On August 13 the Miami Herald printed the regular weekly column by contributor Glenn Terry of Coconut Grove. In that week’s edition of “The Grove Guy,” Terry voiced his obsessive disapproval of the Grove’s new bus benches (the main objection being that humans can’t lie down on them, though The…
You thought the real estate slowdown would put an end to Miami’s “starchitect” fever? Pish posh. While not as uber-famous as Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas, the firm of Herzog and de Meuron, selected Thursday to build the new $200 million Miami Art Museum, is considered one of the most…
Royal Dutch Shell (commonly known as Shell Oil) raked in $6.3 billion last quarter. That’s almost $2.3 billion more than they made last year during the same stretch of time. Meantime, we’re getting reamed at the pump, half of Asia wants our heads on a spear and God’s rolling out…
The local media has been mourning the demise of Fu Manchu Chinese restaurant on 71st Street in Miami Beach, which shut its doors after a near record-setting 71 year run (only Joe’s Stone Crab has been going longer). Longevity aside, however, Fu Manchu was a pretty lousy restaurant over the…
The local media has been mourning the demise of Fu Manchu Chinese restaurant on 71st Street in Miami Beach, which shut its doors after a near record-setting 71 year run (only Joe’s Stone Crab has been going longer). Longevity aside, however, Fu Manchu was a pretty lousy restaurant over the…
Riptide is a sucker for news stories that drown quietly in the media sea. Suddenly, something interesting happens and readers get story after story after story. Then months pass. Maybe even a year passes. And this oceanic phenomenon can’t help but wonder: What ever happened to… This time, it’s the…
If I keep this up, in a year I will have spent one whole month of my life on I-95. I commute about 120 miles a day to Miami New Times from my home in southern Palm Beach County. I know: It’s a misery many of you share. That’s the…
Since launching www.dontedatehimgirl.com this past September, Miami-resident Tasha Joseph has catapulted herself into the international media spotlight. Her immensely popular Website, a so-called “cheap weapon in the war on cheating men,” has amassed more than 700,000 registered users and some 17,000 profiles that berate men from around the world. In…
So, what does half-a-billion dollars buy you these days? For the answer, I went on a tour of the soon-to-open performing arts center — two Cesar Pelli-designed megaliths divided by the expanse of Biscayne Boulevard’s four lanes of traffic. The weekday evening tour, geared toward volunteer usher wannabes, attracted more…
Though reports of parapsychological phenomena can mostly be relegated to the Looney Tunes museum, The Bitch has nonetheless has been fascinated and occasionally plagued by the minor X-Files manifestation known as Street Light Interference. Basically, SLIding happens when an internal power surge in a person (or a dog) creates an…
Will “Da Real One” Bell, a rising spoken-word star who has appeared on Russell Simmons’ “Def Poetry Jam,” returned triumphantly to Miami last month after his poetry team finished fifth in a national competition of 83 teams in Austin, Texas. “That’s the best finish ever for a Florida team,” said…
It’s the academic version of a pump-and-dump scheme. When St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens wanted to better the image of its law school, it brought in former Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth in 2003. Butterworth had an ambitious plan to increase the size of the student body and the…
Several former Miami New Times writers later this month plan to launch an online city magazine. “We have been working on this in different ways since the day before I [left] New Times [in 2003],” says former music editor Celeste Delgado. She and former staff writer Rebecca Wakefield — now…
Luis Moro ignored restrictions on filming in Cuba to make the drama Love & Suicide during a 2003 trip to the island, and he obviously has a passion for the place. This passion fuels Moro’s charm as an actor with a central role. But as coscreenwriter of the film, now…
