Colton Harris-Moore stole five airplanes, hot-wired boats and cars, flew a plane from Indiana to the Bahamas with no formal training, won almost 30,000 friends on Facebook, and had his life’s movie rights optioned before he turned 20. The Barefoot Bandit, in short, is much cooler than you.But Harris-Moore’s epic life…
Marc Sarnoff’s plan to make the Magic City’s homeless folks feel a bit more like rodents got the big national airing it deserves last night: a prime place on Keith Olbermann’s “Worst People in the World” segment. Olbermann slams the City of Miami commissioner’s proposed $300 fine for “unauthorized” feeding of…
George Steinbrenner, the man who inspired Larry David’s best recurring cameo on Seinfeld — and, oh yeah, also the tyrannical architect of the hated Yankees dynasty — has died in Tampa. Steinbrenner, who was 80 and in declining health, died early this morning. Because we hate the Yankees and all…
Juan “Doc” Restrepo, a 20-year-old Army medic from Pembroke Pines, appears only twice in the new documentary bearing his name. On a train in Italy, he mugs for the camera. South Beach shades cover his eyes, and a huge grin spreads across his face.”Tune in next time, where we’re still…
Search “flugtag” on YouTube and the result is a Jackass-worthy montage of gruesome 30-foot plunges into the sea, trapped inside absurd constructions as air-worthy as a Hindenburg-Spruce Goose mashup. It’s not a pretty sight.So it takes a certain hubris to throw your name into this weekend’s Red Bull Flugtag, a…
The bizarre saga of Ben Novack Jr. — the amputee-porn-lovin’ Fontainebleau heir found murdered in a New York hotel room last summer — is finally closer to a conclusion. His wife, Narcy Novack, and three other accomplices were indicted in New York today and charged with tying him to a chair, beating him,…
Poor Manuel Noriega. Sure, it was a rough fall from grace to go from the iron fist ruling all of Panama — from the Atlantic to the Pacific and all 20 miles in between — to a jail cell in Miami. But there was some dignity there, at least. Miami…
If you don’t understand the raw anger and grief coursing through Overtown this week over Monday’s police shooting of an unarmed man at a traffic stop, check out this video.The emotion is palpable inside Overtown’s St. John’s Baptist Church, where almost 200 gathered last night to demand answers from Mayor…
Heat fans: Put down the gin, back away from the train tracks, and climb down from the edge of the AA Arena roof (talking to you now, Burnie).Superstar Chris Bosh will join über-superstar Dwyane Wade on the hardwood for your Miami Heat next season. So says ESPN, which is so…
Amidst all the fireworks, Budweiser and drunken yells of “America, fuck yeah!” this weekend, our Independence Day festivities turned out to be a busy couple days for the drug that built Miami.Not only did Colombian cops seize a full-size, gold painted replica of the World Cup made entirely out of…
Mahmood Karzai, meet Gerald Posner.You’re a multimillionaire Afghan “entrepreneur” who happens to be the brother of fabulously corrupt President Hamid Karzai, and you’ve just been accused by the Wall Street Journal of airlifting billions of dollars of U.S. aid out of Kabul under very shady circumstances.He’s a disgraced journalist whose…
J.J. Rendon is Latin America’s Karl Rove
Another victim of Tomas Regalado’s botched corruption probe files suit
They wantonly spilled oil into the ocean, lied to federal regulators and bent the rules, prosecutors say. Now they’re looking at serious prison time for their crimes against the environment.Yay! Justice at last for the BP spill!Wait, we’re not talking about Tony Hayward or any other BP execs? They’re all…
Last time we wrote about Gerald Posner, we showed — in excruciating detail — how the disgraced South Beach author appears to have plagiarized at least 35 passages from dozens of sources in two books, Why America Slept and Secrets of the Kingdom. That story came a few weeks after…
Every day that the shattered remains of Deepwater Horizon bleed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Marco Rubio seems to fall a little farther behind nemesis Charlie Crist in the polls.The biggest reason: Crist gets to strut around Pensacola Beach every day in rolled-up shirtsleeves, talking about how he has always been…
By now, Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado’s grand April news conference to announce his personal anticorruption unit’s first probe has been enshrined in the Political Catastrophe Hall of Fame, somewhere in the Mission Accomplished Banner Memorial Wing. The lingering question is, how much will Regalado’s botched job ultimately cost taxpayers? As…
A real-life episode of Burn Notice essentially played out this weekend at a Miami Beach hotel, complete with a mysterious shooting death, a hastily evacuated foreign head of state, a deathly bad odor, and a hazmat team.It’s not clear whether Bruce Campbell was involved — but frankly, we’re not ready…
Here at New Times, we’ve faithfully covered Miami’s underground cosmetic surgery scene, where a discount silicon injection can easily lead to a gruesome death by injection for the would-be beautiful people. Miami-Dade Police this afternoon say they uncovered a new wrinkle in the shady business when they arrested Larry DeJesus,…
Based on the latest ominous polls — not to mention the Tallahassee-area foreclosure reports — Marco Rubio could use some extra cash in the bank right about now. But a fundraising email sent out this week is raising some eyebrows out on the campaign trail.In the email, which is posted…
In March, we published a feature about the Miami Beach Police Department, detailing how more than 50 percent of the force earns at least six figures a year and profiling the myriad legal problems involving Beach cops. (You can read it here.) We’ve also reported extensively about former Officer Adam…
Warning to baseball purists: Watch the above video with extreme caution, industrial-grade earplugs and a few highlight reels of the 1964 World Series handy to revive your sense of basic MLB dignity. The Marlins have brought vuvuzelas to baseball. Specifically, they handed out 15,000 of the horns that are currently…
