Dean Moreau is a businessman in Florida City. He runs a Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q there and once received a free membership to the Cutler Bay Business Association for donating food to a luncheon. On the side, he is also a managing member of Gringo Travel LLC, which until recently…

Kevin Henderson stood on top of his pink blanket and yelled at the officers and city employees who wanted it confiscated. The homeless Miami resident with a gray-streaked goatee demanded to know why six squad cars’ worth of officers had descended upon a quiet part of NW 18th Street and…

Dean Moreau is a businessman in Florida City. He runs a Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q there and once received a free membership to the Cutler Bay Business Association for donating food to a luncheon. On the side, he is also a managing member of Gringo Travel LLC, which until recently…

Just two days after the NAACP said the Miami Gardens Police Department might be committing “the most pervasive, most invasive, and most unjustified pattern of police harassment in the nation,” the city’s police chief has resigned. Matthew Boyd was the first and only person to lead the force, which was…

David Strecker is a skinny former softball pitcher who lives in a modest Key West duplex and maintains a healthy head of fine, sandy-colored hair. He prefers tank tops that show off his muscular biceps. He is also a connoisseur of Caribbean prostitutes and has slept with more than 2,500…

The sex tourism industry is about a century old, but when the Internet first became publicly available, sites like World Sex Guide allowed perpetual whoremongers to form communities online. Founded in 1994, WSG today has more than 30,000 pictures of prostitutes posted by men who talk to each other over…

As women approached the quaint Little Haiti barbershop, they burst into tears, grasped their headscarfs, and rocked back and forth. Men stood a little farther back, gossiping about the previous day’s tragic events and examining a nearby barber pole for bullet holes. Yesterday afternoon around 12:30, a security guard began…

Phil Fung spent his birthday painting in Wynwood, which is exactly how he wanted it. The well-known Miami artist gleefully sweated over a 6 x 12 foot canvas just north of Panther Coffee from about noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. He was more than 90 percent complete with the…

Touchdown Tommy has been one of the University of Miami’s most memorable traditions since 1945. Each time the Canes football team scores, members of the Sigma Chi fraternity fire a small cannon in celebration. Seniors from Gamma Phi, as the local chapter is known, shoot blanks out of the wheeled…

Sarah Newberry almost quit sailing because of a wedgie. She was 8 years old and enrolled in a Miami Yacht Club class with her best friend when the potentially life-altering event occurred. One day, the friend’s boat capsized on Biscayne Bay. The class instructor picked her up by the bathing…

Katrina Campins says she was a nerd in school, which is probably why she was able to flip her first property at age 17. She was guided by both her spirituality and a need to understand human behavior during her time at the University of Miami, which is probably why…

Gio Profera catches the left boob on its second bounce and pops it back into his spandex tube top without missing a step. It’s orange and semi-opaque and at least an inch thick. Thankfully, for him, it’s nearly impossible to pop. Apart from being a commensurate pro, Gio is sometimes…

There was no reason for Anthawn D. Ragan Jr. to fire the gun. He and his accomplice already had the panicked customers’ purses, had what little money was in the register at Hong Kong Nails in Miami. But with both feet outside the swinging door, surveillance footage captured Ragan Jr…

Get ready, Miami: Your friends, neighbors, and kinfolk are now fair fodder for the blog “People of Walmart.” Last night, city commissioners approved a 203,000-square-foot, three-story superstore in midtown. For two years, proponents have argued the project would bring jobs and money to the Magic City, while critics have said…