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God Save the Queens

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City Commission Approves Foreclosure Program and Stimulus Package

 

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BOUND>>

Hood chats with #43 on Maxim Magazine’s Hot 100 of 2002, Mia Kirshner, who has lent her hotness to the cause of refugees in her book, I Live Here, which chronicles stories of those displaced by war, famine and oppression.

 

FILM>>

Disney’s latest animated adventure is a funny, smart flick about a TV-star dog who finds himself on a great American adventure. Oh, and who needs Pixar?

FILM CAPSULES>>

 

THEATER>>

The tickets are a little pricey but the French-ified circus of the sun is still the greatest show on earth, or at least at Bicentennial Park. Dan Hudak tells us all about Cirque du Soleil’s latest masterpiece, Corteo.

 

MUSIC>>

If you loved the Toadies from their Rubberneck and Hell Below days then you will love their new show. The guys are touring with their early music sprinkled liberally with songs from their new album, No Deliverance.

 

THE 411>>

Kris Conesa may never wash his face again after it was in the same room as Kim Kardashian's at the star studded opening night of the newly renovated Fontainebleau Resort.

 

CALENDAR>>

This Week: The Miami Book Fair International closes just as the Miami Short Film Festival begins, and more.

 

 

The 2008 SunPost 50

 April 24, 08

Alex Daoud

The Singing Ex-Jailbird Mayor

Former Miami Beach mayor and ex-jailbird Alex Daoud came back on the scene this year with his tell-all book, The Sins of South Beach, in which he wrote about the good old days of Miami Beach politics when cocaine and cash-filled envelopes fueled City Hall (though things aren’t so different in the building department nowadays).

Eventually, Daoud was indicted on 41 counts of bribery and became a guest of the federal government for 18 months. But what a good time he had — at least according to his book — helping Miami Beach cops beat criminals until they were bleeding and half-dead, taking bribes from bankers and bagging chicks, such as über-lobbyist and former Miami Beach City Attorney Lucia Dougherty, before the feds ruined all the fun.

There are a lot of people who wish Daoud had remembered that what happens in Miami Beach City Hall stays there.

Power lobbyist and former Miami Beach Mayor Harold Rosen also had a starring, albeit fully clothed, role in The Sins of South Beach. And when David Kelsey, leader of the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club, invited Rosen to publicly defend himself against Daoud’s allegations in December, Rosen not very politely declined.

So far the book hasn’t led to any indictments, but just the fact that Daoud continues to get the goats of some pretty powerful people makes him OK with us.

Armando Aguilar

Lin Arison

Ricky Arriola

Adrienne Arsht

Marleine Bastien Peter Bober

Matti Herrera Bower

Norman Braman

George M. Burgess

Charles W. Burkett

Donald Carlin

Charlie Cinnamon

Mary Conway

David Custin

Alex Daoud

Brett David

Jim DeFede

Frank Del Vecchio

Edward DeValle II

Lucia Dougherty & Carter McDowell

Peter Ehrlich

Gary Farmer

Jorge Fernandez & Julie O. Bru

Matthew B. Gorson

Andi Greenwald

Julie Greiner

Alan Lieberman

Keith London

Martin Z. Margulies

Keith Menin

Dana Nottingham

Tommy Pooch & Alan Roth

Gerald Posner

Manuel Prieguez Jr.

Louis Puig

Terry Riley

Luiz Rodrigues

Blanka A. Rosenstiel

Hiram Ruiz

Joe Sanchez

Don Slesnick Nicola Siervo

Javier Souto

Ike Starkman

Michael Stern

David Sugarman

Michael Tilson Thomas

Gillian Thomas

2008 SunPost 50 Credits

Editor: Rachael Lee Coleman

Writers: Cynthia Archbold, Angie Hargot, Lee Molloy and Ben Torter  Copy Editors: Mary Louise English and Ken Rivadeneira

Web Editor: Angie Hargot

Illustrator: Christian Meesey

Page Designer: Michael Menchero

John Timoney Larry Wilker  

Special Honors: George Berlin

 

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