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Info: arshtcenter.org/parking 305.949.6722 • arshtcenter.org April 2010 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com 3 Contents COVER STORY 1 From Lovely to Lousy to Lost COMMENTARY 6 Feedback: Letters 10 Miami’s King: Jack King 12 Word on the Street 22 OUR SPONSORS 8 BizBuzz PO Box 370566, Miami, FL 33137 NEIGHBORHOOD CORRESPONDENTS www.biscaynetimes.com 22 Gaspar González: Amped Up PUBLISHER & EDITOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES 24 Jen Karetnick: If It’s Spring, There Must Be Ice Cream Jim Mullin Marc Ruehle 26 Frank Rollason: Who Will Lead in a Time of Crisis? [email protected] [email protected] 28 Wendy Doscher-Smith: Spider-Man Chopper in the Hood INTERNS Nancy Newhart COMMUNITY NEWS Mandy Baca [email protected] 30 How Does Your Garden Grow? 38 [email protected] BUSINESS MANAGER 30 They’re Off and Running! Sara Marzougui Ileana Cohen [email protected] 32 Living with Crime -- Eternally [email protected] POLICE REPORTS Matthew Ruckman ART DIRECTOR [email protected] Marcy Mock 36 Biscayne Crime Beat [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS ART & CULTURE ADVERTISING DESIGN 38 Victor Barrenchea, Erik Bojnansky, Anne Tschida: Miami Scores with Marlins Art Pamela Robin Brandt, Terence Cantarella, DP Designs 40 Art Listings Bill Citara, Karen-Janine Cohen, Wendy [email protected] 43 Events Calendar Doscher-Smith, Kathy Glasgow, Gaspar CIRCULATION PARK PATROL Gonzaléz, Margaret Griffis, Jim W. Harper, South Florida Distributors 44 Jim W. Harper: In the Middle of the Road Lisa Hartman, Jen Karetnick, Jack King, PRINTING Cathi Marro, Derek McCann, Jenni Person, COLUMNISTS Stuart Web, Inc. Frank Rollason, Silvia Ros, Jeff Shimonski, www.stuartweb.com 46 Pawsitively Pets: Call of the Wild -- Canine Edition 50 Anne Tschida 48 Kids and the City: Munchkins and Menus 49 Your Garden: A Bit of Palmistry from Cuba F OR ADVERTISING INFORMATION CALL 305-756-6200 50 Vino: Forget Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc All articles, photos, and artwork in the Biscayne Times DINING GUIDE are copyrighted by Biscayne Media, LLC. Any duplication or Member of the 54 reprinting without authorized written consent from the publisher Florida Press Association Restaurant Listings: 222 Biscayne Corridor Restaurants! is prohibited. 4 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com April 2010 April 2010 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com 5 Commentary: FeedbaCk Letters to the Editor Question: Are There “Dues” a Thank you, Ms. Cohen. Well done! White Guy Is Supposed To Pay? Please write more and more! Ingrid Barreneche This is in response to Kathy Glasgow’s Brickell article on Haitian activist Lucie Ton- dreau (“Hurricane Lucie,” March 2010). Upper Eastside Townhall What I learned from reading this is that there are the American-born blacks Meeting and there are Haitian-born blacks. And On Wednesday, April 21, Miami that there are county commission seats Mayor Tomas Regalado, Commission- reserved for American blacks, because er Marc Sarnoff, city manager Carlos being born an American black, you have Migoya, and the directors of Miami’s paid your dues. Meaning that if you are code enforcement and Neighborhood of Haitian decent, you haven’t paid your Enhancement Team departments will dues — at least not in America. take your questions at the first Upper I also learned that Haitian-American Eastside Quarterly Townhall Meeting. citizens should vote for Haitians because All city residents are welcome to the only they know what it’s like to be a Haitian. gathering, which will be held at 7:00 p.m. Now that we have those two mark- at the Legion Park meeting hall, 6447 NE ers by which to judge, how will we know 7th Ave. (entrance from NE 64th Street). if political candidates are competent or The event is being sponsored by honest? Or does that even matter? the Shorecrest Homeowners Association. Is there a definition of American For more information contact association black “dues”? Maybe a rating system president Jack Spirk at 305-756-0620. to determine what percentage of those “dues” have been paid? Yes, a Nicely Restored But what if the Haitian has an American Motel, but Not the First mother, or the African American is bi-racial? Nicely Restored Motel And what happens if the Haitian is a “blinged- up fat one” and the bulk of his donations come I am writing in regards to Karen-Janine from Brickell Avenue law firms? Cohen’s article “Once a Beauty, Always a What should a white boy to do? Beauty: Introducing the First Completely Should I call Help Me Howard? Or just Restored MiMo Motel” (March 2010).