Judi Kolson used to love paddling the waters of Biscayne Bay until a recent outing allegedly gave her a leg infection after her skin came into contact with contaminated water. Now, the breast cancer survivor from Key Biscayne is careful not come into contact with sea water when she hits…
UM Sanctions: Goodbye, Nevin Shapiro
Reader Mail: Everglades Python Hunt Stinks
Give Stephen Ross props. He stepped up to Norman Braman one billionaire to another and slapped him across the face with a clean white glove. With a full page ad undermining Braman’s credibility in Tuesday’s edition of the Miami Herald, Ross let Braman know he’s got the cash to parry…
Forty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court declared that a woman has the right to choose whether or not to forcibly terminate a pregnancy. The Court’s landmark decision is not only still hotly debated, but is also constantly challenged around the country. Roe v. Wade is also an…
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 gives his take on the latest developments in the NCAA probe of the Miami Hurricanes.The NCAA is finally…
What happens when your political career is blown to smithereens by an angry electorate and a billionaire car dealership mogul? If you’re Carlos Alvarez, the former Miami-Dade mayor who was booted from office in the largest recall of a local politician on March 15, 2011, you become a Bizarro version…
On Sunday, Banana Republican stopped by the Victor Bean’s Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show at the Miami-Dade County youth fairgrounds to gauge the mood of Second Amendment acolytes in the wake of Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he wants to clamp down on guns.For all his blustering about…
Update: Giraffas announced that they have chosen Miami-Dade to be the Brazilian chain’s U.S. headquarters adding 285 direct new jobs within three years and an initial capital investment of $8 million. Congratulations on your 285 new jobs, Miami.We recently stumbled across a headline picked up by the Huffington Post from a website…
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…
If one were to envision the sex life of your average shmazillionaire rapper based on their lyrical content, the picture developed would be downright obscene. We’re not talking high-budget HD cuddle porn shit. If their rhymes are to be believed, the libidinal reality of the average MC is more akin…
For this week’s cover story, I wrote about the journey of a group of 11-and-12-year-old boys playing for the 125 pound Miami Gardens Bulldogs. In 2012, the team bounced back from a season marred by a star player getting shot during practice while the league they played for was engulfed…
Luther Campbell: Screw Spike Lee
Reader Mail: Charlie Crist Should Destroy Rick Scott
It appears Miami civic leader Joe Arriola wasn’t too keen on how he’s portrayed in my recent story about his former boss Manny Diaz’s book, Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City At A Time.”Your article is also full of lies,” he wrote me in an recent email. Miami’s…
On Monday, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross shucked his $400 million plan to renovate Sun Life Stadium, the venue the city’s NFL franchise has called home for the past 26 years. During a press conference showing off a bunch of nice rendering of how the stadium will look with 3,600…
It’s enticing to bring out-of-town friends to Brickell and show them Miami’s progress as an action-packed metropolis. They can walk to one of three Publix stores or buy cigarettes, Red Bull, or whatever stimulant tickles their fancy at the shiny new 7-Eleven. Yet when the time comes to grab a…
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 reviews the controversy surrounding Django Unchained. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD)Screw Spike Lee. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is a brilliant…
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…
Swamp Wars Zero-sum game: You’ve devoted a whole piece to the business conflicts of airboat captains in the Everglades (“Sawgrass Skirmish,” Jon Tayler, January 3), but do you expect everyone to just lie down, disappear, and not compete? Maybe there isn’t enough of the pie to go around after all…
Last Friday, Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami killed a Liberty City institution. Located at NW Seventh Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Greene Dreams Shoe Repair had served the African-American community for 50 years. Tyrone Greene and his family had survived three major riots and decades of bleak…
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 laments the loss of African American-owned businesses on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.Last Friday, Miami-Dade County and the…
