State Guidelines Keep Miami Tattoo Shops in Reopening Purgatory
Floridians can get drive-thru Botox injections, but sitting for a tattoo session remains a no-go.
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Miami Couple Stranded in Philippines During Global Pandemic
Zhang and Makki have been unable to flee the island of Panglao, and their chances of returning home to Miami are dwindling.
City of Miami Cancels Calle Ocho and Ultra Music Festivals Owing to Coronavirus Fears
At a press conference this morning, Miami officials pulled the plug on the city’s two biggest music festivals for 2020.
A Gallery Owner Says Two Ex-Employees Hijacked His Booth at Scope Miami Beach
Back in the Big Easy, Shaffer and Cronin are the star antagonists in a sordid art-gallery feud.
Where in the World Is Miami Gallerist Inigo Philbrick?
Just in time for Art Basel 2019, Miami gallerist Inigo Philbrick has been fingered as the villain in multiple lawsuits playing out in New York City, London, and South Florida.
Former Marijuana Smuggler Robert Platshorn Pitches Pot to Seniors
Dressed in a white guayabera and loose-fitting grandpa jeans, Robert Platshorn walks onto a small stage set up in the clubhouse of Lakes of Delray, a 55-and-over condo development in Delray Beach. About 300 snow-haired residents sit on dining-room chairs on a midafternoon in early March. They’ve shown up to…
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Ricky Williams Is the Greatest Pot Smoker to Wear a Miami Dolphins Uniform
Ricky Williams was the poster child for the National Football League’s long-running Reefer Madness approach to dealing with players who smoke marijuana. Labeled a slacker by sports pundits who were appalled that a star player of his caliber would walk away from the game so he could puff a joint…
Long Live the Fight Doctor, Ferdie Pacheco
Shortly after earning a medical degree from the University of Miami in 1958, Ybor City native Fernando “Ferdie” Pacheco set up a family practice in Overtown, Miami’s historic black neighborhood. Much like it is today, the area was mired in poverty.
BET Gives Luther Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award
Miami’s favorite hip-hop uncle is getting overdue recognition. During the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards, which will air at 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 10, 2 Live Crew founder and Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell will receive the cable network’s coveted lifetime achievement award for his influence in rap music.
Florida Pot Growers May Soon Get Rich
A pudgy man in a white lab coat, protective goggles, and a white hardhat ambles down several long rows of potted marijuana plants. An industrial A/C unit cranks frigid air into the capacious grow room, located inside a 300,000-square-foot warehouse just outside Tallahassee, while an array of high-pressure sodium lights…
A Miami Mission Saves Lives in Earthquake- and Hurricane-Ravaged Haiti
If 2016 was bad for the United States, it was far worse for Haiti. The island nation had never really recovered from the 2010 earthquake when Matthew swept through, claiming more than a thousand lives and leaving approximately 175,000 Haitians homeless and another 800,000 in immediate need of food assistance, according to the United Nations. An electoral crisis left the country essentially without a president until last week, when Jovenel Moïse, a banana farmer and associate of former President Michel Martelly, took office. A third of Haitians are out of work, and roughly 9,600 suspected cholera cases have turned up since the hurricane.
A Love Letter to Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School, Miami’s Best
Long ago, Archbishop Curley Notre-Dame High School diffused a potentially explosive situation. I was the young, aggressive Miami-Dade County beat reporter for Miami Today. I had lunch with Norman Powell, at the time a high-powered downtown Miami attorney who represented individuals and companies doing business at County Hall. We didn’t fight or…
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Will the 2000 Presidential Recount Repeat in 2016?
Sixteen years ago, hanging chads sent the nation into a spiraling constitutional crisis. For a month after the November 7, 2000 election, America panicked. Would Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore become the new commander-in-chief? Election night ended in a virtual tie. Bush had the edge,…
Joe Garcia’s Opponents Say Photos Show Congressional Candidate Buying a Dildo
We now live in a day and age where a former congressman running for his old job can’t peruse the sex toy aisle at Spencer Gifts in peace. Just ask Joe Garcia, who is leading polls in the Democratic primary for the 26th congressional district currently occupied by Carlos Curbelo,…
As Governor, Jeb Bush Stopped at Nothing to Retaliate Against His Enemies
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his face contorted in a scowl, doesn’t get up to greet Alex Villalobos when the big-eyed 42-year-old state senator enters the dimly lit office connected to the executive suite of Tallahassee’s Capitol building. It’s early May 2006, shortly after the last day of the legislative session,…
Andrew Korge, Son of Fundraising Kingpin, Wants to Remake Florida’s Democratic Party
Dozens of union workers sporting red, purple, and yellow T-shirts file into a sweltering auditorium on the grounds of the Greater Bethel AME Church in Overtown. As a speaker whips the crowd into a chant — “Fight for ’15! Fight for ’15!” — a pudgy, olive-skinned man in black slacks…
Spielberg’s Sister Left Miami Man’s Father Out of Israeli Air Force Documentary
In the fight for a Jewish state 67 years ago, Charles Winters took part in a clandestine mission to equip Israeli freedom fighters. Winters helped supply the Israelis with military planes, including three B-17 bombers dubbed “the Hammers” that strafed Egypt during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. While the Boston-born…
Miami Film Festival 2015: Rakontur’s Dawg Fight Is Worth the Wait
When Rakontur, the eponymous documentarians of all things Miami, began shooting Dawg Fight, a film that follows the lives of Dhafir “Dada 5000” Harris and his eclectic band of backyard fighters in the low income suburb of Perrine, President Barack Obama had just taken the oath of office. Last night,…
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Carlos Curbelo’s Spanish SOTU Response Was a Weak-Sauce English Translation
Watching freshman Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo deliver the Republican Spanish-language rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, one could only wonder: Where the heck was Sen. Marco Rubio to hand his homeboy a tall drink of water? You might recall Rubio took a break from his response…
Dwyane Wade Sneakers, Hennessy, and the Mass Commercialism of Art Basel Miami Beach
Inside a storefront with blacked out windows on Collins Avenue and 6th Street, footwear designer to the hip-hop elite Jon Buscemi is chatting up a tall man with dreadlocks past his shoulders dressed in all black, including a black Canadian Mountie-style hat and a fresh pair of black old school…
A Group of Cops Who Terrorized Miami’s Streets Might Just Get Away With It
Detective Suberto Hernandez, a heavyset undercover cop with a scraggly beard and long greasy hair, pulled to a stop in an unmarked car just south of Calle Ocho on a quiet Little Havana corner across from a vacant grass lot. Wearing clothes that made him look like a grungy construction…
Viral Rapper Stitches: Some Truth, Many Questions
The rise of Stitches, the Miami rapper who attracted millions of page views and huge national attention for his hit “Brick in Yo Face,” provides a blueprint for modern-day hip-hop myth-making. Almost overnight, Phillip Katsabanis went from being a suburban Kendall kid known as “Lil Phill” to a bona fide…