News Orange Crush A Chinese pathogen has the citrus industry talking apocalypse. By Alexander Zaitchik On July 11, the U.S. Department of Agriculture delivered some much-needed good news to Florida’s recently battered citrus growers. In its final estimate for statewide citrus output in 2008, the agency expected the industry to…
The silver pole squeaks between her pale, toned thighs as she lifts her 110-pound frame high into the club’s rafters. Her strawberry blond hair tumbles loosely over her blue tie-dyed string bikini to her thin waist. The pumping music goads, “Party like a rock star,” and her eyes roam into…
Griselda Blanco has acquired many monikers in her 65 years. The Colombian drug dealer earned the title of “Cocaine Queen” in Seventies New York, and she became La Madrina — a.k.a. “The Godmother” — when she moved her operations to Miami. Because of her tendency to bump off her own…
Marlins pitcher Rick VandenHurk no-hit the Braves last night in his first big league start since recently being recalled up from Double-A Carolina. Unfortunately, the no-hitter lasted only five innings. But still. Not too shabby. VandenHurk walked five and threw a whopping 94 pitches on the night before skipper Fredi…
Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo on Golden Girls. Estelle Getty, Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress, died today in her home in Los Angeles at the age of 84, only three days before her 85th birthday. Sadly, she died from Lewy Body Dementia after being incorrectly diagnosed with Parkinson’s and…
Illustration by Kyle T. Webster Jack Thompson, the serial litigator and would-be censor whose crusade against violent video games, porn, rap music and other things he considers unseemly, has a legal career that is suddenly teetering on the brink of legal-eagle oblivion. Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Dava Tunis, the referee…
Miami Police Chief John Timoney Three days after Sean Timoney’s November 1, 2005 arrest for allegedly trying to buy 400 pounds of marijuana, his father Miami Police Chief John Timoney and his wife Noreen put up their condo at 1717 North Bayshore Drive as collateral to bond their son out…
Carlos Lastres is a Miami native with one of the neatest jobs Downtown. His recently launched enterprise, Go Green Pedicabs, brings to Miami a service that is increasingly prevalent in hip cities around the world. The pedicab, a tricycle carriage way more posh than your hackneyed rickshaw, can take Downtown…
Much like noses, fingers, and toes-es, booties come in all shapes and sizes. Some are flat and dimply, others round or pimply. But then you have those that are like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get. In today’s Build-a-Bitch culture, it’s possible that the…
The contents of the IMG swag bag given out at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami Swim 2009. The canvas goodie bag for this year’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim was full of gym paraphernalia, liquor, sports drinks and hairspray. Yes, a free gift is a good gift, but I feel like the…
Johnny Louis Behind the scenes at Fashion Week Swim at the Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach. New York has its Bryant Park, but this weekend South Beach’s Raleigh Hotel was ground zero for our Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim. And despite the blanket of heat and curl-deflating humidity, hundreds of NY…
The Jason Taylor era in Miami is over. As first reported by Fox Sports yesterday evening, the Dolphins traded Taylor to the Washington Redskins for a second-round pick in 2009 and a sixth-round pick in 2010. It had been almost a foregone conclusion, knowing that if an opportunity presented itself,…
Surprisingly, the rain wasn’t much of a problem this weekend, I bet much to the relief of the organizers of our city’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Humidity, on the other hand, brought back horrendous memories from my childhood of being trapped in my bedroom sick with the humidifier my mother placed…
Ivon David Rojas Model shows off Diesel’s 2009 swimwear collection. Thursday night, fashionistas gathered at the Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week 2009, better know as Swim Week. The event, which goes on all weekend long, kicked off with a runaway show by Diesel and an after-party…
The Miami Herald posted the results of a survey this week that polled Miami-Dade residents on the Miami mega-plan that includes the Marlins stadium, port tunnel, Midtown streetcar and Museum Park. The survey revealed that the majority of voters would like to see the money go toward funding the county’s…
The Banana Republic of Miami-Dade County is a place where scandal doesn’t keep a man down for long. Consider the good fortune of North Miami Beach-based über lobbyist Ron Book. Twelve years ago, former New Times staff writer Jim Defede wrote perhaps the most definitive, and darkly insightful, profile on…
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s plan to buy U.S. Sugar for $1.75 billion has been described by Florida newspapers as “bold,” “ambitious,” and “grand.” Now it’s time to throw “stupid” and “irresponsible” into the mix. It’s true that the deal, in its broad strokes, might look like a masterpiece. It will…
Pompano Beach residents have the filthiest fucking mouths in the whole state of Florida. Well, maybe not mouths, but fingers. That’s confirmed by Google Trends, a search tool that allows users to see which countries, states, and cities are typing in certain terms. And North Broward web users have been…
It was supposed to be a night to remember for Marlins All-Star second baseman Dan Uggla. Instead, it was a night fit for several shots of Schnapps with a Vicodin chaser. In what ended up becoming the longest All-Star game in history, Uggla had himself the roughest night imaginable going…
The concept took shape over a couple of beers. Mustaches, the recent college grads decided. We definitely need mustaches. The tall skinny fellow could be Luigi; the squat round one Mario. And the architect of the whole scheme – well, he’s Donkey Kong, of course. How is it possible that…
Hello, Kitty I’m in a top-secret relationship with a man whom my family thinks is a deadbeat, and my friends think is an all-out loser who isn’t worth a second of my time. These things may be true sometimes, but no matter what, he’s the father of my child I…
Miami’s Saturday morning Critical Mass celebrated its second anniversary this weekend with a surprise visit from City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz. The ride included a picnic at Peacock Park at which the Mayor greeted a posse of fifty bicyclists to partake in vegan cupcakes, freeze pops and cheerful bicycle…
