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Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross Lies About Stadium Upgrades
Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross Lies About Stadium Upgrades
Miami Dolphins Stadium Renovation: A Political Insider’s Guide
Give Stephen Ross props. He stepped up to Norman Braman one billionaire to another and slapped him across the face with a clean white glove. With a full page ad undermining Braman’s credibility in Tuesday’s edition of the Miami Herald, Ross let Braman know he’s got the cash to parry…
Ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez Is Totally Ripped, Wearing a Speedo UPDATED
What happens when your political career is blown to smithereens by an angry electorate and a billionaire car dealership mogul? If you’re Carlos Alvarez, the former Miami-Dade mayor who was booted from office in the largest recall of a local politician on March 15, 2011, you become a Bizarro version…
Barack Obama Was Not Welcome at This Miami Gun Show
On Sunday, Banana Republican stopped by the Victor Bean’s Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show at the Miami-Dade County youth fairgrounds to gauge the mood of Second Amendment acolytes in the wake of Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he wants to clamp down on guns.For all his blustering about…
Australian Filmmaker Turns His Lens On Liberty City, Finds Some Crazy Characters
A word of advice to foreign filmmakers who get hooked on Liberty City: Please stop opening your masterpieces with chintzy B-rolls of tourists frolicking on South Beach and then cutting away to bleak footage of a morbid roadside memorial or homeless people. It’s hackneyed, dammit! Hopefully, Shanks Rajendran takes heed when…
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Miami Gardens Bulldogs Youth Football Club Overcomes The Sport’s Dark Side
For this week’s cover story, I wrote about the journey of a group of 11-and-12-year-old boys playing for the 125 pound Miami Gardens Bulldogs. In 2012, the team bounced back from a season marred by a star player getting shot during practice while the league they played for was engulfed…
Miami’s Best Youth Football Team Beats Violence, Gambling, Turmoil, and Opponents
Miami’s Best Youth Football Team Beats Opponents, Violence, Gambling, and Turmoil
Former Miami City Manager Joe Arriola Has a Beef With New Times Takedown of Manny Diaz’s Book
It appears Miami civic leader Joe Arriola wasn’t too keen on how he’s portrayed in my recent story about his former boss Manny Diaz’s book, Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City At A Time.”Your article is also full of lies,” he wrote me in an recent email. Miami’s…
Stephen Ross’ Four Biggest Lies About Sun Life Stadium Renovations
On Monday, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross shucked his $400 million plan to renovate Sun Life Stadium, the venue the city’s NFL franchise has called home for the past 26 years. During a press conference showing off a bunch of nice rendering of how the stadium will look with 3,600…
Irregardless Is a Real Word, Bro
Bro, remember when Shit Miami Girls Say came out and Non-Miamians were super making fun of the way Miamians freaking talk, bro? That shit was super annoying bro. Especially the part when one of the girls says, “irregardless, I don’t care.” All the English language snobs were talking shit about…
Toronto Sisters Say Miami Beach Cops Called Them “Dirty Canadians,” Roughed Them Up
During the darkest months of winter, half of Canada flees to South Florida. So you’d think police would have some respect for the maple-syrup-guzzling visitors who fuel the local economy through spring break. That’s not what one pair of sisters from Toronto found in Miami Beach last month. The women…
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Raining Bullets: Miamians Won’t Stop Shooting Their Guns on New Year’s. It Nearly Cost One Musician His Life
Every year just before January 1, Miami police enlist a host of celebrities (including Pitbull this time around) to beg dumbass pistoleros to please not shoot their guns into the air on New Year’s. Just like clockwork, scores of stupid gun owners ignore that wisdom and seriously injure someone. Even…
Ex-Mayor Manny Diaz’s New Book Is Full of Lies
On opening night of Miami Book Fair International in October, former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz scored the gig of the weekend: interviewing Tom Wolfe onstage about his new Miami-set novel, Back to Blood. Before a packed house of power players and literary cognoscenti, Diaz set himself up as an independent…
Miami Beach Cops Accused of Roughing Up Toronto Sisters, Calling Them “Dirty Canadians”
During the darkest months of winter, half of Canada flees to South Florida. So you’d think police would have some respect for the maple-syrup-guzzling visitors who fuel the local economy through spring break.That’s not what one pair of sisters from Toronto found in Miami Beach last month. The women say…
Ted Zimmerman Lives To Share His Tale of Being Shot By a NYE Falling Bullet
A stupid gun owner almost claimed the life of a Miami musician on New Year’s Eve. The falling bullet narrowly missed Ted Zimmerman’s head, but he won’t be playing his trumpet any time soon. The bullet tore through his index finger and lodged into his middle one.In an exclusive interview…
Miami’s Scummiest Tax Scams of 2012: Marine-Bilkers, Football Frauds, and Laundry Cheats
Miami’s Scummiest Tax Scams of 2012: Marine-Bilkers, Football Frauds, and Laundry Cheats
Miami’s 2013 Resolutions: Jeffrey Loria Needs to Shut Up, Jeff Ireland Needs to Man Up
Miami’s 2013 Resolutions: Jeffrey Loria Needs to Shut Up, Jeff Ireland Needs to Man Up
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Deni Noa Punched Woman Then Stripped Naked and Laid Down On the Road
It was a wild New Year’s Eve for Florida Keys resident Deni Noa.According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the 24-year-old Stock Island resident reached into a car and punched a woman in the eye as she was idling at a light on US 1 and Cross Street around 9:…
Miami Beach Police Find Dead Man at Marseilles Hotel
Nothing rings in the new year like a suspicious death in Miami Beach.According to city police spokeswoman Det. Vivian Hernandez, homicide detectives are investigating a dispute between a couple who were staying at the Marseilles Hotel at 1741 Collins Ave.Police found the man dead in his room early on New…
New Year Resolutions For Miami’s Best and Brightest
The world didn’t end after all on December 21, so now we all gotta make amends for our bad behavior in 2012. Our New Year’s resolutions last year all failed, of course, whether it was taking abuelita to church every Sunday or deleting our Facebook accounts because Mark Zuckerberg is…
Tax Refund Scams Plagued Miami-Dade In 2012
With another tax season descending on us, you might want to secure your W-2 or 1099 a little tighter. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami has uncovered more than a dozen rackets involved in stealing tax refund checks using stolen identities of social security applicants,…