County Commissioner Barbara Jordan Is All Alone On An Iceberg

County Commissioner Barbara Jordan must be feeling really lonely these days. She’s not getting any attention from her fellow commissioners, so she’s resorting to sending them messages via prepared statements to the media.Jordan is upset with a component of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s proposed budget that calls for laying off…

Miami Gay-Bashing Club Calls Gay Activists “Bigoted Extremists”

The Miami-based Christian Family Coalition is standing strong in support of Oakland Park Commissioner Jed Shank, who voted against a proclamation last month to recognize Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride & Equality Month because, he said, it was disrespectful to dads to recognize the gays but not Father’s Day.This…

Bruno the Dim Loses One for the Billboard Industry

How the heck special interest groups and corporate conglomerates keep counting on Miami-Dade County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro is beyond belief. It’s no secret Bruno the Dim is one of their tools, but the man can’t pass legislation to save his life.His latest failure was his inability to get one of…

Letters from the issue of July 14, 2011

Go Figure More distortion: Village Voice Media is wrong to use underage prostitution arrest records to argue against the mass media’s highly distorted figures (“Stuck in Trafficking,” Tony Ortega, July 7). Village Voice knows that this is an extreme underestimate and not even an appropriate statistic to use when trying…

John L. Winn Sticks It to Miami Central and Miami Edison

​Interim Florida Education Commissioner John L. Wynn’s controversial plan to screw over the students at Miami Edison Senior High and Miami Central Senior High has to be stopped. The state’s top education man is proposing that the schools be closed for a year, converted into charter schools, or turned over…

Miami Police Bust Luis Boris Estrada For Illegal Gambling Machines

The Miami Police Department’s crackdown on illegal gambling machines continued today with the arrest of Luis Boris Estrada. Cops busted the 42-year-old Cuban for operating six “maquinitas” at the Rapido Discount he manages at 2742 SW Eighth Street, finding $1,000 in one of the machines. Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito…

Carlos Gimenez Adds Two Staffers, One at $225K Per Year

Carlos Gimenez is turning to a trusted face to help him run Miami-Dade County government. Banana Republican has confirmed Gimenez is bringing back Genaro “Chip” Iglesias, whom we predicted last week would be part of the new mayor’s team. Iglesias will start in 60 days as chief-of-staff/deputy-mayor at an annual…

Wiz Khalifa Broke Hip-Hop Code

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 explains why Wiz Khalifa shouldn’t settle for Kanye West’s sloppy seconds.Wiz Khalifa needs to have his head…

Live Band Seizurely Plays for Strippers at Bare Necessity

​As Bambi, one of the strippers, watched a jazz and funk band perform for the all-nude female dancers at Bare Necessity yesterday afternoon, she declared good-naturedly, “It’s a good alternative to brunch!” When we walked into the lounge, Seizurely was playing “Shake Your Groove Thing” as a thick-bodied stripper lazily…

North Bay Village Closer to Giving Mayor Corina Esquijarosa the Boot

​North Bay Village Mayor Corina Esquijarosa’s days in office might be numbered. Political action committee Citizens for Full Disclosure has collected 414 signatures from village residents for its petition to give the mayor the boot.The group targeted Esquijarosa earlier this year after she was busted for lying on her personal…

Placido Domingo Jr. of Miami Battles Scientology

Our sister paper, the Village Voice, yesterday published an explosive exposé about the conflict between Placido Domingo Jr., son of the famous opera tenor, and the Church of Scientology. The younger Domingo, a composer, is in Miami working on a recording.A 20-year member of the Florida-based religion, Domingo says he is…

Do Implant Bombs Mean Miami Is Now More Dangerous Than Mazar-i-Sharif?

Miami has long been the unofficial fake boob capital of the country, probably the world (nice try, Caracas).Now, however, the Transportation Security Administration says that terrorists may be plotting suicide bombings using surgical implants.Suddenly our artificially enhanced paradise is looking scarier than a dark alley in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan…

Marlins Get Last $42 Million From Miami-Dade County

Based on what happened at yesterday’s Miami-Dade County Commission meeting, there is no way the taxpayers are getting their money back. Let’s face it, folks: The county is not going to sue or cut off the Marlins at this point, which is why county commissioners approved issuing $42 million in…