Email Author Tim Elfrink

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2011

  "Santeria Stalker"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 19, 2011

  "Guns Online: No Permit Needed"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 3, 2011

  "The Fight to Bury Venezuelan President CAP in Miami"

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

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published December 16, 2010

  "Hurricane Nevin"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published May 20, 2010

  "Hack Pack"

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

  "Disorderly Conduct"

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

  "Tea Party Pretty Boy"

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

  "Disorderly Conduct"

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

  "Disorderly Conduct"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published April 9, 2009

  "The Fall of a Titan"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published February 26, 2009

  "Guantanamo's Final Days"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published June 4, 2009

  "Swamped"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published April 9, 2009

  "The Fall of a Titan"

• 2010 - Better Weekly Newspaper Awards/Florida Press Association, published May 21, 2009

  "Dog Fight"

• 2010 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published February 26, 2009

  "Guantanamo's Final Days"

• 2009 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published December 18, 2008

  "Black October"

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

  "Black October"

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

  "Black October"

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2008 Stories by Tim Elfrink

• Made-Up Holocaust Tale Hurts the Children, Too

  published Dec 31, 2008

  Herman Rosenblat, a Miami Beach Holocaust survivor, has already made quite a mess of things. First there was the whole made-up tale of triumph in the face of tragedy. Rosenblat sold the world and ever... More >>

• Russian Prof: U.S. To Break Up By 2010, Florida To Join Mexico

  published Dec 30, 2008

  Think things suck nowr Don't flip that dial to Russian state news agencies, or you might really be reaching for the Smirnov.According to the Wall Street Journal, Russia's propaganda machines have late... More >>

• Battle over Club Madonna's Liquor License Rages On

  published December 25, 2008

  Leroy Griffith makes his opinion abundantly clear as he laughs bitterly into the telephone: He really couldn't give a shit who picks up an open... More >>

• Plax Sued By Miami Woman For Ramming Her Probe With His Benz

  published Dec 23, 2008

  Poor Plax. Just a year ago, the Giants wide receiver was riding pretty damn high -- Superbowl champ, massive contract, best ridiculous name in professional football.How did it all fall apartr How, dam... More >>

• Club Madonna Owner Sues Miami Beach Over Alleged Extortion Scheme

  published Dec 22, 2008

  Miami Beach officials tried to extort $30,000 in legal fees out of a strip club owner in exchange for a liquor license -- so says Leroy Griffith, owner of Club Madonna. Griffith, whose club is the onl... More >>

• Riptide's Walking French Correspondents Reach Mexico

  published Dec 18, 2008

  Just three months ago, Riptide introduced Miami to William Guinaraes and Laetitia Casareto, a young French couple with the ridiculous plan to walk from Miami to Ushuaia, the southernmost point of Sout... More >>

• One Mortgage Crisis Solution: Scrap That Condo Tower, Build a Park

  published Dec 17, 2008

  They gathered in front of a rusty chainlink fence and a graffiti-covered "No Trespassing" sign: Mayor Manny Diaz, Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, and megadeveloper Tibor Hollo.Behind the fence, littered wi... More >>

• Joey Porter Resurrects the Fins, Entertains the Nation

  published December 18, 2008

  Strutting between piles of sopping green towels, a diamond-studded watch glinting on his wrist, Joey Porter holds court with a mosh pit of... More >>

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  Black October

  published December 18, 2008

  It's just after 4 p.m. on a cold September Saturday in the highlands of Bolivia. Inside a two-story mud-brick home that smells of damp... More >>

• Obama Names Latino to Cabinet. Sit Down, Manny, It's Not You

  published Dec 16, 2008

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• Porter, Fins Lay a Beatdown on Niners

  published Dec 15, 2008

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• Miami Cops: Fake Gardeners Will Rob Your House

  published Dec 12, 2008

  Geez, who can you trust these daysr Definitely not those friendly neighborhood landscapers trying to give you a free estimate on your lawn, according to the Miami PD.Last week, grandparents Santiago a... More >>

• Gitmo Inches Toward Its Final Days, or Does Itr

  published Dec 11, 2008

  Over the weekend, the Pentagon airlifted a slew of reporters and a handful of family members of 9/11 victims to Guantanamo Bay to watch the latest in the trial of five prisoners.What was mostly meant ... More >>

• Joey Porter Is Packing Heat, Feels for Plax

  published Dec 10, 2008

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• Chez Che

  published December 11, 2008

  Frail figures were bathed in flashes of red and blue police lights as wrinkled arms swung cardboard signs. Around twilight last Wednesday,... More >>

• Rave Reviews in Cuba for New "Che" Movie

  published Dec 08, 2008

  If you know anything about basic physics, you probably are familiar with the law of inverse reactions. Basically, it states that any cultural event that's greeted with a screaming protest in Miami fro... More >>

• A Revolutionary Evening With Soderbergh, Del Toro, 'Che' and Plenty of Angry Cubans

  published Dec 05, 2008

  So how do you beat the notoriously fiesty Cuban protesters in Vigilia Mambisa once they've set their sign-waving, bullhorn-screaming sights on your eventrIf you're Steven Soderbergh, you just plain ou... More >>

• Ileana Mistakes Obama for Fauxbama, Hangs Up On the Real Prez

  published Dec 03, 2008

  Oh snap! So apparently Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen never really got over the shock or hilarity of Sarah Palin getting totally punked by those Canadian DJs pretending to be Nicholas Sarkozy.Because when t... More >>

• Shock of the Week: Protests Planned for "Che" Premiere in Miami Tomorrow

  published Dec 03, 2008

  Let's do a little thought experiment here. Say you're a director, and you're trying to market a new four hour long epic that's was derided by Variety as "a commercial impossibility" after its debut at... More >>

• High-Class Heists

  published December 4, 2008

  Amanda Moran's eyes widened as she walked from a blinding July afternoon into the cool living room of a red-roofed house just off South Dixie... More >>

• Making Art Out of Lightposts During Art Basel

  published Dec 02, 2008

  MiMo artist Louis Dalmau is known for making art in some unusual environments. His first big -- ahem, splash -- in Miami came in the late '80s when he created an underwater art installation that doubl... More >>

• Americans Can't Get Enough F'd Up Miami and Cuban History

  published Dec 01, 2008

  Maybe it's because Fidel finally seems to be stumbling around on his last legs. Maybe it's because Raul, the "younger" brother who's still older than John McCain, seems to be loosening some rules.Who ... More >>

• Spicoli Brokers Obama-Castro Gitmo Hookupr

  published Nov 28, 2008

  No, that headline is not just a hallucination brought on by the tryptophan-induced haze you've been stumbling around in since stuffing that turducken down your gullet yesterday.It's just, quite simply... More >>

• De Niro Would Not Approve of this Armored Truck Heist in Midtown

  published Nov 25, 2008

  You remember that scene in Heat when Robert De Niro's badass crew perfectly executes this plan to knock over an armored truckr How they all pulled on those hockey masks, then blocked the truck's path ... More >>

• Miami Feds Extradite Filipino Murder Suspect

  published Nov 25, 2008

  Maybe it's the palm trees, the sunny weather, the women on the beach. Maybe it's the welcoming international culture. Maybe it's the ready supply of blow. Who knowsr But there's definitely something a... More >>