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NCAA football is modern-day slavery

Reader mail: Nevin Shapiro is a “little Napoleon”

Jason Villano: Pill mill crackdown’s unjust victim

Update: Gov. Rick Scott has officially reinstated Michelle Spence-Jones as a Miami city commissioner.Earlier this morning, Banana Republican spoke with Michelle Spence-Jones in her first media interview since a grand theft charge against her was dropped yesterday. Obviously she is jubilant. “When you know you are innocent, it’s a victory…

At least Richard Scruggs can always say he was the guy who got Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the notorious religious sect leader who was convicted of committing 14 murders, two attempted homicides, and a terrorist firebombing in 1992.But right now, the veteran prosecutor has lost his shine. While trying to prove…

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 talks about the racism prevalent in sports media coverage.After Cam Newton’s NFL debut as a Carolina Panther…

Humans, it seems, will eat just about anything. We eat cows, pigs, ducks, chickens, and fish all the time and think nothing of it. In other countries people eat insects, lizards, snakes, rodents and even our family pet, the dog.Since Travel Channel launched No Reservations and Bizarre Foods, the practice…

Will we get slammed by the first hurricane of the season that appears to be headed our way? Doesn’t look like it. But then again…Irene will get stronger. Forecasters thought yesterday it would hit Haiti and slow down a bunch. But it now appears that after Puerto Rico, it will…

A highly successful county-run boot camp for juvenile offenders could be shut down because of budget cuts. “Every year, this program is on the chopping block,” says Bertila Soto, the associate administrative judge for Miami-Dade Criminal Court. “This boot camp is vital. It is the only youth rehabilitation program of…

​Carlos Gimenez is wasting no time gearing up for his re-election run in 2012. As the mayor makes the rounds promoting his first county budget, his political action committee Common Sense Now is hard at work twisting arms and raising money.But a prominent Republican Brickell Avenue attorney could end up…

Frankie, the 13-year-old son of Real Housewives of Miami star Alexia Echevarria who often appeared on the show alongside his mother, is recovering from a serious car crash this past weekend. Multiple sources say the injuries were quite serious, and the boy underwent pelvic surgery yesterday…

​A couple days ago, we wrote a post that referred would-be Senator Marielena Stuart and Ave Maria, a place west of here that just might be the most Christian community in the Western hemisphere. Patricia Sette, editor of of the (secular) news site for the town, The Ave Herald, took…

Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week 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 series…

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. In this special edition, Luke calls for an end to NCAA rules prohibiting athletes from making money.Since it was founded in…

Last Thursday, we reported on the odd coincidence that a marketing consultant working on Marc Sarnoff’s re-election campaign shared the same business address as the private law practice of the Miami city commissioner.Our post prompted Sarnoff’s wife Theresa to submit an amendment to his most recent quarterly finance report changing…

Yesterday, we finally heard Donna Shalala comment on Hurricane Nevin, the category 5 storm of a man who released the Kraken on her and Canes nation. You’d think a lady who worked in the Clinton Administration would know how to do a little damage control. Instead, the University of Miami…

Uncle Luke loves Lady Gaga

Reader mail: Perhaps this Tea Party has more than the usual share of kooks