Weed Millionaires It’s an insider’s game: It’s great that people are gearing up to profit off legalized medical marijuana in Florida (“How to Become a Marijuana Magnate,” Francisco Alvarado, April 24), but the truth is that unless you are cultivating a strain with a legitimate medical market, like the Charlotte’s…
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. Karma finally caught up to Donald Sterling, the slumlord owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Just when his team is finally…
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 looks back on the success of a future NFL star. All his life, Devonta Freeman has been looking…
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…
Have you always wanted to learn to make sushi? Have you bought all the ingredients necessary, only to make a mess halfway through and end up eating the crab by itself? Yeah, we’ve been there. Things are looking up thanks to Sushi & Sake 101 at Sushi Samba Coral Gables…
We are all quite aware that food celebrity, television host, prolific author, and hilarious asshole Anthony Bourdain is basically a rock ‘n’ roll guy. On the tube, he can often be seen palling around with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, another funny, prickly professional shit-talker. And the theme…
Foodies — they’re like regular people, only more obnoxious and food-obsessed. Relax, we can say that — we wear our douche-baguette card like a sad badge of honor that we would steal from a little old lady holding the last marble rye. Sure, Julia Child may have said, “People who…
The Pentagon is more concerned with enforcing a racist policy aimed at African-American female military personnel than addressing the Army’s suicide epidemic among soldiers. Earlier this month, the Army banned hairstyles typically worn by black women — twists, dreadlocks, and large cornrows. Sixteen African-American congresswomen — including our own Democratic…
Library of Conflict Where’s the reporting?: So you’re letting a former librarian throw a hearsay attack at the library director (“Throwing the Book,” Trevor Bach, April 10), accusing him of all kinds of problems? Where are the facts and reporting? The library’s financial woes are a very real community issue…
It seems from the very start of Lana Del Rey’s career, the whole world was rooting for her to fail. There were articles exposing her former persona, Lizzy Grant, not to mention accusations of plastic surgery and conspiracy theories about how she’d been manufactured by record executives. Then came her…
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 takes on the Army’s crack down on African American hair. The Pentagon is more concerned with enforcing a…
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, whose wrongful conviction in a New Jersey murder became the subject of a Denzel Washington film and a Bob Dylan song, has died at his home in Toronto. Carter grew up in Passaic, New Jersey. He was an Army boxing champion and later won more than 50…
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…
Miami New Times’ senior writer Michael E. Miller has won the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi Award for nondeadline writing in the nondaily category for his article “Champ,” which tells the story of a porn star murderer. It is the second year in a row that Miller has taken top honors…
No one should be surprised that Al Sharpton was a snitch for the federal government. Last week, the Smoking Gun unearthed damning evidence of the reverend’s role as a mob rat during the ’80s. The exposé detailed how Sharpton became the FBI’s “CI-7,” toting around a special briefcase outfitted with…
Toxic Parks Public misled: Your piece about a long-gone incinerator in Coconut Grove still potentially endangering residents (“Ashes to Ashes,” David Villano, April 10) was very interesting. I’m sure in the beginning, people weren’t completely aware of all the dangers surrounding these incinerators, but as time went on, they had…
In December, I received an email from a former police officer once featured in Miami New Times for blowing the whistle on dirty cops in the town of Golden Beach. Life had turned upside down for Tammy Valdes and her husband, Rafael, since she won a $233,000 judgment against the…
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 takes on the FBI’s most famous rat. No one should be surprised that Al Sharpton was a major…
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. Today, Luke addresses what’s wrong with the Miami Heat before the big game against the Indiana Pacers. I love the Miami…
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…
Miami New Times has won a 2014 James Aronson Award for a story about a local man who has spent more than $85 million funding settlements in Israel. “Miami Beach Man’s Millions Thwart Middle East Peace” was published this past March 28 and written by then-staff writer Terrence McCoy, who…
In Miami, having a celebrity as a frontman practically guarantees politicians will approve a public boondoggle. Indeed, it seems Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is ready to hand over prime waterfront land, owned by the taxpayers, to global soccer star David Beckham. The British football icon recently unveiled his vision for…
