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Reader Mail: Medicare Fraud Will Become America's Biggest Scam

Study: Miamians Slightly Less Miserable Than in 2011

Congratulations, we're 119th!Gallup has once again released its annual Well-Being Index, and of the country's 189 metropolitan statistical areas, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano area came in 119th. Which still isn't that great, but it's a stark improvement from our 146th ranking in 2011.

Don't Trust the $1.2 Billion School Bond

Black Miamians Don't Trust That a $1.2 Billion Bond Will Benefit Schools

Uncle Luke, the man who 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 retraces the history of broken promises made to Miami's African American community.On November 6, we'll vote on a $1.2 billion bond issue to fix up 280 s ... More >>

Argentinean Government, Siemens Hired Goons To Rough Up Whistle-Blower, Miami Lawsuit Claims

Millions of dollars in bribes, hired goons, torture, and secret pacts made in Miami: it sounds like the hacky elements of an spy paperback sold in airports. But according to a whistle-blower, it was all part of a very real plot involving Siemens AG and the Argentinean government. In a lawsuit filed ... More >>

Benihana To Be Sold for $296 Million to Private Investors

Less than two years after Burger King was sold to private investors, another Miami-Dade-based national restaurant chain is going private. It was announced today that Angelo, Gordon & Co.'s Private Equity Group will pay $296 million for Benihana, Inc. and take the chain private.

Eduardo Saverin, Miami-Raised Facebook Founder, Said He Cared Nothing For U.S. "Beyond the Mere Use of Its Resources"

For the first time, Facebook will put its stock up for public sale today. The company will instantly land at least $16 billion, pushing its value to well over $100 billion. Wunderkind CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be the obvious winner, but hundreds of other investors are also in line for a windfall.One ... More >>

Get Off My Lawn

Jeff Rubin, troubled advisor to Terrell Owens, faces drug charges and lawsuits

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 >>

In the fantasy I Don't Know How She Does It, working moms can have it all

Ke$ha, LMFAO, and Spank Rock at Klipsch Amphitheater at Bayfront Park August 7

Blank City: A self-defeating user-friendly primer on the "no wave" science

Jake Bernstein, Former New Times Staffer, Wins Pulitzer

​We're chugging Mad Dog at the New Times offices this afternoon in honor of an alum. Jake Bernstein, a former New Times staff writer whose work appeared in our pages from 1997 through 2002, has won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Now writing for non-profit investigative news agency ProP ... More >>

Money Matters

Meet the man behind poorly spelled lawsuit against WikiLeaks

The Financial Power of Hip-Hop Emerges

​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 educates readers on hip-hoponomics.This month, Oprah Winfrey launched her own network -- OWN -- and she's pushing boundar ... More >>

Moroccan Chicken with Olives and Preserved Lemons Recipe

Not your typical French fare, huh?​In yesterday's interview with Joan Nathan, the author mentioned that she collected the recipes for her book Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking from French folks. Here's a tasty one from Celine Bénitah, a woman who hails from the Algerian ... More >>

Heat vs. Iron Curtain

Pocky, Nori, Walky Walky

Magic City Casino gets a big tax cut

Teen Driver Was High on Laughing Gas When She Killed Fire Fighter

​Sherry Marks, the 19-year-old driver whose Ford Mustang struck and killed Miami firefighter Leslie Luma two weeks ago, admitted she had taken drugs at the time of the crash. Marks admitted to taking Xanax and Lexapro, which she may have been prescribed, but she was also high on nitrous oxide, als ... More >>

South by South Florida: Surfer Blood Head to SXSW Next Week, Cover Guided by Voices

Surfer Blood, seen above covering Guided by Voices' "Game of Pricks," has quickly become huge. Not Kings of Leon huge, not headlining a North American arena tour huge, or the biggest thing to hit Europe since, well, the euro huge. At least not yet. Stick with huge for a band from West Palm Beach tha ... More >>

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A Little Bellyaching

As Unemployment Rises, Economists Say We May Be In A Recession

A Corruption Tip Sheet

When bad pols get busted, we give you the inside dope

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Vote for Culture

What exactly does that mean? Today we know it means that two museums will receive hundreds of millions of dollars to build hulking structures in a waterfront park. But on November 2, most people had no clue

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