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School board candidates are typically a veritable who's that of local gadabouts or gray-haired teachers with little recognition outside home room. In District 6, which covers...
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Luis Meza wasn't supposed to ride that two-lane road that night. The Peruvian security guard and his teenage son spent Luis's time off work doing circles around the crowded...
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Wanted: The Community Redevelopment Agency, in charge of revitalizing the downtown and Overtown district, seeks publicist. Pay: $27,000, including a $2,500 expense...
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Parking downtown has always been a Gaza-like free-for-all. With hobos charging to "watch" cars, and lots that gouge drivers depending on which team the Heat is playing, a...
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Gorki Águila filled his beat-up camo backpack with enough supplies for a weekend trip, not a four-year prison sentence. It was August 2003 in Havana, and he and his...
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If you believe downtown developers and government officials, the street next to Monica Winter's kiosk at Bayside Marketplace should be a heaving mass of smoke-belching big...
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To hear University of Miami music school dean Shelton Berg tell it, jazz piano professor Doug Bickel was pulling stunts that would make John Coltrane blanch. The 41-year-old...
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At the Design District art walk this month, hordes of collectors and attenuated hipsters streamed in and out of Spinello Gallery. Mucho dinero collector Marty Margulies was...
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Isaac Delvalle paces in the desolate atrium outside the poker room of Magic City Casino. The tan 49-year-old takes a few steps, checks his watch, and sneaks a drag from his...
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One week after Playboy magazine knocked the University of Miami from the top spot on its list of party schools, local pride took another hit. A website run by a British lady...
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It is with a heavy heart that we report the University of Texas at Austin has replaced the University of Miami as the number one party school in the nation, thanks to its...
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It's Election Day, November 13, 2001. Most people in Miami are focused on the mayor's race. Newcomer Manny Diaz has just defeated dinosaur Maurice Ferre. But at a party with a...
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On a recent Friday night, Living Room, the cavernous Fort Lauderdale gay club, was bathed in black lights. There were the usual go-go dancers and drag queens. Men, and the...
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Last week, Cuba's daily newspaper, Granma, breathlessly announced the country faced a mule deficit.
Yes, you read right: mule, as in, donkey, hee-haw, and all that. The dip...
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From the moment he pulls up to the dilapidated pink building in Overtown, Lesther Jorge knows they are there. He sees a heavyset female pacing in the back of the abandoned...
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Last week, a Cuban movie critic became the last person in the world to see Avatar.
His verdict: meh.
In a review in Granma, the official daily of the Communist Party of...
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Every year, they arrive punctually on the same festive stationery, and every year, they're tossed out faster than stale fruitcake. Well, dear reader, by throwing out your...
