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Congratulations, We're the Fattest City in America!

Men's Fitness has been tracking America's fattest city for the past 11 years, and Miami came out number one. We're even fatter than Oklahoma City! The methodology takes more into account than just the percentage of overweight people, but we certainly have our share. From USA Today:"Miami received p ... More >>

Camilo's Retreat

He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

Blind Date

Tasha Joseph's Website shows fiction is stranger than truth

Bugging Out

Tasha Joseph's Website shows fiction is stranger than truth

NightmareMotel

A Gablestage thriller pairs an abused cocktail waitress with a paranoid of the aluminum-foil-helmet variety

Punkland

What's worth seeing at the tenth-anniversary Vans Warped tour? Here are a few suggestions

The Hard Lunch Bunch

Old Miami spooks discuss former times and pending threats

El Lanzador

Vicente Lopez was almost the Cuban Koufax

Postcards from New York

One chief is memorialized as another moves on to a new job

Of Pain and place

Documenting devastation near and far-of the body, the mind, and the soul

Cuban Missive Crisis

For years the infamous Wasp Network collected reams of data on Miami's anti-Castro forces -- and the sundry, sometimes bizarre, attempts to infiltrate them

Exiled in Havana

With the FBI in pursuit, black activist Nehanda Abiodun a decade ago fled to Cuba, where she still dreams of fomenting a socialist revolution in the United States

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of February 17, 2000

In Pursuit of Willy and Sal

When infamous drug smugglers Falcon and Magluta won the first round, prosecutors vowed revenge. This time it's personal.

News of the Weird

When infamous drug smugglers Falcon and Magluta won the first round, prosecutors vowed revenge. This time it's personal.

Screen Saver

When infamous drug smugglers Falcon and Magluta won the first round, prosecutors vowed revenge. This time it's personal.

Letters

When infamous drug smugglers Falcon and Magluta won the first round, prosecutors vowed revenge. This time it's personal.

A Key Battle

The Conch Coalition and Taras Lyssenko claimed environmentalists were out to destroy the culture and economy of the Keys. Voters listened.

Young at Art

The Conch Coalition and Taras Lyssenko claimed environmentalists were out to destroy the culture and economy of the Keys. Voters listened.

Gimme Subterranean Shelter

When it comes to home security, you can't beat a house designed to withstand an atom bomb.

News of the Weird

When it comes to home security, you can't beat a house designed to withstand an atom bomb.

One Hot Idea

Bob Sherman blazes down the info highway in an endless search for towering infernos

Swelter

Bob Sherman blazes down the info highway in an endless search for towering infernos

Ruffled Feathers

The recent Metro Justice Building bomb scare didn't result in a blast, but it sure lit a fuse

A Nocturnal Omission

The Miami Hearald's brain trust comes to grips with a sticky wicket

'Til Death

Why did a gay-rights activist stab her wife with a screwdriver 222 times?

He Buried Che

Gustavo Villoldo hunted the revolutionary leader. His new weapon: a $1 billion judgment against Fidel.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical goes slumming at Actors' Playhouse

Gustavo Villoldo hunted the revolutionary leader. His new weapon: a $1 billion judgment against Fidel.

Meet The Fringe Group That Tricked A Miami Felon Into Filing A $14 Trillion Tax Return

Marlon T. "X-Large" Moore sure looks like one of the dumbest criminals in Miami history.​Late last year, the 38-year-old Miami native was arrested while on probation from federal prison for filing false tax claims -- to the tune of $14 trillion. Yeah, trillion. With a t. If the IRS had paid out, ... More >>

Did fringe movement Sovereign Citizens trick a Miami man into filing a $14 trillion tax return?

Marlon T. "X-Large" Moore sure looks like one of the dumbest criminals in Miami history.​Late last year, the 38-year-old Miami native was arrested while on probation from federal prison for filing false tax claims -- to the tune of $14 trillion. Yeah, trillion. With a t. If the IRS had paid out, ... More >>

Posner Plagiarizes Again

Marlon T. "X-Large" Moore sure looks like one of the dumbest criminals in Miami history.​Late last year, the 38-year-old Miami native was arrested while on probation from federal prison for filing false tax claims -- to the tune of $14 trillion. Yeah, trillion. With a t. If the IRS had paid out, ... More >>

Gerald Posner Plagiarized in Why America Slept and Secrets of the Kingdom, Research Shows

Photo by Bill Cooke Gerald Posner​In this week's Miami New Times, we write about new evidence that Gerald Posner plagiarized dozens of passages in his 2003 book Why American Slept and in 2005's Secrets of the Kingdom. After the jump, you can check out all the proof. But first, a little back ... More >>

Jack Horkeimer, besieged by sex complaint, dies

Photo by Bill Cooke Gerald Posner​In this week's Miami New Times, we write about new evidence that Gerald Posner plagiarized dozens of passages in his 2003 book Why American Slept and in 2005's Secrets of the Kingdom. After the jump, you can check out all the proof. But first, a little back ... More >>

Miami is the Wireless-Savviest City in America

via​Miami has no use for your antiquated wires. According to a survey of small business owners and employees conducted by AT&T, Miami is the wireless-savviest business market in America. It shouldn't really come as a surprise that Miamians are addicted to their cell phones and other Wi-Fi devi ... More >>

Miami Ranked in Top Five Cities for Minority Entrepreneurs

​Forbes thinks that one of the best ways to lead America out of it's mounting debt is to spark long-term financial growth, and they think encouraging entrepreneurship among minorities is one of the best ways to generate that growth. Of course, like everything Forbes.com does, they've accompanied t ... More >>

Miami Fifth on List of Cities that Have Gotten Fatter Since Thanksgiving

Via​Putting on a little bit weight during the winter months is only to be expected in cities that find themselves covered in snow and lacking in sun, but a new analysis from The Daily Beast says that Miami is fifth in cities that have gained the most weight since Thanksgiving.Whoa! What's the deal ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Postpone 2012 US Tour, Reschedule South Florida Gig

​Being the frontman of one of the biggest bands on the planet can be a real pain in the sesamoid bone and flexor tendon. Just ask Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis. The porn 'stachioed rocker recently underwent surgery to treat a bum foot, the result of "multiple" injuries. And regrettably, ... More >>

Miami Workers Are the Happiest Workers in America According to Some Sort of Study

We're probably just happy we have jobs at all. ​While it may be increasingly difficult to actually secure employment in Miami, those of us who have seem to love our job. That's according to a new study by CareerBliss.com that analyzed more than 43,000 employee reviews across the country. It's actu ... More >>

No Eating Human Fetuses, Says Senator Ralph Shortey

There have been plenty of f'd up news stories coming out of South Florida, but the more and more I read about wampeters, granfalloons, and nut bags that make up the rest of our country, I start to think that it may, after all, be safe to drink the water.Freshman Senator Ralph Shortey (R-Oklahoma Cit ... More >>