South Florida

A-Rod's Latest Steroid Mess: What's True, What's False, and is Anyone Getting Blackmailed?

Trying to sort through the latest Alex Rodriguez-related mess--I'm not going to call it a scandal yet for reasons that will come up in a moment--is like trying to read the New York Review of Books on a crowded subway: it's hard to find one line that connects with the next. The Times fired the first ... More >>

Helado Negro Is the Carl Sandburg of Spanish Electronic Pop Music

On a recent morning in Crown Heights, we met Roberto Carlos Lange, the Brooklyn by way of Miami master who makes music under the moniker Helado Negro and whose latest album, Invisible Life, was released on Asthmatic Kitty earlier this month. It's his most collaborative album to date -- with appearan ... More >>

New York Feels the Blowback as Puerto Rico is Battered by Drugs and Brazen Murders

The Paperboy

"Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God": The John Brousseau Story, Part Two

Yesterday, we published the first part of our conversation with John Brousseau, a 32-year veteran of Scientology's "Sea Org" who escaped from the church's International Base east of Los Angeles in 2010. In our first part, Brousseau described his work in the Tom Cruise household with Katie Holmes an ... More >>

Farm Porn for the City Dweller

[See More Clips of the Day: The Science of Drinking and Peeing | Bookcase Hides Table and Chairs | A Dry Martini, You Always Shake to Waltz Time] For anyone stuck in the city this week, here's an annoyingly beautiful taste of country life. The video is from Tiger in a Jar (makers of Beet Cake), and ... More >>

Charity Events Are From Hunger! So Boring!

Just write a check already, and save the gown

PKNY's Natalie Jacob on Cats and Lady Gaga

Natalie Jacob​ Natalie Jacob never knew that cocktails would become such a big part of her life. The New Jersey native studied interior design at Fashion Institute of Technology. After graduating, she moved to South Florida, where she tended bar in nightclubs. There, the menu mainly consisted ... More >>

Let It Bleed

Hard at work on his eighth novel, Deadwood author Pete Dexter still packs a punch

Scientology Hates Clean Ice: The "Fair Game" Operation That Should Turn Your Stomach

Xenu hates sterile cubes, for some reason​One of the first things people ask me when they hear that I cover Scientology on a regular basis is whether I've been targeted for harassment by the church. Despite some evidence that the church does intend to "handle" me, I've been left alone for th ... More >>

Cocaine No Longer Popular In The Recession

​In South Florida--which is our nation's weathervane as far as drug use (and pretty art deco hotels)--cocaine use is way down, that devil drug falling way below crystal meth and even booze in popularity. And the reason is obviously the increased awareness of citizens as to the dire dangers ... More >>

I'm The Coverboy On South Florida Gay News

​Tony Adams is a loyal reader of "La Daily Musto" who always peppers us with his witty comments and observations. So when he asked if he could interview me for South Florida Gay News, I braced myself for an extra treat . And then, when it turned out to be the cover story, I was so thrilled I ... More >>

Fast-Food Chains Serve Booze; No Link Found Between Ham and Cancer

​A larger-than-expected corn crop this season has set off a sharp decline in prices, which could deter food inflation. Corn rose to a high of $7.99 per bushel in June. [NY Times] Fast-food chains are getting their booze on. In addition to Burger King's Whopper Bars, two Sonic restaurants in S ... More >>

What Were They Smoking? The Business of Dope Smuggling in Square Grouper

Dolphins Save Dog!!! Dolphins Save Dog!!!!!

​Strife in the Middle East got you down? Union-busting bills taking the shine off your afternoon? Are you Lindsay Lohan? Time to cheer up, because a group of dolphins in Florida helped save a dog stranded in a canal. South Florida's NBC 2 reports that Turbo, an 11-year-old Doberman, was strand ... More >>

Model Carolina Ramirez Gives Us Her Fashion Week Diary

Brad WalshCarolina Ramirez​Every Fashion Week we're in awe of how much models are put through. They're running around from show to show; they get their hair yanked, straightened, curled; they get touched on almost every part of their bodies by dressers, wear loads of makeup, and, probably the ... More >>

Why Doesn't the Mexican Translate All His Spanish Words?

