum and Coke, mugshots and Fridays.But rules are made to be broken, especially random-ass Riptide rules. So we present you with a special midweek, Gulf Coast edition of Mugshots Friday Tuesday.Today’s version is devoted entirely to…
A Miami-Dade County Public Schools principal credited with turning around a storied inner-city high school’s academic performance is under investigation for illegally changing student grades. The allegation against Charles Hankerson is the latest black eye for Miami Northwestern High School, which earlier this year was almost shut down by state…
Back in the day (circa 1998), an underground rap slab hit the streets and it was called Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. The duo behind this record — Black Star, consisting obviously enough of Brooklyn MCs Mos Def and Talib Kweli — took its core concepts (and…
Welcome to Short Order Show & Tell, where one of us brings a local delicacy to our weekly staff meeting, and we all weigh in on its deliciousness.Today’s experiment was German Fruit Bread from Crackerman Crackers in Bay Harbor Islands. The tasting started out well enough, except for one thing…
Today, September 16, marks the release of the eight-disc set of Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Star Wars fans can rejoice in seeing 40-plus hours of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Han Solo and , most importantly, Jar Jar Binks, in spectacular remastered digital film (including thousands of spooling feet deemed…
