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Kanye West’s I Am God and Ten Other Terrible Album Titles

By Kat Bein

Confidence is sexy. But someone forgot to tell Kanye West about the rule of subtlety. Personally, we think the egomaniacal musician is the genius he claims to be. But all things in moderation. No doubt, his forthcoming album will be a righteous game-changer, inevitably topping charts, and burrowing into our…

Downtown Miami Rental Company Gives EDM Fans Ultra Headache

By Francisco Alvarado

Brad Stonesifer thought he’d found the perfect Ultra Music Festival party pad for himself and five pals. The 41-year-old electronic dance music aficionado from York, Pennsylvania, booked a four-night stay at the Residences at Bayside, directly across from Bayfront Park where his crew planned on enjoying the second weekend of…

Packaged Food Kills: Too Much Sodium From Infancy to Adulthood

By Ily Goyanes

At a meeting of the American Heart Association yesterday, data was presented that indicates there are high levels of sodium in packaged food made for toddlers. I’ve gotten flack about this column for my stance that food should bear clear and obvious labels that show nutritional and artificial-sweetener data. The…

Mugshots Friday: Ultra-Irish, Tank-Top Stylish

By Kyle Munzenrieder

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…

One Herald Plaza: Thanks for the Memories

By Francisco Alvarado

Close to 1,000 former Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald staffers descended on One Herald Plaza Wednesday afternoon. Reporters. Advertising executives. Printing-press mechanics. Bookkeepers. Publishers. Janitors. They all came to pay their final respects to the place that has defined journalism in this city for the last 50 years. Sometime…

How Ultra Music Festival and WMC Are Hurting Miami

By J.J. Colagrande

As the Dissident, J.J. Colagrande turns his critical eye on Miami culture. This week: how the annual mega-rave that is Ultra and WMC makes Miami a second-class city. Miami is in the middle of a cultural and intellectual renaissance. We’re finally evolving from a stale reputation leftover from the ’80s…

Dairy Industry Aims to Use Aspartame Secretly

By Ily Goyanes

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation want to be able to use aspartame without having to include it on product labels, as is currently required by law. The FDA has been ignoring the petition, which was filed in 2009. Until now. The agency is…

Anti-Christian Bigotry Is on the Rise

By Luther Campbell

Uncle Luke, 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 lack of faith in the world.On February 20, the holy spirit lifted 82-year-old Brownsville resident Emma…

Ultra 2013 Starts Now! And EDM Has Conquered Miami, America, the World

By S. Pajot

Electronic dance music has conquered Miami. And America. And the world. For more than three decades, it had remained a mostly underground phenomenon, epitomized by illegal raves held beneath highway overpasses in the UK or after-hours parties thrown in downtown Detroit’s abandoned warehouses. But over the past few years, EDM…

U.S. Government Spends Your Tax Dollars Advertising Food Stamps In Mexico

By Ily Goyanes

The Daily Caller this morning reports that the U.S. government has been spending money advertising our food stamp program in other countries. “Contrary to sound policy, the United States is spending money advertising food stamp benefits in foreign consulates,” states a Thursday evening press release from the office of Sen…

Mugshots Friday: The Ultimate Side Eye and a Reverse Mohawk

By Kyle Munzenrieder

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…