When North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre’s wife spotted a man stealing campaign signs off their front lawn this weekend, she hopped into her car and followed him. A few blocks later, when Bernadette Pierre pulled alongside his Jeep, 65-year-old David Leven hollered racist, sexist slurs at her — apparently not…
Jose Seiglie, Miami PD’s investigations chief, is biased in police shooting inquiry, activists say
Just in case you thought corporate douchebaggery couldn’t get any worse than the carousel of inane names for the ex-Joe Robbie Stadium — Landshark Stadium anyone? — the Florida Panthers are here to remind us that the limits of corporate whoredom are ever-expanding. The team has just sold its rink…
Tampa homeless advocate G.W. Rolle had a mystery on his hands. For months he’d noticed homeless men wandering around a local park with black eyes, busted lips and bad limps. Finally, he got one man to open up: For $50, he said, a local fetish website had been paying the…
As black Miami simmers over seven fatal shootings in seven months by City of Miami cops, you’d think Chief Miguel Exposito’s priority would be convincing the community he’s serious about investigating the deaths.Yet Exposito quickly lost credibility by getting in a tit-for-tat with State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle over the…
In his Sisyphean quest to continually one-up his latest absurd headlines, local hero-clown Jose Canseco faced a steep challenge this week: How to best his shenanigans in Hollywood, where he sent his brother Ozzie to fight in his place at a D-list celebrity boxing match?Well, here’s a start: Jose and…
As we count down the full list of 2,000 personalized license plate requests reviewed by Florida’s Obscenity Board — a mind-blowing document we got our hands on a few weeks ago through the Freedom of Information Act — we’ve learned a few things about the good folks of the Sunshine…
Miami Police shootings: Ex-FBI chief Paul Philip lumps dogs in with people
Schemers and dreamers have plotted for years to bring gambling back to South Beach, once the site of high stakes poker games featuring the likes of Al Capone and Meyer Lansky. Sure, local and state laws stand in the way, not to mention what’s likely to be heavy local opposition…
At some point, anyone who’s ever gone clubbing on Washington Avenue has felt like the whole thing was an elaborate ripoff. But this? This is insane.The FBI today has busted an Eastern European ring that set up a half dozen fake clubs in South Beach that existed solely to steal…
Last night, a 24-year-old named Jamal Singletary pulled an assault rifle and started shooting at an officer in Allapattah. The detective pulled his own weapon and fired back, killing Singletary on the spot, police say.Singletary becomes the eighth suspect killed by police fire in an urban Miami neighborhood since last…
We spent most of the Haitian presidential campaign ridiculing the idea of a musician with zero political experience and shady personal finances running a country as desperately messed up as Haiti. Fortunately, Wyclef pulled out of the race. Whew!Then yesterday, Haitians responded at the polls — by electing a musician…
Sometimes, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Or so hopes the University of Missouri, which is set today to hire away UM basketball coach Frank Haith — a man so under-the-radar at Football U that Canes fans this morning are scratching their heads en masse at the…
Sheila McNeil couldn’t believe what she was seeing printed in black-and-white.It was a recent Tuesday night at an Overtown community center, and McNeil had come to hear a presentation by Paul Philip, an ex-FBI chief hired by the City of Miami to investigate the Police Department’s fatal shootings of seven…
When lunatic Gainesville pastor Terry Jones announced his plan to burn Korans at his tiny church, no less an authority than Gen. David Petreaus warned that there would be consequences in places like Afghanistan where fellow religious lunatics look for any such provocation for bloodshed. Jones went ahead with the…
As we count down the full list of 2,000 personalized license plate requests reviewed by Florida’s Obscenity Board — a mind-blowing document we got our hands on a few weeks ago through the Freedom of Information Act — we’ve learned a few things about the good folks of the Sunshine…
Guerrilla mural in Overtown pays tribute to police shooting victims
The online uproar over a clash between Miami Beach cops and Swedish House Mafia fans all started when thousands of ticket-holders were denied entrance to the group’s show. Tensions skyrocketed as at least two thousand people who’d paid stood in the sun for hours, until they eventually stormed the place.We’ve…
Ever since Miami Beach officials were caught trying to strong-arm tickets from the New World Symphony, public patience has worn thin for politicos taking comped gifts. Last week, via crusading blogger Al Crespo we brought you the tale of Tomas Regalado’s gratis box seats at Heat games (and his photos…
Thanks to a strange twist of modern tabloid physics, modern-day D-list celebrity scandals and weird news stories don’t technically exist until they’ve been re-interpreted in CGI by the borderline insane Taiwanese animators at Next Media Animation. Thankfully, we can now officially acknowledge that Jose Canseco indeed swapped out his twin,…
Along with an alleged gang rape at the Fontainebleau and an intoxicated drowning death at the Clevelander, Ultra Weekend also brought us a scary near riot on South Beach as a drunken crowd surrounded and taunted two cops trying to arrest an unruly couple outside a Swedish House Mafia show. Videos…
North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre’s campaign manager, Ricardo Brutus, took an envelope stuffed with $4,000 in cash in exchange for asking “his people” to take an item off the city council’s agenda earlier this year, prosecutors say. A police report obtained by New Times detailing Brutus’ arrest is sure to…
