Caught on Tape: Kill the Messenger Yes, innocent until proven guilty, but $50,000 for a real-estate deal? Why is it that in select cases, when people don’t like the message, they attack the messenger? That’s what happened in “Caught on Tape” (April 14). I thought Francisco Alvarado and Rebecca Wakefield’s…
It is no secret The Bitch is obsessed with the UPN reality series America’s Next Top Model. This fascination is based largely on the show’s begetting the very best line ever uttered on television — “That ho poured a beer on my weave!” — and the fact this exclamation came…
Keith Menin spent last Saturday night with a large grin plastered on his face. He had good reason to smile as throngs of fashion-forward partiers surged around him at the opening for his family’s Sanctuary Hotel — the latest entrant in South Beach’s ever-expanding “boutique” condo-hotel market. In 1986, according…
Not Everyone Can Be a Rap Star But Timbaland can show the kids how to be healthy: I’d like to thank Mosi Reeves for his article about super producer Timbaland (Tim Mosely) and his new-found infatuation with physical fitness (“Organic Produce,” April 7). Timbaland is a perfect example for many…
The four members of Ride were still teenagers when their 1990 album Nowhere created the musical blueprint for romantic, transporting washes of soft-loud guitar feedback subsequently known as shoegazer. Disbanded by 1996, Ride has occasionally re-formed for one-off concerts and enjoys growing retrospective critical adoration. Mark Gardener, the singer-guitarist for…
There was a time when it was easy to tell the three Antoni children apart. As the offspring of Dr. Robert Antoni, a descendent of nineteenth-century British utopian communards who immigrated to Trinidad, the Antoni children did their best to carry on that offbeat lineage, becoming the real-world equivalent of…
Your Elected Officials at Work Government of the people, by the arrogant, for the developers: It is tempting to blame the developers of the 50-story Onyx 2, Willy Bermello and Gustavo Miculitzki, for the travesty soon to be visited upon NE 28th Street, as reported by Forrest Norman in “The…
Punish the Victim Sounds all wrong, which is why the cops and prosecutors need scrutiny: I believe Tristram Korten’s story “How to Get Away with Murder” (March 24), in which homicide charges were dropped against a defendant after the eyewitness initially was not completely truthful with detectives, raises serious questions…
Winter Music Conference closed out with Ultra 7, what should have been the most wonderful night of the year for electronic music lovers, especially the ground-level fan base who couldn’t afford or simply couldn’t get into the more exclusive fetes and concerts attendant to WMC’s music-industry dweeb/professional partier cavalcade. At…
You have to feel a little bit sorry for ousted Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, regardless of your personal political leanings. At least that’s how documentary filmmaker Rachel Boynton sees it. “You’ve spent millions on your campaign to be elected president, to solidify your legacy as the FDR of…
The Ultra Truth I came, I catered, I sued: I read Jean Carey’s article “Behind the Curtain” about the guys who run the Ultra Music Festival, Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes (Winter Music Conference Guide, March 17). It is a shame to see such good props given to these two…
Since learning of her fascination with the Mathletes characters in the movie Mean Girls, real Mathletes from around Miami have been ringing The Bitch’s phone off the hook with reports of their true-life abacus adventures. In fact some middle school geniuses represented well for Miami-Dade in the state finals of…
One Secret to Success Don’t lose your head amid the glitz and glam: Brett Sokol did a fine job with his “Kulchur” column about Ocean Drive magazine (“Ocean Thrive,” March 10). He captured the essence of it. And Michael Shavalier’s art direction on the cover was hilarious, one of the…
The video for Trick Daddy’s current remix hit Sugar is in heavy rotation on MTV. While T Double D hams it up as a candy store owner (slyly telling a young customer a pack of Jawbreakers costs “fitty cent”), Lil’ Kim mugs adorable with her Maltese puppy, and Fat Joe…
Call it a journalistic moment of clarity. Code 33 was unspooling to a packed theater during last month’s Miami International Film Festival, and the bulk of the audience’s groans and verbal cringes should have been reserved for the documentary’s main subject: the serial rapist who preyed upon Little Havana during…
For someone about to be surrounded by a sea of barely clothed models, all preening for his attention, you’d think Glenn Albin would sound a little cheerier. As editor in chief of Ocean Drive, it’s his task to preside over the magazine’s annual Volleypalooza beach volleyball tournament, where teams of…
Now a Word from Elvis Costello And we mean that literally: Thanks to Mosi Reeves for trying — I guess. I’m sure his chat with Elvis Costello (“Mighty Like a Rose,” March 3) was far more discursive than his editors would allow him to replicate in print, but his alluding…
It’s the Cat’s Meow Dance-music coverage was scarce as hen’s teeth, but hope springs eternal when you take the bull by the horns and think outside the box — so I’m tickled pink: Wow! Mosi Reeves managed to write an article about the dance-music scene here in Miami (“Building a…
From the four-footed perspective, it seemed as if this past weekend’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival went woofingly well, particularly in regard to how the Grand Tasting tents were organized. In fact, for a dog, this was kind of like heaven: You got to walk around on the beach…
Miami inventor Ronald Paramore had a heavenly vision about women’s underclothes, and it wasn’t courtesy of the Victoria’s Secret angels. “This came in a dream,” Paramore says of his recently patented creation. He had been working construction when he lost his job. “I got laid off, right around Christmas. I…
Garrison Keillor Is God Which is why I pray at the altar of WLRN: I disagree vehemently with the columnist who shares her name with the description of a female dog (“The Bitch”). I find much to enjoy about WLRN-FM (91.3) and the shows she cited in her February 17…
In a state of unharmonic convergence possible perhaps only in Miami Beach, the promotional tour for Yehuda Berg’s The Red String Book: The Power of Protection brought its Kabbalistic babble to the China Grill (a.k.a. The Forge with windows) on Ash Wednesday. Hilarity ensued. A crowd undoubtedly attracted by the…
