Enrique Davila dedicated 23 years of his professional life to Mount Sinai Medical Center, the largest employer in Miami Beach. The 58-year-old Cuban-American oncologist was twice president of Mount Sinai’s medical staff. He sat on the executive committee of the hospital’s board of trustees for two years, and secured two…
The sun reflects off the artificial lake at the center of Midway Campground, bouncing a torpid late-afternoon light onto a trio of humongous RVs. In a sprawling tent near the camp’s entrance, three young hunters groan and grumble in loose camo clothing — dreaming, no doubt, about pork. Jack rises…
This week Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) gathers 200 elite galleries at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Half a billion dollars is poised to change hands during the next frenzied four days, as our fair city becomes an international Opa-locka/Hialeah Flea Market for art swells. Soon there will be more…
Ever found yourself scratching your noggin, trying to comprehend a work of art? Especially one displayed at Art Basel Miami Beach? Like us, you might even mistake fair director Samuel Keller for Deal or No Deal’s Howie Mandel. It’s okay: Don’t feel like a rube. We live in an age…
So the Marlins are at it again. They win a World Series and then end up trading everyone away. Why can’t they just keep people around. The Marlins are trading Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis for six prospects from the Detroit Tigers. Yes, they are trading the last two guys…
To the surprise of many opposed to Hugo Chávez’s slew of proposed reforms that would have consolidated even more power in the Venezuelan president’s hands, the grab was defeated Sunday with 51 percent voting no. Almost immediately, Chávez conceded defeat. “I understand and accept that the proposal I made was…
In hindsight, I guess I should have expected this. Everything was in place for a Dolphins win. And by that I mean the day was ripe for yet another ball-crushing, soul-sucking loss. The crowd was rocking. The Jets fans silenced. Joey Porter had just intercepted a batted ball and ran…
Some mornings, you wake up in South Florida, crack open the newspaper, and think: God is surely dead. Or maybe he’s just different. In Italy, the nation’s most vulgar and oft-uttered exclamation, Porco Dio, literally translates to “porcine god.” Somehow it seems most true here in Miami. So, maybe God’s…
As you’ve probably may have guessed from being a regular here, I’m no fun to be around during a Dolphins game. I yell, I kick, I throw shit. I’m even more aggressive when I’m at a game. A buddy of mine was able to score a couple of Club level…
Erol Josue, the singer-dancer-actor-vodou priest featured in the New Times in September, was recently the subject of a long piece on NBC6. Check it out here. -Tamara Lush…
Maybe you have heard about today’s planned protest of Burger King. If you haven’t, here are the details: the Coalition of Immokalee Workers — a farmworkers’ rights group based in Southwest Florida — is holding yet another rally in an attempt to urge the fast food giant to pay higher…
At the Miami Heat game Tuesday…. The Golden Oldies, time-out dancers with soft bellies, gray hair and jiggling thighs earned with age, shook to booty music. (Boisterous applause, knee-slapping laughter, giggles) Then, the sexy, hair-tossing twenty-somethings clicked across the court in heels and pranced while some seemed to long for…
Both the Palm Beach Post and the Miami Herald are calling for Cam Cameron to cut John Beck’s cord and let him fucking sling the rock already. I added the fucking for emphasis. Says Greg Stoda: “Let [Beck] heave more than one deep toss to Ted Ginn Jr … Have…
A group of sixteen Miami-Dade pastors and ministers, mostly from Black Baptist churches, held a press conference today at Jordan Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Liberty City to declare their opposition to gambling in the Miami Jai Alai, Flagler Dog Track, and Calder Race Track. There was something depressing about…
I don’t expect Rudolph “Rudy” Crew will ever respond to my requests to interview him. However, I recently went the extra mile to catch Miami-Dade’s public schools superintendent at his ninth floor office inside the school district headquarters at 1450 NE Second Avenue. This past November 14, I personally delivered…
Dinner in Paradise, a monthly series of charity-driven feasts at Paradise Farms in Homestead, inaugurates its third season this Sunday, December 2nd. Paradise proprietor Gabriele Marewski and Michael Schwartz co-founded the event, which is set outdoors on the farm. “There is something very special about eating great food and drinking…
Jeb Bush Jr. in the spotlight Calvin Godfrey Most of what I remember of George Bush Sr. was that he puked on a Japanese ambassador and comically lied to America about raising taxes. Then he lost his re-election bid. Who knew he would spawn a bizarro Kennedy-like brood –one that…
Roger Vivas peels off his headphones after reading the 5 p.m. news on La Poderosa (670 AM) from the station’s offices on SW 27th Avenue. The dark-eyed 56-year-old Venezuelan, who has a Clark Gable voice and a balding head that shines under a studio light, reports on Latin America. These…
Swami Lalitananda planned to hit the gym this past March 28. But then she decided on an early-morning stroll along Hallandale Beach. She crossed A1A and watched the 15 mile-per-hour winds whip whitecaps offshore. A few minutes later, shortly after 8 a.m., the blue-eyed, 64-year-old retired teacher spotted dozens of…
Doppelganger Goes Down Filed under: News When I wrote the tale of Thomas Barrett Stringer, a 42-year-old con man with a record of stealing identities and committing financial fraud (“My Doppelganger, the Debt Monger,” July 19), I didn’t expect law enforcement officials would ever nab him. After all, he once…
Entering his senior year at William H. Turner Technical Arts High School, Miami Gardens teenager Julio Gonzalez was looking forward to his third-period AP Spanish class this past August 20. Since 2005, the course has been taught by a popular dreadlocked, gold-toothed educator named Patrick Williams, who is fluent in…
Lawyers in the case of a marooned five-year-old Cuban girl reached a settlement this afternoon. And the big winner is the girl’s dad, Rafael Izquierdo. And, of course, the little girl herself. And justice. “It’s a victory,” says Steve Weinger, Izquierdo’s lawyer, who took the case pro bono. “He gets…
