While asset-hiding Wall Street traders perch on their windowsills waiting for the latest from WikiLeaks — which plans to release more than 2,000 secret banking records of tax-cheats — founder Julian Assange has bigger fish to fry. No, not the Swedish sexual abuse charges that have left him on house…
The scene behind Casablanca Hotel on Collins Avenue at 63rd Street seems normal enough at first. South American tourists meander from the patio to the beach, smoking cigarettes. An octogenarian wheezes while asking for help retrieving a nose plug from the bottom of the pool. But something is amiss. Suddenly,…
Andy Bludworth-McNeill, scrubbed in and wearing hospital blues, entered the delivery room of a Panamanian hospital. It was just before 11:30 p.m. November 8, and he took a seat next to the pregnant woman he had met only briefly before. The pristine room was a sprawling ocean of sterile hospital…
In five years the most watched shows in America could emanate from a massive television studio in Doral. No CBS, Fox, ABC or NBC isn’t looking to relocate production from Los Angeles. Univision hopes to make those networks irrelevant, and wants to be the number one network in America. That…
Knock, Knock. Who’s there? A thief posing as a door-to-door pharmacist who is packing a stun gun, that’s who.An elderly woman was robbed last week in such a bizarre occurrence, and now police are on the hunt for the suspect…
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Early this month, Suzanne Beard heard a crazy rumor from her neighbors in Quayside Towers: Someone had abandoned a grand piano in the middle of Biscayne Bay. So on January 8, Beard — an avid amateur photographer — headed for a nearby sandbar in a small boat with her husband…
The American Kennel Club has released its annual list of the most popular dog breeds in Miami, and the top two breeds couldn’t be more different. Alright, alright. Maybe they’re not as different as, say, a tea cup poodle and a bull mastiff, but its pretty damn close. And compared…
We all love a bargain, but when it comes to things that we inject in our face maybe its best to pay for quality service. An unnamed Kendall woman wanted to save a few bucks on Botox injections, so she traveled up to Boca Raton twice a year for eight…
Earlier this month, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber spoke to a group of supporters hoping to bring the league back to Miami and basically said, “You’re a nice city and all, but we’re not even going to think about giving you another team unless you start acting like you…
Lots of tourists come to South Beach to get dirrty — in that pained Christina Aguliera sense — but most of them expect a clean room. For at least the second year in a row, a Miami Beach hotel has received the dishonor of making TripAdvisor.com’s 10 dirtiest hotels in…
Apparently, LeBron James sometimes forgets he’s part of the Miami Heat’s big three and acts like a member of another famous trio: Larry, Curly, and Moe. Dwyane Wade is dealing with serious migraine headaches and has been wearing special, slightly funny-looking glasses to deal with light sensitivity during practice, and…
If you’ve been withholding your support for Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower for all these years because you suspect she doesn’t shoot nearly enough tequila and wavers in her commitment to fight aliens, don’t worry: There’s now a candidate for you.Steve Berke, a stand-up comedian and former reality show…
If witnesses in the Luis Posada Carrilles trial can be believed, the lies told by the alleged Cuban bomber were due to more than a misunderstanding of el ingles. Posada, who has been tied to a series of bombings in Cuba and the downing of a passenger plane, had told…
According to his agents, 18-year-old Cuban baseball prodigy Yasiel Balaguer will have his second tryout with a Major League Team this week when scouts for the Seattle Mariners watch the right-handed pelotero in action here in Miami.”I was on the Cuban youth national team, but I realized that once I…
Last year, New Times published a feature detailing the strange last days of Max Mermelstein, the master cocaine smuggler who turned snitch in the mid-80s and died under government protection in 2008. Among the readers: Rochelle Desiree Mermelstein Gomez, Max’s 36-year-old daughter who he had abandoned in Puerto Rico in…
After several years of construction and more than a few public spats over the project, the New World Center is now officially open for business in Miami Beach. The futuristic building will house the New World Symphony, headed by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.Thomas’ former babysitter, famed architect Frank Gehry, was…
President Obama will deliver his second annual State of the Union address tonight. Ah yes, the State of the Union address — Washington’s most annoying and pompous tradition. Along with the seemingly never ending applause, the traditional opposition party response ranks right up there as the single most annoying feature…
Despite holding no verbal punches while ripping apart coach Tony Sparano and his former teammates last month, Ricky Williams won’t rule out a return to the Miami Dolphins next season. The 33-year-old running back may be near the twilight of his interesting (to say the least) career, but he appeared…
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Way to go Miami. We’ve elected a guy to congress who is so ethically shady that he even makes career D.C. politicians nervous. As the ethics scandal involving freshman Republican Rep. David Rivera grows, GOP leaders are said to be quietly making plans to replace him if need be. In…
Listen, we can admit that LeBron James has something of a bit of a public relations and ego problem, but all the guy ever did was switch teams. To claim he’s the most deplorable athlete in America is sort of a stretch considering there’s guys like Tiger Woods and Brett…
