Venezuelans partied late into the night in Doral following yesterday’s announcement that Hugo Chávez had died from cancer. Restaurant El Arepazo II, on the corner of NW 39th Street and 79th Avenue, was swarmed with more than 300 people waving flags, eating arepas, and sipping Polar.But nearly all those in…
Graham Greene is a literary legend, famous for best-selling spy novels like Our Man in Havana, The End of the Affair, and The Quiet American. But the writer was as mysterious as his characters: secretive and prone to bouts of bipolarism. Few people really ever got to know him.Surprisingly, one…
When you’re kicking ass on the court, you can pretty much do whatever you want off of it. The Chicago Bears had the “Super Bowl Shuffle” back in 1986. Now the Miami Heat have made their claim to this year’s meme, the Harlem Shake.And a helluva claim it is, with…
Last night, CNN’s Chilean affiliate reported that Hugo Chávez is not, in fact, recovering in a Venezuelan hospital because he is dead.The report was based on the claims of Guillermo Cochez, until recently Panama’s ambassador to the Organization of American States. In the hours since it was published, however, the…
Dolphin Stadium Renovation: Three Better Ways to Spend $200 Million
Stephen Ross wants your money. The billionaire Miami Dolphins owner might tell you otherwise, arguing that the $200 million he supposedly needs to renovate Sun Life Stadium will come from raising taxes on tourists. But don’t be fooled. The next time you and your wife want some sexy time at…
On Tuesday, New Times reported the needless death of Keskea Hernandez, an inmate at Miami’s Federal Detention Center. Death, it turns out, is not the only disgrace inside the FDC. Back in 2010, Maria Sosa was five months pregnant when she was accused of Medicare fraud and tossed into a…
Icon South Beach Residents Angry After Board Prez Cashed $113,000 in Checks
Keskea Hernandez: Death in the Federal Penitentiary
Rick Scott has balls. Giant, hairless, Republican balls. Remember when he told a crowd of black legislators that he understood them because he “grew up in the same situation as you guys” and also “started school in public housing”?Well, our state governor has done it again by inviting Homeland Security…
In this week’s New Times, we investigate the death of Keskea Hernandez, an inmate at Miami’s Federal Detention Center (FDC). She died January 9 while cuffed to a hospital bed after prison officials, prosecutors, and a federal judge all brushed aside her pleas for help.But Hernandez is far from the…
On June 20 of last year, Keskea Hernandez appeared in a federal courthouse to beg for her life. The 42-year-old real estate agent had been locked up in Miami’s Federal Detention Center for almost a year since her arrest for mortgage fraud. Formerly pretty and energetic, Hernandez was now thin…
Florida history is full of condominium-related corruption, including board members receiving kickbacks for contracts or raiding condo coffers and then disappearing into the Everglades. That’s why state statute bars condo board members and officers from receiving compensation unless explicitly outlined in the building’s bylaws.So it’s not surprising that residents of…
On November 21, 2011, John Kenneth Rosenbaum burst into a South Georgia hospital begging for treatment. He had puncture wounds on his arm and the words “BLACK MAMBA” scrawled in marker on his skin.But the bullsh*t bite is now coming back to haunt Rosenbaum. The 24-year-old Jacksonville resident faces up…
What happens in the family, used to stay in the family. No longer.The Santiesteban drug clan — which made millions by running grow houses all over South Florida and smuggling pot up the coast to New York City — now appears to be falling apart. Earlier today, one of the…
Earlier this week, South Florida received news of Fidel Castro’s continued not-deadness with a mixture of apathy and anger. On the one hand, watching him proudly vote in the sham elections he instituted annoys the hell out of most Miamians. On the other hand, Fidel looked shrunken and wrinkled like…
Waters Edge “Condo Commando” Turns Building Into a Prison, Residents Say
Graffiti has made Wynwood famous, from its much-visited wall murals to its heavily tagged warehouses and the highly sought after spray paintings now ensconced in its art galleries. Hell, even the crosswalks here are drenched in color.So what does it take to get busted for bombing Wynwood these days? The…
Let your teenage son swim in the pool? Get a warning. Leave your screen door open? Get fined $1,000. Post a written complaint? Watch it get defaced with expletives.Welcome to the Waters Edge apartments, which some residents say has become the condo from hell thanks to board president Jim Lowe.”Jim…
It was one of the bloodiest moments in Miami-Dade police history: a drug sting in which four robbers were mowed down by cops in a mango grove in the Redland. The controversial June 30, 2011 operation was the subject of a New Times investigation last summer. Now it’s also the subject of a lawsuit.The…
The year is still young, but one thing is already clear: 2013 ain’t going Alex Rodriguez’s way.Two weeks ago, New Times revealed that A-Rod’s name appeared in the client notebook of local PED doc Tony Bosch. Now, following on the heels of another New Times article, the City of Miami Beach has…
Miami Beach Fire Department Is Aflame With Corruption and Abuse
