Roque Jimenez is in the house Tuesday, while you were at your desk nursing a coffee-scalded tongue and your daily work headache, a Miami Beach hair salon introduced a few local journalistas to the newest hair-gician in town. The Samy Salon Beauty Lounge was immaculate, neither a hair nor flyaway…
Last week, when a group of City of Miami employees were busted for operating a private business on the city’s time and dime, it wasn’t the Miami Herald that broke the story. And no, it wasn’t New Times either. It was the good folks at Miami Monthly magazine, a slick…
Faced with a stressful week of work, my girlfriend and I decided it was time for a pleasant dinner in the Roads this past Saturday. We had passed Old Lisbon many times. After stepping into the cozy restaurant, the rich aromas of flaming Linguiça and stewing codfish grabbed hold of…
Faced with a stressful week of work, my girlfriend and I decided it was time for a pleasant dinner in the Roads this past Saturday. We had passed Old Lisbon many times. After stepping into the cozy restaurant, the rich aromas of flaming Linguiça and stewing codfish grabbed hold of…
This Saturday afternoon, while you were tackling Everest-like loads of laundry, a group of women were perfecting their hip roll and learning how to crawl seductively across a room. In other words, while you were at home being June Cleaver, eight women were learning how to be Dita Von Teese…
The seemingly ageless “Queen of Crime” Edna Buchanan was at Books & Books in Coral Gables Thursday night to read from her new novel, Love Kills. For the graying audience that packed the place, it wasn’t so much a reading as a chance to revel in Miami noir. They wanted…
After a brief respite – the Bike Blog got bike clogged, you might say – we’re back. And to make up for last’s week’s missing dose of grumbling and mockery, the Bike Blog presents two bits of hope, progress, and downright democracy. The first comes from the City of Miami…
It is an astounding statistic: 99 percent of all new restaurants go out of business within the first six minutes. Or something like that. Still, this doesn’t deter one feckless restaurateur after another from trying their hands at the hazardous game. They all go in confident that they’ve got something…
It is an astounding statistic: 99 percent of all new restaurants go out of business within the first six minutes. Or something like that. Still, this doesn’t deter one feckless restaurateur after another from trying their hands at the hazardous game. They all go in confident that they’ve got something…
The shocking news came late Tuesday afternoon, when the South Florida Concierge Association sent an email out to local hotels with the following message: We have received word from Pacific Time that they have closed their doors effective immediately. Chef/proprietor Jonathan Eismann helped pioneer the resurgence of Lincoln Road by…
The shocking news came late Tuesday afternoon, when the South Florida Concierge Association sent an email out to local hotels with the following message: We have received word from Pacific Time that they have closed their doors effective immediately. Chef/proprietor Jonathan Eismann helped pioneer the resurgence of Lincoln Road by…
Google Street View A Google-eye view of South Beach For nearly a month now, Google Street View has provided an innovative new way to procrastinate: digitally wandering the corridors and byways of our fair city. Google’s spokesperson was vague when asked why the company chose Miami in its initial launch…
Still painting the town red! Friday night, in Coconut Grove, my friends and I had just polished off our fair share of beer, vodka, Amaretto, and Jack Daniels between Mr. Moe’s and Waldo’s Sports Bar & Lounge when we were captivated by the human activity generated at Christabelle’s Quarter, the…
With much resistance coming from both the county and Wackenhut, H. Mark Veith, the attorney suing the County’s largest security provider, was able to obtain the preliminary findings of a county audit of the company, early last week. New Times wrote about the lawsuit this past September. Veith handed the…
Terry Brown, before the storm Wednesday, as lightning licked the skyline and a wall of thunderclouds bore down on Miami, New Times took a bicycle along the shoulder of the Julia Tuttle Causeway to meet Terry Brown, soon to be its newest resident. Last March, New Times wrote about three…
Dads are like assholes. Or not. That’s the thing — they’re all so damn different! So before deciding on a father’s day destination, it helps to define what type of man he is. Here’s an easy-to-use guide (meaning short of length and no big words) of recommendations specific to your…
Dads are like assholes. Or not. That’s the thing — they’re all so damn different! So before deciding on a father’s day destination, it helps to define what type of man he is. Here’s an easy-to-use guide (meaning short of length and no big words) of recommendations specific to your…
Child’s play? Camel racing doesn’t sound particulary insidious, but an unusual federal case pending in Miami is full of unthinkably dark details. In a class action complaint filed against two sheik brothers from the United Arab Emirates, attorneys for thousands of young Asian and African boys allege boys from 2…
People have spent the last four decades speculating about the Kennedy assassination, but an online magazine editor may have written the most comprehensive book on the subject to date. David Talbot of Salon.com fame recently published Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. The book begins on the day…
An article in Monday’s Washington Post analyzed the appointment of immigration judges since 2004 and found that many of the 37 judges chosen under Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez had political ties to the Republican party. Their analysis also revealed that of the appointees with background in immigration law, all were…
A populist in Miami? Sure enough, as I was waiting for a vodka tonic at the crowded cash bar, John Edwards somehow materialized and took the stage to cheering. He had blown into town for, among other things, a fundraiser at the Rusty Pelican, with its wide-open views of the…
Pesky buggers You want breast cancer? A lowered sperm count? How about Parkinson’s Disease? John Cunningham is on a one-man crusade to wake up Miamians to what he claims are the profound dangers of anti-mosquito spraying. On the website he runs out of his Kendall home, the 65-year-old former college…
