Herb Sosa

Miami Beach Memorial Day Weekend 2013: Prepare For More Traffic Loops, DUI Stops, and License Plate Scans

Memorial Day is here again, Miami, leaving beach residents and visitors alike wondering what the city has planned. According to Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez, the holiday weekend will look a lot like it did last year: traffic loops, cops scanning license plates along the bridges, and regula ... More >>

South Beach Plans for Memorial Day Weekend: Traffic Loops and DUI Checks

South Beach Prepares For Memorial Day Weekend: Traffic Loops and DUI Checks on Tap

​Congrats, South Beach residents! You've survived the beer-bonging, glowstick-waving trafficpocalypse of spring break and Miami Music Week. Now enjoy the fresh air and (semi)abundant parking while it lasts, because you're only a few weeks away from the massive crowds of Memorial Day weekend.Even w ... More >>

Havana Hosts Its First Independent Gay Pride Parade, Sort Of

A flyer for the event featured Prado Avenue's lion sculptures dressed in drag.​It's quite a human rights paradox. Next month, the Cuban parliament will discuss a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage on the Communist isle, yet GLBT citizens are, like all Cubans, discouraged from gathering and ... More >>

Urban Beach Weekend, Facebook, and the Age of the Ignorati

The Committee to End Urban Beach Weekend on Miami Beach.​Almost a month after the ignominious conclusion of Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach, ignorance is still flowing strong on a Facebook group page calling for an end to the controversial week-long unofficial party.No matter how many tim ... More >>

Memorial Day Weekend Fiasco Could Have Been Avoided Long Ago

Alex Izaguirre​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 explains how his efforts to organize Memorial Day Weekend festivities in Miami Beach were thwarted by cit ... More >>

Red State Activists Call For End to the Entire City of Miami Beach

​In reaction to the last 30 years of crime, drug trafficking and sexual provocativeness within the City of Miami Beach, a coalition of good, white Christian activists from a collection of Red States plan to send a letter today to local, state and federal leaders demanding that the entire city be b ... More >>

Miami Beach's Jerry Libbin Wants An Urban Beach Weekend Curfew

​Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin says a curfew imposed for next year's South Beach Memorial Day festivities may be in order.Libbin, in response to two police shootings that left seven injured and one dead early Monday, wrote on his Facebook page that the "mayhem on the streets of Miami Beach ... More >>

Matt Drudge Using Urban Beach Weekend to Stoke Racial Flames

​The Drudge Report still reigns supreme as an influential aggregator of right wing-leaning news and is run by the increasingly reclusive Matt Drudge out of his home that, as of last report, is somewhere in an undisclosed portion of Miami. Unsurprisingly, he's decided to blow up the incidents on Mi ... More >>

Gunfire, Death and Crime Spur Calls For End to Miami Beach's Urban Beach Weekend

Rich AbdillThe exterior of a Collins-Street Subway Restaurant was strewn with trash and liquor bottles Sunday night.​Before at least seven people were injured or killed in multiple early-morning shootouts Monday, many were saying Sunday night that the scene at South Beach's Urban Beach Weekend did ... More >>

Gays leave unfriendly South Beach for Fort Lauderdale

Last Night: In Miami Beach, World AIDS Day Prompts Hate Crime Discussion

"I refuse to let HIV erase my generation," Herb Sosa said last night, and then shook his head. "This is not our story." The president of Unity Coalition, a gay Latino civil rights initiative, spoke yesterday in honor of World AIDS Day. And if you were on Lincoln Road around 6 p.m., you might hav ... More >>

Is Pink the New Black?

Debate over the rights of gays to marry resonates with the rhetoric of the civil rights movement

From Cuba with Questions

Love cigars or detest them, when a box of Cohibas lands in your lap, you don't say no

Forgetting Freedom

A rich and powerful family is allowing one of the nation's most precious properties to rot