The Miami-Dade Elections office is releasing all of their nifty post-election data, and here’s a map showing the geographical divide of the county. Even though Obama could be considered green in two alternative meanings of the word, he is actually represented by the teal. McCain is green. Beige represents a…
Riptide told you about Amendment 1, the ballot initiative that would basically change nothing, except remove a tiny passage in our state constitution that was rooted in racism. There wasn’t really any logical reason to vote against it (every other state that had similar language has since removed it), but…
Never forget the great “Snake Eats a Gator in the Everglades” hubbub of 2005, for it will surely remain the weirdest “a snake tries to eat another animal that is really unreasonably large, and maybe that snake should know better, but what do snakes really know anyhow?” story ever. But…
Florida might now have some of the most strident anti-gay laws in the nation (four statutes banning gay marriage, a ban forbidding homosexuals from adopting, and our brand-new constitutional amendment that bans gay marriages and civil unions), but there’s a teeny bit of hope that we don’t have our asses…
Some Dolphins players take their success on the football field and use it to open restaurants and car dealerships and pose for NutriSystem ads. Others take the opportunity to run their mouth. We’re not here to judge which is right, but we do know Joey Porter’s nonstop trash talk is…
Former state Sen. Gwen Margolis, age 74, is one unhappy politician. And she’ll tell you why: A runoff is on the way for the position of Miami-Dade’s first elected property appraiser, despite her 72,000-vote lead over Pedro Garcia. “It’s one of the weirdest situations I’ve ever seen,” she says. “It’s…
There’s this weird bit of logic going around conservative circles that the reason for George W. Bush’s failing, Obama’s triumph, and the recent drubbing of Republicans that the GOP has moved too far from its conservative base. It wasn’t — get this — conservative enough. The theory is faithfully echoed…
TS Paloma. The World Series is history, President-elect Barack Obama is waiting in the wings, a blizzard is blowing into North Dakota — aren’t we supposed to be about done with this hurricane business? Yeah, yeah, it’s still technically hurricane season, blah blah blah. This summer’s just been so quiet…
Rawrrrr Apparently there’s another kitty in the Magic City with a name pronounced Raina, and much like New Times’ own sexy-time columnist, this one seems to encourage folks to let their freak flags fly. You’re going to have to go to the NBC6 video page to meet Miami Metrozoo’s Ron…
Let us get ready to make a joke like this for hopefully the last time in a long time: What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Pitbull? Lipstick …and an ability to talk about the economy that may actually resonate with some Americans. In a recent interview with StreetCred.com the…
60 percent of Americans think we should change our policy towards Cuba, and President-elect Obama may likely take steps to normalizing relations if free elections and freeing of political prisoners is part of the package. Wow, it feels so good to write President-elect Obama. [Local 10] The Herald was a…
Dim evening light streams through towering clusters of gray-blue Chinese bamboo, green spikes of Colombian guadua, and snaking tomato vines that bloom with quarter-size blue petals. De Hull walks stiffly through his front yard, wide belly leading the way. The 62-year-old, whose first name is pronounced Dee, rubs his gray…
Sparks are flying. Jackhammers are blasting. Snakepits of wire cover the floors of the Fontainebleau Hotel. Will it be ready to open November 16, after a three-year, $1 billion makeover? “Absolutely,” says Bryan O’Shields, the hotel’s senior vice president of food and beverage. Echoing his optimism is Sean O’Connell, the…
Michael Wilbon, a sports commentator with ESPN and the Washington Post, has recently and repeatedly declared that Miami native Kimbo Slice took a dive October 4 in his much-publicized mixed martial arts fight at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. A little-known challenger named Seth Petruzelli decked Slice in a mere…
Barack Obama cranked on Tuesday, so we’re cranked. And he took Florida too. Wow! It’s history, baby! But then we looked more closely at the results and, well, the Diaz-Balart brothers proved that while negative campaigning didn’t work across the nation, South Florida lapped it up. Miami Dade College lost…
What’s most compelling about this year’s landmark 25th incarnation of Miami’s literary hoedown? Maybe the reading by renowned theoretical physicist Brian Greene from his book Icarus at the Edge of Time, which describes the winged punk’s dicey approach to a black hole. “It’s going to be a sleeper,” suggests Mitchell…
As epitaphs go, the McCain rally Sunday night/Monday morning in Coral Gables is as good as any for Florida. It was a midnight party of Cuban music and Cuban-American politicians at the University of Miami’s basketball stadium that was meant to stoke the fires of the hard-core exile population here,…
Is it too early to be thinking about this? Jeez, we just endured almost a solid year of heavy election coverage, shouldn’t we get a break? Nope, let the speculation for 2010 begin. Charlie Crist is in a comfortable spot for re-election. Though, Florida’s economy has further tanked during his…
Last night was a bit bittersweet for liberals. We may have finally gotten our first “radical socialist” President into the White House since FDR, but in four states, including Florida, voters went to the polls to decide the fate of other people’s personals affairs in the form of anti-Gay ballot…
Photo by Jacek Gancarz Elton Gissendanner, New Times’ favorite octogenarian ex-con running for a Florida House seat lost to Republican incumbent Denise Grimsley last night, as expected. It was a landslide: at last count, Grimsley had him beaten by more than 25,000 to his less than 12,000 votes. In a…
Veritable Renaissance man Michael Crichton passed away yesterday at 66, after a battle with cancer. The world may remember him best as the author of Jurassic Park and the Creator of ER, but students of the University of Miami’s film program will always remember him as the writer/director of the…
Throughout election season Annette Taddeo seemed like the long shot challenger, the hanger on, the third wheel reaping the benefits of two hotly contested races in neighboring districts. Though she presented herself as a smart and worthy candidate, and ran a good clean race, no one thought she would win,…
