Library of Conflict Where’s the reporting?: So you’re letting a former librarian throw a hearsay attack at the library director (“Throwing the Book,” Trevor Bach, April 10), accusing him of all kinds of problems? Where are the facts and reporting? The library’s financial woes are a very real community issue…
It seems from the very start of Lana Del Rey’s career, the whole world was rooting for her to fail. There were articles exposing her former persona, Lizzy Grant, not to mention accusations of plastic surgery and conspiracy theories about how she’d been manufactured by record executives. Then came her…
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. This week, Luke takes on the Army’s crack down on African American hair. The Pentagon is more concerned with enforcing a…
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, whose wrongful conviction in a New Jersey murder became the subject of a Denzel Washington film and a Bob Dylan song, has died at his home in Toronto. Carter grew up in Passaic, New Jersey. He was an Army boxing champion and later won more than 50…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) 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…
Miami New Times’ senior writer Michael E. Miller has won the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi Award for nondeadline writing in the nondaily category for his article “Champ,” which tells the story of a porn star murderer. It is the second year in a row that Miller has taken top honors…
No one should be surprised that Al Sharpton was a snitch for the federal government. Last week, the Smoking Gun unearthed damning evidence of the reverend’s role as a mob rat during the ’80s. The exposé detailed how Sharpton became the FBI’s “CI-7,” toting around a special briefcase outfitted with…
Toxic Parks Public misled: Your piece about a long-gone incinerator in Coconut Grove still potentially endangering residents (“Ashes to Ashes,” David Villano, April 10) was very interesting. I’m sure in the beginning, people weren’t completely aware of all the dangers surrounding these incinerators, but as time went on, they had…
In December, I received an email from a former police officer once featured in Miami New Times for blowing the whistle on dirty cops in the town of Golden Beach. Life had turned upside down for Tammy Valdes and her husband, Rafael, since she won a $233,000 judgment against the…
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. This week, Luke takes on the FBI’s most famous rat. No one should be surprised that Al Sharpton was a major…
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. Today, Luke addresses what’s wrong with the Miami Heat before the big game against the Indiana Pacers. I love the Miami…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) 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…
Miami New Times has won a 2014 James Aronson Award for a story about a local man who has spent more than $85 million funding settlements in Israel. “Miami Beach Man’s Millions Thwart Middle East Peace” was published this past March 28 and written by then-staff writer Terrence McCoy, who…
In Miami, having a celebrity as a frontman practically guarantees politicians will approve a public boondoggle. Indeed, it seems Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is ready to hand over prime waterfront land, owned by the taxpayers, to global soccer star David Beckham. The British football icon recently unveiled his vision for…
Legend on a Horse Anwar Nu: I remember Anwar Zayden from when I worked at Club Nu in 1988 (“The Legend of Anwar,” Kyle Swenson, April 3). I am surprised he is still alive. He was there all the time, along with his brother, who was always with him. The…
In the grand tradition of vending machines, most pay-by-coin food dispensers are chock full of Oreos, whoopie pies, Cheetos, and Coke. Heart disease waiting to happen. But as it turns out, there’s another option for automated convenience foods. It’s called H.U.M.A.N. (Helping Unite Mankind and Nutrition). And H.U.M.A.N.’s machines are…
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. This week, Luke tackles the groupie culture among Miami politicians. In Miami, having a celebrity as a frontman practically guarantees politicians…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) 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…
Whenever people accuse me of playing the race card, I come across a new story that proves whites still view blacks as second-class citizens. Consider what happened at the University of Alabama last week, when the student government sabotaged a vote that would have forced fraternities and sororities to accept…
Bad Signs Don’t trust autographs: I read with interest your story about the controversy surrounding memorabilia “authenticators” (“Certifiable,” Jake Rossen, March 27) because I was trial counsel for the federal government on a case generated by the FBI and Operation Bullpen some ten years ago. The counterfeiter — a Broward…
The yellow and red sign beckons you, but it’s the staff at Denny’s that makes you feel right at home. On a sunny Thursday afternoon, the location in midtown Miami (Biscayne Boulevard at NE 36th Street) was packed with parents and their broods, hungover teenagers, and elderly couples, but that…
In celebration of April Fool’s Day, we’re sharing what just might be the best food-related, April Fool’s Day prank ever. A while back, the jokesters at the British Library pulled a dastardly prank on the world’s literate populace, which, sad to say, includes conspiracy theorists and people who engage in…
