Monday June 19, 2006
It’s a funny thing about RSS readers: they track everyhing going on at your blog. So even though Miamity is dead [sob!!], I can tell that Kyle recently updated the Filling Out The New Times Poll post. No idea what he changed, but it’s still worth reading.
Tuesday November 8, 2005
Oh, snap!
Miamity takes Miamist out behind the bar for a little man-to-man chat.
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Saturday November 19, 2005
The 'don’t let your ho go to the 7th floor' wrap-up
By now, the whole goddamned world has heard of the troubles Kyle has seen (the story was mentioned on Channel-7 morning news on Friday) since his original post about “Don’t Let Your Ho Go to The 7th Floor,” a song recorded by members of the Miami Hurricanes a couple of years ago. We mentioned it the other day, but a lot has happened since then, and we have a few observations to make:
- Kyle is 100% correct. When shit like this comes along, you blog it without hesitation. Whatever fault there may be lies with those who recorded the song.
- Speaking of which, there isn’t much fault there, either. the song to the song (yes, the link is still working) is no more misogynistic then many hip-hop classics, and is actually not too bad. It’s pretty funny, if you ask us (yes: no one asked us. the whole fucking blogosphere is an exercise in ‘no one asked us’).
- The Miamist writeup shows them for the biggest wuss-assed, broke-website-having, sports-fan-patronizing, and jealous bunch of punk-asses in town. “We’re hear [sic] to defend the Canes,” they leer. Defend them from what, exactly? Having something embarrassing be made public? Miamist seems jealous of all the attention – they claim disinterest, then feature their lame-o write up in their sidebar, trying to help themselves to the page views from the story while dismissing it. Hypocrites – ironic they are based out of the same school as Miamity. (Update: Maybe they’re mad about this . . .).
- Kyle pulled two posts from Miamity: the original post (google cache link), replaced by this, and his suicide note post of a couple of days later (which was pretty funny, and quote obviously a joke), replaced with the awesome kitten picture. Both replacements are entirely reasonable; one prompted by threats of death and ass-kicking, the other by threats of expulsion from school.
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Thursday June 28, 2007
2 Live Looks
Discovering new “Miami” blogs and websites is becoming a daily occurrence in these muggy and rainy days of Summer, as peoples retreat into their air-conditioned rooms and behind glowing terminals.
The new street fashion blog 2 Live Looks is different, because Matthew actually has to leave his house to gather material. “Websites similar to this one have long existed for other cities, with Miami conspicuously missing.” Sure enough. The question is whether Matthew can keep up the post-a-day pace he seems to have set for himself. (Remember Miamity?) I sure hope he does.
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Thursday November 17, 2005
Pressure systems
Cold
Good news for those of us who secretly hate South Florida weather: the first sweater-able temperatures are coming, in the form of a cold front that will sweep through sometime between Sunday and Monday. If the meteorologists are right (and really, when are they ever not), we should have highs in the mid to low 70’s most of next week.
Something about your Ho . . .
The shit hit the fan over at Miamity yesterday, over a post about a song a few members of the Miami Heat Hurricanes recorded a few years ago. It did that internet wildfire thing, and the site, which had been receiving maybe 300 hits per day, was up to 5,000 hits in the space of a few hours after the whole sports world, including espn.com, linked to it. Racist comments and threatening e-mails ensued, and the post was yanked from the site. For the interested, here is a link to the Google cache version of the page.
Pre-Basel Tension
Can you feel it in the air? With Art Basel just two weeks away, Miami galleries are spit-shining their floors, breaking out the blockbusters, and printing their foil-embossed-best invitations of the year. Over on Artblog, Franklin quotes a glossy magazine quoting Franklin about the effects of the fair, and hilarity ensues in the comments. Meanwhile, The Next Few Hours has its own doubts, as does Onajídé at MAEx.
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Monday May 1, 2006
Kyle fills out the New Times poll. My WTF?! moment is “Best local Website: Miamist.com obviously.”
Not even as a joke, Kyle . . . not even as a joke.
