Our cover story this week is on murders in club land, and unfortunately a shooting last night claimed the life of one man and injured two others. The shooting took place around 4 a.m. at Mint Lounge, at Northwest 187th Street and 25th Avenue in Miami Gardens.According to police, an…
Remember Dwyane Wade’s baron nemesis Richard von Houtman? You know, Wade’s incessantly inflammatory former business partner with a sketchy past, sued by the Miami Heat superstar last May after he claimed in an e-mail to Heat coach and president Pat Riley that Wade was using cocaine and steroids? Well, he’s…
We certainly aren’t above trafficking in celeb rumors, but we haven’t won 20 Pulitzer prizes. In fact, when we do delve into pop culture hearsay we at least make sure it’s relevant to the local community, and report it with a heavy tone of skepticism when applicable.The Miami Herald apparently…
Marco Rubio may be well ahead in the polls, but he hasn’t even won the GOP nominations for Senate yet, let alone the actual general election. That hasn’t stopped one conservative columnist with a prominent Rubio-induced rager from talking up the Miami lad as a 2012 presidential contender.”I believe that…
“It is said that Miami isn’t a city where glamour and excess are lacking… personally, I find Miami a tacky, glamour-less place with little taste and ‘class,'” writes Suzanne Aaronson at the Huffington Post.It is said that the Huffington Post is a place where journalism’s future lies… personally, I find…
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Life must be so tough for you when you’re born to a megarich Hollywood superstar like Michael Douglas. It’s such a tragedy getting cast in crappy movies because of who your dad is, so please forgive Cameron Douglas. Isn’t it understandable he’s been caught time and time again with drugs? First with…
Former Mayor Manny Diaz made bicycling a key part of his agenda (so much so that he’s now under a weird ethics investigation for accepting a bicycle from his staff as his going-away gift), and now Bicycling magazine has named Miami one of the best cities for bicyclists in America.In…
Zoo is one of the funnest words in the English language, and the name “Miami MetroZoo” is just charming and pretty well known at this point.It’s worked for 30 years, and there’s nothing wrong with it. So leave it to the county commissioners’ inferiority complex to screw everything up. They’ve…
Acting on a tip, Miami Police recently raided a squat ranch house on a quiet side street a few blocks south of Bird Avenue in Coconut Grove. Inside the house, at 3152 Elizabeth St., police found a mother lode of goods stolen in a spate of car break-ins around the…
In the past 50 years, there have been only three private universities with football teams that matter: Notre Dame, USC, and, of course, Miami. Notre Dame has a rabid fan base and lots of history, USC has history too and benefits from the NFL’s absence in L.A., and Miami pulled itself out…
Janiel M. Perez, 26, is charged with murdering a man over the weekend. The victim was found Saturday at 650 SW 65th Ave. with multiple stab wounds, a knife sticking out of his neck, and his left ear and nose hacked by the hands of his killer. Perez was also…
Park West, the city’s after-hours district, is a place where glamour meets gutter. Women in high heels step out of Ferraris right next to one-legged panhandlers. In some ways, the hood is a symbol of everything that’s messed up about class division and gentrification in this city. It’s also –…
In early 2007, after winning a $300 million U.S. Army contract to equip Afghanistan with munitions, Miami Beach arms dealer Efraim Diveroli, age 21, went scavenging in Albania. There he subcontracted Ylli Pinari, head of that Balkan country’s state-run arms agency, to fill the order from derelict stockpiles. Pinari and…
This April marks the ten-year anniversary of when Elián González was forcibly removed from the home of relatives in Miami and returned to his father in Cuba. The Cuban propaganda machine, ever aware of the symbolism of Elián, has no qualms about exploiting the boy, now 16, when it serves the…
Miami Beach is one of the few public places in America where topless woman aren’t so much as a spectacle as they are a regular part of sun bathing society. Sure, tourists from the heartland can’t help but gawk, but locals and international visitors are pretty used to it. Salon’s…
The cover of our print edition this week features a painting of Betty White in a cleavage-heavy fetish uniform. It comes courtesy of the World Erotic Art Museum’s “Golden Gals Gone Wild” exhibit, but the rumors of a Golden Girls hard-core porn spoof even has us reeling.Of course, it was…
Serena Williams had to sit out the Sony Ericsson Open because of injuries, but she still played some ball while in Miami. The minority owner of the Miami Dolphins, clad in a bikini and a fingerless glove (how very Lagerfeld), threw around a football in the surfs of South Beach…
Dr. Jack Cassell, the dick doctor in Orlando who hates President Obama so much he put up a sign telling those who voted for him to get their urinary tracts checked elsewhere, has been all over the media. CNN, Fox News, the New York Times, you name it. He was even…
Dear Miami-Dade County Fair,Please tell me this ad — featured in yesterday’s Herald — was really just a twisted late-April Fool’s Day joke.Love,Riptide…
23-year-old Octavius Pruitt was shot in the head and killed while standing on a street corner. How mother witnessed the murder, and police are searching for suspects. [CBS4]Workers at Jackson Memorial have agreed to a plan that would reduce the hospital system’s deficit. [WSVN]Police have made two arrests in the University of Miami…
A loud thump made onlookers wince. During rush hour this past November 16, at the east end of the Venetian Causeway, a Beach Towing truck flipped an illegal U-turn and smashed into a fit, brown-eyed biker. The 19-year-old cyclist, Javier Arjona, was “thrown to the ground,” according to police reports…
