Email Author Gus Garcia-Roberts

Awards

• 2012 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists

  "Rotten to the Core"

• 2012 - Investigative Reporters and Editors

  "Rotten to the Core"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published August 18, 2011

  "Knocked Out"

• 2012 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists

  "Rotten to the Core"

• 2012 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards

  "Rotten to the Core"

• 2012 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published April 28, 2011

  "Hard Hit"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Rotten to the Core"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published April 22, 2010

  "Blow Hard"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 23, 2010

  "Marked for Death"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 22, 2010

  "Blow Hard"

• 2010 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published March 26, 2009

  "Pork Pirates"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published August 13, 2009

  "In the Name of the King"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published December 10, 2009

  "Crime 101"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published March 26, 2009

  "Pork Pirates"

• 2010 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published February 12, 2009

  "Curse of the Class of 2006"

• 2010 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published November 5, 2009

  "Park or Die Tryin'"

• 2010 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published February 12, 2009

  "Curse of the Class of 2006"

• 2009 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published September 18, 2008

  "Redemption Run"

• 2009 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published December 4, 2008

  "Budget Ballin'"

• 2009 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published October 30, 2008

  "Faux-Bama!"

• 2009 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published September 18, 2008

  "Redemption Run"

• 2009 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published October 30, 2008

  "Faux-Bama!"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 12, 2007

  "The Wild, Wild West Bank"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 24, 2007

  "Hunting the White Buffalo"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 26, 2007

  "Banking on D's"

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2010 Stories by Gus Garcia-Roberts

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  FEATURED STORY

  Mugshots Friday: Art Basel Edition

  published Dec 03, 2010

  rIn this special edition of Mugshots Friday, we've hidden an Art Basel piece among the booking photos. The first to correctly identify it will get two tickets to an Eddie Money concert in Canada. ... More >>

• Sterling Wilde, Drunk Atlanta Tourist, Got Ass Kicked in Brawl With Female Miami Beach Cop

  published Dec 02, 2010

  This mug shot tells only half the story, but it tells it clearly: Sterling Roderick Wilde, a 26-year-old Atlanta tourist allegedly found sleeping in a South Beach hotel hallway, tangled with... More >>

• Art Miami 2010: Red Pants, Bestiality, and Lowbrow-Highbrow

  published Dec 01, 2010

  View photos of Art Miami 2010 here.When are art-world types going to stop wearing red pantsr Aren't they basically just conforming at this pointr Now an artist wearing some nice modest chinos: That wo... More >>

• Downtown Miami's no-panhandling zone displaces homeless

  published December 2, 2010

  Downtown Miami's no-panhandling zone displaces homeless More >>

• Leslie Nielsen Raised a Generation, Despite Wearing a Full Body Condom

  published Nov 29, 2010

  How lucky are 80s-babies to have grown up during Leslie Nielsen's heydayr There could be no better accompaniment to being 12 than a brand-new "Naked Gun" opening in theatres. And as we get older and w... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Mugshots Friday: AARP Tony Montana, The Neverending Fu Manchu, and The French Detective

  published Nov 26, 2010

  Can it really have been only a week ago that The Man With The Dented Head exploded the internet and sent our switchboards into hyperdriver We'll have an update on him -- and how he got his injuries --... More >>

• Downtown's No-Panhandling Zone is SB1070 For Miami's Homeless

  published Nov 24, 2010

  rLast week, the Miami City Commission voted unanimously to expand a controversial "no-panhandling zone" surrounding the American Airlines Arena and the Adrienne Arsht Center. "This isn't a homel... More >>

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  Pat Riley Should Fire Erik Spoelstra, Say Exactly 8,841 People on the Internet

  published Nov 24, 2010

  With the supposed-to-be-bigger-than-God Miami Heat looking ugly on the court and sputtering to an 8-6 record, the calls for doofy coach Erik Spoelstra's professional head have reached a fever pitch.Ok... More >>

