Email Author Chuck Strouse

Awards

• 2011 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published February 25, 2010

  "Terrorists with Friends"

• 2011 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published April 7, 2011

  "School of Hard Knocks"

• 2011 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists

  "Forgotten War Hero, Parts 1 - 3"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published February 25, 2010

  "Terrorists with Friends"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published April 7, 2011

  "School of Hard Knocks"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ

  "Forgotten War Hero, Parts 1 - 3"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 25, 2010

  "Terrorists with Friends"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 7, 2011

  "School of Hard Knocks"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 15, 2010

  "Forgotten War Hero, Part 1"

• 2009 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published May 29, 2008

  "Wacko Like Winton"

• 2009 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published April 3, 2008

  "Che Who?"

• 2009 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published January 31, 2008

  "Bambi Bump-Off"

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published May 29, 2008

  "Wacko Like Winton"

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published April 3, 2008

  "Che Who?"

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published January 31, 2008

  "Bambi Bump-Off"

• 2009 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published January 31, 2008

  "Bambi Bump-Off"

• 2008 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published January 25, 2007

  "The Doctor, Part I"

• 2007 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published November 16, 2006

  "No Garden Party"

• 2007 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published July 27, 2006

  "Listen Up, McClatchy"

• 2007 - Awards of Excellence/North Central Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published July 27, 2006

  "Listen Up, McClatchy"

• 2007 - Awards of Excellence/North Central Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published February 2, 2006

  "Bad Seed Awards"

• 2007 - Awards of Excellence/North Central Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published October 27, 2005

  "Free This Priest"

• 2006 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published October 27, 2005

  "Free This Priest"

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published June 9, 2005

  "Steal This Prose"

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published September 15, 2005

  "Crash Dummy"

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published October 27, 2005

  "Free This Priest"

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2010 Stories by Chuck Strouse

• Lewis Black Cancelled, Jay Leno to Perform at Hard Rock December 30

  published Dec 29, 2010

  The Lewis Black Show scheduled for Thursday night at Hollywood's Hard Rock Live has been cancelled. The grinchy one is ill. That's the bad news.Or maybe it's the good news. Black will be replaced in t... More >>

• Kingdom Gone: Biscayne Boulevard's Best Bar Closed

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Kingdom, the friendly open air bar/eatery on Biscayne Boulevard is closed. The place, which offered 20 kinds of beer and normal sports bar type chow, was a favorite on Main Street Miami. You could wat... More >>

• Those Macaroons Could Poison You

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Publix has recalled scores of macaroons.Milk chocolate-covered macaroons, plain ones, and those covered in sprinkles are being removed from bakeries in stores across the South today. Not just Florida,... More >>

• Carlos Andres Perez Would Have Made a Better Venezuela

  published Dec 26, 2010

  So the last sane president of Venezuela died in Miami Saturday. Carlos Andres Perez was the probably the first Latin president to flex his muscles over oil, thus setting the stage for his one-time nem... More >>

• South Dade Frozen Solid: Damage Unknown

  published Dec 07, 2010

  Temperatures last night sunk below freezing in South Miami-Dade, potentially damaging crops in the already beleaguered Redland area, which provides much of the nation's winter tomato crop.The exact na... More >>

• Nudes, Scuba Divers and Skateboarders: Food Art at Basel

  published Dec 06, 2010

  Art Basel, which ended over the weekend earned top dollar and, we hope, signaled a turnaround in both the local and national economies. Hell even the Wall Street Journal seems to think so. The special... More >>

• Miami Heat Censors Scott Raab, New Times, and -- Long Ago -- Herald

  published Nov 18, 2010

  Most sports teams get it. Anything in print is good for them. The Miami Heat has never understood this. On Monday, the team banned Esquire writer Scott Raab after he called LeBron James a "gutles... More >>

• New Times' Brandon K. Thorp, Penn Bullock Named to Out 100

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Two Miami New Times freelance writers, Brandon K. Thorp  and Penn Bullock, have been named as among the most significant contributors to gay America this year.They join Ricky Martin, Johnny Weir,... More >>

