Big Man, one of the men sent to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway because of a county ordinance prohibiting sex offenders from living in most of Miami-Dade — “Sex Offenders Set up Camp,” – has been allowed to return home with his wife in Pompano Beach. His case, it…
Glenn61 — our resident degenerate and hooker expert– has sadly left us. He’s moved up to Broward, where Bob Norman and the gang will no doubt delight at his impish misadventures. Before he went, however, he sent me this Christmas present. I don’t know what the hell it is folks…
Bring some cafe cubano into the clutches of your friends who perpetually tote around Starbucks cups. The white-haired Cuban owner of Indian Hardware, 1227 Alton Road, Miami Beach, has been selling everything from keys to coffeemakers for 40 years. His dusty shelves are stocked with stove-top espresso makers for $14.95…
In my restaurant review this week (Two Americas), I wrote that “While a ‘food revolution’ has indeed taken place, only middle-class and wealthy people can afford to purchase the real quality goods (To wit: Last week I swooned at the check-out line upon realizing I’d just paid eight dollars for…
In my restaurant review this week (Two Americas), I wrote that “While a ‘food revolution’ has indeed taken place, only middle-class and wealthy people can afford to purchase the real quality goods (To wit: Last week I swooned at the check-out line upon realizing I’d just paid eight dollars for…
Happy Festivus Everyone. The New Times has compiled all of our year end rankings, lists, and other nonsense below. So when the family meltdown begins escape into our 2007 retrospective. Just click on the photos below: 2007 In Photos Top 20 South Florida Concerts of 2007 Miami’s Best Albums of…
Sure Luis Posada Carriles has been called the “bin Laden of the hemisphere” by the Cuban government but his giclée prints selling at Cuba Collectibles.com are not half bad. (Sorry, looks like Viejito is sold out but Tumbadoras, a pair of smiling drummers and the top-seller, is still in stock.)…
1. New Orleans City Council Votes to Demolish Housing, Protesters Riot – The City Council voted unanimously to raze the city’s largest public housing project. Protesters fought with police. Those outside the city council chambers fought to get in, the one’s inside argued for their homes. 2. Governor Crist Unveils…
It’s hard to find something in Miami that someone back home will want – something that will help them understand what the hell you’ve been doing for the past three years and why you’ve opted to spend your days on the hurricane-addled edge of the world. Thank God for the…
If you happen to be up Opa-locka way, don’t forget to pop into the embattled flea market. (The city has repeatedly made efforts to shut the place down for a slew of code violations and the owner, Scott Miller, has made numerous pledges that he will fight them to the…
1. USB Memory Watch – Whoever you give this to will feel like James Bond when they connect their ordinary watch to their office computer only to reveal that it contains that year’s expense report. The watch has two gigabytes of memory. $40. 2. Cocktail Cyclone Portable Drink Mixer CSS-565…
When your franchise is drowning, don’t throw them a life-preserver. Throw ’em some man-boobs! Greg Camarillo saves our souls from ruin and suddenly the flood-gates of dewy goodness have opened up for us in abundance. The interwebs have been going apeshit all day Wednesday. The reports were ongoing all day…
There’s a plenitude of grizzled, cigar-sucking men lending their play-by-play to Cuban politics. Twenty-one year old Monica Simo, who grew up in Miami and now works as a banking analyst in New York City, hopes to add some youth to that long-running conversation. Last month, she started, La Primera Generación,…
Urkel partied at B.E.D. Miami’s Secret Society Mondays on December 17 with a VIP B.E.D. and bottle service. Remember those episodes of Family Matters when Steven Quincy Urkel transformed into stud muffin, Stephan? Well, the nerd-no-more was apparent last night when Stephan, a.k.a. Jaleel White made his way into B.E.D.,…
Where: La Estancia Argentina, 17870 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura. (305) 932 6477 What $15 gets you: prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich, your choice of sides, drink, and dessert. La Estancia Argentina isn’t just a restaurant. It’s actually also a general store, which specializes in Argentinean food. The whole concept is strangely inviting,…
Where: La Estancia Argentina, 17870 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura. (305) 932 6477 What $15 gets you: prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich, your choice of sides, drink, and dessert. La Estancia Argentina isn’t just a restaurant. It’s actually also a general store, which specializes in Argentinean food. The whole concept is strangely inviting,…
1. Dolphins… – The Miami Dolphins just had some bad luck this year. Mix that in with bad plays, horrible defense and offense, and you have a recipe for a team that makes it’s fans want to go out and hurt somebody. Fans rejoiced when the team won against the…
Lost in all the Greg Camarillo: Golden God! madness yesterday was the fact that the living members of the 1972 Dolphins were at the game Sunday. The team was honored at halftime and had been hanging around Dolphins facilities all week, watching practices and telling reporters, trainers, the audio/video guys,…
Jamie Foxx celebrated his 40th like a stud on Friday, December 14 at Cameo. Ex-Mansion fanatic Jamie Foxx headed to SoFla this past weekend to kick things into gear as the Oscar-winning star moved a bit further up the hill. The actor headed to Cameo and Vice Friday night to…
My feet still haven’t touched the ground. My throat is raw and scratchy. My voice is shot. I sound like Jennifer Tilly after several rounds of scotch and cigarettes at a Poker tournament. Myself, and everyone around me, are acting like we’re in a Dr. Pepper commercial. My brain still…
Let’s see, what happened this weekend … oh right after my car wouldn’t start while trying to leave the New Times Holiday Party and getting a tow at 2 a.m., the next day I was forced to watch in person as my beloved Baltimore Ravens handed the Dolphins their first…
The Y100 Jingle Ball December 15, 2007 The Bank Atlantic Center School will soon be coming to a brief respite as youngsters gear up for the holiday break. In celebration, every teen and tween in South Florida seemed to have congregated at the Y100 Jingle Ball with parents in tow…
