If Charlie Crist wants to rid himself of the reputation that he’s a political chameleon, willing to do anything for personal advantage regardless of who it betrays or damages — a new documentary released over the weekend won’t help his cause. In the Netflix documentary, Mitt, which daubs the fallen…
We can all agree the media carnival that was Justin Bieber’s arrest and jail visit was profoundly irrelevant. A congresswoman talking about the NSA was booted off MSNBC yesterday to make room for “breaking” Justin Bieber news. I live in Miami Beach — just blocks from the Bieber debacle –…
Justin Bieber was arrested this morning on charges of drag racing and failing a sobriety test, Miami Beach Police tell New Times this morning. “Kid needs help,” police spokesperson Bobby Hernandez says. Hernandez added that Bieber’s entourage blocked traffic at Pine Tree Drive and 26th Street to create a “drag…
A cross rebel-held Syria last September, an innocuous-seeming image of a man kissing a woman flashed across computer screens. It prompted curiosity and clicks. But as rebels soon learned, the image was actually a virus, and they’d just infected their computers. For months, as Syria descended deeper into chaos and…
By the time the boy arrived at Jackson North Medical Center, he’d already been dead for three hours. His face, lips, and fingers were all burned. And it was clear to investigators that he had “suffered.” The child’s mother, 21-year-old Fafane Caze, initially told police the injuries marring the boy,…
Across rebel-held Syria last September, an innocuous-seeming image of a man kissing a woman flashed across computer screens. It prompted curiosity and clicks. But as rebels soon learned, the image was actually a virus, and they’d just infected their computers. For months, as Syria descended deeper into chaos and President…
Candace Long just wanted to party. It was her birthday, after all. And she wasn’t going to let her babysitting job — or the frigid temperatures Florida had plunged into — stop her. Indeed, even after her solitary party had ended, and she was in cuffs for child neglect, she…
Two hours. That’s how long Miami Dolphins First Lady Lauren Tannehill possessed a rented Nissan Rogue January 4. But within those two hours, she somehow found time to nestle her AR-15 — which three states banned following the Sandy Hook massacre — into a gray bag, plop it in the…
Hey there, shopper, do you have a spare $189,000? Do you love clubbing at the world’s most exclusive places? Have you ever seen a Ferrari glide by and thought, Nice car. When will someone design a bracelet that looks like that? Funny you should ask. It just happened. Miami’s Cristophe…
Millions of Americans tune in to every new episode, and with ratings as seductive as these, who cares about a few botched investigations?
Jennifer Berman, who until last month was married to one of the most prominent real estate brokers in Palm Beach County, shot her two teenage children and herself Monday afternoon after warning, “It was the best thing for the family.” Reeling from a December divorce from 51-year-old Richard Berman, who…
Hey there, shopper, do you have a spare $189,000? Do you love clubbing at the world’s most exclusive places? Have you ever seen a Ferrari glide by and thought, Nice car. When will someone design a bracelet that looks like that? Funny you should ask. It just happened…
One of Miami’s most recognizable strip clubs, perched along the heavily-touristed Washington Avenue, may also be one of its worst, reviewers from Yelp to Club Planet to Foursquare claim. Club Madonna shot into headlines earlier this week when Miami Beach police and the county’s Human Trafficking Task Force alleged that…
For proof of the incredible trajectory that South Florida’s gays have charted from bane of the faux-righteous to triumphant members of society — look no further than this video. In a clip that’s somehow manages to be terrifying, disturbing, and funny for all the wrong reasons, Dade County Detective John…
The nip slip is the defining element of Jenny Scordamaglia’s camera presence.
Don’t let all the talk fool you. Don’t let the story that Broward cop Paul Pletcher, in an apparent case of road rage, stopped a Hispanic woman, pummeled her with racial slurs, and destroyed her BlackBerry when she began recording him, convince you otherwise. Don’t allow the fact that even…
Only a city like Miami could spawn a woman like Jenny Scordamaglia. The five-foot-four 25-year-old has chestnut eyes, velvet-smooth skin, Beyoncé’s curves, Joan Rivers’ histrionics, and Miley Cyrus’ sensibilities. But in one way, she’s outdone them all: She’s perfected the nip slip…
Though the conditions of this sun-soaked December afternoon hardly called for it, Ericson Harrell was happy to fetch his mask. In the past year, since this North Miami Beach cop “evolved” into something he calls an “oath keeper,” he’s always had his mask at hand — just in case. “There’s…
On November 14, 2009, two officers pulled over a 38-year-old man at the corner of Northwest 22nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the middle of the day. At some point over the next several minutes, a tussle occurred, and Corey McNeal withdrew a box cutter. Police then shot him 27…
On a gray October day in 2011, a disheveled man in a camouflage baseball cap plunged his hands into the mounds of dead bees, pulling free a handful of the corpses. “I’m a pretty tough guy, but this is heart wrenching,” he said from his Brevard County bee farm. “We…
Turns out 21-year-old Gabriel Urena is an even bigger sexist than previous thought. Two weeks ago, a 20-year-old Tampa woman named Alisha Hessler met Urena when she and a few friends went out clubbing. The night ended with Urena making unwanted sexual advances toward Hessler in the backseat of a…
Luke Taleno’s eyes, streaked with sapphire and magenta, were something out of a nightmare. The 14-year-old looked possessed, felt worse, and couldn’t escape the barrage of chemotherapy. He was dying, and he knew it. On May 29, 2011, Taleno was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a fast-developing disease in which…
