Sana Ullah and her sister were shopping at Sawgrass Mills Mall when they realized it was time to pray. They grabbed “probably the ugliest shirt” in the store, she recalls, and hurried into a changing room. The whole situation had Ullah laughing to herslf. It was hardly the first time…
Aprille Hinnant thought WEDR 99JAMZ radio host Maestro Powell was protecting her from the belly of the beast of the industry,” she says. He told her not to talk to anyone else at the station. Don;t mention the training, he said. As the program director and main personality of 99JAMZ’s Sunday morning…
Since classes started this year, Miami Dade schools have tried desperately to keep kids away from the deadly Zika virus. They’ve handed out bug spray, encouraged long pants and shirts, and monitored for mosquito breeding grounds. So it was curious to see a proposal from school board member and county…
In a video making the rounds online, a man toting a pair of pruning shears rushes up to people posing for selfies and cuts their selfie sticks in half, running away as their cellphones crash to the ground. Some scream; others chase after him. Filmed in New York City, the…
Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco doesn’t remember exactly what the signs said, but he says the message was basically, “No bicycles, no fun, no breathing.” When someone sent him a picture of the new signage, which was being installed at Lummus Park, he was furious. Hours later, the signs were…
It’s no secret that Florida International University has struggled to fill its stands for home football games. The Panthers dipped below the NCAA-mandated average attendance of 15,000 in both 2012 and 2014, putting its Football Bowl Subdivision status at risk. So this year, FIU is offering rewards to students who go…
“Got ’em on!” Mark “the Shark” Quartiano roars while his first mate stabs a shark with a gaff and hauls it out of the placid Atlantic Ocean. “In the boat, get him in the boat! Yeah, got ’em on!” Thwacking its tail and flipping over so the white of its…
Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco is sick of finding cigarette butts in the sand. As he strolls South Beach’s white beaches, he regularly has to stop what he’s doing to pick them up and throw them away. In fact, he once hosted a beach clean-up that netted over seven pounds…
Five years ago, the principal and assistant principal of Neva King Cooper Educational Center in Homestead decided that their students, all of whom are severely disabled, might be better off if their school became a charter. They presented the idea to the school’s advisory committee, which supported looking into it. But…
Summer break is over, and if you’re a female student at Miami Arts Charter, you might want to stock up on pants. That’s because all skirts and dresses are now banned. But even pants options are tightly limited: No leggings, yoga pants or ripped jeans are allowed this year. Shorts are…
Coral Gables recently paid around $1 million for a pair of flower-like sculptures to celebrate its roots as a garden city. But some residents say the artwork, which was installed in traffic circles on Segovia Street in June, looks more like “Little Shop of Horrors.” They claim the brightly colored…
Liana Lozada has been using Uber since it debuted in Miami in 2014, but it was only recently that she took note of a problem with the service. Whenever she got into a car with non-Spanish speaking friends, she was usually the only one who could communicate with the driver…
If Marco Rubio wants to deny Zika-infected women the right to abortions, Alan Grayson has a suggestion for him: He should be willing to personally adopt every single baby born with microcephaly. In an interview Wednesday with New Times, the liberal Orlando congressman blasted the Florida Republican senator’s comment to…
Jacob Alkov chained his Schwinn to a loading zone sign at Lincoln Road and Pennsylvania Avenue several weeks ago. It was a Sunday and, he says, all the racks in the area were already loaded with bicycles. When he returned, a sticker was affixed to his ride. “Park your bicycle…
Modesto “Mitch” Maidique is so convinced there’s a divide between what Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says and what he truly believes, he says he’s “almost at the point of making a Trump dictionary.” “Trump says we have to build a wall because all of these people, some of whom…
The bodies of scores of Miami’s black pioneers fill a five-acre piece of prairie in South Miami-Dade near South Dixie Highway and Coconut Palm Drive. Many of the forenames are forgotten, but the family names can be found in the county’s halls of power and history books: Cherry, Richardson, Perry,…
When fliers advertising a “no ID” teen party at King of Diamonds began circulating across social media earlier this year, local politicians reacted with horror. After the outcry, the promoter canceled the party at the famed strip club. But now some Miami-Dade commissioners want to make sure minors are not…
A little over a year ago, as Peter Beach was riding his bike across the Venetian Causeway, something caught his eye. He turned around to get a closer look. There, lying in the grass in front of Biscayne Bay, was a person huddled under a blanket, the bridge and luxury…
Rayne Burse was walking her dog, Mojito, near a canal in her new neighborhood Sunday evening when an older woman first approached and shook a finger in her face. “You’re part of South Miami,” said the stranger, later identified by police as Maria Dorrbecker, who had come out of a…
When the Miami Herald recently asked for public records from Miami Beach about the city’s water quality, City Hall responded with a whopping $72,793.53 bill for the documents. That lead to loud protests from First Amendment groups, with one leader calling the bill “crazy” and filmmaker Billy Corben penning a memorable demand letter…
