Rick Scott: Dirty Dozen 2010

Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…

Fisher Island Club’s grassy knoll masturbator

Fisher Island, the status-obsessed millionaire’s hamlet just south of Miami Beach, can’t seem to shake itself of masturbation-related litigation. Last year, condo-owner Raul Quintana sued porno giant BangBros.com after he was deceived, he claimed, into hosting a golf-themed skin flick in his $3 million apartment. Now Jose Canizales, a former…

Scott Storch is Not Canadian

It’s been eight months since we dived headlong into hip-hop megaproducer Scott Storch’s life and came up with this feature, but one thing continues to haunt us: The persistent misinformation that Storch was born in Canada. Even the Associated Press insists that it is so. It is not. Storch was…

Scarface Chainsaw Scene Location On Market For $9 Million

Tony Montana was one bad dude. But he’s no match for gentrification. 728 Ocean Drive in South Beach was once a location seedy enough that Colombian gangsters dismembering a dude with a chainsaw didn’t seem like much of a stretch. Today, the building that hosted one of Scarface’s most notorious…

Art Basel: 25 Reasons We’re Glad It’s Over

Look, there’s no denying that Art Basel is the best thing to happen to Miami since cocaine. The money, the buzz, the makeover to the city’s image, blah blah blah. We know. We love it, and we’ll be excited for it all over again next year. But in the meantime,…

Mugshots Friday: Art Basel Edition

In this special edition of Mugshots Friday, we’ve hidden an Art Basel piece among the booking photos. The first to correctly identify it will get two tickets to an Eddie Money concert in Canada…

Art Miami 2010: Red Pants, Bestiality, and Lowbrow-Highbrow

View photos of Art Miami 2010 here.When are art-world types going to stop wearing red pants? Aren’t they basically just conforming at this point? Now an artist wearing some nice modest chinos: That would be a fashion statement. We managed to get into last night’s VIP opening of Art Miami…

Downtown’s No-Panhandling Zone is SB1070 For Miami’s Homeless

Last week, the Miami City Commission voted unanimously to expand a controversial “no-panhandling zone” surrounding the American Airlines Arena and the Adrienne Arsht Center. “This isn’t a homeless issue,” Commissioner Marc Sarnoff told Riptide of the revised law. “It’s a panhandling issue.”Why are we getting the feeling that the very…