Tim Elfrink

New Times Says No to MLB

MLB Steroid Scandal: What's Next for New Times

Reader Mail: No Hall of Fame for A-Rod After New Times Investigation

Marijuana Didn't Make the Face-Eater Go Nuts

Reader Mail: Dr. Schnoz Is a Gifted Surgeon

Reader mail: Skip Bayless is a racist tool

Reader mail: "MAM board members should be indicted for stupidity"

Pulse Miami Brings Candy Assault Rifles, Free Tattoos and Comfy Hammocks To Wynwood

​When Mac Premo, a D.C.-born, RISD-educated artist, was forced to move to a new, smaller studio space in Brooklyn, he came to a terrible realization: There was no way he could bring along the hundreds of objects he'd accumulated, from dusty baseball cards to antique cans to torn hats. Premo couldn ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Guide to the street festival

Miami New Times Dominates Florida Press Club Awards

​Miami New Times dominated this past weekend's Florida Press Club Awards in Saint Augustine. The newspaper took ten awards, more than any other in the state.Among the winners: Frank Alvarado and Robert Dunlap took first in general news writing; Tim Elfrink, first in government news and business wr ... More >>

Liberty City Seven Denied A New Trial Despite Juror Shenanigans

photo by Tim ElfrinkNaudimar Herrera, who was cleared of charges in the Liberty City Seven case. His co-defendants' appeal was denied.​Next time someone argues that justice is the end result after a trip through American courts, here's the only rebuttal you need: "Liberty City Seven." The informan ... More >>

Occupy Miami Brings Out Hundreds of Protesters to Bayfront Park

photo by Tim Elfrink​Echoing the ongoing "Occupy" movements from Wall Street to San Francisco, hundreds of sign-waving, drum-beating, flyer-hawking protesters gathered in Bayfront Park this afternoon, drawing supportive honks from cars pouring down Biscayne Boulevard and bewildered stares from tou ... More >>

Reader mail: Not all black areas look like Overtown

Tomas Regalado Compares Himself to Bill Clinton

​In today's Miami Herald, you'll find an article by Miami City Hall beat reporter Charles Rabin that blathers on about Mayor Tomás Regalado's allegedly unflappable resiliency. Rabin, late to the game by a week, notes Regalado is facing a recall threat from the police and fire unions as the c ... More >>

Miami New Times Wins Dozen Green Eyeshade Awards

​Miami News Times won 12 awards in the recently announced Green Eyeshade Awards, which recognizes excellence in journalism in 11 Southeastern states. In the non-daily division, Tim Elfrink took first place awards in business, technology, public affairs, and politics reporting, as well as seco ... More >>

Watch Protestors Dance the "Tax the Rich Shuffle" Outside Carnival Headquarters

Photo by Tim Elfrink​To celebrate Tax Day, the folks at Right to the City and MoveOn.org decided it was high time to combine the best traditions of 1985-era Chicago Bears dancing and progressive lefty political agitation. The result? Behold the "Tax the Rich Shuffle." William "The Fridge" Perry wa ... More >>

As Miami Police Shootings Hit National News, More Lasting Memorial Painted in Overtown

photo by Tim Elfrink​Mark March 22 as the moment the world started paying attention to Miami's embattled police department. That's when an ex-Miami Herald reporter named Don Van Natta Jr. parachuted in to write a New York Times piece telling millions of readers what everyone in black Miami knows t ... More >>

Norman Braman Makes It Rain in Effort to Oust Carlos Alvarez

Tim ElfrinkNorman Braman flexes his baller status.​As the first week of early voting in the recall election of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and Commissioner Natacha Seijas winds down, we decided to take a peek at the latest campaign finance reports filed with the elections department. As expect ... More >>

Pictures of Nevin Shapiro's Mansion: This Is What An $880 Million Ponzi Scheme Buys You

photo by Tim ElfrinkThe view is fantastic -- until the feds show up.​You've got a steamrolling Ponzi scheme churning out cash so fast that you can't spend it all. You've already leased the $4,700-per-month Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG with rims fatter than Fat Joe and dropped $1.5 million on a Riviera ya ... More >>

Al Farrow Takes Weapons and Makes Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and Heated Conversation

photo by Tim ElfrinkYep, that's a synagogue made of guns and bullets.​As we wandered through the Ice Palace in Wynwood this morning at the Pulse fair, we were drawn from across the hall by a gleaming blue and gold replica mosque. Hey, that's beautiful, we thought, wandering closer. Then, as we dre ... More >>

Letters from the issue of November 11, 2010

Dispatch From the Biltmore: The Night Marco Rubio's Presidential Campaign Began

photo by Tim ElfrinkRubio in 2012: It started tonight.​Marco Rubio is running for president in 2012. It's not official, of course, and maybe even Rubio himself hasn't decided whether to seek the highest office in the land. But at the raucus party tonight at the Biltmore, it sure seemed like Rubio' ... More >>

Letters from the issue of October 28, 2010

New Times Finalist For 10 Press Club Awards

​Miami New Times was shortlisted for ten awards for Excellence in Journalism from the Florida Press Club, with staff writer Tim Elfrink a finalist for four awards. Gus Garcia-Roberts is finalist for two awards, while Francisco Alvarado, Kyle Muzenreider, and Pam Shavalier are also nominated.

