What kind of music will be played in South Beach clubs? What sort of dances will people be doing? How much will a drink cost? The most popular dance will be the long march north to a cooler climate.What will be the hippest Miami-Dade neighborhood, what will it look like,…
What kind of music will be played in South Beach clubs? What sort of dances will people be doing? How much will a drink cost? The current trend associated with the desire to live longer, coupled with the new discoveries and technology in the fields of health and medicine, clearly…
What kind of music will be played in South Beach clubs? What sort of dances will people be doing? How much will a drink cost? Music, every possible kind of music, imaginable and unimaginable. Everyone will have computer chips implanted in their fingertips, enabling them to tune into not only…
There is no bigger challenge for a local newspaper than a big story in its back yard. And, when the paper rises to the occasion, the rewards are immense. The Boston Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the city’s busing crisis in 1975. The Los Angeles Times…
The tale of Elian Gonzalez has generated more comment and created deeper divisions among New Times readers than any subject covered by this newspaper since it began publishing twelve and a half years ago. As revealed by the letters that follow, those comments and divisions extend well beyond the facts…
New Times asked Miami Herald executive editor Martin Baron to respond to the New Republic article: It is absolute, utter nonsense. And I guess that’s what you would expect if the writer chooses not to talk to the editor and the publisher of the newspaper. The piece is just contradictory…
Florida’s Sunshine Law encourages citizens to participate in government. Among other things the statute forbids elected officials from privately discussing issues and mandates that governments publicize the topics of future meetings. Such openness is expensive. The City of Miami spent $391,271 of taxpayers’ money last year to advertise in local…
Wilbert “Nica” Cuadra sat in his Chevy Caprice with four of his boys. It was a typical Friday night; Nica was drunk on Mad Dog 20/20 and infused with a familiar rage. Across University Drive he could see the enemy — members of a West Broward gang called La Familia…
When 56-year-old Miami Police Chief William O’Brien announced his departure from the force last Friday, about a dozen men and women in blue uniforms, gray suits, and shiny gold badges stood behind him to his right. To his left was City Manager Donald Warshaw. Reporters from the BBC, CNN, the…
Donato Dalrymple calls Elian Gonzalez his spiritual son. The Lauderhill man plans to play an ongoing role in the six year-old’s life, even if the boy is returned to Cuba. After all, Dalrymple says, God selected him as a savior. “God led me to him. God helped me take him…
“I can’t live without this one,” declared Andy Nierenberg when placing a bid earlier this month on the ntBay Internet auction site. The item Nierenberg so coveted was a photo album memorializing the tenure of Ted Eefting, former City of Miami public works director. Along with dozens of other civic…
It was just two years ago the Miami Herald and Miami-Dade State Attorney Kathy Fernandez Rundle were whacking Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez for violating the city’s charter. Yup, Mayor Loco #1 illegally tried to hire and fire employees, which is the city manager’s job. Now City Manager Donald Warshaw is…
Radio Mambí | Chocolate | Fragments –> Radio Mambí A few hours after federal agents removed six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of his great-uncle Lazaro, the graying warriors of el exilio begin filing into the Miami studios of Radio Mambí (WAQI-AM 710). One of the most popular talk-radio stations…
Florida Marine Patrol Ofcr. Jason Lundy recognized the sponge poachers from a distance as he motored outside the northern boundaries of Biscayne National Park. He knew their boat well, and the glint of vegetable oil on water indicated they were likely breaking the law. The poachers often spread an oil…
Renee Osceola was born in a swamp, saved by a medicine man, and raised in a place where people insisted that green things were blue. On a recent Wednesday night, four decades later and twenty miles from her birthplace, she sat under fluorescent lights, ripping two long narrow strips of…
The Merrick Educational Center in Coral Gables is unique among Miami-Dade County public schools. Since the early Eighties, its teachers, counselors, and administrators have ministered to the needs of children whose mental and physical handicaps prevent them from attending mainstream schools. Many Merrick students are chronically or terminally ill. Some…
More than twenty people crowded into the tiny front room of a modest Little Havana home on a sunny Sunday. They were drawn from a wide spectrum of ages and skin colors. Most were Cuban Americans. Nearly all were clothed in white from head to toe. Three drummers beat rhythmically…
When Janet Reno was forced to fly home to Miami last week to (unsuccessfully) mediate the surrender of pint-size video star Elian Gonzalez, the AG wasn’t the only one inconvenienced. Police sealed off blocks around the Miami Beach home of Sister Jeanne O’Laughlin, where the meeting was held. And several…
In the five months that followed his miraculous arrival in the Magic City, Elian Gonzalez became the poster child of Miami’s Cuban community. As American authorities moved slowly toward returning the boy to the care of his father on the island, a diplomatic, political, and intensely emotional crisis erupted. Media…
Seven colored cables — yellow, blue, lavender, and gray — extend like tentacles from a black wooden box that sits atop a table in the Sound Arts Workshop, a music studio in a large, dusty Miami Springs warehouse. The seven musicians of Furacan Caribe, each tethered to a cable, sit…
Stroll around the new American Airlines Arena, home court of the National Basketball Association’s Miami Heat. Admire the round, sweeping design created by South Florida’s best-known architecture firm, Arquitectonica. Walk inside and marvel at the 20,000 yellow, orange, and red seats, which range from executive office chairs on the floor…
It was the shot in the foot heard round the world, and it will be replayed for years to come. There stood Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas at the federal courthouse on March 29, 2000, a day in which the very real threat of civil unrest loomed menacingly. A phalanx…
