The Sneaky Kitchen is a lot like your grandmother’s house: full of recipe cards, Tupperware, and old stories. Its founder, Bess Metcalf, has lived in Miami for over forty years, likes to cook, apparently sells Tupperware, Fuller brushes, and Avon products, and has a lot of stories to tell about…

Reach out and berate someone State Rep. Ralph Arza made a different kind of call this morning: He resigned his office and bowed out of his re-election race. The former lawmaker is facing criminal charges for his irate, curse-laden phone calls to State Rep. Gus Barreiro. Here’s the complete transcript…

The Sun-Sentinel’s Ira Winderman dissects the Miami Heat’s abysmal 108-66 loss to the Chicago Bulls in last night’s NBA season opener. “It was the worst opening-night loss by a defending champion, the worst opening-night loss in the Heat’s 19 seasons and tied for the fourth-most-lopsided loss in franchise history.” It…

Just you try it. Break out the salt and pepper ma, there’s a gator in the yard! Miami will never go hungry again. Looks like the powers that be have finally wised up and have turned the town into a slithering smorgasboard of giant lizard treats –if you can figure…

Coker, in better times Everyone wants to blame poor Larry Coker for the University of Miami’s slide from perennial college football powerhouse to mediocrity. The U’s fair-weather fans and the school’s notoriously super-secret and super-influential board of trustees can’t wait to give Cooker the boot once this lost season is…

Mmm, cacacha-y One year ago this week, the lush gardens on the grounds of Miami’s Villa Vizcaya were flattened by Hurricane Wilma to such an extent the estate was closed for some months to assess and repair the damage. Fortunately the foliage has managed to recover, and along with the…

Who’s gonna grease my palm? The Downtown Bay Forum couldn’t have known that their October 25 meeting — “Corruption & Scandals in Miami-Dade County: what are we going to do about it?” — would fall on the same day that former county commissioner Miriam Alonso would plead guilty to 20…

Leslie Rothenberg In the past, New Times has questioned the suitability of Judge Leslie Rothenberg for her seat on the Third-District Court of Appeal, given her tendency to mouth off on matters that will likely fall before her in court. Now Rothenberg is up for election. She’s not running against…

Let them wear corsets On November 1, churchyards and cemeteries around Europe are filled not only with the dead but the living; All Souls Day is a solemn sort of holiday on the continent, a day for visiting and showing respect for the resting places of the bodies that once…

Just take it in a little under the arms, please. An astute reader’s memory was triggered by “Mock Trial,” the article I wrote last week about Miami’s immigration judges. Judge Bruce Solow, who said of one asylum seeker’s case that it “was so vague and general you could vomit,” was…

The Office of Cuba Broadcasting begins its airplane-based broadcasts of Radio and Tele Marti to Cuba today, and Alex at Stuck on the Palmetto welcomes the news. He writes: “By personal experience I can tell you Tele Marti has only been watched a few times with heavy interference (looks like…

Clean as a whistle! Scarlett Johansson recently admitted to Allure magazine that she does it twice a year: “I’m not promiscuous,” she said. “I get tested for HIV twice a year…. One has to be socially aware. It’s part of being a decent human to be tested for STDs.” I…

The Bicycle King of Miami was not born to his throne. He grew up scavenging the train tracks and trash piles of old Homestead — then a land of five lakes. “You didn’t’ have no money to buy you a bike back in the day,” he said while machining the…

wtf Dogma Grill? Critical Miami wants to know. The Miami eatery has successfully sued a hot dog establishment with a similarly punny name: Hot Dogma. The location of this weiner warehouse? Pittsburgh…