Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach are looking for a part-time clubs listings editor. The job involves keeping track of bars and music in two of the most dynamic markets in the United States for our website. It involves mostly remote work, but presence in the office is…
The pro footvolley tour is coming tghis weekend to Hollywood Beach and — if you are a soccer fan — or if you just like acrobatics, you won’t want to miss it. The 2016 Hollywood Beach Open Pro Footvolley Tour’s visit this year is being sponsored by the New Margaritaville…
Miami Beach today unveiled four new lifeguard stands to go along with the 31 towers that dot the beach from 87th Street to South Point. The new stations, two of which are pictured above and below, are the designs of architect William Lane, who began working on them more than…
Back in 2013, Miami New Times profiled Dave Strecker, a self-proclaimed sex addict who gave men information on prostitutes in the Caribbean including Cuba. He is a softball-playting construction worker from Minnesota who moved to Key West and found an avocation on the edge of the law. Not long after…
Sabrina Cohen was only a sophomore at Beach High when the car, barreling down Alton Road, crashed at 90 miles per hour. There were six kids inside, she recalls, “but I was the only one who didn’t walk away.” That was two decades and several nearly lethal surgeries ago…
A petition drive is building steam to stop construction of a Wellness Center on one of Miami Beach’s last oceanfront respites, Allison Park Park — at 65th Street and Collins Avenue. The three-acre-park is among the city’s smallest. The Sabrina Cohen Foundation, a group focused on helping people with disabilities,…
In 1960, just as the Vietnam War was heating up a half-world away, three airmen jumped into a beat-up ’53 Chevy in Homestead and headed north. There was a dance scheduled at the armory on Northwest Seventh Avenue and 28th Street in Allapattah, and Leon Wegman Jack Pamprin, and Hank…
Cuando el cadáver emergió de la tumba, un hueco del tamaño de una moneda de diez centavos perforaba el cráneo. El fémur y un dedo estaban partidos como ramitas, la clavícula cascada y había plomo en el pecho. “El cuerpo fue quemado y rociado con agua luego de la muerte”,…
When the corpse emerged from the grave, a hole the size of a dime marred the skull. A femur and a finger were snapped like twigs, a clavicle was cracked, and lead lay in the chest. “Body was smoked and hosed after death,” the coroner wrote. Then came the conclusion:…
Está ahí. Indudablemente es él. La cara benévola. La cabellera negra. Esos ojos oscuros, de mirada profunda. Va renqueando. Está herido. Lleva una pierna rota. Su brazo se balancea cual péndulo mientras un soldado, pistola al ristre, lo arrastra entre los pegajosos charcos de sangre que se escurren por los…
He’s there. Clearly. The kindly face. The mop of black hair. Those deep, dark eyes. He’s hopping. He’s hurt. A leg is busted. His arm swings like a pendulum as he’s tugged by a gun-slinging soldier past sticky rivulets of blood pouring down concrete steps. He’s a judge, one of…
The owners of Miami New Times on Monday completed a sale of New York’s Village Voice to investor Peter Barbey. Voice Media Group, which took over the publication in 2013, did not announce financial details of the deal, but said in a press release that the company would continue managing…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, so we asked the group, which is led by legendary executive director Howard Simon, to name its top 12 cases. Here are the results. 12. Free Speech on Gun Safety for DoctorsThe Florida Legislature enacted the…
The War on Terror is now older than most middle-schoolers, yet it seems that nobody gets it. Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t. Bashar El Asad doesn’t. And the US military, which this past weekend bombed a hospital in Afghanistan most certainly doesn’t know what the hell is happening. Therein lies the…
Miami New Times is looking for a writer and editor to oversee coverage of all things related to art, theater, and other cultural happenings in America’s hottest city. The job entails working closely with a pool of freelancers to produce Night+Day, our weekly print guide to the city, while editing,…
Tropical; Storm Grace is headed for Puerto Rico and could be in South Florida next week, the National Hurricane Center is reporting..The storm, still far out to sea, is moving west at a good clip and strengthening. It was about 685 miles west-southwest of the Republic of Cabo Verde on…
Oolite is no more. The year-old restaurant South Beach Restaurantat 166a Pennsylvania Avenue , which has achieved great things since it opened last year, owes the city more than $446,000 on its $61,000 per month rent, according to a letter dated April 28 to the Miami Beach City Commission from…
There’s a golden palace on Biscayne Bay. An imperial porte-cochère, vaulted ceilings, and grand fireplaces make the Miami Woman’s Club one of the most elegant structures in the American Southeast. Taxpayers recently forked over almost $4 million to freshen up the 89-year-old Spanish Renaissance structure, which was among the first…
The Miami Heat’s greatest player ever re-signed Thursday, ending months of speculation about whether he would return to the team with which he has won three NBA championships. “It has been an honor and privilege to play with the Miami HEAT the past twelve years,” said Wade. “The Heat family…
Washington and Miami will announce Wednesday that they have agreed to open embassies in each others’ countries. In a historic decision that was widely reported Tuesday afternoon, the two countries will reverse a Cold War policy that has had the two nations at loggerheads almost since the Cuban Revolution in…
Miami-Dade Commissioners Tuesday eased up on pot smokers, approving a measure that will allow police to charge users with a civil crime crime that would require them to pay a $100 fine and leave no spot on their permanent records. While state and federal laws remain in effect, the measure…
Doctor’s Charter School in Miami Shores has, until recently, been a damn good example of Jeb Bush’s success in education — good teachers, test scores and athletics with a diverse student body run not by a giant school board. but a small board of local folks. But the chaos that…
