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  • Music

    February 17, 2005
  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008
  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Kath & Kim Leaves Us Geographically Confused

    The best thing about NBC's American version of Kath & Kim is its cast. Molly Shannon, Selma Blair and John Michael Higgins have all had flashes of brilliance in their careers, and occasionally have them here. The second best thing about it is that it comes on right before The Office, so it's pretty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Slow Foods Glades to Coast Dinner at Cafe Boulud

    (sturgeon: It's what's for dinner)The Slow Foods Glades to Coast Chapter, which covers roughly the Palm Beach and Broward areas, is hosting a 5-course Growers' Discovery gourmet dinner at Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach this Thursday, December 11, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. The dinner, overseen by chef Zach B ... More >>

  • News

    August 7, 1991

    Pee-Wee Herman Needs Your Help

    Kid-show creator Paul Reubens allegedly gets caught with his pants down. Only in America could this ruin a brilliant career.

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Mini-Madoff Turns Himself In

    Much has happened with Art Nadel since we last wrote about him. For one, he has acquired a catchy new nickname: Mini-Madoff! How dignified. More important, though, he turned himself in to the FBI early this morning. Nadel ran six hedge funds out of Sarasota, and investors thought they were worth $30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    James Beard Nominations Confirm Our Secret Crushes

    The James Beard Foundation has announced its nominees for the best chefs around the country, and two of our hunky, homegrown hubbas are among this year's picks: Chef Dean James Max (pictured left) of 3030 Ocean, in Fort Lauderdale; and Chef Zach Bell of Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach. It seems as th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Connie Mack IV Will Not Run for Senate in State He Barely Lives In

    If Charlie Crist does not run for Senate, Marco Rubio is officially the luckiest man on Earth. Rep. Connie Mack IV (né Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV), who pulled in decent numbers during early polling mainly because he shares a name with his father, former Sen. Connie Mack III, has decided not t ... More >>

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    Letters from the Issue of May 24, 2007

    "Any officer who deserts [his] soldiers is a coward"

  • Music

    October 12, 2006

    Badi Assad

    "Any officer who deserts [his] soldiers is a coward"

  • Dining

    October 13, 2005

    Another Prime Spot

    "Any officer who deserts [his] soldiers is a coward"

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    1984 and Counting

    Media attempts to find a face for terrorism -- and to fashion a response -- evoke George Orwell

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Media attempts to find a face for terrorism -- and to fashion a response -- evoke George Orwell

  • News

    January 1, 1998

    Idiot Wind

    After Hurricane Andrew destroyed Susan Alberti's home, county bureaucrats stepped in to finish off what was left of her life

  • News

    October 31, 1996

    Ten of Club's

    After Hurricane Andrew destroyed Susan Alberti's home, county bureaucrats stepped in to finish off what was left of her life

  • News

    September 5, 1996

    Will the Last Hurricane Profiteer to Leave Miami Please Turn Out the Lights?

    John Eugene Yoder arrived in Miami 30 days after the Big One. Three stray dogs, 48 pairs of tennis shoes, one girlfriend's college degree, seven hammers, 300 condos, and four years later, he's riding off into the sunset.

  • Film

    July 13, 1994

    What's Sex Got to Do With It?

    John Eugene Yoder arrived in Miami 30 days after the Big One. Three stray dogs, 48 pairs of tennis shoes, one girlfriend's college degree, seven hammers, 300 condos, and four years later, he's riding off into the sunset.

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Court Orders Florida to Recognize Gay Adoptions From Other States

    Gay penguin dads from a book called "And Tango Makes Three" Miami-Dade Judge Cindy Lederman's ruling that overturned the gay adoption ban in Florida is still working its way through the court system, but yesterday another Florida judge handed down another ruling in favor of gay adoptive parents ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Two Divers Die During Lobster Mini-Season

    photo via Miamism's Flickr​Every year divers start off lobster mini-season with the same thought in their head, "Let's have some fun. Their meat is sick. I wanna take a dive with my tickle stick." Unfortunately things always seem to take a turn for the deadly. Two divers have turned up d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Sarasota Builder Dies Mysteriously While Lobster Diving in Haulover Beach

    Vancityallie​Miami-Dade Homicide Detectives are investigating the death of a wealthy Sarasota building contractor found dead on the ocean floor this morning. Daniel Robert Pochedley went missing while diving for lobster near Haulover Beach just before 11 a.m. After a caller reported an abandon ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2009

    Put your tall boys in the air

    Vancityallie​Miami-Dade Homicide Detectives are investigating the death of a wealthy Sarasota building contractor found dead on the ocean floor this morning. Daniel Robert Pochedley went missing while diving for lobster near Haulover Beach just before 11 a.m. After a caller reported an abandon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    News Roundup: West Miami Mayor Suspended for Gabbing; Cuban Ump Defects

