Adding a state-of-the-art casino with 1,035 slot machines has turned one of Miami’s oldest parimutuel sites into an enormous money maker. Last year, Casino Miami Jai-Alai, located near Miami International Airport, collected $17.3 million in third quarter revenue compared to $1.8 million for the same period in 2011. No wonder…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke analyzes the Miami Hurricanes’ sudden aversion to Florida high school football players.The University of Miami football program rose…
What’s worse than emerging from a delicious meal at a hip hotel to find your six-figure Porsche wrecked by valet drivers? Getting banned for life from the hotel chain over the crash.That’s what one Key Biscayne resident alleges happened to him at SoBe hot spot Soho Beach House. Now, in…
Police in Southern California are hunting for Christopher Dorner, the ex-Los Angeles Police Officer and former military man who is believed to have killed three people in retaliation for being fired from his LAPD job.Dorner, who is assumed to be somewhere near Big Bear Lake, about 80 miles east of…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Angelina and Michele Mastrangelo seemingly reveled in “popping it” for two Miami Beach police officers who arrested them a couple of days before Christmas. Police station video footage — first published on local blog Random Pixels — shows the hand-cuffed Toronto siblings voraciously showing off some comical booty-shaking for cops…
Back in 2008, Galata Inc., a social service agency that assists minorities and low income residents in Homestead, was one of 37 local non-profit organizations that received a no-questions-asked Miami-Dade County grant. Galata got $500,000 from a $30 million pot that was part of the county’s Building Better Communities general…
Rick Ross Shooting: Calm Down or End Up Like Biggie
No Hall of Fame for A-Rod After New Times Investigation
Sure, the Miami Marlins might’ve been passive-aggressively shopping slugger Giancarlo Staton to any MLB team prepared to spend an “overwhelming” amount of cash. But trading the last star in the Marlins’ clubhouse to a New Wave art-punk band from Akron, Ohio that’s best known for singing “Whip It” while wearing…
Wanna spend an extra-special folksy night with Mumford & Sons and some Gentlemen of the Road? Well, you’ll have to trek approximately 308.5 miles to St. Augustine. But it will be definitely worth the road trip. Especially since this second annual M&S tour to “those places not often visited by…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke writes an open letter to the Bawse. Dear Rick Ross:As someone who survived several rap beefs, I’m going to…
Jeb Bush Jr. is one of the future faces of the Republican Party. He is the 29-year-old president of Bush Realty and sits on the boards of several local corporations. The youngest son of Florida’s former governor is even considered a possible contender against Democratic Congressman Joe Garcia in 2014…
Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…
Ron Jeremy, star of over 2,000 adult films and the man behind Ron de Jeremy, Ron Rolling papers, and anything else he could put his….ummm…face on and make a buck, is resting after aneurysm surgery.The actor/entrepreneur/personality drove himself to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles early Wednesday after experiencing chest…
While conducting research for an upcoming article, Banana Republican came across this nifty tool on the Miami-Dade County Police Department’s website called “Crime Mapping.” Basically you can track criminal activity in any neighborhood in the city of Miami and unincorporated Miami-Dade.Imagine Google maps allowing you to pinpoint where the highest…
Sun Life Stadium Upgrade: Miami-Dade Taxpayers Should Fund It
Detective Dad Closure needed: Perhaps your article shedding more light on the death of 17-year-old Marissa Karp (“A Father’s Hunt,” Kyle Swenson, January 24) will eventually help solve this murder and give some measure of closure to her heartbroken father, Gary, and her brother. This is the first I’ve read…
A nonprofit organization that fights housing discrimination recently scored a partial court victory against SPV Realty, the New York-based company that owns Little Haiti apartment complex Design Place. HOPE Fair Housing Center is suing SPV in Miami federal court, alleging the rental real estate firm discriminates against African-American renters.On January…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke comes to the defense of the Miami Dolphins.I’m with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross on this one. The…
In light of the New York ban and ensuing bruhaha, we must admit: there is no such thing as a completely healthy soda. But there are much healthier alternatives than those BPA-laden cans full of phosphate fizzies pumped full of high fructose corn syrup and caramel coloring.The ingredients in regular…
For Nadia Wright, a veteran suffering from anxiety, depression, and a debilitating organ condition, the cozy north Miami Beach duplex seemed like the perfect place to try to get back on her feet. So in September, the ex-Merchant Marine and her two teenage kids moved into the three-bedroom abode off…
