Hialeah Gardens

Homebrew Day in Miami: AHA Big Brew Toast Tomorrow

Local homebrew club Miami Area Society of Homebrewers and will participate in a local gathering of the 16th Annual American Homebrewers Association Big Brew on Saturday, May 4, at Miami Beer and Wine Makers Warehouse in HIaleah to celebrate National Homebrew Day. Big Brew will be held from 10 a.m. ... More >>

Uncle Luke: Latin Builders Association's New School Has No Diversity

Latin Builders Association Academy Lacks Diversity

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 probes a new charter school started by a special interest group.The Latin Builders Association is one of the most powerful lobbyi ... More >>

DJ Laz Does Peachfuzz! Da Pimp Wit Da Limp's Top Five Latin Booty Bass Bangers

It doesn't matter who you are today so long as you never forget who you were back in the day. And in Crossfade's case, that was a horny 14-year-old chamaco trying to dry-hump a fine Cubanita at Hot Wheels to the sounds of DJ Laz-produced Miami bass while her abuelita waited for us outside of the ... More >>

Hialeah Gardens Cop Lawrence Perez Gets 12 Years For Stealing Marijuana

Read "Hialeah Gardens Cop Lawrence Perez Shows How Drugs Can Corrupt Police."A Hialeah Gardens Police detective who was helping his pals rip off marijuana dealers got 151 months in federal prison yesterday. Miami New Times profiled Lawrence Perez in June after a jury found him guilty of two felony c ... More >>

Feds Accuse Miami Police Sergeant Raul Iglesias Of Planting and Stealing Drugs In Allapattah

Read Miami New Times' story on ex-Hialeah Gardens police detective Lawrence Perez who helped his drug dealer friends steal pounds of marijuana.Raul Iglesias, a sergeant with an undercover Miami Police Department narcotics unit, is joining ignominious company. He is now the fifth local cop to be crim ... More >>

Obama Says Hugo Chavez Doesn't Present Serious National Security Concern; Rubio and Republicans Jump to Attack

América TeVe, the little Spanish-language, Hialeah Gardens-based scored a big interview with President Barack Obama, and it's causing a major controversy.Obama told reporter Oscar Haza that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has not posed a "serious national security impact" to America in the past fe ... More >>

Fourth of July Declared DJ Laz Day by Hialeah Gardens

See also "DJ Laz Returns to Miami Radio" and "DJ Laz Talks Returning to Miami Radio: 'I'm Still Split 50/50, But My Girl Miami's Gettin' a Little Extra at Bedtime.'" Despite the fact that every Fourth of July since 1776 has been set aside for the celebration of America's independence from those col ... More >>

Hialeah Gardens Cop Lawrence Perez Shows How Drugs Can Corrupt Police

South Floridians Charged With Selling F-16 Parts To The Venezuelan Air Force

According to recent reports, Venezuela has been supplying Iran with F-16s in an ominous arms trade that should make the rest of the world very queasy. And a federal indictment filed yesterday makes us wonder if any of those F-16 parts came from our back yard.

Albert Almora, Mater Academy Star, Taken Sixth By Cubs In MLB Draft

Hialeah Gardens' Mater Academy senior Albert Almora has one hell of a choice on his hands this morning -- whether to become a star playing college baseball for his hometown Canes, or whether to take an estimated $3.25 million bonus to join the Chicago Cubs system.Almora tells the Miami Herald this m ... More >>

Cuban Baseball Agents: Risks and Lies

Human Skull and Bones Discovered at Apparent Sacrifice Site in Hialeah Gardens (PHOTOS)

Richard "Kudo" Couto, the animal activist who has targeted illegal slaughterhouses in Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens, was prowling that area recently when he stumbled upon a scene worthy of Law & Order. He found what looked to be leftovers from an epic sacrifice. A container was filled with the r ... More >>

Sweetwater Police Department, Among Others, Is Magnet For Trouble Officers

​The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is going to give us cold sweats the next time we're driving through one of Miami-Dade County's small towns. The daily paper-- which on Sunday reported that Florida's statistically dirtiest cop is an Opa-Locka officer-- continued its "Unfit for Duty" series today ... More >>

FBI Arrests Hialeah Gardens Cop Jorge Romero for Being Part of Thief Gang

​For 13 years, Hialeah Gardens Police Officer Jorge Romero has been charged with patrolling his city for crime. This morning he found himself charged with an actual crime. FBI agents arrested him for alleged participation in a gang of thieves that terrorized cargo trucks and made off with valuable ... More >>

