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Florida Woman Pulls Gun at Walmart Because Clerk Wouldn't Honor Her $1 Coupon

There's the kind of extreme couponing you see on that TLC show, and then there's the kind of extreme couponing that happens in Florida Walmarts. The main difference apparently being that the latter involves handguns.Mary Frances Alday, a 61-year-old, was arrested after she pulled out a handgun at a ... More >>

Walmart's Midtown Miami Design Plans Rejected by Review Board

From the moment Walmart announced plans to build a 16,000-square-foot store in the heart of midtown, activists have clashed with the retail giant over whether the store could fit into the booming neighborhood's aesthetic. Last night, the city's Urban Development Review Board chimed in with a resound ... More >>

Midtown Miami Walmart Redesign Would Include Non-Walmart Store Fronts

Walmart is still marching on with its plans to build a store in the heart of Midtown Miami, but has retreated a little bit to redesign the space. In an unusual move for the retail giant, the store's new plans would include about 16,000 square feet of non-Walmart retail on the street level to be leas ... More >>

Pitbull a Diva? Joins Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Metric for VH1 Divas Special

He's known as Mr. 305, Mr. Worldwide, and Dat Lil Chico ... But a diva, he is not. However, Pitbull is teaming up with VH1 Divas to help raise money for the network's Save the Music Foundation, as well as pay tribute to two of music's biggest deceased divas, Whitney Houston and Donna Summer. The ... More >>

Ketchup With The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile This Week

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, that famous tube-meat shaped vehicle, is coming to Miami this week and the Hotdoggers who drive the beast want to "meat" you.Hotdoggers, by the way, are the friendly, happy, lunchmeat-obsessed crew who drive the wienermobile all across this fair land. With names like An ... More >>

Top 10 Supermarkets: Freshest Food, Best Prices, Top Service

Billy is really tired. After a full day of work and the gym, he just wants to go home, eat and lay down. But Marcia called earlier and asked him to stop and grab some diapers and milk? Well, Billy-boy, we got your answer.There are several factors that make a supermarket good or bad. Consumer Re ... More >>

Not Just Midtown: Walmart Has Plans to Expand All Over Miami-Dade

Plans to erect a giant Walmart smack dab in the middle of the Wynwood/Midtown area have garnered headlines, but that's just the tip of the iceberg for Walmart's plans for Miami-Dade. The controversial big-box chain is looking to add six more stores in Miami-Dade in the next two years.

Ten-Foot-Tall Bloody Pig to Protest Miami Walmart

There's a lot of sensory overload in Miami, so it takes something bold to get people to turn their heads. Mercy for Animals devised something that might make people stop and check out its display.A ten-foot-tall bloody pig in a cage outside Walmart.

The Music Industry's Top Ten Corporate Whores

These days, musicians are nothing without high-profile, million-dollar endorsements. You just aren't a winner unless you're shilling soda, makeup, electronics, and your own personal brand of booze. Luckily, today's commercial powerhouses are more entrepreneurial than ever. So they will literally se ... More >>

Pitbull Becomes First Cuban-American to Visit Kodiak, Alaska

See also "Internet Trolls Try to Exile Pitbull to a Walmart on 'the Frozen Alaskan Island of Kodiak'" and "#KeepPitbull305 Fails to Save Mr. Worldwide." Flying from Cleveland to Alaska and then back down to the lower 48 for a show in Atlanta, Pitbull has proven that he's tremendo world traveler. ... More >>

Planning Board Denies Walmart's Rezoning Request

The City of Miami's Planning and Zoning Board delivered a setback to controversial plans to bring a Walmart to midtown last night by voting 9-0 against an exception to zoning ordinances, according to CBS Miami. The decision was made amid a heated meeting that packed city hall with several local ... More >>

Pitbull Buys Plane Ticket to Walmart in Alaska: "Follow Me to Kodiak, Dale!"

