Most high school graduates are frantically searching for summer jobs or shopping for dorm room essentials. Chad James, Bryan Berglund, and Marquise Cooper won’t have to worry about selling popcorn at movie theaters or cutting grass for neighbors because they have the option to play professional baseball for the Florida…
The young Hialeah boat captain caught transporting eight immigrants to Boynton Beach this past January will serve up to three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra sentenced 28-year-old Jovel Dominguez-Hernandez to 36 months yesterday for human smuggling. The indictment notes his goal was “commercial advantage or…
A University of Miami football player gets a parking ticket and every sports outlet in the country would rush to get the scoop. A University of Florida player getting arrested? Well, no one seems to notice that much despite the fact it’s happen to twenty players since Urban Meyer showed…
Through the help of lots of technology, we keep an eye on everything that happens in Miami, but once in a while our little computer friends spit out something that has to do with the Miami Valley area of Ohio, which includes Dayton. Usually we ignore this, but it’s the…
New York Times media critic David Carr had a column yesterday about the somber mood of a bon voyage party for longtime New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan and the much more frivolous atmosphere of a shindig held by a handful of new-media wunderkinds, complete with rooftop hot tubs and blaring house music on…
A man’s body was found dead and floating in King’s Lake in West Kendall this morning. Police said, someone called 911 at 7:12 a.m. when they spotted the dead body in the water located at 8530 Southwest 149th Avenue, just north of Kendall Drive. The man is Caucasian and approximately 40-years old,…
If you want to know why American car companies are hurting, it’s because they don’t offer a free toy with every purchase. Hey, it works for Happy Meals.We snagged this photo off Ruben_I’s flickr photostream, who took the pic at Matheson Hammock Park…
We all know Miami Police Chief John Timoney likes to get out of town every chance he gets, so he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to meet Vice President Joe Biden and talk up President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. “She’s done all right for herself. She’s the quintessential American…
So Miamians hand out more than $40 million a year to homeless people, according to a Zogby International poll (via NBCMiami), and that’s just a rough estimate. We’re guessing that if you add handouts from tourists, the homeless are raking in a bunch more. According to Camillus House, there are about…
Best Political ComebackThe Diaz-Balart brothersIt was right there in black-and-white, on the cover of your Miami New Times: “End of the Diaz-Balart Dynasty.” Just weeks before election night, scores of polls showed both Mario and Lincoln — Cuban-American icons and Miami’s reps in Washington for years — trailing their Democratic…
Quinnipiac released a new poll! You know what that means? It’s time for us to pluck out interesting bits and pieces. Until now, every poll we’ve seen on the Florida governor’s race gives Republican Bill McCollum the advantage, but according to Q Democrat, Alex Sink has 38 percent and McCollum 34. Down here…
Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative group that helped push Sen. Arlen Specter into the Democratic Party with the threat of a primary challenge, sure does not like Gov. Charlie Crist. Now that ol’ Arlen is gone from the party, Crist might be the group’s number one GOP target. This…
LocalAll 11 universities in the state are seeking to raise tuition by the highest allowable amount. [CBS4]Someone wrote some fan fiction about a manatee gang bang. Oh, wait, that actually happened? [Herald]Actual political joke Bob Smith is running for Senate. He used to represent New Hampshire in the Senate. [SunSent]A plan to…
Thursday is an important day for domestic partners — gay and straight — in the city of Miami. Commissioners will vote on an ordinance that gives employment benefits to long-term couples. The big issue: right to health insurance for city employees. Advocates at Save Dade ask that folks who support…
(New Times Best of Miami issue hits the streets this week. With this post, Riptide 2.0 provides an appetizer. The main course/entire issue will appear on the website Tuesday afternoon.)Best Boy Made GoodMickey RourkeMickey Rourke’s redemption has been the stuff Hollywood makes movies about. Only an independent filmmaker made it and it…
There are a few quirks in the practice of democracy here on the state and local level that I just don’t get. Two of which Gwen Margolis knows all to well. Last November Gwen ran for Miami-Dade property appraiser and convinced 281,899 of you to vote for her, far more than…
Hitting up Boston Market, Arby’s and Burger King all in a row is a typical dinner routine for me, but for Miami man Yonly Cabrera Alvarez it was part of a counterfeit bill scheme. Alvarez, 21, wound up in Vero Beach on Saturday with his friend Xandi Garcia, 20, and hit up…
The media maybe was a little too fast trying connect a few dead cats in Lauderhill to the now infamous Cat Killer down in the Bays of Cutler and Palmetto. When details of the Broward maulings came out, we kind of thought it was probably just wild dogs. Turns out it was. Police…
The Acme Employment Office on Miami Beach. Today’s photo comes to us via the Library of Congress and the year 1939, two years before the Great Depression ended. If you thought getting a job now was tough…..
When Corrine Brown announced she was interested in running for Senate last week we had a little fun reminiscing about her bizarre appearance on the House floor “gradulating” the Florida “Gator” for their BCS title. Well, this lady is a serious sports fan. As you probably know some other professional basketball…
View Larger Map A man was stabbed to death during a domestic dispute that occurred early this morning in Northwest Miami-Dade. The subject is detained by Miami-Dade Police and charges are pending. Detectives are investigating the scene and the relation of the two Latin males, whose names have not yet…
Best Of is coming up, and I’m sure that’s always Rick Sanchez’s favorite issue. After all, back in the days of Rick’s time on WSVN, we used to have a category called “Least Credible News Personality” that he won so many times we named it after him. But ever since…
