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May 9, 2012
We Found a Baby Goat Leg In Downtown Miami
So we were just walking through Downtown Miami, scanning the sidewalk for cigarette butts when.... AAH ANIMAL LEG! It was loosely wrapped in paper right outside the front entrance of this construction site on Northwest 3rd Street, just a block from the Miami Police headquarters. The rule of the I ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
It Burns
So we were just walking through Downtown Miami, scanning the sidewalk for cigarette butts when.... AAH ANIMAL LEG! It was loosely wrapped in paper right outside the front entrance of this construction site on Northwest 3rd Street, just a block from the Miami Police headquarters. The rule of the I ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Reader Mail: People Issue Props
So we were just walking through Downtown Miami, scanning the sidewalk for cigarette butts when.... AAH ANIMAL LEG! It was loosely wrapped in paper right outside the front entrance of this construction site on Northwest 3rd Street, just a block from the Miami Police headquarters. The rule of the I ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
North Miami Beach Police Employees Fired Over Santeria Curse On City Manager UPDATE
North Miami Beach has fired two police department employees after they allegedly were caught in the office trying to cast a Santeria curse on the city manager shortly before mass layoffs were planned. Veteran officer Elizabeth Torres and office manager Yvonne Rodriguez were canned last week over ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
Ernesto Pichardo: Spirit Guide
North Miami Beach has fired two police department employees after they allegedly were caught in the office trying to cast a Santeria curse on the city manager shortly before mass layoffs were planned. Veteran officer Elizabeth Torres and office manager Yvonne Rodriguez were canned last week over ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Eating Through Little Havana With Miami Culinary Tours
Laine DossMiami Culinary Tours guide Grace Della leads us through the food and lore of Little Havana.It's another scorcher of an afternoon in Miami. The sun beats down as I meet Grace Della and Mirka Harris from Miami Culinary Tours.I'll be taking their Saturday-afternoon tour of Little Havana, a ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Tarell McCraney's The Brothers Size grows at GableStage
Laine DossMiami Culinary Tours guide Grace Della leads us through the food and lore of Little Havana.It's another scorcher of an afternoon in Miami. The sun beats down as I meet Grace Della and Mirka Harris from Miami Culinary Tours.I'll be taking their Saturday-afternoon tour of Little Havana, a ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Santeria stalker
Laine DossMiami Culinary Tours guide Grace Della leads us through the food and lore of Little Havana.It's another scorcher of an afternoon in Miami. The sun beats down as I meet Grace Della and Mirka Harris from Miami Culinary Tours.I'll be taking their Saturday-afternoon tour of Little Havana, a ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Kellyd Rodriguez, Accused Santeria Stalker, Charged With Massive Loan Fraud
via Miami-Dade CorrectionsKellyd RodriguezThe orishas must be looking out for Carlos Valdes. We wrote this week about the local Santería priest's legal battle with Kellyd Rodriguez -- a man Valdes says has stalked his family for four years because he hates the Afro-Cuban religion.Yesterday Rodri ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Video: Miami Santero Carlos Valdes Performs An Ebbo Be Estera Ceremony
photo by C. StilesValdes performing a ceremony in his home.Should stalking a santero in his home be a hate crime? That's the thorny question at the center of this week's news story about local Santeria priest Carlos Valdes, who says his family has been terrorized for four years by a man who hates ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Santeria Will Get You Cash Money (Video)
photo by C. StilesValdes performing a ceremony in his home.Julio Cesar Garcia had a problem last week. He was sick of his job at Miami International Airport, and he was ready for a promotion. Sadly, his bosses weren't quite so interested in bumping him up the food chain.So Garcia did what any good S ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Jennifer Lopez's Supposed Career Secret: Santeria
Next time you come across a dead chicken who seems to have meet its ends in a Santeria ritual, please remember that chicken may have died for the sake of Jennifer Lopez's career.Yes, there's a crazy rumor being floated that Jennifer has a godmother in Miami who harnesses the dark power of San ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
The Santeria Priest vs. The Animal Rights Activist, Part 2
In February, after I posted photos that renegade animal rights activist Richard "Kudo" Couto claimed were evidence of brutal animal sacrifices, I was beckoned to the Hialeah office of Oba Ernesto Pichardo. The Santeria high priest took a 1993 case involving animal sacrifices all the way to th ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
At Belen Jesuit, "all white" takes on a different meaning
