Moving Units: Top Five Albums at Local Independent Music Stores

Moving Units is a weekly column on Crossfade tracking the best-selling albums at South Florida independent record stores. Click here to view past top-sellers. Top 5 Albums for the week of October 18 – 24Sweat Records, Miami Declaration of Dependance, Kings of Convenience Embryonic, The Flaming Lips Lungs, Florence and…

The Week That Was: Ball Busting

South Beach drag empress Shelley Novak was forced to stop making dick joke, and start dealing with police when some guy allegedly slugged her and put a hole in her window. Maybe the fellow was a victim of one of Shelley’s prick-size punch lines. That sort-of-creepy billboard of a naked guy…

Flyer of the Week: Pay Your Final Respects to PS14 October 28

Maybe it’s bad taste to get on some kind of eulogy bender before the corpse is even cold, but the diagnosis is terminal and it’s only a matter of time … Your favorite hipster bar, PS14, is dying. So say goodbye, Miami, and make amends for all the wrongs you’ve…

SuperNanny in Miami to Find Weirdo Families

Since swapping your wife will undoubtedly lead to your child taking faux rides in a foil balloon and one of your family members cutting one on Larry King Live, hiring a new millennium Mary Poppins may be a better way to make your foray into reality television. And you just may…

Friday Food Funnies: Girl Talk

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. ~Fran LebowitzIs Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds. ~Joan RiversMost turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before. ~Rita RudnerI come from a family where gravy is…

A Cameroon Hand Drum’s Details

Cameroon is a country partially on the West coast of Africa that is bordered by Nigeria. The name of the country originates from the portugese Rio dos Camarões, which sailors, for its abundance of prawns and crayfish, called the Wouri River when they sailed into it in 1472.According to Wikipedia,…

Feds Dole Out $26 Million to City of Miami For Affordable Housing

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent affordable housing developers in Miami-Dade County an early Christmas present. This past October 16, HUD secretary Shaun Donovan announced 18 south Florida cities will receive $69 million for community development grants, homeowner assistance programs, emergency shelter grants, and housing for people…

Letters from the issue of October 22, 2009

Powerful Debate Good man: I worked for Jerry Powers, the man described in “Work It, Jerry!” (Francisco Alvarado, October 15). I know him and have never had a bad day with him. Everything he promised me in the beginning turned out to be true and then some. Ocean Drive became…

Katharine Cue’s Challenger Sues to Get Her Off the Ballot

Daniel Bolaños, an ex-Hialeah cop who resigned  amid allegations he abused his badge, is suing the city, clerk Ralph Granado and Councilwoman Katharine Cue to get her name off the ballot. The son of former longtime Hialeah Police chief Rolando Bolaños Sr. is running against Cue in the November 3…

Arson Suspected in Midnight Inferno at Miami Lakes Mayor’s Law Office

Saying Michael Pizzi is the kind of guy who’s made a few enemies in this town might qualify as the understatement of the year.​The U.S. probation officer turned criminal defense lawyer turned politician and elected Miami Lakes mayor is a full-time crusader who lives for a dirty street brawl. New Times…

MP3 of the Day: “Dancer” by Woodhands, Playing the Vagabond This Saturday

Ever wondered what screamo-lectro dudes do to unwind after a particularly strenuous hipster bikini dance party? Well, apparently, if the dudes in question are Daniel Werb and Paul Banwatt of Toronto synth-and-drum duo Woodhands, then it’s all about a nice, relaxing, man-on-man bubble bath. Why the bubbles? Why the bath?…

Ricky “Gourmand” Williams, Archie’s Gourmet Pizza, Free Gourmet Magazine

Nothing Spells Hip and Health-Conscious Like Plasma TVsNFL All-Timer Rudi Johnson and Dolphins running back Ricky Williams will be co-owners (along with the Hospitality Development Management Group) of PROOF, a “hip new health-conscious restaurant and lounge set within the inviting breezeway area of Z Ocean Hotel South Beach”. Set to…

Barton G. Warehouse Fire: A Bad Time for Everybody (Updated)

The state fire marshal and Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms officers were in Miami this morning investigating a fire last night at the Barton G. warehouse at 400 NE 67th St. on the Upper Eastside. The blaze destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of linens and tables after the roof caved in…

Wish You Were There: Brad Paisley at Cruzan, Backstage Tour

Who is Brad Paisely? He is a country music star with seven recorded studio albums, all of which have gone at least gold.According to Wikipedia, Brad Paisley graduated high school in West Virginia. That’s about as country as it gets, except for the graduating high school part. Paisley is currently…

Tour Diary: The State Of Reports From the Road

Hello everyone! We’ve been traveling the country for about two weeks nowand here it is summed up:The fall is starting to settle, the leaves are changing and the cold weather is kicking!!!  Layers are very essential at this point. The lowest temperature we’ve hit so far has been 33 degrees…

Shocker: Cubans Are Growing Pot All Over the State

Yesterday the Orlando Sentinel published a report that Cuban immigrants who have recently arrived in the United States represent a vast majority of people getting busted for operating marijuana grow houses across the state.The article comes two years after my story on the same subject, proving that law enforcement is…

The Week That Was

DJ Seasunz, a well established local DJ, drove around in his car with the dead body of his 18-year-old girlfriend before turning himself into police. He’s being charged with second-degree murder and was denied bond.Miami’s best known graffiti crew, MSG, is heading to divorce court as one of the co-founders…

Miami Beach Candidate Oddy Segui Has a Check-Cashing Problem

There’s just something odd about Oduardo “Oddy” Segui, a 40-year-old Cuban-American running against Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin.Not much has been written about the political newcomer. In an October 4 Miami Herald article, Segui informs reporter David Smiley that he owned a hotel in the Bahamas and a transportation company…

Friday Food Funnies: Latkes and Dr Pepper

I don’t know what they are, but they’re deep-fried and you got twenty minutes to live after you eat one. ~Mel Brooks on the mini-latkes served at Junior’s Deli in West HollywoodPrices are just ridiculous. I went into a chicken place and spent ten dollars for a wing and a…