‘Twas one Friday night in January last year when the owner of Miami’s longest-running holiday festival failed miserably in his attempt to mack on a woman at a limo company.Brian Shechtman, who along with his brother has operated Santa’s Enchanted Forest since 1984, had dialed Aventura Limousine to order a…
A recent Miami-Dade ethics commission probe concluded three women residing at an assisted living facility in North Miami Beach were victims of absentee ballot voter fraud. The commission’s executive director, Joe Centorino, notified officials at the Park Plaza Retirement Residence that while the investigation did not turn up enough evidence…
Lea Black: The Realest Housewife
Blowfly: Profoundly Profane
Is there a market for a Hispanic focused news, opinion and aggregation website? A veteran journalist for the EFE News Agency, the leading Spanish language news service in the world, seems to think so. Emilio Sanchez, EFE’s former bureau chief in Washington D.C. and Miami, is now at the helm…
A few weeks ago, three days before the Miami city election, Marc Sarnoff got into a brief tussle with Reid Welch, a Coconut Grove resident who admits to huffing propane gas to get high and who was going around the neighborhood taking down the city commissioner’s campaign signs. Sarnoff cast…
Dhafir Harris, AKA Dada 5000, king of back-yard fights, has plenty to be thankful for. Three years ago, the Perrine native decided being a member of Kimbo Slice’s entourage wasn’t for him, so he set out to become the P.T. Barnum of Miami’s back-yard fighting circuit. We chronicled the early…
Hector Lombard insists he is getting no love from his compatriots in South Florida. Born in Matanzas, Cuba, Bellator’s middleweight champ is a fast-rising star in professional mixed martial arts. Yet he is not getting any recognition from South Florida’s Cuban community, Lombard laments as he prepares for his Saturday-night…
Seminole Tribe of Florida Jason Starkman gambling debt
Miami Beach artist and City Hall gadfly David Bolger wants to make sure visitors attending Art Basel see it like an insider. So the 51-year-old former New Englander has illustrated a 21-page guide for Riptide to assist wannabe art snobs on how to distinguish a real urinal from one that…
When it came to betting against the Seminole Tribe of Florida, prominent businessman Jason Starkman didn’t know when to walk away — yet so far he has still come out even. Last week, the Seminoles took the owner of Epicure Gourmet Market and Jerry’s Famous Deli to court yet again…
The North Bay Village mayor is throwing in the towel. Corina Esquijarosa resigned today, leaving office one year after winning a close election. Her decision comes on the heels of a successful petition drive to hold a recall election against her and a criminal probe into her falsely claiming a…
Earlier this morning, Miami New Times editor Chuck Strouse penned a column bemoaning the epic fall of Joe Paterno, the iconic face of Penn State who has won more football games than any other college coach in the modern era. Last night, the school’s board of trustees canned Paterno before…
This week, Miami New Times published a guide to the eight of the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for. As we reveal each one of these boondoggles on Riptide, we’re…
Miami-Dade County Public Works for Dummies
This week, Miami New Times is publishing a guide to the eight of the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for. As we reveal each one of these boondoggles on Riptide,…
This week, Miami New Times is publishing a guide to the eight of the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for. As we reveal each one of these boondoggles on Riptide,…
Want to know what it takes to cover the grimiest political landscape in America? Then join us at the Brickell Hampton Inn tomorrow morning. Banana Republican will be answering questions about Miami politics alongside bloggers Al Crespo (The Crespogram Report), Elaine de Valle (Political Cortadito) and Mike Hatami (The Straw…
This week, Miami New Times is publishing a guide to the eight of the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for. As we reveal each one of these boondoggles on Riptide, we’re asking…
Next week, Miami New Times is publishing a guide to the eight of the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for. As we reveal each one of these boondoggles on Riptide,…
Professional football’s most controversial wide receiver is accusing a prominent Miami law firm and one its attorneys of seedy, unethical behavior. In a lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County this week, Terrell Owens alleges Greenberg Traurig and firm shareholder and real estate lawyer Pamela Linden convinced him to invest $2…
Next week, New Times is publishing a guide to the eight of the worst public works projects in Miami-Dade, where bureaucrats and elected officials take pride in wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on crap residents have little-to-no use for.As we reveal each one of these boondoggles on Riptide, we’re asking readers…