Wednesday December 14, 2005
Public transportation as recreation
As someone who’s frequently taken the bus from South Beach to Downtown when it would have been a lot faster to drive, I can appreciate the entertainment value of our public transportation. You’re sitting higher then in a car, and spared having to pay attention to the road, you can really enjoy the scenery – it’s a surprising interesting way to see the town; MacArthur Causeway is particularly spectacular this way. There’s your fellow passengers: the potential to engage in or overhear interesting conversation is pretty well assured. On the end, being dropped at a somewhat arbitrary spot, rather then the parking lot of wherever you’re going, leads to at least a little bit of walking, which is always nice. Of course, the sightseeing potential is even greater with metrorail, and don’t get me started on the metro-mover, which seems like a tourist sightseeing device first and foremost.
Now we get Metrocrusade, wherein a couple of UM students take Metro Transit to a random stop and explore everything they find, providing 5-point ratings. In their first post, the reviews include I-Hop, which gets the only perfect score (?!), and . . .
It was a Middle Eastern market called the Middle East Market. Definitely a cool place. They had lots of fresh Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food, packaged stuff, and even pretty inexpensive hookahs! They also served food, so we might go back for lunch some time. We bought stuffed grape leaves, hummus, and gyro bread, and we were very pleased with our purchases. The store was very vegetarian-friendly, so veg heads, check it out! We give it 4.5 out of 5 Metro Coins.
. . . that’s right: it’s a 5-point scale of metro coins. It’s hard to do dry wit on the internet, but these kids obviously are up to it. Let’s just hope they stick with the program. [Via Miamity. The photo is from the northern end of the metromover, facing downtown]
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Tuesday November 15, 2005
Tuesday morning clickiage
- Vivirlatino has a post-Wilma assessment. Power restoration is on the “what worked” list!?
- Did you get on ZooTV?
- It’s pick-your-mayor day. Biscayne Boulevard Times cares.
- Miamity does a Miami blog survey. Add the forthcoming metroblogging site to the list.
- Jim Crow is alive and well in Florida.
- Franklin had legion Wall Street Journal readers drop in on Artblog.net yesterday. Wow. He has also repopulated Go See Art with content, for the myriad art shows that will be springing up as we approach Basel [link to a seisure-inducing lime-green/pink page]. This after finishing Art Anatomy a site that teems with the latest in XML and PHP just under the hood. Nevermind a survey of Miami blogs – Miamity ought to do a survey of just Franklin’s sites, which number somewhere between 5 and 10, depending on how you count.
- The Nervous City Orchestra shows are going to be great, and we’re telling you now, ‘cause the first one is Thursday.
- Miami ranks a measly 8th in a Rutgers University study on urban sprawl.
- For some reason we are hearing about the M3 Summit, which doesn’t happen until March.
- Image: random from flickr: Shy and Laura had a great time in South Beach.
- No reports as of this writing on what happened at yesterday’s UDB meeting. Keep up with Hold the Line for more.
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Saturday October 29, 2005
Psychoalphadiscobeta
- Dave Barry has the answers (via BarkBarkWoofWoof).
- Over on the Herald Hurricane blog, Hollywood Mayor calls Broward County ridiculous for not having running busses. Well duh? But (twenty minutes later) the county Mayor fires back with a lame ‘that’s how it’s going to be’.
- Miamist keeps plugging along. They are compensating for a certain brokenness and general ass-suckness with sheer volume, so we’re still defering final judgement and giving them a chance. Plus they have a logo now!
- Much more promising, Miamily just celebrated its one-month aniversary. Busily updated by a couple of UM kids, it brings, for example, a nice round-up of post-Wilma picture sources.
- Your MOR aftermath update dutifully dredged up by the Herald here.
- The traffic lights, folks. A 4-way stop on a dead light is fine. To emphasize the point, DOT has added stop signs to some of the major intersections. Then some of the lights come back, blinking yellow one way and red the other. Now you have a yellow light (go) and a stop sign (stop), resulting in contradictory signals, traffic confusion, pandemonium, and a condition more dangerous then right after the hurricane. Somebody fix this before the corpses start to pile up.
- And last but not least, Beta is now an official hurricane.
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Saturday November 26, 2005
What's up with the dean of UM?
[Contributed by Steve Klotz]
Personally I don’t give a rat’s ass about college football, and in fact my observation is that in general, schools that take their sports programs seriously take their academics lightly, and attract both a student body and faculty of decidedly less ambition and achievement. Say, like, University of Miami.
The recent campus incident involving sophomore Kyle Munzenreider, who published a link on his blog (Miamity) to the football players’ 2-year old thugaphonic stab at art, is a perfect example of everything wrong with a school that prizes football over all else. It needs to be thoroughly researched and written up as a textbook case of what a serious Academy should not do. Ever.