In February, after I posted photos that renegade animal rights activist Richard "Kudo" Couto claimed were evidence of brutal animal sacrifices, I was beckoned to the Hialeah office of Oba Ernesto Pichardo. The Santeria high priest took a 1993 case involving animal sacrifices all the way to th ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Belen's Men In White
At first glance, the name of a theme party causes New Times to do a double take.All White All Night, reads the flyer for a February 4 party held at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School's gym. Considering the Roman Catholic educational institution for boys caters to a predominantly fair-skinned Cuban-A ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Letters from the issue of February 10, 2011
At first glance, the name of a theme party causes New Times to do a double take.All White All Night, reads the flyer for a February 4 party held at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School's gym. Considering the Roman Catholic educational institution for boys caters to a predominantly fair-skinned Cuban-A ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Animal-rights commando goes after Santeria sacrifices
At first glance, the name of a theme party causes New Times to do a double take.All White All Night, reads the flyer for a February 4 party held at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School's gym. Considering the Roman Catholic educational institution for boys caters to a predominantly fair-skinned Cuban-A ... More >>
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February 2, 2011
Santeria Priest Calls Richard "Kudo" Couto's Animal Abuse Allegations "Hate Speech"
Ernest PichardoOba Ernesto Pichardo, the high priest and president of the Santeria church that won a landmark Supreme Court case, doesn't take kindly to a renegade animal-rights activist's claims that his faith practices "torture." In fact, he told Riptide yesterday afternoon, he wants to s ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Richard "Kudo" Couto, Guerrilla Animal Activist, Targets Brutal Santeria Sacrifices
Warning: The following page contains some graphic and disturbing images.Richard "Kudo" Couto is the renegade animal activist who virtually single-handedly forced the closure of an entire thriving district of unlicensed slaughterhouses, pissing off loads of live-off-the-land Cubans in the process. ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Got Your Goat
Warning: The following page contains some graphic and disturbing images.Richard "Kudo" Couto is the renegade animal activist who virtually single-handedly forced the closure of an entire thriving district of unlicensed slaughterhouses, pissing off loads of live-off-the-land Cubans in the process. ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Top Chef Season 7: Making Concessions, Episode 11
Photo by David Giesbrecht/BravoTiffany and Ed hit it out of the park this week.Last night on Top Chef, we were treated to an opening sequence of frontrunner Ed donning a hideous yellow housedress as the roommates laughed. Actually, Ed was wearing Tiffany's dress. Hmmm. How did that happen?In anot ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Letters from the issue of July 22, 2010
Photo by David Giesbrecht/BravoTiffany and Ed hit it out of the park this week.Last night on Top Chef, we were treated to an opening sequence of frontrunner Ed donning a hideous yellow housedress as the roommates laughed. Actually, Ed was wearing Tiffany's dress. Hmmm. How did that happen?In anot ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
No Embargo on Rhythm
Photo by David Giesbrecht/BravoTiffany and Ed hit it out of the park this week.Last night on Top Chef, we were treated to an opening sequence of frontrunner Ed donning a hideous yellow housedress as the roommates laughed. Actually, Ed was wearing Tiffany's dress. Hmmm. How did that happen?In anot ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Got Your Goat
Photo by David Giesbrecht/BravoTiffany and Ed hit it out of the park this week.Last night on Top Chef, we were treated to an opening sequence of frontrunner Ed donning a hideous yellow housedress as the roommates laughed. Actually, Ed was wearing Tiffany's dress. Hmmm. How did that happen?In anot ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
Boogaloo
Photo by David Giesbrecht/BravoTiffany and Ed hit it out of the park this week.Last night on Top Chef, we were treated to an opening sequence of frontrunner Ed donning a hideous yellow housedress as the roommates laughed. Actually, Ed was wearing Tiffany's dress. Hmmm. How did that happen?In anot ... More >>
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May 8, 2008
The Shooting of Estefano
One of Miami's best-known songwriters was nearly killed in a possible contract hit.
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July 12, 2007
Death in the City Beautiful
Neighbors are squawking about a Santería ritual. But the Supreme Court says it's okay
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March 1, 2007
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February 16, 2006
Water Sign
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January 22, 2004
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