Marlins Park

Marlins Park Could Host College Bowl Game

Marlins Park is already home to one troubled sports organization, so why not another? The American Athletic Association, more popular known as the sad, tattered remains of the football schools in the former Big East, is considering putting together its own college bowl game and is eyeing Marlins P ... More >>

Miami Marlins Are Selling So Few Tickets They're Closing the Upper Deck

Remember when the Marlins used to cover the whole upper deck at Sun Life Stadium with a big blue tarp so the game looked a little more full even though only a few thousand people showed up? That was one of the main reasons the team pushed for a much smaller, taxpayer-funded ballpark in Little Havana ... More >>

Marlins Firesale Scared Away Businesses From Setting Up at the Ballpark

Marlins Park was at the very least supposed to be something of an economic engine for the surrounding Little Havana neighborhood, but like so many other things promised about the deal, that turned out to be a lie, too. The Miami Herald reports this morning that three tenants who were interested in ... More >>

Piazza, New York Catcher

Another Day, Another Record-Low Crowd at Marlins Park, Another Fish Shutout

Get used to that headline up there, Miami. If Riptide were a lazier sort of operation, we'd copy it onto our desktop and recycle it over and over during homestands. One day after setting a new low attendance mark at Marlins Park, the Fish shattered that record last night by drawing just 13,810. How ... More >>

No One Went To the Marlins Second Game of the Season

At the Marlins' home opener on Monday, commentators threw around words like "respectable" and "surprising" to describe the announced crowd of 34,439 (minus a few troublemaking protestors, of course.) By the season's second game last night, though, the more appropriate adjectives were "embarrassing" ... More >>

NFL Would Contribute $150 Million to Sun Life Stadium Face-Lift

As the county commission meets today to consider a proposed deal to renovate Sun Life Stadium, news comes that the NFL has decided to chip in $150 million of the estimated $480 million it would cost to Flip This House, leaving the county and the Dolphins with $350 million to cover. The deal als ... More >>

Norman Braman Calls Sun Life Plan "Worse Than Marlins" Deal, Pledges To Fight Proposal

Norman Braman told Miami politicians once they were making a mistake giving public money to a wealthy team owner, and now he's speaking up again. Unlike his ultimately losing fight against the new Marlins Park, this time he's pledging to kill any deal to renovate the Dolphins stadium with tax dollar ... More >>

Marlins' Terrible Home-Run Sculpture Cost More Than Most of Their Roster

Hope you're psyched for Opening Day, Miami! Your hometown Marlins are off to a roaring start. If by "roaring," you mean they're tied for the worst record in baseball, have scored just 14 runs in six games, and are so desperate for a first-baseman they held open auditions yesterday, that is.Just in c ... More >>

Take Me Out

Miami Marlins Refuse Venezuelan Team a Moment of Silence for Hugo Chavez

You could trace the Miami Marlins' tailspin to last April, when new manager Ozzie Guillen pissed off the most important exiles in town by praising Fidel Castro. Surely the team had that fiasco in mind when news of the death of Miami's second-most-hated strongman, Hugo Chávez, was announced shortly ... More >>

SoBeWFF 2013: The Good, the Bad, and the Crowded

Each year, more than 50,000 people attend the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's various seminars, dinners, and parties. Most events sell out far in advance despite the usual complaints of high ticket prices, next-to-impossible parking, and long lines to get a bite of food.People rave about ... More >>

Why Would Anyone Believe Jeffrey Loria and David Samson About the Marlins' Finances?

As Jeffrey Loria and David Samson go on the offensive this week to try to raise their Miami-area approval ratings above those of the Castro brothers, one big question has gone unanswered: Why on earth would anyone believe either one of these guys when it comes to the Marlins' finances?Yet there they ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Women Rule Delta Diamond Dishes

Look, we're not sports experts (unless you consider competitive eating a sport), but we will tell you that there's a frisson of electricity that runs through you when you step onto a major league baseball diamond. And that's what happened at last evening's South Beach Wine & Food Festival Diamon ... More >>

SoBeWFF 2013 Events Everyone's Talking About

For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. A look at the full events lineup of the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival can be dizzying. There are more celebrity chefs than you can shake a ladle at and more ... More >>

Tequilera Bertha Gonzalez: How to Sip Tequila

Today is National Margarita Day. But instead of loading up on gallons of Cuervo and sour mix, why not up the posh factor and sip some premium tequila instead? It's a classier way to pay homage to agave. Bertha Gonzalez, co-founder of Casa Dragones tequila (a premium, 100% blue agave joven tequila) ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Hedy Goldsmith, Jeni Britton-Bauer, Paulina Naranjo Share a Love for All Things Frozen and Sweet

For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. Credit three ladies for making this year's South Beach Wine & Food Festival just a little bit, um, cooler: Hedy Goldsmith, James Beard award-nominated executive past ... More >>

Valentine's in Miami: Lisa Lisa, Information Society and Other 80s Freestyle Legends

It's February, and that means Cupid's arrow may soon pierce your little heart and cripple your vulnerable soul with love. Or maybe it's something that feels like love, but actually turns out to be a costly gaffe. Whatever. At the end of the day, we're all just a little "Lost in Emotion" and really ... More >>

South Beach Wine and Food Festival 2013: The Six Best Events Featuring Miami Chefs

If you haven't purchased your tickets for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, we suggest breaking out the credit card because many of the more famous events, like Burger Bash, are sold out.Luckily, the four-day long festival is filled with seminars, dinners, and parties -- ensuring there's an ... More >>

