Chloë Sevigny dressed up her couture collection with new items from C. Madeleine’s, spending several hours shopping on Thursday, November 8. Making a signature pit stop at C. Madeleine’s vintage boutique on Thursday, Chloë Sevigny spent several hours checking out the couture stock. Sevigny claims she heads to C. Madeleine’s…
Channing Crowder, Michael Irvin, Dontrelle Willis, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino CEO Jim Allen and Howard Schnellenberger greet fans at the grand opening of The Park Sports Club on Monday, November 5. Monday night, sports enthusiasts crowded The Park Sports Club at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino…
Critics, including this one, raved about Jeffrey Brana’s clean, fresh cuisine at his short-lived Restaurant Brana in the Gables. Now we’ll get another chance to sample his cooking at The Raleigh Hotel on South Beach, as Brana has been named the property’s new executive chef. His menu should be out…
Last time New Times visited the Hollywood Railroad Station Museum, it was just a sealed storage room in the Amtrak and Tri-Rail station next to the I-95 exit at Hollywood Boulevard. There was also a trailer, which project director Tony Campos used as an office, and there were grandiose rumors…
J. Lo sold her fans out at The Forge on Wednesday, November 7, not showing up for her own after party. Wednesday night, a swarm of Miami Beach elite came out to The Forge to mix and mingle at the bar, awaiting a vintage glamour fashion show hosted by North…
The Unfortunate Owner of Che Guevara’s Hair Filed under: Flotsam Things got weird again in Miami when Gustavo Villoldo, a hefty septuagenarian, published a scrapbook of the Indian summer he spent in Bolivia. It didn’t contain pictures of pretty girls or the tire swing he and his school chums used…
These are tough times for Miamians and their wallets. The condo market is in a nosedive. Oil prices are up and the stock market is down. Even insurance and tolls are rising. Don’t despair. Just one or two good bets and you could be rollin’ in dough. But forget about…
View a slideshow from several busted grow houses around South Florida. On October 18 at 10:22 p.m., Betty was watching television in the living room of her pleasant three-bedroom home in Lehigh Acres, a rural community of 90,000 that’s about 12 miles east of Fort Myers. Her four-year-old daughter Nina…
Patrick Williams doesn’t look like a decorated high school teacher who speaks seven languages, has taken his students abroad, and has earned prodigious praise from school board brass. He wears a gray-and-white camouflage wife-beater, yellow-and-blue surf shorts, and white sneakers with no socks. His teeth are capped in gold, and…
Key West residents want a say in how land is annexed in the future, which may save Wisteria Island — also known as Christmas Tree Island — from being developed. About 75 percent of Key West voters cast ballots on a referendum that allows citizens not officials, to decide whether…
Samoas save the day (again) Finally, finally, finally: Somebody wanted to interview me. Receiving the request via email was a validation of sorts, a late-in-coming but appreciated recognition of my rightful place among Miami’s elite food critics. Admittedly there were colleagues who attempted to denigrate the honor — it’s astonishing…
You may be reading this tomorrow when none of this matters. But I thought I’d give you a little flavor of just how weird life gets for us here at the New Times. While most cities and towns snooze during their local elections. The City of Progress jitters and jumps…
Stringer has eluded the authorities for now Attention citizens of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Be on the lookout for Thomas Barrett Stringer, a 42-year-old con artist with a fox-like ability to elude capture from Johnny Law. Stringer is wanted by the Coral Gables Police Department for identity theft…
“I went back and looked at the tape and remembered all the good things he’s done. He’s aware of the things he has to improve on,” Cam Cameron said of starting Dolphins quarterback Cleo Lemon. “John Beck has been one play away from playing several weeks now. He’s progressing, doing…
Here at Riptide, we usually don’t have much good to say about President Bush. But today we do. Today, the President will honor Oscar Elias Biscet with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Biscet is a Cuban doctor. He is also a political prisoner in Cuba, serving a 25-year sentence for…
Striking fear into the hearts of capitalists everywhere Seeing the recent handshake between President Hugo Chávez and supermodel Naomi Campbell makes one wonder what the mouthy pair have in common aside from a healthy ego and well-defined eyebrows? Couldn’t find anything on the latter but WorldNetDaily, a website that boasts…
People of Miami – put down your Presidentes. (Ok, you can finish them, first). Keep the bottles. You will soon be filling them with delicious beer of your own creation. Tomorrow is the ninth annual “Teach a friend to homebrew day.” While it hasn’t officially been recognized as a national…
This weekend, thousands of Jimmy Buffett fans (known as “Parrotheads” to the uninitiated) will descend upon Key West for the group’s annual “Meeting of the Minds” convention. Among the highlights: a walking tour of Buffett’s Key West haunts, a street festival and a bunch of bands playing easy rock tunes…
Dennis Rodman hosts Rodmania at Gulfstream Park Friday night, costumed in predictable drag, with a slight resemblance to VIP guest Elaine Lancaster. Photo by Andrew Goldstein Photography Notorious NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman hosted a Halloween soiree, Rodmania, Friday night at Gulfstream Park. The racing and casino hotspot welcomed the…
When people talk about not voting because their choice could be robbed electronically, I usually think that these are the same ones who could uncover conspirancy in a blank wall. Many Venezuelans who belong to anti-Chávez camps believe the 2004 recall vote was fixed to keep Chávez in power. Then…
The lobby of the exclusive Big 5 Club in Fontainebleau, on SW 92nd Avenue near Calle Ocho, glowed under an eight-tier chandelier and was decorated with Oriental rugs and silk flowers one night last week. About 100 invitees — Bay of Pigs veterans, former guerrilla leaders, and Ana Margarita Martínez,…
Laurels for Hardy Filed under: News To: Dunkin’ Donuts From: Michael Hardy Re: Manager Position As you might have read in the papers, I’ve decided — okay, the Performing Arts Center Trust decided for me — that now’s the time to leave my position as Carnival Center CEO and look…
