The title quote is from an article by Pablo Babanegra of Miami Autonomy and Solidarity. It sums up problems within local movements fighting the entrance of Walmart into their communities, and focuses on the construction of the Walmart Super Center in Midtown Miami (which has met intense opposition from many Miami residents). The article is [...]
Newspaper waif Sun-Sentinel threw what’s left of it behind Mitt Romney this morning. In the aftermath, New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Miami New Times were quick to post listicles poking fun at its inconsistencies and shallowness. The poor Miami Herald endorsement got lost in the frenzy, though. (They support Obama, by the way.) But cutting to the chase, the Sun-Sentinel piece, with all its contradictions, reads [...]
Memo to the Heat: If you aren’t already, please ignore the sporting press. We’re ridiculous. Did you see the horror that the New York Times wrought with the Western Conference Finals? Game five was a monster, almost certainly the most compelling game of the Playoffs so far. (No offense to y’all.) It was a brutal and beautiful [...]
Carl Hiaasen knows Florida. He knows the corrupt politicians, the narcissistic celebrities, the eco-terrorists, the naive tourists and the menagerie of other crazy people (or what some may call sociopaths) that descend on the Sunshine State. He’s seen them all up-close and personal as a lifelong Florida resident and, perhaps more importantly, as a columnist for [...]
At just 33 years old, Billy Corben, one-third of the Miami-based documentary production crew Rakontur, seems young to be celebrating a retrospective of his work. Yet Corben and his partners in Rakontur, Alfred Spellman and the less-public David Cypkin, boast a decade in the business under that brand name — and even more from the [...]
It was tough being a Knicks fan this week. Even before it happened, Miami fans were insufferably smug about the Heat’s victory over the newly ascendant Knicks. On the ugly morning of that ugly day, February 23, the Miami Herald published this snotty editorial from sports columnist Greg Cote, in which Cote ascribed the international excitement recently generated by [...]
The South Florida daily paper is in deplorable condition, financially and editorially: Yes, we’ve covered that. Now let’s tackle the hard part. How can the region revive this battered institution? Because the dailies are worth saving. Even in their near-vegetative state, the Sun-Sentinel, Miami Herald, and Palm Beach Post still produce more local news content [...]
This has been a dynamic time in South Florida politics, but you’d never know it from reading the local papers. In the runup to last week’s Fort Lauderdale mayoral election, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel provided scant analysis of how incumbent Jack Seiler differed from his challenger, Earl Rynerson, on issues that faced Broward’s biggest city. [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
