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

• Coconut Grove Artist Taunts City Code Enforcers

  published October 23, 2008

  Eugene "Jobie" Steppe is an artist, but not the kind who wears a beret and paints watercolors by the river. He's the sort who makes a mural... More >>

• Obama Rally Update: Bicentennial Park Crowd is Pumped, So Are the French

  published Oct 21, 2008

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• Miami Obama Rally Still On, Despite Grandmother's Illness

  published Oct 21, 2008

  Obama and his grandparents circa 1980, via NY Times Obama announced last night that he's suspending his campaign for a few days. Unlike some other candidates for the president of the United States ... More >>

• Last Night: David Sedaris at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

  published Oct 16, 2008

  David Sedaris Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami Better Than: Being Engulfed In Flames Near the beginning of his set at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Dav... More >>

• Hockey Fans Hate The Hockey Mom

  published Oct 13, 2008

  Sarah Palin has been riding that 'hockey mom" label from day one, what with her Joe Sixpack friends and dontchya know Middle Class America Values, gosh darnit. But confronted with an arena packed f... More >>

• UCF Gives Miami A One-Finger Salute

  published Oct 13, 2008

  [ via the Orlando Sentinel The University of Central Florida may not have prevailed on the field against the Miami Hurricanes. But as you can see, they won big time in the obscene-gestures-caught-on... More >>

• Last Night: Yelle at the Polish American Club

  published Oct 11, 2008

  Justin Namon Yelle brought the electro party to the Polish American Club. Click to view the full slideshow. Yelle with Kap10Kurt and Funeral Party Friday, October 11, 2008 Polish American Club, Miam... More >>

• Dispatch from the French: Florida Is 'Beautiful,' Floridians Are 'Simple'

  published Oct 08, 2008

  (Ed: Not actually the Frenchman in question.) Earlier this month, we brought you the tale of William Guinaraes and Laetitia Casareto, a handsome young couple from Bordeaux with an inspiring, border... More >>

• Lobbyist Ron Book Tries to Tackle the Housing Crisis

  published October 9, 2008

  Riptide can't pay his rent. So he recently headed downtown to visit the guys who advise the county commission on building affordable... More >>

• Missed the 'Joe Cool' Trialr Don't Worry, There's More To Come

  published Oct 06, 2008

  As far as Miami trials go, the "Joe Cool" case had it all. A plotline worthy of an Edna Buchanan novel, with an abandoned charter ship found drifting at sea and its paying pasengers in a lifeboa... More >>

• Jay-Z Says: Vote However You Want. But I'm Hova. And I'm Voting Obama.

  published Oct 06, 2008

  Logan Fazio Jay-Z came out to support Barack Obama at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami Sunday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. It started out pure voter registration drive, with legions ... More >>

• Debate Watch: Obama's Party @ Tap Tap

  published Oct 03, 2008

  South Beach's favorite Haitian restaurant One thing is certain after Sarah Palin's St. Louis showdown with Joe Biden, or at least after watching the debate with 30 to 40 Democrats packed into a stu... More >>

• Hova For Hope: Free Miami Jay-Z Concert this Sunday for Obama!

  published Oct 01, 2008

  Jay-Z + Obama = Party in Bayfront It's a celebration, bitches! The good folks at Obama For President just made your week. Jay-Z will play a free show in Bayfront Park Amphitheater this Sunday at ... More >>

• French Couple to Walk from Miami to Argentina

  published October 2, 2008

  In a Comfort Inn across from Miami International Airport, a normal interview morphs without warning into a vigorous session of "pump the... More >>

• South Florida's Stadium Madness

  published October 2, 2008

  It's been a bad year for sports venues. The Orange Bowl went boom. The Miami Arena imploded. Even the House that Ruth Built is no... More >>

• A Seriously Insane Federal Trial, Even By Miami Standards

  published Sep 30, 2008

  Illustration via Rolling Stone From Panamanian dictator extraordinaire Manuel Noriega to countless drug warlords to what seems like half of the city's politicians, Miami is justly famous for having... More >>

• Pigs Fly, Dolphins Hailed as Innovators of the NFL

  published Sep 25, 2008

  To file under "Shit We Would Not Have Wagered A Single Nickel On One Week Ago": In offices cluttered with Xs-and-Os and in pungent locker-rooms across America, the nation's great offensive minds ha... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Let Terrorist Eduardo Arocena Go

  published September 25, 2008

  Prickly late-fall air rustles through a block of blue-collar homes in Union City, New Jersey, and butterflies swarm 13-year-old Richard... More >>

• Cars, Mattresses Burn on Scenic Miami River

  published Sep 23, 2008

  via Channel 10 After decades of city sewage pouring into its channels and heavy industry springing on up on its shores, the Miami River hasn't always had the classiest reputation in town. The percep... More >>

• Crazy Homeless Guy With A Rock Gets the Drop on Miami PD

  published Sep 22, 2008

  The headline pretty much sums this one up, so let's just cut to the chase, shall wer The cop, fortunately, is OK. The crazy homeless guy with the rock, fortunately, is subdued and off the street. ... More >>

• On Second Thought, Let's Live A Little and Spend A Few Billion

  published Sep 19, 2008

  Yesterday, Miami's civic leaders were the portrait of financial restraint, soberly deferring a multibillion-dollar plan to redevelop acres of downtown real estate in the midst of a national economy... More >>

• Further Proof: Driving a Cab in South Florida Is F'ing Scary

  published Sep 17, 2008

  South Florida's cabbies are inching closer and closer to joining the elite ranks of bomb disposal technicians, 50 Cent's bodyguards and those insane fishermen from "Deadliest Catch." There sure do... More >>

• South Miami Man Screws Up Art Heist

  published September 18, 2008

  It was like The Thomas Crown Affair. Except replace Pierce Brosnan's dashing, adventure-seeking billionaire with an indigent, inept... More >>

• The Hand of Justice

  published September 18, 2008

  Inside his spartan, tan ranch-style house just a few dozen feet from the Dolphin Expressway and close to the now-vacant lot where the Orange... More >>

• The Heat Is On (For Another Rocky Seasonr)

  published Sep 15, 2008

  Miami sports fans can be forgiven if they've already pulled out the brown paper bags, covered their heads and collapsed trembling into the fetal position for the rest of the month. The Marlins ... More >>