This morning, New Times published a yearlong investigation into Taser abuse committed by local cops. Among our findings: Miami's three major police departments have tasered more than 3,000 people in less than eight years. Eleven men -- including teenager Israel "Reefa" Hernandez -- have died after being stunned. Local cops...
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This has not been the easiest season for Miami Heat fans -- things haven't gone according to plan thus far. Someone is always injured. The team is fighting just for the last playoff seeds in the East. Birdman keeps spraining things. It's been a rough first third of the year...
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 breaks down the latest setback for the Hurricanes football program. National Signing Day, February 4, is around the...
As of January 6th, same-sex marriage may be technically legal in Florida. The only hitch: clerks who issue same-sex marriage licenses could end up in jail for a year. That's according to a memo issues last week by law firm Greenberg Traurig to Florida Court Clerks & Comptrollers, but gay...
By all accounts, Fleetwood Mac is one of the great rock 'n' roll bands. But there weren't many people who would've predicted its classic lineup would be together and touring sports arenas in 2015. Over the course of the 38 years since the release of the group's masterpiece, 1977's Rumours,...
Rock 'n' roll and buns. That's what California's Burger Records and Cheap Miami will be bringing to the Magic City when Burger Revolution 3 Fest hits the grill at Churchill's Pub. "It's like a worldwide festival," explains Cheap Miami's Patrick Garcia of the Burger party. "It's open to every city...
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Some people protest against systematic racism and inequality. Others against mistreating animals. Some take up at the picket line anytime a war strikes up. And then there are people whose dearest issue revolves around a little bit of penis skin. Yes, anti-circumcision activists have picked a Florida case as their...
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What we have here is your classic good-news/bad-news situation. The bad news: The Dolphins were eliminated from playoff contention when the Steelers beat the Chiefs Sunday. The good news: The Fins still had a game to finish, and finish they did. Then there's the news that could be either good...
On October 1, 2013, more than 60 men in jumpsuits crowded into the austere cafeteria at the Krome Service Processing Center, a huge Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on the edge of the Everglades. The men, detainees from various Latin American countries, were gathered for a Spanish-language Catholic service...
It's amazing what $25.6 million can buy you these days. A condo in South Beach. A season of CC Sabathia's pitching services. Or if you're Rick Scott, a five-point lead in a hotly contested governor's race. That's what a new poll out this morning from the Tampa Bay Times finds...
Michele Traverso will spend at least the next two years in prison for violating probation after having already previously served 22 months for the 2012 hit-and-run death of cyclist Aaron Cohen. Last Saturday, Traverso was supposed to be in his parent's Key Biscayne condo when a probation officer came to...
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Conspicuous consumption is something Miamians know a thing or two about. It might be the closest thing we have to common cultural identity. And the luxury items Miamians spend money on are very likely influenced by the priorities established by the city's wealthy. According to a study published in Sunday's...
Jeb Bush has spent the better part of the last eight years denying that he was going to run for president. Now he's finally confirmed what everyone has long suspected. He's thinking about making a run. In a Facebook message posted today Bush announced that he will "actively explore the...
It's Friday night in downtown Miami, and a dozen people chat and glance over menus inside a dark Peruvian restaurant while a pair of bartenders stand idly behind a long, mostly empty bar. Then Dom Gelin hops onto a small stage near the back of the room. The short 25-year-old...
Each year, screenwriters kill off enough offscreen children to fill a Chuck E. Cheese's. A dead son or daughter gives a movie the illusion of depth plus an easy explanation for whatever the script ladles on the surviving parents. Binge-drinking? Nymphomania? Sudden bouts of break dancing? Blame the wee coffin...
A protest against the lack of indictments in Ferguson and New York City -- as well as the killing of local teen Israel Hernandez by Miami Beach police -- quickly moved from Wynwood to the 195 expressway. More than a hundred protesters have now shut down traffic in both directions,...
There are few hard-and-fast rules in screenwriting, but here's one we can probably agree on: Something has gone wrong if your crowd-pleasing family drama asks audiences to hope a child's father proves to be a crackhead. That's one baffling turn in Mike Binder's Black or White, a movie about race...
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Finally, some Floridian behavior to celebrate. A new report concludes that Florida has the second lowest smoking rate amongst high school students of every state in the union. In fact, Florida's efforts to curb youth smoking has been so successful that researchers are actually issuing a "Florida Challenge" to other...
There's a meme that's been going strong on Reddit's Florida page all summer. It shows Rick Scott and Charlie Crist side-by-side with the caption "Giant Douche Versus Turd Sandwich." That South Park reference seemed to resonate especially in Democrat-rich South Florida. As Riptide noted yesterday, local Facebook feeds and Twitter...
Agnostic Front is the greatest New York hardcore band of all time. And the crew has earned this title with 35 years of furious music. But before lead singer Roger Miret ever set foot in Queens, he was stepping off a plane from Cuba onto the grounds of Opa-locka Airport...
Yesterday's joint announcement from President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raúl Castro that they intend to normalize relations between the two long-divided countries was undoubtedly the most momentous day in U.S.-Cuba relations in more than a half-century. It was business as usual at Yoyito Café. As cameras mobbed a tiny...