The kid is on his way out the door—ultimately this may turn out in his favor, as he’s obviously too bright, too motivated, and too advanced in his development for the Coral Gables Temple of Basketweaving—for the High Crime and Cardinal Sin of embarrassing the football program. Disregarding the obvious point that the players themselves, the ones who actually recorded the dick-waving song, are the genuine culprits in the embarrassment category, exactly what did the blogger do that was wrong, let alone illegal? How do you defenestrate a student for “embarrassing” the football program? Isn’t that action in itself rather embarrassing to the whole university?
If the cover story of Thursday’s Miami Hurled is accurate, the real embarrassment here is the conduct of the Dean. (College deans are almost universally reviled by faculties and students alike. For the most part, they are failed academics—glorified bureaucrats whose lack of people-skills made them ineffective teachers, and whose intellectual shortcomings ensured their career status as mediocre academicians. They end up—where else?—in management). This poor deluded dunce calls the cops (“Arrest that kid! He embarrassed the football program!”) and has the kid delivered to his office on the pretense his “suicide note” posted on Miamity was genuine. This keen Dean still wonders why Curly doesn’t bleed when Moe smacks him with a hammer.
And apparently during the interrogation the Dean had a staff shrink stowed away in the next room (what, spying? It’s not clear, which is why before it goes into the textbooks, further research is needed) who pops in and advises the kid to go home (based on what? Eavesdropping?), and he gets bounced from the dorm. How does this work? If the suicide note is genuine, he’s tossed into the street unsupervised, out of care and custody. Very responsible. If it isn’t genuine, why evict him?
These are not first-raters we’re dealing with here, but as noted above, this is the dismal mediocrity generated by a university that prizes its football program above all else. If I’m on the Board of Trustees, I’m outraged and want an accounting directly from the Dean, who BTW anounced his retirement last September and ain’t talkin’ now. Perhaps he’s arrived at the conclusion that it’s better to clam up and be thought a fool than to open his pie hole and remove all doubt.
Update: Deadspin agrees, and provides an e-mail address for those who want to share their disgust with his decision.
Update (Nov. 28): The school responds.
Update (Nov. 28): Kyle responds to the school’s response.
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Wednesday May 17, 2006
The blogacious hipster politics
I’m writing this drunk, and it’s about silly shit, and life is short, and you’re probably better off skipping this post. Count yourself warned.
Item #1 is this ignore post, wherein our heros (a) make fun of this event for being sponsored by Toyota (“where does it end?” I don’t know, but it ended a long-ass time ago if you’re going to eschew anything with corporate sponsorship, guys. Also, and I really really do love ignore, but you guys using “hipster cunt” as a put-down is kind of like a bulldozer calling a forklift yellow, isn’t it?) and (b) totally go off on Crispin Porter + Bogusky, because they found out that someone at the company left an ignore-insulting comment on Miamity (Kyle is pals with ignore, so he prob. gave them the IP). Also note this, and also that said comment was left under the name “newtimez,” which brings us to . . .
Item #2 So the New Times’ best of issue named a TV station’s web site Best Local Website, which is great, except that (#1: the Associated Press style guide demands that “Web site” is two words, and #2:) the logic that got you to that selection, taken to its obvious logical conclusion, leads you to name herald.com the “Best local Website” every year henceforth. Still no big problem, except that they then say something like “the loozers in Bloward can have a ‘best blog’ category, but we in daD3z know that blogz are, like, sooo 2001; we ain’t even w’dat, yo” (check the link above, in case I’m mis-remembering their quote a little (and also, btw, a belated congrats to Rick, who got the best blog nod in da BPB)), with which I just have the slightest of problems. Blogs, to me, are a format, not so much a cultural entity in and of themselves. In other words, a particular blog can be good or bad, cool or uncool, but to call blogs in general uncool is equivalent to someone in the 1920’s saying that the talkies are a silly fad, or (as I put it here) someone in 1460 saying that books are “so 1455.”
OK, so the New Times said something dumb. Appropriately, tNFH makes fun of them for it, as does Franklin (in tNFH’s comments), as does Kyle, and as I would like to . . .
