While Deepwater Horizon continues spewing black crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Cuban commies might be rejoicing. That’s because the oil spill could be the strongest argument yet for ending the embargo.Already, the two sides have been talking regularly about the Big Spill and how Cuba can protect itself from…
Moving at a glacial pace towards a new home at Bicentennial Park, the Miami Art Museum made some progress Thursday. Thomas “Thom” Collins has been named its new director.The museum had been without a director since December, when Terence Riley abruptly resigned. Collins, a relatively young director who now oversees…
Miami’s rainmakers are stopping at nothing to keep Dwyane Wade in town. In May, the Miami Heat and a slew of corporate sponsors launched an online campaign — wewantwade.com — to convince the NBA MVP from fleeing to another team when he becomes a free agent in July. The website…
Before Romero Britto lucked his way into a multimillion-dollar empire selling cheerful, polka-dot canvasses to the masses, there was Thomas Kinkade. Kinkade is a kind of role model for Britto. Even before the Brazilian thought about hurting people’s eyeballs, Kinkade had already made a fortune selling those gooey, oddly phosphorescent…
When Carly Fiorina, a senatorial candidate from California, mocked U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s haircut last week as “sooo yesterday,” Boxer let political pundits do the barking for her.Instantly, talking heads and bloggers accused the former Hewlett Packard CEO of reviving stereotypes of female candidates’ cattiness. But when Fiorina criticized South…
Alex Sink is pulling out the big guns for her flailing gubernatorial campaign: swampthing James Carville. While her campaign has seesawed from bad to “who’s that?” since it kicked off, things have recently taken a turn for the worse. In this month’s Quinnipiac poll, she trails both her Republican opponents…
Another former member of boy-band Menudo has come out of the closet. Color us shocked. Following Ricky Martin’s example, Angelo Garcia tells Spanish tabloid TV Notas that he’s gay and proud.When Garcia was with Menudo, from 1988 to 1990, Martin was the oldest member of band, and was the only…
Every week, exiled Cubans are pissed about something. If it’s not a Los Van Van concert, it’s Hugo Chavez. Protesting outside Versailles is their idea of a Glee club, and their favorite pastime is tacking on new crimes, no matter how far-fetched, to Fidel Castro’s long list of offenses. In…
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros is the former wife of tycoon Oswaldo Cisneros, whose family owns a Latin America media and Pepsi bottling empire worth a cool $6 billion.In Miami, she’s one of the biggest art collectors in town, and the owner of the flossy flossy Cisneros Foundation. Nothing to be bummed about…
On Monday, The New Yorker published the most anticipated listicle of the year: the 20 under 40 list, a grab bag of the best fiction writers under 40 in the country. It’s a veritable who’s that of the literary world, which includes such noted page-turners as David Bezmozgis and famous…
El Mas Supremo got out of his crypt Wednesday to give us his two cents on Israel’s attack of an aid flotilla heading to Gaza.Writing in his irregular column, Reflecciones, Fidel Castro called the sinking of the flotilla “a brutal attack” caused by a “fanatic,” uncontrollable Israel.On Sunday, as we’ve…
Port of Miami tunnel is a waste of taxpayer money
University of Miami music professor accused of sexting and harassing students
Trucker Jose Martinez heads to the Port of Miami every day on his 40-foot white Freightliner. By the time he gets downtown, traffic is a breeze. “It’s like going from the bed to the kitchen,” he says.Twenty years ago that wouldn’t have been possible. The port was connected to the…
Tropical Storm Agatha tore through Guatemala over the weekend, leaving hundreds dead and a sinkhole in the middle of Guatemala City that swallowed up an entire intersection. On Tuesday, the country’s main daily reported the foreign minister is going to ask for temporary protected status for Guatemalans living in the…
To hear University of Miami music school dean Shelton Berg tell it, jazz piano professor Doug Bickel was pulling stunts that would make John Coltrane blanch. The 41-year-old jazz pianist, says Berg, smoked pot in his office, tried to barbecue inside a classroom, mooned his students, and sexually harassed them…
Miami-Dade is finally ready to give the blighted Miami Art Museum $100 million to begin construction of its long-in-the-works home at Bicentennial Park. While the museum has suffered a number of setbacks in the past decade, County Manager George Burgess wrote last week he’s satisfied with the $31 million MAM…
Print’s death rattle has birthed a new online start-up based here in Florida. The Florida Independent launched earlier this week with a focus on original, daily reporting on state and local issues. But what’s notable about the start-up is its place in a growing list of news organizations that are…
In the last year, a gaggle of Cuban musicians have performed in Miami for the first time in decades. There was Los Van Van, Omara Portuondo, and goateed troubadour Carlos Varela. But when singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez announced two weeks ago he would tour the United States for the first since…
A specter is haunting Cuba. The specter of zombies. You’ve seen all those protests and hunger strikes. Something’s afoot. And that something is flesh-eating, pus-spewing zombies.That’s the premise, anyway, of a new movie that will film in Habana later this year, called Juan of the Dead. In the movie, Cubans…
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating Billy Cypress, the former leader of the Miccosukee Tribe for income tax violation. Cypress, who oversaw the construction of the tribe’s casino in Southwest Miami Dade, had a high roller’s reputation that included frequent trips to Las Vegas, says the Miami Herald. Guess the…
Yesterday was Cuban independence day, a holiday as ignored by Cubans as President’s Day is by Americans. But for every Florida politician with an election coming up, it was the perfect opportunity to suck up to the pickiest voting bloc in the state. The three enemigos — Charlie Crist, Marco…
