This past March 4, the Miami-Dade County Inspector General’s Office announced it had nailed a county vendor falsifying his insurance paperwork in order to get a county contract. Thanks to the inspector general’s investigation, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office was able to charge Eddy Joe Allen Sr. with eight counts…
O for O’Barry Hero: Ric O’Barry, as described in Natalie O’Neill’s March 5 story, “Free O’Barry,” is indeed a hero. There is no doubt about that. There is also a villain, and it is the marine captivity industry that makes millions of dollars off the misery and deaths of intelligent…
Lea la versión española en Miami New Times.com Beverly Sicherer lay facedown on the cold floor of the hallway outside her father’s Aventura apartment. Enraged, she beat it with her fist and then her forearm. She did it again and again until thousands of tiny blood vessels burst. But Beverly…
Now comes the news that Florida — thanks, Curtis Morgan — is number three in the nation for trashiest beaches after California and North Carolina. Come on! One thousand, three hundred and forty-eight condoms. That’s nothing for South Beach. (A friend of mine from NY used to call em Coney…
Okay I just finished reading the Miami Herald’s latest report on the Florida Marlins stadium boondoggle and Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess needs to call it quits. Seriously. There comes a point when a top executive just has to come clean and tell his shareholders – in this case Miami-Dade…
Recently, I noted the Florida Marlins were in desperate need of a good closer to seal the deal in the team’s decade long quest for a new ball park. Well, they have an opportunity to get themselves one of the wealthiest relief pitchers in the real estate game to help…
Restaurants die, it’s as basic as thatAs with people you just never know.Some exist as long as a mountain flatOthers have lifespans like snow.”High rent and costs,” the owners say”Competition is obscene.”Yet some joints rock both night and dayWith a bar scene in between.So many theories have been passedBut it…
In the Fifties and Sixties, North Bay Village was a place where seedy mobsters and corrupt politicians came home to roost. At one point in its 63-year history, a law-enforcement report concluded North Bay Village, a man-made three-island city along the John F. Kennedy Causeway, had “Dade’s largest concentration of…
Show time was at 8 and I – clutching my bowl of cereal – didn’t even think about the shitty sideshow going on at the AAA. Now it’s 9, the cereal is gone, and if I had a box full of fucks I still wouldn’t give one away to find…
No doubt about it. Times are tight in the media market. The Herald’s for sale, the Sun-Sentinel is bankrupt, and the SunPost is nearly cooked. Now comes news that 944 has purchased Six Degrees, one of our favorite spunky little club entertainment mags, which just recently gave up the ghost…
Torture by Any Other Name Still stinks: Gee, things really are changing these days — the final days of Gitmo (“Guantánamo’s Final Days,” Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde, February 26). Yeah, they’re changing the venue to U.S. military bases and other secret locations to continue torturing goat herders from Afghanistan…
My topic this week is the bicycle phenomenon here in Miami. Personally, I think that people picking up their bike instead of their car keys is awesome. They’re saying they really do care about their environment, plus it’s a great, fun way to exercise. Even though it may be a…
Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and a long counter where a wrinkled 80-year-old brews espresso. Near the front window facing NW Seventh Street, Dionisio Gonzalez gently peels a cured deep-brown…
Local graffiti artists have been getting a lot of attention lately. In February, they pierced the mainstream media by targeting some uber-audacious locations, eventually culminating in a fatal accident. And in April, a photography book, Miami Graffiti, pays tribute to some of the street’s most skilled artists.Husband and wife photographers James…
The Florida Marlins are in desperate need of a great closer. Someone who can seal the deal with the Miami City Commission and the Miami-Dade County Commission over the team’s sweetheart $630 million stadium deal. Right now the Marlins dreams of a new domed home on the former Orange Bowl…
Catholicos, it’s Lent time! Cuaresma, baby! Time for to behave really good. Time to make up for all the sinning and loving ladies and inappropriate gyrating. Time for me to undo the damage of having become a Cuban-American Idol. In Catholic school I was told to give up something during…
It’s not exactly breaking news when American producers are reworking a European reality show for American airwaves. However, we’re surprised that we’ve never heard of the original series in this particular case because it was based in Miami. According to Reuters, RDF USA has acquired the rights to a foreign…
Super Response She’s disappointed: I was excited to read “Superfans” (C. Stiles and John Linn, February 19), until I noticed you missed two big diehard superfan groups: Dungeons & Dragons and animé. My husband, Armando Mendive, is the dungeon master of his group, which has been playing more than 20…
What we’re going to talk about this week is Ecco Lounge, the brand-new restaurant/lounge put together by Aramis Lorie and Brian Basti (of Poplife and PS14, respectively). It’s on the corner of SE Second Avenue and SE First Street, and it’s opening in early March.This project is something they’ve been…
Things have gotten a little crazy in the Miami graffiti scene as of late. First, spray-paint crew Buk 50 made the news when its giant tag obscured an overhead I-95 sign during Presidents’ Day weekend. The uber-ballsy stunt earned a nod from our boss, and a stodgy rebuke from our…
Miami Police Chief John Timoney screwed up, and we taxpayers are just gonna keep paying and paying.Back in November 2003, the City of Miami shut down some protests against a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting being held here. The cops beat some protesters and illegally jailed others…
Riptide just got Tyra Mail! The reigning queen of reality TV train wrecks, Tyra Banks, is casting for the next season of America’s Next Top Model in Miami Beach, but there’s a catch… wait for it… wait for it… The next season, the contestants must all be pregnant male paraplegics ladies 5’7″…
