Side of infighting optional Brenda Khan, manager of Renaisa Indian Restaurant, was less than enthused over a recent review and hasn’t been shy about letting me, and my New Times editors, know about her displeasure. Her emails have objected to the way the write-up, a dual review of both Renaisa…
Pucker up We here at Miami New Times love Curtis Morgan. He’s one of the Miami Herald’s finest writers. And lobbyist Rodney Barreto isn’t the worst influence peddler at County Hall. But the decision by Morgan and his editors to publish a puff piece about Barreto in this morning’s paper…
Do you have this in black? And red? And gold?… “I did not have 3000 pairs of shoes. I had 1060.” So said Imelda Marcos, the infamous first lady of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, after fleeing the impoverished country in 1986. The name Imelda became synonymous overnight with gross overindulgence…
Mo’ Ammo Filed under: News Following the ambush of two narco cops by AK-47-toting thugs in Opa-locka, Commissioners Barbara Jordan and Audrey Edmonson drafted a resolution at a Halloween meeting, urging the Miami-Dade Police Department’s special units to consider carrying more serious firepower. Commissioner Jordan, who met with the officers…
Bill Hames is a liar and a snitch. He was also the point man in breaking the most significant South Florida cop scandal in the past decade. Beginning in 2001, the then-Miami Police officer worked with federal prosecutors to convict seven of his colleagues in the so-called throw-down gun case…
E-mail memo #34: “Miami Book Fair; writer locked himself in bookstore bathroom repeatedly yelling at concerned employees to ‘Go Away!’ When writer emerged an hour later he started to ‘freak out’ again. ‘I have a snake on me!’ writer screamed. ‘It’s biting me! It’s IN MY MOUTH!’ Writer was dragged…
Category 305 rifles through the latest Vanity Fair — “not even slowing down for the pix of Brad Pitt in his boxers” — in search of “local stardust.”…
Hoping to avoid the crowds, I woke up very early this morning and ran to my polling place before breakfast. Turned out there was no reason for me to have lost the meal, or the sleep. Upon arriving at Arvida Middle School in Kendall, I didn’t see the usual line…
After voting at the South Shore Community Center on Miami Beach early this morning, I went to the market across the street for some coffee and found myself standing in line behind Tony Garcia, a Precinct 48 poll worker with a shaved head and a goatee. He was reinforcing the…
Follow the money Ralph Arza’s self-inflicted demise proves that he was nothing more than a foul-mouthed Tony Soprano wannabe. The beady-eyed, hooch-swilling Hialeah Republican would sell his mother out for cash and power. That was abundantly clear during his aborted reelection campaign. Even though he had no real opponent, Arza…
Is this where Jim Davis has been hiding? 30 Seconds of total absurdity: There’s an ad running against Jim Davis that accuses him of being a terrorist communist with a “risky home insurance plan,” all in the same breath. The accusation is accompanied by a little pop-up picture of Fidel…
Throw me a bone, willya? Incredibly, last year, when the voters of Miami-Dade County were offered the opportunity to vote in favor of allowing parimutuel wagering at the greyhound torture grounds known as the Flagler Dog Track, they turned the gambit down. Allowing OTB to set up shop at the…
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) While I prefer to hunker down on a Friday night with a good book or a classic John Hughes film from the Eighties, the sixteen-year-old girl in me wanted to go meet a former boy band member and his really hot boyfriend. Yes,…
The Sneaky Kitchen is a lot like your grandmother’s house: full of recipe cards, Tupperware, and old stories. Its founder, Bess Metcalf, has lived in Miami for over forty years, likes to cook, apparently sells Tupperware, Fuller brushes, and Avon products, and has a lot of stories to tell about…
The City of Miami ranks first in the nation in terms of pedestrians run over by cars. About six of every 100,000 people are killed each year, according to the most recent report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That’s more than New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, or Phoenix…
Former Miami City Manager Joe Arriola isn’t shy when it comes to his former top deputy, Linda Haskins. She used to keep a bottle of Grey Goose vodka stashed in her office desk, he proclaims. “I’d have someone drive her home because she would get so plastered,” he says. “And…
Reach out and berate someone State Rep. Ralph Arza made a different kind of call this morning: He resigned his office and bowed out of his re-election race. The former lawmaker is facing criminal charges for his irate, curse-laden phone calls to State Rep. Gus Barreiro. Here’s the complete transcript…
The Sun-Sentinel’s Ira Winderman dissects the Miami Heat’s abysmal 108-66 loss to the Chicago Bulls in last night’s NBA season opener. “It was the worst opening-night loss by a defending champion, the worst opening-night loss in the Heat’s 19 seasons and tied for the fourth-most-lopsided loss in franchise history.” It…
Just you try it. Break out the salt and pepper ma, there’s a gator in the yard! Miami will never go hungry again. Looks like the powers that be have finally wised up and have turned the town into a slithering smorgasboard of giant lizard treats –if you can figure…
Coker, in better times Everyone wants to blame poor Larry Coker for the University of Miami’s slide from perennial college football powerhouse to mediocrity. The U’s fair-weather fans and the school’s notoriously super-secret and super-influential board of trustees can’t wait to give Cooker the boot once this lost season is…
Mmm, cacacha-y One year ago this week, the lush gardens on the grounds of Miami’s Villa Vizcaya were flattened by Hurricane Wilma to such an extent the estate was closed for some months to assess and repair the damage. Fortunately the foliage has managed to recover, and along with the…
Who’s gonna grease my palm? The Downtown Bay Forum couldn’t have known that their October 25 meeting — “Corruption & Scandals in Miami-Dade County: what are we going to do about it?” — would fall on the same day that former county commissioner Miriam Alonso would plead guilty to 20…