New Times Cleans Up in Green Eyeshades

​Miami New Times cleaned up in the nondaily division of the 60th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards, which determine the best work in 11 Southeastern States. Former staff writer Natalie O'Neill took a first place in investigative reporting for "Piece of Mind," a probe of suicides and other problems at t ... More >>

Unions Slam Mayor, Commission Over Proposed Pay and Benefit Cuts

photo by Tim Elfrink This cop wants you to know his biblical thoughts on Tomas Regalado.​They packed City Hall by the dozens this afternoon -- the firefighters in bright yellow, the police in dark blue, the general service workers in civvies. They beat the floor, pounded the windows and wh ... More >>

Rudy Moise's Auto-Tuned Campaign Ad May Be The Worst Ever

​With the primary election tomorrow, congressional candidate Rudy Moise's bizarre campaign web ad only had a few hundred views on YouTube. That's really a shame because it is just about one of the worst political ads we have ever seen. It features a bunch of supporters talk-rapping with their voic ... More >>

C'mon, Miami Herald, Hustle Up in the MIA!

​The last year or so has been tough for our city's paper of record, where I used to work. Reporters at the Miami Herald have gotten the shaft, and editors have been forced to do double duty. But hey, guys, please cover the City of Miami. It is the wheel around which the city spins.Chuck Rabin ... More >>

Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega Takes New Times to Journalism School

In March, we published a feature about the Miami Beach Police Department, detailing how more than 50 percent of the force earns at least six figures a year and profiling the myriad legal problems involving Beach cops. (You can read it here.) ​We've also reported extensively about former Office ... More >>

Colombian Green Party Candidate Mockus Deploys Obama-Style Street Art

On Sunday, voters in Colombia will close out one of the most interesting free elections ever held in South America. photo by Tim Elfrink Supporters of Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus have left street art all over Cartagena. Last month, thanks to Facebook, Twitter, and a huge push from yo ... More >>

Letters from the issue of May 27, 2010

Letters from the issue of April 1, 2010

Hand Puppets and Sweaty Canadians: Photo Lowlights From Super Bowl Media Day

Photo by Tim Elfrink The world's sweatiest Canadian TV reporter gets funky with the Saints.To the unitiated, Super Bowl Media Day must sound like some outrageous backstage fantasy. Media and players partying together! Celebrities around every corner! Free buffet lunch! Well not to worry, ign ... More >>

Chad Ochocinco Adds Another Notch in His Career Belt: Media Day Hack

Photo by Tim Elfrink Is that Ron Burgandy? Nope. Ochocinco reports live from Sun Life Stadium.Chad Ochocinco hasn't yet accecpted New Times' informal offer to write a 10,000-word odyssey/cover story about wearing Snuggies at McDonald's and living a double life as Esteban the Most In ... More >>

First Glossy Issue in Newsstands Today

​A few weeks ago, we announced that we'd be going glossy. Well, that day has arrived. Newsstands today will carry our first glossy issue, which is also nicely trimmed and stapled.The premiere glossy issue features Tim Elfrink's story "Homesick," which delves into the Chinese drywall issue affectin ... More >>

Last Night: David Lynch's 'Dark Night of the Soul' At OHWOW

Photo by Tim Elfrink​There's a reason David Lynch long ago joined the small pantheon of adjective-ized American artists alongside Hitchcock, Kubrick and Bon Jovi. (What? You've never heard a Bon Jovian song?)The director's tightrope walk between macabre and mundane was plastered all over the walls ... More >>

Exposito Announced as New Chief, Promises to Get 'Back to Basics'

If there was any lingering confusion about why Tomás Regalado chose his old friend Miguel Exposito as Miami's new chief of police, the veteran officer quickly cleared it up at his official introduction earlier this afternoon.Photo by Tim ElfrinkNew Police Chief Miguel Exposito stands with (from lef ... More >>

Van Peebles, Borowitz, S.L. Price at the Book Fair

Letters from the Issue of October 8, 2009

"The naked truth is that the Castro tyrants have taken Cuba 50 years back in time to poverty, decadence, and slavery."

Letters from the Issue of Septerber 10, 2009

"Together we stood our ground as gangsters and young teens yearning to be accepted as men in a very harsh reality."

Letters from the Issue of July 16, 2009

“Von Hautman won’t be left exposed and impoverished. A guy like this always finds another victim.”

Letters from the Issue of July 9, 2009

"I am sad to report I lost a few brain cells while reading your article."

Abandoned Boat Washes Up on Julia Tuttle Causeway

Back in April, staff writer Tim Elfrink reported that the crap-tastic economy was leading boat-owners, overburdened by docking and maintenance costs, to abandon ship all over South Florida. Naturally, we thought he had fabricated the whole thing. But yesterday, we spotted a dilapidated yacht beached ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of May 7, 2009

"It's a shame young lives are being destroyed by this senseless violence."

Dear Stephen A. Smith, We Have a Job for You

Now that you're out of a job too, why not come work for us?

Letters from the Issue of April 16, 2009

"It's time for the citizens of this country to make the decision to stop paying taxes."

Letters from the Issue of March 5, 2009

"Let him foolishly make money off of these animals, and we'll mop up the mess when something tragic finally happens."

Letters from the Issue of January 1, 2009

"Just assume these local politicians are lying when they say anything."

Porter, Fins Lay a Beatdown on Niners

The two most vicious hits in Sunday's Dolphins-49ers defensive power struggle both came in the waning minutes of the ballgame. First, with the Niners sitting in the red zone, trying to punch in a touchdown and take their first lead of the day, a bunch of security guys absolutely destroyed some ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of August 28, 2008

"Why don't you ask Mayor Diaz if his restaurant's menu includes bottled water? Hypocritical, don't you think?"