Miami Marlins fire Manatees plus-size male dance troupe

Dr. Dax — real name Dax Rudnak — has the kind of career Riptide can get behind. He is an Atlanta graffiti artist who designs album covers that look like this. He’s directed several Big Boi videos including this one featuring 2 Short and George Clinton, and can be seen…

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is going to give us cold sweats the next time we’re driving through one of Miami-Dade County’s small towns. The daily paper — which Sunday reported that Florida’s statistically dirtiest cop is an Opa-locka officer — continued its “Unfit for Duty” series today with an analysis of how…

New Times McKay scholarship expose prompts reform of a billion-dollar educational catastrophe

After two dolphins died at a Swiss marine park following a “techno party” across the street, Miami Seaquarium is taking a good, reasoned look at whether hosting late-night parties is putting its animals in danger. Just kidding! But putting a stop to such parties is the new rallying cry of…

When a Sarasota daily newspaper went looking for Florida’s dirtiest cop, they landed in our very own Middle Eastern-themed, bullet-riddled, corruption-crazy backyard. The most surprising aspect of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s epic exposé of Opa-Locka Sgt. German Bosque’s history on the job isn’t the forty cases of reported brutality, theft, and…

It’s been a rough week for American Airlines. Not only did the company file for bankruptcy protection, but a widow is claiming her husband died sweaty after eating the airplane chicken. According to the suit, Miamian Othon Cortes and his wife Raquel were on a flight from Barcelona to New…

What an embarassment of riches the last year has been, huh? Yep, we’re living the American dream down here in Miami. [Ducks stray bullet, which hits unemployed guy standing in line outside temp agency. He dies and foreclosure papers fall out of his pocket and flutter into the wind.] Those…

Alberto Carvalho: Miracle Man

Alberto Cutie: Post-Catholic Padre

Richard “Kudo” Couto is the animal activist responsible for the closure of an entire district of illegal slaughter farms in Northwest Miami-Dade County, through the use of commando tactics like secret surveillance. By the time you’re reading this on Saturday afternoon, Kudo’s efforts should have led to another multi-agency raid…