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Matti Bower

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Treat Memorial Day Weekend the Same as Spring Break and Winter Music Week

    Luther Campbell, 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 wonders when Miami and Miami Beach city officials will crack down on rowdy ravers.The video shows a large crowd gathering ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Club Madonna, Miami Beach's Only Strip Club, Says BYOB

    ​Club Madonna Leroy Griffith's favorite past time is ruffling the feathers of the inhabitants of Miami Beach City Hall. A long standing city ordinance forbids the sale of alcohol at strip clubs, and as a result Griffith's Club Madonna is the only strip club in South Beach. Sure, it keeps competiti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Three Miami Beach Towing Horror Stories as Commissioners Decide Whether to Hike Fees

    ​Miami Beach's two towing companies will attempt to hornswaggle the City Commission this afternoon into granting them a rate hike. If commissioners and Mayor Matti Bower cave in, Beach Towing and Tremont Towing will charge people an additional $64 to get their cars back. Obviously, Miami Beach res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Election 2011: Matti Bower Gets Saxed, Marc Sarnoff Tackles His Ultimate Hater, and Carlos Hernandez Wants His Shirt Back

    No election in Hialeah, Miami, and Miami Beach is complete without a little political sofrito to spice things up. Thanks to some innovative instigators, cameras have been chronicling strange encounters involving candidates running for office in those three cities.As voters head to the polls tomorrow ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Urban Beach Weekend: Luke wants the party

    No election in Hialeah, Miami, and Miami Beach is complete without a little political sofrito to spice things up. Thanks to some innovative instigators, cameras have been chronicling strange encounters involving candidates running for office in those three cities.As voters head to the polls tomorrow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Memorial Day Weekend Needs Me

    ​Luther "Luke" Campbell, 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 announces plans to reclaim Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach.Six months ago, a young man died and seven people w ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Pride en Espanol

    ​Luther "Luke" Campbell, 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 announces plans to reclaim Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach.Six months ago, a young man died and seven people w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Miami Beach Getting Another Parking Garage Designed by a Star Architect, This Time Zaha Hadid

    ​In the architecture world, apparently you aren't anyone until you've designed a parking garage in Miami Beach. Frank Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, and Arquitectonica have all designed structures to house visitors' vehicles. Now the city has announced it has commissioned another star architect, Z ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Five Reasons The New Miami Beach Bike Share Kind of Sucks

    Michael E. MillerNo parking. No bikes. No good.​Just about everyone with a cerebral cortex agrees the planet is getting warmer, and we driver assholes are the ones to blame. So it's hard to hate on efforts that encourage us to ditch our gas-guzzlers and put some effort into getting around town. B ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2010

    The Gays Love a Parade

    Michael E. MillerNo parking. No bikes. No good.​Just about everyone with a cerebral cortex agrees the planet is getting warmer, and we driver assholes are the ones to blame. So it's hard to hate on efforts that encourage us to ditch our gas-guzzlers and put some effort into getting around town. B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others

    Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2010

    Gays leave unfriendly South Beach for Fort Lauderdale

    Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

  • News

    November 5, 2009

    Christopher de los Reyes says Miami Beach needs a king, not a mayor

    Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Moron of the Election Cycle: Raphael Herman

    ​Imagine being Miami Beach mayoral candidate Raphael Herman's volunteer campaign manager. You're already battling an incumbent on behalf of a candidate who's known only as a perennial loser, but you have a bit of momentum and are hoping to make a dent in the results when- oops, Herman shows u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Miami Beach Mayoral Candidate Involved in Heated Fax Machine Standoff With Secret Service

    ​When you're a political underdog with just a few days before an election to drum up enough support and overcome odds to win, you might resort to some outlandish tactics. Some go on Saturday Night Live and make fun of themselves. Others pull out shameless attacks on their opponents. Miami Bea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    News Roundup

    Miami Beach sea turtles are under constant threat because their nests share the beach with us humans. The worse kind of humans -- drunk ones. "Mr. Buchanan voluntarily protects the nests from what he says is the constant threat of drunken nighttime visitors who pour out of nearby nightclubs to go fo ... More >>

  • News

    August 20, 2009

    Game On

    In Miami Beach, "introducing ethics reform" is really a sneaky way to take down your political rival.

