Finally, there’s news about a Miami public high school that has nothing to do with declining literacy rates, murder, or decreased teacher pay. Last Wednesday night, Miami Beach Senior High and the Romance in a Can Film Festival held a showcase of student-made short films. We were astonished to hear…
To the person or people who lost their sacrificial goat — don’t worry, we found it. You can reclaim it at the end of NE 25th Street, just over the sea wall.Unless someone calls in the team from CSI: Miami, there’s no way of knowing if this poor animal was…
In early 2007, after winning a $300 million U.S. Army contract to equip Afghanistan with munitions, Miami Beach arms dealer Efraim Diveroli, age 21, went scavenging in Albania. There he subcontracted Ylli Pinari, head of that Balkan country’s state-run arms agency, to fill the order from derelict stockpiles. Pinari and…
The Alibi is a low-key eatery located inside watering hole Lost Weekend on Española Way in South Beach. There are pool and foosball tables as well as a lively crowd of locals. Don’t come here if you are trying to watch your figure. This place serves sandwiches, pizza, French fries, cupcakes, and…
Much of America thinks of spring as a time to start anew. In South Beach, though, it just means that droves of drunken college students roam the streets and gawk at topless women lying on the beach.Thank God South Beach locals can find refuge in places off the beaten path.Clarke’s…
Miamians are well known for their love of the coochie-cutter shorts. And if you’ve kept abreast of couture fashion this season, you’ve noticed our favorite short-shorts are gracing the runways of Milan and Paris. Biters! Gen Art, an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting emerging talents, will again lend our…
Sure red meat makes you horny. And Spanish fly is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs. But what red-blooded American wouldn’t want a cereal mascot to keep his or her hunger satisfied on Valentine’s Day, too? As to what each one could provide in the lovin’ department, well…1. Tony Tiger’s a…
The much-hyped STK took forever to open its doors; about a year longer than expected, actually. Despite the numerous delays, everyone has been buzzing about the upscale steakhouse-cum-lounge. With sister locations in New York and Vegas, STK developed quite a reputation in Miami. Adding to the excitement is the fact…
Every year, the New Times editorial staff picks the people who brought a certain amount of shame to our city. Trust us, we’re never in short supply of morons who we wish would move elsewhere. We contemplated in making this a baker’s dozen but in keeping with tradition we kept…
Miami New Times has kicked some ass in the last decade. We have changed the course of the city and it has changed us. What follows is a list of some of our most significant stories — of course, everyone has their own opinions. What are yours?Admitting TerrorBy Bob NormanThe…
For more than two decades, Miami New Times hasn’t changed much. On January 1, the weekly paper will become something altogether different. A glossy cover, staples, and perfect trimming with give this old dog an impressive new trick.The content, however, isn’t going anywhere. We’ll continue to offer 70,000 copies per…
In a society where what you drive is nearly as important as the way you wear your hair, don’t you want to know where all the auto-obsession started? it surely didn’t start with your ’72 Oldsmobile, so head to the Wolfsonian’s Styled for the Road to discover the role that…
For much of the year, Miami-Dade, like the rest of the country, has trouble thinking. Instead, it beeps its horn, shouts, sells land, writes legal briefs, builds baseball stadiums, raises children, kills pythons, overeats, breaks water mains, picks up people at the airport, and drops off people at the airport…
As the curtain rose on The Color Purple’s long-awaited Miami run, a young woman on stage suffered labor pains as a joyous church congregation sang of the glories of the Lord. Then the gossiping church ladies and bombastic preacher disappeared as Celie, the play’s protagonist surrendered her newborn son to…
Funkshion Fashion Week Miami Beach kicked off last week with A*MUSE by Richie Rich, and alongside him, his muse Pamela Anderson. How designers like Lacroix are filling for bankcruptcy protection while Richie Rich continues to get funding for his lines — first Heatherette, and now A*MUSE — will forever be…
Opa-locka is unique. There’s outlandish Arabian-style architecture. Gunfights take place in the open. And in 2007, city commissioners passed a law prohibiting — and Riptide is not making this up — saggy pants. Now a couple of South Florida entrepreneurs have patented a pants design aimed at skirting the measure,…
The judicial curtain has closed on one of the most bizarre sagas in arms dealing. In late August, Miami Beach’s Efraim Diveroli pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy for breaking an embargo against Chinese arms; over 80 other federal charges were thrown out in the plea bargain. The 23-year-old…
Poet, UM creative writing professor, and former Miami New Times theater critic Mia Leonin grew up believing her father was dead, and after years of listening to her mother’s disparate stories regarding his identity – -internist, ophthalmologist, Filipino, foreign islander — she finally learned the truth shortly after her 16th…
Even national cable TV channel Fox News jumped on the firing of Local 10 news anchor Charles Perez, using the headline banner “Too Gay for Television?” But can that sensational story really be true in a TV market filled with openly gay anchors (consider Channel 7) and even WPLG’s own…
Think all the craziness in Iran is far away and meaningless to you? Think again. For two hours yesterday, from around 6 to 8 p.m., the plaza near The Torch of Friendship was taken over by a crowd of about 200 people waving signs and chanting in Farsi and English…
Summer is the time to drive down to Key West. It’s empty now, the streets and beaches quiet. Here’s a list of places to eat on the drive down (or back up). Robert Is Here Fruit StandSummer is perhaps the best time to hit up what should be a mainstay…
Best Political ComebackThe Diaz-Balart brothersIt was right there in black-and-white, on the cover of your Miami New Times: “End of the Diaz-Balart Dynasty.” Just weeks before election night, scores of polls showed both Mario and Lincoln — Cuban-American icons and Miami’s reps in Washington for years — trailing their Democratic…
