Like thousands of other readers of the Miami Herald, I was charmed Friday when I read of the 20-year, multimillion-dollar effort to spruce up downtown sidewalks. World-famous artist Burle Marx designed about a mile of walkways similar to those on Rio’s Copacabana for Biscayne Boulevard between the Arsht Center and…
Okay, I acknowledge Ted Kennedy did great things in the US Senate. He was a leader and a charmer.Health care would probably be done by now if he hadn’t suffered, then died last night, from a brain tumor. But, like everybody else, he showed his dirty side down here in…
Crispin Porter + Bogusky has long been an anchor of Miami business. Coconut Grove-cool and booming. But now it’s on the decline, and this smells bad for the South Florida economy. Indeed, as the recession cools off spending among high-end consumers, the falling fortunes of this leader in boutique advertising…
Heavenly fish tacos have arrived on the stretch of Red Road between Bird and Flagler at Fish Shack Market. One of the best dishes: the daily Triple Tail catch. Thick pieces of fish are seasoned and seared a la plancha. They land on crunchy strips of julienne green cabbage inside…
Gregory Poux was killed last night around the corner from New Times, at the Windwood Car Wash on NE Second Avenue. The 34-year-old who lived up the street in Little Haiti was shot multiple times and then died at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The Miami Herald and cops portrayed the death as tragic. He cared…
Our sister paper in San Francisco notes that Miami-Dade’s new $200K housing director Gregg Fortner isn’t particularly well liked back home: Two quotes from the piece: “Fortner fell out of favor with [Gavin] Newsom after the mayor discovered a city-built playground at the Sunnydale development torched for the second time…
So now comes the news that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are gonna be celeb minority owners of the Dolphins, like Jimmy Buffett and the Estefans before them. (Follow the jump for the news release.) I get what Dolphins owner Steve Ross is doing. Pandering. That’s what he’s supposed to…
Miami Police this morning are reporting 12 people shot in Overtown. Details are really vague, but it seems a group of three wearing black clothes shot into a crowd at a birthgday party. In addition, one person was hit by a car. Police Chief John Timoney reported AK-47 casings were…
The run of Fuerza Bruta at the Adriennne Arsht Center ends next month. It’s expensive as hell — $75 per ticket — but you shouldn’t miss it. Being in a dance club will never feel the same after you attend this show. Every time you have had a few drinks,…
WQAM- 560 just announced that Neil Rogers is leaving the station for good. Rogers was suspended in May when he said “Fuck Joe Bell,” on the air. Bell, the station’s general manager, had fired Rogers’ producer and fill-in host, Jorge Rodriguez, the week before. Callers were angry. Beasley Broadcasting, which…
Last time we turned to Florida Marlins baseball, we watched a mediocre team being pummeled by the best in the game. The New York Yankee fans were giggling at the ineptitude of a school of Fish that could only garner three hits. It was pathetic, But that was last night. And…
View Larger MapFifty-year-old security guard Chevor Wint was shot dead just after 10:10 Sunday night in the parking garage at the Earlington Heights Metrorail Station. Two suspects — either in their teens or early 20s — fled on foot and on a bicycle. One wore a white shirt and the other dark clothing. The…
I once thought Biscayne Times editor and publisher Jim Mullin was a principled, smart journalist. I don’t anymore. Jack King’s June commentary “Miami’s Media Muddle” in the BT should embarrass both Mullin and the writer. It calls Miami New Times “a shadow of its former self,” says the staff is “down…
TV news is hurting. The best are deserting us. Nick Bogert, the WTVJ smart guy who has provided some politics and substance along with the gore on the local airwaves, will depart for Chicago this fall. He’s covered everything from hurricanes to the fall of commissioners such as Joe Gersten,…
A former US State Department employee and his wife have been busted in Washington D.C,. spying for Cuba. Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, worked for Fidel Castro for 30 years, according to an indictment handed down by the US Attorney General’s office this afternoon. Myers had top secret…
The Cuban Five Resurface in Miami
Our sister paper, the Riverfront Times, has a story about a private investigator who traveled to Cuba and discovered live stray dogs are fed to zoo animals. Zoo employees acknowledged the practice: “Free food,” said one.And a “diplomatic source” confirmed the practice, according to PI Joe Adams. The lions, he…
Jerry Jean Juste spent time in jail in Haiti. He brought together Miami’s troubled expatriate Haitian community in its most troubled hour. He hated no one — at least publicly — not even When he winked at you, it was as if the skies had opened. He died yesterday of…
Florida Comprehensive Assessment test scores came out last night and they stunk. Particularly in Miami-Dade. Yeah, the Herald made a big deal about Liberty City Elementary improving. And over the years, we have improved. I thank Jeb Bush for that. Lawton Chiles gets a C and Charlie Crist an F…
Details are still vague, but cops were called to two deaths this morning. In one, at Miami International Airport, it seems a 43-year-old American Airlines customer service manager named Thomas Juxovich was working on a lift near gate E-10 when he fell and died at Miami International Airport. It happened…
Here’s a pretty good item from a couple years ago. Best of Miami is coming June 11. You can vote on a lot of other categories here. Best Road Rage Dump truck overturned on I-95 August 27, 2007 Chaos ensued when a dump truck flipped and spilled gravel, shutting down…
