For more than a decade, hip-hop has risen as a cultural force in Cuba, giving voice to a discontented generation’s frustrations with the fossilized Castro regime. The underground scene has become a rare outlet for genuine criticism of the government. So of course bungling U.S. spies tried to infiltrate the…
For shoppers in most of the country, Black Friday is a chance to dive-bomb the mall to load up on price-slashed Christmas gifts, clothes for the new year or that laptop that’s been too expensive to until now. Floridians, though, apparently thought the day after Thanksgiving was the perfect time…
Update: A witness reached by New Times disputes the police version of events. Danny Garcia, a friend who was with Demz that night, says there’s no way he had time to disappear down a side street before police hit him. New Times also reviewed the officers’ IA record, which shows…
In the wake of this weekend’s boisterous protests that twice shut down 195 and clogged streets from Wynwood to Midtown, Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa sat down with Michael Putney on Channel 10 last night. Orosa was surprisingly blunt about the Eric Garner case in New York, telling Putney that…
For downtown-area commuters, the peak weekend of Art Basel is ending this afternoon much like it began: With 195 shut in both directions by protesters participating in the #shutitdown movement against police violence. The protesters marched from Wynwood onto the highway around 5 p.m. This time, police had apparently already…
A protest against the lack of indictments in Ferguson and New York City — as well as the killing of local teen Israel Hernandez by Miami Beach police — quickly moved from Wynwood to the 195 expressway. More than a hundred protesters have now shut down traffic in both directions,…
Update: Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez, AKA Demz, died of his injuries on Wednesday, December 10. A witness reached by New Times also disputes the police version of events. Danny Garcia, a friend who was with Demz that night, says there’s no way he had time to disappear down a side street…
When Miami cop Reynoldo Goyos shot and killed an unarmed man named Travis McNeil at a traffic stop three years ago, the Miami PD left no doubt about the killing’s propriety. Miami PD’s chief promptly fired Goyos and called McNeil’s death “unjustified.” The feds later investigated the department and, based…
In May 2012, the nation first caught wind of “bath salts” thanks to the “Miami Cannibal” attack. In the hours after Rudy Eugene chewed the face off homeless man Ronald Poppo near the MacArthur Causeway and was fatally shot by cops, a Miami Police spokesman speculated that the synthetic drug…
It’s a bad time to be skirting the rules about harvesting endangered coral and live rock in the Keys. A multi-year investigation called “Operation Rock Bottom” has already netted more than half a dozen indictments of businessmen accused of illegally selling the protected marine life. Two Miami men are the…
On Black Friday, 18-year-old Pedro Uriarte snagged a new pair of Beats headphones. On Sunday afternoon, he tried out the new headphones while walking near Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary School on NW 20th Street. That’s when someone shot the Jackson Senior High student, leaving him dead on the side of…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. If Mitchell Kaplan were an author instead of Florida’s sire of storytelling, it’s a good bet he’d…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. Muriel Olivares and Tiffany No� stroll through carefully potted rows of herbs, seedlings, and flowers under a…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. After November’s Republican shellacking at the polls, you’d imagine the few Florida Democrats who emerged unscathed are…
As Joe Garcia desperately fought to hang onto his Congressional office this fall, we described it as the battle for “Florida’s dirtiest district.” After all, Garcia’s predecessor, David Rivera, has faced down repeated investigations from the feds and watched former colleague Ana Alliegro head to prison over an election scheme…
Taxpayers weren’t the only Miami residents royally screwed in the Marlins Park deal, at least according to one group of workers who actually built the $2 billion fiasco. The workers say they were systemically underpaid by a contractor building the ballpark. A federal judge recently gave them permission to go…
Four years ago, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment with a simple mandate: Legislators had to stop drawing absurd state congressional districts that virtually ensured the GOP would dominate in Tallahassee forever. Instead, voters wanted fair districts — boundaries that would create actual competitive races instead of Democrat- or…
The voice — deep, sonorous, and slow — rang out every time a customer called the shop: “Plaza Tire & Auto. Gabe Cortez speaking.” For more than 35 years, Cortez’s humor, patience, and honesty have made life better for the untold Miamians who took their ailing cars to his midtown…
The date was January 29, 2013. Miami New Times had just published its investigation outing Coral Gables clinic Biogenesis as a steroid dealer to the stars, including Alex Rodriguez. A few hours later, A-Rod and his celebrity lawyer Roy Black met with Susy Ayala-Ribero, the high school buddy and now…
Just a week ago, the future of long-vacant Marine Stadium looked sunnier than a winter day on South Beach. Leaders from Friends of the Marine Stadium and the Miami Boat Show gathered to proudly announce the gala fair would come to the decaying waterfront property in two years after a…
The gunman, who law enforcement officials have identified as Myron May, a lawyer and graduate of FSU, was later killed by officers after walking outside and firing in their direction.
Walmart’s plans to build a mega shopping center in the heart of Miami’s burgeoning Midtown neighborhood hit a speed bump last month when a panel of judges handed a partial victory to a vociferous group of neighborhood activists. The judges ordered the city to reconsider Walmart’s application, ruling that it…