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Miami Beach Offers an All-Access Card to Get Access to Your Wallet

    Miami Beach residents have a new reason to wake up at 4 in the afternoon -- the all new Miami Beach INcard! Released yesterday, the free sliver of black plastic issued by the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce gives residents discounts at clubs, museums, hotels, restaurants and shops. And since that so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Pride Goes Afloat

    Miami Beach residents have a new reason to wake up at 4 in the afternoon -- the all new Miami Beach INcard! Released yesterday, the free sliver of black plastic issued by the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce gives residents discounts at clubs, museums, hotels, restaurants and shops. And since that so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2008

    What Blagojevich Teaches Us About Political Appointments

    Welcome to biggest blatant political scandal in years starring Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich. Basically the dude tried to leverage his power to be able to select the successor to Obama's Senate seat for money (note to wingnuts: There's no evidence that the Obama camp is involved in this at al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Miami Beach Mayor Says We're Too Poor for Democracy

    Another Miami-Dade city, another city commission appointment controversy in the works. This time around, Miami Beach is trying to decide whether to fill Dan Gelber's vacated seat with an appointee or hold a special election. An election would cost as much as $400,000, and Mayor Matti Bower told the ... More >>

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    Mount Sinai Mired and Sinking

    A doctor takes aim at the hospital’s CEO and foundation.

  • News

    July 5, 2007

    Media Day of the Dead

    “We deal with people on the worst days of their lives”

  • News

    March 8, 2007

    South Beach Menace

    A scuffle minutes from the nation's sandy playground highlights its slimy underbelly

  • News

    September 29, 2005

    A Course of Course!

    Which patch of green grass has Miami Beach bluebloods brandishing machetes and clubs?

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Beach Brawl

    Money and ethnicity narrow the race for Miami Beach City Commission to two men

  • News

    July 28, 2005

    Destruction Boom

    Money and ethnicity narrow the race for Miami Beach City Commission to two men

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Effloresce and Deliquesce

    Money and ethnicity narrow the race for Miami Beach City Commission to two men

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of May 20, 2004

    Disgusting club kids, Haiti’s guns, and animals in need

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of March 4, 2004

    From nightclubs to culture wars to defending the defenders

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2004

    New Ice Age

    Improved rink offers smoother skating

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    A Cabbie's Crusade

    Javier Peña is a maverick cabbie on a mission to turn the notorious Miami taxi industry into a respectable profession. So far he's been threatened, shot at, fined, and fired. In other words, he's making progress.

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Rebel Without a Causeway

    A Hollywood backlash -- what's Miami Beach's mayor to do? Shoot the messenger.

  • Music

    August 2, 2001

    Not Just a Song

    If music be the stuff of controversy, Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler says, “Play on”

  • News

    June 15, 2000

    The Real McGuffin

    Neil McGuffin was supposed to guide the Miami Beach Housing Authority into the new millennium. Instead he exposed an agency in disarray. And he lost his job.

  • City Life

    May 11, 2000

    Best Local Politician

    Jorge Mursuli

  • City Life

    May 11, 2000

    Best Political Comeback

    Matti Bower

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    Riptide

    Castigating Couch, heralding SAVE Dade, and foot dragging on the River

  • News

    January 13, 2000

    He Came, He Lunched, He Left

    Felonious former Miami City Manager Cesar Odio has been spending his free time hanging around Miami Beach. And you want to know why?

  • News

    February 12, 1998

    The Vultures Are Circling

    Bruce Kaplan is alive and well (for the moment at least), but that hasn't deterred speculation about his replacement

  • News

    August 14, 1997

    The Body Politic Hits the Beach

    Backroom deals. Latin kingmakers. Ethnic gerrymandering. Hey, Miami Beach politics has finally come of age!

  • News

    May 16, 1996

    Queen of the Kingmakers

    If you're a political candidate with big ideas and little cash, the first call you make is to Irene Secada

  • News

    April 18, 1996

    No Mistake About It

    If you're a political candidate with big ideas and little cash, the first call you make is to Irene Secada

  • News

    January 11, 1996

    Terms of Enragement

    You say Art Moderne, we say Art Deco. Let's call the whole thing off!

  • News

    December 14, 1995

    Letters

    You say Art Moderne, we say Art Deco. Let's call the whole thing off!

  • News

    November 9, 1995

    Letters

    You say Art Moderne, we say Art Deco. Let's call the whole thing off!

  • News

    November 2, 1995

    Letters

    You say Art Moderne, we say Art Deco. Let's call the whole thing off!

  • News

    October 26, 1995

    Mistaken Identity

    In her quest for a seat on the Miami Beach Commission, Matti Bower doesn't want to be labeled "the Hispanic candidate." She just wants to win.

  • News

    October 26, 1995

    Swelter 28

    In her quest for a seat on the Miami Beach Commission, Matti Bower doesn't want to be labeled "the Hispanic candidate." She just wants to win.

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