• Garrett Wittels: Keeping the Streak Alive

  published November 25, 2010

  Garrett Wittels: Keeping the Streak Alive More >>

• Dave Barry: Bravely Navel-Gazing

  published November 25, 2010

  Dave Barry: Bravely Navel-Gazing More >>

• Mickey Munday: Twilight Cowboy

  published November 25, 2010

  Mickey Munday: Twilight Cowboy More >>

• "Half a Head": The Police Report

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Cops have a way with language. So when Miami police arrested the man whose extremely bizarre booking photo made him the star of Mugshots Friday, who was trying to purchase "street slang for vaginal" f... More >>

• Yes, That Flattened Head Mugshot is Real

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Update: View the "Half a Head" police report here.Our inaugural Mugshots Friday post has been getting quite a lot of reaction-- mostly because nobody can believe that the photo of the dude with th... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Mugshots Friday: Dented Heads, Bandanna Tattoos and Weird Beards

  published Nov 19, 2010

  rWelcome to our first-ever Mugshots Friday -- a collection of the craziest Miami-Dade County booking photos from the previous week. We're going back two weeks just this time. And whoo, boy do we h... More >>

• Arturo Carvajal, Miami Doctor, Sues Houston's Restaurant for Not Teaching Him How to Properly Eat Artichoke

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Most people know how to eat an artichoke: Using your teeth, you scrape the meat from the bottom of each leaf. But Miamian Arturo Carvajal, a doctor with a family practice in Hollywood and a litig... More >>

• Birdman's "Fire Flame" Video: An Exhaustive Analysis

  published Nov 16, 2010

  Like a growing number of Americans, Bryan "Birdman" Williams works from home. At least, that's what we took from the Miami transplant's epic new music video, "Fire Flame", in which he spends the day c... More >>

• Key West A Bicycle Heaven No Morer

  published Nov 16, 2010

  We've given up on Miami -- home of bloodthirsty drivers and bureaucrats too inept to implement bike lanes -- ever being a good place to ride a bicycle.But Key West has always been a different story. T... More >>

• Key West bicyclers beware: Local editor has waged war

  published November 18, 2010

  Key West bicyclers beware: Local editor has waged war More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Lebron James Villain-O-Meter: How Much Does America Hate Him This Weekr

  published Nov 12, 2010

  rAmericans residing north of Palm Beach County have targeted their wrath at LeBron James, a basketball player and creator of the world's worst television special. In this semi-regular installment,... More >>

• Pet Goat?

  published November 11, 2010

  The most boldfaced name attending the book fair is an author so devoted to literature that he didn't stop reading the children's book The Pet... More >>

• FAMU Defender Aims Nukes at Riptide

  published Nov 10, 2010

  Two days after Riptide published an article detailing the glacial pace of troubled Florida Memorial University's search for a president-- and calling Florida A&M University pharmacy professor and ... More >>

• Florida Memorial University can't find a president

  published November 11, 2010

  Florida Memorial University can't find a president More >>

• Florida Memorial University Names Three Candidates For President -- Again

  published Nov 08, 2010

  rIn August 2009, Florida Memorial University, the historic black school rich in history but more recently notorious for a grade-fixing scheme that had students trading sex for A's, abruptly canned... More >>

• Shaquille O'Neal Had A Better Halloween Costume Than Dwyane Wade

  published Nov 08, 2010

  Yes, we know it's a week after Halloween. But as a Miami blog with a taste for the ridiculous we just couldn't sleep with ourselves if we didn't post the following video of Shaq channeling Beyonce in ... More >>

• Did Channing Crowder Just Call Anne Frank a Hor

  published Nov 08, 2010

  Well, no, he didn't... we think. But the Miami Dolphins linebacker did somehow confuse the diary-writing Holocaust victim with deaf and blind author Helen Keller, which is a front-runner for this mont... More >>