    West Miami Mayor Ceasar Carasa has been suspended for racking up a $70,000 cell phone bill on the City's dime. Carasa is not believed to be an actual teenage girl. [NBCMiami]The Miami Art Museum has named John Wetenhall as its interim director. Previously he's worked in museums in such cultural hotb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    MP3 of the Day: "Cutting Teeth" by Diamond Hymen, Playing the American Legion This Saturday

    Photo by Jeremy Harris​In this 21st century world where even your grandmother's getting busy with the Facebooks, MySpacies, and Ashley Madisons, there's something mysterious and exotic and enticing about a young lady who can't be found anywhere on the interweb. So when a fanboy asks Google, Who is ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    Your Distortional Family

    Photo by Jeremy Harris​In this 21st century world where even your grandmother's getting busy with the Facebooks, MySpacies, and Ashley Madisons, there's something mysterious and exotic and enticing about a young lady who can't be found anywhere on the interweb. So when a fanboy asks Google, Who is ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    Your Distortional Family

    Photo by Jeremy Harris​In this 21st century world where even your grandmother's getting busy with the Facebooks, MySpacies, and Ashley Madisons, there's something mysterious and exotic and enticing about a young lady who can't be found anywhere on the interweb. So when a fanboy asks Google, Who is ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    Your Distortional Family

    Photo by Jeremy Harris​In this 21st century world where even your grandmother's getting busy with the Facebooks, MySpacies, and Ashley Madisons, there's something mysterious and exotic and enticing about a young lady who can't be found anywhere on the interweb. So when a fanboy asks Google, Who is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Roofless Records Just Won't Reveal Its Cinema Sounds Secrets Till Tomorrow

    From the moment Cinema Sounds No. 6 was announced, there's been a serious swirl of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. And no matter how hard we batter him with questions, Roofless Rex exec Matt Preira refuses to reveal anything but the most basic details. He just smirks and says: "It's secret!' U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Wet Goddess: Florida Man Pens Human-Dolphin Romance Novel

    ​Last year in a slightly controversial cover story, New Times delved into the world of bestiality. We introduced you, whether you were prepared or not, to Malcolm Brenner, a Sarasota man who claims that a dolphin, named Ruby, was the love of his life. Now he's completed work on a semi-autobiograph ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Event Review: 10 X 10 at Miami Art Museum, May 13

    Photo by Ben Thacker​Click here to view all the photos from this event.10 X 10 Miami MAM Contemporaries SocialMiami Art Museum, Miami Thursday, May 13, 2010Better than: Ben Stiller's Night at the MuseumThe Review:10 x 10 is a concept lecture series featuring ten up and coming local creative mind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Concert Review: iLa Mawana at Purdy Lounge, May 20

    ​iLA MawanaPurdy Lounge, Miami BeachThursday, May 20, 2010Better Than: Another predictable round of classics with The Wailers. Yea, I said it. The Review: A city drenched in dubstep could always use a breather. Thursday night, Lance O. and the kids from Kulcha Shok welcomed Boston-based reggae oct ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Online News Startup The Florida Independent Launches

    ​Print's death rattle has birthed a new online start-up based here in Florida. The Florida Independent launched earlier this week with a focus on original, daily reporting on state and local issues. But what's notable about the start-up is its place in a growing list of news organizations that ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Buju Banton Rides Drug Trial Up the Charts As Fans Demand His Release

    ​Just ask Tupac, Lil' Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You may as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting retrial on federal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Password Protect Your Wireless Router or Risk Child Porn Charges

    ​Malcolm Riddell, a 58-year-old married resident of Sarasota, never got around to password protecting his wireless router. That led to the FBI knocking on his door, holding him up against a wall, and searching his computer for images of child porn according to The Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Riddell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Stephen King: "Maybe My Next Horror Novel Will Star Rick Scott"

    ​It takes a lot to scare Stephen King, the master of horror fiction, but apparently the author is plain old terrified of our new governor, Rick Scott. King, who spends his winters in Casey Key near Sarasota, spoke at an "Awake the State" rally yesterday and joked, "Maybe my next horror novel will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Florida Newspaper Looking to Employ the Slightly Mentally Deranged

    ​The thing about really good journalists is that they aren't like normal people. They're slightly touched in the head. They're generally well educated, clever and capable people who could be making a lot more in some other industry, but for whatever reason don't. While most of us would respond to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    No, 70 People Were Not Trapped in an Airport Hangar Due to Central Florida's Crazy Weather

    via Bay News 9​It's in the 80s and perfectly sunny here in Miami, but our state-mates in the central part of Florida aren't enjoying the same good weather. An apparent tornado that ripped through Tampa has left many areas in Central Florida in disarray. But a report carried by numerous national me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Murder of Two British Men in Sarasota Isn't the Best Tourism Ad for Florida

