Most of us will never know what it is to be held captive as minutes turn to hours, days turn to weeks, and eventually months turn to years. Ingrid Betancourt knows that feeling well. The former Colombian presidential candidate was trapped in a vast jungle for six and a half…

One Miami Heat player got lost in all the hoopla surrounding the team this past summer. A couple of years ago, he was seen as hope for the future of the team. But that dream was extinguished faster than the joints he smoked. We’re talking about Michael Beasley, the Heat’s…

MySpace logo is a waste of space.​You have to feel for MySpace. The company that basically started the social networking revolution continues to fall out of social relevance. Last week’s embarrassing announcement that they changed their logo to “my _____” -a Helvetica font for “my” and a blank space for…

This week’s print edition of the Miami New Times is flack-proof. It’s not for the faint of heart. And it’s certainly hard on those that do wrong, as it should be. If you’re in the public eye, for whatever reason, you’d do well not to see your name in our…

Halloween is one of the rare occasions in life where inappropriate behavior is actually encouraged. Tarts get tarty, meatheads show their meat, and freaks of all kinds unleash their freakiness on the general public. And mostly, we love it. “Get a load of that Obama outfit. He’s got a donkey…

The world is full of novelists from varying backgrounds. But when one is shorn from the pages of Forbes, you’d expect his or her books to cover corporate conspiracy or some other calculating subject matter. Somebody forgot to tell that to Richard C. Morais. After a 25-year stint at Forbes,…

You keep telling yourself you’re serious about going green, only to fill your Escalade with unleaded supreme while chugging mineral water from a plastic bottle. You’re torn. It’s not that easy to be good to the environment, to reduce your carbon footprint. But Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will get you…

Remember Kendall Coffey? He’s the former U.S. attorney with a history of losing huge cases, among other things. Coffey was the lead lawyer working to keep Elián González stateside. Strike one. As a prosecutor, he lost the largest government drug case in history (75 tons of nose candy, worth $2…

Jack-O-Lanterns are springing to life, volcanoes of candy are erupting at Publix, and hoochie mommas are frothing at the prospect of dressing like naughty nurses, un-chaste cheerleaders and vampire vixens. Yup, Halloween is around the corner. And in case you haven’t noticed, haunted houses are popping up like candy corn…

Miami-Dade and Broward can hardly stomach each other most of the time. They’re up there and we’re down here, and mostly that’s the way we’d like to keep it. But when it comes to watching scantily costumed ladies dance to reggae, calypso, soca, and other steel-drum-heavy Caribbean music, well, that…

Michael McElroyTake in some smoky reading.​If you put in the necessary hours at the office, work overtime on weekends when needed, and generally eat enough shit from your bosses, every once in a long while it all  turns out to be worth it. Your job/career grants you a cosmic thank…

The streets of Liberty City can be mean enough. Try navigating them while enduring the bullying that comes with the realization you are gay. Tarell Alvin McCraney survived the experience, and the world gained one of its most promising playwrights. “Some lessons are hard. Those were the harder ones,” McCraney…

Want to be an art collector? Better begin with some cash — not an exorbitant amount, just enough to start your collection. And, of course, enough to sign up for the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Mystery Dates on Saturday. Despite its titillating title, Mystery Dates is not a new-fangled speed-dating…

Miamians love Michael Jordan. So much so, in fact, that we took the extraordinary step of retiring His Airness’s jersey in our own arena, even though his only lasting legacy here was sweeping the Miami Heat out of its first playoff series in 1992. No worries. We wanted to be…

Hispanic Heritage Month is all well and fine. But early October has always been a time for a heaping helping of Anglo-Saxon, Germanic fun. We know it’s not a competition, but if the month belongs to anybody it has to be the krauts. After all, does a croqueta really compare…

It’s almost October and that means one thing–the invasion of those silly Dolphin and Hurricane banners stuck to car windows by South Florida’s angry motorists. Luckily, the Fish and Canes have gotten off to decent starts so road rage incidents are likely to drop. But if talk of pigskins and…

Clowns are scary enough as it is. But throw some ravenous yellow teeth on them and make them speak in tongues (OK, it’s just Spanish), and the result is positively poltergeist-like. If you’re having trouble picturing this, you’re forgiven. The United States has never before been privy to the likes…

Oh, those crazy I-talians. They’re stylish, charming, and know their way around some celluloid. Italians have been making damn good movies since La Dolce Vita, but every prospective Federico Fellini had to have his or her big break somewhere. Once, that might have been in some grubby cinematheque in the…

Miami-Dade and Broward can hardly stomach each other most of the time. They’re up there and we’re down here, and mostly that’s the way we’d like to keep it. But when it comes to watching scantily costumed ladies dance to reggae, calypso, soca, and other steel-drum-heavy Caribbean music, well, that…