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Miami Rum Renaissance Festival Moves Off Beach, Expands

Miami Rum Renaissance Festival director Robert Burr is what you might call "rum obsessed." The author of Examiner.com's national rum page has about 900 bottles of rum in his private collection, hosts rum cruises on which fans can tour various distilleries at exotic ports of call, and is hosting ... More >>

Halo-Halo: The Story Behind the Filipino Shaved Ice Dessert

Halo-halo isn't your typical shaved ice dessert. If you consider Panama's raspao, Italy's granita, Dominican Republic's frio frio, or United States' snow cone, then you already know none of these look anything like a layered, vibrant bowl of halo-halo. It might look more like Malaysia's ais kacang ... More >>

Tony Galeota: From Running Porky's, Miami's Most Notorious Strip Joint, to Rotting in a Panamanian Jail

From Porky's to Panama Prison, Tony Galeota Reveals Miami's Mob-Run Prostitution Industry

In January, I wrote about an amazing high-tech submarine race to the bottom of the ocean. In the story, I mentioned how a Hialeah strip club called Porky's had once been the staging ground for an incredible plot to smuggle Colombian cocaine to California in a Russian sub.Then, at the end of August, ... More >>

Feds Drop Charges Against Miami Doctor Because They've Got Too Much Evidence

Back in 2007, the feds indicted a Miami doctor for allegedly writing bogus prescriptions for hydrocodone and other addictive medicines shipped across the country through an online pharmacy. The case was more than solid; in fact, prosecutors gathered more than 400,000 pages of records to bolster thei ... More >>

Miami Performance International Festival: Work You Can't Hang Over Your Couch

Luis Posada Carriles Could Be Extradited to Panama for Allegedly Plotting to Kill Fidel

​Former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles may have beaten charges in Texas last year, but the aging anti-communist operative ain't in the clear just yet.A Panamanian lawyer requested his extradition today on charges that he plotted to kill then-Cuban president Fidel Castro while in Panama back in 200 ... More >>

Tabou Combo's Yvan "Kapi" Andre Talks Voudou, Kompa, and The Rolling Stones

Tabou Combo's Yvan "Kapi" Andre.​Tabou Combo has one of the most revered funk breakdowns in all of musicland. And between the voudou beats, big soul horns, salsa turns, merengue runs, and rockin' drums, this band is the most eclectic kompa crew in the world. The group started in 1968 under the na ... More >>

Smash Face, Repeat

Animal Love Affair: Female Wolf has Crush on Panama City Family's Pet Dog

via News Herald​Someone call up Pixar, because boy do we have a situation definitively calling out for some sort of animated movie treatment here in Florida. You see, a female wolf has been hanging around the  yard of Panama City resident Nathan Didier. The reason? D ... More >>

Viva Arte!

Gaybies: South Florida same-sex couple travels to Central America for a family

Manuel Noriega's Last Days Memorialized In Leaked U.S. Embassy Documents

Manuel Noriega promised retribution against "Panamanian traitors and their U.S. Masters" One week before his ouster, Panama strongman Manuel Noriega was preparing to crack down on his opponents and rally his troops, according to Prudence Bushnell, at the time U.S. Ambassador to Panama.Bushnell's ana ... More >>

Florida Cities Dominate List of "Divorce Capitols;" Miami is Number 26

​Florida's constitution strictly forbids gays from marrying, but what about the Sunshine State's straights? They're obviously doing such a fine job of upholding the sanctity of marriage, right? Apparently not so. The Daily Beast has compiled a list of "the 50 cities with the worst divorce rates," ... More >>

LeBron James and crazy quotes

Dumb things people have said since the baller signed with the Heat.

Manuel Noriega, Miami's Favorite Dictator, Gets Seven Years in French Prison

​Poor Manuel Noriega. Sure, it was a rough fall from grace to go from the iron fist ruling all of Panama -- from the Atlantic to the Pacific and all 20 miles in between -- to a jail cell in Miami. But there was some dignity there, at least. Miami and fallen Latin American strongmen go together ... More >>

Face the Crowd

South Florida Folk Roundup This Weekend in Davie

Folk Nation isn't just a street gang.According to Wikipedia, "It has been defined in several ways; as music transmitted by word of mouth, music of the lower classes, music with no known composer."Folk is the music of ramblers and wildcats, grifters and coal miners, killers, thieves, pimps, train ho ... More >>

Pop and indie figure high on this list of the year's best Latin albums

Panama!

Free Booze Giveaway: Four Bottles Of Abuelo Rum & Limited Edition Box

Jacob KatelNew Times art critic Carlos Suarez De Jesus with bottles in parking lot.​What can you say about a job where several liquor companies a year contact the office to hold tasting demonstrations? Fucking awesome.When Ron Abuelo hollered at Short Order to see if we were interested in finding ... More >>

See Spanish Royalty Rock

Black-Market Cigarettes: Miami's New Vice

The feds say a local man smuggled millions of smokes for terrorists. He's not alone.

Irish Blood

Feds say Cutler Bay man funded Irish terrorists through Port of Miami scheme.

Feds: Miami Man Funneled Money To Irish Terrorists Behind This Weekend's Attacks

A Cutler Bay man funneled money to the Irish terrorists who murdered two British soldiers in Belfast on Saturday, federal prosecutors say in a complaint unsealed in Miami-Dade court today and obtained by Riptide.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAn IRA mural in Belfast. An IRA splinter group took credit for ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays: Manu Chao "Desaparecido"

When Manu Chao released his landmark album, Clandestino, in 1998, it was regarded as an instant classic by most people who heard it. The 16-track disc was a funky underground pop album aimed right at the cultural left (and bourgeois right) of Spain, France, South America and Mexico all at once. Be ... More >>

Lazardi

Posada Carriles Star of New Film

Buy the Farm

Buy the Farm

Open Wide!

SoBe Wine and Food is baaaack

Disguising the Tentacles

Behold the mighty octopus

TGI Viernes

All Around the Neighborhood

A quick look at our amigos from Toronto to Tierra del Fuego

Letters from the Issue of December 12, 2002

Once upon a time there was this African-American surgeon...

Righteous Bombers?

Miami's non-Muslim mullahs are ready to forgive Castro's accused 2000 assassins

Paradise Lost, Again

As Miami Beach prepares for life in wartime, it's on its own

Chombo Ghetto

Los Rabanes go global with the Panama City style

Fidel Made Them Do It

Posada Carriles is in jail -- again -- for plotting against Castro. And again, he's sure it's Castro's fault.

Spies in Miami, Commandos in Cuba

If you disagree with what they do, why defend their right to do it?

Diplo-Monk

Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez takes diplomacy as seriously as he does jazz

Night & Day

September 10 - 16, 1998

Letters

Uncertain Justice

Was Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega really a drug trafficker? Or is it possible he was set up by the U.S. government? Try asking a few dozen people who should know.

News of the Weird

Immigrate Expectations

Exile leaders raised millions to bankroll their plan to refugees to South Florida from Guantanamo -- but money isn't the only stumbling block

Getting to Know the Major

To Panama's incarcerated Maximum Leader, he is a link to the outside world. But who exactly is Rudolfo Castrell?

Just `Cause

Chong Feature

Operation Screw Up