Tim Elfrink

Reader Mail: Bud Selig Gets What He Deserves

Miami New Times Best Investigations of 2012: A Wrongly Charged Boxer, Corrupt Mayors and Bogus Pot Busts

Here at Riptide we do plenty of joking about mugshots and celebrating the sheer insanity that is life in the Sunshine State. But Miami New Times' staff writers also spend months investigating the kinds of stories that daily newspapers just don't have the time or resources to focus on any more.In 201 ... More >>

Reader Mail: Long Voting Lines Were a GOP Plot

At Miami Book Fair International, Naomi Wolf, Irvine Welsh, and Mark Helprin Bring Literary Heat

Reader Mail: Marlins Park Has Screwed the City and Fans

Reader Mail: Down With the TSA

Reader Mail: The TSA Is a Modern-Day Nazi Goon Squad

Reader Mail: Tony Montana Isn't the Face of Miami

Miguel Exposito, Former Miami Police Chief, Asks Judges Today To Give Him Job Back

For two years, Miguel Exposito was the head honcho at the Miami Police Department. They were jolly times for the Magic City's muckrakers, who made an easy living as Exposito butted heads with Mayor Tomas Regalado and produced a too-crazy-to-be-true litany of scandals and shootings. When he was fired ... More >>

Memorial Day Police Shooting Victims Are Suing Miami Beach

Remember last Memorial Day weekend on South Beach? Yes, that was the one when Miami Beach cops unloaded more than a hundred rounds into the car of Raymond Herisse, a Palm Beach resident police say tried to run them over on Collins Avenue. Not all those bullets hit Herisse, though. At least five ... More >>

Reader Mail: Metta World Peace Is a Scumbag

Twenty-One Years After New Times' Sean Rowe Navigated Miami By Canoe, Another Writer Is Trying Again

Twenty-one years ago, then-Miami New Times writer Sean Rowe pushed his 17-foot canoe into Biscayne Bay, jumped in -- and immediately capsized. Rowe dried himself off, jumped back in, and so began a four-day journey navigating Miami-Dade via 30-miles of seldom used drainage canals. Rowe eventually pa ... More >>

Marlins Stadium Morass: We Race From Downtown by Bike, Kayak, and Rickshaw

Protesters Outside Marlins Park Call for Ozzie Guillen's Firing (Video)

Inside Marlins Park, Ozzie Guillen apologized for "betraying his Hispanic community," but outside the front gates, a sizable crowd of Cuban-American protesters made it clear they were in no mood to forgive or forget his statements praising Fidel Castro."We never can forgive what he said," Blanco Gar ... More >>

Reader mail: Occupy Miami has gone to hell

Reader mail: Jeremy Lin could get laid anytime

Pit Bull Ban Lives On in Miami-Dade As Repeal Falls One Vote Short in Tallahassee

​A full month before the season kicks off, Mark Buehrle is close to taking his first loss in Miami. The new Marlins ace is celebrity spokesman number one for pit bulls and the activists trying to overturn Miami-Dade's two-decade ban on the dog breed. Along with his wife, he's vocally pushed for la ... More >>

Reader mail: Quit chopping baby penises already

Pit Bull Ban Could Go to a County Vote, Undercutting Tally Move To Kill It

​A Tallahassee proposal to force Miami-Dade to end its 23-year ban on pit bulls took a major hit last night when a group of county commissioners supported giving Dade voters a say in whether to keep the prohibition. The House bill's sponsor said he'd withdraw his legislation if the ban went to a c ... More >>

Reader mail: Tea Party's Victoria Jackson is a "moron"

Rick Santorum "Visibly Exhausted," Losing Badly, Leaving Florida Saturday

photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons​At last, an explanation for why Rick Santorum has been acting so unhinged in the Sunshine State, from inviting an ex-Yahweh ben Yahweh member to open his campaign rally last weekend to making truly bizarre proclamations about rape: Turns out he's really ... More >>

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

All Mug Shots Should Be Public, New Times Freelancer Argues In Case U.S. Supreme Court May Hear

Theo Karantsalis, a soft-spoken librarian who teaches research classes at Miami Dade College between freelancing for Miami New Times and the Miami Herald, has become an unlikely central character in a hotly contested federal case that has free-speech advocates ready to clash with top D.C. officials. ... More >>

Pork n' Beans Residents Warned That Dorian Hinkson Was "Crazy" Before He Killed Phillip Arthur

On Christmas Eve in Liberty Square, Dorian Hinkson stabbed his neighbor to death in front of his wife and kids -- a tragic crime that kneecapped Miami's oldest housing project, highlighting not only cops' inability to stem the violence but also an expensive and elaborate camera surveillance system's ... More >>

