Tony Montana was one bad dude. But he’s no match for gentrification. 728 Ocean Drive in South Beach was once a location seedy enough that Colombian gangsters dismembering a dude with a chainsaw didn’t seem like much of a stretch. Today, the building that hosted one of Scarface’s most notorious…
Must everything in Miami be endorsed by a marginal celebrity and decorated by Romero Britto? The answer to that question, clearly, is yes…
The takeover of Burger King by private equity firm 3G Capital continues to have an aftertaste for longtime employees worse than their cardboard-y fries. The Miami-based, quick-meat chain has laid off 413 workers company wide, with about 261 of those coming out of South Florida. The brunt of those laid…
Anger over public spending is all the rage these days. Unemployment checks? Undeserved. The Obama stimulus plan? An abomination. Now Carlos Alvarez is facing a fierce recall campaign fueled by bitterness over his tax-heavy budget and leased BMWs. The county mayor has been forced to fight for his job like…
Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade will soon have a new place to call home. According to The Wall Street Journal Wade recently paid $10.65 million dollars for an expansive 6 bedroom mansion on La Gorce Island in Miami Beach. The Mediterranean-style house has more than 13,000 sq. ft. of living…
You’d never guess it by the numbers retail stores pulled in over the busiest shopping weekend of the year, but the National unemployment rate is 9.6 percent. And by month’s end, close to 2 million will have lost their extended unemployment benefits, according MSNBC.com. In Florida, 100,000 residents are expected to…
By and larger Wall Street’s movers and shakers have always been insufferable, out-of-touch husks of human beings driven solely by greed. Of course, during the great recession of 2008 in which they were cast, deservedly so, as the villains they were forced to reign in some of their more exuberant…
Following his separation from Courtney Cox, America’s fourth or fifth favorite Friend turned cougar queen, David Arquette has developed a nasty habit of broadcasting his midlife crisis to the world. First he called into Howard Stern to discuss details of his sex life, and now he’s cut out the middle…
Just when you think God has forgotten about South Florida, he goes and completely makes up for it by sending hordes of hideous lionfish our way.We know what you’re thinking: But Riptide, isn’t that a bad thing?Not if you get to kill them with a clean conscience, dear reader. And…
Maybe it’s part of our city’s slight inferiority complex, but we kind of felt left out when Twitter rolled out the ability to view trending topics by geographical region earlier this year and didn’t include Miami in the trackable cities. Well, that great slight was rectified last week when the…
These days, Miami is a steaming pile of ultra-high unemployment, corruption, and bullsh*t promises to “change the system” or “get rid of politics as usual.”Yet, amid this chaotic crap heap there are opportunities for turning a serious profit. But you’ve got to act quickly to corner the market and ride…
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,…
Oh boy, the rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat just go personal. After last night’s second devastating dismantling of the Heat by the Celtics Paul Pierce couldn’t let the win speak for itself. He decided he needed to talk some trash on Twitter. Hell, he couldn’t even wait to…
Few things in South Beach can be called exclusively straight, but there’s always room for an unabashedly queer take on things. Enter Lords South Beach. It promises to be the only exclusively gay hotel in South Beach and is set for a soft opening on November 21. There’s a few…
Miami Heat President Pat Riley isn’t ready to take a page out of Hurricanes Coach Randy Shannon’s play book and ban his players from using Twitter, but something about the micro-blogging service just doesn’t sit well with him. Apparently he thinks Twitter could play a part in opposing teams’ fans…
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…
This 20,000-square-foot, Tony Montana-esque mansion at 70 Palm Island is Miami embodied. It’s been bought for a lavish price during boom times, foreclosed on during lean times, seen monstrous amounts of cocaine snorted within its walls, swapped between new money, and now, with the real estate market just getting its…
Could 2010 get any worse for taxi drivers in Miami? This summer, one cabbie was nearly killed in a deadly shooting while at least seven others were robbed at gunpoint. And in a move to protect taxi drivers, the County Board of Commissioners could soon force them to buy expensive…
Kat Stacks is a free market capitalist. She doesn’t just give away sex — and considering she claims to be sleeping with men named Gudda Gudda, who can blame her? And she certainly doesn’t just give away her deep thoughts either. When we tried to interview hip-hop’s proudest harlot in…
Cruise ship tourists: they may be kind of annoying, but they’re pretty damn good for our local economy. For the third year in a row the Port of Miami has set a world record for the number of cruise passengers traveling through a port. Despite the economy, that means the…
Miami New Times columnist Luther Campbell has launched a twitter war against WQAM sports talk personality Sid Rosenberg, whose controversial on-the-air antics put him on an even playing field against the nastiest rapper to ever get his own column. The two men could square off later today. Campbell has been…
Tourism officials in both New York City and Miami announced today a joint promotion to encourage travel between the two cities. In conjunction with American Airlines, flights during certain dates this winter will cost only $79 each way. That’s a decent, if not exactly unbelievable deal, but we can’t help…
