We may be so vain, but there’s little doubt this song is about us. Beyoncé shocked the world by releasing a secret new self-titled album, and the first track calls out South Beach, and not in the loving way her hubby Jay-Z usually does. “Pretty Hurts” places South Beach amongst…
Prosecutors have dismissed charges against North Miami Beach cop Ericson Harrell for recently wearing a Guy Fawkes’ mask while protesting Obamacare along a busy road in Plantation. The bizarre arrest, cited under an obscure 1951 Florida law that defense attorneys told the Sun Sentinel was created to combat the Ku…
Listen, building fancy-ass condo buildings for rich foreigners to buy on Miami Beach is not an art form. It’s business. It’s pure capitalism. Ain’t nothing wrong with that, but trying to claim otherwise gives off a vibe of mind-numbing pretension. Argentinian developer Alan Faena is busy building his “Faena District,”…
The Dolphins ride into what is the most important game of the season on a 2-game winning streak, with a patchwork o-line working better than the one originally envision, a running game finally getting results and ascending play from young Ryan Tannehill. Last week was a statement game by this…
My colleagues argue that the Beaches, both North and South, are the best neighborhoods in Miami-Dade. Which is fine, I suppose, if you’re the kind of person who wants to drag sand into your tiny apartment every afternoon and whatever boozy hookup you picked up every night. It’s a fun…
An agreement reached Wednesday takes some rights away from Miami’s homeless population and sets a two-year moratorium during which the city won’t be able to modify a landmark 1998 federal consent decree, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced late Thursday. Sex offenders will no longer be protected,…
The Wire is widely considered one of the greatest television series of all time. David Simon’s bleak depiction of Baltimore corruption was based upon his years as a crime reporter in that city. So it’s no surprise that a recent court case provides a near word-for-word, real-life re-enactment of the…
Seven years ago, Robert Levinson, a burly former FBI agent living in Coral Springs with his wife and children, traveled to the Iranian island of Kish to ostensibly investigate a “cigarette smuggling case,” when he simply vanished into the ether, captured by unknown assailants. In a case that at times…
Greg Gopman has a very fitting name. The University of Florida grad and founder of the now-defunct Weekend Gator bus service moved to San Francisco in September 2011 to form a startup, AngelHack. After two years, the wannabe entrepreneur is apparently still appalled by the homeless population there. Gopman, who…
Neighborly feuds aren’t particularly uncommon, but most don’t escalate to the point where they lead to arrests and a feature on Good Morning America. Mitchell Igelko, a Miami man accused of constantly harassing his neighbors in southwest Miami-Dade, killing some of their lawns, throwing eggs at their houses, and allegedly…
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If President Obama’s nomination of William Thomas is confirmed, Thomas would become the first openly gay, black man to serve as a federal judge. Senator Marco Rubio, the man who first recommended Thomas to Obama, however, is now blocking the nomination over his concerns with Thomas’s “temperament.” Well, now a…
Porter Fisher, the former Biogenesis employee who provided documents to Miami New Times to help blow open the massive Major League Basbeball PED scandal, stored boxes of documents related to the case in the trunk of his Toyota Camry. This past March, while Fisher was getting a spray tan in…
We’ve come to associate former The Price Is Right host Bob Barker with one simple but steadfast political belief: “Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.” But apparently it’s not just the price that’s right. Barker’s politics are too, and he’s starring in a new TV…
Come next Tuesday, Miami will likely be one step closer to getting its first real Major League Soccer team (sorry, Fusion, but Fort Lauderdale doesn’t count). That’s when county commissioners will vote on whether to allow Mayor Carlos Gimenez to identify possible stadium locations and enter talks with private developers…
Just two days after the NAACP said the Miami Gardens Police Department might be committing “the most pervasive, most invasive, and most unjustified pattern of police harassment in the nation,” the city’s police chief has resigned. Matthew Boyd was the first and only person to lead the force, which was…
Kevin Henderson had a rude awakening early the morning of July 2, as if sleeping on the sidewalk adjacent to the Highland Professional Building on NW 18th Street wasn’t bad enough. The building is a frequent bed-down spot for the homeless because of its wide overhang, which protects them from…
Late last month, an ebony-haired Miami bikini model twice materialized on the cover of the New York Daily News. “Match.con,” the first headline screamed beside a picture of Yuliana Avalos posing languidly in a brown bathing suit. The next day was even more salacious: “Death Match,” the cover bellowed. Both…
20. Ron Nielson Ron Nielson wanted to do something extra scary for the kids on Halloween. He decided it would be totally spooky — not to mention hilarious — to burn a cross at his Palm Bay, Florida, home. Yet Nielson’s uproarious “prank” — his words — went awry when…
David Strecker is a skinny former softball pitcher who lives in a modest Key West duplex and maintains a healthy head of fine, sandy-colored hair. He prefers tank tops that show off his muscular biceps. He is also a connoisseur of Caribbean prostitutes and has slept with more than 2,500…
The Marlins have traded first baseman Logan Morrison to the Seattle Mariners. At this point, most Miamians react to anything the Marlins do with a collective shrug, but this –THIS!– is different. We’re losing not only a first baseman but also a local Twitter superstar. In fact, Morrison’s tweet addiction…
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