See also "Internet Trolls Try to Exile Pitbull to a Walmart on 'the Frozen Alaskan Island of Kodiak'" and "#KeepPitbull305 Fails to Save Mr. Worldwide." By month's end, Pitbull will likely become the first Cuban-American to ever willingly hop on a Kodiak, Alaska-bound flight for the sole purpose ... More >>

Walmart Meeting: Midtown Community Bitterly Split Over Big Box Retailer's Still Secret Plan

Technically, last night's public meeting in Midtown's Roberto Clemente Park was a minor affair. The issue at hand: whether to rezone several blocks to allow -- among other things -- loading bays on North Miami Avenue.In reality, however, the two-hour event was a wrestling match over the future and p ... More >>

#KeepPitbull305 Fails to Save Mr. Worldwide From #ExilePitbull Trolls and Kodiak, Alaska

See also "Internet Trolls Try to Exile Pitbull to a Walmart on 'the Frozen Alaskan Island of Kodiak.'" Thirteen days ago, the trolls at SomethingAwful.com attempted to hijack an online Walmart and Energy Sheets® promo campaign "offer[ing] customers the chance to win a visit by Mr. Worldwide." The ... More >>

Internet Trolls Try to Exile Pitbull to a Walmart on "the Frozen Alaskan Island of Kodiak"

We know he's straight off la esquina. So Dat Lil' Chico could crash on Crossfade's couch any day of the motherfucking week. But apparently, the rest of the country doesn't exactly feel that way. Because right now, there is a viral Internet campaign being waged to #ExilePitbull to a Walmart on "the ... More >>

Local Food in Miami: Phonies, Freeloaders, and the Real Deal

Flickr CCJeff McInnis grew up among a family of farmers. As the chef and partner at Yardbird Southern Table & Bar, he strongly advocates a farm-to-table ethic."People should know where the food they are eating is coming from," he says. "It's the responsibility of all chefs to know as well, and t ... More >>

Midtown Walmart Plan Hits a Snag as Developer Comes Out Against It

​There may be plans in the works, but Midtown Miami is still far from the reality of actually having a Walmart built. Walmart's zoning change request has been put on hold by the city planning and zoning department just a day after another major developer in the Midtown area came out against the pr ... More >>

Midtown Walmart Plans: Developers Want Road Changes To Protect Pedestrians

​Since Riptide broke the news in October that an Ohio-based developer wants to build a massive new Walmart in booming Midtown Miami, the firm has kept quiet about the plans. That doesn't mean they've backed down after residents angrily flooded our story and others with anti-Sam Walton comments. Th ... More >>

Pinecrest Gardens: Holiday Shopping At The Farmers Market (Photos)

​There's less than one month of shopping days to go. The malls are horrible this time of year -- you'll wait an hour to find a parking spot two miles away only to push your way through crowds in order to buy some lousy gift like an acrylic sweater or a Justin Bieber electric toothbrush (sadly, we' ... More >>

Black Friday Endurance Shopping: A Nutritional Plan for Optimal Performance

Black Friday deals this year will be even better than usual. According to Bloomberg, if customers bought everything on the Toys "R" Us circular this year, they would save $12,500, up from $11,000 last year. Stores are opening earlier, giving you and the other ravenous holiday deal shoppers even more ... More >>

Five Crazy Black Friday Shopping Frenzies

​For many Americans, this Thursday will be a day of thankful reflection over a meal the size of which a third-world family has never seen. But according to the National Retail Federation, about 152 million of those folks (that's about half the population) can be expected to line the cold shopping ... More >>

Walmart's Midtown Miami Plan Sparks Anger, Confusion -- and Surprise Support

via IMDB.comEvil empire or jobs creator? Depends whom you ask.​There's nothing quite like the impending invasion of Arkansas's finest low-rent retailer to inspire fiery emotions in an up-and-coming neighborhood. (How many other chains have sparked angry documentaries and legions of dissenting grou ... More >>

Walmart Eyes Massive New Midtown Miami Store UPDATED

photo by Sven via Wikimedia CommonsJust what midtown needs?​If an Ohio-based developer has its way, newly flourishing midtown Miami's newest tenant will be a 160,000-square-foot Walmart. The behemoth discount center would cover the five-acre spot just south of Petsmart on North Miami Avenue and wo ... More >>

