Last month, we reported on smoldering rumors that legendarily loquacious news anchor and fallen Hispanic hero Rick Sanchez was joining local Spanish-language channel Mega TV. Those rumors burst into flame days later when he revealed he would announce football games this fall for Florida International University.Well, things turned into a…
Welcome to another bizarre Friday in the Magic City.Our story today involves a man in a wheelchair, a teenage shape-shifter, and a hella buff Mexican soap opera star.According to Miami Police, 16-year-old Gabriel Soto was riding the bus in Little Havana one Friday morning last month when he befriended a…
Juwan Howard blamed for water damage in his Brickell Key condo building
The nation is all atwitter over Michele Bachmann. Not only did she thoroughly corn-poll Iowa this past Saturday — winning the state’s straw poll over Smucker’s jam spokesman Ron Paul — but also the congresswoman claimed the scalp of fellow Minnesotan conservative Tim Pawlenty.Bachmann’s surge is particularly significant in Florida,…
It’s over! After exactly two years, one month, and one week, the Miami Heat’s stubborn refusal to talk to Riptide about anything for any period of time has finally come to an end. Well, sort of.The cruel and arbitrary lockout really began 15 years ago when we wrote this article…
Jovens Esperance. The name sounds so innocent, like something Salma Hayek might whisper into your ear on a lazy Sunday morning. Or like the name of a Catalan charity devoted to taking thugs from the streets of Barcelona and turning them into five-star restaurateurs.Chef! This soufle is delicious. My compliments!Don’t…
After giving conflicting statements about the Dolphin wide receiver’s bizarre April 22 stabbing, neither Brandon Marshall nor his wife Michi Nogomi-Marshall were convicted of a crime. But the release of documents yesterday leaves the door wide open for us nosy assholes to judge for ourselves what happened.According to reports obtained…
Los Miami gang nabbed in huge drug bust
This week’s metro tells the incredible story of Spanish brothers Artemio and Álvaro López Tardón. According to prosecutors, the two ran a tri-continental drug shipping and money-laundering empire worth nearly $100 million per year.Yet with suspected ringleader Álvaro expected to plead not guilty this week, plenty of questions remain about…
One night in mid-July, FBI agents swarmed three buildings around town simultaneously. It was one of the most incredible drug busts in Miami history — and hardly anyone noticed. At the time, we wrote about how a sculpted, tattooed Spaniard named Álvaro López Tardón and several associates stood accused of…
The heads keep fallin’ in Miami-Dade.Never mind that Animal Services Director Sara Pizano technically resigned yesterday. Animal rights activists have been after her for so long that they’ll feel they earned the scalp one way or another. But Pizano didn’t leave without a parting shot at her critics.”Always remember that…
Cuba gets high-speed Internet access
Tonight, an impish horde of tiny men dressed in blue and maroon stripes will run around in circles at Sun Life Stadium for 90 minutes. Don’t worry — this is not a Dolphins preseason halftime show gone horribly wrong. Nor did Billy the Marlin drink one too many beers and…
In early February, a massive ship belonging to French company Alcatel-Lucent arrived at port near Santiago de Cuba after setting sail from Venezuela. Cuban officials immediately touted its arrival as a “breach” of the United States’ 50-year trade embargo. Its cargo? Not oil, food, or weapons but the Internet itself…
Old habits die hard, it seems. Between 1977 and 1984, Ocean Drive founder and current Plum TV exec Jerry Powers was sued 13 times for money owed.”I was dependent on drugs when I did those things,” he told New Times two years ago. “I was stoned and broke. There is…
Candice Cooper Boley, runaway Alabama mom, suspected of fraud
Damn you Big Government. Always getting in the way of stuff. Like that one time President Barack O’Socialist tried to keep us from getting sick and dying without health care. Whatevs.Well, ol’ Biggie is up to it again, this time by preventing us Floridians from seeking righteous vengeance against the…
Prosecutors have just released a photo of police officer Derick Kuilan partying it up shortly before he allegedly hopped on his ATV and drunkenly ran over two people on Miami Beach.Kuilan turned himself in earlier today. He has been charged with two counts of DUI with serious bodily injuries and…
David Vigil had never met a girl like Candice Cooper Boley in Miami Beach before: a tiny Alabama belle whose quick smile and Southern drawl were as out of place as a snowflake. When they started dating in February, Boley say, she wasn’t interested in marriage or kids. But after…
Last August, the Rotilla Festival brought 20,000 young Cubans to a beach near Havana for three days of rap, house, and electronic music. It was a rare moment of free speech in the tightly policed country: groups like hip-hop duo Los Aldeanos openly criticized the Communist government while performing for…
Venezuelan exiles announced today that they are installing a statue of their country’s founding father, Simon Bolivar, in front of the Arepazo restaurant in Doral.The life-size, revolvable statue is intended as an arepa in the eye of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, whose socialist “Bolivarian Revolution” leans heavily on the figure…
Not everyone in Miami is on the up & up. Sure, your neighbor could have bought that brand-new Mercedes-Benz with the Christmas bonus. Or it could have been that narco slush fund in the Cayman Islands. The truth is that the Magic City is awash in foreign funds — much…
