With a new 10 percent federal tax kicking in July 1, there’s a June gloom descending on tanning salons across South Florida. The tax, which is supposed to generate some $2.7 billion over the next 10 years to help cover uninsured Americans, has spooked even the palest Miamians from exposing…
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Slammed for breaching the privacy of users, Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, get a taste of their own medicine in Columbia Pictures’ latest foray into technology, The Social Network. If you know anything about technology and social media, you’ve at the very least heard of Facebook. The networking site…
This past Saturday starting at 10:30 a.m. hundreds of locals, visitors and random people joined hands between Fourth and Eighth Streets to protest offshore oil drilling and encourage use of renewable resources. The event was part of Hands Across the Sand, a global day of action. Groups including the Surfrider…
This past Saturday, about 1,500 people held hands on South Beach, spanning ten blocks, to protest offshore drilling. Partially a response to the BP oil spill devastating the Gulf Coast, the protesters also promoted a clean energy future. We just got this awesome aerial photo by Alissa Christine of the…
From a baseball standpoint, we still can’t make sense of the Marlins’ unceremonious firing of manager Fredi Gonzalez (dude did the best he could with that salary). From a Jeffrey-Loria-is-an-idiot standpoint, it at least added up. Loria has been keen on the idea of replacing Gonzalez with his buddy Bobby…
This past Friday, ESPN’s Ian O’Connor made a million Miami hearts sink by reporting Dwyane Wade was set to visit the New York Knicks this Thursday, the same day Chris Bosh and LeBron James were said to be meeting with the struggling franchise in the nation’s biggest media market. However, the Miami…
Foreclosures had become a strikingly normal part of life in Miami-Dade, as the economy became one of the hardest hit during the recession and homeowners found themselves underwater. Thing however appear to finally be getting better.In the first five months of 2010 foreclosures were down 38% from the same time…
Parking downtown has always been a Gaza-like free-for-all. With hobos charging to “watch” cars, and lots that gouge drivers depending on the Heat game, a night of debauchery and drinking can set you back twenty bucks before you’ve even set foot inside a bar. So when Brad Knoefler opened a…
Monday: The best tribute bands are the ones that focus on the capturing the sound and not the look of their honorees. Go hear a free show of Roll the Stones at the Van Dyke Café for free renditions of “Start Me Up” without all that creepy Mick Jagger lip-smacking…
When it comes to hipsters, there’s a very short list of sports about which they give even the tiniest shit. (This whole phenomenon can be linked back to the punk notion that jocks are nothing but incipient fascists.) Really, you can narrow it down to skateboarding, drug hunting, and soccer…
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We already talked about today’s profile of Jeff Greene in the Washington Post and highlighted a bit where he seems to say something controversial about the Muslim faith:”I’m not an expert on Muslims,” Greene said. But he added that anyone who knows anything about the Koran knows that it contains…
The latest judgment in the ongoing legal battle between Cocodorm and the City of Miami is a bit of a boner killer for your friendly, local gay porn voyeur site.Cocodorm owns a house on 27th Street east of Biscayne Boulevard, a short walk from New Times HQ, where several men,…
Your Florida Marlins last night finished their interleague series with the Baltimore Orioles. It was a series filled with ups, downs, stranded runners, bullpen implosions, and people getting fired. You know, just a typical week in the wacky world of Florida Marlins baseball! Here’s how it all went down:Game 1…
The former couple in happier times.Just days before Dwyane Wade become a free agent on the NBA market, he’s now free on the dating market. His eight-year marriage to high school sweetheart Siohvaughn Wade is officially done. A judge granted the divorce today after a prolonged and dramatic legal battle,…
Bad news for lovers of giant snakes, killing babies, Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson: Burmese pythons have been banned in Florida. On Thursday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission signed new rules that prohibit anyone from owning Burmese pythons and, actually, any other “reptiles of concern” as pets. The pythons have…
Billionaire Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene isn’t flying high in the polls — just yet. Like his Democratic rival Kendrick Meek, he finishes a distant third behind Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist in three-way matchups. But he’s flying high above Florida in his $23 million Gulfstream V private jet equipped…
A few weeks ago, I was unchained from my laptop and briefly allowed to return to the wild for a few weeks. I headed to the Bahamas for a snorkeling trip. Numerous signs posted throughout the marina on the island we stayed advertised a lionfish hunt. Apparently, the beautiful but venomous fish,…
Cedric Jones, 44, has a hot temper. On June 17, the homeless man was denied a ride on a public bus in Miami Beach. So he decided to drench a bus shelter in gasoline, throw a match on it, and run off.Four people were in the shelter, located at Collins…
Monday marked the first official day of summer. Time to pack your bags, load up the car, and go on those road trips. But do you really have to go sans your favorite tech? Stay.com doesn’t think so. The newly updated travel site is incorporating social media technology with only…
Here at New Times, we’ve faithfully covered Miami’s underground cosmetic surgery scene, where a discount silicon injection can easily lead to a gruesome death by injection for the would-be beautiful people. Miami-Dade Police this afternoon say they uncovered a new wrinkle in the shady business when they arrested Larry DeJesus,…