And does he advocate calling a young girl a “white bitch”?

Mike Tyson's Top Ten Rap Cameos

​Reggie Rock Bythewood's One Night in Vegas, airing on ESPN tonight as part of the network's "30 for 30" documentary series, shines a light on the little known friendship and many parallels between tortured souls Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur. The title of Bythewood's documentary is a reference ... More >>

Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler, and Friend

Hustlin'​Jack Horkheimer died last week. Son of a bitch. I didn't hear right away because I was on my way to a week in Maine. An e-mail got through to me on the road. Well, I thought, I'll just wait for the canned "Star Gazer" obits to appear, and when I get back to town I'll get around to wr ... More >>

Todd Solondz Returns With Life During Wartime

Back with an update but the same sensibility, the director shows us that happiness is a state of mind

Todd Solondz, Snowbird

The writer-director takes his suburban pathos and personal anxiety to the Sunshine State

Q&A: Against Me!'s Tom Gabel on Anarchists, Anti-Abortion Billboards, Alternative Press Magazine

tkTom is the one in black. Against Me! leader Tom Gabel is the sort of lyricist that can't stop himself from contemplating the folly of Robert McNamara's foreign policy decisions mid-song, and he's the sort of singer that can find a way to make the former Secretary of Defense's quirky name positive ... More >>

Gay Print Media on the Wane

The Internet spells doom for many long-established periodicals

Kitchen Ink: Chefs Talk About Their Tattoos

New York Baking Water Corp. Promises Gotham-style Tap Water to Floridians

jessicamelling/flickrLiquid gold.​ New York pizza and bagel makers have been known to say there's something in the water here that makes their baked goods taste so good. A South Florida-based company is banking on the claim. According to Pizza Magazine Quarterly (who knew such a magazine even ... More >>

Recette's Jesse Schenker Talks About Going from Private to Public Dining, the Genius of Tomato-Basil Creme Brulee, and the Passion of Gordon Ramsay

Jesse Schenker has a new restaurant and some very impressive tattoos.​Yesterday, Jesse Schenker opened the doors to Recette, a contemporary American restaurant located in the old Jarnac space on West 12th Street. The restaurant is the public manifestation of Recette Private Dining, a private d ... More >>

Oh Hey, Floor Reunion!

Funny how you could barely find a Floor record a decade ago. Now look what happened.​South Florida doom outfit Floor released almost nothing in their four or five year run in the mid-nineties; a quick early aughts reformation and the release of Floor (2002) and the lost 1994 LP Dove (which fin ... More >>

Forty-Year-Old Battles Gay Senior Citizens Group

I just got a letter from a man who's been involved in senior citizens groups (including SAGE of South Florida), even though he's not even close to SAGE age. He simply likes to be around older gays and figures that shouldn't be a problem. But the man claims New York's branch of SAGE told him that the ... More >>

Bart Got a Room May Be the Year's Most Unambitious Comedy

The Fall of the House of Rubashkin

As the nation's largest kosher empire implodes, Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews begin to break ranks

Cops on Steroids

Baseball has no monopoly on foul balls. The NYPD's own drug scandal keeps simmering.

Hillary's Infidelity

Obama's strategy makes her spurn Bill's Cuban advances and embrace Bush and the GOP's anti-Castro right.

The City Is Their Laboratory

Pratt students invent the next New York—for real.

The Motormouth of the South

DJ Khaled is taking over, 200 words a minute and one guest-star at a time

Slick Trouble

The government's determination to deport old-school rapper Slick Rick knows no bounds

Off the Leash

In the exotic pet universe, it's all about whose is weirder than whose.

After Baghdad

Farris Hassan, not done with his 15 minutes of fame, is up to his old tricks again

See Tom Be Jane

The country's youngest transgender child is ready for school. But is school ready for her?

Voter's Digest

The latest election fraud warnings

Music

Democratic Dwarf Toss

Graham the Latest Cracker

The Truths About Charlie

Slick Rick's Alien Rap

Homeboys on the Range

Conservatives, White Supremacists, Take to Florida Streets

Claiming an 'Implicit' Racial Angle, Stormfront Leader Joins Bush Protest

NY Mirror

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