Alex at Stuck on the Palmetto writes about the improbably fond memories he and others share about “la escuela al campo, the program in which every Cuban kid between 7th and 12th grade goes to do agricultural work for a period of 30 or 45 days.” Despite the fact that…
They came by the thousands, young women wearing their tightest Venezuelan flag tank tops and young men wearing t-shirts that read “Si, se va” (Yes, he goes), “Atrevete a cambiar” (dare yourself to change), and “Lo mio es Venezuela,” (mine is Venezuela). Outside of the Orange Bowl on Sunday the…
Eye on Miami takes on the Miami Herald’s vacuous coverage of traffic and everything else. These guys have 20-20 vision: We don’t know who the cheerleaders are or what their fluff sessions at One Herald Plaza sound like, or the steady chatter from the outside that persuades executives and editors…
Miami 21, the long awaited plan to overhaul the city’s zoning code to make it better equipped to manage growth, is behind schedule. No surprise there. Discussing the plan, newly elected City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff told the Herald, ”I don’t see the public having opportunity for input but when that…
With the news that Miami Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez backs the recall of commissioner Natacha Seijas, we’ve reached gridlock in government. That led us to this wonderful diatribe on Eye on Miami. Our traffic is among the worst in the nation because successive generations of county commissions–but especially this one–have…
In June 1981, scientists reported the first clinical evidence of a disease that would become known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. Twenty five years later news of the pandemic is relatively sparse in the U.S. But the global battle against AIDS is far from won. Indeed, today marks the…
Chuck Rabin’s Herald story today about the most recent lawsuit against the county by the Homestead Air Base Developers, Inc. or HABDI, has an abbreviated history of the development group’s shady dealings. If you want a more in-depth look at the no-bid contract the county awarded HABDI to build a…
One should always be wary when city officials declare they are “listening” to the people’s problems. Activist Max Rameau knew this on Wednesday, when Miami City Manager Pedro Hernandez journeyed out to Umoja, Rameau’s five-week-old shantytown village for the homeless in Liberty City. “I’m here to listen to your problems,”…
Two years ago, Darryl Hickey’s family consumed 38 gallons of beer on Christmas.”Well, Christmas and the surrounding days,” he corrects. When he recently heard that they’d be returning for the upcoming holiday season, his head was set into a mighty worry. But unlike the rest of us poor bastards here…
The drive from Kendall Ice Arena to Fort Myers Skatium takes about two and a half hours. On a late October Saturday at sunset, the pilot of the coach bus opts for the back roads, heading north up Krome Avenue and then west on Okeechobee Road, past the urban development…
Boom Goes Bust (Again) Filed under: News For sale: land, permits, and plans for Onyx 2, a failed 50-story, 125-unit condo project by the bay on NE 28th Street. For good measure, the owners will throw in the dilapidated sales center at no extra charge. Originally conceived to augment sister…
The “ghost trains” of Miami’s failing Metrorail fascinated author Joan Didion twenty years ago. A “people mover” then in the works was meant to salvage a “mass transit system that did not effectively transport anyone,” she wrote in her book Miami. Today Didion would no doubt relish a ride on…
Rep Tom Tancredo, a United States Rep. from Colorado, calls Miami what it is and everyone’s upset. ”Look at what has happened to Miami,” he said recently in Palm Beach, according to the Miami Herald’s Lesley Clark. ”It has become a Third World country.” The Herald’s Ana Menendez and Gov…
IBL Strike?! Oy gevald! Baseball is probably not the first thing that springs to mind when you think of Israel. But according to former Boston Sox General Manager Dan Duquette, that’s about to change. Together with former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, and Miami-based attorney Martin Berger, Duquette is…
These guys don’t look a day over 70 The Bitch had long been admiring a pair of ceramic greyound statues in the window of a local gallery when, finally, during the gallery walk a few Saturdays ago, summoned the nerve to cross the threshold of NiBa, a sort of furniture…
El Vacilon He’s not gonna take it anymore Three days after Jose Varela’s brazen takeover of One Herald Plaza, radio hosts Joe Ferrero and Enrique Santos had Varela’s estranged wife Marela in the studio. The duo behind El Vacilon en la Manana, Miami’s top-rated FM Spanish language program, promised to…
Eye candy for the girls Girrrrl, when it comes to putting on a show, nobody does it better than a gay man. And for the 22nd consecutive year, the Miami White Party extravaganza was nothing short of spectacular. Fabulous, even. Added to which, the week-long slew of parties and events…
Aha! The plot thickens in the Coral Gables Building & Zoning fraud probe, with a re-arraignment hearing held this past Tuesday to up the charges against former employee Jorge Reyes — to north of $100,000 in funds allegedly stolen from the city. As Reyes awaits a March 2007 trial, the…
The gunman who reportedly entered the Miami Herald building this morning was taken into police custory at about 2:30 pm, reportedly with no shots fired. The Herald covered the story as it unfolded within its own building and reported that the man was identified as Jose Varela, a cartoonist for…
“Did someone yell ‘Paparazzi’?” Britney Spears is moving on, and apparently moving south — to Miami. According to MSNBC gossiper Jeanette Walls, Spears is leaving Fed-Ex in her wake and house-hunting in the Magic City, with a $29 million budget, more than twice the price tag of her Malibu spread…
Blood? What blood? In a pair of interviews yesterday, including one with local radio station WTPS, O.J. Simpson laughed off his aborted book deal and shot down reports that the money — $880,000, according to a News Corp. spokesman — had been earmarked for his kids. “Would everybody stop being…
Please don’t try this at home. If your IQ rivals that of the season’s favorite feathered bird and you fear being able to fry one without inadvertently setting alight to your person, children, home, pet, and/ or relatives, listen up. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue staged a fiery little demo this past…
