Professional Services Sector

Florida's weirdest proposed laws: Purple trees, barking frogs, and slow golf carts

Reader mail: Micky Arison would move the Heat if Miami made him repay taxpayers

Government Backs Off the Food Industry

​Anti-obesity lobbyists and children activists have been trying for years to get food companies to stop marketing high sugar, high sodium, and overall unhealthy foods to children.Food companies, such as McDonald's, General Mills, and others, create advertising campaigns that include cartoon charac ... More >>

Marc Sarnoff's Campaign Can't Get Addresses Straight

Last Thursday, we reported on the odd coincidence that a marketing consultant working on Marc Sarnoff's re-election campaign shared the same business address as the private law practice of the Miami city commissioner.Our post prompted Sarnoff's wife Theresa to submit an amendment to his most recent ... More >>

Groupon Stands by Crispin Porter Bogusky's Dumb Commercials

Much like jokes, if you have to explain advertising to the audience then it's probably not that effective. After Groupon's Super Bowl ads sparked controversy and weathered widespread criticism the deal website's founder and CEO Andrew Mason released an official statement standing by the ads and the ... More >>

Police Suspect Missing Mom Lilly Aramburo May Have Been Killed

Miami-Dade Police​More than three years after she went missing, Miami-Dade Police investigators believe Lilly Aramburo was a victim of foul play. At least, that's what an updated missing persons flyer seems to indicate. New Times wrote a cover story about the young single mother's June 1, 2007 dis ... More >>

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Miami-Dade Police​More than three years after she went missing, Miami-Dade Police investigators believe Lilly Aramburo was a victim of foul play. At least, that's what an updated missing persons flyer seems to indicate. New Times wrote a cover story about the young single mother's June 1, 2007 dis ... More >>

Lt. Gov-elect Jennifer Carroll May Have Falsified Documents to Scam Government Program

Lt. Gov-elect Jennifer Carroll's ethics record may have looked squeaky clean compared to Gov-elect Rick Scott and his former company's record setting Medicare fraud, but it appears that Carroll's company may have been involved in scamming a government program too. The Florida Times-Union reports tha ... More >>

2010 Miami Music Festival, November 11 to 14

Lt. Gov-elect Jennifer Carroll's ethics record may have looked squeaky clean compared to Gov-elect Rick Scott and his former company's record setting Medicare fraud, but it appears that Carroll's company may have been involved in scamming a government program too. The Florida Times-Union reports tha ... More >>

Crispin Porter Bogusky Will Make Baby Carrots "Extreme" and "Sexy"

​Everyone's favorite crazy Miami-based ad agency, Crispin Porter Bogusky, has done a hell of a job selling Americans cheap dead cow meat patties and oily potato slices through its work for Burger King. Now the outside-of-the-box ad agency's next goal is to trick us into eating something nutritio ... More >>

Comics on Canvas

​Everyone's favorite crazy Miami-based ad agency, Crispin Porter Bogusky, has done a hell of a job selling Americans cheap dead cow meat patties and oily potato slices through its work for Burger King. Now the outside-of-the-box ad agency's next goal is to trick us into eating something nutritio ... More >>

Don't Get Left Behind

​Everyone's favorite crazy Miami-based ad agency, Crispin Porter Bogusky, has done a hell of a job selling Americans cheap dead cow meat patties and oily potato slices through its work for Burger King. Now the outside-of-the-box ad agency's next goal is to trick us into eating something nutritio ... More >>

Grovites Are Angry the Miami Herald Ignored Local Guy Ric O'Barry's Best Documentary Oscar

Ric O'Barry​The email arrived at the Miami Herald yesterday with some choice words about the paper's Oscar coverage. It came from Bob Ingram, a folk singer who has lived in Coconut Grove since the '60s. Here's an excerpt from the letter, which was never published: "When the Miami Herald reported ... More >>

In Defense of Lyrikill's Viral Marketing Strategies

Before he was crashing live news coverage to get himself on TV, Lyrikill Dot Com already had a sophisticated viral marketing strategy in place. See the above video of the Lyrikill song "You Done Messed Up" intercut with celebrity gossip photos and titled "Chris Brown Beat Rihanna [Picture Rihanna ... More >>

Three Florida Telecom Execs Charged With Bribing Haitian Government

In 2001, a start-up phone company set up shop in a Miramar office park, looking to corner the market on international calls from Little Haiti to Port-au-Prince.​It was a great business plan in Miami. Unfortunately, according to the feds, the company's execs decided there was only one way to make i ... More >>

Crispin Porter's Gap Ad Leads to Boycott for Not Using the Word "Christmas," Even Though It Does

​It's almost time for the Holidays, which means it's time to cover your house in lights, find a present for your weird uncle Adolpho, and, oh right, the annual War on Christmas.The American Family Association kicked things off early this year by calling for a two month boycott on Gap Inc. "The Gap ... More >>

If We Build It, Will They Come?

