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India is home of Ganesha, the Hindu deity who places and removes obstacles from our path. It’s also the native land of the mango. From the sumac family, the fruit is...
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In the early 20th Century, bourgeois Spanish playwrights were writing the after-school specials of their time — flowery tales of everyday life that spewed hypocritical...
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Back in 1895, there was a cranky, old Scottish physicist named Lord Kelvin (AKA William Thomson), who proclaimed, “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”...
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In the early 20th Century, bourgeois Spanish playwrights were writing the after-school specials of their time — flowery tales of everyday life that spewed hypocritical...
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Sure, you could continue to toil away at your day job, bank $8 an hour, and save up for a life of leisure when you’re too curmudgeonly to enjoy it. Or you could yank out...
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Sometimes music needs to speak to you on an emotional and intellectual level so you can work out all the stress and angst you’ve built up throughout your day. Sometimes,...
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This weekend, you'll have a chance to see more muscle-loving junkies than any gym can hold at the 30th annual NPC Southern States Bodybuilding, Fitness, Figure, and Bikini...
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Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, we all live in glass houses. At least you do if you’re one of the 500 million users of Facebook, a social networking site he founded that makes...
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Almost 30 years ago, Marc Joseph was a health counselor who worked with refugees at the Krome Detention Center in Southwest Miami-Dade. After one of the distraught detainees...
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There must be some unwritten rule that you’re not a true comic until you’ve stirred up some headline-worthy controversy. One of the founding Kings of Comedy, D.L....
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Here in the state of Florida, any consumer use of low-explosive devices (i.e. roman candles, firecrackers, skyrockets, etc.) is a misdemeanor punishable by one year in jail....
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We all know that the grand old U.S. of A is just as green as it is red, white, and blue. Money is green. Fatigues are green. Sweet kush is green. And believe it or not, the...
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A little before noon on a spring day, J.J. Rendón wakes up and dresses as usual in a Jedi-like black frock. He takes a drag on a cigarette and rubs sleep from his dark...
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Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke...
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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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With a new 10 percent federal tax kicking in July 1, there's a June gloom descending on tanning salons across South Florida. The tax, which is supposed to generate some $2.7...
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By now, Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado's grand April news conference to announce his personal anticorruption unit's first probe has been enshrined in the Political...
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Power Chords
Punking out: As a professional entertainer and a fellow Cuban who has made a dignified living in music for 44 years, I have this advice for Gil Ortiz Pla: Stick...
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A former drug dealer, Los Angeles-based Ricky "Freeway" Ross, has been threatening Miami rapper Rick Ross with a lawsuit for a while. But on Friday, June 18, Freeway's...
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Sometime between December 13, 2001, and the following New Year's Day 2002, WTMI-FM, which had been providing South Floridians with classical music for two decades, spun...
