Anyone unfortunate enough to be a political campaign’s mailing list knows how weird the e-mail subject lines can be. Just check out Nancy Pelosi’s latest string of really depressing subject lines as one example. Yet, the subject line of an e-mail we got from the Charlie Crist campaign last night…
Jack Laban swears a cat was out here raising hell just this morning. Mosquitoes slurp blood through the 94-year-old shirtless Gladesman’s baggy skin as he hobbles across a landfill of empty Pepsi cans and settles into a folding chair. The former Miami plumber with a full head of white hair…
Despite the usual muggy drenching every afternoon around 4 p.m., Miami’s had a fairly dry run through hurricane season so far. But that could change early next week thanks to a large lady named Bertha swirling out over the Caribbean this morning. The National Hurricane Center declared Bertha the second…
It was 95 and humid today. It was 95 and humid yesterday. It will be 95 and humid tomorrow. So who’s ready to go ice skating? While eating gourmet food at a fancy hotel with exclusive access to the beach? Soon, you can actually do this! A new South Beach…
If you live or work in Hialeah, three simple words can trigger a Pavlovian response of anxiety, anger and sadness: Red Road construction. A massive project on the street, otherwise known as Fourth Ave., has been the bane of every city resident’s existence for going on two years now. And…
Joey Grosso’s name wouldn’t be familiar to most Hurricanes fans. In fact, he had played the linebaker position at UPenn from 2010-13, and was ready to start law school at the University of Miami this fall. Using his remaining eligibility, he qualified as a walk-on for the Hurricanes and had…
If there was one American city where accidentally getting cocaine into your system without your knowledge would be a somewhat common occurrence, it is Miami. After all, back in 2009 French Tennis player Richard Gasquet was suspended after a bit of coke turned up in his system. He claimed that…
Today’s photo comes from Chris Foster’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group. Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
Walking down the western sidewalk of Ocean Drive isn’t so much a leisurely stroll as it is a maneuver through the middle of a never-ending string of crowded restaurants. That’s why Miami Beach commissioners are considering a way to eliminate the cramped atmosphere while preserving the strip’s cafe culture. According…
In last month’s Dinner Key boating tragedy, when a 32′ Contender powerboat slammed into the side of a 36′ Carrera the night of the Fourth of July, ultimately killing four and leaving one in a coma, all five occupants of the Contender were either thrown overboard or knocked unconscious after…
Browse the Facebook page of the Florida Democratic League for a few seconds and you’ll come across a disturbing image of an effigy of a black man hanging from a lamp post with a sign attached to his dead body: “This n***** voted.” The image accompanied a rant on Miami-Dade…
Garfield Baker and Byron Smith may not be household names, but you probably know some of their jams. They’re the guys behind freestyle hits like “Don’t Stop the Rock,” and “It’s Automatic” by Freestyle. They helped create multiple national and international hit records right out of their Carol City home…
Yesterday, New Times published the second part of our series Hell on the Home Front, a profile of Iraq War vet Nicholas Cutter and the poor treatment he received at the Miami Veterans Affairs hospital. The story of how Cutter’s death inside the VA was allegedly covered up has touched…
AholSniffsGlue is one of the Magic City’s quintessential street artists, widely known for his trademark droopy eyes that keep watch over Wynwood at NW 27th Street and peer down on I-95 traffic outside the Margulies Collection. So when American Eagle Outfitters descended on Wynwood earlier this year to package its…
Two years ago, environmentalists desperately tried to derail the Deep Dredge. They claimed the $2 billion plan to deepen the Port of Miami would kill wildlife in Biscayne Bay, so they sued to stop it. But when a bevy of state agencies lined up against them, the environmentalists were forced…
Hollywood has its award season early in the year, but the news media waits till summertime to celebrate all of its kick-ass work from the past 12 months. This year, both Miami New Times and sister paper New Times Broward-Palm Beach had banner returns from a range of contests. The…
The man eating breakfast certainly looked like Nicholas Cutter. He had the same pale skin. The same shaved head. The same technicolor tattoos peeking from beneath his T-shirt like graffiti on a whitewashed wall. Yet, from across the kitchen table, his sister Rainy saw a stranger. Once an extroverted older…
It’s the dinner hour at Dolphin Mall, and the food court is a busy hive. Teenagers guzzle from Smoothie King cups while tables full of abuelitas fire Gatling-gun Spanish over steaming plates of Lotus Express. At the Segafredo Zanetti Espresso kiosk, a young girl in black shirt and pants offers…
The Richie Incognito bullying scandal may have long ago faded in the sports news cycle, but it’s still certainly on the mind of those in the Miami Dolphins locker room. In fact, the players unveiled a new shirt today with the team’s new “credo,” which takes a very pro-bonding, anti-bullying…
Today’s photo comes from Manuel Mazzanti’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group. Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
When it comes to Christmas, I just want to open some presents, eat some ham, and pass out early after drinking copious amounts of eggnog. I do not want to see people I love fighting — and that includes basketball players who used to play together for my favorite team…
Rick Scott’s favorite private project to build a new passenger railway service between Miami and Orlando has lately turned into a public punching bag. Carl Hiaasen calls it a “future train wreck for taxpayers”, while Michael Grunwald writes in Time Magazine that Scott’s chief of staff’s ties to the firm…
