Gossip! Bikinis! ¡Fútbol! Next Wednesday, Hispanic readers will finally get what they’ve been waiting for — or at least that’s what Miami Herald publisher David Landsberg seems to think. In an email sent Friday evening, Landsberg — who declined to comment — announced that 70,000 copies of Caliente, the Herald’s…

A West Palm Beach judge has sentenced an illegal butt doctor to eight years in prison. Tamieka Butler was providing silicone injections for $200 a pop inside of a room at El Patio hotel in West Palm before she was arrested in January for “unlicensed practice of health care profession…

The Internet works in mysterious ways. How else could one explain an 8,000-word feature from 16 years ago accumulating almost five thousand Facebook “shares” in the course of a day? About a decade before social media became prevalent and “upvoting” became a verb, former New Times staff writer Lynda Edwards…

The name Booby Trap Love Stuff connotes a certain level of trashiness. Although it’s shaped like a cottage and customers enter through castle-like wooden doors, they have to flash an ID before they can behold rows of phallic objects and feather boas. But the Fort Lauderdale store, located 397 feet…

It seems as if Dennis Rodman has become our unofficial ambassador to the Hermit Kingdom. The former NBA star skipped off to North Korea today for the second time this year, according to the Associated Press. Three days ago, a visit by U.S. special envoy Robert King was canceled by…

The name Booby Trap Love Stuff connotes a certain level of trashiness. Although it’s shaped like a cottage and customers enter through castle-esque wooden doors, they have to flash an ID before they can behold rows of phallic objects and feather boas. But the Fort Lauderdale store, located 397 feet…

An Arizona prepper with an anti-government inclination told U.S. Marshals on Wednesday that he couldn’t be taken in alive. He was wrong. Now Robert Van Gundy, 29, has waived his right to extradition and is sitting in the Turner Guilford Knight correctional facility until officials from Arizona can pick him…

Carlos spent his first week of kindergarten sleeping in a hotel and then in a hallway. He lives with his dad, hulking King of Diamonds employee Alex Velasquez, in the Altos de Miami condo building in Little Havana, near Flagler Street and SW 22nd Avenue. His unit is one of…

Anthony Lee had to answer the door. Of course he did. If something needed to be done and done right, it was in the 49-year-old’s nature to take charge. Instead of pausing when he saw a stranger at his friend’s door, the bald giant with a quick temper demanded the…

South Beach wasn’t always a stomping grounds for deep-pocketed rappers and popped-collared yuppies. And things were far from family-friendly. Gays built the Beach, and female impersonators were as ubiquitous during the ’90s as palm trees. South Beach Wanda — born Anthony Lee — made her name as one of the…

Carlos spent his first week of kindergarten sleeping in a hotel, and then in a hallway. He lives with his dad, hulking King of Diamonds employee Alex Velasquez, in the Altos de Miami condo building in Little Havana, near Flagler and SW 22nd Avenue. His unit is one of 47…

The perfume stores on NW 20th Street in Allapattah are typically painted with bright colors. Tucked between discount clothing stores, they beckon with pink and orange exteriors as well as promises of bargains painted on their fronts. Selene Perfumeria is less inviting. With it’s gray façade, it looks like an…

Violence erupted at a rural correctional youth academy on Saturday night over a lost bet, two basketball teams and three Cup Noodles. “It was a full blown riot,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told ABC. “I watched them throw objects at us and our deputies. I watched them break windows.”…

Hunt violated a court order to keep away from the younger girl, committing a litany of offenses that will almost certainly prevent her from getting away free and clear.

Either Shaquille O’Neal has forgotten how to use a computer or he’s grown humble with age. On his July application to become a part-time cop for the Golden Beach Police Department, the former NBA star simply scrawled “none” across the three lines for answering the question about what special equipment…

UPDATE: Hunt was offered a new plea deal this afternoon that would leave her with two misdemeanor counts of battery as well as a felony count of interference in child custody. Under the new deal, Hunt would not face any jail time and would not have to register as a…

As the world’s-only claustrophobe/agoraphobe combo, I considered Miami to be a geographic nightmare when I moved here two months ago. Being down here means being down here — it would take double-digit hours of high-risk driving for me to escape from Florida’s trenches. If I took I-75, I would have…