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  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Jet University, Shuttered Pilot School, Was a Sham Ex-Students Allege

    ​At the start of the slick ad, an excited announcer intones, "Are you ready to get serious about becoming a professional airline pilot?" The promises are amazing: In less than nine months at Jet University, the announcer says, even students with zero flight experience will land jobs as pilots. Eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Miami Named Worst-Run City in America, Hialeah is Tenth

    ​Congratulations Miami-Dade County! We're home to not one, but two of the ten worst-run cities in the entire United States of America. The City of Miami came first on 24/7 Wall Street's list. That would be bad enough, but citizens of Miami proper may be even more devastated ;to find that their cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Cut off Food Stamps to Mercedes Owners? Just Maybe

    There's been a lot of discussion lately about a plan in Michigan to deny food stamp benefits to people who own cars worth $15,000 and up.At first I thought, "Well, yeah." A $15,000 car can be a symbol of financial success. It's not a sign someone is in dire straits. Then I mulled the scenarios that ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2011

    Miami's Got Talent

    There's been a lot of discussion lately about a plan in Michigan to deny food stamp benefits to people who own cars worth $15,000 and up.At first I thought, "Well, yeah." A $15,000 car can be a symbol of financial success. It's not a sign someone is in dire straits. Then I mulled the scenarios that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Michele Bachmann Can't Win Florida, Let Alone the Presidency; Here Are Five Reasons Why

    David Shankbone via Wikimedia CommonsWould you vote for this woman, Florida?​The nation is all atwitter over Michele Bachmann. Not only did she thoroughly corn-poll Iowa this past Saturday -- winning the state's straw poll over Smucker's jam spokesman Ron Paul -- but also the congresswoman claimed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Kid Cudi Show at La Covacha Is Fake According to the Cudman's Tumblr

    ​It was almost exactly seven weeks ago during Miami Music Week when glossy flyers advertising a gig by Kid Cudi at La Covacha started showing up all over the city, tacked to telephone polls, tossed in the gutter, and being used at the Vagabond as coasters for Colt 45s. The show was being promoted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Rick Scott Wants to Kill Citizens Property Insurance

    ​Rick Scott wants to run Florida like a business, but he seems ideologically driven to make sure the state isn't in the business of much. Fresh off a Pulitzer win for investigative reporting, Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune yesterday filed a shocker claiming Scott aims to k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Chef Allen Susser Tells New Times He's Closing After 25 Years UPDATED

    Chef Allen Susser​Chef Allen Susser says he'll be be closing the doors to the Aventura eatery that bears his name. The restaurant has been in operation since 1986."Twenty-five years has passed, the lease was up, and it was time to make a decision," said Susser, who is 54 years old and lives in Hol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Meet Sweet Micky Martelly, Your New Haitian President

    via YouTubeWe spent most of the Haitian presidential campaign ridiculing the idea of a musician with zero political experience and shady personal finances running a country as desperately messed up as Haiti. Fortunately, Wyclef pulled out of the race. Whew!Then yesterday, Haitians responded at the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Proposed State Amendment Would Deny Funding For Abortions For Rape and Incest Victims

    ​Federal Republicans were forced to back down from a controversial bill dictating that federal money could only be spent on abortions for woman who were "forcibly raped," where as current language allows for some public spending on abortions for woman who are victims of rape or incest. They backed ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2011

    Cruz on By

    ​Federal Republicans were forced to back down from a controversial bill dictating that federal money could only be spent on abortions for woman who were "forcibly raped," where as current language allows for some public spending on abortions for woman who are victims of rape or incest. They backed ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    Go for Baroque

    ​Federal Republicans were forced to back down from a controversial bill dictating that federal money could only be spent on abortions for woman who were "forcibly raped," where as current language allows for some public spending on abortions for woman who are victims of rape or incest. They backed ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 14, 2010

    Crash Course in Cubism

    ​Federal Republicans were forced to back down from a controversial bill dictating that federal money could only be spent on abortions for woman who were "forcibly raped," where as current language allows for some public spending on abortions for woman who are victims of rape or incest. They backed ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2009

    Shop Till the Prices Drop

    ​Federal Republicans were forced to back down from a controversial bill dictating that federal money could only be spent on abortions for woman who were "forcibly raped," where as current language allows for some public spending on abortions for woman who are victims of rape or incest. They backed ... More >>

  • Music

    November 5, 2009

    Damas Gratis

    ​Federal Republicans were forced to back down from a controversial bill dictating that federal money could only be spent on abortions for woman who were "forcibly raped," where as current language allows for some public spending on abortions for woman who are victims of rape or incest. They backed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    At Last Night's Mayoral Debate, Everyone Lost (Their Heads)

    ​The group that gathered last night for the City of Miami mayoral debate between commissioners Tomas Regalado and Joe Sanchez made Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams look like upstanding examples of manners. Maybe they didn't get the message they're supposed to act civilly for the next we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Miami Social: Cold War Kids

    via BravoTV​Last night's Miami Social was all about children: the kind you want but can't have, the kind you find are accidentally going to pop out in nine months, the kind you send away to Switzerland, and the kind that are 30-something professionals who live in South Beach. The main drama a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Wednesday Night: New York Dolls at Culture Room

    David Johansen of the New York Dolls at the Culture Room on WednesdayNew York Dolls  Wednesday, June 10, 2009  Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale  Better than: A half-authentic tribute act.  Maybe I'm a natural-born negative creep. Or maybe my inner lonely planet boy has been sho ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    Roam and Stare for No Charge

    David Johansen of the New York Dolls at the Culture Room on WednesdayNew York Dolls  Wednesday, June 10, 2009  Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale  Better than: A half-authentic tribute act.  Maybe I'm a natural-born negative creep. Or maybe my inner lonely planet boy has been sho ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Bon Appetit for Cheap

    David Johansen of the New York Dolls at the Culture Room on WednesdayNew York Dolls  Wednesday, June 10, 2009  Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale  Better than: A half-authentic tribute act.  Maybe I'm a natural-born negative creep. Or maybe my inner lonely planet boy has been sho ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 9, 2008

    Nobody Beats the Wiz

    David Johansen of the New York Dolls at the Culture Room on WednesdayNew York Dolls  Wednesday, June 10, 2009  Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale  Better than: A half-authentic tribute act.  Maybe I'm a natural-born negative creep. Or maybe my inner lonely planet boy has been sho ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2008

    Pampered for Pennies

    Get more massage for your buck during Spa Week.

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2008

    Rhumba Racers and Radio Rockers

    SpeedJam brings IndyCars and not-so-indie rock together.

  • Calendar

    September 27, 2007

    Play for a Fortune

    SpeedJam brings IndyCars and not-so-indie rock together.

  • Calendar

    April 19, 2007

    Makeup Your Mind

    SpeedJam brings IndyCars and not-so-indie rock together.

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2007

    Miami Home Foreclosures in a Death Spiral

    SpeedJam brings IndyCars and not-so-indie rock together.

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    On a Rolle

    The time is now for Miamian Ahsha Rolle, who’s not at NASDAQ

  • News

    January 5, 2006

    Civil $ervice

    Who says it doesn't pay?

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Fables of the Reconstruction

    Residents of the black Grove are being displaced by the value of the land they've lived on for a century

  • City Life

    May 16, 2002

    BEST CURE FOR AIDS ISOLATION

    The Center for Positive Connections

  • Shops and Wares

    May 11, 2000

    Best Liquor Store

    Fox's Sherron Inn walk-up window

  • Music

    August 15, 1996

    Reverb

    Fox's Sherron Inn walk-up window

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