Opinion & Commentary

Letters from the issue of October 14, 2010

​Today is the day Italian electro outfit, the Bloody Beetroots, kick off the North American leg of its Death Crew 77 tour. Unfortunately, tonight’s show at Mansion won’t be a live performance, just a DJ set warmup. However, Bob Rifo and Tommy Tea were arguably DJs before this whole live show…

A petition filed this past September 10 with the state Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering ​shows the owners of Magic City Casino are serious about expanding their gambling operation beyond Flagler Street. The document asks division officials if Magic City’s owners can build a new facility for inter-track wagering and card…

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 dissects the worldwide UFO conspiracy.A propaganda campaign to prepare us for the next big war is underway…

With the recent Angelina defestation of the Metropole hotel it seemed a new era of peace and prosperity was about to rule through the Jersey Shore house. Even Sammi and JWoww made awkward attempts at burying the hatchet. But then a bigger bitch emerged: The Situation. The manchild didn’t get…

Bloggers Paula Nino and Riki Altman disagree about the merits of exposed kitchens. What follows are their disparate views:Paula’s P.O.V.:There’s something exciting about watching a chef and his team working behind the line to create your food. It’s a way to satisfy the curiosity of how the dishes at a…

¡Mayday! has been gearing up for the release of its latest album Stuck On An Island for the past year or so. According to the group, the album is an ode to making music in Miami and feeling separated from the rest of the music scene. Originally slated for a…

Man, we knew Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff could be a prickly son of gun, but his meddling in a billing issue shows he can be both petty and vindictive as well.According to a June 1 memo by former CRA Executive Director James Villacorta, Sarnoff tried to speed up a…

Letters from the issue of October 7, 2010

Gator hunting, Loon-style

Obama is Supernegro

Blowfly Blowfly for President (Oops! Records) myspace.com/blowfly Well, it was about time that we reared our ugly, record-collecting, pretentious-asshole heads on the one and only Clarence Reid, otherwise known as Blowfly! Over the last eight years or so, Blowfly’s been enjoying a bit of a comeback with a whole new…

Miami-Dade Police Director James Loftus is no longer a member of the Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents more than 6,500 law enforcement officers in the county and several cities. In a memo sent yesterday to all county cops, Loftus says he quit the PBA over comments union leaders…

​While Miami’s lone wolf MC Black Bobby continues to fight the good hip-hop fight, let it be known he doesn’t want to do so at a series of sausage fests. “A lot of hip-hop events I go to — or actually that I don’t go to — are just a…

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 gives President Obama an A on his midterm report card.Despite the mess he inherited from George W…

Crystal, a sprightly server at Starbucks in Miami Shores, says the pumpkin spice latte, which is only available a few months a year and went on sale in September, is really popular. Why? “There’s no fall here,” she says, “so we give people a sense of the season.” Bloggers Chuck…

​When the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse finally opened in late 2007, the Magic City waxed rhapsodic: “Beautiful” and “elegant,” enthused one judge; “(People) will say, ‘That’s Miami!” exclaimed another. Even this publication swooned, naming the glass behemoth “Best New Building” and praising the “crystal ship .. plowing through waves”…

Sadly, time is winding down to the Macaroni Rascal’s tour of destruction in Miami, but last night the journey ended for Angelina. Yes, the life-sized rat in a mini-dress and bad mascara decided to once again pack up all of the extra Swiss cheese and various shiny things she found…