Say what you will about the LeBron to Miami soap opera, but from the Mistake on the Lake to the Magic City, it’s inspired some of the finest trash talking since some guy in Brooklyn invented the “Yo Mama” joke. The best insultologists among us aren’t content with simply talking…
Jeff Greene is feeling seriously bitter these days: not only did Kendrick Meek absolutely crush him in the Democratic Senate primary last week, but he looked like a total jerk when only 35 people showed up for his election night party. Couldn’t he have at least paid a few extras…
They packed City Hall by the dozens this afternoon — the firefighters in bright yellow, the police in dark blue, the general service workers in civvies. They beat the floor, pounded the windows and whistled while their leaders excoriated the Miami City Commission over its proposal to slash salaries and…
Like a blackjack fiend down to his last, filthy dollar bill at 3 a.m., the City of Miami has gone through most of the stages of grief over its budget disaster. First came denial (illegally shuffling money around to hide the problems), then anger (electing firebrand Tomas Regalado), desperate bargaining…
Four years ago, the 400 janitors who keep the University of Miami’s campus clean went on a lengthy hunger strike and inspired two months of student protests in a fierce battle to earn a fair living wage. Looks like round two might be right around the corner.The janitors are poised…
Shut out of the Haitian presidential race, attacked everywhere for his financial mismanagement, and embroiled in a nasty celebrity feud with Sean Penn, Wyclef Jean is not exactly in a friendly mood these days. So when the Haitian authorities rejected his appeal and all but killed his presidential hopes Wednesday,…
On Wyclef Jean’s personal list of “Things That Will Never, Ever Happen” — including playing a Fugees reunion show with Pras and winning a good taxpayer award from the IRS — the singer can now add a new entry with some confidence: serving as president of Haiti.The Haitian electoral council…
Miami Beach’s South Pointe Park has lost its luster
Prediction: Next election, silly hats are in. Rival school board candidates will rock diamond-studded mitres and Budweiser-stocked beer helmets. Marco Rubio will demolish Charlie Crist after finding a totally sweet plaid Tam O’Shanter at a garage sale and wearing it on Fox. The arms race is on!All because of Frederica…
When the local glitterati gathered at the new South Pointe Park in March 2009, leaders hailed the grassy knolls and wide sidewalks as a shining new jewel for Miami Beach — but just more than a year later, the park’s luster has faded. The undulating emerald grass has died and wilted…
It’s August 24, and you’ve woken up sweating profusely, feeling vaguely nauseated, and recoiling in horror at the first sight of a campaign ad. The diagnosis? Primary fever! (Or it might be Cat Scratch Fever. Or dengue. But let’s go with Primary Fever). Even for Florida, this has been a…
While Bill McCollum and Rick Scott tussle daily on the airwaves over who will be meaner to immigrants, a diverse group of state leaders — including Tallahassee’s first Colombian-American politico and the GOP chair of the House’s Hispanic caucus — pledged this afternoon to fight Arizona-style laws in the Sunshine…
Two teens in St. Petersburg, Florida evidently decided to while away their fading halcyon days of youth with a time-honored American tradition: Sneaking into the fanciest hotel pool in town and pooping all over that bastard. What, like you’ve never done it? (Looking at you Kim Kardashian.)It was the perfect…
The Magic City’s violent summer just keeps boiling on, as Miami police shot and killed another suspect early this morning– the fourth police shooting in just over a month.Details on the latest clash, which ended just a few hours ago, are still sketchy. Sometime after midnight last night, cops were…
Last year, more than 16,000 Venezuelans were felled by bullets, bombs, knives and other violent instruments of crime — but don’t look for their grisly death photos on the front pages in Caracas. A Venezuelan court yesterday prohibited newspapers from running shots depicting “crime and violence” for the next month.Why,…
Hungre Rapper seeks $100,000 to hunt hurricanes
In his young bid to become Haiti’s next president, Wyclef Jean has already weathered more criticism than Rick Santorum at a Dan Savage house party. Mostly, he’s been hammered for his record running his charity, Yéle, which paid hundreds of thousands in fishy fees to Wyclef himself or his friends. And mostly…
A twenty-something cyclist is “clinging to life” after a nasty collision with a Kia in Little Havana sent him sprawling to the pavement. Now police are asking for help as they try to identify the man, whose face is badly swollen from the crash.Click through for a photo of the…
The signs went up about a month ago, stapled high on light posts along I-95, the Julia Tuttle Causeway, and Biscayne Boulevard. They’re nothing more than a hand-scrawled message on fluorescent cardboard, yet they’re weirdly compelling: “Hungrerapper.com,” they say, and nothing more.Visit the site, as thousands of people have done…
Dearest Miami Heat: Why, oh why, do you hate Miami New Times so very much?You aren’t still pissed that we called your owner, Micky Arison, a “greedy corporate pig,” are you? Are your feelings still hurt because we superimposed his face on a gigantic swine for the cover? Perhaps you’re…
Wyclef Jean is still waiting to find out whether he’s actually eligible to run for president in Haiti, a nation that doesn’t recognize dual citizenship. But that doesn’t mean his campaign isn’t already in full swing.Jean has released his first campaign video (apparently, he decided the “If I Were President”…
Lawton “Bud” Chiles III linked to alleged cult
