Law

Strip Club Company Sues North Bay Village Over Their First Amendment Right to Naked Dancing

Isle of Dreams, a company that hopes to put a strip club in North Bay Village, just wants to pay some girls to shake their tatas, but the city keeps cock-blocking them at every turn. So now the company has filed a lawsuit against North Bay Village, and claims the city is infringing on their First Am ... More >>

Miami Police: Jury Finds a "Policy" of Abuse

Isle of Dreams, a company that hopes to put a strip club in North Bay Village, just wants to pay some girls to shake their tatas, but the city keeps cock-blocking them at every turn. So now the company has filed a lawsuit against North Bay Village, and claims the city is infringing on their First Am ... More >>

Marco Rubio Hates Disco Music, Says Civil Rights Movement Was Part of "A Scary Time"

Marco Rubio has some interesting taste in music. He loves Nicki Minaj, but apparently hates disco. He attacked the dance genre at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Pinellas, Florida, over the weekend and hurled an insult to the Bee Gees in a bizarre, fear-mongering speech filled with spooky stories, bad jokes ... More >>

Federal Trayvon Martin probe is just a coverup

Marco Rubio has some interesting taste in music. He loves Nicki Minaj, but apparently hates disco. He attacked the dance genre at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Pinellas, Florida, over the weekend and hurled an insult to the Bee Gees in a bizarre, fear-mongering speech filled with spooky stories, bad jokes ... More >>

Faith Ringgold's 1960s paintings at Miami Art Museum through January 1

Marco Rubio has some interesting taste in music. He loves Nicki Minaj, but apparently hates disco. He attacked the dance genre at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Pinellas, Florida, over the weekend and hurled an insult to the Bee Gees in a bizarre, fear-mongering speech filled with spooky stories, bad jokes ... More >>

53 Percent of Floridians Still Think Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

In its seemingly random sports poll released today, Public Policy Polling did sneak in a few poll questions about actual public policy. Though a majority of Americans now support gay marriage, Floridians aren't quite ready for it. Though, they do, by a large majority, support civil unions for s ... More >>

Kids claim abuse and violence at juvenile lockup Thompson Academy

In its seemingly random sports poll released today, Public Policy Polling did sneak in a few poll questions about actual public policy. Though a majority of Americans now support gay marriage, Floridians aren't quite ready for it. Though, they do, by a large majority, support civil unions for s ... More >>

Rick Scott's racist clemency rules

In its seemingly random sports poll released today, Public Policy Polling did sneak in a few poll questions about actual public policy. Though a majority of Americans now support gay marriage, Floridians aren't quite ready for it. Though, they do, by a large majority, support civil unions for s ... More >>

No Clemency For Felons Means Southern Racism Is Back

​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 why Rick Scott is helping the criminal justice system keep African-Americans down. Last week, Florida Gov. ... More >>

ACLU Chief Howard Simon Recalls MLK and Bloody Sunday

Photo by Jacob KatelHoward Simon​American Civil Liberties executive director Howard Simon took part in the last century's most significant freedom march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then he was part of lawsuits that indicated our own government might have played a role in one of the civil rights m ... More >>

Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants

Photo by Jacob KatelHoward Simon​American Civil Liberties executive director Howard Simon took part in the last century's most significant freedom march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then he was part of lawsuits that indicated our own government might have played a role in one of the civil rights m ... More >>

Crash Course: 411-PAIN network will line their pockets with your insurance money

Photo by Jacob KatelHoward Simon​American Civil Liberties executive director Howard Simon took part in the last century's most significant freedom march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then he was part of lawsuits that indicated our own government might have played a role in one of the civil rights m ... More >>

Jim Morrison Pardon Coming This Morning, But Local Rockers Ask Crist Not To Stop There (Update: It's Official)

No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

Operation Streamline treats migrants like cattle

No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

Florida Voters Favor Civil Unions, But Want to Ban Them Anyway

No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

God Complex

The M Ensemble aims at a moving bio and misses the mark.

Remember Old Jim Crow

The M Ensemble aims at a moving bio and misses the mark.

Tax Troubles

The M Ensemble aims at a moving bio and misses the mark.

Still Dreaming

Celebrate MLK Day by candlelight

Devil or Angel

True or False:

David Collins is Miami's leading bail bondsman.

David Collins has lots of friends in law enforcement.

David Collins says he's put his criminal past behind him.

Run-On Sentence

Critics say draconian drug laws held over from the Eighties pack prisons, force plea deals, and hit one errant lawyer harder than the dealers he defended

BEST OUTDOOR ART

Greenpeace Human Art Protest

Letters from the Issue of December 11, 2003

Greenpeace Human Art Protest

On Edge

A local documentary film festival takes on topics not for the timid

Barred for Life

The process for restoring the civil rights of felons in Florida works perfectly -- if not restoring their rights is the goal

Pro-Gay Pressure?

Divisions from within: Allies skirmish over free speech

Letters from the Issue of August 29, 2002

One cop would rather resign than compromise his integrity

Shake

If it ain't your party, you better fight for your rights

Best Cheap Eats

TROY Community Academy’s Teen Cuisine program

Fair Weather Freedom Fighters

The Latin Grammys got the headlines, but brave and bruised theater director Alberto Sarraín got the honors

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of April 6, 2000

Courting Disaster

Judge Cindy Lederman, champion of justice and advocate extraordinaire, bends the rules on the bench

The Perfect Scam

For the workers life is no carnival, believe it or not

Speak Your Mind, Lose Your Job

For the workers life is no carnival, believe it or not

Daddy Dearest

Can the courts order a wronged father to keep quiet? David Ziskind doesn't think so.

Saviors of Virginia Key

Can the courts order a wronged father to keep quiet? David Ziskind doesn't think so.

Shoot Out the Lights

Gwendolyn Ramsey's run-in with police culminated in an emergency lobotomy. So where is she now? Behind bars.

Free to Speak Her Mind

Gwendolyn Ramsey's run-in with police culminated in an emergency lobotomy. So where is she now? Behind bars.

This Is Not the USA

He thought he was just doing his job and playing by the rules. Then he learned that the rules are very different in the sovereign nation of the Miccosukee.

Making the Streets Safe Again -- Quickly

He thought he was just doing his job and playing by the rules. Then he learned that the rules are very different in the sovereign nation of the Miccosukee.

Flunk Music

The state's new certification test for law-enforcement personnel has just about everyone singing the blues

One Angry Man

When Judge Tom Petersen, the very vocal conscience of Dade's juvenile court, gets a transfer, does he have any comment about it? Stupid question.

Junkies

It alters perceptions and skews the ability to tell right from wrong. Ultimately, it results in a dysfunctional society. But it's not a drug. It's the War on Drugs.

The Hits Just Keep on Coming

Another stroll on the beach. Another arrest. Another accusation of police brutality. The same two Miami Beach cops.

Jails R Us

Is Janet Reno's proposal for a new Youthful Offender Court a long-needed innovation or a chance to place a statute of limitations on childhood?

Triggerlock

Is Janet Reno's proposal for a new Youthful Offender Court a long-needed innovation or a chance to place a statute of limitations on childhood?

The Little Thief

Is Janet Reno's proposal for a new Youthful Offender Court a long-needed innovation or a chance to place a statute of limitations on childhood?

Boing! Boing! Boing!

Cutbacks in the state attorney's Worthless Check Division may have given carte blanche to aspiring check bouncers

The Case From Hell, Part II

Cutbacks in the state attorney's Worthless Check Division may have given carte blanche to aspiring check bouncers

Letters

Cutbacks in the state attorney's Worthless Check Division may have given carte blanche to aspiring check bouncers