Sun Life Stadium Upgrade: Miami-Dade Taxpayers Should Fund It

Super Bowl Watch Parties in Miami

The big game is this Sunday in New Orleans and the Big Easy is filled with fans lining the streets to celebrate Super Bowl XLVII Mardi Gras style.Sure, fans lucky enough to have scored a ticket to the game get to see the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers go head-to-head in person, but the ... More >>

The Miami Dolphins Deserve Our Help

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 comes to the defense of the Miami Dolphins.I'm with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross on this one. The county and state should gi ... More >>

Misfit Home Brewers' Robert Tejon: "We're Pioneers on the Beer Frontier"

It's a new year, and for Miami's Misfit Home Brewer's club, 2013 looks like it's gonna be a big one. Of all the trends that overtook South Florida in 2012, craft beer had to take the cake. And the dudes behind Misfit have been a major factor in the elevation of our local beer scene. This past we ... More >>

(More Than) 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

World Music Awards Canceled, Exposed as a Con, Blaming "Visa Issues," Newtown Shooting

The World Music Awards just got canceled. Only two days before the scheduled 2012 edition at Marlins Park, WMA organizers have nixed the show, blaming "visa issues" and -- absurdly -- the Newtown shooting. "We are sorry for any inconvenience," the official statement reads, "but this decision had t ... More >>

Inaugural Miami Beer Festival to Take Over Marlins Park January 19

The City of Miami loves its suds. Beer festivals take place all year long and are usually well attended. Just in the past 12 months we've had the Brickell Beer Fest; Grovetoberfest; Burger, Beer and Balls Bash; and New Times Brew at the Zoo, to name a few. The Miami Beer Festival plans to throw its ... More >>

"I'm Not A Quitter:" Revisiting Jeffrey Loria's Most Hilarious Lies About the "New" Marlins

Jeffrey Loria is a liar. This is well documented. After years of claiming poverty while begging for ballpark handouts, leaked documents showed that, nope, the Marlins were actually one of baseball's most profitable franchises.So why in the name of Conine did anyone believe Loria when he said the new ... More >>

Hedy Goldsmith Serves Treats at Sweet Lemonade

It's not every day that a humble baker sees her name on a Jumbotron, but that was the case last evening at the Sweet Lemonade event to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, which raises funds to fight childhood cancers mainly through parties and lemonade stands. The event was hosted by Michael's ... More >>

Reader Mail: Marlins Park Has Screwed the City and Fans

Don't Trust the $1.2 Billion School Bond

Clandestine Culture's First Show Highlights October's Wynwood Art Walk

Hedy Goldsmith Hosting Dessert Party to Fight Children's Cancer

Miami foodies know Hedy Goldsmith as the Magic City's dessert queen, Michael's Genuine Food & Drink's pastry chef extraordinaire, and creator of mouthwatering twists on childhood favorites like chocolate peanut-butter brownie banana splits, s'more brownies, and buttered-popcorn gelato.Drooling y ... More >>

Miami Marlins Keep Lying About Stadium

Shady Owners of a Hialeah Recycling Plant Made a Neighborhood Sick, Residents Say

Norman Braman Registers Boat in the Caymans to Avoid U.S. Fees

Ninety-Five Strikes

Norman Braman Dodges Taxes For His Yacht, Kisses

For the past couple of years, Norman Braman has carefully crafted his image as a do-gooder billionaire and civic activist by leading the recall of former Miami-Dade mayor Carlos Alvarez and, more recently, financing opponents against four sitting county commissioners because they saddled taxpayers w ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Spoiler alert! Y'all watch the final episode of the The Franchise last night? Well, we're miserable, quite possibly the saddest sacks of sunflower seeds in Major League Baseball. But the Marlins' front office is confident that 2013 will be the year of the Fish. Sure ... Until then, it's goose egg ... More >>

Metrorail Finally Reaches MIA, but Getting to South Beach Is Still No Easy Task

The No-Name Fish

Losers’ Ball

Hanley Ramirez Traded to the Dodgers As Marlins Firesale Rages On

On The Franchise, Showtime's series following the Marlins this season, GM Michael Hill recently had this to say about the team's core, lead by Hanley Ramirez: "The veterans have crapped all over themselves."That smack-down may not have been the best strategy for pumping up Ramirez's trade value, but ... More >>

Miami Builds a Better Superhero

Wild Ones

Clevelander Looking for Hot, Young, Shirtless Dudes to Entertain Marlins Fans

Like so many lonely, overtanned divorcées, Marlins Park might soon get its very own in-house pool boy.The Clevelander and Marlins Park have put out a call for local hunks who don't mind walking around in nothing but swim trunks while watching baseball. It'll be a far cry from the days when the most ... More >>

Man Killed in Hit & Run on North Miami Avenue, the Ninth Pedestrian Killed This Week

Police are searching for the driver of a car that plowed into a man on North Miami Avenue on early Saturday morning, but didn't even bother to stop. The victim was Carl Jones, a homeless man who was trying to cross the street and was killed on the scene. The impact was caught on video by the surveil ... More >>

Magic City Casino Picks Fight With Miami-Dade, Marlins and Miccosukee Tribe

Ever notice that sign for the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians on Marlins Park? Well, the management of Magic City Casino sure has, and they are not happy with it. The casino believes that it violates a contract it has with the county that forbids Miami-Dade from harming their slot revenue, and they'd ve ... More >>

Stank Ball

Marlins Park: Buy Me Some Peanuts... But Skip the Tacos (Pictures)

Marlins Park, the new $684 million home to the Fish, is absolutely beautiful. I had previewed this state-of-the-art stadium at the Diamonds and Dishes event during the South Beach Wine & Food Festival but was eager to take in a game.When I received a Groupon alert for discounted tickets, I pounc ... More >>

Old Meets New