On a dreary afternoon this past September 29, dozens of Hialeah firefighters, police officers, and city employees marched near the entrance to city hall at 501 Palm Ave. Some held signs that read, “Julio Robaina, Hialeah is the city of poverty and it’s your fault,” and “Julio Robaina: What did…
In this week’s metro story, New Times explores Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina’s chances to succeed his Miami-Dade County counterpart Carlos Alvarez. Talk about who will follow Alvarez has grown louder with a recall election against the county mayor to take place later this year. County Commissioners Carlos Gimenez and Joe…
Marijuana production is at an all-time high in Florida and so are grow house busts. The local, state, and federal law enforcement weed eradication program has seen a 50 percent spike in the number of grow labs in less than four years. It’s easy pickings for Johnny Law when you…
Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…
Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…
Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…
Miami’s favorite Tio and New Times columnist Luther Campbell is hitting the half-century mark. The raunchiest man in rap turns 50 today, but he shows no signs of slowing down. He just got back into the Magic City after helping guide the Miami Central Rockets football team to their first…
The philanthropy arm of PBS television affiliate and public radio station WLRN has incurred the wrath of some Miami-Dade School Board members. In his weekly edition of The Watchdog Report, Daniel Ricker reveals Friends of WLRN and Miami-Dade Public Schools, which owns the station’s federal license, have reached an impasse…
This past December 3, in the early evening, a man in an unkempt, dirt-stained Santa Claus suit with a ratty fake white beard twirled a placard that read: KB’s Christmas trees. 34 years. Don’t be fooled by impostors! He was on the sidewalk in front of a candy cane-colored tent…
That Ka-Ka-crazy dude Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda who proclaims himself the Man Christ/Anti-Christ is talking cuckoo again. This time, he’s dancing on the grave of a recently deceased Miami judge. It’s the type of evil insidious behavior we come to expect from the self-proclaimed seven headed Beast that rose…
Kevin Burns won’t be having a Merry Christmas this year. In this week’s print edition of Miami New Times (which is available online later today), we chronicle how the former North Miami mayor’s 34-year-old business selling Christmas trees is no ho-ho-ho fun.Banana Republican interviewed several people familiar with Burns’ operation,…
Miami New Times columnist and volunteer high school football coach Luther Campbell has got the sports media blogs jumping on his Twitter feed. Deadspin just posted an item about Campbell’s tweet that Randy Shannon, recently fired as the University of Miami’s football head coach, has accepted the defensive coordinator job…
Tommy Pooch reclines against the counter of his resurrected pizza joint, Pucci’s Pizza, at 1535 Washington Ave., about a half-a-block from the original location of the early Nineties. Back then, Pooch was just starting to build his mini-empire, which now revolves around throwing mad parties that draw celebs and celebrity…
Looking for ways to screw taxpayers even more, county commissioners Joe Martinez and Sally Heyman want to introduce red light cameras for unincorporated Miami-Dade. Several cities, including Miami Beach, Hialeah and Miami Gardens, have already installed the controversial traffic ticket generators as a new source of government revenue. Call it…
Jeff Stoutland certainly knows how to open a press conference on a light note. Yesterday, the University of Miami interim football head coach was late to his Q&A session alongside Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly to talk about their teams meeting for the first time in 20 years at the…
Justin Bieber, Chatroulette, and the iPad were the three fastest-rising search terms in 2010, according to Google’s recently released annual zeitgeist report. Every year, Google analyzes billions of searches to reveal emerging trends in web surfing. The search giant breaks down the results by region and worldwide. We are sad…
As the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Miami Hurricanes prepare to renew one of the most heated, most riveting rivalries in college football at the Sun Bowl on December 31, we’ve compiled a time-line on the teams’ previous meetings during the ’80s via passages from Jeff Carroll’s book “Perfect Rivals:…
Getting a majority of Miami-Dade County commissioners to discuss term limits is like trying to convince Julian Assange to get tested for a venereal disease. Unless someone threatens them with arrest, they won’t consider it. But give Commissioner Carlos Gimenez credit for at least trying to broach the subject of…
Tonight is the opening reception of Hyperbolic Aerosolic: The Roots of New York City Underground Art 1972-1975 at 2501 NW Second Ave. A couple of days ago, Miami native, gallery owner and show curator Eric Firestone gave us a brief tour and introduced us to the exhibition’s stars, P.H.A.S.E. 2…
When Miami-Dade voters approved a $2.9 billion general obligation bond program six years ago, the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables was not among the list of projects slated to receive funds. Today, county Commissioner Rebeca Sosa aims to change that. She is sponsoring a resolution on the December 7 county commission…
One week before his ouster, Panama strongman Manuel Noriega was preparing to crack down on his opponents and rally his troops, according to Prudence Bushnell, at the time U.S. Ambassador to Panama.Bushnell’s analysis is among the first set of U.S. Embassy documents released by Wikileaks on Nov. 28, detailing her…
Here is a shocker. The Miami Dolphins finally scored more than 30 points this season. It was an offensive explosion for 471 yards that featured two big play touchdowns by running back Ricky Williams and undrafted rookie wide receiver Marlon Moore. Watching Williams gallop 45 yards for a touchdown that…