Miami Man Accused of Stealing Identities, Going to Supermarket

They don't let you wear shades in prison anyway.​It was trying to buy some Gucci shades that did him in.Thirty-year-old Ricardo Fleurant was arrested at the Coastland Center Mall in Naples late last week after running out of a Sunglass Hut with what a clerk suspected was a stolen debit card, accor ... More >>

Miami Heat Players Get Part-Time Jobs During Lockout

Coach Erik Spolestra: "Will lose championships for food."​With the player lockout putting the 2011-2012 NBA season into question, it's only a matter of time before the league's poor, mistreated multi-millionaires are forced to pick up second jobs for rent money, car payments and general "make it r ... More >>

Live Eels and Dead Gators Sold At International Wal-Marts

Flickr/Terry Lee Stout Looks like Gary Busey found a second career.​Wal-Mart, with the approval of First Lady Michelle Obama, recently announced it would introduce healthier foods. Store brands will eliminate trans fats and reduce sugar, artificial colors and sodium. This is a positive ste ... More >>

Letters from the issue of January 13, 2011

Volteo verde de Walmart: Los trabajadores pagan el precio

Walmart greenwashing: Workers pay the price

This week in art: Macho men and urban cocks

Letters from the issue of April 29, 2010

News Roundup: Heat Melts Magic

Turns out the Epic Hotel has not been completely cleared as the cause of Legionnaires' disease. [Herald]However, the disease might also be linked to the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship. [SFBJ]The Supreme Court of Florida has decided it's no longer legal to put shackles on kids in court. [JustNews]An ... More >>

Bring It, Hecklers

Food News Roundup - Haiti, Cuba, Hunger, Top Chef, Nachos, and Opium

Rotten food donations leave Haitians hungry. [SunJournal]Wal Mart Stores experiments with latin themed super store Mas Club, while Winn Dixie adds signs in Spanish and stocks ethnic merchandise. [WallStreetJournal]Florida Chef Ron Duprat represents for Miami Haitians on upcoming season of Bravo's To ... More >>

Anokha, Hakkasan, Chu, Susan Boyle, and Vegans in Hell

Kurma ChameleonAnokha Restaurant number two has apparently bit the dust. When it first opened a decade ago on Commodore Plaza in Coconut Grove, this was a very good place for Indian food. Over the years it slipped little by little, and then last year moved to Virginia St. We wonder: Was this a case ... More >>

Anokha, Hakkasan, Chu, Susan Boyle, and Vegans in Hell

Kurma ChameleonAnokha Restaurant number two has apparently bit the dust. When it first opened a decade ago on Commodore Plaza in Coconut Grove, this was a very good place for Indian food. Over the years it slipped little by little, and then last year moved to Virginia St. We wonder: Was this a case ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of February 26, 2009

"Never have I seen a law that motivates people to break the law more than this one."

Mix Your Own Damn Granola

People can talk all they want about the economy falling apart, but when you see an upstart Miami based company stackin paper off selling cereal on the internet (talk about grippin' grain), you gotta say "hell, America's back." Check out this exclusive interview with one of three local cereal pioneer ... More >>

Over The Weekend - Madonna, Q-Tip and White Party Week

Talk about your long weekends. Most of us, although not us at New Times, had a four-day weekend thanks to the Thankgiving holidays. That gave plenty of you time to celebrate Black Friday by crushing your fellow man to death as you and thousands of others rush into your local Wal-Mart to get that ext ... More >>

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Your Company Name Here

Summer tour sponsorship we would not like to see.

Where’s Your ’Stache?

Fried Balls and Wooden Balls, Reunited

And it feels so good.

Drool-Worthy Designs

Soak up inspiration at the Home Design & Remodeling Show.

Buy Nothing Day

Farewell, Frizzies

New Times's top DVD picks for the week of November 15

Anatomy of a Quarantine

State officials are spending millions of your tax dollars to stop citrus canker. And they're making a mess of it.

News of the Weird

Snake, Rattle, and ... Ouch!

A plant-fancying Wal-Mart window shopper gets more than he bargained for