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ICE Halts Deportation of Man Who Was Detained in Broward After Being Beaten With Hammer

Back in August, an undocumented immigrant named Oscar Silvan was beaten with a hammer, his skull cracked like an egg. He ended up in the intensive-care unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital for a week and underwent extensive surgery. But according to a recent complaint filed by the National Immigrant Yo ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Tie To Iran Contra Scandal

By Penn BullockWas Bain Capital, the company that presidential candidate Mitt Romney started, built with pivotal help from covert Iran-contra operatives? New information uncovered by Miami New Times raises the possibility. The story starts in 1984, when Romney solicited startup money for Bain at a ... More >>

Mai-Kai Hosts Premium Rum Tasting

Is there any better way to take an instant vacation than with a rum drink? The spirit of choice for both pirates and poets, rum can instantly evoke visions of lush tropical islands and palm trees swaying in the breeze.One of the most versatile spirits in the world, rum runs the gamut of taste, poten ... More >>

Cuban Radio Is Dying Because of Aging Hardliners and Miami's Changing Market

Spirit Airlines to Charge $100 For Carry-On Bag, Here's How to Pack

The penny pinchers at Spirit Airlines have come up with a new way to ruin your flying experience. Starting in early November, the Miramar-based discount carrier will charge up to $100 for a carry-on bag. The fee only applies if, like us, you procrastinate packing, sprint through the airport, and end ... More >>

Mavericks High Schools Hope to Profit From Education – But at What Cost?

UPDATED: Joe Biden's Brother Is President and "P.T. Barnum" for SoFla Charter School Chain

UPDATE: The Palm Beach County School Board's vote on three new Mavericks schools has been postponed. Read more after the jump.When owners of a for-profit charter school chain go before the Palm Beach County School Board tomorrow night seeking approval for three new high schools, they'll have a celeb ... More >>

Ave Maria: A Catholic University Experiment in the Everglades Gone Wrong

Deaths at One of South Florida's Most Popular Plastic Surgery Centers Raise Questions About the Safety of Cheaper Nips and Tucks

Latin American Dictators Love South Florida

Beverly Jacobs, Chef/Owner of Bamboo Fire Cafe, Dishes on the Six Best Things She Ever Ate

Jacobs feasts on a breakfast of red snapper with tostones in Nicaragua. ​Beverly Jacobs is well known among South Florida chow hounders as the chef/owner of Bamboo Fire Cafe, a cozy, home-style Caribbean restaurant in downtown Delray Beach. In addition to cooking up some of the finest, made-to-ord ... More >>

Two Latin American Shows Take the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale Beyond King Tut

Miami International Film Festival

Animal Collective

Morning Juice: Hollywood Finds a Beach Bum; Pythons 100,000 - Humans 39

​Let's see what's in the news this morning.All these political scandals lately and none involving Hollywood? Well, the City Commission wasn't going to stand for that! Yesterday commissioners fired Gil Martinez, director of their beach community redevelopment agency, after accumulating evidence he ... More >>

Benefit for Burned Deerfield Beach Boy Tomorrow at Pompano Beach Italian Restaurant

​Danny Martinez never expected the outpouring of support he's received when he started the Michael Brewer Foundation."It's really been amazing. I don't have words to express our gratitude," says Martinez. "I've had people call me from all over the United States, from London, from Nicaragua; everyo ... More >>

Latin Festival: Food, Music, and Blood Pressure

Che Guevara Ordered His Father's Death, So Gustavo Villoldo Promised Payback

R. Allen Stanford's story tells how one eccentric billionaire can help bring the global economy to its knees

With the help of Rainn Wilson, Aaron Jackson tries to cure a country.

Throwback Tuesdays: Manu Chao "Desaparecido"

When Manu Chao released his landmark album, Clandestino, in 1998, it was regarded as an instant classic by most people who heard it. The 16-track disc was a funky underground pop album aimed right at the cultural left (and bourgeois right) of Spain, France, South America and Mexico all at once. Bet ... More >>

Residents of a Davie trailer park think their contaminated water made them sick

Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 1

A view of Volcan Arenal from a hiking trail that traverses old lava flow from its 1992 eruption. Arenal is the third most active volcano in the world. We hiked through rainforests and gasped at volcanoes, lounged on white sand beaches and wound our way around perilous mountain passes. Oh yes, we al ... More >>

Judging Ana

Broward Judge Gardiner's alleged relationships with defense lawyers and prosecutors raises troubling questions

Washed Up

101 Haitian refugees sailed north full of hope. They got screwed.

Miami Foods to be Thankful For: Nacatamale Season

High Seas

Lots of drugs, drinks, and titty fights, but the Climax Cruise ends in clammy anticlimax

Camilo's Retreat

He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

New Times, New Editor

Matchhead

Carlos Arredondo did the unthinkable with gasoline, a Marine van, and a propane torch. Two years later, he still burns.

Las Movies

The Latinbeat film festival invades South Florida

ELVIS LIVES!

And South Florida's Tabloid Valley vanishes.

Just Like the Rest of Us

"Hispanic heritage" is hard to find at ArtServe and Gallery Six By Michael Mills

Rock 'n' Nole

A casino's comin' to Hollywood. It's a big gamble.

West Palm Madness

A battle for a basketball court displays differences

Political Therapy

Talking war with dissident Jim Mullins is good for a battle-scarred psyche

Magic Realism No Mas?

MoA's Central American show leaves you hungry for more

Bobbing for War

Florida's senator should get out before he gets in

Gamblin' Men

Big-ticket casino deals plus a messy internal power struggle equals even more legal woes for the Seminole tribe

Indian War

A Hollywood man has spent the past decade trying to pry open the Seminoles' accounting books -- without much success

Best of the Fest

At the Hispanic Theatre Festival, all the Spanish-speaking world was a stage

A Movable Feast

The local International Hispanic Theatre Festival is one of the biggest and best of its kind -- when will South Florida discover it?

El Béisbolista

No one has lived through more of South Florida's baseball past than Vicente Lopez

Waiting For Otto

Why would a man sullied by Iran-contra and illegal propaganda campaigns be a Bush nominee? Good question.

The Hate Man

Lloyd Shank is a poster boy for free speech. The Jews are to blame.

Best Cigar Shop

Cigarros Del Mundo

All the World's a Dance

The genre of dance theater is taking over local stages

Croaked on Arrival

"Frogs! (The Un-Toad Story)" is on view at the South Florida Science Museum

The Fast Life and Near Death of Nica

Revered by followers, feared by rivals, and targeted by police, the gang leader known as Nica is alive today because of a brush with death

Night & Day

April 23 - 29, 1998