Opinion & Commentary

Protectors or Predators? Elder abuse is everywhere: I’m glad you did an investigation into abuse in Florida’s underregulated guardianship industry (“Who’s Watching the Guardians?” Michael E. Miller, May 8) because elder abuse is rampant in the state. I have lived through it. I’m 73, and I was hospitalized almost two…

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains what’s wrong with race relations in Miami-Dade. African-Americans in Miami don’t get a fair shot at anything…

Florida Senator Marco Rubio said yesterday in New Hampshire that he was ready to be president. Problem is the 43-year-old man who would be the first Hispanic big cheese doesn’t have the goods. Here are five reasons why: See also: Marco Rubio To Decide on Possible Presidential Run Next Year…

Shame on you, Paradise Parking and Premier Booting Services. And shame on the Related Group and Terra Group too. Consider this column a bill for $2400 that you owe to charity. On Saturday morning, at a lot where Miami police directed dozens of joggers to park, 27 people had their…

Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…

For a while, Raonel Valdez was like the Chris Angel of Cuban-born delinquents, mind-freaking the criminal justice system with his ability to escape hard time. His bag of tricks may have finally come up empty. Yesterday, Valdez was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK) after spending close…

Karma finally caught up to Donald Sterling, the slumlord owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Just when his team is finally thriving and competing for an NBA championship, NBA commissioner Adam Silver last week banned him for life. But it’s sad the NBA didn’t boot Sterling, who was caught on…

Obama Flair Answer this, Bippo: If Obamacare is so good (“The Health-Care Heist,” Chris Parker, May 1), why I am paying more than double with a bigger deductible from my previous plan, why did I have to change all the doctors (from primary to specialist), and why is my medical…

Latimore is an international soul superstar who’s sold millions of records around the world including his biggest hit “Let’s Straighten It Out” on Hialeah’s own TK Records. Starting in the 1960s, he made his home in Miami as a singer, holding a residency for Clyde Killens at the Sir John…

The Livingston Award for Young Journalists is kind of a Pulitzer Prize for the under-35 set. It honors good writing by those who have yet to grow thick around the middle and thin on top. New Times has often done well in these awards. Bob Norman, our columnist in Broward…

“Luxurious. Sexy. Intimate.” That’s how Crossfade described Adoré when we interviewed owner and nightlife impresario, Cy Waits back in December. Now that we’ve experienced the club firsthand, we can say with certainty that Adoré is indeed everything that Waits described it to be, and more. From the moment that those…

Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…

All his life, Devonta Freeman has been looking for a way out of the Pork ‘n’ Beans projects in Liberty City. When the former Miami Central High and Florida State University star running back was 13 years old, I coached him in Pop Warner games for the Liberty City Optimist…

Weed Millionaires It’s an insider’s game: It’s great that people are gearing up to profit off legalized medical marijuana in Florida (“How to Become a Marijuana Magnate,” Francisco Alvarado, April 24), but the truth is that unless you are cultivating a strain with a legitimate medical market, like the Charlotte’s…

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Karma finally caught up to Donald Sterling, the slumlord owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Just when his team is finally…

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke looks back on the success of a future NFL star. All his life, Devonta Freeman has been looking…

Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…

Have you always wanted to learn to make sushi? Have you bought all the ingredients necessary, only to make a mess halfway through and end up eating the crab by itself? Yeah, we’ve been there. Things are looking up thanks to Sushi & Sake 101 at Sushi Samba Coral Gables…

Foodies — they’re like regular people, only more obnoxious and food-obsessed. Relax, we can say that — we wear our douche-baguette card like a sad badge of honor that we would steal from a little old lady holding the last marble rye. Sure, Julia Child may have said, “People who…

The Pentagon is more concerned with enforcing a racist policy aimed at African-American female military personnel than addressing the Army’s suicide epidemic among soldiers. Earlier this month, the Army banned hairstyles typically worn by black women — twists, dreadlocks, and large cornrows. Sixteen African-American congresswomen — including our own Democratic…