By John Zur The new community center in the Town of Surfside has welcomed hundreds of residents daily with overwhelmingly positive reviews pouring in. “It is so exciting that the community center is bringing people together who have not seen each other in years,” says Mayor Daniel Dietch, adding that the new community center has [...]
Dave Crystal Candidate for Mayor of Miami Beach This past Memorial Day weekend in Miami Beach was marred by one of the worst Urban Beach Weekend festivals in recent history. In the wake of this last episode of what has become a regularly timed man-made seasonal disaster, the average Miami Beach citizen has finally risen [...]
By David L. Snelling After three months without a top brass to run a big bureaucracy, a general election, two weeks of campaign mudslinging and a bizarre turn of events that led to a complaint against a former mayoral candidate, Miami-Dade County finally has a new mayor. Former county commissioner Carlos Gimenez landed the county’s [...]
What’s slippery’n a bucket of eels with a stink a 25%-more can of Right Guard couldn’t mask? Boy, this just keeps getting better and better. Towing! If this stuff wasn’t for real we should have to invent it. Now we’ve got the two most hated entities on all Miami Beach mudwrestling over a $3 million [...]
People In The Community You Should Know: Bert E Brodsky – Family Man (Developer of Boulan South Beach) Who are you? I am the Developer of Boulan South Beach, South Beach’s newest residential development located right on Collins Avenue and 21st Street. Besides this, what I tell my friends is that, I’m just an accountant from [...]
And With It, Charles Renews An Annual Declaration of War As if on cue with the calendar, the rains have finally arrived in South Florida. Calendar says it’s now officially summer – officially, for summer actually settled here sometime around, oh, the day after the month that was spring, which itself followed the week that [...]
Dear Julio Robaina: You don’t know me, I don’t reside in your city. But should you be elected county mayor on Tuesday, I will become one of your new constituents. I know you’ve got a lot of things on your plate right now. Very busy with your campaign, I’ll bet, and concerned no doubt about [...]
“I used to try to get things done by saying ‘please’; now I dynamite ‘em out of my path” —Huey “The Kingfish” Long Julio Robaina, the better-branded, better bankrolled candidate in the race for County Mayor, continues dwindling in the polls. Is it any wonder? So “kingfish”, so quid pro quo is his political modus [...]
By David L. Snelling Following the Florida State Legislature’s decision to reject funding for the renovation of the historic Miami Beach Convention Center, the city has decided to be the white knight of proponents’ dashed hopes. The Miami Beach City Commission is searching for a consultant to put in charge of overseeing the massive reconstruction [...]
By John Zur Feeling bombarded by billboards hanging over I-95 or by giant posters on the sides of buildings en route to South Beach? You’re not alone. Scenic Miami-Dade County, Inc. is a for-profit organization devoted to protecting and promoting the natural, scenic beauty of Miami-Dade. Their proactivity goes so far as to encourage residents [...]
People In The Community You Should Know: Howie & Gail Sonnenschein – Web Purveyors (Founders of Bikini.com) Who are you? Gail: We are the brother and sister co-creators of Bikini.com, The World’s Biggest Beach Party. We grew up in the swimwear business and worked in television before launching Bikini.com in 1997. What do you [...]
20,000 of You Voted for Him – But Which One of Him? Will the REAL self-branded leader of the local African-American community (in the way that Wacko Jacko was the self-crowned King of Pop) please step forward? Luther Campbell, in his Miami New Times column, April 5, 2011: “Julio Robaina will say just about anything [...]