The problem is that NT is supposed to be a “fun” publication, and you can’t possibly be a “fun” weekly without shooting from the hip, and without saying some stupid shit from time to time. The problem is compounded in the case of the “Best of” issue, wherein the staff is required to make up all this shit in all these specific categories, and make it make sense, and be fun to read, and not be the same thing year after year, and, well, who am I to get upset if all those requirements get in the way of not saying stupid shit from time to time. Not to mention the fact, and let’s face it, that that everyone knows what the best blog in MIA is (and let’s face it: the only reason you’ve read this far was to see if I was going to go there, and now you know).
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Wednesday January 18, 2006
Tuesday ketchup
- Terence Riley talks to (actually, types at) Artblog.net. Hillary ensues.
- Why aren’t more people joining the hunger strike ?
- Above: The new Court Building in Downtown. [Update: info here and here.]
- I originally got turned off about.com years ago, but Renee Chapple’s Miami blog there is growing on me. For example, she had a great rundown of Miami webcams.
- Miamity has been uneaven ever since the 7th floor gate, but when he hits, he’s unbeatable – for example, his music of Golden Girls post. Wow. Also, can we get a ‘cool out’ on the weekly redesigns? It looks good right now, Kyle; leave it alone!
- Kyle also points out that local faves Awesome New Republic got Pitchforked.
- Tonight (Wednesday), Critical Miami fave Gustavo Matamoros takes part in a poetry-music collaboration at Luna Star Cafe.
- Patrick tries the tri-rail and goes away unenthused.
- BBT has a great analysis of the Miami mayor’s sallary increase.
- I don’t know from chambers of commerce, but Michael Lewis’ Memo to Barry Johnson is just plain fun reading.
- The final report is in on Hurricane Wilma.
- StoryCorps is coming to Miami.
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Wednesday December 21, 2005
It's Tuesday somewhere
- Steve Klotz has gone off the deep end with that last post. Awesome.
- Dude on your right is Reynaldo Elias Rapalo, a rapist who just escaped from a prison near Miami International Airport. Is it just me, or does it seem way too easy to escape from jail in 2005 (not to mention rob a bank)?
- Miamista isn’t crazy about New Times, and likes the Herald and Miamist. Go figure.
- One of the original ideas for Critical Miami was a regular podcast. It hasn’t hapened yet, and now Miami Art Exchange has beaten us to the punch. Links here and here. Super-cool.
- Kyle’s saga comes to an end, and he’s going to be allowed to move back into the dorms. If those assholes are admitting they were wrong (as they should), shouldn’t they pick up the motel tab? Kyle is milking it here, to hilarious effect.
- Michael Lewis breaks it down w/r/t Broward slots.
- Overtown USA: less of a blog and more a media empire.
- I enjoyed this piece in the New Times about Dufirstson Neree, candidate for congress.
- Sunshine State has your Christmas tree light photos.
- Stuck on the Palmetto’s coverage of the Chalks airline crash in the bay This is the first accident Chalks has had since 1982, and I hope it doesn’t spell their end.
- On your mark, get set, get out of town.
- Is there anyone out there who can tell me why the Coral Gables Gazette sucks such monkey balls? If any ‘burb has enough money for its own weekly, CG should be it; yet here’s a paper who’s cover picture’s caption is, “More than three weeks after the storm struck, the Watson family still has no internet service.” To which I say, (1) hell yes it’s more then three weeks, and (2) who the hell cares?!
- The Herald online has a new masthead. The old script logo is gone. Anyone seen the print edition?
- More posting very soon on Alesh in Prague.
- Bonus non-Miami news: Miami sends out blue Santas.
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Tuesday February 28, 2006
Fat Tuesday
- Listening to WVUM this morning was dope: first a taped show for a couple of minutes (the one with My Pal Foot Foot, same one I hear every morning I turn the station on). Then a DJ comes on, and proceeds aproximately thusly: “Uh, I just stopped by the station to see what was going on, but nobody’s here, so I’m just going to take over. You know we’re doing our fundraising drive, so call me with your pledges. For $5 I’ll play any one song you want. For $25 you get six songs plus a T-shirt. For $50 you get a whole hour. Until I get a call, I’ll play something annoying.” And he proceeds to play Barbie Girl, a pretty amazing song, actually. After a few minutes, he realizes his blunder, comes back on with an “apparently that wasn’t annoying enough,” and starts fading between a few different songs. Arount then I was leaving the station’s range, so I clicked over to something else.
- Hey look, we have a new blog: GreenerMiami, dedicated to improving the enviroment.
- Harlan has photographs of “a creepy carnival” celebrating North Miami’s 80th birthday.
