Most blogs are authored buy young, tech savvy, cutting-edge types. Some Cranky Guy is, well, rather old school. I was born in Miami over fifty years ago, back when bilingual meant you could speak in a southern accent and English too. I have language issues since I was raised by…
Drug dealers outgun cops. A 23-year-old warehouse worker is shot dead over a five-dollar bet. A three-year-old falls from a second floor balcony and cracks her head because of a broken railing. At the two slums where it all happened, you pay the rent. Dilip Barot, a politically connected, Indian-born…
Hoping to avoid the crowds, I woke up very early this morning and ran to my polling place before breakfast. Turned out there was no reason for me to have lost the meal, or the sleep. Upon arriving at Arvida Middle School in Kendall, I didn’t see the usual line…
After voting at the South Shore Community Center on Miami Beach early this morning, I went to the market across the street for some coffee and found myself standing in line behind Tony Garcia, a Precinct 48 poll worker with a shaved head and a goatee. He was reinforcing the…
ho ho ho When we looked at this costume on A Mom, A blog, and the Life in-Between, we had to agree with this lady’s co-workers. have to say, the outfit you are about to rate seemed like a burst of creativity and funkiness (but total cuteness) on my part…
It was midday-hot in the tony neighborhood just north of Miami’s Design District this past June 22 when as many as twenty snipers took aim with high-power rifles. A deep male voice shouted, “Get down to the ground!” Minerva Vasquez hit the dirt. She pressed close to her doe-eyed, seven-year-old…
From The Dirt Miami “Fresh on the heels of reading in Rollingstone that Scissor Sister’s lead singer Jack Shears told off FYE at a recent National Association of Recording Merchandisers convention for pricing CD’s too high at $20 bucks a pop, what do we see? That our beloved Specs of…
South Beach is still a mecca for the rich and infamous, but nowadays the stars tend to be more of the “who is that, again?” persuasion. In the 1990’s, our neon-illuminated stretch was the playground for A-listers who partied all night and stumbled home in broad daylight. Photographer Manny Hernandez…
This on the monster, multi-million dollar project on 36th Street at North Miami Avenue from Transit Miami “A town center has become in my mind a euphemism for a Nimby-like community which is giving a half-assed attempt to create an urban culture, with sufficient parking for all Mercedes Benzes of…
From Critical Miami: “Here we are, then—a half a billion or so dollars and a couple of decades later, and our performing arts center is open at last. Let’s first stop and acknowledge something: The center will present many amazing shows in the future. The Miami Art Museum and Science…
This is a cautionary critic’s call. You should know that the DJ duo of DFA will perform on Saturday at the District, 35 NE 40th St., Miami; and on Sunday at the Standard Hotel, 40 Island Ave., Miami Beach. Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy may give the appearance of latter-day…
Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who’s pledged to return to Miami when his term ends in January 2007, took a leisurely stroll through the brick-lined streets of downtown Pittsburgh last week. He must have marveled at the colors and smells of the early autumn evening in the quaint Northeast. It was…
Not long ago, Miami Herald executive editor Tom Fiedler apologized for comparing the newspaper’s critics on Spanish language radio to nipping Chihuahuas. This has created a cottage industry among the little mutts. Chuck Strouse Ay Chihuahua Ay Chihuahua 2…
Me and Jamie Lee We’re a jaded bunch here at the Miami New Times. Our city has been a celebrity mecca for so long that the antics of the rich and famous no longer hold much fascination. But celebrities who actually use their fame to positive ends always pique our…
Erin Go Bragh This pik of Miami Police Chief John Timoney has been making the rounds recently. Remember the columns by the Bitch and Chuck Strouse?…
This just in to the Riptide desk! An earth-rattling news bulletin! Joe Arriola has nothing to say! Miami’s usually braggadocious former city manager declined comment about the $1.1 million in bonuses he awarded to non-union employees earlier this year. Arriola approved the bonuses despite even though he claimed that rising…
When we read that Miami Herald publisher Jes�s Diaz resigned this morning, at first we thought he moved too quickly. The guy goes off half-cocked more than one of those cheap exploding Korean pistols. Almost immediately after taking over the newspaper 14 months ago, he fired columnist Jim DeFede for…
Clad in a starched blue shirt and a red power tie, with black headphones sandwiching his handsome pate, the candidate adroitly parried the DJ’s questions. Democratic Congressional hopeful Ron Klein had braved more than an hour of predawn traffic to arrive at the spartan radio studio. The jock was disarming…
The Price of Victory Filed under: Scanner Let’s get this straight: Miami law firm Lydecker, Lee, Behar, Berga & De Zayas, where Mayor Manny Diaz moonlights as a freelance attorney, is not representing City Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones pro bono. And there are no billing rate discounts for city commissioners, either…
A striking, five-column color photo was splashed across the Sunday, June 25 edition of El Nuevo Herald. It showed four spandex-clad prostitutes in Cuba hailing a foreign tourist. Just a few feet away, two policemen conversed with a little girl and a woman. The headline: “Hookers: The Sad Meat of…
Not long after noon on June 11 at the Playwright Irish Pub in South Beach, the predominantly pro-American crowd was silent. It had nothing to root for in this opening round of World Cup action. A flat-footed Team USA was unraveling against the Czech Republic, down two-zip entering the second…
It sounds great. Prod media companies to hire more Hispanics and improve relations with the Latino community. Indeed, in just the past three years foundations have forked out more than $1.3 million to support this noble idea through a national effort called the Parity Project. Problem is, it ain’t working…
