The Most Moving Miami Moments of the Year Bryan Ferry at The Fillmore Gleason What do Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra and Bryan Ferry all have in common? For one, they’re my Top Five of All-Time, who together would make for one heavenly quintet. For another, they are pretty much the only [...]
2 Past Leaders of PAL Want Mayor to Apologize Holiday season goodwill was not to be found last week between Mayor Matti Bower and the Miami Beach Police Athletic League as two former leaders of the organization lobbed a defiant rebuttal at the mayor for her recently-published slam against it and called for an apology. [...]
And Other Yakety Yak From 2011 “A huge window-shaking bang here in Abbottabad,” tweeted Sohaib Athar in the wee hours of May 2. “I hope it’s not the start of something nasty.” It was for his unfortunate neighbors in a certain nearby compound. Unbeknownst to him, Athar was inadvertently live-tweeting the year’s most notable event, [...]
City Commissioner Jerry Libbin, president of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, will open a campaign to establish a new, full-time city position of Condominium Ombudsman Wednesday afternoon, June 4 He will address a general meeting of the Miami Beach Taxpayers Association at 5:30 p.m. at the Shelborne Hotel, 1801 Collins Ave. Libbin says the new [...]
May 11. The blank cell phone screen stared back at me. What should I say that conveys how I feel but doesn’t come off as too stalkerish? The night before I’d caught an advance screening of Bridesmaids, the winning romantic comedy starring Kristen Wiig and Rose Byrne. As much as I liked their performances, though, [...]
December 29 Theatre Cirque Dreams Holidaze Step into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief with Cirque Dreams, now on in Ft Lauderdale. Experience gingerbread men flipping mid air, toy soldiers marching on thin wires, snowmen daringly balancing, icemen powerfully sculpting, penguins spinning, puppets dancing and reindeer soaring high above a landscape of holiday wonderment. An [...]
People In The Community You Should Know: Melissa Gorga, Reality Star & Songstress Who are you? Melissa Gorga, 32 What do you do in real life? I am a wife, a mother of three beautiful kids, an aspiring music artist and one of the newest cast members of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey What [...]
To Tax or Not to Tax, Is the Question By: Alejandro Arce Special to the SunPost Following the irregularities occurring in our Miami, which includes The Miami-Dade County, The City of Miami, and The Miami Beach as well as the other numerous municipalities, the last irregularity, the one and most “VISUAL” is the big issue of the [...]
Catalina Hotel & Beach Club If you happened to be a part of the massive New Year’s Eve celebration that took place at the Catalina Hotel last year, then you’re in for more this year! The legendary Spam All Stars are ready to rock the house yet again, only this time they’re bringing in celebrity [...]
What a difference a week makes. On the evening of Dec. 7, Jorge Gonzalez, appearing alongside Matti Bower at her Mayor on the Move forum with residents, was at the peak of his form, briefing an audience of 100 in his typically authoritative, proficient style about the city’s bold hopes and aspirations for its aging [...]
By David Arthur Walters I thoroughly enjoyed the Third District Neighborhood Safety Walk led by the Miami Beach Police Department last Monday. Indeed, this humble scribbler from the South Beach neighborhood a mile away, known as Seventh Heaven for its crack reputation, certainly found it uplifting to mingle with the affluent South Beach residents who [...]
By Daniel Ricker A long time observer of Miami Beach politics and the commission predicted long serving Manager Jorge Gonzalez, 45, would be gone in the months ahead and any chance of building a world-class convention center “was over,” he said at the end of the week. Gonzalez’s future came up suddenly at a public [...]
