It was a clear, cool evening in the hills above Port-au-Prince when Gregoire-Ronald Chery got the last phone call of his life. Ronald, as his family called him, was on vacation in Haiti, sitting at the dinner table with his mother and cousins. They kept the side door open while…
Carlos Alvarez already has a cantankerous billionaire — and 95,000 equally irate voters — trying to get him canned. Now the Miami-Dade County mayor can’t even find peace through Farmville: His Facebook page is under attack by animal rights activists. Even before 2004, when the Humane Society decreed the county…
Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is starting the new year in new office digs. As reported by New Times previously, the Coconut Grove politician’s law firm was operating out of a townhouse at 3000 Shipping Ave. until Sarnoff’s enemies reported him to city code enforcers for allegedly running an illegal…
I guess it’s gay day here on Riptide. Despite the fact queer South Beach is losing an icon, The Advocate has decided Miami is the 15th gayest city in all of America. As with any of these weird rankings listacles the method used is kind of odd, but, honey, this…
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When former New Times staff writer Natalie O’Neill wanted to get the inside scoop on the gay glory days of South Beach she turned to drag queen-extraordinaire Shelley Novak. The self-described “Barney Rubble in a dress” took her to an Office Depot that once was a notorious gay nightclub and…
It’s been a while since the card-carrying members of the Miami Heat Hate Machine have had any real reason to hate LeBron James with all their might. Mostly, they’ve tried to twist his words into discourses of pure evil, or take a certain gesture or facial expression out of context…
So, you’re an offensive coordinator who (indirectly at least) gets fired from his job for making his fair share of screw ups that lead the team to never getting into a BCS bowl, yet somehow you end up as a head coach at a school that just got into a…
After their success in the midterm elections, many Republicans probably think their party is in pretty good shape and doesn’t need to be saved. But one local GOP group is thinking long term. It argues that the party needs to moderate itself on social issues and attract gay voters in…
Last night, a woman returned to her car after making a purchase at a Chevron gas station in Kendall. She got in the drivers seat shortly after midnight and prepared to pull away when she felt a firearm press up against the back of her head. A man had climbed…
The weather God has set Florida up with an unbelievable tourism PR opportunity: It has snowed in every state in the union except, fittingly, the Sunshine State. Yep, even Hawaii has some snow flakes present on its Mauna Kea volcano, but Florida remains frost free…
If you’ve been to Midtown Miami in the last eighteen months and wondered why the large center park is doing its best impression of Sarajevo, here’s your answer: Good ol’ fashioned mismanagement, coupled with a testy garden designer notorious for doing things his own way– even if it results in…
In case you needed any more proof that the CIA often is not the most astute judge of character, check out this 1966 report on accused anti-Castro mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles: “Although … dedicated to the overthrow of Castro, he is not a typical ‘boom and bang’ type of…
At 4:53 p.m. this afternoon, the church bells of St. Mary’s Cathedral will ring out over Little Haiti and the rest of Miami. Sadly, the occasion won’t be a wedding but the remembrance of the deadly 7.0 earthquake that killed 300,000 Haitians exactly one year ago.As part of the commemoration,…
Have you taken a picture inside Miami Beach’s World Erotic Art Museum? It could cost you at least $2 million. Thomas Hawk claims he’s being sued by WEAM after snapping a few photos there and posting them on Flickr. The cheeky museum claims it posted a sign prohibiting flash and…
Yesterday around 2:45 p.m., 72-year-old Roberto Garcia entered his usual neighborhood shop and ordered a Cuban coffee. Then, while the owner made a cafecito in back, police say Garcia attacked her four-year-old son. He repeatedly touched the boy’s penis, touched himself and eventually licked the boy’s ear before pretending to…
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Florida’s baby population is under so much pressure to maintain the ideal body image. Pictures of svelte and chic looking babies in slim fitting designer diapers bombard them from all corners of the media, but sometimes a baby just wants to see positive depictions of realistic and attainable baby body…
For 44 years, Jack Horkheimer was the face of the Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium. With his quirky five-minute Star Gazer spots on WPBT2, he was also an avuncular TV host beloved by children across the country.But this week’s metro reveals a side of the late astronomer never before…
Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade celebrates his 29th birthday this Monday and will be celebrating this weekend in South Beach. Will his party rival that of teammate LeBron James’ held a few weeks ago that featured a giant cake decorated with Swarovski crystals? The apparent $100,000 price tag points to…
You’re driving home from South Beach over the Julia Tuttle Causeway after a long night out, and once you get to Biscayne, you’re struck with a dreaded choice: Do you want to make a late-night meal of McDonald’s burger or Taco Bell’s tacos?It is a decision that racks us all,…
With Dan Henning out, the Dolphins’ next order of off-season business is securing a new offensive coordinator. One of the names apparently on the shortlist is Rob Chudzinski, who should be no stranger to local sporting fans. He served as the offensive coordinator for two seasons with the Miami Hurricanes,…
