The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing plans for a 1,100-foot-tall monstrosity at 700 Brickell Ave., currently the Northern Trust Bank building. One Brickell City Centre would be taller than any skyscraper in Miami, Atlanta, or anywhere else in Dixie. It would even be loftier than Manhattan’s Chrysler Building. And it…
The crash killed two menIt was one of the most spectacular and horrible crashes in South Florida marine history. A powerboat traveling more than 130 miles per hour flipped over backward and two men drowned beneath the hull in a world championship event as rescue workers struggled to reach the…
As his administration is nailed for health-care incompetence, President Obama is escaping to Miami today for three Democratic Party fundraisers and to curry favor with Latin voters. He arrives at 3:45 p.m. at MIA and will hang around town until tomorrow at 3:25 p.m. One event will benefit the Democratic…
The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing plans for a 1,100-foot-tall monstrosity planned for 700 Brickell Ave., currently the Northern Trust Bank building. One Brickell City Centre would be taller than any skyscraper in Miami or Atlanta or anywhere else in Dixie. It would even be taller than Manhattan’s Chrysler Building…
New Times did serious damage at the recent Florida Press Club Awards, announced Monday, taking home far more trophies than any other weekly paper in the state and ranking with the best in virtually every significant category. The paper took five first places and a passel of runners-up…
So the guy looks like a dinosaur when he roars. And he is grumpy when confronted with TV series that use his likeness. But Bosh is having a killer start to the season, and now he has a third child, Dylan Skye Bosh, who was born at 5:55 a.m. yesterday,…
For years we have thought the Miami Hurricanes were South Florida’s bad boys. Turns out we were wrong. Those seemingly straight-arrow Dolphins are really a big-money fraternity gone wrong. The team suspended guard Richie Incognito Sunday for detrimental behavior. He is part of the Dolphins’ six-player “leadership council” and was…
Oscar Hijuelos was decidedly not Cuban. And he was certainly not a Miamian. Yet the 62-year-old author, who died Saturday in Manhattan, cast perhaps a longer literary shadow over the Magic City than any other 20th Century man of letters, His Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Mambo Kings Play Songs…
With the federal government facing a shutdown over Obamacare, Miami workers are taking action today. Dozens of members of a local union plan to sit in at the offices of Hialeah Republican State Rep. Manny Diaz until he talks to them about the state’s refusal to accept $5 billion in…
WLRN Radio, the area’s largest and best public radio station, on Wednesday publicly spanked longtime radio talk-show host Joseph Cooper. An open letter to the community from station general manager John Labonia states, “We want to apologize to our South Florida listeners for the decision made this week by Joseph…
It was a case of exceedingly bad luck, amazing stupidity, and, perhaps, serious competitive zeal. A 23-year-old West Miami-Dade man named Reynel Gil was arrested last Thursday after his house was broken into and police discovered 17 pot plants with about nine pounds of weed. Officers said Gil called police…
Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department Chief John Renfrow claimned yesterday that a new $77 million pipe under Government Cut set a standard by being done on time and on budget. That is hogwash, if you believe what he is reported to have said a year ago. And it masks…
The single animal that Miami kids grew up with is gone. White tiger Carlita, who was born in 1992 and moved to the zoo in 1994, was euthanized after a lengthy illness. She is irreplaceable. Carlita had replaced another tiger, Lucknow, who killed a trainer that same year…
It was a case of exceedingly bad luck, amazing stupidity, and, perhaps, serious competitive zeal. A 23-year-old West Miami-Dade man named Reynel Gil was arrested Thursday after his house was broken into and police discovered 17 pot plants with about nine pounds of weed. Officers didn’t have much detail on…
Federal documents might help explain the real story behind the recent high-profile war in Miami’s culinary community. In the past two years, the Internal Revenue Service has placed $63,000 in tax liens on Oishi Thai, the North Miami restaurant co-owned by Piyarat Potha Arreeratn, also known as Chef Bee. Though…
A man who used a pair of scissors to fatally stab a popular Florida International University football player was found guilty of second-degree murder yesterday. Six jurors convicted Quentin Wyche. According to CBS4, Wyche’s mother sang a hymn as he was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom. Wyche had…
Twelve years ago, just a month after the towers fell in New York, New Times reporter Bob Norman showed you that the 9/11 bombers had been allowed to enter the country illegally through Miami. The series he wrote, “Admitting Terror,” won a Livingston Award for Young Journalists because it showed…
Traces of a dozen dioxins and heavy metals have been discovered in Coconut Grove’s Blanche Park on Shipping Avenue. Grove residents, including children, might have been exposed to the dangerous substances for years. Workers Monday began paving a parking lot, and much of the playground, which includes a dog park,…
The Miami Hurricanes moved up to number 15 in the AP poll this morning, the best showing in recent history. The University of Florida Gators, who they took down in exciting fashion Saturday — after an epic Tailgate the likes of which probably won’t be seen in Florida for years…
Somehow, Tampa, Florida thinks it is a cosmopolitan city. That town by the bay up north, full of pasty midwesterners, plans to try and break a food truck record this weekend. Not long ago, they attempted to reinvent the Cuban sandwich.(As if any self-respecting Cuban would travel to Tampa to…
Somebody named Katrina Brown Hunt has issued coffee rankings and Miami ain’t on the list. It’s all the predictables: Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Minneapolis… San Juan, Puerto Rico, is thrown in there, too. Just cuz they don’t want to seem anti-Hispanic. Thing is, the shmucks who took the survey don’t…
Yup. LeBron James and Ray Allen got it done. Now it’s on to Thursday. Chris Bosh also looked pretty damn awesome. Rebounds, blocks. Heat hasn’t won two consecutive games in a dog’s age. About time. Go Heat!…
