The evening begins with a cocktail reception, at a fabulous home in Indian Creek, with ten or twelve of your favorite friends. After the requisite mingling with other guests, including Dr. Arthur “South Beach Diet” Agatston, you will pick a number from a hat. This number dictates which of the…
Democracy can be a messy affair. After months of closed doors negotiations and planning for Museum Park (a.k.a. Bicentennial Park), the city held a public meeting Wednesday to show preliminary plans and take comments. More than 100 people jammed into a meeting room at the Performing Arts Center, with more…
Fat Pig: If you are a successful young businessman and you find yourself falling in love with a pretty, witty, engaging girl who just happens to be 80 pounds overweight, do you break up with her when your friends start making fat jokes? That’s the dilemma faced by Fat Pig’s…
Gotta run! Exhibitors announced today that, beginning at 10 a.m. Friday, “Bodies … The Exhibition” will be open 62 straight hours, until the show ends at midnight on Sunday, March 25th. By the time “Bodies” closes at the Shops at Sunset Place, more than 200,000 people will have filed through…
Days before he is set to appear at the Winter Music Conference, Paul Oakenfold answers the telephone in Amsterdam with a cheery and Seinfeldesque “Helloooo!” These days the famous knob-twiddler, who has been producing music and remixing tracks for the better part of twenty years now, has a new love…
Miami Beach police arrested a city of Miami police officer Tuesday morning, charging him with kidnapping and attempted sexual battery, both felonies. New Times profiled the officer, 31-year-old Michael Ragusa, a little over two weeks ago, in a story about an unusual traffic stop that ended with another officer, Sgt…
Over 500 people packed into the New Birth Baptist Church at last night’s standing-room only meeting of the NAACP’s Miami-Dade branch. They were there to interrogate Miami-Dade schools superintendent Rudy Crew and members of the school board (although only Martin Karp and Robert Ingram showed up), and to hear ousted…
‘Tis the season once again for the pill poppers of the world to converge on our sunny shores and shamelessly indulge their deepest, darkest addictions as Miami plays host to the world’s hottest DJs, including industry gods Paul Oakenfold, Tiesto, Sasha, Armin Van Buuren, and Carl Cox. Yes, it’s Winter…
It was a dark and stormy night — or something like that, anyway — when Mark Buckley took a welding torch to the metal before him, gave it a final blast, and stepped back to survey his creation. Cobbled together from the pieces of five bikes, a tricycle, and a…
Free Sparky The two manatees lay inert on a cushion of foam in the back of a truck. Only a few feet away, water lapped at the boat ramp at Black Point Marina. A throng of Miami Seaquarium employees in black shorts and blue t-shirts had assembled to carry the…
Nobody knew it, but a party was going down on Biscayne Boulevard at around 1:30 in the afternoon late last week. Jeremy, a.k.a. DJ Radio Raheem, stood behind a well-beaten DJ setup in the empty parking lot of the Davis Motel on 65th street. The bumps of yesteryear rattled out…
Welcome to the Everglades, now pay up! Everglades National Park is coming off its quietest year, in terms of visitation, for a decade. Only 954,022 people came through the gates in 2006, a drop off of almost 280,000 — or 23 percent — from 2005 when 1.2 million visited. What…
Wednesday was an ominous day for three-wheeled taxis. As New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg hesitated over signing a bill which would regulate the Big Apple’s three- to four-hundred strong pedicab industry, the Miami Beach City Commission discussed a possible ordinance which would have established a single-vendor bike taxi business,…
Daniel Hendler and Arturo Goetz talk law Beginning tonight at 9:00 at the Bill Cosford Cinema, University of Miami will screen Family Law (Derecho De La Familia), Argentina’s official selection for Foreign Language Film at the 2007 Academy Awards. Although the film — broadcast in Spanish with English subtitles –…
These figures were just released (only to Riptide) regarding the 2007 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival: $2 MILLION (plus) — Record ticket revenue for this year’s festival. $1 MILLION — Amount raised to benefit the students of the Southern Wine & Spirits Beverage Management Center and Teaching…
These figures were just released (only to Riptide) regarding the 2007 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival: $2 MILLION (plus) — Record ticket revenue for this year’s festival. $1 MILLION — Amount raised to benefit the students of the Southern Wine & Spirits Beverage Management Center and Teaching…
Technically, Bike to Work Week ended last Saturday — but who’s counting? Not Juan, whom I met biking home from his job at a downtown construction site. Juan declined to give his last name and exact place of work because, he said cheerfully, he has no papers — he’s illegal…
Someone else is throwing around the “third world” moniker in relation to Miami – and this time, it’s a businessman who has extensive dealings with the city. According to Miami Today, Carnival Cruise Lines CEO Bob Dickinson said Miami’s port facilities are “third world” and that construction of the new…
Betrayal: Everything in popular culture can be referred back to Seinfeld, even a major work by a Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Harold Pinter’s 1978 play was the inspiration for what is colloquially referred to as “The Backwards Episode” of Seinfeld, which aired November 20, 1997. The sitcom episode begins with Jerry,…
Jean: I could feed a nation from this hat Wyclef Jean made a presentation Tuesday before a congressional sub-committee about the need for greater U.S. involvement in Haiti. Jean earned his stripes as a member of the Fugees, and as perhaps the first mainstream American artist to rap in Kreyol…
Plaza Sesamo’s Pancho Contreras Spanish-language television channel V-me, a national network that has partnered with PBS to “entertain and educate America’s Latino families in Spanish,” began airing on digital cable stations earlier this month. Posturing itself as the anti-Univision, V-me celebrated its Miami launch with a party at Coconut Grove’s…
Remember how the Miami-Dade cops announced last week that they had a MySpace page in hopes of deterring online perverts? It seemed as though Coral Gables had a similar page — until MySpace realized that the page was bogus. The popular networking site this week closed down pages claiming to…
