Micky Arison

Shuckers Deck Collapses During Miami Heat Game: 24 Injured UPDATED

As about a hundred fans were rooting on the Miami Heat on the deck of Shuckers, Miami's favorite waterside sports bar, when the structure collapsed just before halftime, at around 9:45 p.m. Twenty-four people were injured in the incident. According to NBC Miami, at least 15 have been sent to local h ... More >>

Tim Tebow to the Dolphins! How I Trolled Twitter Into Believing an Absurd Rumor

I love Twitter a lot -- like 83,000-tweets-and-counting a lot. So I didn't troll everyone yesterday with fake news about Tim Tebow joining the Dolphins because I was mad. I did it because it would be funny, and also because it's fascinating how information goes viral -- particularly in the murky wor ... More >>

Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross Has Donated More Than $100,000 to Romney Campaign

Who is Mitt Romney's biggest fan in the NFL? Apparently it's Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. The billionaire developer has donated over $125,000 to Republican causes this election cycle, including $100,000 to a pro-Romney super PAC.

Letter to Micky Arison: Send Stephen Ross Pa'l Carajo

Reader Mail: Norman Braman Is a Bully in the Guise of a Civic-Minded Leader

The Ten Most Famous University of Miami Dropouts

Lots of successful people have degrees from the University of Miami. Everyone from Gloria Estefan to, like, 10 percent of the NFL. But some of the school's most famous former students never graduated -- either opting to transfer or quit college altogether. Current UM kids, don't take this as inspira ... More >>

Five Good Reasons to Hate the Oklahoma City Thunder

Last year, we made some rather foolhardy predictions about the NBA finals and ended up with a tattoo of Jason Terry indelibly inked on our pale white ass. So this year, we are avoiding any claims of clairvoyance and appealing to a baser emotion: pure, unbridled hatred.Yes, the Miami Heat are the mos ... More >>

Heat Are Eastern Conference Champions, Will Face Oklahoma City in NBA Finals

After blowing up the Boston Celtics Big Three Era (for the second straight season) in last night's 101-88 Game 7 triumph, the Miami Heat are headed to their second-straight NBA Finals. The Big Three known as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh scored Miami's final 31 points, including all ... More >>

Miami Heat Getting a Free Ride From Miami-Dade, County Inspector General Finds

The long-awaited audit of the Miami Heat's contract with Miami-Dade County for the operation of American Airlines Arena is finally out. Last week, Banana Republican reported that Miami-Dade Inspector General Chris Mazzella's most critical finding was that the Miami Heat owes the county $3.1 million ... More >>

Local Activists Host "Carnaval to Unmask Carnival" Cruise Lines (Updated)

​South Florida activist group 1Miami is hosting a gathering this weekend in Hialeah and Little Haiti to bring Carnival Cruise Lines to the public's attention. They say Carnival is figuratively "sinking Miami." While most associate the cruise line with family memories, bad sunburns, and tanning oil ... More >>

Mickey Mouse vs. Micky Arison: Disney Bringing Cruises to Port of Miami

​Micky Arison's Carnival Cruise Lines has another Mickey with a cruise empire about to encroach on its turf. Mickey Mouse that is. Disney Cruise Line has announced that beginning later this year, it will be sail ships out of the Port of Miami for the first time.

Shane Battier Says He's Signing With the Heat UPDATE: And Eddy Curry Too

​So despite the fact that the Miami Heat are severely hurting in the point guard and center spots, their first signing priority this season was apparently the owner's son's college buddy.In the first indication of the team's signing decisions, Shane Battier has announced he'll be playing for the H ... More >>

Occupy Miami: County hall isn't the only Miami institution that needs protesting

Occupy Miami Needs to Expand: Five Places Worth Protesting the Crap Out Of

Lead on, Pied Piper. To Star Island!​"Occupy Miami is hidden," one woman randomly complained to us over the phone earlier this week. "No one even knows that they are there!"To be fair, she may have a point. Tucked behind the Stephen P. Clark Government Center like a cozy small-town college tailgat ... More >>

