Email Author Tim Elfrink

Awards

• 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"

• 2011 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, 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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2010 Stories by Tim Elfrink

• Jorge Uscamayta, Skycap Arrested In Luggage Scam, Is Dad Of Bomb-Strapped Bank Robbery Victim

  published Nov 18, 2010

  How's this for a truly bizarre crime connectionr Last night, Miami-Dade police announced the arrests of more than 20 curbside baggage handlers at MIA on charges that they'd taken cash bribes. One of t... More >>

• Ben Greenman Mashes Up Hollywood and Russian Lit In Celebrity Chekhov

  published Nov 18, 2010

  In a world drowning in footage of Britney Spears' meltdowns, blogrolls of Tiger Woods' mistresses and fawning Brangelina features, how does a writer contrive to say anything new about celebrity in Ame... More >>

• Telmo Ricardo Hurtado, 'Butcher of the Andes,' Finally On Trial In Peru For 1985 Massacre

  published Nov 18, 2010

  For nearly five years, Telmo Ricardo Hurtado lived a quiet life in sleepy Surfside, moving between low-rent apartments just off Collins Avenue with his mom and his younger brother. Neighbors knew him ... More >>

• Chenjerai Hove Creates a New Exile Literature from Miami Thanks to City of Refuge Program

  published Nov 18, 2010

  In 2001, Chenjerai Hove was driven out of his homeland, Zimbabwe, after years of persecution by Robert Mugabe's government. Hove drew Mugabe's ire with plays like Sister Sing Again Someday about the p... More >>

• Denise Crull, Drunk-Looking Florida Woman, Interviewed After Hitting A School Bus

  published Nov 16, 2010

  A bit of free legal advice from the offices of Riptide and Riptide, LLC: If you've just finished drunkenly swerving your car into a school bus full of children and someone thrusts a TV camera in your ... More >>

• UM offers firms new law grads for free

  published November 18, 2010

  UM offers firms new law grads for free More >>

• Albert Gonzalez And His Hack Pack Get The New York Times Magazine Treatment

  published Nov 15, 2010

  Last May, we brought you the story of Albert Gonzalez, Jonathan James, and their Miami-based band of hackers who engineered the largest online credit card theft ever before it all fell apart. The stor... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Pity the Lawyers: UM Will Pay Others To Hire Law School Grads

  published Nov 15, 2010

  A righteous anger has lately been seething from the most unlikely and urbane of American institutions. Inside ivy-shaded law schools from Columbia to Berkeley, students facing six-figure debts and zer... More >>

• George W. Bush At The Miami Book Fair: The Live Blog

  published Nov 14, 2010

  Dubya is in Miami! To be more exact, he's downtown at the Miami Book Fair International, shilling his new memoir, Flapjacks: My Favorite Breakfast Treat. No, that's not right. Decision Points! It's al... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Social Distortion at the Fillmore Miami Beach, November 13

  published Nov 14, 2010

  See the full 28-photo Social Distortion slideshow. With Frank Turner and LuceroThe Fillmore Miami BeachSaturday, November 13, 2010Better than: An '80s punk show in a burned-out dive bar in East L.A. ... More >>

• Face the Book

  published November 11, 2010

  For all the glittering Hollywood names attached to blockbuster hit The Social Network, its millions of fans are absorbing a story first told by... More >>

• Fidel Castro Assassination Mission in New Call of Duty Game Pisses Off Cuba

  published Nov 11, 2010

  Want to kill Fidel Castror Think you've got what it takes to gun down the guy who's survived almost 700 assassination attempts, from exploding cigars to fungus-infested wetsuits to handgun wielding ps... More >>

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  Ponzi Schemer Allen Stanford Got Seriously Messed Up In Jailhouse Fight

  published Nov 09, 2010

  Allen Stanford, the would-be cricket baron who engineered an $8 billion Ponzi scheme from his Miami headquarters, bought Coral Gables castles for his mistresses, and all-but ruled Antigua as a persona... More >>

• City Square isn't Miami's craziest project

  published November 11, 2010

  City Square isn't Miami's craziest project More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Here's A List of All 3,301 Miami-Dade Employees Who Make Six Figures

  published Nov 08, 2010

  At last glance, more than one in ten Miamians are unemployed and a solid chunk of the rest are proud pledging members of Broke Phi Broke. That's why County Mayor Carlos Alvarez is in serious danger of... More >>

• Marco Rubio Loves Gangsta Rap, David Guetta's 'Sexy Bitch,' Fawning Feature Reports

  published Nov 08, 2010

  We know you've been wondering: How exactly did Marco Rubio stir the conservative fire in his belly before jumping onstage during the campaignr Reading George Willr Watching O'Reilly grill some hapless... More >>

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  Four Proposed Miami Developments Even Crazier Than City Square

  published Nov 08, 2010

  If developer Mark Siffin keeps getting his way, Miami's skyline could soon be bisected by two towering, 40-story digital billboards. Sure, the glowing monstrosities would probably induce regular epile... More >>

• Miami's Haitians Brace For Catastrophe As Tomas Bears Down On Port-Au-Prince

  published Nov 04, 2010

  As Miami's Haitian community has struggled to help their homeland since January's earthquake, one fear has lingered always in the back of their minds: What if a hurricane blows through while half of P... More >>

• Frederica Wilson's First Act In Washington: Banning Cell Phones In Cars With Kids

  published Nov 04, 2010

  Lost among the noise of a thousand tea baggings at the polls yesterday was the runaway victory of Frederica Wilson, the cowboy-hat rockin' Democrat who picked up 86 percent of the vote to replace Kend... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Dispatch From the Biltmore: The Night Marco Rubio's Presidential Campaign Began

  published Nov 03, 2010

  Marco Rubio is running for president in 2012. It's not official, of course, and maybe even Rubio himself hasn't decided whether to seek the highest office in the land. But at the raucus party tonight ... More >>

• Two Florida Firemen Resign Over Tea-bagging (The Real Deal, Not the Marco Rubio Kind)

  published Nov 02, 2010

  In a story sure to outrage the Marco Rubio camp on the eve of the midterms, two Florida firefighters have resigned after an investigation into their tea-bagging while on duty. What kind of upside-down... More >>

• Allen West's fellow Wheels on the Road columnists make an excellent brain trust

  published November 4, 2010

  Allen West's fellow Wheels on the Road columnists make an excellent brain trust More >>

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  Mark Siffin: Times Square in Miami

  published November 4, 2010

  Mark Siffin: Times Square in Miami More >>

• George W. Bush Coming To the Miami Book Fair To Talk Up His Memoir

  published Nov 01, 2010

  What better way to celebrate the pending GOP sweep of the House (and just maybe the Senate) than to relive the good ol' days under Dubya with No. 43 himselfr If you're among the thousands in Dade feel... More >>

• Allen West's Fellow Wheels on the Road Columnists Make An Excellent Brain Trust

  published Nov 01, 2010

  Allen West could soon become the first sitting U.S. congressman with ties to a white racist biker gang (well, at least since Sen. Dirtbeard Jones [R-Penn] back in '46). It's all the more remarkable co... More >>