Unless Pam Bondi or Rick Scott say otherwise, Floridians should be able to vote on medical marijuana in November. Karen Goldstein, the director of NORML in Florida, told us that a petition campaign by United for Care has collected more than 700,000 valid signatures, which was confirmed by the Florida…
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With the popularity of the documentary Blackfish, which focuses on captive orcas at SeaWorld, public debate over keeping the endangered species in captivity has reignited. For years, activists have tried to have Lolita, an orca held captive at the Miami Seaquarium, released. Today, federal officials announced that they are taking…
Apparently, the power of meth was compelling 31-year-old Bryan Adams. The Okeechobee County man was arrested after abducting his own 11-year-old son at 3 a.m. in order to perform an exorcism. He then led police on a violent foot chase, and after being caught he turned in a gruesome mugshot…
New unemployment numbers are out for the state of Florida, and Gov. Rick Scott is trumpeting Miami specifically. Unemployment in the county has dropped 2.3 percent year-over-year, from 9.1 percent in December 2012 to 6.8 percent in 2013…
We can all agree the media carnival that was Justin Bieber’s arrest and jail visit was profoundly irrelevant. A congresswoman talking about the NSA was booted off MSNBC yesterday to make room for “breaking” Justin Bieber news. I live in Miami Beach — just blocks from the Bieber debacle –…
Chris Bosh scored 31, and LeBron James finished with 27 points, 13 rebounds, and six assists in a 109-102 Miami Heat win over the L.A. Lakers Thursday night. Chalmers and Cole both chipped in 11; Ray Allen had 10. Paul Gasol had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Lakers…
Ed Cobin loves Quaaludes. He hasn’t had one in about three decades, sure, but he remembers the drug fondly. About fours years ago, the 65-year-old retiree made a shirt for his friend that featured the prescription pill bottle’s iconic logo. It was a hit. The friend got compliments everywhere he…
Could Justin Bieber have gotten off with just a few traffic citations and been allowed to go his merry way, thus avoiding the public carnival that became his first arrest? We can’t say for sure, but he certainly didn’t help his chances by pretty much doing everything you’re not supposed…
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If you’re going to travel to a totalitarian country for a month to uncover the story of one of the most controversial living international leader’s sex lives, you might want to bring along more than a detached hipster’s sentiment about sex and politics. But what else would you expect from…
It’s hard to outdouche Justin Bieber on a day like today, but, damn it, Marlins President David Samson is certainly going to give it his best shot. The guy who took off in the middle of the season to go film some silly reality show, proves himself to be an…
Well, here it is: the Justin Bieber mug shot the world has been waiting for. The 5’9″, 140-pound Justin Drew Bieber was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at 10:36 this morning on charges of DUI, driving with an expired license, and resisting an officer without violence. His…
Kobe Bryant could be seen court side last night at the University of Miami vs. Duke basketball game (along with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade), but he wasn’t just on campus for sports. Bryant had apparently dropped into a class at Boston College last week while the Lakers were playing…
Subhanna Beyah has made more than a million bucks on her looks, if police reports are to be believed. Yesterday, New Times published a story about how she’s been accused of picking up men in bars, taking them home, and stealing their valuables. Although the woman who went by “Crystal”…
State Sen. Aaron Bean has a dream. It’s a dream so kitschy it makes socks with sandals look classy. A dream so sick it could be stolen from only one place: South Carolina. Bean wants to string a giant fake suspension bridge over all the interstates leading into our fair…
Justin Bieber was arrested this morning on charges of drag racing and failing a sobriety test, Miami Beach Police tell New Times this morning. “Kid needs help,” police spokesperson Bobby Hernandez says. Hernandez added that Bieber’s entourage blocked traffic at Pine Tree Drive and 26th Street to create a “drag…
Scott Rosen thought he had sealed the deal when the pretty blond 20-something got up to use the bathroom. The 55-year-old with a receding hairline and freshly pressed shirt downed a $12 vodka cranberry as he waited for his target to slink back to the wicker sofa he occupied on…
The two men took turns waling on Jeffrey Worstell. A gold chain danced against the skinny one’s white tank top as he beat the 29-year-old mechanic senseless with a nickel-plated .357 Smith & Wesson. When the skinny guy needed a breather, his partner — a hefty six-foot man in a…
Alex Inman runs a high-end head shop in Westchester about 20 blocks from Florida International University. Casa de Cristal is one of a handful of places in Florida that sell Mothership brand glass items, the Holy Grail of the water pipe world. The company bills its products as “elite functional…
These are trying times at WLRN. All media companies are struggling to shake off the death grip of declining ad revenue (New Times being no exception). The past year has been particularly turbulent for South Florida’s public radio station, however. WLRN’s best-known host, Phil Latzman, was canned in mid-July. A…
A cross rebel-held Syria last September, an innocuous-seeming image of a man kissing a woman flashed across computer screens. It prompted curiosity and clicks. But as rebels soon learned, the image was actually a virus, and they’d just infected their computers. For months, as Syria descended deeper into chaos and…
