For the past 17 years, the Chavista wave started by Hugo Chavez and carried on by his successor Nicolas Maduro has held an iron grip on Venezuelan politics, from the national assembly to the presidential palace. While Maduro still holds onto his executive power, Chavismo has taken a historic blow at…
Dramatic video captured by a bystander and uploaded to Instagram this morning captures a man being shot by Miami Beach Police officers in the middle of Alton Road. Details on the shooting are still scarce. An MBPD spokesperson tells New Times the department will release a statement on the shooting…
Amidst the endless stalls of modern art choked with thousands of patrons inside Art Basel Miami this afternoon, a scream burst through the cacophony inside the Miami Beach Convention Center just after 5 p.m. today. Was it performance art? A prankster? As fairgoers converged, they quickly realized something more serious…
Three years ago, Porter Fischer sparked the biggest steroid scandal in baseball history when he leaked files from the Biogenesis clinic to Miami New Times. Fourteen MLB players were later suspended in the saga, none more visibly than Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees superstar who lost a whole year on the…
As the art world descends on South Florida for Miami Art Week, there’s no doubt that the glitterati are shifting their gaze to Little Haiti. Everyone from New Times to the New York Times has written this year about the Caribbean neighborhood’s shift as galleries flee rising Wynwood rents. This…
There’s not a more legally hazardous job in Miami than taking the reigns of CONCACAF, the soccer federation in charge of North America, the Caribbean and Central America. The past past two jefes of the Miami Beach-based organization are already at the center of the biggest corruption scandal ever to envelope…
The archetypical tale of the young grasshopper surpassing his mentor is still playing out between Miami’s two native presidential candidates. Except in this case, the mentor is desperately outspending his protege — and everyone else for that matter — in a last-ditch effort to stay relevant. And so far, it’s…
Miami Police Officer Vincent Miller has misused his Taser twice in the past two years while working off-duty at the Publix at 17th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. In 2013, he needlessly Tasered a homeless man and then tried to cover it up. Then last year — in a case New…
Jeffrey Loria is the most despised team owner in Major League Baseball, not just among local fans — who he’s spent years antagonizing with brutally bad rosters and a highway robbery stadium deal — but also among fellow owners and league officials. Barry Bonds, meanwhile, left the game in 2007…
Lamont Collins had no idea why a Miami cop handcuffed him and dragged him into a dark, unmarked room in the back of the Publix at NE 17th Avenue and Biscayne Boulevard. His terror only grew when the officer threw him to the floor and repeatedly held a charged Taser…
First it was the Port of Miami. Then a boat slip next to the American Airlines Arena. Finally, with a plot next to Marlins Park in Little Havana it seemed like David Beckham’s group had at last found a spot to build a stadium for a new Major League Soccer…
As a kid on Chicago’s gritty West Side, Germane Barnes spent a lot of time with friends in a neighborhood park across the street from a striking home. Barnes was way too young to know much about the brilliant designer behind the sprawling, geometrically intricate estate — the genius Frank…
Officer Miguel Romain was just a few months into his new job as a full-fledged Miami Beach cop when the routine call came in on Sunday: A burglar alarm was going off in a building near 51st Street and Alton Road. The former public service specialist hopped in a patrol…
For years, Homestead and the Redland have been the epicenters of Miami’s booming marijuana growing scene. Of course, the millions of dollars worth of weed produced in South Dade every year has to be grown on the sly in black market growhouses and is subject to regular raids by law enforcement…
It wasn’t all that long ago that dropping any cash at Havana hotel or restaurant was about as realistic for American travelers as finding a cheap drink on Ocean Drive. So it’s remarkable that starting today, U.S. residents will be able to use a debit card at around 10,000 locations…
Earlier this month, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement — the state agency that investigates fatal police-involved shootings — pleaded for more funding. Florida cops are killing so many suspects they simply can’t keep up with the cases. That dire backlog is only going to grow after this week. It’s…
In its 32nd year, Miami Book Fair International brings a bevy of authors — both world-renowned and local gems — to downtown Miami for eight days of all things literature. With headliner Patti Smith having given a successful talk the opening night of the festival last Sunday, and the likes…
Were you hoping to get to work this morning? Or perhaps you had a busy day at school ahead of you that you planned to attend? Maybe a flight to catch at MIA? Sorry, folks. It’s probably not going to happen today. Details are still scarce, but an early-morning shooting…
Like the rest of the world, Miami spent the weekend in grief and shock over the brutal terrorist attacks that killed 129 in Paris. Our two native sons who are currently jousting for a chance to lead the free world went quite a bit further, however. Jeb Bush and Marco…
For months leading up to the District Two commission race, Ken Russell’s fundraising lagged far behind his chief rival, Teresa Sarnoff. By election day, he’d hauled in just $158,560 compared to Sarnoff’s $747,000 war chest. But hours after the shock results of the Nov. 3 ballot — in which Russell…
The final details on a soccer stadium in Little Havana — owned by the Miami-Dade School Board and built and operated by David Beckham and his partners — may have just been hammered out at the SoHo Beach House in South Beach last night. That’s where Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and…
As the price of oil has spiraled to record lows this year, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has struggled to hang on to power. Shortages of everything from toilet paper to McDonald’s french fries have rocked Caracas as the official currency has tanked with the country’s most abundant natural resource. But…