The Whore of Akron Includes LeBron's Penis, Drugs, Disses at City of Miami

​Remember Scott Raab? The lifetime Cleveland sports fan who set out to chronicle LeBron James' first season for Esquire only to get banned from American Airlines Arena by the Heat for calling the star "the whore of Akron"? Well, he's been busy at work penning a book entitled, obviously, The Whore ... More >>

Shaq Joins Charles Barkley on Show That May Not Exist

"A paycheck for sitting in a chair and talking about basketball? Don't mind if I do."Former Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal will be joining the studio team on "NBA on TNT," the popular basketball show also featuring noted Heat hater Charles Barkley, according to unnamed reports in the Orlando&nbs ... More >>

Burger Beast Responds To Miami-Dade Cease and Desist

Sef Gonzalez is an eater, not a fighter.​Last week, Short Order reported that blogger Sef Gonzalez (better known as The Burger Beast) had received a cease-and-desist email from Miami-Dade Assistant County Attorney, Thomas Logue. In the email, Logue stated Burger Beast's Miami Food Truck logo ... More >>

Carnival cruise ships have sewage problems, say passengers

Do Carnival Cruise Ships Have a Poop Problem?

​A document nutty with consumer outrage crossed our desk last week. In mid-April, a Florida woman -- due to the sensitive nature of this topic, we'll just call her Consuela -- sent a complaint to Carnival Cruise Lines' Doral headquarters documenting the nasty saga that was her groups' recent t ... More >>

Alex Penelas: Mayoral loser

Alex Penelas Wants To Finish His Job Of Ruining Miami-Dade

​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 -- who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez -- explains why a reru ... More >>

The Miami Heat's James Jones Wins 3-Point Competition

​The Miami Heat's very own James Jones won last night's NBA All Star three-point contest, becoming the fourth member of the franchise to win the competition, joining Glen Rice, Jason Kapono and Daequan Cook.And to make it an even more amazing feat, he did it by beating out Boston Celtics teammates ... More >>

Downtown's No-Panhandling Zone is SB1070 For Miami's Homeless

Marc Sarnoff, the Miami Heat's handy rubber-stamper.​Last week, the Miami City Commission voted unanimously to expand a controversial "no-panhandling zone" surrounding the American Airlines Arena and the Adrienne Arsht Center. "This isn't a homeless issue," Commissioner Marc Sarnoff told Rip ... More >>

Bosh and Wade Have Dinner Date While Riley Woos LeBron With Rings

via Bosh's Twitter​Dwyane Wade joined Chris Bosh for a dinner date last night in Chicago. Whenever one of our "friends" has a successful date, we want to know one thing, and this is no exception: Will it lead to getting undressed with each other... in the AAA locker room and then putting on matchi ... More >>

Dwyane's Disaster

The Miami Heat superstar sure picked a dubious business partner.

Megamedia Mangler

A fired Herald columnist chatters anew

Go Heat

Unlike the call to prayer, this championship series is no joke

Miami: Blink and You'll Miss It

That's how quickly things change here, which can be invigorating for cities as well as editors

Letters from the Issue of July 22, 2004

Down in Flames

Miami's business leaders vowed to yank MIA from the clutches of politicians, but the politicians yanked back

Tumbling Chairs

The people of Miami take a crash course in art, parks, and democracy

A Farewell to Art

Frank Stella created a sculptural masterpiece for Miami's waterfront, but you'll probably never see it here

Mullin

The Marlins cut a deal, and once again the pathetic public doesn't have a clue what just blew by

DeFede: Deconstructing Alex

He billed himself as a reformer, but a close look at Alex Penelas's record reveals a politician more in tune with ambition than innovation

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of March 30, 2000

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of March 23, 2000

On the Block

In an act of audacious short-sightedness, Miami is offering its finest bayfront property to the highest bidder

The Man Who Caught Carmen

Letters

Ten Questions for Micky

Tony Ridder and the Heritage of Arrogance

The Heat Is Off

Letters

DeFede

A Little Friendly Persuasion

Micky Arison Is a Greedy Corporate Pig . . . and Other Observations About Backroom Politics and Big-Time Sports

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