Fast Company has named Miami one of its “30 Fastest Cities in the World” this year. Calling it a “culture center,” the lowly intern given the task of researching Miami on the Internet came up with examples like ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, architecture firm Arquitectonica, and Cesar Pelli’s…
Watch that hand! On June 22, 1986, before the days of instant replay, in a quarter-final World Cup match-up between England and Argentina in Mexico City, Diego Maradona had the game of his life. He scored two goals, securing Argentina’s 2-1 victory, and while the second came to be called…
Sometimes this town can make you feel like a garden snake trapped in a viper pit. Life can be frustrating and hard and dangerous. It is times like these that you need to go have a fucking milk shake… and look at some fucking monkeys. Head out to Florida City…
That Carrie Meek sold out her constituency for $40 grand and a Cadillac Escalade is not a shocker. A year and three weeks ago, Miami New Times wrote how the former U.S. congresswoman, a revered political icon in Miami’s black community, was reaping dividends from private clients and local governments…
Look — don’t touch! Judging by the crowd on a recent Saturday morning, the Miami Children’s Museum has no trouble attracting visitors. I just wonder how many return a second time. While innovative interactive, “hands-on” kids’ museums have been opening around the country for a few decades now, MCM’s visionaries…
Miami-Dade County’s Office of the Inspector General released its annual report for fiscal year 2006 last week. For those who want a primer on corruption in Miami, the report is a great place to start. The OIG does audits and investigations looking for waste and fraud. Among the 20 arrests…
This from the Bob Norman’s Daily Pulp: You probably have no idea how close we were losing to losing the great Jim DeFede. Yesterday morning, the former Miami New Times and Miami Herald columnist turned radio host and TV commentator explained in detail a very recent and very harrowing medical…
Some came dressed in barely-there dresses, armed with look-at-me attitude. Some came in hip-hop gear designed to demonstrate street cred. Everyone came with their business face on. Russell Simmons was about to be in the house, and the vibe at Books & Books was electric. At 7:00 p.m., Simmons was…
These letters rolled into our Letters to the Editor Section last week. Watch the writer tacke a swing — and the commissioner duck: From reader Ernie Sandoval to Miami Commisisoner Marc Sarnoff: “Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, whose district includes Jade and who campaigned to limit high-rise condo development to…
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) in Tallahasee has doubled the fine for any proven offense of food misrepresention in dining establishments (from $250 to $500, which still doesn’t seem like much punishment for deceiving the public — and increasing profits considerably while doing so). “Floridians ought to…
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) in Tallahasee has doubled the fine for any proven offense of food misrepresention in dining establishments (from $250 to $500, which still doesn’t seem like much punishment for deceiving the public — and increasing profits considerably while doing so). “Floridians ought to…
For the second time this year the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Spike TV are broadcasting Fight Night Live from the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood. And Tuesday’s fight card is littered with local talent. American Top Team – one of the nation’s largest and most revered mixed martial…
On May 7, I posted a blog entitled Ask the Food Critic, in which readers were encouraged to forward questions to me concerning the local food and dining scene. Sample queries were offered, such as: Is it true that Daniel Boulud will be opening a namesake establishment in downtown Miami?…
On May 7, I posted a blog entitled Ask the Food Critic, in which readers were encouraged to forward questions to me concerning the local food and dining scene. Sample queries were offered, such as: Is it true that Daniel Boulud will be opening a namesake establishment in downtown Miami?…
Hey kids, guess whose working the four a.m. slot on BET –right here from a secret studio in Miami? You thought he was dead but he’s rich and very much alive! No, it’s not Flava Flav. It’s your old preacher pal, Bobby Tiltonhttp://www.trinityfi.org/press/tilton3.html. That’s right, after losing it all in…
It’s hard not to notice longtime Miami resident Claudia La Bianca www.claudialabianca.com with her whacky, colorful outfits, bleach-blonde waist-length dreadlocks, fishbowl-shape hazel eyes, and lilting Italian accent. Add to the mix a flair for film making and even veteran Hollywood producers Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett couldn’t refuse the charms…
This past weekend I got invited to a barbecue with a little twist: It wasn’t chicken wings we were roasting on the coals — it was our own precious tootsies. It’s called firewalking, explained my landlord, who hosted the event on his lawn. “Anybody can do it.” The practice of…
“The Sun” It was as if some advanced civilization sought to mock our ideas about natural beauty, heightening them and exaggerating them, fashioning vibrant, otherworldly creations that resemble plants and flowers boosted by alien DNA. Or, as my two-year-old son put it: “Look at the monsters!” Monstrous or beautiful, Dale…
Photo by Jeffrey Delannoy Seal Since Seal had his couple of big stateside hits in the Nineties (the seemingly immortal “Kissed By a Rose” being the most recognizeable), lately he seems to have been relegated to the role of Mr. Heidi Klum. So who goes to a Seal concert in…
Margo Pellegrino looked unsure about swigging from a champagne bottle proffered to her Monday morning, but she didn’t stop to think about it. Sure, booze probably isn’t the best thing if you’re planning to paddle your outrigger canoe 25 miles or so up the Intracoastal Waterway. But, what the hell…
Carrrrrreful This Sunday, the county Parks and Rec Department and the Florida Bicycle Assoctation will host a “Road 1 Bike-Ed Class” at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center in Crandon Park. Class curriculum includes fixing flats, choosing a bike, and riding safety. The flyer boasts that “Students will gain confidence…
Note the Rust painted by the old salt Dirk Verdoorn does not just like to paint little boats — non, monsieur! He is a — how do you say, a Peintre de la Marine — an official marine painter. It’s an old and unique distinction — “It exists only in…
