Naked Politics reports that out of all candidates for the state house, Jose “Pepi” Diaz has raised the most money so far. Which is not only shocking because Diaz is not an incumbent, but also because he’s a reality TV show wash out. Diaz appeared on Season 5 of Donald…
I don’t really know who the James’s are but I DO know that Die Stinkin’ is one of my favourite South Florida bands of all times. I love their classic tracks like “Beer,” “Blood on the Sheets,” “Baby I Love Dope,” and their version of “Again and Again.” And they…
With millions of dollars at stake, two private marina operators are duking it out to win a Miami-Dade County contract to build and manage a dry dock boat storage facility at Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables. Earlier this year, an evaluation committee of Miami-Dade County employees selected Aventura-based Aqua…
Sunken Treasure Tell him something he doesn’t know: Gus Garcia Roberts’s April 2 story, “Treasure Island,” is old news. I tried telling everyone, including New Times and government officials, about this problem years ago when I was the powerless third member of the Grandview Palace Board of Directors mentioned in…
To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here.What I would like to talk about this week is what I’ve realized more recently is the coolest thing about music: the fact that it keeps changing and evolving. It’s funny because whatever each generation comes up with, the…
Inside a stuffy, overcrowded Miami-Dade misdemeanor court, a 13-year-old boy clad in an orange jumpsuit watches in awe as his lawyer artfully demands that the judge toss evidence the prosecution has against the teenager. On most days, Ben Reiss of the prestigious Greenberg Traurig firm defends commercial companies in cases…
Besides seriously rocking the fuck out, directly channeling an imaginary bastard love child of Kimya Dawson and Bob Stinson, and having the best ass and the prettiest face in the club, respectively, Maggie and Aaron also have the funniest, harshest and most deliciously cynical blog in our shitty little awesome…
To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. What I’d like to talk about today is an event I went to last week at the Bank of America tower downtown in honor of Earth Hour 2009. A friend of mine was working the event, and called…
Juan Carlos Zapata, a state representative from the Kendall area, is gunning for Miami-Dade County Commissioner Joe Martinez’s job. The legislator is going to be termed out of office in 2010, so he’s laying the groundwork for a run at Martinez’s seat in 2012. Already, the first Colombian-American elected to the…
It’s probably safe to add “shipping military aircraft parts to Iran” to your running list of “Bad Business Plans.”Traian Bujduveanu, a Romanian citizen living in Plantation, learned that the hard way, pleading guilty in downtown Miami federal court today of plotting to ship sensitive military parts to Iran, the U.S…
This Little Piggy Pays your taxes: Gus Garcia-Roberts’s March 26 feature story, “Pork Pirates,” misses the point about people on farms who raise pigs, cows, and other animals. They need to make money in order to support themselves and their families. If the writer enjoyed the barbecue pig, he should…
So, what exactly is a deal breaker? If you ask Peter, an anxious, sniffling, and sharply suited 36-year-old with a prominent mole that floats above his arched left brow, he’ll tell you it’s “a woman with bad breath.” Fair enough. “Or someone who’s taller than five-three… or well, she needs…
Today marks the end of the gayest squabble in TV history since the great Paul Lynde-Charles Nelson Reilly game-show feud of the ’70s. The Weinstein Company and NBC Universal have finally settled their legal battle over Project Runway. The Result? ProjRun’s sixth season will air as planned on cat-lady channel Lifetime, while Bravo…
In 2007, the Healthy Start Coalition of Miami-Dade reported that certain cultural pockets of Miami-Dade really see no problem with teenage pregnancy. “However, some groups did not acknowledge that teen pregnancy is a problem. Most importantly, they expressed knowledge on frequent births to teens but do not feel that births…
OK, so over here, we have the Marlins stadium, the port tunnel, and the Design District cable car. Cost: More than $1 billion. Then over here, we have the paltry $5 million that Brazilian racecar driver Helio Castroneves is trying to get away without paying taxes on. Yesterday in Miami…
Note to Tim Ryan: Maybe just stay home next February. Ryan, Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation chief since 2006, hasn’t exactly built a mountain of goodwill with his majority black workforce during his three years in charge of one of the nation’s largest prison systems, with a $315 million budget and…
Riptide usually tries to stay away from the celebrity gossip stuff, unless it’s amazing. It seems that fate has sent us lots of amazing celeb gossip this week:Paris Hilton tried to get a House/Techno DJ to stop playing House and Techno during the biggest Techno and House event in America,…
I’ve just learned that three old friends are leaving South Florida’s daily newspapers: one-time Miami bureau chief David Cazares and columnist Ralph De La Cruz are moving on from the Sun-Sentinel….and editorial page editor Joe Oglesby is retiring from the Miami Herald. That’s on top of editor Manny Garcia, who…
Forget Edison, Franklin, even Steve Jobs. If there’s one innovator we truly love and respect here in South Florida and the Caribbean, it’s Charles Ponzi.The guy, let’s face it, invented pretty much the best scheme ever. Why do complicated stuff like “invest money” when you can just take it and…
On March 7, just a half-hour past midnight, stormtroopers from the Hallandale Beach Police Department and the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco raided the Cheetah gentlemen’s club.The cops busted 16 dancers and two managers, arresting the girls on prostitution charges and the managers for allegedly running a whorehouse…
Prison Scared Me Straight Good job: In response to Francisco Alvarado’s “Unequal Justice” on March 19: This is a great article and all true, I’m sure. How do I know this? I turned 18 in jail back in the early ’80s. I was busted with a whole lot of Quaaludes…
Luis Montealegre poured a café Cubano on Tuesday, paid a delivery guy for croquetas, and peered east a few blocks from his corner cafeteria. There was only blue sky where a $634 million Marlins baseball stadium will soon rise. “This is the poorest part of the city, the one that…
