Argentina 4, South Korea 1: As expected, Argentina has come out with guns blazing in this World Cup with two impressive wins thus far. None more than yesterday’s 4-1 drubbing of South Korea. Striker Gonzalo Higuain scored three goals while Lionel Messi wreaked havoc with his usual feats of awesome,…
A massive sting on Wednesday uncovered 49 hydroponic labs in Miami-Dade and put 42 people behind bars. The pot is believed to have a street value of $9.2 million. Police also found 11 grams of cocaine, 40 grams of processed marijuana, 126 Oxycontin pills, an Audi, and $9,562 in cash.The…
Long before Marco Rubio and David Rivera became two of the highest profile Republican candidates in Florida, the Miami politicos shared a nice shady suburban house in Tallahassee, a few miles from the state capitol, just off the Apalachee Parkway.Presumably, the scene inside Real World GOP Tally included plenty of…
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We’re not going to tell you to get your dad an iPad or the new iPhone because really, anyone can tell you that. We’ve poked and prodded, and come up with what we think are the most useful and most innovative tech gadgets your dad will enjoy this Father’s Day,…
Just in case you haven’t noticed, the 172-page golden tome otherwise known as the Miami New Times Best of Miami 2010 hit streets today. It’s huge. It’s awesome. It’s invaluable. One caveat: Ignore the entry for Best Outdoors Store because Jet’s Florida and its bushwhacking salesmen have gone AWOL. In…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is picking a fight with America in the most mature way: tweets complete with derogatory slang and obscenities. Such a refined statesman, that Chávez.”The gringo government accuses us of anything and everything, but today marks five years since the extradition request of the grand terrorist Posada Carriles,…
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Suddenly surging Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott has so, so much money we really can’t expect him to know what he has done with it all. Though, surprisingly for a guy who has built a sizable portion of his platform on adopting Arizona’s controversial immigration laws, which some people see…
Gail Posner was a member of one of Miami Beach’s richest and most notorious families, but she died quietly in March without so much as an obit in the Herald and with most of her family refusing to comment. Now a legal battle is brewing surrounding her will that has…
They are a hard-working immigrant group with virtually no financial wriggle room. Whatever money can be scrimped together is often sent to relatives still living in their impoverished and disaster-devastated homecountry. As a demographic, they can least afford to lose their savings– and yet South Florida’s Haitian-Americans community is increasingly…
Police have put a stop to a massive luxury car theft ring. The elaborate scam targeted rental cars, and in an investigation yesterday police recovered more than $250,000 in stolen vehicles from an undisclosed warehouse somewhere in North Dade.”These are high-end vehicles, so they’re worth a lot of money. This…
On Sunday, voters in Colombia will close out one of the most interesting free elections ever held in South America. Last month, thanks to Facebook, Twitter, and a huge push from young voters, a quirky Green Party candidate named Antanas Mockus came from nowhere to force the establishment ticket into…
Best of Miami: City Life
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Best of Miami: Shops & Wares Readers’ Poll Winners
Best of Miami: City Life Readers’ Poll Winners
The Killer of His Daughter’s Mother: A cunning american boy becomes a Mexican cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner
Tired of the old? Ready for something brand-spanking-new? The pages that follow include 361 descriptions of the best Miami has to offer. There’s a bar hidden away on Virginia Key, and Turkish baths in Miami Beach. Or try our suggestion for the top brunch — the Palace on Ocean Drive;…
Forbes.com has a fascinating interactive map up that uses IRS data from 2008 to show the migration of Americans on a county-to-county basis. Above is that data for Miami-Dade. Red lines represent migration patterns where more Miamians moved to a county than people from that county moved to Miami. Black…
With Joey Porter long gone Channing Crowder took the spot of the Dolphin’s top trash talker. Now with Tedd Ginn Jr. out of the way (thankfully), The Sun-Sentinel’s Omar Kelly seems worried that Crowder could also take the place of the fanbase’s whipping boy. Crowder didn’t help matters by pretty…
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