What makes a world-class city? According to Eye On Miami, a city can have all the stadiums and museums it wants, but if it can’t provide its citizens with basic needs and services, achieving world-class status is out of reach: You can build a hundred stadiums but as long as…
Manny Ramirez is headed to the Marlins! A deal is close! Sources are saying it’s only a matter of time! Here we go! Ready? And…. the deal is dead. The Red Sox sent him to L.A. instead. Sad trombone sound Okay, so the Manny to the Marlins thing didn’t happen…
The sign hangs over a locked turnstile outside Dolphin Stadium, gently mocking hundreds of Marlins fans trapped in a winding gauntlet of fences protecting the handful of ticket sellers at Wednesday’s divisional showdown against the Mets. Lightning flashes. Torrents of rain darken the horizon. Clouds circle overhead. The line creeps…
UPDATE: Sorry, Fish fans dreaming of a summer watching Manny being Manny in Dolphin Stadium. Looks like the ManRam will be looking for the best place to take a leak behind the outfield wall in sunny Chavez Ravine instead. According to ESPN, the eccentric slugger is headed to the Dodgers…
Hello, Kitty In my 20s I was really picky about the guys I dated, they couldn’t be below a certain height, had to love R&B, etcetera etcetera. But now that I’m nearing that 40-year mark, I’m much easier to please. And now after a long search and a lot of…
Photo via WPLG Channel 10 Move over, Texas. A South Florida resident has officially submitted his challenge for most crackheaded plan of 2008. In April, Dallas-area’s Charles Ray Fuller saw in a stolen check an opportunity to grant himself a comfortable nestegg — filling it out for $360 million dollars…
A powwow of prostitutes and drug addicts is taking swigs from brown bags under the Metrorail in southeast Overtown when Big Red shows up. Tiny baggies and cigarette butts litter the patch of bleached grass, where the crew sits in lawn chairs, jabbering about the cops. Red, a hulking 52-year-old,…
A smiling, stubbled man known simply as “Toast” lines up Styrofoam cups, uncorks the Patron tequila, and begins dishing out shots. One for the executive producer, Steve “Branzig.” One for show stuntman “OMG Mike.” One for the studio guest, Christian Finnegan. One for the reporter. One for himself (Toast is…
The Miami Dolphins traded franchise player Jason Taylor last week to the Washington Redskins for two picks in next year’s draft. Taylor and former teammates have been cordial in public remarks, but an e-mail conversation uncovered by New Times shows that parting was more than just sweet sorrow. On July…
Ivan sits in the passenger seat of a dusty white SUV, fidgeting nervously. The trim Uruguayan shakes a Marlboro loose from the pack and stares out the window as if he’s searching for something. He has the rough hands of a carpenter but is dressed more like a J.Crew model…
The typical profile of a big-city politician is that of a wealthy lawyer or businessman. Financial disclosure forms for elected officials released at the beginning of the month show city Commissioners Angel Gonzalez and Marc Sarnoff with net worths of $883,695 and $2,257,500, respectively; Mayor Manny Diaz leads the pack…
As our great Banana Republic of Miami-Dade County prepares for this fall’s elections, Riptide scoured campaign financial reports. After all, nothing is more patriotic than greasing the wheels of politics. Take, for instance, Magnum Construction Management Corp., a construction firm owned by a family of builders that has given thousands…
Now it’s just getting ridiculous. The Marlins continue to prove that no lead is safe against them, no matter the competition, no matter the odds. With the NL East leading Mets in town, the Fish took the first game of a three-game set last night with yet another tap the…
Greetings from Massachusetts! I don’t love to compare cities with awesome bicycle accommodations to Miami’s developing status, but I’ve been lucky enough to pedal around Boston this weekend and figured this would be a good chance to cover what’s going on outside of South Florida. I’ve not had the pleasure…
Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustin’ With The Godmother (Rakontur) On the DVD commentary of Cocaine Cowboys 2, rakontur director Billy Corben describes the aesthetic difference between CC1 and CC2 as East Coast versus West Coast. Because the first film revolved around Miami in the ’80s, it was made to feel like…
Hello, Kitty How do I coax my wife back into wearing some sexy lingerie? She used to wow me every time she undressed, but ever since we (she) had our daughter all I see is granny panties, and even worse, sometimes my boxers. I thought it was a phase that…
The sky was falling on local hipsters the weekend, as The Vagabond was shut down by the fire department after an acoustic ceiling panel fell on a patron. Don’t worry, I hear she’s is doing fine. But Vagabond’s closure didn’t help an already lackluster weekend. Still, there were some hidden…
The Miami Herald isn’t the only daily in the United States hurting these days because of lack of subscriptions and advertisers. But the question is, is the Herald doing everything in its power to hold on to its readership? Random Pixels has a few ideas on how the Herald can…
Summer might seem like the enemy of Miami’s pretty people – just step foot outside and see how long your makeup stays intact. Just because it’s hot enough to melt a matte lipstick on your dashboard, doesn’t mean you should be stuck indoors. So look out weekend! Here we come…
If I decided to steal a Miami-Dade transit bus, I would hit 95 south and gun it straight to the Keys. The authorities would find me and the bus 6 months later, me driving the bus with one foot (because my hands would be full of the lobsters I just…
When James Posey left the Miami Heat, sports fans and groupies alike cried over the loss of one of our most talented and fiiine players. But when he ended up winning another ring with the Celtics, people were like, “Damn, I’d jump from the Titanic to a Carnival cruise liner…
Starbucks recently announced plans to shut down hundreds of locations across the country, and while most of the blame has been lain on the economy, it’s quite possible that Americans have finally woken up and smelled the overpriced lattes. According to NBC6, five of the soon-to-be-closed coffee spots are in…