Fidel Castro Tricked Twitter (Again) Into Thinking He Died Last Night

Still (technically) alive​Living in Miami actually makes it much easier to quickly judge whether reports of Fidel Castro's demise are true. Just open your window: Are horns honking? Are fireworks exploding? Is anyone running down your street yelling El hijo de puta está muerto?!If not, then Fidel ... More >>

Reader mail: "Republicans love socialism, but only for themselves"

Reader mail: Occupy Miami article is "lame"

Reader mail: Seminoles and Miccosukees will oppose Genting casino

Nevin Shapiro: Who Is This Ponzi Dirtbag Exploding Canes Football?

photo by Tim ElfrinkThe view from Shapiro's pool.​So Yahoo Sports dropped an ass-seeking clusterbomb all over The U last night with a mammoth expose on Nevin Shapiro's (allegedly) hooker-buying, yacht-lending, abortion-providing services for Hurricanes athletes. Their story doesn't spend much spac ... More >>

Video: Johnny Martinez Introduced As Miami City Manager

photo by Tim ElfrinkJohnny Martinez takes the podium at City Hall.​Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado tried to sound a reassuring note this morning while introducing Miami's third city manager in six months. The hiring of Johnny Martinez, previously assistant city manager, should reassure investors that M ... More >>

Letters from the issue of May 26, 2011

Letters from the issue of May 5, 2011

Letters from the issue of April 28, 2011

Norman Braman Gets Mayoral Candidates To Promise Charter Reform

photo by Tim ElfrinkBraman issues his marching orders.​When Norman Braman launched his campaign to oust Mayor Carlos Alvarez, he made it clear that charter reform -- including term limits -- was his real goal. Braman inched a step closer to making that happen today as three of the front-runners to ... More >>

Burgess and Alvarez Bid Dade Voters Adieu With Teary Farewell Speeches

Photo by Tim ElfrinkGeorge Burgess watches Carlos Alvarez's farewell speech.​The 29th floor of County Hall had all the ambiance of a funeral procession on Wednesday afternoon. Staffers with puffy eyes hid in cubicles, and an uncomfortable silence reigned until County Mayor Carlos Alvarez and Manag ... More >>

Norman Braman Casts His Ballot to Recall Mayor Carlos Alvarez as Early Voting Picks Up

photo by Tim ElfrinkBraman leaves the North Shore Branch Library after voting.​As Norman Braman walked out of the North Shore Branch Library -- fresh off casting his vote to recall Mayor Carlos Alvarez -- volunteers in yellow T-shirts greeted him like a hero. "This is the man!" exclaimed an older ... More >>

Miami Book Fair spins into town

Letters from the issue of November 4, 2010

Letters from the issue of September 30, 2010

Green Party Trounced in Colombia; Can We Blame the World Cup?

Colombians turned out to the polls yesterday -- well, a few of them did at least -- to choose a new president.photo by Tim ElfrinkAll the Mockus graffiti in Colombia couldn't bring home a win for Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus.​Despite all the early promise shown by Green Party surprise Anta ... More >>

Letters from the issue of March 25, 2010

Letters from the issue of January 28, 2010

Liberty City Seven's Sentencing Starts Wednesday

An iPhone buzzes inside a Wynwood restaurant, and Naudimar Herrera's bright brown eyes light up when he sees the caller: the downtown Federal Detention Center. Photo by Tim ElfrinkNaudimar Herrera in front of his parents' Midtown apartment.​"Patrick, what's up, my brother?" he barks into the phon ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of September 24, 2009

Letters from the Issue of August 13, 2009

"His papi swallowed a bunch of pills and committed suicide. Would we blame George Bush for every suicide of an Iraqi in Iraq?"

Key Biscayne Man Sues, Says Sewage Plant Is Poisoning His Neighborhood

photo by Tim ElfrinkJohn Rosser taped this sign to his door and moved out in May.​ What's worse than a rotten-egg-stench-belching sewage plant in your back yard?How about an odiferous shit factory that poisons your family and leaves you with severe neurological damage? That's exactly what John Ros ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of June 25, 2009

Letters from the Issue of December 18, 2008

"If the missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of America, including New York."

Letters from the Issue of October 16, 2008

"I was thinking about letting my daughter enroll at Barry University but have changed my mind big time."

Letters from the Issue of September 4, 2008

"Maybe these crazed South Americans are simply twisted backward from childhoods of dodging bullets and finding cocaine mixed into the sugar bowl."