Don’t mess with Max! Activist Max Rameau is having a tough time getting a County-issued protest permit to erect his tent city in front of the county building at 111 N.W. First St. next Wednesday, and he’s gotten the ACLU involved. As we reported earlier this week, Rameau and other…
Que guapo! One of the biggest names in Cuban music has defected from the island with his wife and children and is living in Tampa, the LA Times reports in today’s paper. Issac Delgado has been called “the heart and soul,” of Timba music (a combination of jazz, salsa and…
Cops hauled away my next-door neighbor last week. They say he molested four boys. When one kid was eleven years old, the physician “fondled his penis, masturbating him until ejaculation,” according to a police report. That was at a 1999 sleepover. The doctor repeated the perversion two years later, officers…
Buzz Kill Filed under: News A year ago this month, Florida announced that sixteen million trees had been needlessly chain-sawed, and one billion taxpayer dollars had been wasted in the failed effort to eradicate citrus canker. Oops. This past January 10, about twenty ax-wielding, plastic-suit-clad firefighters exterminated approximately 30,000 bees…
Smilin’ guy The most interesting moment during yesterday’s vote for strong mayor occurred at the West Dade Regional Library shortly before 1 p.m. In the parking lot, Jose “Pepe” Riesco, chairman of a pro-strong-mayor PAC called Citizens for Reform, chatted with an elderly voter. She had cast her ballot for…
Fidel Castro is dying. Again. For those who don’t know, Spanish newspaper El Pais is reporting that Castro has had at least three failed operations and complications stemming from an intestinal operation and faces a “grave prognosis.” The newspaper says that after one operation, feces leaked into Fidel’s abdomen. But…
Underthebusmiami.com is the spawn of thesmokinggun.com and the defunct thedirtmiami.com. The new blog appears to have started this week, chock full ‘o restraining orders, South Beach gossip and tax lein scandals. One entertaining thread highlights a feud between Mynt/Rok Bar owner Roberto Caan and his (former?) Rok Bar business partner…
I have been through a lot in my years as a journalist. Hurricanes, riots, coma-inducing press conferences on Capitol Hill. But I have never been hit on the head by a puppet. Not until today. I was standing on the corner of NW 87th Ave and 36th St. in Doral…
The 26th Parallel takes a close look at the Ileana Ros-Lehtinen mess and draws two conclusions: 1) Why not whack Fidel? 2) Filmmaker Dollan Cannell is full of baloney. Ros-Lehtinen may actually desire that castro be eliminated by any means possible, including assassination. If so, then….so? I would agree with…
Miami-Dade County Yesterday, County Commissioner Natacha Seijas crushed a recall against her. A pathetic 11 percent of the 76,000 registered voters in her district turned out to cast ballots. Seijas won by a 2-to-1 margin. She relied on a $430,730 campaign war chest, a legion of union workers manning the…
Not long ago, El Nuevo Herald, the nation’s self-proclaimed “best Spanish language newspaper,” took a whack from the national press when it was reported that El Nuevo employees were moonlighting for government-sponsored Radio Marti. Embarrassment followed. Miami Herald publisher Jesus Diaz fired the moonlighters, then resigned in protest after they…
Keep your kid Billy’s pockets free of ganja lint. If he’s busted, he might just spend eight hours next to a seventeen-year-old who murdered his parents with a lead pipe. And if little Billy gets a beating, no one may be around to hear him scream. Miami-Dade commissioners recently renewed…
Katie Edwards, executive director of the Dade County Farm Bureau, was very happy with our cover story about the Natacha Seijas recall. Edwards left the following congratulatory message on my voicemail: “Hi Frank Alvarado, this is Katie Edwards calling from Dade County Farm Bureau. Wanted to call and tell you…
During his 33-year career at the Miami Herald, Tom Fiedler won the Pulitzer Prize for covering an extremist group in Liberty City, took down presidential hopeful Gary Hart, and pissed off Miami’s Cuban-American community. On Friday, the McClatchy Co. — the Herald’s parent owner — announced Fiedler’s replacement: Anders Gyllenhaal,…
This past Tuesday, Miami-Dade County commissioners took up the issue of the strong mayor ballot. At first they wanted to cut the salary, but then they chickened out. Indeed, it seems every time they discuss this issue, they act loopier than Reverend Jim Ignatowski rampaging through a political convention. Consider…
Tuesday night: I was drinking white wine in a white-walled art gallery and standing over a plastic bowl containing crumbled sheep brains. “So,” I said, turning to the woman next to me, a tall, fresh-faced woman named Saskia Jorda. “How many brains have you washed?” She paused. “Three,” she replied,…
Some time after 7 p.m. last night, out here on Northwest 71st Street and Second Court, Jacqui Brown (aka Miami artist Jacqueline Jackson Johnson) was ready to hustle. She wore a stylish black fedora atop her straight blond locks, a ripped wife beater over a black tank-top, gray sweats, and…
Eye on Miami takes on the Miami Herald’s vacuous coverage of traffic and everything else. These guys have 20-20 vision: We don’t know who the cheerleaders are or what their fluff sessions at One Herald Plaza sound like, or the steady chatter from the outside that persuades executives and editors…
With the news that Miami Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez backs the recall of commissioner Natacha Seijas, we’ve reached gridlock in government. That led us to this wonderful diatribe on Eye on Miami. Our traffic is among the worst in the nation because successive generations of county commissions–but especially this one–have…
Rep Tom Tancredo, a United States Rep. from Colorado, calls Miami what it is and everyone’s upset. ”Look at what has happened to Miami,” he said recently in Palm Beach, according to the Miami Herald’s Lesley Clark. ”It has become a Third World country.” The Herald’s Ana Menendez and Gov…
The following email went out to Miami Herald newsroom employees this morning. It looks likely that Executive Editor Tom Fiedler is going to take blame for the misjudgments in the reporting on the case of El Nuevo Herald employees who were fired and then rehired for their entanglements with Radio…
Have you caught this video for the Miami Herald’s classified section? You’d never know that Craig’s List is eating their lunch — and that revenues for that hurtin’ part of the paper are down 4.6 percent this year company-wide…. Florida advertising is down 2.5 percent overall — a significant drop…
