Chef Creole Responds Tell the full story: People can read your profile about me (“How He Rolls,” Emily Codik, August 1), see me with these five restaurants, driving this nice car, appearing on a few cooking shows, and kicking it with my celebrity clientele and think that I got it…
Everything about yesterday’s arrests of lobbyists Richard Candia and Jorge Forte, Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi, and Sweetwater Mayor Manuel “Manny” Maroño on federal bribery charges screams “Only in Miami.” There’s a paid anonymous informant who happily served up lobbyist Candia as a bagman for corrupt politicians to the FBI…
What’s dumber? A dance music blog completely fabricates an absurd story about one of the world’s most popular DJs, or that said DJ would be personally offended and find that the clearly false story is damaging to his career. More specifically, possibly affecting his ranking in the DJ Mag Top…
For three seasons, reality television show junkies have tuned into South Beach Tow on the cable channel truTV to catch the absurd hi-jinks that occur when someone’s car is jacked by Tremont Towing, one of the two companies that hitch cars in Miami Beach. Cameras follow Tremont employees as they…
Yesterday’s New York Post review of upcoming SyFy reality show, Heroes of Cosplay, angered quite a few of us in the geek community. The article portrays the cosplay community as “confused” and “weird,” all while looking down its nose at those who might enjoy the creative pursuit. Yes, cosplay is…
Living or visiting Miami Beach, tow trucks prowling for cars illegally parked on the streets and lots of the city is a common sight. No motorist who dares test Miami Beach’s parking laws is safe from the hooks of Beach Towing and Tremont Towing (which has its own faux reality…
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 goes to bat for the most controversial baseball player in the universe. Miami native and New York Yankees…
A crowd of guys in trucker hats, beanies, and beards, and ladies in Joy Division T-shirts, headbands, and floral rompers drunkenly cheered on the contestants of the Drinking Olympics on the outdoor stage of Blackbird Ordinary. The festivities, which began well into the night, were held in conjunction with the…
Victoria Jackson, the former SNL cast member who turned to Tea Party politics in a misguided attempt to revive her career, is no longer a resident of South Florida. The news comes from a blog post on her mind-melting website, couched unceremoniously between an anecdote about the DMV and an…
Farm Fears Resist before it’s too late: Your piece about the mounting fears over Monsanto’s outsize influence (“Monsanto Menace,” Chris Parker, July 25) is excellent, but you omitted the latest coup d’état in the works by the biotech juggernaut. In its determination to leapfrog over opposition to its tactics and…
Rev. Richard Dunn II and all the other Michelle Spence-Jones haters think they got the last laugh. They’re wrong. Last week, a Florida District Court of Appeal ruled Miami’s only African-American city commissioner can’t seek a third consecutive term. She had appealed a lower court’s decision siding with Dunn, who…
The summer of 2013 will forever be known as the summer of the cronut. This little genius mashup of the croissant and the doughnut caused quite a splash this year, with people lining up hours before Dominique Ansel’s New York City bakery opens each day. Can’t wait for a cronut?…
If you’re the ultimate pessimist, J.D. Patterson’s move to reassign 16 detectives from the Miami-Dade Police Public Corruption Bureau to other units means the fight against public rackets just got weaker. Political blogger Elaine de Valle, who first broke the news, offered her cynical take: “Guess we’re done with the…
Community outrage over Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s decision to potentially shutter 22 libraries has led to his administration removing six sites from the closure list. For now, the Culmer, Opa-locka, Lemon City, Little River, Shenandoah, and Lakes of the Meadows branches will remain open unless county commissioners vote otherwise in…
Almost 200 years ago, famed naturalist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle, an exploratory vessel captained by pioneering meteorologist Robert FitzRoy, for an epic voyage to the wildly exotic, nearly untouched, species-rich Galápagos Islands. There, Darwin and FitzRoy would explore the landscape and catalog the biosphere and become renowned men…
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 assesses the fight for District Five in the City of Miami. Rev. Richard Dunn II and all of…
The sweet smell of liquor filled the smoky room as a Blondie doppelganger rocked on to AC/DCs “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.” It was karaoke night at Seven Seas, and just like the crowd you would expect to find at one of Miami’s best dive bars, former self-proclaimed rock stars…
We’re sort of obsessed with Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” In fact, we’ll even go so far as to confess to taking writing breaks to dance around the office. Maybe it’s the catchy “Got to Give It Up” sampling and the ’70s funk vibe, but it’s the song of the summer…
When it comes to George Zimmerman’s acquittal, President Barack Obama needs to go much further. Saying “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago” is not enough. Although it was nice to see the commander in chief finally address the nation about his blackness, it’s time for him to…
The Acquittal Justice, not racism: Whatever Uncle Luke may think, George Zimmerman’s acquittal had nothing to do with race (“No Justice for Trayvon,” Luther Campbell, July 18). It had to do with the fact that Zimmerman was in fear for his life. I would like to see anyone who was…
Cuban gangster Raonel Valdez won’t have to worry about his victim George Villegas testifying against him. Over the weekend, Villegas died of a heart attack in his Coral Gables apartment, the same one Valdez had been staking out for months in late 2012 hoping to catch Villegas slipping. On October…
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 has some advice for the President. While it was nice to see President Barack Obama finally address the…
