Murder Incorporated
Hey everybody, only 147 people got killed locally this year, according to Miami-Dade police! That’s six less than last year! Awesome! –Calvin Godfrey…
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Why not poke a pig for NYEve?
What are you gonna do to ring in the New Year? Get drunk? Spend a bunch of money at a club? Shoot a gun in the air? Well fuck you. My man Chris (in the black wife beater) and everybody down on SW 27th street got up at the crack…
Why not poke a pig for NYEve?
What are you gonna do to ring in the New Year? Get drunk? Spend a bunch of money at a club? Shoot a gun in the air? Well fuck you. My man Chris (in the black wife beater) and everybody down on SW 27th street got up at the crack…
Dolphins Look Good in the Sun
The sun emerged from behind the clouds on our side of Dolphin Stadium, Section 222, on Sunday. There were about six minutes left in the game. The Fins were winning, so we forgave the rain that had sprayed us earlier. It was the first time we had seen the sun…
So long Hank Kaplan!
He knew Cassius Clay, Rocky Marciano, and was a mother Theresa of sorts for Miami great Kid Gavilan. Now boxing historian Hank Kaplan is gone, and it’s formally the end of the Muhammad Ali era in Miami. Santos Perez did a good piece on Hank in this morning’s Herald, but…
New York Loves/Hates Miami
Mid-beach and South Beach ranked five and six, respectively in a recent New York Times travel piece touting 53 places to visit in 2008. The writer lavished: “Move over South Beach. The iconic Eden Roc Resort and Fontainebleau Miami Beach — faded glitterati hangouts designed by Morris Lapidus — will…
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Anonymous Bloggers Suck
The blog war involving Stuck on the Palmetto, Critical Miami and the Daily Pulp would be comic if it weren’t so dumb. The battle, it seems, is over the anonymity of a guy named Rick — who has been writing on Stuck on the Palmetto for a long time….and now…
Cuban Custody Case Finally Settled
Lawyers in the case of a marooned five-year-old Cuban girl reached a settlement this afternoon. And the big winner is the girl’s dad, Rafael Izquierdo. And, of course, the little girl herself. And justice. “It’s a victory,” says Steve Weinger, Izquierdo’s lawyer, who took the case pro bono. “He gets…
Marlins Win World Series!
OK so now I’m pissed. On the same day, the Marlins — oop, I mean Red Sox — win the World Series and the New York Times reports that former Marlins manager of the year Joe Girardi is the leading candidate to take over the Yankees. Oh yeah and did…
MTV Pimps its Tongues
Mmm, tasty Pimped-out tongue statutes with artistic touches (one tipped with a gargoyle, another doused in exterritorial green, another bedazzled and named “Say hello to my little friend”) were red-carpet fixtures when superstars mingled at the recent MTV Latin America awards. Paulina Rubio, the Mexican bombshell singer with flaxen curls,…
Ecuadorean Military Base in Miami
News Item: (Reuters, October 23) Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa announced this morning in Naples, Italy that he will allow the United States to continue to operate its military base in in that South American country — for which the lease expires in 2009 — if he can open an Ecuadorean…
New Times Owners Arrested
In case you missed it in this morning’s New York Times, the two guys who own this newspaper — Jim Larkin and Mike Lacey — were arrested in Phoenix Thursday. The reason: a story they published in the Phoenix New Times divulged a Grand Jury investigation. That’s a misdemeanor. But…
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A Reporter on the Lam in Latin America
Gonzalo Guillén is on the lam. His wife and son are in hiding. Colombian President Álvaro Uribe publicly belittled the reporter. Strangers repeatedly threatened to murder him. His bodyguard disappeared. “I got a call at my home … a guy said, ‘We can kill you,'” Guillén recalls from Lima, Peru,…
An Apology
A post on our blog last week related to a CNN poll that rated Miami as the American city with the most beautiful people has been removed. A picture that accompanied the post was demeaning to African-American women. We apologize. It is our intention to treat every ethnic and racial…
Sound Familiar?
The Miami Herald’s story this morning on the Wynwood Free Trade Zone read a helluva lot like a story I penned for the newspaper on May 18, 1994, 13 friggin years ago. Old version: IN WYNWOOD, A GRAND ECONOMIC DREAM TURNS BITTER BY CHARLES STROUSE Herald Staff Writer Shards of…
George Bush Won’t Let Me Eat
So there I was trying to cross Biscayne Boulevard to pick up some lunch about 3:00 p.m. when a Miami-Dade motorcycle cop stopped me in my tracks. “Get out of the street,” he shouted. Huh. Then I complained. “Whatinhell is this? I’m hungry.” The cop felt bad. It’ll only be…
I came, I saw, I got totally nude!
Spencer’s Melbourne vacation A lady named Crystal just sent this delightful description of Spencer Tunick’s monster nude photo shoot: Spencer Tunick made a visit to this not so fair city on Columbus Day. That’s right, the Spencer Tunick who has seen more nipples than Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy put…
Today is the 40th Anniversary of Che’s Death
And these photos prove he really made a splash!!! Get it? Seriously. What will the fashion industry think of next? The Saddam sarong? The Osama tube top? Nothing like wrapping a bunch of sexy young things in the faces of tyrants — especially when those tyrants were sooooo kind to…
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Antikulture: So Much Fun, Your Pants Will Split
This Saturday night, after I parked my Civic near a strip joint along NW 36th Street, three guys came to warn me that my car would get towed. One proposed a back alley, prompting another to suggest: “Don’t send that nice lady into an alley. She’ll get scared.” They thoughtfully…
Bowling Strikeout
Fred Flintstone would never make it in Miami. Nor would Ralph Cramden. See, bowling’s gone upscale. There was a time just a couple of years ago when you could drive north to Cloverleaf Lanes (on Northwest Second Avenue and 176th Street) or south to Don Carter Lanes (North Kendall Drive…
Ocean Drives Me Crazy
When I think of a great street in Miami, I think of Old Cutler Road with its endless sprawling canopies. Or Eighth Street, which stretches down into the depths of the Everglades and in 1988 offered the backdrop for world’s longest conga line. Yet, never would I ever consider the…
Supermarket Sweep at Whole Foods
Following my last Whole Foods post I simply HAD to head back there on Friday after work. The last thing I ever want to do is cook dinner after a long work week, and trying to get a dinner reservation at a decent hour on a Friday evening is practically…