Her only connection to Miami may have been fictional, but actress Bea Arthur has a special place in the city’s hearts for playing The Golden Girls’ Dorothy Zbornak, a divorced, substitute teacher with an acid tongue and a heart of gold. Sadly, Arthur passed away peacefully in her home today…
Republican state Rep. Rachel Burgin recently proposed an amendment that took aim at quote-unquote massage parlors in a recent bill dealing with business regulations. The first part of the bill details regulations on advertising these businesses (which would have some implications for New Times and our fellow alt-weeklies). The first provision would require all…
Richard von Houtman does not like Dwyane Wade. Today, von Houtman and business partner Mark Rodberg filed a federal antitrust suit against Wade and right-hand man Marcus Andrews for pulling out of their D Wade’s Sports Grills franchise after allegedly demanding a larger share of the venture in return for…
New Times goes to the movies! Between rumors that Michael Bay might be producing a film based on a Miami New Times story, and Outrage, both of your fine, fine South Florida New Times papers are serious movie stars this week. Our Broward/Palm Beach columnist Bob Norman confirmed today what we…
The announcement that President Obama’s administration will roll back restrictions on money transfer and travel to Cuba was met with mixed reactions locally, and its full political impact in Miami-Dade might not be known for some time. But Congressmen Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart have made no secret of their thoughts…
Nearly every police department has some warm and friendly motto that adorns the sides of its cruisers — you know, something like “Courtesy, Professionalism, and Respect.”Unfortunately, about the only time you’ll notice one of these slogans is when your nose is pressed up against it — while a burnt-out, vein-popping…
The Super Bowl has been held in the Miami area more often than any other city. In fact, with next year’s game, the total will be ten, nearly a quarter of all Super Bowls played. Let’s not get it twisted — we’re the Super Bowl’s main chick. Sure, he might…
It is a slow news day and has been kind of a depressing news week (Ponies dead! Meningitis! Marlins lose!), so here is a pick-me-up story about Hazel the “Happy Sandwich Lady.” Doesn’t the name alone bring a smile to your face? The Miami Hurricane profiles Hazel, a popular sandwich…
University of Miami’s president and America’s longest-serving secretary of health and human services, Donna Shalala, always keeps an eye on what’s going on with her former office. After a notable setback, President Obama is trying to get Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius confirmed to fill the role, and Shalala went on…
If you don’t believe we read all your comments, we do — well, at least I do. Yesterday, commenter Concerned Citizen posted the following comment on “Miami-Dade: ‘We Useless'”:If you wanted to complain about government there are other valid things to bring to light. Tell us about those things –…
I think when we write about another alt-weekly it comes off as trying to kick the competition or something, but in actuality it comes out of a pure fascination with the state of the media at the moment (it hits close to home, after all). Which is why we’re surprised/delighted/shocked…
Tomorrow’s the final day of Board up Miami, South Florida’s premiere wakeboarding festival; and in case you were thinking about not going out to the Miami Marine Stadium (3601 Rickenbacker Cswy, Miami), here’s a clip of Darin Shapiro, a South Florida native and the most winning rider in the history…
Long ago, before there were Twitters, Tumblrs, MySpaces, Facebooks, Blogspots, etc., etc., etc., people had very few options in carving out an online presence if they didn’t want to put down the money for hosting and the time figuring out HTML. The most popular option seemed to be GeoCities, which…
The Associated Press will suit Google, Shepard Farley, every blog in existence ever, your mother, God and anyone else who dares link to one of their precious, precious stories. Because you see, you ignorant little fools, the Associated Press is the most trusted, hard working reporting outfit in all of…
A couple weeks ago Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr phoned in a dumb column about how much he hates Twitter. Well, he takes to his blog (you know, the other online medium he used to dismiss) to reveal the online bruising he took form angry, angry Tweet-addicts, and promises never…
Earlier this afternoon, resident Patrick Henry-quoter P. Scott Cunningham pointed out that the URL for Miami-Dade’s new water conservation site, weuseless.miamidade.gov, sounds like our government is finally admitting, in appropriately bad grammar, that it sucks. Which gives me an excuse to point out some unintentionally self-deprecating hilarity going on on…
Charlie Crist might be one of the most surprising leading men featured during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. No, he didn’t find time to star as Brian Roberts in an imaginative remake of Cabaret, though we’re sure the idea would be thrilling to him. Instead he’s featured prominently in Outrage,…
And that is how (perhaps) our county came to create a water conservation site called “http://weuseless.miamidade.gov”
Remember the simpler times of the early 1990s? Those good ol’ days when the tabloid headlines told the story of an underage girl who had an affair with a guy named Joey Buttafuoco and then shot his wife in the face? Ah, yes. Well, the girl involved, Amy Fisher, is…
Remember this moment the next time you hear Jeffrey Loria whining about how much he needs a new stadium to keep the Marlins profitable. Remember it next year, when Loria sells off Hanley Ramirez, Dan Uggla, Josh Johnson, and any other Marlins player who might command more than a few…
Hello, Kitty:I am a blissfully married man of eight years. It has been a long run, but I’ve enjoyed the ups and downs of marriage as long as I’ve been able to get some. Last year, my wife and I had a baby girl. We were ecstatic about it. Since…
Look at that face to the right there. Just look at it. Don’t you wanna punch it? And don’t even try to harp on how that face was right about steroids and yadda, yadda, yadda. We, for some unfathomable reason, read most of the second book written by that face…
