A federal appeals court Thursday shot down a case that greatly endangered both Miami-Dade’s drinking water and Everglades National Park. The three-judge panel confirmed last year’s decision to side with the Sierra Club and several other groups against the Army Corps of Engineers. In 2002, the Corps issued a ten-year permit…
This Friday and Saturday night at 9 p.m., you can get a last taste of the cabaret at SoBeArts/The Little Theater on South Beach. It was held over because it was so damn popular. The show, next door to the old Carl Fisher clubhouse just north of the convention center,…
Just the other day, Bloomberg News published a turd-filled story about the future of our newspaper chain. In half-English, half-Portuguese/Creole, the reporters said something about Village Voice Media being forced to bankruptcy court. A paper that’s part of the chain, SF Weekly, lost a judgment to the San Francisco Bay…
Last night, South Florida’s two top weekly newspapers (said modestly) Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach donated $5,000 to Partners in Health (PIH), perhaps the most important charity in returning Haiti to normalcy after this week’s monstrous earthquake.And we are challenging alternative newspapers across the country to give more. We’ll match…
Tap Tap (819 Fifth St., Miami Beach), Short Order’s favorite South Beach Haitian joint, is raising funds for earthquake relief on the island. The money will go to Partners in Health, an organization that offers free health care to the poor. Manno Charlemagne & the Tap Tap Band will kick…
Andre Dawson was a National League rookie of the year. He hit the cycle, walked a record number of times in a game, and the friggin Montreal Expos retired his number. He won the MVP even though his team finished in last place. He is a legend, and now he…
Christmas memories of In Cold Blood
The rent has skyrocketed eightfold. The onetime flophouse has been painted and transformed into pricey condos. A shabby sign that once read, “Vacancy — Lowest Rates — Beach Facilities — Always a Seabreeze,” has been replaced by a pretty picture peddling a $7 million residence. The beachside hotel where two…
It’s just about 2010. Here are my choices. What do you think?1. After being snatched by federal authorities, Elian Gonzalez is sent home to his father in Cuba on June 28, 2000.2. Art Basel Miami Beach starts in 2002, an offshoot of the Swiss affair, it changes Miami’s cultural life…
Daily Candy, the popular listings and shopping website, is cutting its editor in Miami and six other cities. Its daily emailed suggestions of things to do will reduce in frequency to twice a week….and its editor, Brooke Siegel, will be “splitting her time between Miami and New York,” according to…
Mayor Tomas Regalado;’s new administration has made its first choice — and it’s a guy who ain’t likely to be too popular at the headquarters on NW Second Avenue. Miguel Exposito who parlayed a whistle blower suit into a the rank of major, will become new Miami police chief, multiple…
Fidel is a jerk. Raul is nearly as bad.But what nailed the USSR will get Cuba. Let my people in!The heads of foreign affairs committees in both houses of Congress — Sen. Richard Lugar and Rep. Howard Berman came out together to say the 50-year-old ban should be lifted. Hell,…
Back in the 1990s, Ann Louise Bardach — who speaks Sunday at 11 a.m. with Gerald Posner at the Miami bookfair, made herself infamous in Miami by scoring a huge interview with Fidel Castro for Vanity Fair. Later, she nailed American hypocrisy toward terrorists when talking with Magic City mad…
Our sister paper, New Times Broward-Palm Beach has done some pretty amazing reporting on the Scott Rothstein mess. Among the fallout from the alleged $57 million the Broward lawyer allegedly stole in a Ponzi scheme: South Beach.Gianni Versace’s former mansion on Ocean Drive, where a big buck restaurant and hotel…
Several media are reporting that eight people have been shot and two killed in an Orlando office building. It happened just before noon at the Gateway Office Center near Lake Ivanhoe. The Orlando Sentinel says that one victim has been killed, and two are in serious condition. Police have taken suspect Jason…
Cheeseme, maybe the best place to get a cheese sandwich in the Western world, has closed on South Beach . The place served from a list of 9 breads, 11 types of meat, 11 veggies, 11 sauces and spreads, and 16 types of cheese. There were also soups, salads, and…
As far as I know, there were two Miami boyz playing in the World Series — A-Rod (Westminster) and Raul Ibanez (Sunset) — as well as a lot of Dominicans and others who spend significant time here. Though Hideki Matsui won the MVP — and he’s a Yankee I generally…
Before Dwyane Wade, the O’Neal twins, Mario Chalmers, and Eric Spoiled Boy, a seven-foot two-inch giant ruled the Miami Arena. Alan Ogg drew calls of “Ogggggggggggg,” and the fans loved him. Now he’s dead at age 42. An infection somehow reached his enlarged heart. In 1991, then staff writer and…
Tuesday is local Election Day. Turnout is sure to stink. Mayors in Miami, Miami Beach, and Hialeah are certain to be elected in landslides.This is odd, because the local economy is in its worst condition since 1989. Race relations are at a 20-year low. And government is cutting services like…
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The state fire marshal and Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms officers were in Miami this morning investigating a fire last night at the Barton G. warehouse at 400 NE 67th St. on the Upper Eastside. The blaze destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of linens and tables after the roof caved in…
