Got News, Jefe? Enough about guys marrying their daughters! It's embarrassing enough that New Times published "Daddy's Little Girl" (Kelly Cramer, September 28) as a long feature in the first place — this deserved a short ain't-people-crazy? mention at best. But to devote another story to this seems absolutely egregious...
Polish restaurant food is often taken for granted, the stuff of lunch counters and coffee shops, where you might get a cup of hastily-made borscht and a big plate of unremarkable stuffed cabbage and boiled carrots for little more than you'd pay for a cheeseburger deluxe. So it was the...
He was walking his Dalmation near Deerfield Beach High School when his war started. A car pulled beside him. Four youths with Creole lilts jumped out and came at him. Derick Strobridge had no time to think. "I tried to fight my way out of the situation," says Strobridge, a...
(HBO) Like many other Daily Show success stories, Lewis Black is a comedian made for these times; his facial contortions and verbal tics are expressions of the Bush-era phrase "outrage overload." But unlike other big names in political stand-up right now (David Cross, Bill Maher), Lewis isn't smug and smirking...
AP Diaz Is it a conflict of interest for Miami Herald publisher Jesus Diaz Jr. to serve on the advisory board for the federal government's Cuba Transition Project? I think it's a decent question and Henry Gomez, the Babalu contributor who just started the new blog Herald Watch, asked it...
"I honestly never thought they were going to be big," admits David "Cornbread" Brown, host of a weekly St. Louis radio show. "Then I went to that last show that they did as Big Blue Monkey, and it was freaking amazing. The place was absolutely packed, the kids were so...
If we're all caught under the penny loafer of Christian fascism sometime soon, the Thermals' vision of a hectic dash for the Canadian border — one in which we're pursued by evangelical thought police — will be vindicated. As it is, The Body, the Blood, the Machine comes off as...
Tailpipe has been through the divorce mill, and this battered cylinder still bears the scars. How do you assign numerical value (usually dollars and cents) to all of the shared "property" of what might have been a long, complicated affiliation? It's a ticklish process. Like, who gets the Picasso prints...
Tom Petty is perpetually underrated. He debuted too late in pop music's historical continuum to seem deserving of full classic-rocker status (although he's certainly earned it by now) and came across like an apprentice rather than a peer when collaborating with the likes of Bob Dylan (a result of his...
Cast of characters: Queensrÿche (progressive metal band on tour again after 25 years of activity) Geoff Tate (vocals) Michael Wilton (guitar) Mike Stone (guitar, vocals) Eddie Jackson (bass guitar, vocals) Scott Rockenfield (drums) Two unnamed fans Two homeland security officers [Act one: Two fans are entering the stadium eagerly anticipating...
Even when Primal Scream didn't match the creative heights reached by Screamadelica's rave-worthy blissouts or the electro-punk of XTRMNTR, it never lacked self-confidence. After all, it coaxed (and kept) My Bloody Valentine's reclusive Kevin Shields out of hibernation and had the courage to embrace sinewy dark-wave long before it was...
Some things just get a rise out of you. "Erotic Art," a group show of more than 30 artists, isn't necessarily one of those things. True, what arouses some may not excite others, but although this is an exhibit of a bunch of naked bodies, not all of them are...
The Whole Truth This goes beyond state lines: I recently read the article that Julia Reischel wrote on cord blood collection ("In Cord Blood," August 31). I find it interesting how she seems to name just the one private cord blood bank in Florida but doesn't name any of the...
Ratzo Satz-oh Why sleazy Broward pols live charmed lives: I think your article was right on ("A Politician Weeps," Bob Norman, October 5). I have seen many of these issues for myself and cannot believe the arrogance in which the State Attorney's Office turns a blind eye. Why is Broward...
Florida's Hollywood is the unglamorous one. Sure, the city has a lively little downtown entertainment district, where on most evenings the scent of Argentine grilled beef shares the air with pizza, where reggae jostles against blaring salsa and the rhythmic thump of electronic beats. But, though Hollywood calls itself "the...
After its 20-year absence allowed fan anticipation to reach a fever pitch, legendary thrash outfit Celtic Frost is currently making short work of stateside audiences on an extensive American tour. Bassist and co-founder Martin Eric Ain checked in with Outtakes from his home in Zurich, Switzerland, shortly before beginning the...
Beauty pageants are all the same — the smiles, forced; the answers, rehearsed; the movements, choreographed. The Miss South Florida Illusion Pageant is no different — except that producer Gus Sanchez restricts entrants to drag queens "who have no silicone or surgery below the neck." Wearing a blue-sequined tuxedo jacket...
How do you deal with the loss of a loved one? Just when do you finally let it go? And, come to think of it, when you're finally making progress in that regard, getting on with your life and meeting new people, how do you tell if your new gay...
I planted four pepper plants last weekend — serranos, poblanos, sweet reds, and pequins. But my Mexican next-door neighbor, Roberto, tells me to abandon all hope. "The soil is different in Mexico from here," he says. "No offense to you. But your chilies won't taste like they do in Puebla."...
It's a tiny exhibit, but "Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Drawings" evokes a reaction. "Loved the collection! Wished there were more," one patron wrote in the guestbook provided for comments. "Her best works are not represented," griped another, prompting a querulous response: "That is not the point! These are works that...
The judge in Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino ordered the real estate and reality TV magnate's legal team to reveal the name of the reporter to whom it leaked information on the civil case. It really shouldn't have been such a difficult deduction for...
