Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Raul Martinez have spent the last month getting down in the muck, each trying to paint their opponent as the biggest slimeball in the race. But the elder Diaz-Balart has pulled out all the stops in his latest ad, which revisits Martinez’s scuffle on camera with a…
Eugene “Jobie” Steppe is an artist, but not the kind who wears a beret and paints watercolors by the river. He’s the sort who makes a mural reading “Miami City Hall Nazi Party” and then parks it on Pan American Drive right under the mayor’s nose for two months. The…
It’s Tuesday afternoon, still a couple of hours before Barack Obama is to address thousands of chanting, whistling partisans at Bicentennial Park, when Edna Kaiywa offers some international perspective on the electric scene. “This would never happen in France today,” says Kaiywa, a young black documentarian with a Parisian accent…
It’s Tuesday afternoon, still a couple of hours before Barack Obama is to address thousands of chanting, whistling partisans at Bicentennial Park, when Edna Kaiywa offers some international perspective on the electric scene. “This would never happen in France today,” says Kaiywa, a young black documentarian with a Parisian accent…
Obama and his grandparents circa 1980, via NY Times Obama announced last night that he’s suspending his campaign for a few days. Unlike some other candidates for the president of the United States of America, this isn’t a case of suspended campaign as ridiculous political stunt. Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham,…
David Sedaris Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami Better Than: Being Engulfed In Flames Near the beginning of his set at the Adrienne Arsht Center, David Sedaris gave a shout-out to the teenagers in the crowd, a thank-you so cynical and absurd — and…
Sarah Palin has been riding that ‘hockey mom” label from day one, what with her Joe Sixpack friends and dontchya know Middle Class America Values, gosh darnit. But confronted with an arena packed full of actual hockey fans this weekend in Philadelphia, Palin wasn’t exactly welcomed as one of their…
[ via the Orlando Sentinel The University of Central Florida may not have prevailed on the field against the Miami Hurricanes. But as you can see, they won big time in the obscene-gestures-caught-on-national-TV contest. The best Miami players could muster were some “L-on-the-forehead” loser signs when Joe Burnett — No…
Justin Namon Yelle brought the electro party to the Polish American Club. Click to view the full slideshow. Yelle with Kap10Kurt and Funeral Party Friday, October 11, 2008 Polish American Club, Miami Better Than: A rollicking La Marseillaise dance party with Gérard Depardieu. The question came over and over between…
Another day, another frightening outburst of misdirected rage from a McCain-Palin rally. This time, a gathering in scenic Waukesha, Wisconsin devolved into screams of “Socialist” and middle fingers and boos directed at the press corps, the Washington Post reported. Speakers proclaimed “I’m mad! I’m really mad!” and members of the…
Riptide can’t pay his rent. So he recently headed downtown to visit the guys who advise the county commission on building affordable housing. Weird. After you pass a sign that reads, “Lobbyists are required to register with the clerk of the board,” standing at the head of the table is…
(Ed: Not actually the Frenchman in question.) Earlier this month, we brought you the tale of William Guinaraes and Laetitia Casareto, a handsome young couple from Bordeaux with an inspiring, borderline psychotic dream: walking from Miami to Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina. The couple, although strangely unperturbed about an…
As far as Miami trials go, the “Joe Cool” case had it all. A plotline worthy of an Edna Buchanan novel, with an abandoned charter ship found drifting at sea and its paying pasengers in a lifeboat, claiming to have been hijacked by Cuban pirates? Check. A trial worthy of…
Logan Fazio Jay-Z came out to support Barack Obama at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami Sunday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. It started out pure voter registration drive, with legions of clipboard waving Obama volunteers ensuring the thousands packed into Bayfront Park Amphitheater were ready to cast…
South Beach’s favorite Haitian restaurant One thing is certain after Sarah Palin’s St. Louis showdown with Joe Biden, or at least after watching the debate with 30 to 40 Democrats packed into a stuffy room above Tap Tap: Liberals may have finally found the accent and vernacular they hate even…
In a Comfort Inn across from Miami International Airport, a normal interview morphs without warning into a vigorous session of “pump the American for potentially lifesaving information.” “Crocodiles, yes?” William Guinaraes asks, his searching eyes open wide behind wire-rimmed glasses. “They are a real worry?” “Yes,” Riptide nods solemnly. “And…
It’s been a bad year for sports venues. The Orange Bowl went boom. The Miami Arena imploded. Even the House that Ruth Built is no more. Of course, at a time of economic Armageddon, we’re building more. The Heat and Panthers already nailed us for a cool half-billion. FIU frittered…
Jay-Z + Obama = Party in Bayfront It’s a celebration, bitches! The good folks at Obama For President just made your week. Jay-Z will play a free show in Bayfront Park Amphitheater this Sunday at 8:30 p.m. to drum up voter registration for his favorite presidential candidate. A quick call…
Illustration via Rolling Stone From Panamanian dictator extraordinaire Manuel Noriega to countless drug warlords to what seems like half of the city’s politicians, Miami is justly famous for having the most twisted federal trials in the nation. It’s already clear after opening statements in downtown Miami this morning that we…
To file under “Shit We Would Not Have Wagered A Single Nickel On One Week Ago”: In offices cluttered with Xs-and-Os and in pungent locker-rooms across America, the nation’s great offensive minds have been up late all week feverishly studying the latest mad geniuses of the National Football League. The…
Prickly late-fall air rustles through a block of blue-collar homes in Union City, New Jersey, and butterflies swarm 13-year-old Richard Negrín’s stomach. It’s late November 1979, and soon his dad, Eulalio José, will watch him play football for the first time. He tugs on the corner of his black and…
via Channel 10 After decades of city sewage pouring into its channels and heavy industry springing on up on its shores, the Miami River hasn’t always had the classiest reputation in town. The perception may be changing, but headlines like this won’t help. It’s not exactly the Cuyahaga River catching…
