Jeb Bush’s head must be pounding from all the pondering he’s doing these days. Yesterday, he told yet another GOP crowd that he hasn’t ruled out a bid for the White House, this time eliciting an ovation by announcing he’s “thinking about running for president.” He’s probably also doing a…
For Miami Beach commuters, the past year has been a migraine-inducing hellscape. While a project aimed at alleviating flooding has left Alton Road hacked to bits, the ongoing construction of the PortMiami tunnel has turned the MacArthur Causeway into a traffic-clogged nightmare (especially this morning, when a Ferrari going more…
Late in the fourth quarter, with the Heat clinging to a three-point lead, LeBron James drove to the basket looking to ice it. Instead, LBJ was given something completely different to worry about icing — his throat. The Bobcats’ Josh McRoberts met LeBron and his neck at the basket, sending…
Vico Confino is a husky 81-year-old hell-raiser with a thick Brooklyn accent and an outsized presence — slicked-back thin white hair, piercing blue eyes, leathery South Florida skin — that seem cut straight from a Sopranos casting. Confino tosses F-bombs at waiters over bad service. He wears four fake teeth…
Inside a conference room at a Sheraton Hotel in Miami, Bob Calkin paces in front of a small stage, holding a microphone. The 50-year-old Los Angeles cannabis hustler with ’80s rock-band hair flies around the United States, charging folks $299 a head to learn how to make a fortune dealing…
T.R. Liberti is not the type of man to mince words. His full name — Theodore Roosevelt Liberti — “sounds like a black football player,” he jokes. His Costa Rican wife, Elizabeth, “is not like an immigrant. She comes from a wealthy family and is well-educated.” As for his line…
When news broke last week that Senior Writer Michael E. Miller had won the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi award for nondeadline writing, it was just the cherry on top of an unparalleled year of national prize-winning for Miami New Times. Miller’s award comes for his feature story “Champ,” which tells…
Still rocked by controversy over the near-fatal trampling of a security guard last month, Ultra Music Festival is turning to Miami Beach Police Chief Ray Martinez to save its standing in downtown Miami. The festival is seeking to assuage the City of Miami, where Mayor Tomás Regalado and Commissioner Marc…
The Miami lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police has chimed in on Ultra Music Festival’s future in Miami. The police union is all for it — just as long as all private security guards are replaced by City of Miami Police officers and that they’re allowed to pat down…
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David Llama Lopez, 46, has been arrested and is being held without bond as police investigate a scheme in which he allegedly tried to sell North Miami Senior High School students into sex slavery. Yesterday, the State Attorney’s Office Human Trafficking Unit, Miami-Dade Schools Police, and a SWAT team all…
Miami Beach may have found its new police chief. CBS Miami confirms that Aurora, Colorado police chief Dan Oates has been selected by Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales to take over for retiring chief Raymond Martinez. However, the city commission must vote on the matter before Oates officially takes…
Vico Confino is a husky 81-year-old hell-raiser with a thick Brooklyn accent and an outsized presence — slicked-back thin white hair, piercing blue eyes, leathery South Florida skin — that seem cut straight from a Sopranos casting. Confino tosses F-bombs at waiters over bad service. He wears four fake teeth…
Let the library funding wars begin. At 9:30 this morning, the Miami-Dade County Finance Committee will meet for a first discussion on budgets for the upcoming fiscal year — chief among them the county’s beleaguered library system, which is facing a further $20 million cut without new taxes. Activists and…
According to the T-shirts on display at Ultra this year, many concertgoers were looking for someone named “molly.” Apparently, it wasn’t very difficult to find her. Miami Police arrested 20 people at the music festival for selling or possessing MDMA, commonly known as molly. That’s according to a summary of…
What’s better than watching the Miami Heat battle for its third consecutive NBA title? Sharing that experience with Heat fans just as passionate about the team as you, while at the same time getting the best possible up-to-the-dribble coverage all in the same place — that’s what. All you have…
Miami may be the site of the first part of Hillary Clinton’s coronation …or as it’s officially known, the 2016 Democratic National Convention. After local leaders officially let the DNC know that they would be interested in hosting the shindig, the DNC selected Miami as one of 15 cities that…
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In last summer’s Michael Bay movie Pain & Gain, bodybuilders portrayed by Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson conspire to kidnap and extort a random rich prick named Victor Kershaw (played by Tony Shalhoub). In real life and the Miami New Times series that inspired the movie, bodybuilders Daniel Lugo and…
It’s Earth Day, which at the very least means you should figure out some time to be outside and be one with nature today. Miami, of course, is the only major city sandwiched between two national parks (Everglades to the west, Biscayne to the east), but there’s plenty of green…
Miami Dade College music professor Marc Magellan was heading into a Kendall campus parking garage last week when someone yelled out, “Professor Marc!” Next thing Magellan knew, he’d been punched in the face, knocked to the concrete, and brutally beaten until his nose shattered and his hand broke. The music…
In 47 states, beer drinkers can happily purchase and imbibe from 64-ounce growlers, the glass jugs commonly sold at smaller or craft breweries. In Florida, Prohibition-era laws have kept the size illegal, prompting a years-long effort by Sunshine State craft brewers and supporters to join the rest of the nation…
