When one envisions a night at the opera, images of lavish performing arts centers and high-society hobnobbing usually come to mind. But this Sunday’s show at the historic Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church offers an alternative for those averse to stuffy venues and high ticket prices. Samuel Eudovique — a…
As father-and-son moments go, this one was downright surreal. Forget about Sunday-afternoon baseball games, weekend camping trips, or even a shared whoop of applause at a stadium rock concert. Instead, one grinning dad, sitting with his young son in the auditorium of downtown Miami’s Hyatt Regency hotel, leaned over and…
Listen to the pugnacious Ecuadorian fellow with the New York accent, whom shady Miami bankers tolerate with a nervous smile. “Miami has a well-deserved reputation for money laundering,” says Charles Intriago, a former federal prosecutor who has built a lucrative business on that experience. “There are four major categories of…
It was four guys — bound, gagged, and shot to death. It was drugs. There were empty grocery bags with coke residue in them, and somebody got sloppy and accidentally left a kilo under the bed. They were all Colombians.” A few heads turn when the man with the neatly…
This is a year in which Miami has been compelled to look back at two decisive events that shaped its destiny, both of which were widely acknowledged on their 25th anniversaries: the Mariel boatlift and the Liberty City riots. But a third fateful event hasn’t received the recognition it deserves…
At its peak in 1979, the Mutiny Club claimed to have 11,000 card-carrying members and to consistently sell more Dom Perignon than any other venue in America.
Three-year-old Jorge Armenteros giggles and shrieks as he patters around barefoot on the tile floor of a Burger King in Little Havana. His brother Eric, a lanky six-year-old, happily wolfs down Chicken Tenders. French fries are scattered on the table in front of him, and ketchup is smeared on his…
Though still in his twenties, Peruvian pianist Kiki Sanchez has played for President Clinton and studied under jazz greats such as Jim Gasior, Mike Gerber, and Mike Orta. Sanchez has mastered styles as seemingly disparate as jazz, classical, Andean, gospel, Brazilian, R&B, blues, pop, Afro-Peruvian, and Afro-Cuban. Now you can…
Brand-new superclub Metropolis takes a night off from bumping and grinding to play host to the Katrina/Rita fundraising event, Superstars Give Hope. The proceedings begin at 7:00 p.m., with a charity basketball game featuring Antoine Walker, Gary Payton, Matt Walsh, Shavlik Randolph, NFL Hall of Famer Richard Dent, and NFL…
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Real Estate 101. My name is Carl Fisher. Just so you know, I’ve been dead for the past 66 years. Yes, I am an apparition, a figment of your morose imagination. I was one of the legendary hucksters who bamboozled hundreds of hopeful snowbirds out…
Ben Bloom’s anger was uncontrollable. It forced its way up from his chest and through his knotted vocal cords and clenched teeth. “Don’t fucking talk to me that way — I AM THE MESSIAH! I was resurrected, and now I walk the Earth!” he would shout. Back in the Nineties,…
On Sunday, September 11, 44-year-old Jeffrey Krainess and 39-year-old Mark Shawley were walking south of Fourth Street on Washington Avenue when a silver Honda slowed alongside them and then came to a complete stop. At 3:30 a.m. this is never a good sign. “We had met a friend at Karma…
Havana canvases often come to dust in Miami, especially really old ones. Juan Diaz, a 68-year-old vice president of a corporation that manufactures microwave radios, was lounging with his wife in his high-rise condo in downtown Miami Sunday, September 4, when he received a telephone call from his brother’s wife…
Jacob DiPietre, Gov. Jeb Bush’s closed-mouth press secretary, has left his government job to join Team Disney in Orlando as Goofy’s mouthpiece. This past June, New Times described DiPietre’s refusal to answer three weeks of telephone calls requesting comment about a judicial appointment. That story also highlighted DiPietre’s stint as…
As if Hurricane Katrina victims didn’t have enough going against them, now they’re the latest targets of hate radio. Just listen to WFTL-AM (850), the 50,000-watt home of the Florida Marlins. It’s also the home of some of the most radical right-wing voices in America. One regular syndicated host, Atlanta-based…
When Sri Lankan MC M.I.A. released her debut album, Arular, earlier this year, she was quickly anointed brightest new star in indie music universe. For better or worse, fans fetishisized her Asian ancestry, while her vaguely revolutionary lyrics and Tamil Tiger father earned her the favor of the perennially left-leaning…
It should have been perfect, and maybe, for a while, it was. Although it’s difficult to derive the appropriate scale on which to measure a life (How good a person was she? How happy?), it’s easy to tell from conversations with friends: There were times in Marcy Hine’s life when…
On August 30, nearly seven weeks after Sonia Castro filed for divorce from her estranged husband Harry Castro, a suspicious fire raged through the couple’s house on SW 102nd Avenue and 58th Street. No one was injured, but fire inspectors did find traces of an incendiary device, and as a…
The United States can represent many things to the world’s impoverished, but in late September 1992, this country meant one very basic thing to Omila Foufoune Cesaire: safety. She was in a panic to escape the murderous gangs and lethally berserk military that prowled the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing…
They answered the call from as far away as San Jose, California. Some as young as six years old. Others accomplished professionals. They are the Miami Dolphins fans who agreed it was time to redesign the team’s goofy logo in order to give our boys a little more pride on…
It’s 4:42 a.m. Saturday, August 27, when one, two, three, four, five police cars on westbound MacArthur Causeway simultaneously flash their blue lights. Perhaps a carnivorous sea turtle has emerged from Biscayne Bay. Maybe a volcano has risen from the depths. Or Diddy has landed in his Buck Rogers backpack…
Disputes — even legal battles — over real estate transactions are far from unique in South Florida’s out-of-control market. So when real estate broker Elio Rodriguez sued developer Wayne Rosen over a $1.4 million commission he says he was bilked out of, it wasn’t news. But State Circuit Court Judge…
