Disgraced Miami Beach author Gerald Posner is desperate. He apparently whitewashed an account of his serial plagiarism on his Wikipedia page, then threatened Miami New Times with a lawsuit for writing about it. And now he’s retained an 83-year-old lawyer infamous for publicizing the “grassy knoll” theory of John F…
Long before he hired a gay escort, George Alan Rekers tried beating the gayness out of little kids. By Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp What do you do with a little boy who likes cross-dressing and playing with dolls? If you’re George Alan Rekers, you “extinguish” the boy’s feminine…
Andres Torres was dozing on a couch with the blinds drawn when he heard a chorus of boots pounding the stairs. The pudgy retiree with a fringe of white hair hobbled toward the door just as quiet settled over the yellow building of one-bedroom condos. In the distance, cars hummed…
The dreaded Loop Current is the pathway that could transport oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast. Scientists have been warning of the possibility of runoff entering the Loop Current since the initial leak, and now MSNBC reports that…
We call men fighting in Speedos a “big fight over prime beach blanket space on the 12th Street beach.” The WWE calls it Wrestlemania, and Miami desperately wants a piece of the tens of millions of dollars in economic impact it represents.The Magic City recently lost out on hosting the…
The dominoes continue to fall after New Times exposed anti-gay activist and “researcher” Geroge Rekers’s ten-day trip to Europe with a twinky, young male escort he met through RentBoy.com. The blow back has reached Attorney General Bill McCollum’s campaign for governor, and now Florida’s Democratic Party is demanding that McCollum…
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A minor candidate in California’s governor race has proposed an oddly familiar idea for dealing with convicted sex offenders and pedophiles: he wants to put them all on an island. No, Ron Book has not moved to the Golden State.Douglas Hughes, a dark horse Republican candidate, has made “Pedophile Island”…
Miami-Dade Police officer John Villar has been arrested by his own force after he was charged with stealing $131,000 in a roadway robbery. Villar and two accomplices, including his cousin, targeted a man who had just won the money by betting on the NBA playoffs.Villar pulled the man over in…
As you can see above, a pretty solid freak-out hit Duval Street yesterday when upwards of 50 tar balls turned up in the ocean and on beaches around Key West. But not to worry! Turns out these floating blobs of disgusting petroleum didn’t come from the massive BP gusher in…
The sports world is in full freak-out mode over Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez displaying legendary laziness in botching a play and then lashing out at manager Fredi Gonzalez for benching him. Never before have scribes busted out this many synonyms for half-ass performance — loafing, lollygagging, trotting, dogging it — and…
Bill 1070 from Arizona requires immigrants to carry residency papers and allows law enforcement to randomly pull over those suspected of being in the country illegally. But how will la migra know who to stop? One congressman, Brian Bilbray of California, suggested illegals can be spotted by sartorial profiling. “They…
Starting this July, for just $15 a month members of the Decobike program will be able to check out bicycles at over 100 stations through out Miami Beach for unlimited 30 minute rides. The long discussed program follows similar programs in European cities like Paris.The solar-powered stations will be dispersed…
Will Miami ever have a sensible, convenient and popular public transport system? Not any time soon, but a lot of us have cars, so who cares? Well, the very soil under your feet cares. A new study out of the University of Florida finds that urban Miami has some of…
Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is now facing a self-financed billionaire in the Democratic primary. In fact, that billionaire, Jeff Greene, already has TV ads running all over the state. So how does Meek fight back? By drawing a quirky correlation to a current and relevant pop culture phenomenon that will…
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In this week’s Miami New Times, we write about new evidence that Gerald Posner plagiarized dozens of passages in his 2003 book Why American Slept and in 2005’s Secrets of the Kingdom. After the jump, you can check out all the proof. But first, a little background: Back on March…
Twenty tar balls washed up on the shores of Key West today, but because sometimes tar balls occur naturally, and other times they’re the product of those less dramatic, everyday ways we pollute our oceans (i.e., the shipping industry), it won’t be known if they’re from the Gulf of Mexico…
Hey, Democratic Party of Florida, you do realize that you’re supposed to win elections don’t you? You’re aware that President Obama won this state in 2008, and that you have a pretty hefty voter registration advantage over Republicans? You know that your main competitor in the Governors race is a…
In the grainy video, a cyclist is casually riding up Biscayne Boulevard early on a January morning. He’s close to the curb. There are a few other cars on the road. Then suddenly, he disappears from view and a loud, metallic squeal is heard.The video comes from the Miami-Dade Transit…
YouTube turned five yesterday. And while we can blame the site for spawning endless fodder for the workroom and further catapulting the careers of tween heartthrobs like Justin Bieber, we decided to go another route with our top five favorite YouTube videos. We’re not putting up Miley, the Jo Bros…
>Even in the animal kingdom, it seems that some ladies can’t get enough of a bad boy. Tilikum, the orca who killed a veteran trainer during a performance in March, has impregnated two females at SeaWorld Orlando. Apparently, he’s quite the sperm whale.Twenty-year-old whale, Taima will give birth to her fourth…
