Nevin Shapiro reclines on a deck chair, pulls his plush bathrobe tight, chews a cigar, and grins. All around him on the wooden deck, hundreds of drunken revelers shout, dance, and ratchet up the sexual tension. They’re framed by downtown Miami’s silhouette, which glitters atop the black depths of Biscayne…
Inside Miami Beach City Hall early this month, two fully grown men — highly paid public servants — had a staring contest. “Liar,” seethed Emanuel Mayer, an assistant to the city manager. “Stop calling me a liar,” said Charles Carreño, director of capital improvement projects, “or I’ll come over there…
We don’t know about you, but Riptide is still fishing soda cans out of Lincoln Road trash bins to scrounge up enough pocket change to pay rent. But apparently the Great Recessiongeddon really is over for some folks in the 305.Case in point: A cozy little pad on Indian Creek…
You’ve got a steamrolling Ponzi scheme churning out cash so fast that you can’t spend it all. You’ve already leased the $4,700-per-month Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG with rims fatter than Fat Joe and dropped $1.5 million on a Riviera yacht. But where do you hang your (gold-plated) hat after a long…
Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman — the Perrine clerks who sparked a national furor and a local boycott after allegedly beating a customer to death ago over an argument about a few cents change — will have to wait another few weeks for their first day in court. The Sulaimans’ arraignment…
At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison’s pardon — which should be made official at 9 a.m. — closes a sordid footnote in rock history, some…
In places such as Kabul, Gaza, and Baghdad, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hovering over homes, following suspects, and tracking enemies of the state are a daily reality. So where are the high-tech drones buzzing to next? Miami-Dade County, natch! The Miami-Dade Police Department is poised to become the first large…
A few dozen firefighters from across the county lean on a truck at Station 58 in West Miami-Dade. It’s around 9:30 p.m., and they’re puffing cigars, munching on cake, and telling stories. At the center stands Alvio Dominguez, a 40-year-old veteran celebrating his last shift before shipping off with the…
Just after 7 p.m. last Tuesday inside Miami Beach City Hall, two high level bureaucrats settled a heated argument the old school way: With some good ol’ fashioned fisticuffs.Police broke up the brouhaha after Charles Carreño, the Capital Improvement Projects director, allegedly grabbed assistant to the city manager Emanuel Mayer…
Shatarka Nuby already had breast implants, but they weren’t big enough. And her arms! They needed liposuction, stat! The only problem: Nuby didn’t have $9,000 to pay for all that work.So that’s when the 29-year-old lifted a college application out of a mailbox, opened a fraudulent credit card, and went…
Update: About an hour ago, Vanessa Brito — the force behind Miami Voice, the group pushing to recall five county commissioners — delivered 4,704 signatures supporting a ballot measure to recall Natacha Seijas.County Clerk Harvey Ruvin accepted the petitions, which will undergo a rigorous check. Brito’s group needs at least…
In a feature last month, New Times explored skater culture in Miami, a city that’s never quite warmed to thrashers even though its warm environs and concrete jungles could easily make the Magic City a skateboard mecca. Last night brought another tragic blow to the scene when a 14-year-old riding…
In places such as Kabul, Gaza, and Baghdad, unmanned aerial vehicles hovering over homes, following suspects, and tracking enemies of the state are a daily reality. So where are the high-tech drones buzzing to next? Miami-Dade County, naturally!The Miami-Dade Police Department is poised to become the first large metro force…
As we wandered through the Ice Palace in Wynwood this morning at the Pulse fair, we were drawn from across the hall by a gleaming blue and gold replica mosque. Hey, that’s beautiful, we thought, wandering closer. Then, as we drew near, we realized, Hey, that mosque is made of…
In its sixth year, Pulse has carved a niche as one of Art Basel’s largest satellite fairs, encompassing more than 80 galleries inside Wynwood’s sprawling Ice Palace, and one of the best for sculpture, contemporary photography and performance art. But who knew it would be so damn comfortable?Fair-goers lounged on…
Liberty City stalwart stalls big developers
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is looking more and more like a man without a country — after releasing thousands of embarrassing diplomatic cables over the weekend, his homeland, Australia, is investigating whether he broke any laws. His would-be adopted country, Sweden, just denied his residency application and charged him with…
A few days ago, a reader named Joe Cuevas emailed Riptide with a cache of photos and a bold claim: This, he said, is the most disgusting bathroom in all of Miami. The photos are not for the faint of heart: Toilet paper rolls dangle from rusty chains; gaping filthy…
Tyrone Greene leans on the glass counter in his family’s shoe-repair shop, Greene Dreams, a one-room space crammed with Barack Obama T-shirts, Miami Heat jerseys, and dashikis. A mural just around the corner from NW Seventh Avenue and 62nd Street sums up Greene’s place in Miami’s largest African-American neighborhood: “Heart…
Hundreds of protesters have surrounded a QuickStop in Perrine where two co-owners beat a man to death with a crowbar last week after an argument over a few cents and an exchange of racial slurs. Although the owners — Ragheb and Nabil Sulaiman — have been charged in the death…
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