You know it’s time to rethink US-Cuba relations when 61-year-olds start swimming between the two countries.Granted, Diana Nyad is no abuelita doggy paddling for a taste of American freedom. As today’s New York Times explains, she’s an American endurance athlete who, much like local paddleboarder Cynthia Aguilar, sees the Straits…
Miami Beach Police Department S.W.A.T. Team was called in to handle a stand-off on South Beach tonight.An unidentified white male “barricaded” himself at 1309 Euclid Avenue, according to Det. Vivian Hérnandez. As of 10:15 p.m., both 13th and 14th Streets were blocked off at Euclid. A half-dozen squad cars were…
Miamians were pissed off yesterday about Carlos Gimenez’s plan to shutter 13 libraries around town. So when we saw him at a groundbreaking ceremony today, we thought we’d ask Gimenez a simple question: what’s his favorite book? His answer: Fahrenheit 451.Yes, that’s right. Our library-closing county mayor’s favorite book is…
Cocaine smuggling, personalized leather bomber jackets, $2 million cars, and high-rise penthouses across Miami.No, it’s not 2 Fast 2 Furious — although eerily close — but an indictment unsealed yesterday that charges brothers Álvaro and Artemio López Tardón and three others with international drug money laundering.And for all their allegedly ill-gotten…
Clearly, Rick Scott is America’s least popular governor. His numbers are so low that if he were a baseball player, his manager would have long ago slapped his ass and demoted him to AA. He’s more politically radioactive than Anthony Weiner’s twitter account. The man is loathed. But is he…
Brickell parking lot displaces roosters
UPDATE: Wambach scored the game winner in the USA’s 3-1 win over France this afternoon.We’ve heard all the bogus excuses: “soccer is boring; women aren’t good enough; if they aren’t in bikinis, I’m boycotting.”Accept it, dude. The Women’s World Cup has been downright kick-ass this year: from six-goal thrillers –…
Did you pay Tomeka Wimberly at Wizard Tax Services Inc. to fill out your return this year? Did she claim Doritos and Mountain Dew on your work expenses? How about the little known “new underwear credit”?And did you get a nice refund of roughly $4,000?If so, we hope you haven’t…
At the corner of SW Tenth Street and First Avenue, tucked among the gleaming glass high-rises of Brickell, is a portal to the Cuban campo. On the tiny lot sit a half-dozen majestic mango and avocado trees. And in their shade strut a handful of scrawny roosters, their black, white,…
What is it about trees?Terrence Malick’s award-winning, foliage-filled movie Tree of Life has been plagued by walk-out audiences and at least one crazy crackhead.Now Notre Dame D’Haiti’s long-awaited expansion is being uprooted by opposition to the church’s plan to cut down nearly a dozen oak trees — some 150 years old…
Miami has long been the unofficial fake boob capital of the country, probably the world (nice try, Caracas).Now, however, the Transportation Security Administration says that terrorists may be plotting suicide bombings using surgical implants.Suddenly our artificially enhanced paradise is looking scarier than a dark alley in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan…
This week’s cover story tells the tragic and inspirational stories of three patients at Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince: from a young man born anew after his amputation to a teenage girl cut down by chance and circumstance.For an even closer look at Haiti’s health-care crisis, take a look at…
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy; they will sing before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth.Psalm 96:10-13Last Friday the Herald wrote a fawning article about Notre Dame…
Bernard Mevs: A hospital saves Haiti
Sun Life Stadium should expect a visit from the Herald any day now: the ballpark has officially become an assisted living facility.The Marlins took another shaky, walker-assisted step towards an All Star break nap by acquiring 38-year-old outfielder Mike Cameron on Tuesday.”I hear he’s good at Sudoku,” manager Jack McKeon…
The squad car tears through the dark streets of Port-au-Prince. It screeches around tight corners well after midnight. Then it slams to a gravely stop in front of the tall iron gates of Bernard Mevs Hospital.As a cop leans on the horn, Amazan Jean-Uber lies motionless on the back seat:…
Not content to pay their employees minimum wage, ten Homestead farms and contractors have been screwing their bean pickers — actual job description, not an ethnic slur — out of even that measly pay to the tune of nearly $700,000.As if working under the blistering sun all day in a…
Hugo Chávez has cancer.For nearly a month, rumors have been circling about the Venezuelan president’s health. But his mysterious sojourn to Havana became a little less murky Thursday night when a noticeably thinner Chávez announced in a live broadcast from Cuba that his doctors had removed a cancerous tumor.Chávez, who…
When Miami-Dade cops arrested Sarah Myles on October 9, 2009, they described her as the Warren Sapp of Little Haiti housewives. They claimed the supposedly six-foot, 250-pound Myles “jumped” on a sergeant’s back during a traffic stop and had to be piledriven off.But Myles, who two weeks ago was acquitted…
The gunman squeezes the trigger on his Glock. His victim slumps to the ground. And without a cop in sight, the murderer thinks he’s in the clear. But the light poles are listening. In seconds, small sensors determine the location of the sound and send it to police headquarters. Microphones…
The gunman squeezes the trigger on his Glock. His victim slumps to the ground. And without a cop in sight, the murderer thinks he’s in the clear. But the light poles are listening. In seconds, small sensors determine the location of the sound and send it to police headquarters. Microphones…
When employees showed up to the Casablanca Fish Market yesterday, they noticed that the building’s normally fishy smell had turned rancid. Inside, they found a broken cash register missing at least $2,000 in cash and a trail of shrimp and crab meat.They followed the smell to the roof, where they…
