Vista) operating system from Microsoft, won’t be available to the general public until October 22nd, but some of Miami’s most disadvantage are already familiarizing themselves with it. Mayor Manny Diaz’s Elevate Miami program aims to “better prepare our community to participate and compete in the new digital society and digital economy by…
The Visionary Tattoo Expo & Art Gathering went down this weekend at the Doubletree Miami Mart, and Boggs Industries submitted this photo to our Miami New Times Flickr pool. It takes a person of a certain amount of testicular fortitude to get about 80 percent of his body tattooed, and…
Just last week, investigative journalist Gerald Posner complained to the New York Post that no one in town would throw a party for the release of his new book detailing the cocaine-fueled history of Miami Beach, Miami Babylon. Not even Tara Solomon, who would throw a party for anything.Well, there might…
Oh, those poor young Miami Republicans with dreams of D.C. Unless they launch a long-shot Senate campaign against a popular governor, they’ll have to wait for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts to decide they’ve had enough of doing whatever it is they do with their congressional seats. (Seriously, what is…
The fine lady who has brought us lyrical gems such as “And I know I’m comin’ off just a little bit conceited / And I keep on repeatin’ / how the boys wanna eat it” and “I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk, get you love drunk off my hump” is reportedly…
Jaclyn Torrealba’s father says he didn’t consider DJ Seasunz to be her boyfriend, and said he tried to talk his daughter out of the relationship. He also doesn’t believe the rumor that Torrealba had aborted a fetus conceived with Seasunz. [Crimesider]The Sun-Sentinel will become noticeably slimmer next year. The width…
Antonio Guerrero, a member of a group of men collectively known at the Cuban Five, has had his sentence reduced from life in prison to 21 years and 10 months. Taking into account time served and good behavior, Guerrero could be out of jail in seven years, his lawyer says.Guerrero was…
TeleCuba, a small Miami firm, says it has won permission from the Treasury Department to lay the first fiber-optic cable between Miami and Cuba. The announcement comes after the Obama administration eased some restrictions on telecom links to Cuba in April.The line could make calling from Miami to Cuba a…
The Citizens Against Government Waste’s name pretty much says it all. The fiscally conservative think tank hates pork and government waste, which apparently includes programs such as expanding health care to kids in low-income families, providing low-interest loans to college students, and requiring insurance companies to cover mental health issues…
Juan Carlos Portieles, AKA DJ Seasunz, was denied bond this morning. He’s being charged with the second-degree murder of his girlfriend, 18-year-old Jaclyn Elisse Torrealba.Meanwhile, CBS news blog Crimesider talked to Jaclyn’s cousin Daniela Torrealba, who said the family found the couple’s two-year relationship, which began when Jaclyn was 16, “disturbing”…
State CFO Alex Sink has about $1 billion she would love to give you. Problem is you have to claim it. Most of that is money from dormant bank accounts and forgotten securities holdings, but quite a bit of it is in the form of actual stuff. Like jewelry and…
One member of the Cuban Five is seeking a reduced sentence. [AP]A wild horde of carnivorous umbrellas tried to surround and eat Naomi Campbell on South Beach yesterday. [Daily Mail]Kate Hudson and A-Rod are also in Miami — Coral Gables to be exact, where they were snapped leaving “A-Rod’s favorite…
Well-known Miami DJ Juan Carlos Portieles, known professionally as DJ Seasunz, turned himself in to police yesterday after driving around with the dead body of his 18-year-old girlfriend, Jaclyn Torrealba. The 30-year-old Portieles is charged with second-degree murder. Read the arrest affidavit here. Police say the couple became involved in a “heated verbal altercation”…
One of the FBI’s longest-known fugitives turned himself into federal law enforcement officers in New York yesterday after hiding in Cuba for more than four decades.Louis Armando Peña Soltren, 66, and two other men hijacked a Pan American flight in November 1968 after entering the cockpit armed with guns and…
I’m not sure why Shauna Sands is a celebrity. Maybe it’s for her breakthrough role as Stripper #1 in a 2004 episode of Las Vegas, or perhaps as Jacuzzi Woman in the shamefully overlooked masterpiece Succubus: Hell Bent. Or maybe it’s because she is the first woman to successfully have…
How hot is it? It’s so hot that Kanye West spoke at a Taylor Swift fan convention just so he could enjoy the chilly reception. Har, har! No? Sorry. Anyway, the past three of five days have seen record high temperatures, and today could set another record. The little weather widget…
No disrespect, but it’s rare when Miami Dade College is named in a top 25 list alongside schools like Tulane and Carnegie Mellon, so let’s hope the school is celebrating this honor. MDC has been ranked the 21st best neighbor college in America. Put together by Dr. Evan S. Dobelle, president…
LandSharks are lame. Swimming sharks are so passé. But a flying shark? Now that’s a good time. That’s the kind of awesome thing that could theoretically wreck sweet, sweet havoc on this city. New Grounds hosts a simple little Flash game called Miami Shark. The object: Destroy as many swimmers, sailboat,…
Gerald Posner speaks about the ol’ coke days of Miami past: “You could go to a dentist and pay him with an eightball. You could rent a boat with cocaine. It sounds like a bad movie, but it’s true.” [WSJ] The Miami Hurricanes easily defeated the FAMU Rattlers in a game…
The good news: The roller-skating thief who tormented the Jacuzzi Boys was quickly captured. The bad news: This was not allowed to mature into a thoroughly hilarious, full-scale crime spree. If it appears your child might have a future in the NBA, you might just want to take a bit of…
