Two years ago, Darryl Hickey’s family consumed 38 gallons of beer on Christmas.”Well, Christmas and the surrounding days,” he corrects. When he recently heard that they’d be returning for the upcoming holiday season, his head was set into a mighty worry. But unlike the rest of us poor bastards here…
IBL Strike?! Oy gevald! Baseball is probably not the first thing that springs to mind when you think of Israel. But according to former Boston Sox General Manager Dan Duquette, that’s about to change. Together with former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, and Miami-based attorney Martin Berger, Duquette is…
These guys don’t look a day over 70 The Bitch had long been admiring a pair of ceramic greyound statues in the window of a local gallery when, finally, during the gallery walk a few Saturdays ago, summoned the nerve to cross the threshold of NiBa, a sort of furniture…
El Vacilon He’s not gonna take it anymore Three days after Jose Varela’s brazen takeover of One Herald Plaza, radio hosts Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos had Varela’s estranged wife Marela in the studio. The duo behind El Vacilon en la Manana, Miami’s top-rated FM Spanish language program, promised to…
Eye candy for the girls Girrrrl, when it comes to putting on a show, nobody does it better than a gay man. And for the 22nd consecutive year, the Miami White Party extravaganza was nothing short of spectacular. Fabulous, even. Added to which, the week-long slew of parties and events…
Update: Last week, New Times wrote about a 12-year-old ballroom dance ingenue in search of a partner. Krysten Batlle, a seventh-grader at Arvida Middle School in Kendall, has been winning dance competitions all over Florida for years, but the only partners she can find are at least twice her age,…
Aha! The plot thickens in the Coral Gables Building & Zoning fraud probe, with a re-arraignment hearing held this past Tuesday to up the charges against former employee Jorge Reyes — to north of $100,000 in funds allegedly stolen from the city. As Reyes awaits a March 2007 trial, the…
The gunman who reportedly entered the Miami Herald building this morning was taken into police custory at about 2:30 pm, reportedly with no shots fired. The Herald covered the story as it unfolded within its own building and reported that the man was identified as Jose Varela, a cartoonist for…
“Did someone yell ‘Paparazzi’?” Britney Spears is moving on, and apparently moving south — to Miami. According to MSNBC gossiper Jeanette Walls, Spears is leaving Fed-Ex in her wake and house-hunting in the Magic City, with a $29 million budget, more than twice the price tag of her Malibu spread…
Blood? What blood? In a pair of interviews yesterday, including one with local radio station WTPS, O.J. Simpson laughed off his aborted book deal and shot down reports that the money — $880,000, according to a News Corp. spokesman — had been earmarked for his kids. “Would everybody stop being…
Please don’t try this at home. If your IQ rivals that of the season’s favorite feathered bird and you fear being able to fry one without inadvertently setting alight to your person, children, home, pet, and/ or relatives, listen up. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue staged a fiery little demo this past…
Please don’t try this at home. If your IQ rivals that of the season’s favorite feathered bird and you fear being able to fry one without inadvertently setting alight to your person, children, home, pet, and/ or relatives, listen up. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue staged a fiery little demo this past…
I can’t come to the phone right now… With O.J. Simpson yet again begging for attention, White Dade recalls the December evening when he and a friend looked up The Juice’s Miami-Dade address and headed on over. “As luck would have it, the Juice’s Navigator was missing from the driveway,…
The bait Holiday movies are traditionally light-hearted attempts at restoring faith in human kind. In short, they are nothing like Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone (2001). Though well written and engagingly performed by an all-star cast, it is one of the most relentlessly grim movies ever made. And unless…
Gongora’s own mailing (left), and Weithorn’s (right). What a difference a photograph makes. Over the weekend, Miami Beach residents found two political flyers in their mailboxes with two very different images of Michael Gongora, candidate for beach commission. Gongora will face Deede Weithorn in today’s runoff election, making this the…
Brrrrrr! Steve Klotz hates cold weather. “Passionately,” he writes today on his blog, “Klotz” as in “Blood.” And he has a few choice words for you Northerners who relish a good cold snap: Inevitably, when the first cold snap strikes south Florida, people will beam with pleasure. “Isn’t this terrific?”…
Umm, which way is Miami? After winning critical kudos for their output on Seattle’s tiny Barsuk Records, Death Cab For Cutie finally struck career paydirt when they inked a well-deserved major label affiliation and, in turn, a shot at wider recognition. But while Plans, last year’s aptly dubbed Atlantic Records…
Deadspin Wait for me! A’mod Ned, the injured FIU football player who was photographed walking onto the field on crutches to try to join the notorious brawl between UM and FIU players a couple weeks ago, is becoming the stuff of legend. The bloggers at Deadspin began Photoshopping the be-crutched…
Ring-a-ding ding If only Marc Sarnoff had decisively won the election for the Miami City Commission District 2 seat… The longtime Coconut Grove-based attorney had spent years building a reputation as a solid, fair-minded community activist who was well-liked as a person as well as a public citizen in his…
Keila Lopez has three adorable mixed-race kids. Unfortunately, the Tropical Resort Condo Association has decided they just don’t gel with the pink pastel walls and stubby palms of their little slice of heaven up on Bay Drive. Lopez, a Puerto Rican Homeland Security agent, arrived at her second viewing of…
Save Our MiMo Drowsy passengers on the cross-town bus Thursday night looked puzzled by the middle aged woman chanting outside the window. It was Bay Harbor Islands after all, a wealthy, quiet little burg — not exactly a hotbed of controversy. “Save it baby, save it,” the woman shouted, holding…
Pure egg-noggy goodness People often wonder what dogs are looking at when they seem to be staring intently at a certain middle-distance point where nothing, at least to the human eye, appears to be of interest. The Bitch can’t solve this age-old mystery as it pertains to all canines, but…
