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Javier Manjarres: This shark eats politicians

Brickell satellite firm Inmarsat accused of aiding Hamas

Israeli Woman Says Miami Satellite Company Is Helping Hamas Terrorists

photo by Omega933 via Wikimedia CommonsAn Israeli woman has sued a Miami company for helping flotillas like this break the Gaza blockade.​For years after she moved to Sderot, a dusty outpost near Israel's border with Gaza, life was quiet for Michelle Fendel. With her husband, Rabbi David Fendel, t ... More >>

Allen West, uncut

A candid conversation with South Florida's rising Tea Party star.

Brisco Gives the President Some Career Advice

Brisco says: "That rocked!"​"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream." -- Willy Wonka "You can say to this mountain, 'May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. You can pray f ... More >>

Miami-Dade police buy drones

Brisco says: "That rocked!"​"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream." -- Willy Wonka "You can say to this mountain, 'May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. You can pray f ... More >>

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 >>

Joe Sacco Tries To Solve a 54-Year Old Mystery In 'Footnotes In Gaza'

​Joe Sacco's latest project - the 418-page journalistic graphic novel "Footnotes in Gaza" - was borne of an editor's harsh cuts. Working on a project in Gaza for Harper's Magazine, Sacco was amazed to learn that virtually nada had been written about the worst Palestinian mass killing in the r ... More >>

A wild parking market is costing the City of Miami big bucks

​Joe Sacco's latest project - the 418-page journalistic graphic novel "Footnotes in Gaza" - was borne of an editor's harsh cuts. Working on a project in Gaza for Harper's Magazine, Sacco was amazed to learn that virtually nada had been written about the worst Palestinian mass killing in the r ... More >>

Theft at Grand Central as Miami Downtown Parking Lot Wars Hit a New Low

​Parking downtown has always been a Gaza-like free-for-all. With hobos charging to "watch" cars, and lots that gouge drivers depending on the Heat game, a night of debauchery and drinking can set you back twenty bucks before you've even set foot inside a bar. So when Brad Knoefler opened a new nig ... More >>

Belatedly, Fidel Castro Condemns Israel Flotilla Raid, Gaza Blockade

El Mas Supremo got out of his crypt Wednesday to give us his two cents on Israel's attack of an aid flotilla heading to Gaza.​Writing in his irregular column, Reflecciones, Fidel Castro called the sinking of the flotilla "a brutal attack" caused by a "fanatic," uncontrollable Israel.On Sunday, as ... More >>

Florida's Israeli Consul General Accuses Flotilla Activists of Plotting With Al-Qaeda

First it was Hamas. Now the Gaza-bound, blockade-defying flotilla was helping Al-Qaeda too. Ofer Bavly​So claims Israel's Consul General to Florida and Puerto Rico, Ofer Bavly. "The so-called peace activists on board the flotilla with ties to Al-Qaeda and other terror organizations were interested ... More >>

Barefoot Bodhisattva

First it was Hamas. Now the Gaza-bound, blockade-defying flotilla was helping Al-Qaeda too. Ofer Bavly​So claims Israel's Consul General to Florida and Puerto Rico, Ofer Bavly. "The so-called peace activists on board the flotilla with ties to Al-Qaeda and other terror organizations were interested ... More >>

City's Stray Chickens: Friend or Foe?

Until last October, the city used to pay a guy $14,000 a year to round up the thousands of stray chickens that roam our pockmarked streets. In a story in this week's New Times, Lesther Jorge, the last Chicken Buster, toured some old battle sites, like Overtown, the Gaza of stray fowl. ​He found t ... More >>

Gay Smackdown: South Beach Ain't What it Used to Be

​Lately, the South Beach strip looks more like an enormous Lil Wayne concert than the shimmering gay playground it once was. Warehouse-size clubs that brimmed with shirtless boys have closed and hip-hop venues sprouted in their place. What was once pastel and glitter is now chrome and ice.You can' ... More >>

The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man: Bad for the Jews

​Lately, the South Beach strip looks more like an enormous Lil Wayne concert than the shimmering gay playground it once was. Warehouse-size clubs that brimmed with shirtless boys have closed and hip-hop venues sprouted in their place. What was once pastel and glitter is now chrome and ice.You can' ... More >>

South America's Biggest Movie Star, Hugo Chávez, Accuses Israel of Genocide

​Oliver Stone predicts he'll have a hard time finding distribution for his latest documentary, South of the Border, a cinematic love letter to Venezuela's controversial president, Hugo Chávez.   "This is a bigger issue than Mr. Chávez and South America," Stone tells Reuters. "Not only ... More >>

Let My People Come...

To the Miami Jewish Film Festival

A People in Transition

The Miami Jewish Film Festival offers perspective on a changing culture.

Fighting The Man

Palestinian protester Riadh Atmani wants to clear his name.

Coalition Wants Miami Cops to Drop Protest Charges

As the world collectively crosses its fingers that a second cease fire talk will work in Gaza -- and raging South Florida protests fade into tepid peace rallies -- a temporary truce in the middle east doesn't seem so far away. But in Miami another battle is boiling. This past week, the Florida bran ... More >>

Kicking cars and punching cops: Highlights from Gaza Protest Arrests

An 18 year-old from Coral Springs was busted for wielding brass knuckles and a pocket knife, a petite middle-aged woman shouted "baby killers!," and a mob of protesters chucked rocks at a cop car. The Israeli-Palestinian protest Sunday on Biscayne Boulevard was a loud, colorful microcosm of hate - w ... More >>

Boobs, tunes, and soul food: Bubba Clinton's guide to Miami

Ah, the life of an ex-president. When the wife isn't unleashing you like an aging attack froodle on this or that Junior Senator in pursuit of her master plan, it's actually pretty serene. Flying to and fro in private jets; staying in the world's finest hotels in every locale; getting paid $100,000 t ... More >>

Over the Weekend - New Year's Eve and Billy Joel

We're only five days into the new year and things don't seem to be getting any better. The conflict in Gaza continues to escalate despite the pleas for a cease-fire, and the economic outlook isn't looking any better. And in the grossest display of humanity, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters ... More >>

Chromeo DJ Set

We're only five days into the new year and things don't seem to be getting any better. The conflict in Gaza continues to escalate despite the pleas for a cease-fire, and the economic outlook isn't looking any better. And in the grossest display of humanity, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters ... More >>

Finally Florida

A rogue state meets presidential candidates who pine for its fickle heart.

What Would a Jew Do?

The Miami Jewish Film Festival grapples with eternal questions.

Garden of the Poets

An Israeli radio station beamed to you from inner-city Miami

Melt

An Israeli radio station beamed to you from inner-city Miami

By Any Other Name ... Romeo & Juliet

An Israeli radio station beamed to you from inner-city Miami

They Call It Grand For a Reason

Samson et Dalila soars at the Carnival Center

Iraq's Cinema of Longing

A conversation with director James Longley

Dirty Purdy

There’s a passel of crazy peeps at the Purdy Lounge

The Gaza Dialogues

With more than 100,000 Jews in Miami, it's no wonder the debate here is hot

Fables of the Reconstruction

Residents of the black Grove are being displaced by the value of the land they've lived on for a century

Ketchup Revolution

Exhibit spotlights bizarre images

Letters from the Issue of December 26, 2002

The antiwar battle continues

A Tale of Two Mosques

Both are in South Florida and both attracted terrorists, but they could not be more different

Bang to the Hype

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

Holy Moly

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

Show of Force

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

Swelter 17

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

Back from Baghdad

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band