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…
Even though they lost last night to the Mavs, the LeBron-ified Miami Heat are finally playing like juggernauts. And the team is profiting like one, too, from ticket and paraphernalia sales. In fact, the Micky Arison-owned wunderkinds expect to make more money this season than ever before. Do you think…
This week, we a) teach you how to glare at the camera properly, b) bring back the leather jacket and ponytail, and c) make you Google Chester A. Arthur and then feel embarassed about it. God Bless this county and it’s Annie Leibovitz-caliber police photographers…
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…
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…
Meet Ricardo Pradel, American dreamer. Co-founder of Dade Fire Entertainment and the unfortunately-named Hiroshima Entertainment, 31-year-old Pradel is an aspiring rap mogul. For three years up until April 2010, the Miami resident was also an admissions counselor at the American Institute, a trade college in Lauderdale Lakes. That’s where he…
Fisher Island, the status-obsessed millionaire’s hamlet just south of Miami Beach, just 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…
If you’re not wearing an ascot while reading this week’s Mugshots Friday, you’re going to feel under dressed. Seriously: This was the week Miami-Dades arrestees got classy on that… assy?…
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…
Must everything in Miami be endorsed by a marginal celebrity and decorated by Romero Britto? The answer to that question, clearly, is yes…
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,…
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…
This mug shot tells only half the story, but it tells it clearly: Sterling Roderick Wilde, a 26-year-old Atlanta tourist allegedly found sleeping in a South Beach hotel hallway, tangled with the wrong lady cop…
Downtown Miami’s no-panhandling zone displaces homeless
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…
How lucky are 80s-babies to have grown up during Leslie Nielsen’s heyday? There could be no better accompaniment to being 12 than a brand-new “Naked Gun” opening in theatres. And as we get older and watch them again, Nielsen’s venerable spoofs only get funnier, his one-liners more genius. To think:…
Can it really have been only a week ago that The Man With The Dented Head exploded the internet and sent our switchboards into hyperdrive? We’ll have an update on him — and how he got his injuries — next week. In the meantime, Miami-Dade’s jails have netted a far…
Mickey Munday: Twilight Cowboy
Dave Barry: Bravely Navel-Gazing
Garrett Wittels: Keeping the Streak Alive
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…
With the supposed-to-be-bigger-than-God Miami Heat looking ugly on the court and sputtering to an 8-6 record, the calls for doofy coach Erik Spoelstra’s professional head have reached a fever pitch…