- State lawmakers consider outlawing gay adoption. Stuff like this continues to fascinate me. You’d think by now we would have realized that equal rights for everyone is a good idea.
- MAeX goes to Subtropics.
- Pecan pie is great, but give me a break. Crap like this makes me thing maybe it’s time to move the state capitol to Miami.
- Robert on tolls. I partially agree, though I don’t like systems that have the government tracking our movement as a necessary precondition.
- I agree with Jose about Taqueria. Also, his blog is growing on me.
- Bobby has photographs of a British car show in Lake Worth.
- Hurricanes haven’t hampered tourism.
- I read Franklin’s Damien Hirst bites the big ass review. But I’m forcing myself to stay away from the comments. I don’t have the heart for 15 (and counting) “I know, right?!”s.
- Four months after Kyle berated Miamist about their sidebar, they have yet to link to a single actual Miami blogger. Messed up.
- An artist is being sued becuase a face in his painting looks like someone?! (p.s.: dear New Times, why do your photo galleries look like shit?)
- Three cheers for Miamista, now in downright legible black on white!
- Oh, right, that wine shipping thing went through.
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Tuesday January 31, 2006
More money more Tuesday
Let’s start out with some videos, and work our way into the heavier stuff:
- Here’s your Shaq training video.
- FPL’s ‘quantum leap’. Seriously, that’s their guy’s phrase, and he’s not even talking about this.
- I know you’re also itching for a video of Janet Reno singing ‘Respect’, but it’s not for me: the tech staff at nbc4 apparently don’t have the resources to create video that supports anything but Windows Media Player 9 with Internet Explorer, so I’ll have to do without.
- The Miami Vice trailer doesn’t give much away; just enough to suggest that the 80’s aesthetic of the show is a good fit with the 2005 trimmings of the movie.
- As of right now, the Home Depot logo still appears on the CGAF sponsors page but not for long. It’s really true: Grove residents don’t like the Home Depot.
- Carlos Suarez De Jesus reviews the William Kentridge show at MAC.
- Pure Imagination is a weekly radio drama broadcast on 90.5 WVUM in Miami, Florida. Set to hypnotic loops by local musicians, the shows feature darkly humorous tales of philandering magicians, office Zorros, and other characters of ill repute. All that, plus an mp3archive. Sounds too good to be true (via Miamity).
- The Miami Marathon just happened, and dang, 26 miles sure does cover a lot of ground. Matt ran, and Rick shot some pics. Ok, ok, (update) Christian did too.
- Is That A Gun In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
- A third link from SotP: sort of a guide to vanity plates.
- Yes, of course the first line of ‘In Da Club’ is a reference to ‘It’s Your Birthday’. But Luther knows damned well that that sort of borrowing is the cornerstone of Hip-Hop, and he should realize that he’s going to loose a lot of supporters by making a stink about it.
- I want my MTV.
- Cuban embargo debate action on the 26th Parallel.
- Today’s the last day to apply for FEMA aid!! Meanwhile, the State is planning a new mediation center to help homeowners squeeze money out of their insurance companies.
- Miami Performing Arts Center is still working on raising that last $85 million; now they’re publicly asking for a naming sponsor. I’m hoping for “Burger King Miami Performing Arts Center,” but it’ll probably end up being something tamer.
- The Marlins in Hialeah?
- MAeX and Artblog on Peter Barrett’s show at Ingalls (another pic). Dang it looks good.
- Just as this wraps up, your reading is just getting started, because Miamista has the mother of all numbered-item posts. I’m particularly interested in #’s 1, 3, 7, 12, and 13. I want to understand what’s going on with the Miami City Commission, I really do. But like Shatner says, it hasn’t happened yet.
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Tuesday December 13, 2005
Let's do it in the afternoon
It’s Tuesday . . . here we go:
- Stuck on the Palmetto is rapidly becoming the Miami blog of record – short daily posts on interesting stuff (a lot of it not from the newspaper), while the Miamist becomes our sports blog (no shame in that, I guess).
- If you’re the Bus-Bench Bad Boy, you’re probably a little hurt that they’re only offering $2,000 for your location.
- Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub. It’s so brilliant it should have come from a synergy/marketing consultant, not hurricane damage.
- We finally got the jet-fuel bandits. It’s unsettling that stealing fuel from an airport can be profitable, though.
- A little bit about cruise-ship labor in Florida Today. From what I understand, though, they’re not being nearly critical enough.
