Opinion & Commentary

Reader mail: “Saying the NCAA’s treatment is like slavery is like saying boxing is like the Holocaust”

When it comes to North Bay Village Mayor Corina Esquijarosa, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle should follow Monroe County’s lead. There should be no mercy for individuals who screw over their fellow taxpayers.On August 19, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent Vincent Weiner was arrested on misdemeanor charges of…

​Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade’s road trip diary.  Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #3 Pentress, WV 8/28/2011 Our journey was long, arduous, strange and had already brought us to the doorstep of Dixieland, and the middle of Mountainland Nowhere, West Virginia. Before…

When a homie loses his life in the streets, there are all kinds of ways to honor his memory. You could say a prayer. Get a tattoo. Empty a 40 oz. bottle of Olde English on his grave. Organize an annual celebration of his enduring legacy. Write a musical tribute…

​Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #2 Pentress, WV 8/27/2011 Miami’s DWNTWN/Wynwood/etc. music scene has been talking (yelling?) a lot about venues lately. The firestorm started with Death to the Sun coordinator Ricardo Guerrero’s bold…

​When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez tapped one of his close confidantes to lead the county’s fire department, he ignored 29 other applicants to pick a guy who once booted African-Americans out of Miami’s fire union. No one was interviewed — not even Haitian-American Karls Paul-Noel, who was interim chief until…

​Luther 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 gloats about the dropping of criminal charges against African-American Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones. When Michelle Spence-Jones was being…

​The morning of August 21, a pesky intruder found itself caged in the lush back yard of Richard Chervony’s three-bedroom residence in North Bay Village. Bearing its fangs and emitting a guttural growl, the creature spied Chervony with its black doll eyes. Its furry, salt-and-pepper body and bald, pink tail…

Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm, and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #1 Richmond, VA 8/26/2011 This is Crossfade and Bleeding Palm reporting from Richmond, Virginia on the road to Voice of the Valley Noise Rally 2011.Despite the still-looming threats of…

​When Opa-locka Mayor Myra Taylor got $5,000 in city funds for an event she was organizing, she promised some of the proceeds would be used to help poor parents pay for their children’s day care. But in reality, the only child who benefited was Taylor’s adult daughter, according to a…

​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…

PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — obviously doesn’t care about the ethical treatment of human eyeballs because they’ve decided to mix images of animal torture with porn. Yes, porn.Taking their “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign a few gazillion steps further, PETA has signed…

A recent survey of 300 registered voters in Hialeah shows that “La Ciudad Que Progresa” thinks the president and Florida’s governor both suck. The poll, paid by the Hialeah firefighters union, finds that 54 percent and 51 percent of the respondents disapprove of Obama and Scott, respectively. Obama received a…

NCAA football is modern-day slavery

Reader mail: Nevin Shapiro is a “little Napoleon”

Jason Villano: Pill mill crackdown’s unjust victim

Update: Gov. Rick Scott has officially reinstated Michelle Spence-Jones as a Miami city commissioner.Earlier this morning, Banana Republican spoke with Michelle Spence-Jones in her first media interview since a grand theft charge against her was dropped yesterday. Obviously she is jubilant. “When you know you are innocent, it’s a victory…

At least Richard Scruggs can always say he was the guy who got Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the notorious religious sect leader who was convicted of committing 14 murders, two attempted homicides, and a terrorist firebombing in 1992.But right now, the veteran prosecutor has lost his shine. While trying to prove…