How’s this for a truly bizarre crime connection? Last night, Miami-Dade police announced the arrests of more than 20 curbside baggage handlers at MIA on charges that they’d taken cash bribes. One of those “skycaps” is 62-year-old Jorge Uscamayta.If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s evidently the same Jorge…
Most sports teams get it. Anything in print is good for them. The Miami Heat has never understood this. On Monday, the team banned Esquire writer Scott Raab after he called LeBron James a “gutless loser” and other choice terms. Raab is writing a book about LeBron.This ain’t the first time…
Without admitting Jim Morrison was railroaded by Miami-Dade’s criminal justice system 40 years ago, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle says her office won’t fight Charlie Crist’s pardon of The Doors iconic dead lead singer.The county’s top cop claims the recession is the reason she won’t try to uphold Morrison’s…
Letters from the issue of November 18, 2010
Jay-Z is no devil worshipper
Two Miami New Times freelance writers, Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock, have been named as among the most significant contributors to gay America this year.They join Ricky Martin, Johnny Weir, and Julianne Moore (go figure) as members of the Out 100, who are being honored this week in Manhattan…
Considering our new governor loves Arizona’s controversial immigration law so much he wants to create a similar one in Florida, we think Rick Scott should also consider the Grand Canyon state’s acceptance of medical marijuana. By a slim margin, voters said yes to Proposition 203 on November 2, making Arizona…
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 debunks rumors spread on blogs and YouTube that Jay-Z is down with the Illuminati.People who depict Jay-Z…
Elastic Bond returns to our ears with the deliciously danceable “Frecuencia Natural” (“Natural Frequency”). Though sung in Spanish by the always alluring and inviting Sofy Encanto, this track certainly carries their signature Latin rhythm and groove, but the spacey touches of electronica and the quasi-salsa/cumbia breakdown there got me bopping…
When Lazaro Morera’s father passed away October 29, the unemployed Cuban-American thought he had the funeral covered. He was wrong. Despite having paid $2,540 to Funeraria Latina Nacional at 151 NW 37th Ave. for his dad’s prearranged burial six years ago, the funeral home’s owner, Rafaiy Alkhalifa, would not honor…
Miami’s Best Pizza, a 40-year mainstay on South Dixie Highway near University of Miami, is always packed. There’re children with noses smudged up against a glass partition watching cooks spin dough in the air, children playing on video game machines that line the walls, children huddled by their parents on…
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. Today, Luke comes to Cam Newton’s defense.There is a campaign to destroy the reputation of Auburn Tigers quarterback Cam Newton, and…
Letters from the issue of November 11, 2010
Democrats got tea-bagged
Miami’s vultures go to court
When it was announced that Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian had successfully taken our fair city of Miami, and that Kourtney and Kim would set there sites on taking New York in the next step of Kardashian world domination, we wondered who would miss this silly little show? Sorority sisters was…
Staying power on Miami’s nightclub scene is a pretty rare thing. Parties like Bandits, Collision, Static, Flamingo, Murk’d, and Sugar Free Fridays couldn’t even make it to one year. All of those aforementioned parties had something to offer, and there was nothing wrong with any of them. They just came…
The Village of Palmetto Bay’s new mayor might have been at the center of one of the biggest scandals to rock Miami’s most recognizable homeless charity, Camillus House. Peter England, who faces Shelley Stanczyk in a November 16 runoff, was Camillus’s government relations director in 2004 when a former employee…
Short Order occasionally takes time out to share our considerable marketing expertise with those who may or may not need our help. It’s admittedly a specialized marketing expertise, one that focuses solely on providing memorable mottos that brand restaurants with a strongly identifiable concept. We only ask that the restaurateurs…
“Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies. Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino’s to develop a new line of pizzas with…
Letters from the issue of November 4, 2010
NFL helmet hits are OK
