Let’s pretend for a second that a bunch of men straddling horses, whacking balls with long shafts is not already homoerotic. You might need a title like Gay Polo League to convey that your players are, literally, homosexual. And you might want to compete in a place like South Florida…
Hero for Haiti Jim Goodnow needs a ride to the island
Maybe your car gets broken into while you’re dancing. Or you watch a drunken fistfight on NE 11th Street. Maybe you wish you didn’t have to glance nervously over your shoulder as you flag a taxi. Park West, which hosts a strip of all-night clubs, has a long way to…
Old hippie lifeguard turned hero for Haiti Jim Goodnow pops open the side of an ambulance, where he’s been sleeping for the past two months. “Let’s see what’s behind door number one!” the ponytailed 70-year-old hollers. Inside, it looks like the Grateful Dead decided to run a hospital. There are…
About a month ago, county officials removed a spray-painted bike that was mounted on Bear Cut Bridge, near Virgina Key. The ghost bike was a tribute to Christophe Le Canne, the 44-year-old family man who was killed by a drunk driver two months ago. Public works director Esther Calas claimed it…
Four shy guys pay $7,000 each to learn how to talk to women. A British “pickup artist” named Adam Lyons is their teacher. They try to find true love in one week. It sounds like the plot of a bad romantic comedy, but it’s happening in Miami as we speak…
Short Dwarf is not the most politically correct talent agency on the planet. They represent “midget talent” — their words, not ours — for performance and party gigs nationally. They claim to be “your premier source for leprechauns, elves, oompa loompas, and many more short characters.” Today is their busiest…
Most of the time, when you hear about some lunatic headbutting a cop, crack cocaine is involved. It takes some serious rock to make a guy think he is enough of a superhero to pull a Jean-Claude Van Damme on an armed police officer. But not Anrry Morales-Leiva, delusional action…
The email arrived at the Miami Herald yesterday with some choice words about the paper’s Oscar coverage. It came from Bob Ingram, a folk singer who has lived in Coconut Grove since the ’60s. Here’s an excerpt from the letter, which was never published: “When the Miami Herald reported on…
Backslash Magazine would not offend your grandmother. There are no nudie photos or, say, instructions on how to assemble a homemade bomb. Nor are there ads for escort services, curse words, or even a recipe for ganja cookies. It’s just a cool college lifestyle magazine created by a bunch of…
“It’s gonna be a transvestite dictatorship,” says old-school drag queen Shelley Novak. “This year, I’m running the show — and all I need is a microphone and a spotlight.” She’s talking about the 17th annual Shelley Novak Awards — Miami Beach’s queer equivalent of the Oscars –which has gotten back…
In a crisp gray suit, United States Attorney Jeffery Sloman told a room full of TV news reporters today that the Department of Homeland Security has completed “the largest Visa fraud take-down in the agency’s history.” Dubbed “Operation Class Dismissed,” the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sting centers around…
What do we really know about Armando Codina? You know, aside from his role in suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones’s alleged bribery. Her indictment, filed yesterday, claims she solicited $25,000 from the self-made multimillionaire developer, who then poured $12,500 into her non-profit. Codina has not been charged criminally. Still, Riptide…
UM basketball fan claims his identity was stolen when his conch shell was seized
Miami real estate tycoon Edward Falcone ditches the ghetto and his kid
A couple of Wednesdays ago, as the University of Miami basketball team battled Duke on ESPN, a strange noise rang out in the stadium. It sounded like a broken flute — or an animal dying slowly? — and was so loud that Duke’s longtime “Coach K” pulled aside a referee…
The relatives of the kingpin who once ran the planet’s largest cocaine ring were indicted yesterday in Miami. Federal court documents allege six family members tied to the Colombia-based Cali Cartel lied to prosecutors and hid millions of dollars, using “deceit, craft, and trickery” to “defraud the United States,” (Check…
Miami-Dade can feel Third World sometimes. It seems like there are more chickens than humans on Little Haiti’s sidewalks; Overtown boasts a single working street lamp; and western Dade rivals Cuba when it comes to blackmarket slaughterhouses.Then there’s the environmental and recycling stuff. Although the county passed an ordinance last…
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Last week, county officials removed a mounted “ghost bike” — the cycling equivalent of a tombstone — from Bear Cut Bridge, near Virgina Key. The spray-painted road bike had been dedicated to Christophe Le Canne, the 44-year old who was killed by a wealthy, drunk-driving musician named Carlos Bertonatti one…
The Advocate, America’s oldest and most respected gay publication, doesn’t want to hurt South Beach’s feelings. No, the poor place has been through enough in the past few months. What with ACLU lawsuits, hate crimes, and meddlesome New Times reporters chronicling its decline as a gay Mecca. But this has…
The Stripper Mobile rolled into Miami Super Bowl weekend, and no one noticed
