Antonio Junior, a local businessman who last year admitted to accepting and giving bribes, was full of information the day he debriefed anti-public-corruption law enforcers about his involvement in ripping-off Miami-Dade taxpayers. In addition to dropping a dime on his pal and ex-county Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler, Junior revealed his connection to…
Thug or No Thug Careful, you writer wimp: I’m a retired cop, and after reading Gus Garcia-Roberts’s June 25 article “Cracked Cowboy,” I suggest the writer be careful with people such as Jon Roberts. Taunting could cause them to cross the line and do real harm to you. Remember that…
Loon Over Miami: Patriotic Pop Quiz for Independence Day
To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. Last Sunday I went to the Cinema Paradiso record swap that was put on by Mark Pollack of New Art School. Three local bands played: the first was No Class Action, the second was Band Number 12, and…
Rick Ross has got lots and lots of money, and he wants to keep reminding you of that. Why else name his new single “Maybach Music Part 2” — a sequel to, well, “Maybach Music?”But damn, the unemployment rate here in Florida alone is 10.2 percent as of May. Do…
This week Archive Diver brings you an excerpt from an old New Times concert calendar from 1988. Look at this damn bill. California hardcore punk rock with Circle Jerks at the Button South. Texas thrash originators DRI with Creator (could that have actually been Kreator with a K?) and the…
This past Thursday’s main music story in both the Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach tells the story of Cat Shell. She’s a young Boca singer-songwriter who performs material worthy of the torch-song divas of yesteryear, and you can read Lee Zimmerman’s full article about her here. As…
The Sun-Sentinel reports that Gordon Ramsay is in town visiting three South Florida restaurants for Kitchen Nightmares, his popular restaurant intervention series on Fox. The world renowned chef/multinational restaurant owner, cookbook author and TV personality is known for animated outbursts with knucklehead restaurant staff as he attempts to jump start…
Notes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade, focused on pop music’s history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments.In the coming days, this headline will…
Well, at least Antonio Junior can take solace in knowing he made a killing as a minority partner in several deals involving Miami-Dade taxpayer money. And even though he ratted out his political godmother — ex-county Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler — and some of his other politically connected buddies (according to a…
One of the biggest shows over the past weekend was the Lynyrd Skynyrd gig this past Saturday at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. Sadly, it seems not many people have shared photos from it on Flickr. But I did find this artsy-type shot from the crowd on elireskow’s…
Indomania Will Take August OffPieter Both, proprietor of Indomania Restaurant on Miami Beach, will be taking his annual vacation back home to Amsterdam — meaning that, as per usual, the restaurant will be closed for the month of August. He also wrote to remind me that ever since I mildly…
Yes, I just blogged about excellent Boca-based trio (sometimes quartet) Stonefox. Well, these guys are playing some of the best rock and roll to come out of Palm Beach County (!) in a long time. Also, I’m working up a feature about them for the Broward – Palm Beach New…
Uncle Sam’s Music, South Beach1. Cielo Playtime, Various Artists CD2. Far, Regina Spektor3. Farm, Dinosaur Junior4. Octahedron, Mars Zolta5. Back and Fourth, Pete YornRadio-Active Records, Fort Lauderdale1. Anything Michael Jackson2. God Help The Girl, God Help The Girl3. West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Kasabian4. Farm, Dinosaur Junior5. Guns Don’t Kill People, Major LazerBackbone…
Last week Short Order introduced you to American warrior Chef Fernando “Fern” Garcia. We asked you to comment if you wanted more and the overwhelming response brings us to this, volume II of Fern’s Confessions of a Navy Cook. Keep the comments up, and tell your friends to give it…
Miami has earned its rep as a world-class mecca of crime. Just this weekend, Miami Police gunned down a man stalking the streets with a machete. In recent weeks, a Metrorail guard was murdered on the job, a young man’s body — chopped into tiny pieces and stuffed into bags — floated…
Laz Parking is a local firm that contracts with the City of South Miami to issue parking tickets and operate meters. That means nobody likes ’em. And if you believe a recently canned meter maid (meter butler? meter macho?) named Michael Perdomo, that contempt is deserved. The 27-year-old former Laz…
RIP Michael Jackson. RIP urban legend that Thriller was shot in Coconut Grove.Some tabloid claimed Alberto Cutié is gay, but he, obviously, denied this. In fact, he’s getting married to a real life lady tonight, in a church. Gloria Estefan bought a small piece of the Miami Dolphins, because she loves…
Back in the bad old days of 2002, the City of Miami Police Department had some nasty habits: shooting dozens of people, beating suspects, ripping through the city on dangerous chases.City police averaged 80 shootings every year and killed 15 suspects — most black and poor. Things got so bad…
The last time New Times caught up with DJ Lee Or, the tech-house minimalist was slamming Saturdays at South Beach’s Skyline Lounge. We dug the cat then, when he was wilding on Washington Avenue, and we dig the cat now that he has taken his Freakside Party to both the…
A minute ago, still buzzing from the twin highs of payday and a certain psychotropic substance, I had the sudden realization: Green is a very good color. For a second, it seemed like a weird kind of intellectual smoke that meant precisely nothing, just floating past. Then, the rest came:…
The Real Housewives of New Jersey ended as wonderfully mysteriously as it started, with questions still left unanswered, the lines of relationships still left murky, and even a new scandalous plot twist or two added during the last few minutes of the reunion. But at-least Daniel Staub, the former model who’s younger…
