FPL is looking to add new tracts of power lines somewhere in South Miami. One route cuts through the old Florida East Coast Railroad property, which runs along South Miami Elementary and Middle School. As –Kyle Munzenrieder…
When following the Diaz-Balart races this fall just wasn’t enough for me I’d check in on my pet race, the one for the Senate seat in Minnesota between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. Maybe it’s because Minnesotan blood runs through me. Maybe it’s because the thought of Stuart Smiley entering…
The Miami Dolphins have put their fans in a weird spot. On one hand this really will go down as one of the best seasons for the Fins in recent history. Not that that’s saying much. On the other, if they don’t make the playoffs it will seem all for…
Poor Plax. Just a year ago, the Giants wide receiver was riding pretty damn high — Superbowl champ, massive contract, best ridiculous name in professional football.How did it all fall apart? How, damnit?! Oh yeah, you shot yourself in the leg at a nightclub, then drove around bleeding for a…
When Glenn Terry started King Mango Strut to protest getting snubbed from the Orange Bowl parade in 1981, it was an easy place to poke fun at politics and society. The old hippie and his band of misfits slapped two cardboard boxes at the ends of a four-block stretch with…
The Fuck You gift is a perversion of all the holidays stand for. It is a truly despicable, evil gesture reserved for only the most cynical and sinful amongst us. It is a dark art Riptide mastered as a bitter, bitter teenager, and one thankfully I am largely beyond, but while Christmas shopping…
A Miami-Dade bus driver allegedly hits a bicyclist on Collins Ave., keeps on going, intimidates passengers who ask him to stop, and is put on paid leave. Thankfully the bicyclist suffered only minor injuries. [WSVN]Here is your official Olympic MILF calendar from Dara Torres. MILF meaning “Mother I’d Like to Freestyle-with-in-the-pool-so-I-can-experience-the-thrill-of-competing-with-an-Olympic-athlete.”…
Do you know how weird it was for me to see @miaminewtimes in a Twitter friend’s Twitter update last night? How did I not know that we have a twitter, considering I write about half the stuff that appears in said twitter feed? If you don’t know what Twitter is, well,…
Here’s another tidbit courtesy of financial magazine’s OCD need for lists: Fortune predicts that the Miami-Miami Beach are will be the fourth worst real-estate market for 2009. No real analysis attached to the list-icle, but they predict that the median house price in the area will fall 22.8% next year. Ouch. In 2010 they predict the…
Miami Beach officials tried to extort $30,000 in legal fees out of a strip club owner in exchange for a liquor license — so says Leroy Griffith, owner of Club Madonna. Griffith, whose club is the only nudie joint in SoBe, made his claims in a lawsuit filed against city…
Where were we last in the saga of Psystar Wars: Attack of the Clones? Oh right, Psystar the Doral based company that was selling their own computers that ran Apple’s OSX operating system, had their countersuit against Apple thrown out. Now, Psystar has dropped a bombshell, saying that Apple never bothered to correctly…
Is there anything more annoying than Boston sports fans? No sir, there is not. Since 2004, their teams have won a Super Bowl, an NBA Championship, and two World Series, which I’m sure you know if you’ve talked to any Bostonian for more than five seconds. Now Bostonians are going to have…
Revolution Fight ClubDecember 19, 2008Gusman Center for the Performing ArtsBetter Than: Who knows?Forgive me, but I don’t have any photos of Friday night’s Revolution Fight Club. No, I didn’t lose my camera. And no, it didn’t break. And I wasn’t shirking my assignment, either. I don’t have a snap because…
You’ve got to give Tricky Dick some credit. The man sticks to his guns (even when they’re clearly shooting someone in the face).Amid the Bushie farewell tour over the past week, Cheney has time and again stuck up for his administration’s use of, ahem, “questionable” tactics in treating prisoners at…
Florida Dems, let us share a bit of well-known advice that helped your national party unseat a seemingly unbeatable Republican incumbent back in ’92: It’s the economy, stupid. After re-electing party chairwoman Karen Thurman this weekend, the state Democrats vowed to continue their crusade against “Empty Chair Charlie.” “We know that we hit a nerve…
Like so many good boys and girl, Riptide dreams of sugar-plum fairies and Ol’ Saint Nick delivering a shiny new iPhone. ‘Tis the season for the 3G mobile Internet and being able to watch dumb YouTube videos of dogs dancing to Beyonce anywhere we want. But woah to one…
Talking Heads frontman, and one of the last intellectual types to ever have had a major-label music contract, David Byrne was in Miami barely a week ago, so maybe it’s fitting he has the death of newspapers on his mind. Plus, as a former big-label musician, he has firsthand experience with another slowly dying…
Someone pinch me. Is this really happening? The Dolphins came back from a half-time deficit to eek out a win over the Chiefs in the coldest game in franchise history. [NFL]Even better, the Jets crashed to the lousy Seahawks. The Fins will still have to beat the Jets for a playoff birth…
Not every Christmas gift needs to be something you can wrap in shiny paper and stash under a tree. If you ask me, the best kinds of gifts are given in a small box, or an envelope. Yup — Mrs. Pretty in the City isn’t receiving averse to jewelry, gift…
Barack Obama was supposed to be the most recklessly liberal President of all time. What happened? Now he’s got Rick Warren, this anti-Gay religious hack giving the invocation at his inauguration and every one is pissed. It’s not too late to ditch him, Barry. This guy is like the Sarah…
Grove Square Condominium, a pristine peach-colored tower just few blocks from Coco Walk, is the kind of place an empty-nester might settle into a quiet life of coddling small dogs and dining at so-so chain restaurants. But lately, things haven’t been so quiet. Two Thursdays ago, resident Teresa Valdes awoke…
Grove Square Condominium, a pristine peach-colored tower just few blocks from Coco Walk, is the kind of place an empty-nester might settle into a quiet life of coddling small dogs and dining at so-so chain restaurants. But lately, things haven’t been so quiet. Last Thursday, resident Teresa Valdes awoke suddenly…
