Award-winning artist Milton Schwartz charts the course of Western civilization on a growing sheaf of manila file folders that he keeps in a desk drawer. Each of the folders is covered inside and out with a crowded collage of words and pictures. Schwartz’s meticulously arranged constructions reveal a sublime world…
Waste Management garbage truck number 258 makes its way to the gate of the company’s Miami depot on NW Tenth Avenue, then heads loudly north toward Liberty City, hinged metal clanking, diesel engine groaning through the silent streets. Pulling into a parking lot at the Sugar Hill Apartments on NW…
You can’t blame Roads residents for feeling a bit besieged. Burglaries, car thefts, and vandalism all seem to be on the rise in this quaint residential Miami neighborhood. But for people like Miami Roads Neighborhood Civic Association president Joe Wilkins, the dawning of June 23 was cause for optimism. At…
Info: Playing With Fire That roaring inferno you see was started intentionally, and if it can be kept under control, it’ll do more good than harm By Mike Clary The wind is variable, blowing from the southeast at about six to eight miles per hour, when the state Department of…
Squat and hefty, at first glance Miami lawyer and civic activist Dan Paul doesn’t look like a man who would take on the combined forces of the Miami Heat, the Dade County Commission, and the chairman of Knight-Ridder. But think bull terrier. When Dan Paul sinks his teeth into the…
Never in the history of mankind has so little cellophane engendered so much hatred. The battleground: Miami International Airport. There, along the horseshoe of concourses, three baggage-wrapping concessionaires have been locked in bitter competition for the past year. The conflict has featured spying, public quarrels, and one alleged case of…
A concrete wall separates the four-story Arquitectonica building from a squat white workshop. On the east side of the wall, young architects in glass offices create new designs for international clients. On the west side, 70-year-old Abe Rich works alone in his half of the bunkerlike structure, 800 square feet…
For a rare fifteen minutes, on-stage at the Club Tropigala in Miami Beach, the fabulous Julio Iglesias is actually taking questions by cellular phone. “What is the secret,” one caller inquires, “of your success with so many women?” The tanned and smiling singer pauses, smoothing the lapel of his tux…
When Mike Morris woke up on a park bench the night of Tuesday, July 9, this is what he saw: Uniformed police and a contingent of firefighters boarding the Tango, a 1934 custom motoryacht parked in Slip 23 on the south side of Dinner Key Marina in Coconut Grove. When…
A six-foot-high cyclone fence surrounds the New Horizons apartments in Liberty City. At the entrance to the seven-story building, a security door is always locked. After dark many of the building’s residents, most of whom are elderly and black, stay behind their locked apartment doors. They are not afraid to…
Metro Commissioner Art Teele was at the microphone when the ruckus began in the rear of the Liberty City auditorium. An old, hunched black man, wearing terry cloth sweatpants and an untucked T-shirt and topped with an explosion of white hair and a smear of red lipstick, had wandered into…
This was supposed to be Steve Clark’s election. Eighteen months ago conventional wisdom held that Clark — the City of Miami mayor turned Dade County mayor turned city mayor — would return one more time to county hall and easily outpace his younger, more energetic rivals for the coveted and…
ART TEELE: In order to make it to a runoff, Teele’s strategy is to capture 80 percent of the black vote (45,000), 25 percent of the Jewish vote (6000), 30 percent of the non-Jewish Anglo vote (19,000), and then scrape together another four percent of the Hispanic-related groups (5000). His…
Admit it. You caught Olympic fever when the torch ran by on the Fourth of July. And now the main event is upon us! The centennial Olympic games begin tomorrow in Atlanta. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. Up close and personal with NBC’s beloved Bob Costas. How…
NBC has the exclusive rights to the Atlanta Olympics, which they bought for a mere 456 million clams. As they say in the old country, “If NBC doesn’t show it, you won’t see it!” According to the network’s programming department in New York, the schedule has been drafted to appeal…
Let’s face it: Chicken wings are not very good for you. But they sure do go good with beer, and they generally fit into one’s budget. Which is why we risked life and cholesterol count to rate the wings at each and every sports bar we visited. (Do not, we…
To: Pat Riley Re: How to win over a football town There’s a lot of work to be done here in Miami. It’s not just about winning games. This is a battle for the heart and soul of a football town! Look around: Shula, J.J. — even Dan Marino has…
Where could a tennis fan watch the opening matches of Wimbledon on HBO during the week of June 24? Not everywhere! No HBO means no access to lots of prizefights — only those on pay-per-view. HBO and satellite systems are not mutually exclusive. And some places have got to try…
As Coca-Cola once was to the American beverage industry, so is Premarin to national pharmaceutical production. Considered the gold standard of hormone-replacement therapies, Premarin is a name brand of estrogen that has been on the market for more than 50 years and is used to treat the discomforts of menopause…
If you turned on the boob tube the night of June 17 and switched to WTVJ-TV (Channel 6), you might have heard this while rooting around in the fridge for a cold one: “Now to Miami, Florida: It’s become world-famous for its beautiful people and carefree lifestyle, but it’s also…
After growing up in a series of chilly, drab-sounding places like Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Sioux City, Iowa, and Manchester, Massachusetts, a drab-sounding woman named Joann Kozlin settled in exciting South Florida. In 1994 she got into the swing of things by declaring bankruptcy in Broward County. She took up singing…
Willie Wilkerson has been bedding down at the Dade County Jail. He was arrested on June 27 by a Miami police officer who says he saw the 38-year-old panhandling on Biscayne Boulevard downtown. Pestering passersby for small change is considered a misdemeanor in Florida and doesn’t normally merit jail time,…
