Daniel Zajac really hates sex offenders — but not for the usual reasons. No, he loathes the gropey pervs because they foiled his swell digs: “They totally ruined everything.” Zajac is a shelter-averse homeless man who started living in a tent on the Julia Tuttle Causeway, a few hundred feet…
Yuppie Rambo Richard “Kudo” Couto takes on the C-9 Basin, Miami-Dade’s most lawless outpost
Hugo Tandron is the Marlins’ official barber
New Times’ story about official Marlins barber Hugo Tandron, the former Carol City thug who went from violent criminal charges to his own shop and a stable of millionaire athlete clients, is online and hits stands this week.In-house videographer extraordinaire Jacob Katel did his thing with footage of Tandron cutting…
Are the Shulas broke? Or is football demigod Don’s wife just a cheapskate? First, the wife of Dolphins Hall of Famer Don Shula made a bizarre plea of poverty at a council meeting in ultra-exclusive Indian Creek Village, in protest of a new tax assessment that will cost the Shulas…
Unless you’ve spent the last 48 hours holed up in a French B&B humping the homosexuality right out of your rent-a-boy, you’ve probably heard about Miami New Times’ exposé of gay-bashing evangelist George Alan Rekers’ European tryst with a male prostitute.Is there any homophobe out there that’s not secretly had…
Who vandalized Hanley Ramirez’s cars?
“I have a dream that there shall one day be a place I can go that will include a really nice golf course where no Jews shall tee off behind me, and a stuffy restaurant where the only blacks are there to serve me overcooked shrimp. And potential members of…
It’s a travesty. An outrage. Mess with Jorge, Josh, or Freddi — but don’t fool around with Hanley.At 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, Florida Marlins wunderkind Hanley Ramirez awoke from graceful slumber to find somebody had vandalized three of his matching white vehicles parked in front of his seven-bedroom Weston…
Some say it’s the heat that causes it. Others blame Jimmy Buffett. Whatever the reason, South Florida is Mecca for this hemisphere’s most devoted morons. Let’s see who took the pilgrimage this week: 5. Ron Book, who apparently thought it was wise to put a bunch of Julia Tuttle sex…
The official seal of Indian Creek Village depicts a closed front gate. That’s all the chic North Miami-Dade island’s 33 multimillionaire residents want you to know. You’re not welcome. So it was illuminating to attend a rare gathering last Tuesday of some residents, who include auto mogul Norman Braman, financier…
Last November, we reported about the many angry creditors of a French-born charter-plane businessman named Mickael Cohen, who was accused of jilting everybody from Jay-Z to a Lamborghini dealer. Then the Miami Herald ran a similar piece, and in March, Cohen emailed us with the jubilant news that a French…
While writing “Blow Hard,” this week’s feature about douche-tastic hip-hop megaproducer Scott Storch — which reveals that (a) his mother claims he financially abandoned her, (b) he apparently ordered a handler driving a German-made coupe to run down a child-support court server, and (c) he likes cheese manicotti — I procrastinated…
Coral Springs native and hip-hop producer Jim Jonsin is suing Lil Wayne’s Miami rap collective for $500,000 in allegedly unpaid royalties for the smash hit “Lollipop”. According to the suit, filed this week in New York federal court, Young Money Entertainment “failed to provide any accountings or payments whatsoever” to…
Scott Storch raked in hip-hop millions and then snorted his way to ruin
Hip-hop groupie Kat Stacks dishes Z-list dirt
This is either a bail-out from a buddy or a very shrewd buy-low purchase. Just as “Blow Hard”, New Times’ feature on bankrupt megaproducer Scott Storch, is filling newspaper boxes, his manager’s company announced that it was buying his music catalog for $7 million. His manager Derek Jackson, president of…
In reporting “Blow Hard,” this week’s feature about former megaproducer and recovering coke addict Scott Storch, we collected reams of fascinating documents detailing his fall. That will happen when you have 28 creditors file lawsuits against you in the span of four years. But these two documents sum up Storch’s…
This week, New Times slogged knee-deep into the messy world of Scott Storch– the coke, the family he ditched, the fortune he blew in spectacular fashion, it’s all in there in unprecedented detail. But before he was a prime candidate for the best VH1: Behind the Music ever, Storch was a…
A few years ago, Karrine Steffans, AKA “Superhead,” took the hip-hop gossip world by storm when she published a memoir dishing dirt on claimed former flings such as Dr. Dre, DMX, P. Diddy, Ja Rule, and Shaquille O’Neal. Now meet her heir apparent, Miami’s own Kat Stacks — a foulmouthed,…
We had some strange and creepy ones this week. Let’s get down to it: 5. Paul Edwards, busted for murder by his alleged victim’s beyond-the-grave text message. So cops investigating a missing female sent their top suspect, her boyfriend and Miramar resident Edwards, a text message from her phone number reading,…
Our elitist sister paper in Broward and Palm Beach, proud home of dumpy white people, pastel tones, and boredom, today declared that new Dolphin wide receiver Brandon Marshall would be better served to find a house in Miami than in Broward or Palm Beach counties — you know, ’cause he’s…
