It’s the final countdown for North Bay Village Mayor Corina Esquijarosa. The Miami-Dade Elections Office has verified that a political action committee seeking a recall against Esquijarosa has obtained the required number of voter signatures to call an election.Citizens For Full Disclosure needed to get 440 John Hancocks in its…
Joe Rose, Jorge Sedano, Sid Rosenberg are racists
Reader mail: Ave Maria University is like rehab for smug Catholics
I am so sick and tired of Barack Obama. How many of you saw him on Jay Leno last night, putting on his tired old shtick about how his wife is stronger and more in shape than he is, how his health advocate wife secretly loves French fries and pizza,…
McDonald’s announced it was re-releasing it’s mystery-meat sandwich the McRib at all of its stores through November 14. Immediately, people went wild on Twitter to comment on the sandwich that causes such a devoted frenzy whenever the fast-food giant takes the pork-like sammy out for a spin. In fact, #McRib is…
Halloween is next Monday, and with it comes trick-or-treating and candy. Candy, by its very existence, is sweet, delicious, and created solely to make you feel good. So, of course, some genius decided that if you can mold candy into, say, a teddy bear, you can mold it into a…
Luther “Luke” Campbell, 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, Campbell wonders when Jacory Harris will get his due.The sports media in South Florida is really one-sided. None…
Though Juggalo parties are loaded with titties and soda pop, and their signature battle cry mating call, “Whoop! Whoop!,” would seemingly convey unabashed pride, it’s safe to assume that it ain’t easy being down with the clown. Everyone loves to rag on Insane Clown Posse, and the unwashed youth that…
With a $417,000 campaign war chest, Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff is the top rainmaker of the five candidates running in next week’s November 1 election.The incumbent from Coconut Grove is also the guy who tells the biggest whoppers. To honor his preeminent status, Banana Republican has compiled Sarnoff’s top five…
Some illiterate little paper I had never heard of — and never hope to hear of again — the South Florida Chronicle — was reveling this morning in the fact that I had to lay off an employee a couple of weeks ago.Sorry, you simpletons. There were no big layoffs. One…
Every major news source has been regurgitating the news of Starbucks’ new Blonde roast all week long; from the Miami Herald to the Huff Post’s Food Blog, to USA Today, the AP writeup has been amazingly prolific regarding Starbucks “going blonde.”Here’s the issue: I actually am a blonde courtesy of DNA,…
Urban Beach Weekend: Luke wants the party
Reader mail: Don’t blame 95 Express, blame drivers
Christopher Andrew Headley Miami Gardens murder
The Miami Dolphins may not have any victories this season, but they certainly have a sense of humor. They’re letting Jan from The Office sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at this Sunday’s loss game against the Denver Broncos. Melora Hardin, who plays Jan on the hit NBC sitcom, has been on…
The executive editor of the Daily Business Review, Eddie Dominguez, is jumping ship.He sent out this email yesterday:”After a decade as executive editor of the Daily Business Review, I’ve decided to leave the DBR and journalism and take a short stroll up Brickell Avenue to City National Bank where I…
Here is my final update on Rena Greenberg’s Gastric Bypass Hypnosis Surgery program.It has been about forty days since I first underwent the “surgery.” For those of you who haven’t read my previous columns on the subject, I’ll give you a brief summary.Rena Greenberg, a certified hypnotherapist (and author, among other…
What a difference three months makes. In July, after New Times published a feature exposing a disastrous lack of oversight in a $150-million-a-year taxpayer-funded voucher program for disabled kids, Florida Department of Education honcho Michael Kooi said this newspaper “should be ashamed” of its reporting. Now, after getting grilled by…
Last time Raul Martinez ran for elected office, he got handed his only and worst defeat of his political career. He was part of a Democratic tag team that was supposed to topple the Diaz-Balart oligarchy controlling two of Miami’s Hispanic U.S. Congressional seats. The coup failed miserably and we…
This past September 8, 20-year-old Christopher Headley grabbed a cup of fruit punch and walked out the door of his uncle Paul Neil’s Miramar apartment. Fifteen hours later he was dead — shot four times in the head and chest.The really horrible thing about Chris’s death — which I detail…
Sometime toward the end of the second Dubya Bush term, we found ourselves on the back patio of a Downtown Miami nightclub in full-throttle Friday night mode. Inside the club, sweaty bodies writhed and wiggled all over each other like an overturned bucket of earthworms. Rightfully so, as the tunes…
Luther “Luke” Campbell, 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 announces plans to reclaim Memorial Day Weekend on Miami Beach.Six months ago, a young man died and…