    James Cooper and James Kouzaris were found dead in a public housing project near Sarasota.​Residents of "Knifecrime Island" might become increasingly wary of traveling to the "Gunshine State." The brutal murder of two British tourists in Sarasota has shocked the United Kingdom, and now the country ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Key Biscayne Beach Named One of America's Top Ten Beaches

    ​Sure, saying you're taking your talents to Cape Florida State Park Beach doesn't have much of a ring to it, but the stretch of sand on Key Biscayne is apparently the best Miami-Dade has to offer, and one of the best in the country. The annual list put out by Stephen Leatherman, director of Florid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Sarasota Principal Hypnotized Three Students Before Their Strange Deaths

    Remember Dr. George Kenney, the hypnosis enthusiast/principal of North Port High School in Sarasota, who was suspended after a student he hypnotized suffered a fatal drug overdose the next day? Well turns out that isn't the only student Kenney hypnotized who later turned up dead. An investigation fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Sarasota Youth Football Team's Beatdown of Referee Caught on Video

    ​Remember when the University of Miami and Florida International University football teams got into a giant brawl? Yeah, well, at least everyone involved was an adult and they all managed to keep the punches directed at just players.It's nothing compared to the shocking video that has emerged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Miami's Slashpine Makes the Pilgrimmage to Meet Olympia's Wolves in the Throne Room

    Photo by Chris BeugThese are Wolves in the Throne Room.​Slashpine Travelogue Wolves in the Throne Room The Chop Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida Friday, September 23, 2011 It's hard to reckon the episode we experienced in Florida's backwater over the weekend. It was was meant to be a quick detour on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Eight-Foot-Tall Lego Man Washes Up On Florida Beach

    ​In Florida we're used to things like whales, cocaine and various human body parts washing up on our beaches, but sun seekers on Siesta Key were in for something of a surprise this morning when they discovered an eight-foot-tall Lego man had mysteriously wound up sitting in the sand.

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Opa-Locka Sgt. German Bosque: Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Epic Takedown of Florida's Dirtiest Cop

    Facebook​When a Sarasota daily newspaper went looking for Florida's dirtiest cop, they landed in our very own Middle Eastern-themed, bullet-riddled, corruption-crazy backyard. The most surprising aspect of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's epic exposé of Opa-Locka Sgt. German Bosque's history on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Homeless Florida Man Decapitates Another Over Spilled Food

    ​An unidentified homeless man knocked over a grill and ended up losing his head early Tuesday morning in Sarasota.Ricky L. Leer, 48, another homeless resident of Sarasota, now stands charged of second-degree murder after allegedly lopping off the man's head with a machete-like knife.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    George W. Bush Wishes Jeb Would Have Ran for President This Year

    ​George W. Bush has remained relatively quiet throughout the Republican primary race. That's not unusual for former presidents, and, perhaps, most candidates may not have been rushing for his support anyway. But it seems that none of the current candidates were Bush's favorites. He much would have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    FDLE Paid Employees to Get Drunk on Whiskey for Possibly Worthless Study

    ​The Florida Department of Law Enforcement spent $330 back in October on Jim Beam whiskey, mixers and some Doritos. Fifteen employees then proceeded to get drunk on company time. Sounds like the makings of an office party, no? Not so much. The ill advised plan was part of a makeshift study to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Casino Bill Dies in Florida House

    ​If you were a betting man, hopefully you were betting that a bill to bring three full-service, Las Vegas-style casinos to South Florida wouldn't pass this year. You'd be cashing in right now.The bill has died in the Florida House, after Rep. Erik Fresen, the Republican from Miami who is sponsorin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Weird Wives and Luma Junger Square Off Against Alligator Alley, Wise Wizards, and Gulf Coast Fauna (Plus Free Music!)

    Fear, loathing, and boiled peanuts in Sarasota, Florida.​Alligator Alley, the artery connecting lower Southwest Florida with the Gulf Coast b/w The Everglades, is so flat, straight and strikingly unremarkable that it takes on the vertiginous qualities of the most hypnogogic labyrinths. That is to ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2012

    Buju Banton is innocent

    Fear, loathing, and boiled peanuts in Sarasota, Florida.​Alligator Alley, the artery connecting lower Southwest Florida with the Gulf Coast b/w The Everglades, is so flat, straight and strikingly unremarkable that it takes on the vertiginous qualities of the most hypnogogic labyrinths. That is to ... More >>

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