George Gray, all five feet eight inches of him, flies up the court like a Chihuahua released from a cage. He bursts through midcourt, dribbling at hyperspeed, and weaves around two towering defenders near the goal. Just before slamming into another, an enormous center beneath the rim, he spins instinctively…
“Take that fucking belt off right now,” Ruben Alvarez, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) instructor commands to a student. Alvarez, an imposing presence in a white robe, was towering over his student, also robed, who lay sprawled on his back on a mat inside Black House, a Miami Beach martial…
The way Paola Fernández remembers it, she arrived in Miami from Argentina last fall after being promised work alongside famous chef Najat Kaanache in preparation for the opening of a high-end Coral Gables restaurant. Instead, she was forced to iron, prepare home meals, and care for a difficult 8-year-old. “For…
For more than a year before he was brutally murdered, Pinecrest native and freelance journalist Steven Sotloff was held captive in Syria in often torturous conditions. On the advice of security experts, Sotloff’s family in Miami kept the news of their son’s kidnapping quiet, fearing publicity would only further endanger…
By 6 p.m. on a recent Saturday, Piripi, the new Spanish/Basque restaurant in Coral Gables’ Village of Merrick Park, is coming to life. Just inside the glass front door, two young, attractive hostesses smile as they ask arriving diners whether they prefer indoor or outdoor seating. Behind the sleek concrete…
Miami, of course, still has no designated MLS stadium. And therefore no MLS team. For months now the front runner for the new home for Beckham’s much-anticipated squad has been a site in Little Havana, the former Orange Bowl site adjacent to Marlins Park—and last week there was also chatter, on…
For two decades, Miamians have been waiting for the park that was promised but never came. Tomorrow a group of advocates will gather at the space that was supposed to be lush green but is instead drab concrete — the plot behind American Airlines arena unromantically dubbed Parcel B. And…
Rolling Stone said the movie ‘pulls no punches.’ The Miami Herald called it a ‘knockout’. Former New Times staff writer Frank Alvarado, who wrote the 2008 feature story that inspired the film, said it was ‘worth the wait’. But in the few weeks since Dawgfight, Rakonteur’s new documentary about backyard brawling…
Miami native Brad Meltzer is a nine-time bestselling author of historical and political thrillers. He hosts two shows on the History Channel, Lost History and Decoded. He’s given anti-terrorism advice to the Department of Homeland Security, hobnobbed with George H.W. Bush, and spent hours poring over Lincoln assassination history. But…
Jamie Crabtree, a 32-year-old Key Largo native, just wanted to leave. The Keys, Florida, America, you name it. So Wednesday night, according to a police report, Crabtree boarded a Greyhound headed for Key West. There the 5’10”, hazel-eyed drifter made his way to Key West International Airport. He came up…
Game three of the 2012 NBA Eastern Conference Finals. Miami at Boston. LeBron put up 34. Garnett put up 24. And in the men’s room, one middle-aged fan allegedly slipped on a puddle of dirty water, crashing hard on the tile floor, “twisting his right knee and leg, landing on…
When the shots rang out, they came in flurries. The pops drowned out the music echoing through the Spot, a Caribbean restaurant in Liberty City that by midnight had transformed into a nightclub where dozens of local young people, some in middle school, flirted and rubbed sweaty bodies in the…
Memorial Day weekend in South Beach. So many people. So many cars. So few parking spaces. Thus, a lot of towing. Six hundred twenty-three vehicles, actually, more than double the corresponding four-day period the week prior. “We want to make sure that residents’ quality of life is high,” says Saul…
It’s the Friday of the month, which means the ride is on tonight, and it’s a winding one. More significantly, tonight’s Critical Mass will cycle across the Venetian Causeway to South Beach — the last time cyclists can use the historic causeway before it closes on Monday for months of…
Earlier this month, the Miami Beach Police Department was hanging its head in shame when the State Attorney’s Office announced that two officers had used work accounts to send hundreds of explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic emails and text messages. When news of the scandal broke, one of the officers, Captain Alex…
Around 10:30 p.m. on a Monday late last month, Eber Vasquez pedaled north from his apartment on NE 23rd Street and onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The 25-year-old, clean-cut Guatemalan immigrant with a neat goatee was still in his work clothes from the day’s painting job. Across his back was…
On its website Monsanto, the St. Louis-based biotech corporate giant, calls itself a “sustainable agricultural company” that’s focused on empowering farmers and conserving natural resources. An advocacy group says the company is an evil “Biotech Bully” with a “dastardly plan to lie and cheat its way to more profits and power.” …
Aaron Cohen. Christophe Le Canne. Walter Reyes. This evening, in a group bicylce ride leaving from Crandon Park, hundreds of people will ride for them, and for all the other cyclists who have lost their lives while riding in Miami and around the world. “(The ride will) honor those that have…
As he nears $100 million in fundraising and an official announcement he’s trying to follow his father and brother into the White House, countless sentences are being written about Jeb Bush every single day. But not many look like the description of a new tome for sale on Amazon about…
The very nasty public squabbling over homeless toilet needs continues. Yesterday the Downtown Development Authority, the agency in charge of “As the chief advocate for downtown Miami’s growing base of residents, businesses and visitors from around the world, the Miami DDA has been making the case that homelessness is having…
The woman, a resident of Stock Island, just east of Key West, had been out of the country, Monroe County Police Department spokesperson Becky Herrin says. So when she got a call, earlier this week, from a man named “Mike” telling her that there was a warrant out for her…
The video begins with an image of feces next to a brick building. Then it cuts to an image of feces in a bucket. For the next two and a half minutes, many more images of feces. And urine. And that’s it. Called “Homeless May 2015 Feces & Urine”, the…
