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Afghanistan

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Corrosion of Conformity With Holly Hunt, Consular, and Shroud Eater at Grand Central Miami, March 19

    Corrosion of Conformity​ With Holly Hunt, Consular, and Shroud Eater Grand Central Monday, March 19, 2012 Louder Than: Volcanoes, stampedes, and a skirmish in the valleys of Afghanistan. Can someone please explain how Corrosion of Conformity ended up playing an only-show-in-Florida date at G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    David Young, Ex-Green Beret and Politico, Accused Of Bilking $54 Million From Military

    ​Before he moved to Florida, David Young was an American hero: A Green Beret, a Gulf War vet and a Bronze Star recipient. The vet was once among the nation's youngest state legislators after winning a seat in his native New Hampshire's state House at the age of 21. Two years ago, when he relocated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2011

    Occupy Miami Brings Out Hundreds of Protesters to Bayfront Park

    photo by Tim Elfrink​Echoing the ongoing "Occupy" movements from Wall Street to San Francisco, hundreds of sign-waving, drum-beating, flyer-hawking protesters gathered in Bayfront Park this afternoon, drawing supportive honks from cars pouring down Biscayne Boulevard and bewildered stares from tou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Editor Chuck Strouse Wins Sigma Delta Chi, Top Columns in Nation

    Miami New Times editor Chuck Strouse has won the Sigma Delta Chi award for the nation's best columns in a nondaily publication.Strouse, a codger who writes so seldom that many people don't even know he can hold a pen, topped all entries for five of his columns, including three about Louis Maxwell, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Twenty-Two Dead in Afghan Protests Over Florida Koran Burning, But is Terry Jones Directly to Blame?

    ​Twenty-two people, including several United Nations workers, have been killed in Afghanistan during protests over Florida pastor Terry Jones's burning of a Koran in his tiny Gainesville church. Jones, who had postponed the burning after threatening to hold International Burn a Koran Day on the ni ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 10, 2011

    Wynwood Art Walk preview

    ​Twenty-two people, including several United Nations workers, have been killed in Afghanistan during protests over Florida pastor Terry Jones's burning of a Koran in his tiny Gainesville church. Jones, who had postponed the burning after threatening to hold International Burn a Koran Day on the ni ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2010

    Bombs Bursting in Air

    ​Twenty-two people, including several United Nations workers, have been killed in Afghanistan during protests over Florida pastor Terry Jones's burning of a Koran in his tiny Gainesville church. Jones, who had postponed the burning after threatening to hold International Burn a Koran Day on the ni ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2010

    Big Orange is Back

    ​Twenty-two people, including several United Nations workers, have been killed in Afghanistan during protests over Florida pastor Terry Jones's burning of a Koran in his tiny Gainesville church. Jones, who had postponed the burning after threatening to hold International Burn a Koran Day on the ni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Miami-Dade Cops Close To Adding War in Afghanistan-Style Drone To Arsenal

    via HoneywellMiami Dade cops hope to soon start flying this robotic drone called the T-Hawk.​In places such as Kabul, Gaza, and Baghdad, unmanned aerial vehicles hovering over homes, following suspects, and tracking enemies of the state are a daily reality. So where are the high-tech drones buzzin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Westboro Baptist Church Will Burn Korans Now

    Back when we first picked up on the story of Dove World Outreach Center's planned "International Burn a Koran Day," back before it had become a media spectacle, we mused, "The Westboro Baptist Church currently holds the title of most insane thing purporting to be a Christian church in America, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Remember 9/11 and Say No to the Ground Zero Mosque

    ​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 says no to the Ground Zero mosque.I don't believe there should be a mosque next to the Ground Zero memorial site in Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Nino Pernetti's Caffe Abbracci Cookbook

    ​Nino Pernetti graciously sent me a copy of his then just-published cookbook after I'd done a short interview with him about it for Short Order  in 2008. The subtitle, His Life Story and Travels around the World, pretty much describes the narrative, in which Nino's co-authors Ferdie Pacheco a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Fla. GOP Ex-Congressman Comes Out Strongly In Favor of Ground Zero Mosque

    ​Despite being thousands of miles from Florida and having nothing to do with local politics, the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" has become an issue in the sunshine state's 2010 election. While even some Democrats (we're looking at you Alex Sink and Ron Klein) have come out against the Islamic comm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Gulf Oil Spill Sticking With Us: Top Five Things We Thought Went Away But Really Didn't

    Taint gone: the oil spill is with us for years to come, whether we like it or notYesterday scientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a report on the dangers to humans and wildlife still posed by the gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To the cha ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2010

    Hamid Karzai likely had Louis Maxwell killed

    Taint gone: the oil spill is with us for years to come, whether we like it or notYesterday scientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a report on the dangers to humans and wildlife still posed by the gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To the cha ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Louis Maxwell murdered by Afghan Army, Part 2

    Taint gone: the oil spill is with us for years to come, whether we like it or notYesterday scientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a report on the dangers to humans and wildlife still posed by the gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To the cha ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Los Afganos asesinan a Louis Maxwell: Segunda Parte

    Taint gone: the oil spill is with us for years to come, whether we like it or notYesterday scientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a report on the dangers to humans and wildlife still posed by the gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To the cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Les Halles & Pacific Time Clock Out, Enrique Fernandez Needs To Tune In

    ​Read My Lips"Pacific Time will remain open through the summer." -- Jonathan Eismann to Short Order, June 16, 2010 Pacific Time shut its doors two weeks ago.I Hear The War In Afghanistan Is Going Pretty WellLes Halles has also halted service, the ominous Temporarily closed for renovations sign pos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Radar vs. Wolf Versus You at Sweat Records Friday

    ​A long time ago I came to the painful realization that my dreams and aspirations would go unfulfilled. Publishing a collection of original poetry titled "Fetch Me the Pliers" by downtown Kabul's most exclusive post-Soviet literary house didn't bring in the cash. So I did what many failed los ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Did Efraim Diveroli's Crony Ship Missiles to Hezbollah?

