With election day looming (September 10), excitable Take Back Miami-Dade spokesman Eladio José Armesto is frantically laboring to keep the communist-homosexualist media from perverting his message. Last week he blasted the Miami Herald for “butchering the truth, distorting the facts, and shamelessly censoring” his position. “With all due sympathies for…
It’s no secret that the United Teachers of Dade hates WPLG-TV (Channel 10) reporter Jilda Unruh. In the past year Unruh has aired a number of stories about the powerful union and its leader, president Pat Tornillo. They’ve ranged from exposés on Tornillo’s meddling in school district health-care contracts, to…
Sights, sounds, and movements will spill out of galleries and homes next week in the biggest showing of local art in Miami history. More than 200 artists will cram their photographs, installations, and paintings, their words, music, and actions into four small spaces — all of it brought together for…
The “Frankenfish” is here. The invasion has begun. Nothing can stop it. So what? When it comes to alien invaders threatening to wipe out a native species or two, overrun the Everglades, and undermine our fragile subtropical ecosystem, South Florida has bigger fish to fry. Literally. (Like the swamp eel.)…
Just two weeks before the vote, excitable Take Back Miami-Dade communications director Eladio José Armesto mysteriously dropped from view and stopped communicating. But the spunky spokesman emerged after the latest communist ploy by a group of mostly Republican homosexualists to strike him from the list of honorees at this year’s…
On Monday morning, August 27, 2001, Miami Police Chief Raul Martinez greeted three visitors: retired FBI agent Virgil Young from Tennessee, Austin Police Department Commander Robert Gross from Texas, and Albuquerque PD Lt. Steve Nix of New Mexico. If the chief wasn’t nervous, he should have been. These men held…
The Miami Police Department gobbles up nearly half the city’s budget, about $150 million annually. Inadequate supervision inside the department squanders much of that taxpayer money, as underscored by a series of audits conducted by Miami’s Office of Internal Audits, which tracks the flow of money into and out of…
In the salt-and-pepper years of his middle age, Bill Sullivan is fit, ruddy, and strong. Retired and living now in South Beach, the former Washington, D.C. bureaucrat has the muscled-up bod men half his age dream of. His squared shoulders tug at his shirts; his biceps burst his arm holes;…
Excitable Take Back Miami-Dade spokesman Eladio José Armesto is holding up well despite the enormous stress of a countywide referendum campaign and the added insult of criminal fraud charges being brought against several associates. One of those arrested was just seventeen years old. That prompted homosexualist reporters to badger Armesto…
With all due respect, Miami City Commissioner Arthur Teele was so mad at a July 9 meeting that he just barely caught himself from swearing into the public record. “Something has gone dreadfully wrong in this city,” he declared from the dais. “And you know old habits are hard to…
Take Back Miami-Dade’s crusade to take back Miami-Dade from “homosexualist extremists” is officially doing a number on harmonious community relations. Rev. Willie Sims, for one, is in a pinch again. As a member of the county’s Community Relations Board, his mission is to preach tolerance and understanding. But as president…
Last week excitable Take Back Miami-Dade spokesman Eladio José Armesto and his merry gang of anti-homosexualist pranksters used Spanish-language media to pummel their foes at SAVE Dade/Say No to Discrimination. Spanish-language radio commercial: Boy: “Mommy, mommy, they’re discriminating against me because I’m a Boy Scout.” Mother: “Don’t worry. On September…
Each afternoon, as the golden Labs romp with the miniature poodles that nip playfully at the flanks of the Dobermans, the young professionals who overpaid for their starter dogs stand around under the ficus trees in Coconut Grove’s Blanche Park and trade horror stories like they once might have swapped…
Shafayat Mohamed has a dream. He dreams that one day little Muslim boys and girls will join hands with Christian and Jewish boys and girls around the world and walk together as sisters and brothers. He really does. The mosque leader dreams that Palestinians and other predominantly poor and uneducated…
It’s hard to churn the waters over which the pencil-thin island city of Miami Beach glimmers. While its big sister across the causeway burns with big-city issues — police brutality, fiscal ruin, election fraud — the weightiest concern on the Beach, especially during the summer doldrums, are the bumps in…
Eladio José Armesto, excitable spokesman for Take Back Miami-Dade, was repeatedly bludgeoned last week. Miami’s homosexualist media took offense at a Take Back flyer that noted Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been “outraged” that “homosexualist extremists” were duping civil rights leaders in order to gain “privileges for homosexuals, bisexuals,…
With just five weeks left until election day, September 10, Eladio José Armesto may be the busiest guy in town. As the excitable spokesman for Take Back Miami-Dade, which seeks to repeal the county law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, it’s Armesto’s job to preach the message…
In October 2001, when Merrett Stierheim narrowly won an interim appointment as superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools despite a smear campaign heavy on ethnic politicking, he might well have been thinking, “Here we go again.” As county manager (twice) during its most trying moments, interim Miami city manager…
In 1959, the year Merrett Roscoe Stierheim moved here to work in government, life in Miami, if not exactly fair for all citizens, was at least simpler. A Long Island, New York transplant to what was then a segregated Southern town, Stierheim arrived just in time to witness the startling…
Theo Karantsalis had a nice little passport-photo business in downtown Hialeah, about a block from city hall. Since Karantsalis is an outgoing guy, given to philosophical discourse, he welcomed many interesting and eccentric people who also liked to shoot the breeze and who eventually got over the fact that Karantsalis…
A couple of dollar bills are tucked into Pamela Canellas’s cleavage. With a flurry of boa feathers sprouting from the base of her ponytail and floating down half the length of her five-foot, three-inch body, Canellas is working her French manicure into the sides of her red-sequined Charo getup. Here,…
Medardo Martin was convinced that Hialeah Gardens city officials conspired to close down his business and run him out of town. Why? Because his roller-skating rink sponsored a weekly event called Soul Night that attracted a primarily young black crowd, and crowds of young black people were unwelcome in Hialeah…
