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Pay Up!: Village Voice Suing Yelp Over "Best Of" Use

Village Voice Media Holdings (now Voice Media Group), which owns New Times Broward/Palm Beach, is suing Yelp in Arizona federal court over its use of "Best Of" in at least 10 cities. The firm is seeking to stop  the social networking, user review and local search website and app from ... More >>

New Times Broward Palm Beach Sold; Looks a Lot Like the Old New Times Broward Palm Beach

A quarter century ago, my old, good buddy Mike Lacey came to Miami and decided to start a weekly paper. He wanted to move here, but a mugger and a prudent wife convinced him cocaine-fueled Miami wasn't the place to raise a family.Today, Lacey bowed out. Along with his partner -- and another guy I co ... More >>

Mexicans Pay in Blood for America's War on Drugs

Good-bye, Eric Barton. We'll miss ya.

Starting today, New Times Broward Palm Beach has a new editor. Except he is the same as the old one. Kind of.Chuck Strouse, who edited this newspaper from 2000 to 2005, will return in the dual role as top gun at Miami New Times and New Times/Broward Palm Beach. Eric Barton, who starte ... More >>

Bordering on Revolution: America's War on Mexicans Has Gone Too Far

Seven Sins, Village Voice Media True-Crime Anthology, Hits the E-Shelves

An early-morning message from Village Voice Media:Every week, writers for New Times Broward-Palm Beach and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories.Now VVM has collected some of its be ... More >>

We Make Our Demands After Fox News Plagiarized This Website

Fox News stooped to a bit of copyright infringement last week in lifting a story from the Pulp. In response, we sent a letter to Fox this morning with a reasonable demand for compensation. ​Dearest Fox News,It came as some surprise to see your January 27 article titled "Epic Campaign Ad Brings Oba ... More >>

The Buzz 103.1 Is Dead -- Long Live Sexist Radio Formats?

The Herman Cain Cocktail, Hot-Ass Condiments, And Other Weekend Links

Perhaps he needs a drink, among other things.​Called the 9-9-9, "Only a drink based on a catchphrase will suffice for a candidate so vaguely unsettling and unsettlingly vague that he appeals primarily to voters otherwise inclined toward the negative space on the ballot," writes Good's mixol ... More >>

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

​Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times.The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds.Neither government officials nor God's a ... More >>

Trend Alert: Vietnamese Cuisine, Epic Menus, and Man Food

​This past week, my colleagues from Village Voice Media had a good showing the Association of Food Journalism awards, which I attended in Charleston. Around tables at dinner and during speaker sessions, topics such as how soon to review a restaurant after it has opened, the role of critics in ... More >>

Underage Sex Trafficking: Ashton Kutcher Is Wrong

​Bestiality is still legal in Florida for now, but everyone can agree that underage sex trafficking is not. Ashton Kutcher has been spouting off numbers in his latest media campaign, claiming there are 100,000 to 300,000 children in America forced into prostitution each year. He's wrong.We know be ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden is Dead! (Dead Body PHOTO?)

​If you haven't yet heard, Osama bin Laden is dead!  President Obama just spoke and confirmed that his body

15-Year-Old Prostitute Arrested Along With Pimp, 58 Others

​Sixty souls were apprehended in Polk County over the last week, as Polk's finest spent your tax payer dollars arresting sex-workers and their clients. Among the apprehended were a sex-starved Disney mechanic and a man with breast implants who advertised his services on Backpage.com. (Backpage.com ... More >>

Happy 420 From New Times!

Miche Ratto​A lot of bad shit has happened on this day (and today has a lot of bad news): It's Hitler's birthday. It's the anniversary of the Columbine massacre. And a year ago, BP gave us one of the worst environmental disasters of all time. But let's face it, a lot of Americans associate Apri ... More >>

Linkin Park's Nuclear Epic "A Thousand Suns" Ignited Both Critical and Commercial Success

LCD Soundsystem's "This Is Happening" Is Happening at Fillmore Miami Beach

Bachata Bombers: A Latin Music Fan's Case Against Aventura

An Opportunity to Stand Up

An Opportunity to Stand Up

Going Green

Speaking of Fish Wrappers: An Interview With the President of Village Voice Media

​After reading this week's cover story about the massive job losses and financial troubles at South Florida's daily newspapers, you may wonder how New Times is faring. Our tiny newsroom, not surprisingly, has also shrunk in recent years, although not by the same kind of numbers as the dailies.In t ... More >>

Peace, Love, and Terror

The Weather Underground talked of peace, but FBI agents say members also planned a cop killing.

Dog Scratch Fever

The world's so-called "preeminent canine artist" takes a bow(wow) at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood.

Plater Hater

Clean Plate Charlie is sooooo over it!Plagiarizing from our colleague Robert Sietsema up at the Village Voice, we're initiating an irregular feature based on the Voice's recurring food blog item "Things We Hate." Only we're not nearly so genteel as our cousins in Manhattan, and we're feeling ugly en ... More >>

Race for the Burger Is On

the Char-Hut one-third pounder getting toastedHow we agonize over this category every year when we're putting together our Best Of issue. We may as well be trying to pick the prettiest girl, the juiciest mango, the most colorful sunset. Hundreds of places sell hamburgers in Broward-Palm Beach. Dozen ... More >>

Insider Account of the M/V Maersk Alabama

Last week, the nation was captivated by the unfolding story of the M/V Maersk Alabama and the Somali pirates that held the ship's captain, Richard Phillips, hostage until the U.S. Navy took action four days later. It sounds like something straight out of a movie (come on: distant lands, pirates, co ... More >>

The Cuts Keep Coming

I've been documenting the downsizing of newspapers here for the past couple of years, so I guess it was bound to happen. My newspaper, which has largely avoided the carnage, has been cutting not just empty positions, but people. And the bloodletting has happened at several other newsp ... More >>

Around the Voice - Metallica, Metallica, and more Metallica

Around the Voice - McCarren Pool, Guitar Hero and the Democratic National Convention

Around the Voice - Dancehall Violence, Billy Bob Thornton and The Art of Screaming

Craze and Dave Nada at The Vagabond August 14

SXSW So Far (I Think): Black Angels, Van Morrison, Roky Erickson, Cut Copy, Tough Alliance

Return of the Great Ginger Blooze

Village Voice/New Times Executive Editor Arrested

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Self-Serving Saturday Edition

New Times, New Editor

The Race Is On

Dylan won the 2006 Pazz & Jop poll, but TV on the Radio is the real protester

Miami Herald Comes Clean A Little

Sun-Sentinel Writer Headed to Village Voice

Toppling the Tower of Babble

Easy Ranking

To Do: Make list. Read Pitchfork. Revise list.

A Family Adrift

The Squid and the Whale finds moments of joy amid the bitterness of divorce

Letters July 1-7. 2004

Help for Gay Islanders

Real Gone Daddy

Memoirs capture the Zeitgeist of an era

A Movable Feast

The local International Hispanic Theatre Festival is one of the biggest and best of its kind -- when will South Florida discover it?

Night & Day

December 31, 1998 - January 6, 1999

Short Cuts

Night & Day

April 23 - 29, 1998