To the punk who stole my bicycle from in front of the Downtown Courthouse: I won that bicycle in a contest and had only enjoyed it for two days before you figured you could use it for something better. Maybe you pawned it for crack. Maybe it wound up on…
Call me a lowest-common-denominator kind of guy, but when I heard that Miami’s own street brawler Kimbo Slice had appeared last week on the new “CBS EliteXC Saturday Night Fights,” the first in a series of mixed martial arts cage matches, I thought our local bad-ass had really arrived. New…
The humidity continues to rise as the being outdoors is getting to be unbearable. It’s the time of year when you run from your air-conditioned home to your air-conditioned car and drive yourself to your air-conditioned office. Who’s idea was it again to build a city over swampland? Aero Bar…
Yogis are increasingly finding creative ways to move their practices from their mats into their communities. One stellar example in the Magic City is It’s Yoga Miami, a 10 a.m. class offered Saturdays in Kennedy Park off South Bayshore Drive near Kirk Street in Coconut Grove. The class is free…
Jose D. Duran I can finally see why the geriatric set is so intensely loyal to the game of bingo. The mental escapism the game provides is unreal. You are so intent on winning that it consumes you. At least that’s how I felt when I made my way to…
The unemployment rate in the U.S. jumped to 5.5 percent in the month of May. Economists still have not declared that we are in a recession, they only speculate that it may be so. Really? Oil prices reached record highs today, $138.54 a barrel to be exact, the unemployment rate…
The big “Sex and the City” opening kerfuffle has come and gone, and despite dire reviews from film critics (Roger Ebert’s was my personal fave), those four hot cougars went on to top the box office, doubling ticket sale expectations. In Miami, the opening weekend brought galas openings, enormous crowds,…
Last time the Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference was held in Miami in 1995, Miami New Times published a story called “The Incredible Shrinking Herald.” The lengthy piece, by then staff writer (and later Herald columnist) Jim DeFede, detailed closing of bureaus and numerous cutbacks at the paper. Well guess…
A bizarre 25-year-old murder case may hold clues for prosecutors investigating the 2007 shooting of Latin music producer Fabio “Estefano” Salgado. Estefano was shot in the head and chest while sitting in the kitchen of his $5 million Venetian Islands home (“The Shooting of Estefano,” May 8). He survived, and…
FPL May Hike Prices Due to Fuel Costs – Like we needed another reason to despise our dependency on the black stuff, FPL has stated that because fuel costs have been “extraordinary”, they will be increasing their prices by 16 percent. Other utility companies have asked for increases as well…
I can’t help feeling like the Miami Herald got it wrong when it gave this story on South Floridians who refuse to give up their love of SUVs and trucks despite the sharp increase in gas prices the following headline: “Gas prices can’t extinguish their love of SUVs.” Okay, I…
After 17 months of bitter battles between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Clinton has decided to end her campaign (it’s not like she really had a choice) and support the nominated candidate. In Clinton’s speech Tuesday night, she hinted that she wanted to keep going. The change of heart came…
You know you’ve had a good weekend when you wake up Sunday morning and you have a litter of text messages reading: “WTF!!?! What happened to you last night?” or “Did you get home OK?” and “You were so fun last night!” Having to recollect what occurred the previous night…
Hello, Kitty My girlfriend and I have a wonderful sex life – or at least I thought we did before last week when she told me that she wants to experiment with a dildo. We already play with feathers and a little light blindfolding, but that’s about as far as…
Things were looking pretty bad for Michael Lehan yesterday. Aside from getting beat by Derek Hagan during a passing drill, which in and of itself makes for a pretty shitty afternoon, Lehan also suffered what looked like a serious season-ending leg injury on the play. However, Lehan’s agent reported some…
It’s a blazing late May afternoon at Nathaniel “Traz” Powell Stadium near Opa-locka. The 29 members of the Miami Fury gather at the 50-yard line, dressed in their shiny aqua uniforms. On the running track that surrounds the field, near the locker rooms, the Pure Funk DJs from 97.7 FM…
Kathryn Fernandez doesn’t leave home much. She rents a tiny room in a tiny dilapidated Hialeah house overrun by cats and garbage. Her bedroom is somewhat cleaner but acrid with the smell of smoke. Half-empty packs of Broncos litter the floor, and the walls, which she painted pink a few…
Driving his Buick Regal around Aventura, Nicholas Spanakos might seem just another seventysomething snowbird. But look closely. The nose gives him away. It bulges to the right — beaten that way by a few dozen jabs or maybe snapped suddenly by a single hook that caught him flush. Spanakos’s arms…
News Shack Attack Grovites decry kiosks as empty vessels. By Tamara Lush Sometimes city leaders mean well. They spend money on a project thinking it will help residents, improve quality of life, and make the Magic City a little friendlier. Take the Coconut Grove kiosks. The city spent $201,000 to…
The final primaries closed and Democratic delegates voiced their support for Obama giving the candidate the votes he needed to claim the nomination. However, Clinton made no assertion that she was backing out of the race. Which brings to mind what recourse could possibly be left for her? The party…
For eons, games have been the epitome of the sit down activity, one of the center pieces in the sedentary lifestyle that many blame for the weight problems in this country. But Nintendo, ever the revolutionary, has set out to get people in to shape, and hopefully break the stigma…
1:26 A.M. I’m at home and my boyfriend is knocking on my front door. He’s been out of town for the past few days so I’m happy to see him – the only problem is that I have another guy over here. Yes, we were doing what you think we’re…
