The Time Has Come For Miami Beach to Choose Its Fate. Considering how scant the challengers are to members of the Miami Beach City Commission and no matter how low turnout is expected to be in next week’s city election, it has been a long and contentious campaign. Throughout the late spring and summer, candidates [...]
The Candidates “Debate” On TV Handicapping politics is becoming something of a tradition around here. The recent spate of debates—at the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club, the Colony Theatre, and this last pre-taped, pre-recorded, what? Not a soliloquy, really… nor exactly debates, either…. how about solilobates?; yeah, that’s it!, the solilobates shown on the City’s slightly-off [...]
The Latest Campaign Filing Reports By Anne Newport Royall Special to the SunPost MAYOR”S RACE With early voting in the City of Miami Beach underway, a look at the latest campaign filing reports reveal one of the smallest elections in recent history in terms of money raised and spent. Mayoral Candidate Steve Berke continued to [...]
How does a modern woman put a bun in her oven? Dear Dr. Sonjia, I have a thought for a new topic. How about: ‘how to get pregnant?’ I mean, not exactly HOW, but, if someone were trying to have a baby, what would increase their chances of getting pregnant? I can’t remember high school [...]
People In The Community You Should Know: Mathew Krieger & Jacky Korn Tour Creators Discovery Miami Beach Who are you? We the creators of Discovery Miami Beach, a self-guided audio tour that allows our customers to explore 29 of the best locations that Miami Beach (past and present) has to offer. We also wanted our [...]
October 27 Halloween Epicure’s Halloween Party Guaranteed it will be a Howling good time for the family including the four legged variety. Get a leg-up on Halloween by dressing up both you, your children and your dog for the costume parade. Winners will be in three categories-Best Doggie Costume; Best Adult and Dog Combo; and [...]
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow… Where have all the voters gone? As we wrap-up another election it’s interesting, and possibly instructive, to note what, or possibly what not, happens in the process of electing incumbent, or possibly new, officials. What we’re trying to say, Gertrude, is why do so few voters take the time to [...]
Jorge, Hilda Escape Prosecution – Now Commission Must Act So this is how the curtain goes down on that tawdry operetta called Ticketgate: Not with a fat lady belting one out but with a prosecutor muttering, “Case closed.” The State Attorney’s Office – specifically, Chief Assistant State Attorney Jose Arrojo – conducted its probe of [...]
The annals of international cinema are mired with the wreckage of lousy movies about Puerto Rico. My teeth ache, for instance, when I think about the 1990 thriller A Show of Force, which starred Amy Irving as a dogged TV reporter determined to blow the lid off my home island’s Cerro Maravilla incident, in which [...]
By Anne Newport Royall PROPOSED RECYCLING ORDINANCE SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE WORKSHOP Monday October 24, 2011 Although the meeting was advertised for a 5:00 p.m. start, and the room was assembled by 5:05 p.m. with the 25 people who would participate in the workshop all present and signed-in, it was not until 5:25 p.m. that Sustainability Chair [...]
The Miami Beach Taxpayers Association will hold an in-depth discussion of the various proposals to build a resort destination including a large gambling casino near the current site of The Miami Herald building. The debate is scheduled for their monthly meeting next Wednesday, Nov.2, at 8:30 a.m. at the Shelborne Hotel. Jared Galbut, president of [...]
On Halloween They Even Bring Their Freaky Friends Miami has long been known as the kinda place freaks are not only welcome to fly their flag, they’re encouraged to let it run up the tallest pole imaginable. In fact, in this Magic City a freak of nature isn’t very freaky at all — it’s simply [...]
