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South Florida is a mecca of everything, journalists say

South Florida is a Mecca For Writers Declaring South Florida is a Mecca of Stuff

​We were reading the Miami Herald January 15 and their writer was investigating whether Miami or Tampa was the real "mecca for lusty dance." Suddenly, this religiously mixed metaphor exploded into a vividly weird mental image: millions of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia marching piously toward... a woman ... More >>

Mormons: Hate 'em or elect 'em

​We were reading the Miami Herald January 15 and their writer was investigating whether Miami or Tampa was the real "mecca for lusty dance." Suddenly, this religiously mixed metaphor exploded into a vividly weird mental image: millions of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia marching piously toward... a woman ... More >>

Calle 13 at the American Airlines Arena October 15

​We were reading the Miami Herald January 15 and their writer was investigating whether Miami or Tampa was the real "mecca for lusty dance." Suddenly, this religiously mixed metaphor exploded into a vividly weird mental image: millions of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia marching piously toward... a woman ... More >>

Shawn Loftis's big, gay odyssey

An interview with a globetrotting, news-reporting gay porn star.

Shawn Loftis, Globe-Trotting Gay Porn Star, Plays Dictator F/M/K With New Times

​Two weeks ago, Riptide broke the story that Shawn Loftis -- known on film as Collin O'Neal -- was canned from his Miami Dade Public Schools substitute teaching job when a principal found out about his prolific gay porn career. Loftis tells us he still plans to fight the firing. In the meant ... More >>

Is Graham Crackers

​Two weeks ago, Riptide broke the story that Shawn Loftis -- known on film as Collin O'Neal -- was canned from his Miami Dade Public Schools substitute teaching job when a principal found out about his prolific gay porn career. Loftis tells us he still plans to fight the firing. In the meant ... More >>

Thomas C. Butler, Doctor in MIA Scare, Once Convicted of Carrying Bubonic Plague

via CBS​At first it seemed last night's incident that closed down parts of Miami International Airport was an overblown mistake. However details are now emerging about the past of the man at the center of the scar. Dr. Thomas C. Butler was found with a metal container in his luggage that TSA worke ... More >>

Gulf Oil Spill Sticking With Us: Top Five Things We Thought Went Away But Really Didn't

Taint gone: the oil spill is with us for years to come, whether we like it or notYesterday scientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a report on the dangers to humans and wildlife still posed by the gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To the cha ... More >>

Hani's Organic Cheeses and His Fried Haloumi

​Hani Khouri did not grow up on a farm, yet today he looks right at home herding his 17 Nubian goats with the shepherd hook he carries. You would never know that three years ago, Hani and his wife Maria Lee led the life of expats residing in places such as Brazil, Saudia Arabia, Dubai, and Austria ... More >>

Posner Plagiarizes Again

​Hani Khouri did not grow up on a farm, yet today he looks right at home herding his 17 Nubian goats with the shepherd hook he carries. You would never know that three years ago, Hani and his wife Maria Lee led the life of expats residing in places such as Brazil, Saudia Arabia, Dubai, and Austria ... 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 >>

Miami Art Museum in Bicentennial Park: "It'll never happen"

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 >>

Lithium from Bolivia could reshape Miami and the world

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 >>

Will Sen. Bill Nelson Help a U.S. Veteran's Moroccan Family?

He served his country. Now he wants justice.

Fighting for Justice for a Family Half a World Away

Think South Florida cops are crooked? Thank goodness you don't live in Morocco. Omar Ezzaidi, a Moroccan native who now lives in Miami, moved to the United States in 1998, leaving his family behind. Five years later, he became an American citizen and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Omar se ... More >>

U.S. Won't Grant HIV-Positive Cuban Asylum

viaGive us your poor, your tired, but apparently not your HIV We don't have to familiarize any locals with the wet foot, dry foot policy, aka The Cuban Adjustment Act. Any Cuban who makes it to American soil is allowed to seek residency. Well, not any Cuban migrant. Not if that Cuban is HIV . & ... More >>

Pizza Fusion Earth Week Giveaways

Pizza Fusion, born as a single restaurant operation in Deerfield, is now aggressively franchised. On March 31, the company announced a series of Pizza Fusion restaurants opening across Saudi Arabia. Its motto is "Saving the Earth one pizza at a time" and all  deliveries are made ... More >>

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No.1.

American Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance '08

Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

Black Russian

Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

Eye for an Eye

Three teens allegedly killed a man for eleven dollars. Do they deserve the needle?

Osama’s Thug

Jose Padilla is (a) a punk; (b) a terrorist in training; (c) an unwitting pawn for Uncle Sam and al-Qaeda; or (d) all of the above

The Drink-'Em-Up World Cup

America's most international city was scandalously lubed

Killing Time

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

Current Stage Shows

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

U.S. of Scapegoat

America gets blamed for just about everything in the Sol's new production

The Great Liberal Hope

Howard Dean is aiming for the White House, but first it's Miami Beach

Muslim McCarthyism

A Miramar family gets the full suspect treatment

The War Comes to Bagel Time

Mazel tov

MIA: A User's Manual

Is our airport the most user-unfriendly in America? No, just one of four really unhappy landing sites.

Thompson of Arabia

The case for an American Al-Jazeera

A Tale of Two Mosques

Both are in South Florida and both attracted terrorists, but they could not be more different

Letters from the Issue of April 25, 2002

The Everglades, dead fish, and dictators

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of October 25, 2001

Admitting Terror

The immigration service's own describe how America failed to protect its borders from the September 11 terrorists

Fair Game

A terrorism survivor and expert digs into the bin Laden dilemma

In Too Deep

Four years ago a dangerous chemical tanker ran aground in Biscayne National Park. The salvage operation that followed would go down in history.

News of the Weird

Four years ago a dangerous chemical tanker ran aground in Biscayne National Park. The salvage operation that followed would go down in history.

Flying High

Before heading off to Washington for confirmation as Secretary of the Air Force, State Sen. Daryl Jones got involved in one last bond deal. The money was very good, but the backwash could be very bad.

The Baba Chronicles, Part 2

Before heading off to Washington for confirmation as Secretary of the Air Force, State Sen. Daryl Jones got involved in one last bond deal. The money was very good, but the backwash could be very bad.

The Baba Chronicles

For some people, African millionaire Foutanga Dit Babani Sissoko was a dream come true. For others he was a nightmare.

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.

Calendar for the week

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.

Worldwide Gersten Sightings

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.

Call While You Can

Much to AT&T's dismay, foreign companies have found a way around the restrictions on calling Cu ba from the U.S. -- for now, at least

The Sweet Buy-and-Buy

Much to AT&T's dismay, foreign companies have found a way around the restrictions on calling Cu ba from the U.S. -- for now, at least

Weather People

Much to AT&T's dismay, foreign companies have found a way around the restrictions on calling Cu ba from the U.S. -- for now, at least

Back from Baghdad

Much to AT&T's dismay, foreign companies have found a way around the restrictions on calling Cu ba from the U.S. -- for now, at least

The Man Who Armed Iraq

Much to AT&T's dismay, foreign companies have found a way around the restrictions on calling Cu ba from the U.S. -- for now, at least