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Working at Miami restaurants and food trucks: The inside scoop

Tweeting Toasters? The Next Step In Kitchen Tech for 2012

​There's no question that if left unattended, our kitchen appliances can develop minds of their own, but tweeting toasters? What the hell? This is a prediction from a report released last month by Massachusetts-based marketing research firm International Data Corporation. IDC predicts that 2012 wi ... 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 >>

Five SoFla projects that have snorted our taxes

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 >>

From 'Cat Killer' Probe to New Marlins Stadium: 5 Biggest Wastes of Taxpayer Money in 2010

We all love baseball, but did we all really have to pay for a new stadium when Marlins owners had plenty of cash on hand?​Anger over public spending is all the rage these days. Unemployment checks? Undeserved. The Obama stimulus plan? An abomination. Now Carlos Alvarez is facing a fierce recall c ... More >>

Aerosol Dreams

We all love baseball, but did we all really have to pay for a new stadium when Marlins owners had plenty of cash on hand?​Anger over public spending is all the rage these days. Unemployment checks? Undeserved. The Obama stimulus plan? An abomination. Now Carlos Alvarez is facing a fierce recall c ... More >>

Castro Death Meter: Panic! Dismay! Fidel Only 38 Percent Dead!

Fidel was not that dead during his interview on Cuban TV, analysts fear.This week, a nation was compelled to watch as a bearded egomaniac from an impoverished region took to live TV for an overblown announcement. LeBron schmebron. On Monday, the original self-proclaimed king with a six-foot-eight ... More >>

Letters from the issue of January 28, 2010

Fidel was not that dead during his interview on Cuban TV, analysts fear.This week, a nation was compelled to watch as a bearded egomaniac from an impoverished region took to live TV for an overblown announcement. LeBron schmebron. On Monday, the original self-proclaimed king with a six-foot-eight ... More >>

Miami Beach spending $5 million for spotty Wi-Fi

Fidel was not that dead during his interview on Cuban TV, analysts fear.This week, a nation was compelled to watch as a bearded egomaniac from an impoverished region took to live TV for an overblown announcement. LeBron schmebron. On Monday, the original self-proclaimed king with a six-foot-eight ... More >>

Why Are Miami Beach Taxpayers Spending $5 Million on Wi-Fi that Doesn't Work?

The announcement came in October with much ado and a "wire cutting" outside Miami Beach City Hall.Image via Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The free wi-fi works great here on Lincoln Road, but good luck logging in at your condo.​"We are the first in the country to have a free citywide hotspot," City Manag ... More >>

Miami-based Psystar takes on Apple

The announcement came in October with much ado and a "wire cutting" outside Miami Beach City Hall.Image via Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The free wi-fi works great here on Lincoln Road, but good luck logging in at your condo.​"We are the first in the country to have a free citywide hotspot," City Manag ... More >>

The Missionary

Shawn Beightol's education crusade is seeking believers

Whole World in His Hands

Emilio Estevez blames the ills of the world on RFK's murder, but what about the man?

An Uncertain Overture

Xavier Spencer is one of Miami’s best young musicians, but you might never hear him play

Is Pink the New Black?

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

Yours for the Hacking

The county’s court system has spent $36 million on a revolutionary new database, but when programmers warned it was vulnerable, they’re the ones who got deleted

Deeply Digitally Divided

A popular computer clubhouse for Miami's poor is abruptly unplugged

Before the Bulldozer Bites

Developers circle a swath of land in Homestead as a familiar face reappears in the guise of a real estate lobbyist

Heavy Traffic

Miami attorney Joaquin Perez helps drug kingpins get minimum jail time, maximum profits, by cooperating with the feds

Lost in the Amazon.com

A thoroughly unscientific look at what your friends and neighbors read, watch, and hear -- or not

Best Pawnshop

The Loan-ly Pawn

Nippon All Around

Japan Week 2000

Schmooze It or Lose It

The tech boom has South Florida's Internet pioneers and newcomers in a state of rabid networking

Our Hero the Drug Dealer

The feds call Rickey Brownlee one of South Florida's biggest narco-traffickers. His friends and neighbors in Opa-locka call him a valiant victim.

Over the Edge and Under Investigation

The feds call Rickey Brownlee one of South Florida's biggest narco-traffickers. His friends and neighbors in Opa-locka call him a valiant victim.

It's Authentic When Linda Hart Says It's Authentic

And when it's not, even acclaimed investigative reporters eat crow

The More You Pander, the Blander

And when it's not, even acclaimed investigative reporters eat crow

Uncommon Law

Sam Thompson, hard-charging dean of the University of Miami's law school, has high hopes, strong opinions, and a tendency to attract trouble

King Crab

Maverick editor-publisher Jack King delights in goring the Grove's sacred cows

Breach of Faith

Radio journalist Emilio Milian's persistent denunciations of Miami's exile terrorists almost cost him his life in 1976. Now he's fighting for his career.

Rick Sanchez's Number One Fan

Judge Lance Ito mugs for Channel 7

Art, the Masses, and How to Swing It

Conni Gordon would like to teach the world to paint in perfect harmony

Big Mac Attack

Hollywood meets Silicon Valley in the music industry's new modem operandi

Everything Must Go!

Videotapes! Drill presses! Toasters! Sphygmomanometers! If the Dade County Store's prices were any lower, they'd be insane!

Bent Out of Shape

The Space Shuttle Is Still a Death Machine, Warns Engineer Ali AbuTaha

Nothing Personal

Dade County peddles public records - including yours - for a profit