An American Airlines plane that took off from Fort Lauderdale is headed for Miami International Airport with cabin pressure problems, NBC reports. The flight took off at 9:15 a.m., but still hadn’t arrived at 10:20. There are 147 people aboard.Five people were hospitalized yesterday after severe turbulence shook a plane…
Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don’t forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 issue June 14 in newsstands.Been wondering all year about who…
New Voting Laws Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall
America has turned against black and Hispanic voters.As I show in my column this week, 41 states have recently pushed forward with voting restrictions that will primarily effect minorities. Mostly Republican legislators, who flooded into office after the 2010 election, have shortened registration periods, required photo IDs at the polls,…
A federal judge in Tallahassee this afternoon blocked some of the most severe restrictions of a voter registration law passed last year by the Republican Florida legislature. The law has been severely criticized by opponents as an attempt to limit minority participation this fall’s election. It was pushed by Republicans…
Maurice Sendak was my first real author. Before Dostoevsky and Dickens. Before Fitzgerald and Alice Walker and Hemingway and Lermontov.Now he is gone. And that makes me very sad.Among his last books was The Miami Giant, Written in 1995, it was a send-up of the old people on Miami Beach…
Locust Projects held its season gala at the 1111 Lincoln Road building Saturday night. There were dancers, art for sale in a silent auction, and thousands raised for the arts group…
The longest series Miami New Times has run during my 14 years here is Pain & Gain, a Pulp Fiction like story about crazy weightlifters who couldn’t even get it right when they cut up bodies and dumped them in the Everglades.I spent the last few weeks tracking down those…
New Times‘ “Pain and Gain”: Murder, Drugs, and a Major Motion Picture
Miami-based Burger King Corporation has announced that its eggs and pork products will be cage-free by 2017.The company is catching onto a national trend. Wendy’s and McDonald’s are making similar plans. Hormel and Smithfield Farms plan to end the use of cages in the same time period as BK. Already…
Former Miami City Manager Donald Warshaw ate there. So did ex-City Manager Cesar Odio. And ex-City Commissioner Miller Dawkins sometimes enjoyed the ocean breeze. Oh yeah, and ex-City Commissioner Humberto Hernandez, too.Come to think of it. pretty much every indicted city official in history has sat on those plastic chairs…
Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach seek a part-time copyeditor and proofreader. The ideal candidate must have excellent copyediting skills and the ability to work steadily and efficiently under deadline. Some familiarity with Adobe software preferred. Top candidates will be given a rigorous copyediting test. This position will…
Miami New Times staff writer Gus Garcia-Roberts has been named a finalist in the Investigative Reporters & Editors contest for 2012. His series on Florida’s $150 million McKay scholarship program, which hands out money with virtually no supervision, was cited by judges in the small newspaper/online category.The winner in the…
Burger King has been slipping in the fast-food race. But today the firm debuts a new ad campaign and menu it hopes will speed up business. It adds ten new items that are supposedly healthful — the biggest expansion of BK’s menu since 1954 — and showcases a series of…
Pink slime, that ammonia-treated concoction used in ground beef that has offended the sensibilities of so many people, might finally disappear.The Associated Press reports that three of four factories belonging to Beef Products Inc., which produces much of the popular but hazardous slime, have suspended operations. The firm will continue…
Bosco Henriquez snitched on Miami’s Latin gangs; then cops abandoned him to rape and deportation
Coconut Grove defeated Coral Gables by a mere seven votes of almost 2,000 cast in our first Snackdown, which ended last night at midnight.A neighborhood that has prided itself on weird ever since it was settled in 1825, decades before Miami became a city, the Grove fell behind, then clawed…
With just a day and a half left in voting,. Coral Gables and Coconut Grove are in a dead heat for the Snackdown title as the best dining area in Miami-Dade County. By this morning at 8, it was Coral Gables 365 votes, and. Coconut Grove 364. Both chambers of…
It was 4 a.m. when two cops galloped up the stairs of the quiet Kendall home, turned left, and burst into the boys’ room. One was a monster, a tall blond officer in cargo jeans, a T-shirt, and boots. His partner was a smaller African-American. Bosco Enriquez, a gawky 15-year-old,…
Miami’s Spartan Race took place Saturday and continues tomorrow, Sunday. Thousands showed up. Many ran through mud, slipped under barbed wire, and pulled huge tires for two hours. It was amazing, though rather expensive.After the jump a slideshow of Saturday’s events with music…
When Joe DeSena started the first “Spartan Race” in Pittsfield, Vermont, about eight years ago, he had no idea it would become an international phenomenon drawing 300,000 plus people.Nor did the former Wall Street exec/pool cleaning company owner/exercise fanatic know he would be jamming Oleta River State Park this weekend…
