This week’s feature story describes an effort by Wal-Mart stores to sell green items from jewelry to clothing. The manufacturing giant made a promise to buyers that both its workers and the environment would be treated well when it comes to the things it sells. Unfortunately, jewelry made by a…
The Lewis Black Show scheduled for Thursday night at Hollywood’s Hard Rock Live has been cancelled. The grinchy one is ill. That’s the bad news.Or maybe it’s the good news. Black will be replaced in the 8 p.m. show by Tonight Show veteran Jay Leno. Tickets for the show, which…
Kingdom, the friendly open air bar/eatery on Biscayne Boulevard is closed. The place, which offered 20 kinds of beer and normal sports bar type chow, was a favorite on Main Street Miami. You could watch both high rollers and bums commiserate about everything from Dolphins losses to the high price…
Publix has recalled scores of macaroons.Milk chocolate-covered macaroons, plain ones, and those covered in sprinkles are being removed from bakeries in stores across the South today. Not just Florida, but Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia. The voluntary recall was issued December 24.The reason: an undeclared whey that could seriously harm folks with…
So the last sane president of Venezuela died in Miami Saturday. Carlos Andres Perez was the probably the first Latin president to flex his muscles over oil, thus setting the stage for his one-time nemesis, the half wit Hugo Chavez, to take power.I interviewed Cap — who was 88 at…
Temperatures last night sunk below freezing in South Miami-Dade, potentially damaging crops in the already beleaguered Redland area, which provides much of the nation’s winter tomato crop.The exact nature of the damage won’t be known for a couple days. Many farms ran sprinklers all night to obviate the damage as…
Art Basel, which ended over the weekend earned top dollar and, we hope, signaled a turnaround in both the local and national economies. Hell even the Wall Street Journal seems to think so. The special Saturday art walk was jammed, but my favorites were the fairs at Red Dot and…
Most sports teams get it. Anything in print is good for them. The Miami Heat has never understood this. On Monday, the team banned Esquire writer Scott Raab after he called LeBron James a “gutless loser” and other choice terms. Raab is writing a book about LeBron.This ain’t the first time…
Two Miami New Times freelance writers, Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock, have been named as among the most significant contributors to gay America this year.They join Ricky Martin, Johnny Weir, and Julianne Moore (go figure) as members of the Out 100, who are being honored this week in Manhattan…
Even by Real Housewives of New Jersey standards, this claim is outrageous. “Your father-in-law was murdered and chopped up and placed in front of the Brownstone.” This one is rather whacked out, too. “Your father did time in prison leaving 11 kids behind.” And then there’s: Your sister is “miserable…
After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It’s not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north to a pretty little building at 4500 Biscayne Blvd., where we will occupy the second floor.The space is larger than…
After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It’s not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north on Biscayne Boulevard to a pretty little building at 4500 Biscayne Boulevard, where we will occupy the second floor.The space…
After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It’s not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north on Biscayne Boulevard to a pretty little building at 4500 Biscayne Boulevard, where we will occupy the second floor.The space…
After more than 15 years at the same joint, Miami New Times is moving next week. It’s not a big change. We are just rolling our stuff a mile north on Biscayne Boulevard to a pretty little building at 4500 Biscayne Boulevard, where we will occupy the second floor.The space…
More than two decades ago, I sat down to work in a sterile office in Doral, and a young woman next to me began swearing like a sailor. “Coño,” she said louder than any office voice I had ever heard. “This salad sucks.”Mindy Marques Gonzalez was the little sister to…
So Coral Gables Commissioner Ralph Cabrera just called up to say that yesterday’s post trashing his proposal to ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers in Coral Gables was unfair. He claims to have said many other more intelligent things to a reporter than, “Some people look at leaf blowers as a necessity…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Pacific Tomato Growers, one of the largest U.S. tomato firms, has agreed to pass a penny-per-pound surcharge on to workers.McDonald’s and others had offered to pay the charge after federal authorities compared the lot of Central American field workers to slavery.The Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, a trade…
Ask a Domme rocks. Lera Gavin, the author, penned a feature for New Times earlier this year called “Notes from a Dominatrix” that provided an astute look into a lifestyle that any sane person wants to know about. For the last few months, she has provided weekly advice, satire and,…
Frodnesor, a damn good food blogger whose work I respect, published a lengthy response to a post of ours yesterday. He accused of us of censorship because his comment wasn’t published.Note to Frodnesor: We don’t censor. Never. No how. Unless something is libelous an ad hominem attack, of course. What…
The Muvico theater in Hialeah, a 14-screen place that’s been around for 14 years, will close for a multimillion renovation. The dowdy building on West 49th Street has long been a draw for Hialeah and Hialeah Gardens residents. The new design, according to CEO Neil Bretan, will include “more than…
Miami New Times cleaned up in the nondaily division of the 60th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards, which determine the best work in 11 Southeastern states. Former staff writer Natalie O’Neill took first place in investigative reporting for “Piece of Mind,” a probe of suicides and other problems at the mental health…
Kaspia in the Webster Hotel on 12th and Collins has a bizarre history. It’s a branch of a Parisian restaurant opened by Russian emigres in 1926 that serves vodka, caviar, champagne and not much more. Yeah, they call that a restaurant. And you could spend $1,000 on a meal. Bozhe…
