If you’re new to Miami and, like Riptide, are tempted to choose a dentist through the Yellow Pages, know this: South Florida is especially dodgy when it comes to fake doctors. The state health department’s Unlicensed Activity Unit is dedicated solely to busting phony medical professionals and is the only…
The weirdest nook of Miami-Dade County is its unincorporated northwest corner — a rural tract where guajiros pummel each other at cowboy bars, black-market horse meat is in high demand, and burned cars and other refuse litter the streets as if in some Mad Max hellscape. Here’s yet another strange…
The ultra-posh Delano Hotel in Miami Beach, where your average room price exceeds $800 per night, had a disastrous Christmas. The morning of December 24, cops found the body of a giant washed up on the beach behind the hotel. They still haven’t identified the 6’9″, 335-pound corpse, and homicide…
Miami Art 2009: During tough economic times, artists turn to the otherworld
Sherlock Holmes
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Blockbuster Video’s dismal decade
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Does your Sunday usually involve a hangover and a TV remote? Get off the couch, because Sunday Funday is making a comeback this winter, and you can get great food and art both fast and cheap — unlike your date the previous evening. Though green markets are commonplace — with…
Leave it to someone named Jeff Wack to make art you’ll want to reach out and stroke until hair sprouts on your palms. The California-based artist uses a camera and digital airbrush painting to create fetching imagery of nubile nymphs in exotic poses that leave little to the imagination. His…
For German-born guitarist Ottmar Liebert, music seems to have no barriers. An instrumentalist since his early teens, he was initially a rock ’n’ rolla, but after spending some time in Mexico and ultimately settling in Santa Fe, he embraced the genre known as nouveau flamenco, which mixes both traditional and…
Being a bookworm is still the shit. These days, nerds in Miami have swag. It’s retro and cool to be book smart and wear a calculator watch. So, 305 book lovers, let’s hang out, get wired on free Café Bustelo, and chill with the Black Umbrella Book Club (BUBC). This…
We’re still not used to the idea that the FedEx Orange Bowl is played at Land Shark Stadium. There are just too many concrete nouns in there — orange, shark, land — that make no sense together. But we are excited about this year’s matchup. Yeah, yeah, the Hurricanes didn’t…
The Miami Heat’s season motto, “Good Enough Ain’t Enough,” is hard to miss on radio ads, but so far, “good enough” is all the Heat fan is going to get. Still, paying $10 (for upper-level seats) to watch Dwyane Wade play live is reason enough to hike over to the…
They say Miami is a melting pot of cultures, but then those same people say Miami has no culture. Who are they anyway? Obviously, they’ve never been to the Biltmore, which has an embarrassment of history and culture under one lofty roof. For starters, the Biltmore is a melting pot…
When the 2009 Miami Dolphins schedule came out last spring, it was widely assumed the Fins would play for their season against a Pittsburgh Steelers team that already would have clinched home field and would be resting its starters on the last game of the regular season. Instead, both teams…
Like every bar and bat mitzvah descending upon unsuspecting NW 37th Avenue, the Commodores hit the Magic City Casino. You could sing these songs in your sleep, people: “Brick House,” “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady.” You even know the instrumentals, like “Machine Gun” — reinvigorated by P. T. Anderson’s Boogie…
Ladies, it’s a new year, but don’t let that minor detail prevent you from indulging old habits, especially the bad ones. Just because you’ve aged another 365 days doesn’t mean it’s time to undertake some kind of radical self-improvement plan. You’re perfect already. So when that familiar hunger for some…
Begun in 1948, the Junior Orange Bowl is one of those unconsciously received facts of reality for people who grow up in Miami, as if it’s completely natural to host a world-class youth bowling tournament, golf tournament, and tennis tournament all at once. Let the New Times answer definitively: It’s…
If you attended Florida State University in the ’90s, you probably had a class with this guy. You know him — he looked 30 and was a six-year senior. Back in 1997, when FSU was celebrating its title of “Number One Party School,” Rolling Stone magazine discovered Bert Kreischer, a…
The champagne has worn off and so has the prospect of changing your ways in 2010. We’re happy to steer you further away from your short-lived affair with self-improvement. Damn the diet, because MiMo’s Red Light restaurant will provide tapas and drinks this Friday at 9 p.m. And to hell…
Crimson tides washed over Haitian shores and flowed through burning cane fields, stolen cannons rang out black-powder vengeance, and the drums of war beat freedom songs across the mountaintops. The hard-fought slave rebellion that overthrew the French and won Haiti her independence January 1, 1804, is the story of the…
