The rumors had been swirling around Miami’s AIDS community for at least two years: Dr. Homer L. Kirkpatrick, Jr., would do more for his patients than just treat their HIV infections. But the allegations of sexual misconduct seemed too outrageous to believe. Yet even after some patients began discussing in…
It is a cinematic moment that can be relished by anyone who has ever overpaid for a bad meal: Donald Sutherland playing a health inspector in the 1978 remake of the sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Nervously shadowed by owner Henri, Sutherland prowls the kitchen of an exclusive…
New Times examined the records of 50 popular local restaurants to see how health inspectors graded them over the past two years. Of 57 possible violations — as outlined by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Hotels and Restaurants — we concentrated on seven categories generally…
Rarely do police officers assigned to the liaison office at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building get to brave the perils faced by their comrades on patrol. Instead liaison officers spend numbing ten-hour shifts shuffling through the nine-story courthouse on NW Twelfth Street near Jackson Memorial Hospital. Metro-Dade Police Officer…
In dealing with Haiti, the young, gifted, and liberal policymakers at the White House and the U.S. State Department have faced a seemingly insurmountable problem: how to convince Haiti’s recalcitrant military regime that this E-mail-happy group is prepared to go to war. Gunboat diplomacy, international censure, a naval blockade –…
Cable-TAP invites you to produce community programming,” teased a flyer distributed to nonprofit and educational groups around Dade County. To the operators of the Miami Beach-based Alliance Film and Video Cooperative, Cable-TAP’s offer of airtime for a TV series seemed like the ideal opportunity to showcase the work of local…
David Ruffner figured his new tattoo would displease his dad, a conservative tax attorney with an office on Brickell Key Drive. So for six months the seventeen-year-old Palmetto High School senior endeavored to keep the oozing five-inch skull on his right shoulder blade a secret. It made no sense to…
