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Defining Moments

You've heard about all this hot alternative music. Alternative to what?

John Detrick, 1951-1993

John Detrick will not be missed.

Mustang Sally

How to turn your trivia knowledge into fabulous prizes

Miami: Blink and You'll Miss It

That's how quickly things change here, which can be invigorating for cities as well as editors

This Week's Day by Day Picks

That's how quickly things change here, which can be invigorating for cities as well as editors

BEST LOCAL BOY MADE GOOD

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Book Review: Please Step Back by Ben Greenman

Melville House BooksI used to spend a lot of time and money purchasing slick vinyl re-issues of "forgotten" or "lost" eras in American music: albums with titles like New Orleans Funk, Vol. 1: The Original Sound of Funk, 1960-1975 and Miami Sound: Rare Funk and Soul from Miami, Florida 1967-1974 ... More >>

You Call Yourself a Miami-Bred Writer? See Ben Greenman

Wikicommons​Former Miami New Times staffer, Palmetto High grad, and current New Yorker editor Ben Greenman will read from his new book, Please Step Back, this Saturday at 5 p.m at Books & Books Coral Gables (265 Aragon Ave.).If you missed our review of the book -- a retros ... More >>

Alan Ogg Dead: His Gumby-esque Physique Ruled the Miami Arena

​Before Dwyane Wade, the O'Neal twins, Mario Chalmers, and Eric Spoiled Boy, a seven-foot two-inch giant ruled the Miami Arena. Alan Ogg drew calls of "Ogggggggggggg," and the fans loved him. Now he's dead at age 42. An infection somehow reached his enlarged heart. In 1991, then staff writer and n ... More >>

Van Peebles, Borowitz, S.L. Price at the Book Fair

​Before Dwyane Wade, the O'Neal twins, Mario Chalmers, and Eric Spoiled Boy, a seven-foot two-inch giant ruled the Miami Arena. Alan Ogg drew calls of "Ogggggggggggg," and the fans loved him. Now he's dead at age 42. An infection somehow reached his enlarged heart. In 1991, then staff writer and n ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Jonathan Lethem

Don't let the glasses fool you; he's a literary super hero​For fellow writers, Jonathan Lethem needs no introduction. 1999's Motherless Brooklyn, the story of a detective with Tourette's syndrome, put Lethem on the map, but by that point, he'd already written four novels that breached the genre li ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Novelist Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman​ Ben Greenman was a 20-year-old rookie scribe fresh out of Yale when he was hired to write for the Miami New Times in 1990. The Palmettto Senior High alum joined a rabble rousing crew of writers who included Greg Baker, Jim Defede, Sean Rowe and Steve Almond. They were the ones who ... More >>

New Yorker Editor Ben Greenman Talks His New Book, What He's Poised to Do

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>

McSweeney Man

Miami native Ben Greenman has never been shy about toying with convention. via Ben Greenman​The New Yorker editor and novelist -- and let's not forget, Miami New Times alum -- has won acclaim for his McSweeney's-approved approach to writing, as in his last novel, 2009's ... More >>