Carlos Alvarez and Norman Braman: Dirty Dozen 2010

Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…

Rick Scott: Dirty Dozen 2010

Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. So who made the filthy cut this year? We’re releasing the names one by one ahead of next week’s issue, which comes with a full-page…

Jennifer Lopez on the New Times Dirty Dozen Countdown

Each year, New Times puts together a list of the sketchiest politicians and unholiest celebrities and weirdest human beings to call the Magic City home. Last year, we had prostitute-punching TV salesman Vince Shlomi and indicted ex-city commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones on the list. Of course, this is according to our…

New Christmas Threat: Exploding Pyrex Bakeware

ur Christmas dinner ham has been cooking in a Pyrex glass baking dish at 350 F. Then, when you open the oven door, Boom! Shards of sharp glass explode toward you like some homemade bomb. According to a shocking investigative report in the January issue of Consumer Reports, it’s a possibility…

Zagat 2011 Looks Like Zagat 2009

It’s something of an annual foodie rite to take issue with individual rating choices upon release of each new issue of Zagat. Considering how wide a net is cast, and how many individuals weigh in, the numbers in this years Miami/So. Florida guide appear to me to read closer than…

Friends of WLRN Sitting on Six Million Dollars

The philanthropy arm of PBS television affiliate and public radio station WLRN has incurred the wrath of some Miami-Dade School Board members. In his weekly edition of The Watchdog Report, Daniel Ricker reveals Friends of WLRN and Miami-Dade Public Schools, which owns the station’s federal license, have reached an impasse…

Letters from the issue of December 16, 2010

Insult to Injury Lame suit: Ganesh Sohan and Bryan Rodriguez’s lawsuit against 411-PAIN says the two men were misled into using the company’s services so that the business could “secure insurance payments and reimbursement for medical services.” (“Screwed,” Lisa Rab, December 9) Who wants to join my class action lawsuit…

Urban Meyer’s real reason for retiring

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 probes Urban Meyer’s resignation as head coach of University of Florida’s football team. Urban Meyer is not…

Man Christ Caused Judge’s Death?

That Ka-Ka-crazy dude Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda who proclaims himself the Man Christ/Anti-Christ is talking cuckoo again. This time, he’s dancing on the grave of a recently deceased Miami judge. It’s the type of evil insidious behavior we come to expect from the self-proclaimed seven headed Beast that rose…

Why The Feast’s Rankings Are So Messed Up

It sure took a long time for The Feast Miami to get its website together, enough to take off the BETA tag, but apparently it wasn’t long enough to figure out how to rank restaurants properly. I mean, when P.F. Chang’s and Norman’s 180 take up two of your top…

Christmas Trees Wrecked Kevin Burns’ Holiday Spirit

Kevin Burns won’t be having a Merry Christmas this year. In this week’s print edition of Miami New Times (which is available online later today), we chronicle how the former North Miami mayor’s 34-year-old business selling Christmas trees is no ho-ho-ho fun.Banana Republican interviewed several people familiar with Burns’ operation,…

Urban Meyer Leaves UF to Protect His Legacy

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 probes Urban Meyer’s resignation as head coach of University of Florida’s football team.Urban Meyer is not retiring…

County Commissioners Joe Martinez and Sally Heyman Want Red Light Cameras

Looking for ways to screw taxpayers even more, county commissioners Joe Martinez and Sally Heyman want to introduce red light cameras for unincorporated Miami-Dade. Several cities, including Miami Beach, Hialeah and Miami Gardens, have already installed the controversial traffic ticket generators as a new source of government revenue. Call it…

Johnny Salton and the Reactions’ The Reactions Love You

The Reactions The Reactions Love You (Reaction Records) While we’re all still reeling from Johnny Salton’s passing, I have to admit that it has been a real pleasure to revisit the music that the man left behind. Without a doubt, the Psycho Daisies are one of Florida’s most criminally underrated…

Carlos Gimenez Proposes Term Limits for County Commissioners

Getting a majority of Miami-Dade County commissioners to discuss term limits is like trying to convince Julian Assange to get tested for a venereal disease. Unless someone threatens them with arrest, they won’t consider it. But give Commissioner Carlos Gimenez credit for at least trying to broach the subject of…

Airport security is racist and stupid

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 gets in on the Transportation Security Administration body scanner controversy. The Transportation Security Administration employees get to…

La Roux: A Visual Primer for Tonight’s Show at Mansion

La Roux performs at Mansion tonight. It’s a makeup date for the band’s South Beach show that was canceled back in August. Last month, when Elly Jackson and friends made-up their show at the Culture Room, the flame-maned singer’s vocals were somewhat lacking, according to New Times Broward-Palm Beach music…