Few journeyman NBA ballers have come to the league packing as much braggadocio as Damon Jones. The Houston native played on 11 teams in as many years, earning a reputation as a deep three man… who came through occasionally (.407 lifetime field goal percentage). But meh stats can always be…
On November 11 — Veteran’s Day — 59-year-old Sunrise man Fredy Gutierrez climbed onto an overpass with a rifle as morning rush-hour traffic flowed below on I-595. Police scrambled to the scene. Miles of traffic stalled. For the next few hours, as Gutierrez drank a beer, put a noose around…
The poker player’s white Nikes had just hit the concrete outside New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport the night before Thanksgiving. The sky was bruising over with twilight. Terminal 5 was a hectic holiday beehive of passengers hustling for last-minute JetBlue hops. And there was Eric Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years…
Daniella Levine has a joke for you. It’s a zinger, but it also nicely packages the philosophy that powers her life’s work. “How many social workers does it take to change a light bulb?” How many? “It doesn’t matter how many,” she says. “The light bulb has to really want…
Adam Gersten knew he had a hit right away. Gramps, his boxy bar located steps off the main vein in Wynwood, began pouring drinks the first week of December last year, right in the thick of Art Basel. The buzz was high, and so was the body count. The bar…
On August 9, 2011, Benjamin and Madeline Rodriguez sat in the waiting room of a West Palm Beach dental office. The couple’s 5-year-old daughter, Briana, was inside for a cleaning. When the little girl appeared, her eyes were streaming tears. Blood ringed her lips. Instead of a simple brushing, three…
Tracy James knew the drug she’d just swallowed was working when her old injuries from high school started twitching with new life. Pressure throbbed from a forgotten busted knee. Her ankle tingled. The fingers she’d sprained roller-skating decades back began to ache. Whatever the 37-year-old had just taken, it shot…
How many books could you read in 30 years? Five hundred? Three thousand? Could you break into the six figures? No matter your estimate, Miami Book Fair International likely has you beat. In its three-decade run, MBFI has featured about 7,500 authors promoting countless books — and that’s just in…
Neither land nor rescue craft was in sight. An hour after his 21-foot catamaran had plummeted 2,100 feet to the bottom of the sea, bulky Seattle boat broker Sandy Williamson was treading water in six-foot swells 15 miles off Miami. Just a few inches away, Corey Whittaker, a wiry and…
Huffing home on her green beach cruiser, Lekeithra Smith was already edgy about what might be hunkered down in the dark, waiting. It was near 9:30 p.m. in late April 2011. The 22-year-old was pedaling just a few feet behind her high-school-aged cousin Deadra, coming back from a party at…
The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display…
The grin was a dead giveaway. Bob Sellers spotted the smile on his friend’s face as he pulled up to the end of the tarmac. Bill Warner was still straddling his race bike, a ‘roided-up 1,000-horsepower Suzuki Hayabusa. The black Bell helmet was sitting on the gas tank. Warner’s bathwater-blue…
On a blue, sun-soaked Saturday in December 2007, Valerie Parkhurst’s white Suburban took the asphalt at a purposeful creep past the blocks of modest ranch homes between Griffin Road and 595. The city of Davie was still blue-collar at the core, but the edges were going. Here, you’d see an…
On a scalding Saturday afternoon, nearly a dozen Miami Beach Police cars are jammed up on the lawns of a shady residential street near Mount Sinai Hospital. Cops lean against their cruisers as a mangy group of about 20 protesters spills out onto the overgrown lawn before a white, single-story…
The king stands before the two dozen or so fighters kneeling on the grass in his presence. Their heads are bent as if in group prayer, their tunics sullied with the sweat and blood of combat. The king’s straight posture signals authority; his beard bespeaks wisdom. His white garments are…
Based on New Times’ reporting, a federal judge in Tampa last week tossed out one of two convictions that sent reggae giant Buju Banton to prison in 2011. The decision — which hinged on juror misconduct dug up by the newspaper — is just the latest plot twist since the…
Boos slice through the air as Dr. Red Roberts peacocks around the ring while snapping the straps of his red and white leotard. A comic-book-villain grin peeks out from a thick beard when he jabs his chin at the full house, each jut shaking his messy brushfire of red curls…
How Modern Fortunetellers Pull Off Their Scams
It’s Tuesday morning and Paul Pope’s staff is hustling around a walk-in closet in his Spanish Colonial spread in Highland Beach. A buxom 30-something with cascading brunet hair sits on the floor cradling a black-belt-fed M60 machine gun. Nearby, a stocky middle-aged man in a baggy white sports coat casually…
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