The elasticity of William Shakespeare’s words — the way they can be stretched to anywhere, anytime, and still resonate universal truths — will be put to the test this Friday by GableStage and wunderkind Tarell Alvin McCraney. A year after McCraney and the area’s premier theater company put together a…
Jameis Winston passes to Kelvin Benjamin, and the FSU Seminoles win the national title. What a game Winston had, and what a comeback! FSU trailed virtually the whole game but came back with a 100-yard kick return and then the pass to the six-foot, 234-pound Benjamin to put the team…
I dunno. I guess I just want to gloat. It is 15 degrees below zero in Chicago right now. It’s -21 in my hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. New York is gonna be 9 degrees tonight. It’s 70 degrees at my house. Maybe I’ll take a dip in the pool…
It was just a few days ago that bloodthirsty North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un executed his uncle, who was a political rival. He has now whacked or dispatched with more than half the country’s 200 leaders since taking power in 2011. No worries. Miami weirdo and former NBA great Dennis…
A Pompano Beach man hit a bicyclist, who landed in his rear window. The driver then continued two miles, dumped the rider — who was still alive — in the woods, and went home to sleep. Axel Inostroza, 27, tried to hide his black 2003 Mustang from his girlfriend. He…
So it hurt when Miley Cyrus ducked out of a planned party at Miami Beach’s Fontainebleau to hang out with Ryan Seacrest on New Year’s Eve. But now a company run by the emir of Dubai has sold a stake in the hotel that it bought for $375 million in…
It’s Saturday. Whatcha got planned? Why not visit the coolest new reinvention of one of Dade’s classiest institutions, Epicure Gourmet Market? The new place, on Le Jeune Road in the Gables, is enormous, with 24,000 square feet of retail space and 240 seats in the caf�. It will have much…
Despite the fact that Wilton Manors and Fort Lauderdale boast among the highest populations of LGBT folks in the nation, Florida has long been a troglodyte in the area of equal rights. But recently, there has been an uptick in enlightenment. 1. Last month, the Florida Supreme Court granted a…
Fernando Madina, a Spanish rocker, got rowdy at Miami International Airport on his way to play a concert in Quito, Ecuador, and ended up in the clink. Madina was held for more than three days and then released early Tuesday after paying a $500 fine without charges. According to Cadena…
How do you spell hypocrite? Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio and his family have signed up for Obamacare, the Tampa Bay Times is reporting. He is also accepting a federal subsidy to pay 75 percent of his health care — under the provisions of a bill that some Republicans wanted…
Richard Sharpstein, one of Miami’s most prominent defense attorneys, was found dead at his Miami Beach condo Tuesday morning. Sharpstein, who worked for Akerman Senterfitt, had handled some of Miami Dade County’s most high profile cases in a career that spanned four decades. He once represented disgraced Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe…
Funniest story of the day: Three guys who work for a subcontractor building an FBI headquarters in Miramar got nailed Wednesday for trying to steal from the feds. Three men sold wire for which they had charged the agency. An undercover source told agents about the sale. Thy caught the…
Nelson Mandela’s passing today makes me profoundly and horribly sad. He was a great man who suffered for his people during decades in prison. He was a brilliant orator who inspired a generation. He was a true hero in an era when we have painfully few. As I write this,…
Call it irony. On the single biggest day in Miami’s visually stunning history, as Art Basel begins and the Perez Art Museum opens on the bay, media announces a three-tower, 2-million-square-foot giant on the Miami River. Complaints have been lodged about naming the city’s art museum after the magnanimous Related…
Time to arrest Jameis Winston. Despite the FSU football star and Heisman Trophy favorite’s claim that he had consensual sex with an unnamed girl, Tallahassee police and prosecutors have dawdled long enough. As you probably know, FSU’s football team climbed to number one in the nation this morning and will…
On a normal day, mere mortals like you might go to Publix, chill in your cubicles for eight or nine hours, go home and catch a few reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond. (OK, Homeland). But possible-genius and business it-boy Elon Musk juggles his multiple companies — Tesla, the ultra-sleek electric…
Ricardo Fort, a playboy and reality star who cruised South Beach with the likes of Pamela Anderson, is dead at age 45. Fort had broken his femur in Miami not long ago. Doctors, though, said he died from a heart attack caused by a massive digestive hemorrhage, according to the…
A Miami man who was busted for trying to fence a half-million bucks in jewels is at the center of controversial raids on pot dispensaries in Colorado. Juan Guardarrama, a 49-year-old with such a lengthy criminal record that cops called him “Tony Montana,” was arrested in a Miami hotel room…
Typhoon Haiyan has killed thousands and left millions homeless in the Philippines. There’s a way to help. Miami’s Filipino community asks you to contribute. Here are some South Florida events. There’ll be a Thanksgiving Day service at noon at the NANAY Community Center, 659 NE 125th St. Call 305 981-3232…
Wearing an Izod shirt and a backward black Nike hat, Miami Dolphins guard Jonathan Martin attended a football game Saturday in which his alma mater Stanford was upset by University of Southern Calfornia. Oddly, the defeat of the fourth-ranked Cardinals 20-17 wasn’t the story for much of the country. The…
The Catholic Church has announced that a vial of blood from the deceased Pope John Paul II will tour South Florida beginning tonight. A viewing is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Saint Catherine of Siena Church, 9200 SW 107th Ave. Catholics will be able to touch a prayer card to…
The word hit the street yesterday: Jeb Bush, who not long ago seemed out of the presidential race, has a 30 percent chance of running. A key question is whether moderate Chris Christie can lose 50 pounds falters. Politico reported yesterday morning that Wall Street insiders were talking about Bush…