​It's almost time for the Holidays, which means it's time to cover your house in lights, find a present for your weird uncle Adolpho, and, oh right, the annual War on Christmas.The American Family Association kicked things off early this year by calling for a two month boycott on Gap Inc. "The Gap ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Social Media Club South Florida, October Edition

All wired up and ready to talk shop about social media.​This month's Social Media Club South Florida (SMCSF) was held October 13 at City Year headquarters in downtown Miami, followed by some socializing at Tobacco Road. A panel of advertising, public relations, and marketing specialists led the di ... More >>

In the Name of Dub

Jesse Stoll's homegrown DubFest brings international reggae legends out of hiding.

Concert Review: Square One MusicFest in Downtown Delray, July 31

Miami swing revivalists Ever So Klever​Square One MusicFestThe Pavilion, downtown Delray BeachWith Elastic Bond, the Pretty Faces, and Ever So KleverFriday, July 31, 2009Better Than: Barbie's 50th Birthday exhibit at Old School Square's Cornell MuseumThe Review:When a state's revenue shrinks, it's ... More >>

Risky Business

An elite private school, a top-drawer law firm, and lots of lewd talk.

Ex-CEO's 'Porn Star' Wife Shocks St. Stephen's and White & Case

via NiteFlirt.comJenny, AKA ObeyME999The email arrived just before lunchtime June 15. In it, a photo showed a tanned nude blonde bending over, underpants around her thighs. With seductive eyes, she gazed at the camera. Below the image was a list of her interests: "Role-playing, cuckolding, slaves, A ... More >>

Please, No Terrible Twos!

via NiteFlirt.comJenny, AKA ObeyME999The email arrived just before lunchtime June 15. In it, a photo showed a tanned nude blonde bending over, underpants around her thighs. With seductive eyes, she gazed at the camera. Below the image was a list of her interests: "Role-playing, cuckolding, slaves, A ... More >>

Sand Sculpture Competition on Key Biscayne

Ten teams of college kids (and reps from one high school and two architectural firms) gathered Sunday on Key Biscayne.  From noon to 3:30 about 150 people dug and sculpted some incredible stuff at Crandon Park. It was the tenth time the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects has ... More >>

Wait, What Are You Trying To Sell Me?

Ten teams of college kids (and reps from one high school and two architectural firms) gathered Sunday on Key Biscayne.  From noon to 3:30 about 150 people dug and sculpted some incredible stuff at Crandon Park. It was the tenth time the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects has ... More >>

Donate Rice, Stave Off Senility

Ten teams of college kids (and reps from one high school and two architectural firms) gathered Sunday on Key Biscayne.  From noon to 3:30 about 150 people dug and sculpted some incredible stuff at Crandon Park. It was the tenth time the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects has ... More >>

Gui Boratto

Ten teams of college kids (and reps from one high school and two architectural firms) gathered Sunday on Key Biscayne.  From noon to 3:30 about 150 people dug and sculpted some incredible stuff at Crandon Park. It was the tenth time the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects has ... More >>

Grass Chef Heads For Greener Pastures

Ten teams of college kids (and reps from one high school and two architectural firms) gathered Sunday on Key Biscayne.  From noon to 3:30 about 150 people dug and sculpted some incredible stuff at Crandon Park. It was the tenth time the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects has ... More >>

Grass Chef Heads For Greener Pastures

Ten teams of college kids (and reps from one high school and two architectural firms) gathered Sunday on Key Biscayne.  From noon to 3:30 about 150 people dug and sculpted some incredible stuff at Crandon Park. It was the tenth time the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects has ... More >>

Bike Lane Bureaucracy

Ten teams of college kids (and reps from one high school and two architectural firms) gathered Sunday on Key Biscayne.  From noon to 3:30 about 150 people dug and sculpted some incredible stuff at Crandon Park. It was the tenth time the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects has ... More >>

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Welcome to the Jungle

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Stickin’ It to the Middleman

New Times peeks inside the newest VW campaign, in the name of, um, journalism

Redeveloping History

Miami’s top developer says he has no history with drug dealers. You judge.

Valentine Sway

A Miami lawyer convinced clients he was on the level, then was disbarred

Ad to the Trouble

We give VW some marketing ideas

Who is: Ralph Arza?

We give VW some marketing ideas

Caught on Tape, Part 2

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Buying In

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Prop Central/Stylehaus

BEST NEW BUILDING

Espirito Santo Plaza

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Best Public Park

Morningside Park

Packed, Stacked, and Hijacked

How a citizens advisory board created to investigate illegal billboards became an industry support group

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of November 9, 2000

A Sign of Victory

New Times' jihad to scrub the skyline rolls onward

Interior Outfitters

ROOM

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All in the Family

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Friends (and Money) in High Places

Doing Justice

Friends (and Money) in High Places