At the Design District art walk this month, hordes of collectors and attenuated hipsters streamed in and out of Spinello Gallery. Mucho dinero collector Marty Margulies was there; so was Miami Art Museum board member and collector Dennis Scholl. They mixed uneasily with the hoi polloi at the opening of…
Bill 1070 from Arizona requires immigrants to carry residency papers and allows law enforcement to randomly pull over those suspected of being in the country illegally. But how will la migra know who to stop? One congressman, Brian Bilbray of California, suggested illegals can be spotted by sartorial profiling. “They…
In the grainy video, a cyclist is casually riding up Biscayne Boulevard early on a January morning. He’s close to the curb. There are a few other cars on the road. Then suddenly, he disappears from view and a loud, metallic squeal is heard.The video comes from the Miami-Dade Transit…
At the Design District art walk this month, hordes of collectors and attenuated hipsters streamed in and out of Spinello Gallery. Mucho dinero collector Marty Margulies was there; so was Miami Art Museum board member and collector Dennis Scholl.They mixed uneasily with the hoi polloi at the opening of “Feels…
At least musically, the Obama administration is softening diplomatic relations with Cuba. On Wednesday famed singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez was granted a travel visa, and this Saturday folk singer Carlos Varela will be performing in Miami. Earlier this year, salsa band Los Van Van and legendary crooner Omara Portuondo both played…
Cuba has been on a repressive kick since the beginning of a year. After well-known critic Zapata Tamayo died in February, other Cubans took to the streets in protest.Another one, Guillermo Farinas, is said to be at death’s door. The government, in turn, responded by beating some them — the…
Americans love gambling movies almost as much as they love gambling itself. What’s not to like? You get the thrill of a high-stakes cards game from the comfort of a multiplex. Over the last few years, though, something happened. The gambling movie was replaced by ESPN. Suddenly, with the broadcast…
The Wynwood building where Don and Mera Rubell house their collection is a Parthenon of modern art. The white walls at the 45,000-square-foot, former DEA warehouse are adorned by as many icons as there are Greek gods: Richard Prince, Keith Haring posters, loud Barbara Krugers, Warhol Maos. For 17 years,…
Magic City Casino gets a big tax cut
Today, under the council oak tree, Charlie Crist will powwow with the Seminole Tribe. At their Hollywood casino, the powerful tribe will host the signing ceremony of the Seminole Compact, a gaming deal that is expected to generate billions for the state, and many more for the already flush Seminoles,…
Jay Leno and other celebrities were at the White House this weekend for the correspondents’ dinner, aka nerdprom. This is the event where the president and the press chummy it up and poke fun of each other for a couple of hours. Obama killed. Leno didn’t.That’s where the White House…
Of the many things Chad Ochocinco has given us, the best is clearly his T-Rex end-zone dance. Since then, he has taken his crazy dinosaur shuffle to Dancing With the Stars, where it’s working really well for him. He’s one of the five z-list celebrities still in the running!But he’s…
Miami fails to make Daily Beast’s list of top pot-smoking cities
The federal trial of Luis Posada Carriles, accused terrorist and viejito par excellence, has been postponed yet again.It’s the second time this year the one-year-old case has been delayed. Carriles, widely seen as the mastermind of a series of bombings in Havana in 1997, and the collapse of a Cuban…
Cubans went to the polls Sunday to pick new political leaders. As far as elections go, it was another tense, too-close-to-call battle between Communists and some other Communists. Fifteen thousand seats were up for grabs in this year’s municipal assembly race, the first election in two years. In the end,…
City commissioners love curfews. No issue has pissed off as many of Marc Sarnoff’s constituents as his approval of Coconut Grove’s 3 a.m. last call. And horrible driver Richard Dunn has recently urged cops to cite teenagers and fine parents who violate the 11 p.m. teen curfew that’s been in…
University of Miami is no longer Playboy‘s top party school
On Friday, the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust sent out a self-congratulatory press release announcing it had finally shut down the sex offender shantytown under the Julia Tuttle bridge.”From the very first report of people moving in under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, the men and women of The Homeless Trust had been…
Local pride took another hit today. Fresh off that embarrassing #4 party school ranking from Playboy, a Web site run by a white British blonde reports Miami is not one of the country’s top 40 pot-smoking cities. Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast compiled a list of America’s most stoned cities…
Breaking news from the best twitter in the land, Playboy’s: the University of Miami is no longer the number one party school in the country. It is with a heavy heart that we report that the University of Texas at Austin is the new champion, thanks to its “big-time sports,…
Poor, poor Florida Marlins. They have just 600 fans, and one of them happens to be Scott Stapp. This Jesus-looking dude, if you’ll remember, was the lead singer of Christian rock band Creed. (Yes, they were a thing once). In 2004, after peaking with the band, he went solo, crashed…
Yoani Sánchez is on the cover of Italian Wired this month. In the three years she’s been online, the 32-year-old blogger has become Cuba’s Arianna Huffington.She’s now a tweeter, a blogger on the actual Huffington Post, and her blog, Generation Y, gets 14 million page views a month, according to…