- Ever realize there are two paralell sets of train tracks running through SoFla? Me neither, but yeah, it always did seem strange that TriRail is running on those other tracks.
- Here’s your answer, baby: Chihuly at night once a week.
- The New York Observer’s take on Art Basel Miami includes a quote from Franklin.
- Now Aventura doesn’t like tall buildings. Strange, from the most vertical city in Dade.
- It’s fun to link to the babalú main page, ‘cause the individual article pages don’t have the eyes. BTW, babalú is up for a weblog award, so, like go vote for them.
- OMG: now you can adopt a manatee. Critical Miami is seriously considering getting one. Almost as good as adopting a Truffle Tree.
- Fresh rants, including this one, over at Miamista: now with comments enabled.
- Shaq joins the fuzz. If we didn’t love him then, we love him now. And we loved him then.
- Finally, thanks to bloggers commenting on my Miami Performing Arts Center Story. [I’ve moved the list and links there.]
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Monday November 7, 2005
Upside down tuesday linkiage
- Kyle is cool. Here he is taking a Hurricane columnist to task for making fun of people.
- Miami is replacing plam trees with regular trees. Great. A couple of years ago Hollywood spent big bucks doing the opposite, ripping out shade-producing black olives and replacing them with palms. This is a good indication that our local governments have more money then they know what to do with. (Sort of via Miamist, except that they didn’t link to the Herald article where they got the story).
- Painter and all-around wild man Jordan Massengale has a new web site. Check out his “downloads” series.
- Frances nash is rapidly becoming our favorite local photographer. Now that she’s gotten her power back, she’s posting her post-Wilma picutres from around her house (dig her captions) and in downtown.
- A close call. Imagine if they took our hair spray!
- Fake money. Critical Miami was messing around with the office DC12 today, and we were able to make a convincing one-sided $10 bill. Yikes!
- Increasingly, city governments are distrustful of FPL, and hiring third parties to verify their information.
- On top of trying to charges us for power we didn’t get, FPL is now getting ready to raise rates by yet another 16%.
- Fred Snitzer. Does he have a conflict of interest?
- Holy crap, there’s an auto show. Bobby’s working on it.
- The Zen Mind, tonight.
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Tuesday January 24, 2006
Winter Tuesday linkiage
- Holy crap: Jim DeFede will be on the Joe Cooper show today.
- In Miami Sun Post, Omar has a pretty good article about Terence Riley.
- The hunger strike is over, but probably not much will change with wet foot/dry foot.
- Jason goes to Viscaya.
- Patrick digs Kafka’s.
- It is absolutely beyond me to follow the arguments, but contrast this view with John’s comments in response to this Herald article.
- Miami New Times’ website has gotten its long-needed redesign. I’m not getting into any testing at all right now, but just from a glance, it looks like they went in the right direction; the site looks like a website that knows like it knows what it’s doing, not like a pale reflection of a print publication.
- This deserved a full post from Steve, but alas. A man scaled the radio tower behind the Miami Herald building to find out the truth from the government about his brother’s disappearance in 1962 “from the government’s secret war against Cuba.” What to say, but “holy shit.” He hung an POW/MIA flag and an upside-down USA flag and hung out for awhile.
- Kyle reviews art, while Franklin studies business. Next up: cats running around with dogs?
- Everglades restoration has sort of fallen off many people’s radars over the last few years, but there are people working on it, and there are problems.
- In case I forget, a talk with the ACLU, Miami’s police chief, and the Herald’s executive editor at Books and Books next Monday. Wow!
- It may be silly for me to link to Michael Lewis every damned week, but here I go again. One of the brighter bulbs in this marquee we call a city.
- Is anyone friends with Jipsy? Tell her to ditch that fake cooljunkie crap and come write for my blog!
- The Human Services Coalition is having their fundraiser Wednesday. The Spam Allstars are playing, if that’s an incentive.
- Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston interviewed at Eve.
- A particularly great photo album from Overtown USA
- wtf?
- God grant us the temperament to enjoy a 2,000 mile birdwatching trail.
- Speaking of God, thank Him for this: The Miami Intermodal Center is being scaled back before construction even starts.
- Miami City Commission meeting this Thursday, 9 am [PDF link]. Christian says: “skip work, come to this!”
- Thanks to Matt Helmick, a Critical Miami fan from Spokane, Washington, for a prod towards getting the archives fixed.
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