Gabriella Katia is a longtime model who’s made repeat appearances at Miami Swim Week. But that’s not why people are always stopping her on the street. It’s because of her pet monkeys. With boyfriend Matt Crown, Katia has two marmosets, Diddy Kong and Yeti Kong. The tiny primates have become…
All her life, dance has been a way of escape for Janet Jones. “When I danced,” she says, “everything would just flow out of me.” But when she was nearing the age of 30, the Miami native and former Heat dancer, believing it was time to grow up and get…
He became the face of Zoo Miami entirely by accident. A passionate, lifelong animal lover, Ron Magill was the assistant curator of reptiles the day in 1986 when the zoo was hosting a news conference about endangered crocodiles born in captivity. It was an extremely rare, exciting moment, but you…
When Satara Monroe tried to cash a paycheck at a local Wells Fargo, the teller called the cops on her. An hour-long police interrogation ended only when her boss drove to the Pompano Beach branch to personally verify the check was legitimate. Finally, two hours after walking through the bank’s…
The fraudulent Miami Beach company tied to acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was being investigated by the FBI as recently as last summer — and might still be in the bureau’s crosshairs, potentially creating a conflict of interest. In a nine-paragraph July 10, 2017 letter obtained by New Times, FBI victim specialist Cinthia…
On Thursday, as a new batch of Broward County ballots was counted, the margins grew tighter in several key Florida races. Those slim margins illustrate the importance of every single vote — but at least one overseas voter in Broward says the county elections office botched her ballot, raising questions about whether it was counted at all.
Brenda Wilcox is a bigtime supporter of President Donald Trump who believes his election has saved America. She’s also a World Patent Marketing customer who lost $13,000 to the fraudulent company shuttered by the Federal Trade Commission. So she was disturbed to learn on Wednesday that the president tapped a…
Today President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and announced that his chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, would become acting attorney general. Whitaker is a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, but he was also involved in a Miami-based invention-marketing company that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shut down last year after calling it a scam.
On the back deck of a waterfront seafood restaurant in Cutler Bay last night, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell took the microphone as a congresswoman-elect. With her husband and children by her side, the Ecuadorian-born immigrant and Democrat pledged to work every day to hold the Trump administration accountable. “This election right here…
Standing in front of a Miami medical center with Democratic congressional candidate Mary Barzee Flores on a recent weekday, Montel Williams fought tears as he talked about his daughter’s two bouts with cancer. “We’re very blessed that she survived,” said the onetime talk show host. “But she only survived it because she was…
This was supposed to be the year young people hit the polls in droves, pushing back on years of dismal youth turnout in the midterms. Parkland student activists like David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez traveled the country all summer to sign up new voters and last month appeared in…
For months, Rick Scott has faced scorching criticism over Florida’s red tide crisis, which has brought heaps of dead fish to the state’s shorelines and shuttered its beaches because people literally can’t breathe. Thanks to his years of environmental deregulation and budget slashing, the term-limited governor has been branded “Red…
It’s just before 7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in October, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is glad-handing with constituents at the Shenandoah Park recreation center. He shakes hands with a couple of uniformed cops and plants a kiss on an older woman’s cheek. Dressed in a trim navy suit, he…
Florida has endured three horrific mass shootings in less than three years: Fifty were killed in June 2016 at Pulse nightclub, another five at the Fort Lauderdale airport in January 2017, and 17 more at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February of this year. Yet despite all the…
If you were planning on, say, enjoying a leisurely day at South Pointe Pier this Saturday, don’t be alarmed when you see a crowd of people openly carrying Glocks.
Stuart Sheldon’s oldest son was in elementary school the day 20 children were gunned down in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary. The idea of someone aiming an AR-15 at first-graders was the worst thing Sheldon could imagine, and when nothing changed in its aftermath, he responded the best way he…
Devona Stevenson had been an officer at the Sunrise Police Department for nearly 20 years when she was accused of leaving work without permission last September. Even after it was made clear that she hadn’t actually left, she wasn’t off the hook — instead, she says, her male supervisors reprimanded…
Miami has a reputation for being the kind of city where it’s fine to fake it. But city officials’ decision to replace dozens of plots of real grass with artificial-turf-covered concrete is not going over well.
Since the day after the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, David “Cobra” Clemente has been a constant presence, standing guard when students arrive at 5:30 a.m. and when they leave around 2:40 p.m. In the beginning, he was surrounded by other red-beret-topped Guardian Angels who patrolled the school as volunteers — and won the affection of many worried parents and shaken students.
Cooper Solomon had long dreamed of being a ballerina, but when the teacher came to lead him into the studio the first day of dance class, the normally boisterous boy was quiet. The 7-year-old with big brown eyes and a gap-toothed grin stood up from the leather couch where he’d…
More than 30 years ago, the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association raised $86,000 to open a museum commemorating their failed, CIA-backed invasion of Cuba. Since then, the renovated house in Little Havana has hosted celebrities and presidents all the way up to Donald Trump, who stopped by the Brigade 2506 Museum and Library before the 2016 election to thank the vets (in stumbling Spanish) for their endorsement.
Lauderhill residents Frandy Cardichon and Juvenia Mackensie began planning a Haitian Flag Day celebration a full year before the holiday. In May 2017, they submitted a permit application to the city; coordinated with vendors, businesses, and bands; and began advertising and promoting the event.
