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Puppet Punch

Election Tip #2: Choose Your Candidate

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see United 93, but you should

Gitmo Inches Toward Its Final Days, or Does It?

Over the weekend, the Pentagon airlifted a slew of reporters and a handful of family members of 9/11 victims to Guantanamo Bay to watch the latest in the trial of five prisoners.What was mostly meant as a photo op turned into a genuine, huge news story when all five detainees, including 9/11 masterm ... More >>

The Man Who Armed Iraq

Over the weekend, the Pentagon airlifted a slew of reporters and a handful of family members of 9/11 victims to Guantanamo Bay to watch the latest in the trial of five prisoners.What was mostly meant as a photo op turned into a genuine, huge news story when all five detainees, including 9/11 masterm ... More >>

Pop by the Numbers

Twenty-three adds it up and envisions the evolution

Guantanamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

Art Capsules

Current shows

A Bird in the Grave Equals Two in the Pub

Hear Irish words of wisdom at the Saint Stephen’s Day celebration.

The Bodyguard

Special forces. National ad campaigns. Watching the backs of the big guys. Meet this Eastern European hunk

Blood Business

Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

Off to the Races

Triple contenders tangle at the finish line

Nixon Rewound

As Florida's GOP delegates head for New York, it's time to recall Miami Beach, 1972

This Week's Day by Day Picks

As Florida's GOP delegates head for New York, it's time to recall Miami Beach, 1972

Letters from the Issue of April 22, 2004

Haiti of yore, more obsessions, posterior postmortems, and the S word

Press Pass and a Gas Mask

Embedded reporters made the military look good in Iraq, but did they do the same for Miami cops?

The Me Country

For some, 9/11 was life-changing; for others, it was just another bad day

Lost Sounds

The new Memphis

On the Left, Off the Wall

In Miami, the antiwar movement is making some people kooky

The Accidental Terrorist

He stumbled into a group of Muslim extremists with plans to attack America. Then he stumbled into Miami. Today Shaheed Mohamed is nowhere to be found.

The Wake-Up Call

Hamas is as close as Ecuador. And they're arguing about American targets.

Letters from the Issue of December 27, 2001

Embrace the Nightmare: And while we're at it, let's pray for really,really bad weather

Dining from A to Zagat

The man behind the famous food guide eats up Miami

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

Admitting Terror

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

Full Recovery

It took exactly three nanoseconds for pop music to snap out of it

Tales of Terror

In the chaotic days following the attacks, a reporter came to expect the unexpected

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Paradise Lost, Again

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

Shake

America unplugged

You Coulda Called Him Al

Pirate radio terrorism claims its first victim

1984 and Counting

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

Drink in Life

The terrorism in the Northeast can bring us together

Shake

The day the music died

What Spies Beneath

Okay, so they really were spying for Cuba, but not in a bad way

Point Plank

Okay, so they really were spying for Cuba, but not in a bad way

"It'll Never Get Off the Ground"

With nothing to show after four years but bitterness and bickering, the plan to turn Homestead Air Force Base into a commercial airport has gone from national model to national embarrassment

Juris Without Prudence

What litigant is willing to take Madonna, the CIA, and Governor Chiles to court? It's Alfredo F. de Castro, Miami's one-man suit factory.

Burton's Blooey Period

What litigant is willing to take Madonna, the CIA, and Governor Chiles to court? It's Alfredo F. de Castro, Miami's one-man suit factory.

Visit Cuba Cyberspace.2Day

Despite new economic sanctions and travel restrictions, castrolania is just a few computer clicks away.

Buy-Buy Guantanamo!

For an agency renowned for spending thousands on a single toilet seat, the Pentagon sure sells cheap

Obama Decides to Keep Grotesque Parody of Justice For Gitmo Detainees

When I visited Guantanamo Bay a few months ago, I caught what looked like the last act in the long, sordid miscarriage of justice President Bush called the military tribunal system. Hope you weren't looking for a fair trial, boys.There were so many outrageous pro ... More >>

Musicians Demand Classified Gitmo Memos On How Their Tunes Were Used As Torture

Of all the outrages perpetrated at Guantanamo Bay -- which New Times explored in depth earlier this year on our visit to the prison camp in southern Cuba -- one of the strangest has to be the military's music-based "futility technique."via Wikimedia Commons​In case you've succeeded in washing the ... More >>

World leaders should see the Frost Art Museum's latest exhibits

Of all the outrages perpetrated at Guantanamo Bay -- which New Times explored in depth earlier this year on our visit to the prison camp in southern Cuba -- one of the strangest has to be the military's music-based "futility technique."via Wikimedia Commons​In case you've succeeded in washing the ... More >>

Charlie Crist Now Supports Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell

​Gov. Charlie Crist, who it should be noted is no stranger to people snooping around trying to figure out his sexuality, says he would now be "inclined" to support repealing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. It's just the latest shift that separates Crist from his former par ... More >>

Adventure in Afghanistan

​Gov. Charlie Crist, who it should be noted is no stranger to people snooping around trying to figure out his sexuality, says he would now be "inclined" to support repealing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. It's just the latest shift that separates Crist from his former par ... More >>

Boobs for Bombs

​Gov. Charlie Crist, who it should be noted is no stranger to people snooping around trying to figure out his sexuality, says he would now be "inclined" to support repealing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. It's just the latest shift that separates Crist from his former par ... More >>

WikiLeaks Just a Drop in the Bucket: Top 5 Best Leaks in Recent History

SilliCilli's on FlikrHistoric leaking.​There's been a lot of leaking lately. First, it was Mel Gibson's heavy-breathing tirade, and now something that is just a tad more relevant -- WikiLeaks' releasing thousands of pages of allegedly classified documents pertaining to the War in Af ... More >>

Judge Issues "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Injunction, Obama Administration Expected to Appeal

​Today, in a court room in California, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued an injunction that would prevent the U.S. military from enforcing its 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy which forbids homosexuals from serving openly in the military. About time. Though, The Washingto ... More >>

September 11 Rewind: How Food Got Us Through

The World Trade Center in the sunlight.​As I walked into Dunkin' Donuts yesterday to grab a coffee in Miami, I noticed pumpkin doughnuts for sale. Suddenly a little frisson ran down my spine. I was transported back to a sunny morning almost a decade ago in New York. Around 9 a.m. on that fateful S ... More >>