• Caroline Manzo of Real Housewives Threatens New Times and Co-Star

  published Oct 29, 2010

  Even by Real Housewives of New Jersey standards, this claim is outrageous. "Your father-in-law was murdered and chopped up and placed in front of the Brownstone." This one is rather whacked out, too... More >>

• We're Moving and Expanding!

  published Oct 28, 2010

  After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It's not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north to a pretty little building at 4500 Biscayne Blvd., w... More >>

• We're Moving and Expanding!

  published Oct 28, 2010

  After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It's not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north on Biscayne Boulevard to a pretty little building at ... More >>

• We're Moving and Expanding!

  published Oct 28, 2010

  After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It's not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north on Biscayne Boulevard to a pretty little building at ... More >>

• We're Moving And Expanding!

  published Oct 28, 2010

  After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It's not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north on Biscayne Boulevard to a pretty little building at ... More >>

• Mindy Marques: Savior of the Miami Herald

  published Oct 26, 2010

  More than two decades ago, I sat down to work in a sterile office in Doral, and a young woman next to me began swearing like a sailor. "Cono," she said louder than any office voice I had ever heard. "... More >>

• Spreading Dry Animal Feces and Other Leaf Blower Dangers

  published Oct 14, 2010

  So Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera just called up to say that yesterday's post trashing his proposal to ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers in Coral Gables was unfair. He claims to have said man... More >>

• Immokalee Workers Win Money for Farm Laborers

  published Oct 14, 2010

  The Wall Street Journal reports that Pacific Tomato Growers, one of the largest U.S. tomato firms, has agreed to pass a penny-per-pound surcharge on to workers.McDonald's and others had... More >>

• A Note to Ask a Domme Critics

  published Oct 13, 2010

  Ask a Domme rocks. Lera Gavin, the author, penned a feature for New Times earlier this year called "Notes from a Dominatrix" that provided an astute look into a lifestyle that any sane person wants to... More >>

• Frodnesor Responds to Cobaya Post

  published Oct 07, 2010

  Frodnesor, a damn good food blogger whose work I respect, published a lengthy response to a post of ours yesterday. He accused of us of censorship because his comment wasn't published.Note to Frodneso... More >>

• Muvico Theater in Hialeah to Close Temporarily

  published Sep 17, 2010

  The Muvico theater in Hialeah, a 14-screen place that's been around for 14 years, will close for a multimillion renovation. The dowdy building on West 49th Street has long been a draw for Hialeah and... More >>

• New Times Cleans Up in Green Eyeshades

  published Sep 14, 2010

  Miami New Times cleaned up in the nondaily division of the 60th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards, which determine the best work in 11 Southeastern states. Former staff writer Natalie O'Neill took first pl... More >>

• Kaspia at the Webster: Try it Saturday

  published Sep 10, 2010

  Kaspia in the Webster Hotel on 12th and Collins has a bizarre history. It's a branch of a Parisian restaurant opened by Russian emigres in 1926 that serves vodka, caviar, champagne and not much more. ... More >>

• Sean Rowe: New Times Writer/Author/Poet Is Dead

  published Aug 30, 2010

  Pretty much every word Sean Rowe ever spoke was poetry. Even after he was hit by a train and survived.  I don't say that as praise. I'm not fawning. He just had a way about him.He arrived in Miam... More >>

• Dim Sum at Sang's in Miami's Chinatown

  published Aug 09, 2010

  Dumplings, pork rolls, and sticky rice, oh my! If Dorothy would have just repeated this mantra in Oz, she wouldn't have had to return to Kansas's burgers and fries. She would have ended up at San... More >>

• Miami's Own Adnan Shukrijumah Becomes Osama's Lieutenant

  published Aug 06, 2010

  I was wrong. Seven years ago, at the Iraq War's start, I wrote a column expressing skepticism about the Bush administration's claim that Adnan Shukrijumah of Miramar was a top terrorist. Earlier today... More >>

• C'mon, Miami Herald, Hustle Up in the MIA!

  published Aug 02, 2010

  The last year or so has been tough for our city's paper of record, where I used to work. Reporters at the Miami Herald have gotten the shaft, and editors have been forced to do double duty. But h... More >>