Anytime a woman who doesn’t quite fit the norms of what society deems feminine gains some influence in American politics, it seems lesbian rumors follow. Go ask the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt, or, for someone living who you might actually run into in Miami, Donna Shalala or Janet Reno.Though, the…
The bus driver who crunched a Miami Beach cyclist’s leg on Ocean Drive has a criminal history and a habit of reckless driving. On his record: Nine traffic infractions in a two year span — including careless driving, operating an unsafe vehicle, and speeding 52 miles per hour in a…
The Miami Bridge Youth and Family Services Center provides emergency food, shelter and consoling for troubled youth and their families. Now, two teen girls disappeared from the center on the same day, and police are asking for the public’s help in finding them. Sixteen-year-old Amanda Nazario suffers from bi-polar disorder,…
Daniel Zajac really hates sex offenders — but not for the usual reasons. No, he loathes the gropey pervs because they foiled his swell digs: “They totally ruined everything.” Zajac is a shelter-averse homeless man who started living in a tent on the Julia Tuttle Causeway, a few hundred feet…
It’s totally unrealistic to expect this weekend’s Exxxotica Expo to unspool like some kind of real-life porn movie. Or is it? Indeed, the Miami Beach Convention Center will be packed with approximately 115 people who make their living by putting their privates to very graphic use on an almost daily…
“We created this civilization — by ‘we,’ I mean the whites.” So says Gordon Baum, the CEO of the Council of Conservative Citizens — the CCC, for short. “Our local chapters would probably support a referendum to ban inter-racial marriage, I would speculate,” he says in a New Times interview…
How George Alan Rekers and his rent boy got busted by New Times
Kirstie Alley’s new show uses accused DUI killer Carlos Bertonatti’s tune
Cyclist hit by Miami-Dade Transit bus is part of a growing trend
Film czar Harry Emilio Gottlieb nixes pop quiz, aces take-home exam
Hugo Tandron is the Marlins’ official barber
Yuppie Rambo Richard “Kudo” Couto takes on the C-9 Basin, Miami-Dade’s most lawless outpost
Tampa, our slightly “off” cousin to the northwest, has been chosen to host the 2012 Republican National Convention in which the Grand Ol’ Party will nominate Sarah Palin or Marco Rubio or Ron Paul or someone else slightly “off” to take on President Obama in the election. Congratulations Tampa! Get…
In an ideal sports world, referees would not be humans. They’d be highly functioning subhumans devoid of any emotion, desires and just about anything but the sole focus to fairly enforce the rules of the game. Of course, they are humans. Humans who like to get drunk and piss in…
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What’s that old cliché? A sunny place for shady people? Well, we’ve heard it applied to various locales, but we think Florida definitely epitomizes it, and the Daily Beast agrees. The prolific list makers ranked each U.S. state on corruption, and Florida came in sixth.Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, Delaware and North…
So you’ve had a torrid love affair that imploded your political career, destroyed your family and cemented your spot in the Hall of Fame for GOP “family values” hypocrites. How do you follow it up? If you’re South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, apparently, you spend a steamy weekend in the…
When Charlie Crist announced he’d be leaving the Republican Party of Florida, the RPOF realized it had no more use for its fancy, slightly awkward-looking oil painting of the governor that used to hang in party headquarters. So, like a crazy ex who desperately wants the world to know they…
Hey, have you been losing weight? You’re looking good. Yes, I’m talking to you, entire city of Miami. What have you been doing? Atkins? Weight Watchers? Oh, wait, of course, the South Beach diet. Whatever it is, it’s working.Remember last year when Men’s Fitness named Miami the fattest big city in…
New Times’ story about official Marlins barber Hugo Tandron, the former Carol City thug who went from violent criminal charges to his own shop and a stable of millionaire athlete clients, is online and hits stands this week.In-house videographer extraordinaire Jacob Katel did his thing with footage of Tandron cutting…
Being in a band is kind of like being in a marriage a lot of the time. You fight over getting organized. One person works eight days a week and doesn’t see it your way. You break up. But now a new UK start-up that launched last week is promising…
Miami Metrozoo workers were cutting branches to feed to giraffes when they found the body of a woman near the entrance of the zoo April 19. Police have now identified the body as that of 60-year-old Gloria Marinckovic of Kendall. Marinckovic suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and had gone missing from her…
