Movie actor, multizillionaire, and part-time Miami resident Sylvester Stallone dropped in on the September 14 Miami City Commission meeting to add a dash of Hollywood vanity to an otherwise dry budget hearing. In persuading commissioners to save downtown’s Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, the thespian nonpareil promised the city…
As the gavel finally falls on the O.J. Simpson trial, so too ends one of the greatest advertising coups in Miami history. Since May, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lance Ito has been tacitly endorsing the only Miami television station that sent a reporter to California to cover the…
A line of cars snakes down U.S. 1 toward a party in Kendall. Although tropical storm Allison is directly over Cuba at the moment, a torrent of rain has fallen on Miami, leaving the streets glistening and slick. There are about twenty cars in all, including a BMW 325i, a…
From deep in the bowels of Miami’s city hall comes a sound unlike any other that has been heard in South Florida since Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship of the world. — faint cry at first, it has been gaining intensity with each passing day, as…
Miami has lost an original. Two weeks ago Mila Cervone D’Urso flew off to London for a new job, a new home, a new life. After nine glorious years here, it was time to move on. But it’s hard to imagine stodgy old London — cool by temperament, skeptical by…
Since they arrived from Cuba in 1962, Andres Senorans and his family have been patriots. American flags fly from cars parked behind the auto parts store they own at NW 21st Avenue and 36th Street. In an office above the store is a framed picture of Senorans shaking the hand…
With $26 million on the line, the City of Miami didn’t want to take any chances. So before requesting a generous grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the city spent months of time and more than $10,000 training employees to fill out the complicated grant application…
You probably weren’t at the Orange Bowl on June 24. You probably spent that Saturday rejoicing at the end of a week of torrential rain. Maybe you went to the beach, or headed out to a park for a picnic. There’s a good chance you were at home, using a…
Few things in life are as sure to pay off as a City of Miami towing contract. Each month the six private companies that hold city contracts are asked to tow about 350 broken-down, illegally parked, or otherwise offensive automobiles. The car owners, in turn, pay the towing company $55…
Miami City Manager Cesar Odio loves rowing. Almost every Saturday he can be seen in the waters off Virginia Key, arching his back and timing his stroke in rhythmic bursts of intensity. He loves rowing so much that he founded a rowing club. He loves rowing so much that he…
Don’t expect cake, party hats, or revelers dancing in the hallways of Dupont Plaza, but today marks the one-year anniversary of a watershed event in the Miami City Attorney’s Office. On May 25, 1994, City Attorney A. Quinn Jones III distributed a memo announcing that none of his 21 assistant…
It’s boom time for Brickell Avenue condos. After several lean years, occupancy is up. The volatile population of foreign owners that ebbed and flowed with the South American economy is being replaced by a stable corps of young Miami families who like to live in a secure luxury home close…
In a rare second chance, the judge who defined the rights of Miami’s homeless community was given an opportunity to do it again. So he did. Last month U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins reaffirmed Pottinger, his landmark 1992 ruling that prevented City of Miami police officers from arresting homeless…
