The Rapture: Singing in the name of vodka Say what you will about the superficiality that permeates our sun-drenched city, but once in a while a bash rolls around that draws you to the uber-fab VIP posse like a coke-whore to an ugly, short, rich sugar daddy. This Tuesday Nocturnal…
This past Tuesday night, professional football player Terrell Owens was mingling and chilling with his crew at the Delano Hotel for Tommy Pooch’s and Alan Roth’s weekly dinner fete. The controversial wide receiver clutched a slender curly haired maiden in one hand and, in the other, a martini glass containing…
They said this was the cutting edge… Thinking they’d save money by opting out of a $250,000 county-wide police radio system, Florida International University administrators this past summer bought an $85,000 Motorola system instead. For the main campus’s 40 cops, it’s been all downhill since then, according to an officer…
Lightweights need not apply Traveling the world, knocking back copious amounts of alcoholic beverages, and pocketing $200,000 in the process — doesn’t sound much like hard work, does it? But for one pair of lucky bastards this could soon become a full-time job — well, for a year, anyway. And…
This week’s Metro about Club Rollexx tells the tale of a local gentleman’s establishment that has attained global notoriety thanks to Miami’s thug rap triumvirate: Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, and Trina. Rappers nationwide now pay homage to “the Rollexx,” and rap fans from Tokyo to Reykjavik have the name of…
Remember that kids book that put hardline exiles in a tizzy and made Miami a national laughingstock a few months back? Otto Zequeria sure does. The journalism adviser at Coral Gables Senior High School is pissed that only two school board members deigned to respond to his letter urging an…
Once an ink-stained wretch… New Times’s former editor Jim Mullin inked a deal yesterday to buy The Biscayne Times. The paper was voted Best Neighborhood Newspaper in New Times’s 2005 Best Of Miami edition. With a circulation of 25,000, the paper is distributed free to homes and businesses along the…
U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez has a bad habit of not disclosing apparent conflicts of interests. First came that business on February 28, 2005, when Martinez failed to mention he was a Eucharistic minister, a spiritual leader who serves communion during Catholic mass, when he overturned a verdict compelling…
I’d had a particularly castrating Friday at the office —the kind that ends at 8:30 and requires several beers to forget. I’d also been running on empty all day — literally. In a frenzied hunt for documents, the little gas light on the dashboard burned bright and the needle had…
It was time to take a stand. The goddamned Miami Beach Police Department had given me a $38 “parking in a restricted zone” ticket for…. Well, parking in a restricted zone. But they did it on Christmas Eve. There was no muss, no fuss. There was not even a “Merry…
Pintos need not apply “Dedicating and doting” are words generally associated more with a tireless nurse or a mother on a mission. The Regent South Beach now wants them to link them to another category of servants: valet parkers. To be sure, valets are an integral element of the American…
The Miami City Commission is backing away from shutting down the homeless shantytown in Liberty City – at least for now. Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones told the New Times on Monday that after visiting the shanty village – named Umoja, or “unity” in Swahili – she decided to nix a proposal…
Leonard Tachmes Gallery “Fregona” by Gismo: Best of the worst Following in the footsteps of an art fair giant like Papa Basel can’t be easy, but judging by Art Miami’s shoddy spectacle this past weekend it seemed as though its organizers didn’t even try to compete. The first thing to…
Lots of restaurant deaths to report in the Miami dining world these days. For those keeping score: SouthWest NY didn’t last a New York minute in the Dolphin Mall. Maybe it’s because the menu read like a fast food Tex-Mex joint (“with French and Latin influences”) — which is not…
Lots of restaurant deaths to report in the Miami dining world these days. For those keeping score: SouthWest NY didn’t last a New York minute in the Dolphin Mall. Maybe it’s because the menu read like a fast food Tex-Mex joint (“with French and Latin influences”) — which is not…
When you think of a city that is a hotbed of radical activism, Miami doesn’t automatically come to mind. After all, Birkenstocks, ratty cutoffs and patchouli oil don’t really, uh, go with the fake boobs-stiletto heels-consumerist-mentality so popular around these parts. Still. A fashion aesthetic sure isn’t going to stop…
The protest on Brickell Avenue is hard to miss. Not because there are a couple of dozen red-shirted folks chanting in unison over the din of nearby high-rise construction. Not because of the person on the bullhorn exhorting drivers to honk. And not because someone’s passing out flyers that include…
The good old days He fled faster than Anastasio Somoza the night the Sandinistas stormed Managua in the summer of 1979. And I say good riddance to Nick Saban. I’m not going to rant endlessly about the treacherous sucker punch he landed on the franchise. In an interview with Dan…
Not so super Who’s playing in the Super Bowl again? This week’s issue of Miami Today, that venerable civic cheerleader, has a half-page ad sure to puzzle football fans. The ad promotes the paper’s upcoming Super Bowl special section (stories about the game’s economic impact, etc.) Only problem — aside…
Have badge, will travel? With a mind-boggling 406 homicides in 2006, Philadelphia appears to have a serious crime problem on its hands. Now mayoral candidate Dwight Evans is pushing one solution: Bring Miami Police Chief John Timoney back to the City of Brotherly Love, where he served as police commissioner…
Always hungry Barton G. Weiss of Barton G. The Restaurant is South Florida’s most ambitious restauranteur, constantly working with his chefs to develop outrageously clever menus and eye-popping presentations, only to revamp and start again the next season with newly brilliant concepts and concoctions. So it seemed like a perfect…
Always hungry Barton G. Weiss of Barton G. The Restaurant is South Florida’s most ambitious restauranteur, constantly working with his chefs to develop outrageously clever menus and eye-popping presentations, only to revamp and start again the next season with newly brilliant concepts and concoctions. So it seemed like a perfect…
