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Haulover Beach naturists partake in World Record Skinny-Dip Challenge

Uncle Luke schools LeBron James and Chris Bosh on living in Miami-Dade County

Louis Maxwell murdered by Afghan Army, Part 2

Letters from the issue of July 22, 2010

Cesar Carasa’s smooth tongue didn’t do him any good in court. Late yesterday, a Miami-Dade jury found the former West Miami mayor guilty of exploiting his official position. The loquacious Cuban American politician ran up more than $70,000 in calls to women in the Dominican Republic on his city-issued cell-phone. Prosecutors…

Big Jimmy Johnson news day, we suppose. He wasn’t at home during the bizarre standoff at his mansion yesterday, because he’s off filming reality TV. The 67-year-old former head coach of the Hurricanes and the Dolphins (and, oh yeah, some sort of team somewhere in Texas) will be a cast…

Could Florida’s Senate race get any weirder? First, we have revelations that Jeff Greene (also buddies with Mike Tyson and Heidi Fliess) hosted Lindsay Lohan on his yacht during a New Year’s Eve vacation on St. Barts. Now we learn that governor and Senate candidate Charlie Crist stayed at the…

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 schools LeBron James and Chris Bosh on what to do and what not to do in Miami-Dade County.Now…

Donald Richard sure had some nice tools in the garage of his house at 13241 SW 52nd Ter. The Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department electrical shop supervisor stored a $70, ten-piece Irwin vise set and a $1,000, 432-piece Craftsman professional mechanics tool set inside two Craftsman chests valued at $725. Richard…

Miami-Dade’s top cop is great at putting on a show for the local media. Flanked by her public corruption lieutenants and other law enforcers last November 13, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle stood before a roomful of reporters to announce the arrest of then-Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, as well…

Read My Lips”Pacific Time will remain open through the summer.” — Jonathan Eismann to Short Order, June 16, 2010 Pacific Time shut its doors two weeks ago.I Hear The War In Afghanistan Is Going Pretty WellLes Halles has also halted service, the ominous Temporarily closed for renovations sign posted in…

This past June 16, during a workshop where he pitched the Biscayne Landings site, lawyer Marc Douthit showed North Miami city council members and residents a 14-minute Discovery Channel film about Ski Dubai, an indoor snow resort in the United Arab Emirates. When a resident asked Douthit if he had…

Louis Maxwell’s forgotten murder, Part 1

From Edgerrin James to the homeless, McAdoo saved them all

Letters from the issue of July 15, 2010

Last November, Barbara Carey-Shuler was the reason the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office charged then-Miami City Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones with grand theft of $50,000 in county grants that went to a now defunct family business called Karym Ventures Inc. Nine months later, the former county commissioner is the reason Spence-Jones could…

Phresh James comes through with another release representing his unique smooth cadence that his listeners love him so much for. Backed by his C-9 label and his Legacy Effect management team, the new mixtape is called Just Practice and its as true to a title as one can actually stay…

Earlier this month, the Miami-Dade School Board’s watchdog agency and federal immigration agents busted a family of south Miami-Dade builders using 20 undocumented immigrants to build new modular classrooms at Southside Elementary. According to a July 1 federal indictment, Luis Daniel, his son Ariel, and his wife Marta Duque hired…

People seem to really like Pizza Rustica; seats at the three South Beach venues are almost always filled. Zagat readers praise its “fantastic selection of unusual pizzas” with “gourmet toppings” that yield a “stomach-filling and rewarding experience.” What can we say? Sometimes there is just no explaining popular taste…

*Essencia Restaurant & Lounge at The Palms Hotel & Spa has just introduced a new summer menu. Executive chef Frank Jeannetti, who refers to his restaurant food as “the pure essence of taste”, is including new items — for instance, miso-glazed black cod with celery root puree and shaved radish salad…

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 eulogizes one of Miami’s unseen black leaders.Miami’s black community recently lost a great person, a man who…

Come this fall, the Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach will premiere a “farm-friendly steak house” co-conceptualized by Seth Greenberg, my dentist. Wait — sorry, that’s just a coincidence. This Seth Greenberg is a hospitality impresario from the Northeast. “Earth, fire, water, air, and space” will be the classical elements brought…