This happy news just in from Miami PD: On February 14, 2012, at approximately 1:20 p.m., a white male subject posing as a flower delivery man knocked on the door a house located at 30 SW 59th Ave. Once the victim (Scheryl Garcia) opened the door, the subject, armed with…
Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon was maybe the best American novel of the past half-century. The daughter of a shipyard builder, Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature a few years ago based largely upon the amazing quality of that one book, her best.So I was kinda surprised to see…
With news this morning that Penn State coach Joe Paterno has died of lung cancer, I am reposting this column from last November. The scandal, it’s now clear, killed the master at age 85.Enough already. This lunacy is past crazy.Joe Paterno, an icon of sport, was fired as coach of…
Finally, a history of Miami’s nude beach at the north end of Haulover Park, which is the most popular in the nation. These guys — and gals — take it all off.The beach has been around for about a decade. I decided to shoot a video of it after founder…
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New Times Broward-Palm Beach editor Eric Barton this morning tells the story of a 23-year-old cub reporter who’s stuck in the middle of Miami Central High School recruiting allegations.This past November, South Florida Sun-Sentinel writer Dieter Kurtenback reported about the transfer of a star quarterback — whose family was apparently…
Father Alberto Cutie will lead a group of local luminaries — including Rabbie Shmuley Boteach (former Michael Jackson spiritual adviser) and CBS4 Morning Anchor Jawan Strader tonight at a fundraiser for a local nonprofit: Ax Sex Abusers Now. The group, which doesn’t advocate violence, sponsors a team of first responders…
Area Code 55 in Aventura should really be called Country Code 55. They serve, in my estimation, the best rodizio in Miami. That is, meat and salads galore — all you can eat — Brazilian style. If you expanded your stomach on Thanksgiving and need to keep munching, this is…
William Kennedy, a Miami Book Fair standout
Miami New Times dominated this past weekend’s Florida Press Club Awards in Saint Augustine. The newspaper took ten awards, more than any other in the state.Among the winners: Frank Alvarado and Robert Dunlap took first in general news writing; Tim Elfrink, first in government news and business writing; Mike Miller,…
New Times is searching for contributors to South Florida’s preeminent food and dining blog, Short Order. Candidates should be able to take pictures, have professional or blog-writing experience, and desire to learn about the local scene. We aim to cover all the news related to eating, food, chefs — both…
In the last few days, Short Order has published several posts excoriating Miami Dade College’s new Tuyo restaurant for not hiring college students. I stand behind those articles.I want to make clear, though, the place is just getting started. We will review it after it’s a little more established. And…
Some illiterate little paper I had never heard of — and never hope to hear of again — the South Florida Chronicle — was reveling this morning in the fact that I had to lay off an employee a couple of weeks ago.Sorry, you simpletons. There were no big layoffs. One…
Christopher Andrew Headley Miami Gardens murder
The executive editor of the Daily Business Review, Eddie Dominguez, is jumping ship.He sent out this email yesterday:”After a decade as executive editor of the Daily Business Review, I’ve decided to leave the DBR and journalism and take a short stroll up Brickell Avenue to City National Bank where I…
This past September 8, 20-year-old Christopher Headley grabbed a cup of fruit punch and walked out the door of his uncle Paul Neil’s Miramar apartment. Fifteen hours later he was dead — shot four times in the head and chest.The really horrible thing about Chris’s death — which I detail…
A new group of lawyers is taking the side of Hialeah street vendors. The Institute for Justice is suing the city of Hialeah today on behalf of the mobile sales folk, saying the city’s regulations are too tough. This is a little bizarre, considering you probably see more guys vendiendo…
Seventy-two cats have been killed and 14 have died after an outbreak of disease at the Miami-Dade Animal Shelter. About 40 more healthy felines have been been moved r due to the disease, which is called panleukopenia. A group called Undercats 4 Life is attempting to find homes for some of…
Five Republican candidates — including Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Perry — have pulled out of a Univision debate in January. Why? Allegedly it is because of a comment the head of the blockbuster Spanish-language channel made to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s people while attempting to blackmail the senator…
Okay, so I admit it. As an old dad, I love Percy Jackson.None of that dark literary stuff. Just an action hero who is a kid and who is dyslexic. He is a hero to my 11-year-old dyslexic son. So this morning, we started reading the newest book, Heroes of Olympus…
A Florida commission appointed by Republicans will likely vote today to move up the state’s Republican primary election to January 31.Though party muckety-mucks are still working on a compromise that could delay the election until February 21, the decision will probably create chaos.Given last week’s victory of Godfather’s Pizza founder…
Two Miami lesbians are getting the shaft from a town clerk in New York.Of course, Deirdre DiBiaggio and Katie Carmichael can’t get married in Miami Beach, where they live in a $400,000 home near Alton Road and 42nd Street. DiBiaggio is an attorney. Carmichael is a filmmaker.Rose Marie Belforti, from the…
