Meyer Lansky

Miami Is Vice

Miami Beach Candidate Steve Berke Wants Casino At Convention Center

via Steve BerkeBerke's rendering of a casino at the Miami Beach Convention Center.​Schemers and dreamers have plotted for years to bring gambling back to South Beach, once the site of high stakes poker games featuring the likes of Al Capone and Meyer Lansky. Sure, local and state laws stand in the ... More >>

Bugsy's Boss

via Steve BerkeBerke's rendering of a casino at the Miami Beach Convention Center.​Schemers and dreamers have plotted for years to bring gambling back to South Beach, once the site of high stakes poker games featuring the likes of Al Capone and Meyer Lansky. Sure, local and state laws stand in the ... More >>

Gambling back in Miami Beach?

via Steve BerkeBerke's rendering of a casino at the Miami Beach Convention Center.​Schemers and dreamers have plotted for years to bring gambling back to South Beach, once the site of high stakes poker games featuring the likes of Al Capone and Meyer Lansky. Sure, local and state laws stand in the ... More >>

Latin American dictators love South Florida

via Steve BerkeBerke's rendering of a casino at the Miami Beach Convention Center.​Schemers and dreamers have plotted for years to bring gambling back to South Beach, once the site of high stakes poker games featuring the likes of Al Capone and Meyer Lansky. Sure, local and state laws stand in the ... More >>

Magic City Casino gets a big tax cut

via Steve BerkeBerke's rendering of a casino at the Miami Beach Convention Center.​Schemers and dreamers have plotted for years to bring gambling back to South Beach, once the site of high stakes poker games featuring the likes of Al Capone and Meyer Lansky. Sure, local and state laws stand in the ... More >>

The Sidewalk Chef is Cooking Under Fire at MDC Wolfson

Jacob KatelThe Sidewalk Chef on Ocean Drive.​ We've been bringing you updates on the continuing adventures of Sidewalk Chef Shashank Agtey since May, 2009.We've told you the story of his humble beginnings, and rise to fame. Short version - A wealthy Bombay, Indian whose vision doesn't meet air for ... More >>

Sidewalk Chef's Recipe for Chicken Shashank from his New Book

art by Hector "The Director"​Shashank Agtey is the Sidewalk Chef, a wacky South Florida entrepreneur with over twenty years experience in professional kitchens starting at The Forge on Miami Beach back when it was still owned by gansgta gangsta Meyer Lansky.We've written about the Sidewalk Chef be ... More >>

Cuban Mobster Book Havana Nocturne Being Turned into a Film

T. J. English's best-selling book, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution, went over like a lead balloon in certain corners of El Exilio. The book paints Fulgencio Batista as a corrupt leader all too willing to play ball -- and take kickbacks -- from powerful ... More >>

The Sidewalk Chef is Ready For Hollywood

Jacob Katel The Sidewalk Chef in action at Crocco's Chef Shashank Agtey started his culinary career at The Forge as a dishwasher back when it was still owned by Meyer Lansky. He ended up in Miami from Bombay, India after his father dropped him off on our shores at the age of 17 with $125 in h ... More >>

Trafficante in Miami: "He Had the Clout"

Jacob Katel The Sidewalk Chef in action at Crocco's Chef Shashank Agtey started his culinary career at The Forge as a dishwasher back when it was still owned by Meyer Lansky. He ended up in Miami from Bombay, India after his father dropped him off on our shores at the age of 17 with $125 in h ... More >>

Sour Pickles

Jacob Katel The Sidewalk Chef in action at Crocco's Chef Shashank Agtey started his culinary career at The Forge as a dishwasher back when it was still owned by Meyer Lansky. He ended up in Miami from Bombay, India after his father dropped him off on our shores at the age of 17 with $125 in h ... More >>

Sour Pickles

Jacob Katel The Sidewalk Chef in action at Crocco's Chef Shashank Agtey started his culinary career at The Forge as a dishwasher back when it was still owned by Meyer Lansky. He ended up in Miami from Bombay, India after his father dropped him off on our shores at the age of 17 with $125 in h ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of August 11 , 2005

Evil condo developers, Cuban city builders, and more about Art Teele

Tradition with Flair

Evil condo developers, Cuban city builders, and more about Art Teele

Tow Head

Junkie, jailbird, cat burglar, widow, bride, entrepreneur Laurie Lichtman keeps on truckin'.

BEST POWER FAMILY

The Malniks

Steel Appeal

Once a haven for gangsters, the Forge took its time learning to serve steak bloody

Miami & Havana & Hip-Hop

Bring together musicians from both sides of the Florida Straits, let them mix it up, and watch what happens

The Return of Johnny Bev

Collins Avenue's greatest hits

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of September 20, 2001

"I Rode for Lansky"

Miami Beach's premier crooked jockey reminisces

Best Tour

The Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem Bus Tour

Best Kitsch Tourist Attraction

Wolfie's Restaurant

Kulchur

Stop in the name of love

Kulchur

Nostalgic for Cuba's music and mobsters

Night & Day

February 25 - March 3, 1999

Deconstructing Tommy

How a Bensonhurst boy rose to the summit of South Beach's promotion biz

He Did a Job on the Mob

During the Forties and Fifties, Mel Richard fought organized crime's incursion into Miami Beach. He's still crusading.

Crime & Nourishment

In Miami breaking bread has become an intricate part of breaking the law

The Great Bistro Brawl

At first Cassis restaurant looked like a South Beach gold mine for its owners. Then the bottom fell out. Now come the investigators and allegations of corruption.

When the Beach was Hot

Eisenhower was president, shark-finned Cadillacs ruled the highways, and Miami Beach was the nightlife capital of the Western Hemisphere

Boyz R The Hoods

Eisenhower was president, shark-finned Cadillacs ruled the highways, and Miami Beach was the nightlife capital of the Western Hemisphere