Local Valentine's Day Edible Gift Ideas For a Sweetheart With a Sweet Tooth

Heart-shaped sandwich cookies from Cookie Couture​Don't be that guy (or girl) who settles for any of these unforgivable last-minute Walgreens candies (or, worse, a teddy bear holding a heart.) If you're reading this blog, chances are you have particular culinary taste -- and probably so does your ... More >>

2 Girls and a Cupcake Host a Pop-Up Retail Event Tonight to Celebrate Cupcake Wars Episode

The famous Free Weezy cupcakes​Last week, we re-introduced you to Hialeah's only bespoke, hip-hop-loving cupcake company, 2 Girls and a Cupcake. The two namesake girls, 27-year-old Evelyn Dieppa and 26-year-old Lorena Castro, appear tonight on the Food Network's Cupcake Wars.To celebrate, they're ... More >>

Today In Cocaine: Ten Busted in Juarez-to-Miami Ring, Colombian Coke Lord Due In Federal Court

​It's already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami -- or at least for the feds' perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then came word that a muc ... More >>

La Crema de las Empanadas: Real Latin cooking

La Crema de las Empanadas' Outstanding Patacones

Most foodies usually turn their noses up and their fancy palates away from dining inside shopping centers. But every once in a while, when something is really worth it, they'll suck up their gourmet pride and dine within reach of Subways and dollar stores. La Crema de las Empanadas is a place worth ... More >>

Tales From The Drive Thru: Hand Jobs, Weed, and Spit Shakes

Everybody's doing it.​Sometimes, everything you've ever feared about the drive- thru is true. Careful what you say into that fast food speaker. Short Order recently met Trew Money, his rap name, in a local bar and grill kitchen where he was working as a dishwasher. We asked if he had any funny sto ... More >>

Cop Land Revisited

A tiny town in North Dade has some kinda police force.

Pork Pirates

They'll slaughter your dinner as you watch — but don't tell the cops.

On the Hunt for Illegal Slaughter in Northwest Dade

Take a drive through West Miami-Dade -- anywhere from as far south as Kendall to beyond the northern borders of the county -- and you'll see the signs everywhere. Se Venden Puercos. Venden Animales. Animals for Sale. Guess what? The farmers inside ain't selling their pigs alive. But they certainly d ... More >>

Comcast Service Down in Some Areas, Insanity Ensues

Martinez Blasts NRCC for Attacking His Children

I Survived Racy, Spanish-Language TV

Spanish-Language TV: Perverse and Profound

Late at night, the dwarves and strippers come out to play.

Miami’s Merman Is One of the Fastest Swimmers in the World

Clocking in at three meters a second, this Cuban rafter aims to be world champ

Death Do Us Part

A murder-suicide left Hialeah Gardens in shock. There were warning signs.

Glass Shield

Hialeah Gardens Police officer claims she was harassed and tormented

No News Is Bad News

You knew local TV newscasts were lame, you just didn't know how lame

The Bitch

Winter White

Gang Related

Mass transit trouble and coked-up greyhounds

Heavy in Hialeah

The president of Universal Music Latino reveals his hip-hop strategy for getting Latin kids to buy Latin music

Saint Pizzi

Rundle, Milian, or Pizzi as state attorney in '04?

Letters from the Issue of September 26, 2002

Filmmaking in Miami: There is a time to just say no

Letters from the Issue of August 1, 2002

Just because you can shake it doesn't mean you're a dancer.

The Hialeah Gardens "Darkie" Problem

Official city policy: Black people not welcome here

Ahí Todavía

The timba boom of the Nineties may have subsided, but salsa's smoothest voice is still here

Riptide über alles

How Manny Diaz got to be Mayor of Miami

Tales of Terror

In the chaotic days following the attacks, a reporter came to expect the unexpected

Best Local Girl Gone Bad

Gilda Oliveros

If the Suits Fit

The mayor of Hialeah Gardens has a taste for vulgarity, revenge -- and for costing the city big bucks in legal fees

A Little Slice of Cuba

Welcome to Rancho Don Goyo, where the pork is fresh, the beer is cold, and the music is pure, rural Cuban

Reverb

Fume It May Concern

Hialeah Gardens buys its gasoline from pumps owned by a city councilman. A Hialeah Gardens city councilman.

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It Ain't Knot's Landing, It's Hialeah

Morales is a pervert! Caldwell is a slut! Penelas is a pansy! Welcome to politics in the City of Progress!

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