Tarell Alvin McCraney is leaving Miami. His clothes are spread around a room in a friend’s house in Hialeah, and the tall, elegant 32-year-old with a mile-wide smile is packing his bags for Chicago. But don’t worry. This city’s most important playwright isn’t abandoning us. For the past five years,…
At some point in the past six months, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been smack dab in the middle of your living room. It might have been on CNN, her irrepressible blond curls shaking as she sparred with Anderson Cooper. Or maybe you’re lucky enough to have hosted the Democratic National…
Cartels come and go. Capos are caught and killed. Coke pits, meth labs, and pot fields are destroyed across the Americas. But the drug trade remains intact.Take the trial of Ramon Quintero Sanclemente. Once a top lieutenant in Colombia’s infamous North Valley Cartel, “La Máquina” was sentenced to 17 years…
In Miami, we know a thing or two about cocaine smuggling. This summer, authorities at Miami Seaport seized $7.3 million of the potent powder hidden in a shipping container. Downtown was practically built on blow. And if you look hard enough, you’ll find retired traffickers all around this city.There are…
For years, wealthy Miami Beach residents — including celebs like Alex Rodriguez — have pimped out their mansions as movie studios. Now, however, it seems locals are finally getting pissed off over the scenic island getting turned into a giant film set.Is the neighborhood nuisance worth it? Well, it injects…
In this week’s feature, a 69-year-old Holocaust survivor accuses Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez of ruining their Miami Beach neighborhood by turning his mansion into a de facto movie studio.But the All Star slugger is not simply a celebrity succubus sapping the neighborhood of its beauty in order to turn…
This afternoon, local attorney Jeffrey Herman held a press conference to announce yet another lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Miami. According to the suit, Father Neil Doherty — now in prison — drugged, molested, and raped then 15-year-old Miami resident Dennis Montero.Before the press conference, however, the Archdiocese sent reporters…
One-Word Election Reviews: Obama’s Win Was “Ballsy”; Mitt’s Crowds Were “Chalky”
Ever since Election Day, the New Times office has descended into tribal taunts as each employee has tried to claim that his or her ‘hood was the nail in Mitt Romney’s coffin or the only thing keeping Democrats from ransacking the House of Representatives.To settle the issue, we’ve prepared a…
When Yankee third-baseman Alex Rodriguez moved into his $24 million mansion on Miami Beach’s North Bay Road last December, next door neighbor Irwin Friedman assumed the celebrity slugger would want some privacy. Instead, A-Rod immediately started renting out his bachelor pad to camera crews shooting everything from X-Factor to a…
The biggest name at this year’s Miami Book Fair International is the white-suited New Journalism legend Tom Wolfe. His mammoth new novel, Back to Blood, purports to paint Miami in all its sexy, tribal, orgiastic glory. But the book with the most insight into the Magic City is actually a…
As A-Rod Battles His Neighbor, Miami Beach’s Film Renaissance Hangs in the Balance
Unless you’re stuck in some Jack McKeon-like time warp in which Twitter relies on actual messenger pigeons, you’ve probably heard by now that Barack Obama punched yesterday’s election in the crotch. And unless your name is Mitt Romney and you’ve permanently foregone alcohol and caffeine, your brain is probably a…
As Florida vote counting goes to the wire tonight, what is clear is that this state — and this city — remains bitterly divided.That divide was apparent at two locations just blocks apart in Little Havana: there was elation at Obama campaign headquarters on SW 1st Street as a small…
An Election Day that started with voting lines up to six or seven hours long at some sites around Miami is ending, appropriately enough, with hundreds of voters still waiting to cast their ballots more than an hour after polls have closed.Tensions have boiled over at a Little Havana fire…
For most people, putting out signs on Election Day means touting the politician of their choice. At Johnson Firearms in Wynwood, however, it means selling guns. But that’s not to say there’s nothing political about it.”Ever since the second debate, when [Obama] mentioned the assault rifle ban, people have been…
Black Miami Beach Fire Department Recruit Sexual Harassment
A Black Miami Beach Fire Department Recruit Says He Was Sexually Harassed
Brian Gentles wanted to be a firefighter even before he arrived in America from Jamaica at age 12. There was something simple and noble about solving other people’s problems, not to mention saving their lives. “I was fascinated by putting water on a fire,” he says.Now, however, it’s the City…
Dr. Michael Salzhauer is an outlier in the already strange world of Miami plastic surgeons. He’s as talented as his competitors, but “Dr. Schnoz” is famous for his wacky stunts like his notorious “Jewcan Sam” video, a plastic surgery patient fashion show, and offering free Botox to his Facebook followers.As…
As Hurricane Sandy continues its churn across the Caribbean, tearing up Cuba and barreling toward the Bahamas with Cat 2 winds, fear not, Southern Floridians. Weather Puppy is here to make the natural disaster that much cuter.Invented by Miami entrepreneur Suraj Hemnani and business partner Shiv Takhar, the free cell…
Palmetto Bay Palmer Trinity Lawsuit Election Private School
Palmetto Bay Brawl: An Election, a Private School, and a $13 Million Lawsuit Sully an Unspoiled Suburb
Last night’s debate was what political experts call a “turd sandwich.” Barack Obama and Mitt Romney provided 90 minutes of crap, and moderator Bob Schieffer happily mashed it all together between the blandest, stalest, white-bread questions he could find.Obama supporters will say their man won the debate (which is true),…
