Darrell Stuckey: Keys to the Past
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Is This Nike’s Hideously Teal-Heavy New Dolphins Uniform?
Like any good conspiracy, it started with a post on an obscure message board in the dead of night. “Apparently these are the designs for the 2012 season,” a poster named Xohmin wrote casually before dropping dozens of links to legit-looking but mostly batshit crazy uniform prototypes for every NFL…
Joe Sacco Tries To Solve a 54-Year Old Mystery In ‘Footnotes In Gaza’
Joe Sacco’s latest project – the 418-page journalistic graphic novel “Footnotes in Gaza” – was borne of an editor’s harsh cuts. Working on a project in Gaza for Harper’s Magazine, Sacco was amazed to learn that virtually nada had been written about the worst Palestinian mass killing in the region’s long…
Kyree Wallace Arrested In Shooting At The Grand In Pot Deal Gone Sour
One of Miami’s classic condo towers, The Grand at 17th and Bayshore Drive, was rocked by a shooting on its 28th floor on Wednesday that left two men riddled with bullets. Now police have released their report: the violence started when a man tried to turn a pot deal into…
Jorge Uscamayta, Skycap Arrested In Luggage Scam, Is Dad Of Bomb-Strapped Bank Robbery Victim
How’s this for a truly bizarre crime connection? Last night, Miami-Dade police announced the arrests of more than 20 curbside baggage handlers at MIA on charges that they’d taken cash bribes. One of those “skycaps” is 62-year-old Jorge Uscamayta.If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s evidently the same Jorge…
Ben Greenman Mashes Up Hollywood and Russian Lit In Celebrity Chekhov
In a world drowning in footage of Britney Spears’ meltdowns, blogrolls of Tiger Woods’ mistresses and fawning Brangelina features, how does a writer contrive to say anything new about celebrity in America?Simple! If you’re proud Miami New Times alum Ben Greenman — now an acclaimed author and editor at The…
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Telmo Ricardo Hurtado, ‘Butcher of the Andes,’ Finally On Trial In Peru For 1985 Massacre
For nearly five years, Telmo Ricardo Hurtado lived a quiet life in sleepy Surfside, moving between low-rent apartments just off Collins Avenue with his mom and his younger brother. Neighbors knew him as a quiet, middle-aged Peruvian who kept to himself. No one saw the day coming in 2007 when…
Chenjerai Hove Creates a New Exile Literature from Miami Thanks to City of Refuge Program
In 2001, Chenjerai Hove was driven out of his homeland, Zimbabwe, after years of persecution by Robert Mugabe’s government. Hove drew Mugabe’s ire with plays like Sister Sing Again Someday about the plight of Zimbabwean women, leading his to home being burglarized, his works stolen and his movements placed under…
McSweeney Man
In a world drowning in footage of Britney Spears’ meltdowns, blogrolls of Tiger Woods’ mistresses and fawning Brangelina features, how does a writer contrive to say anything new about celebrity in America? Simple! If you’re proud Miami New Times alum Ben Greenman — now an acclaimed author and editor at…
City of Refuge
In 2001, Chenjerai Hove was driven out of his homeland, Zimbabwe, after years of persecution by Robert Mugabe’s government. Hove drew Mugabe’s ire with plays like Sister Sing Again Someday about the plight of Zimbabwean women, leading his to home being burglarized, his works stolen and his movements placed under…
UM offers firms new law grads for free
UM offers firms new law grads for free
Denise Crull, Drunk-Looking Florida Woman, Interviewed After Hitting A School Bus
A bit of free legal advice from the offices of Riptide and Riptide, LLC: If you’ve just finished drunkenly swerving your car into a school bus full of children and someone thrusts a TV camera in your face, plead the fifth. Or walk away. Or act like you only speak…
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Albert Gonzalez And His Hack Pack Get The New York Times Magazine Treatment
Last May, we brought you the story of Albert Gonzalez, Jonathan James, and their Miami-based band of hackers who engineered the largest online credit card theft ever before it all fell apart. The story, even six months later, is still incredible.Now the New York Times Magazine has weighed in, devoting…
Pity the Lawyers: UM Will Pay Others To Hire Law School Grads
A righteous anger has lately been seething from the most unlikely and urbane of American institutions. Inside ivy-shaded law schools from Columbia to Berkeley, students facing six-figure debts and zero job prospects are howling that JDs aren’t much more than university approved shams. Blogs like Shilling Me Softly have stirred the anger,…
George W. Bush At The Miami Book Fair: The Live Blog
Dubya is in Miami! To be more exact, he’s downtown at the Miami Book Fair International, shilling his new memoir, Flapjacks: My Favorite Breakfast Treat. No, that’s not right. Decision Points! It’s all about the Decider’s finest moments of deciding, apparently.Riptide is here, too, to bring you the minute-by-minute, awkward-chuckle…
Social Distortion at the Fillmore Miami Beach, November 13
See the full 28-photo Social Distortion slideshow. With Frank Turner and LuceroThe Fillmore Miami BeachSaturday, November 13, 2010Better than: An ’80s punk show in a burned-out dive bar in East L.A. Some genres are built for longevity, but you wouldn’t think punk rock would be one of ’em. The hard-charging…
Fidel Castro Assassination Mission in New Call of Duty Game Pisses Off Cuba
Want to kill Fidel Castro? Think you’ve got what it takes to gun down the guy who’s survived almost 700 assassination attempts, from exploding cigars to fungus-infested wetsuits to handgun wielding psychos? Now’s your chance thanks to the new entry in the Call of Duty: Black Ops video game series, which has…
City Square isn’t Miami’s craziest project
City Square isn’t Miami’s craziest project
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Face the Book
For all the glittering Hollywood names attached to blockbuster hit The Social Network, its millions of fans are absorbing a story first told by one man: author Ben Mezrich. Mezrich’s best-selling tome about Facebook, The Accidental Billionaires, casts the story of the über-popular site — from founder Mark Zuckerberg’s lady-hating,…
Ponzi Schemer Allen Stanford Got Seriously Messed Up In Jailhouse Fight
Allen Stanford, the would-be cricket baron who engineered an $8 billion Ponzi scheme from his Miami headquarters, bought Coral Gables castles for his mistresses, and all-but ruled Antigua as a personal fiefdom, has not had an easy go of it in prison since the fraud disintegrated last year. He checked…
Here’s A List of All 3,301 Miami-Dade Employees Who Make Six Figures
At last glance, more than one in ten Miamians are unemployed and a solid chunk of the rest are proud pledging members of Broke Phi Broke. That’s why County Mayor Carlos Alvarez is in serious danger of getting recalled — and the rest of the County Commission shouldn’t be feeling…
Marco Rubio Loves Gangsta Rap, David Guetta’s ‘Sexy Bitch,’ Fawning Feature Reports
We know you’ve been wondering: How exactly did Marco Rubio stir the conservative fire in his belly before jumping onstage during the campaign? Reading George Will? Watching O’Reilly grill some hapless liberals?Nope: Straight-up gangsta rap. Rubio liked to crank Tupac and NWA before his speeches, the Weekly Standard reports in…