Macchialina is the best restaurant in South Beach. Joe’s Take Away makes the best fried chicken. Bread + Butter has the best pan con lechón. Best of Miami 2013 is here, cousin, and you will enjoy it. It includes not only all of our favorite picks, but also yours –…
Miami Beach Parking Ticket Trauma
Eric Jason Gold would like to wage jihad on the Miami Beach Parking Department. Problem is, it’s too damn expensive. This past January on a Tuesday night, the 47-year-old property manager drove his gray Kia sedan to South Beach to pick up his partner, who was finishing work on Lincoln…
The explosion at the Boston Marathon rippled throughout the country Monday night. Horrible pictures affected anyone like me who had ever run a marathon. Lots of South Florida runners were affected. A couple of examples: The New Yorker is quoting Ken Bereski, from Miami, who had just finished his 12th…
The Miami Herald‘s Weird History
GableStage’s 4000 Miles Is Almost Perfection
After smoking some weed with her 21-year-old grandson, a 91-year-old matron matter-of-factly discusses the intimate facts of her life. She’s sitting on an old couch in her Manhattan apartment while a solemn Karl Marx photo hangs on the wall behind her. “Neither of my husbands ever satisfied me,” she says…
New Times Says No to MLB
Today is it. After more than 15 years on Biscayne Boulevard, Miami New Times is headed for Wynwood. Our new HQ is the Wynwood Building at NW Third Avenue and 27th Street.You know, that zebra-striped building you see in quick cuts at the beginning of Heat games. The place is…
MLB Steroid Scandal: What’s Next for New Times
A new website survey has Miami just behind New York and Los Angeles in the first date category during the four weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day.Las Vegas and Chicago placed just behind us to fill out the top five…
On Tuesday, a week and a day after Miami New Times published online a report describing hundreds of pages of records from the office of a Coral Gables clinic, Biogenesis, the first professional baseball players have acknowledged involvement with owner Anthony Bosch. In statements issued Tuesday to Yahoo! Sports, two…
David Ryan, a lawyer who was disbarred for stealing from others’ trust accounts and couldn’t even declare bankruptcy right, has been accused with trying to sell guns stolen from the family of Saddam Hussein. Ryan was charged December 19 with three New Jersey men in the crime. Two of the…
Dave Brubeck was a white guy who knew rhythm like no one has ever known rhythm. Son of a concert pianist and father of stunning jazz musicians, he died yesterday at age 91 — the same age as my father. In a sense, Brubeck was my dad — at least…
Rachel Swarns is one of the smartest reporters to ever work in Miami… or as a foreign correspondent anywhere. About two decades ago, she arrived here to write at the Miami Herald, where she covered Hurricane Andrew and the LA Riots. In 1995, she headed off to the New York…
Rachel Swarns is one of the smartest reporters to ever work in Miami… or as a foreign correspondent anywhere. About two decades ago, she arrived here to write at the Miami Herald, where she covered Hurricane Andrew and the LA Riots.In 1995, she headed off to the New York Times,…
Now it’s our turn. The Sun-Sentinel this morning endorsed Mitt Romney. Then the Miami Herald threw its support to Barack Obama.We don’t endorse candidates. We are just a motley crew of renegades who like to throw darts at pictures of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Britney Spears.But we believe Mitt…
Sixty-six years ago a movie theater opened on NE Second Avenue and 98th Street. It later died– a victim of megaplexes and the Village Beautiful’s history of racism. But on Saturday, it reopened — with the same movie.Got that? “Blue Skies,” a classic Fred Astaire/Bing Crosby flick that debuted when the…
A quarter-century ago, my old, good buddy Mike Lacey came to Miami and decided to start a weekly paper. He wanted to move here, but a mugger and a prudent wife convinced him cocaine-fueled Miami wasn’t the place to raise a family.Today, Lacey bowed out. Along with his partner –…
Hurricane Andrew at 20: Miami Herald Reporters Remember
For more than a decade, New Times has offered South Florida’s most extensive food coverage. From our food blogs — Short Order and Clean Plate Charlie — to the Voice Places directory of restaurants to our weekly reviews, the coverage equals or betters any in the American Southeast. Journalism awards have certified this. But times…
See a full slideshow remembering Hurricane Andrew here. Also read “Hurricane Andrew at 20: Miami Herald Reporters Remember.” In a column published today, I gathered memories of a bunch of ex Miami Herald reporters about covering Hurricane Andrew, which ruined Miami 20 years ago today. The newspaper won a Pulitzer…
