There was once a time in Miami, long before this epoch of patas sucias, EDM, and LeBron James, when vagrants and vagabonds pervaded the city, and good, God-fearing folks feared proud sluts roaming the streets. Or at least that’s how it appears according to the 1917 Miami city code, which…
Last week, a Miami-Dade medical examiner released a scathing report questioning the medical treatment of local Spanish-language radio personality Betty Pino, who died in August at age 65 after wounds from a procedure to remove silicone from her buttocks became infected. In that report, Pino’s family said they were considering…
No one would ever call Rondell Johnson a good criminal. A creative one? Perhaps. But an adroit practitioner of the malignant arts? Never. The Jacksonville man’s fecklessness was once again laid bare in Winnipeg, Canada, earlier this week when a local trial court convicted him of robbing a bank. During…
The night of the beating, the beach bar pulsed with drunken euphoria. It was well past midnight on that cool December evening last year, a moment for celebration for two Canadians who ambled inside Dirty Blondes. One of the men, Erik Kormos, a yacht captain, had just gotten engaged to…
Earlier this summer, Dirty Blondes on Fort Lauderdale Beach absorbed sweeping castigation after its bouncers beat two men who, according to video at the time, appeared nonviolent. But, as this week’s New Times cover story has shown, bar security staff might not be the only ones at fault for the…
William Happ, who’s spent the past 27 years on death row for raping and killing 21-year-old Lauderdale Lakes woman Angie Crowley in 1986, will be the first person to experience a new execution serum that, across the nation, only Florida has been willing to use. The drug, called midazolam hydrochloride,…
So there you are, three or four tequila shots deep, grooving on the dance floor, straight gettin’ it on. But then, because you’re dancing in your fave pair of five-inch stilettos, your feet start throbbing. So rather than abandon your sashay — because that would be cray — you slip…
There’s no soul more blighted in the Miami Beach panorama than a car-locked driver around 9 a.m. at 14th and Alton, who sits behind dozen of cars, wondering just what in God’s name is happening at the front of the line to engender such congestion. Worse, there’s no clear answer…
Turns out it was even worse than we’d thought. Reno Yohai, a five-time felon and child molester, did not have 34 pit bulls trapped inside his West Park home, on the border of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, as New Times reported two weeks ago (“In the Doghouse,” Terrence McCoy, September…
It’s been a tough few days for Miami Beach mayoral candidate Philip Levine. First, at last week’s mayoral debate, the businessman was charged with making a racist comment after he promised to change the city hall ethos from “being mañana, lazy.” Then, he suffered a scathing writeup in the Miami…
Turns out it was even worse than we’d thought. Reno Yohai, a five-time felon and child molester, didn’t have 34 pit bulls trapped inside his West Park home, on the border of Miami-Dade and Broward counties, as New Times reported two weeks ago in a 1,800-word story showing Yohai to…
On a cool November night, just days before Thanksgiving, a spaceship landed on the corner of Collins Avenue and 16th Street. In an instant, traditional gawker fodder cruising through the streets of South Beach — the Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Bugattis — were made irrelevant by comparison. In terms of strangeness and…
Hell in South Florida is a taupe, one-story house where rusted chains dangle from trees and the smell of feces and decay is so strong it lures rats at night. On even the brightest of days, sunlight doesn’t infiltrate its darkened chambers. And the baying of dogs — 34 pit…
The killer arrived just after lunch. Clutching a sawed-off shotgun in a leather-gloved hand, he slipped through the back door of a long, stucco dental office. But then, because he wore a ski mask and the afternoon burned hot, he coughed. Down a narrow hallway at the front of the…
Benjamin Prows settled a pirate mask over his brown eyes, took a deep breath, and tiptoed out onto the slackline — nothing but 12 feet of air between him and the ground. Anything but a conformist, Prows dresses like Jack Sparrow, juggles daily, and lives on a 65-foot catamaran. But…
On a sunny afternoon, a rotund, tall man named Andre Brown had just stepped out of his Boca Raton apartment when a bronze-haired stranger approached him wearing a black suit, leather gloves, and an expression stitched with alarm. “Are you who I’m supposed to talk to?” the man asked in…
Though Prancercise has been decades in the making, it only exploded into the national consciousness after a video of Joanna Rohrback went viral.
On a bright and humid Saturday morning, a tanned woman approaches a Dunkin’ Donuts counter, brandishes an iPhone, and informs the employees they’re under “video surveillance.” They’d forgotten her receipt the night before, she proclaims, so now she’s returned for a free meal. And revenge. In a hoarse voice, she…
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