    Courtesy of Miami-Dade CorrectionsEfraim DiveroliIn early 2007, after winning a $300 million U.S. Army contract to equip Afghanistan with munitions, Miami Beach arms dealer Efraim Diveroli, age 21, went scavenging in Albania. There he subcontracted Ylli Pinari, head of that Balkan country's state-ru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    News Roundup: So Many Thieves; The U Breaks ESPN Ratings Records

    Feds yesterday arrested 30 people in three cities, including Miami, for Medicare fraud. Dr. Fred Dweck, 14 of his patients, and one unlucky guy who was photographed being handcuffed, man-tits and all, were among those arrested in Miami. [MLive | Herald]A thief is targeting churches an ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 5, 2009

    World leaders should see the Frost Art Museum's latest exhibits

    Feds yesterday arrested 30 people in three cities, including Miami, for Medicare fraud. Dr. Fred Dweck, 14 of his patients, and one unlucky guy who was photographed being handcuffed, man-tits and all, were among those arrested in Miami. [MLive | Herald]A thief is targeting churches an ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    Broadway Ocho

    Feds yesterday arrested 30 people in three cities, including Miami, for Medicare fraud. Dr. Fred Dweck, 14 of his patients, and one unlucky guy who was photographed being handcuffed, man-tits and all, were among those arrested in Miami. [MLive | Herald]A thief is targeting churches an ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009

    The Revolution Will Be Televised

    Feds yesterday arrested 30 people in three cities, including Miami, for Medicare fraud. Dr. Fred Dweck, 14 of his patients, and one unlucky guy who was photographed being handcuffed, man-tits and all, were among those arrested in Miami. [MLive | Herald]A thief is targeting churches an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    News Roundup

    Commissioner Marc Sarnoff thinks Miami 21 might make a repeat appearance this fall. [SFBJ]A Miami man was shopping at his local Publix (5715 NW Seventh St.) when some idiot managers thought he stole some eye drops. So they made him go into the bathroom and take off his clothes. I don't know why ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 9, 2009

    Art Capsules

    Commissioner Marc Sarnoff thinks Miami 21 might make a repeat appearance this fall. [SFBJ]A Miami man was shopping at his local Publix (5715 NW Seventh St.) when some idiot managers thought he stole some eye drops. So they made him go into the bathroom and take off his clothes. I don't know why ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2009

    Black-Market Cigarettes: Miami's New Vice

    The feds say a local man smuggled millions of smokes for terrorists. He's not alone.

  • Culture

    July 2, 2009

    Land Mine Legacy in Coral Gables

    Photos at the Spanish Cultural Center remind us wars linger.

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Memo From Baghdad: Miami Soldier Says Obama's Withdrawal Plans Will Work

    Capt. Agustin Dominguez understands the ebb-and-flow of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as only a battle-hardened soldier who's been there truly can.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAn Iraqi soldier on patrolDominguez, a Miami native and '98 grad of Palmetto Senior High, followed a stint in northern ... More >>

  • News

    March 5, 2009

    Letters from the Issue of March 5, 2009

    "Let him foolishly make money off of these animals, and we'll mop up the mess when something tragic finally happens."

  • News

    February 26, 2009

    Guantanamo's Final Days

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    'I Was Cooperating with Evil': A Former Gitmo Prosecutor Sounds off About a Corrupt Process

    Two years ago, when Darrel Vandeveld flew to Guantánamo Bay to work as a prosecutor, no one else believed more in the detention camps and all they stood for in the War on Terror.Courtesy Wikimedia Commons"I was totally gung ho," Vandeveld tells Riptide. "I was convinced that we actually had the 'wo ... More >>

  • News

    February 5, 2009

    Armed Again

    Indicted Miami Beach weapons dealer Efraim Diveroli is still making millions of dollars from the U.S. government.

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Cheney Still Hearts Gitmo; the Senate Does Not Heart Cheney

    You've got to give Tricky Dick some credit. The man sticks to his guns (even when they're clearly shooting someone in the face).Amid the Bushie farewell tour over the past week, Cheney has time and again stuck up for his administration's use of, ahem, "questionable" tactics in treating prisoners at ... More >>

  • Film

    August 28, 2008

    Spy vs. Why

    Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor.

  • Film

    November 29, 2007

    American Realist

    In Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford probes the façade of a nation.

  • Film

    November 8, 2007

    Dull Roar

    The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

  • Film

    February 1, 2007

    Dissent for Sale

    Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2007

    Puppet Punch

    Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Osama’s Thug

    Jose Padilla is (a) a punk; (b) a terrorist in training; (c) an unwitting pawn for Uncle Sam and al-Qaeda; or (d) all of the above

  • Culture

    March 2, 2006

    I Don't Wanna Grow Up

    Two very different plays about boys with toys

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2006

    Modern Drunkard

    Have a swill time with Dave Attell

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2005

    Night&Day

    Have a swill time with Dave Attell

  • Music

    August 12, 2004

    Station to Station

    From Austin to Australia, Ozomatli spreads its world funk message

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    What Haiti Teaches

    Starving children don't respond to military firepower

  • Calendar

    December 25, 2003

    World Beats

    Progressive acts manufacture new sounds

  • Calendar

    September 18, 2003

    This Week's Day by Day Picks

    Progressive acts manufacture new sounds

  • Music

    February 20, 2003

    Code Orange

    It's the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    News of the Weird

    It's the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine

  • News

    September 25, 1997

    News of the Weird

    It's the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine

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