Rick Scott took a page from an old Miami playbook Monday when he issued an ad in Spanish that contradicts what he is saying and doing in English. It is designed to bolster the Florida governor’s campaign to unseat incumbent Bill Nelson in the race for the U.S. Senate.
Early voting begins this morning in what might be the most important midterm election of our lifetimes. With Florida’s environment hanging in the balance and the majority on the line in not only the state Senate but also U.S. Congress, this year will likely be historic. Not only that, but a proposed change to the state constitution could forever substantially rebalance the st
The most telling moment of the Andrew Gillum-Ron DeSantis Florida gubernatorial debate on CNN Sunday night came when moderator Jake Tapper broached the subject of DeSantis’ racist comments and actions during the campaign.
Hurricane Michael continues strengthening this afternoon and could deliver strong winds and heavy rain to Miami by early Tuesday. By 2 p.m. Monday, the storm’s strength had reached 75 mph, and as it moves away from Cuba, it’s expected to strengthen all the way through Wednesday, when wind speeds might hit 120 mph, making Michael a strong Category 3.
Thousands of palm trees along Florida’s highways are dying or need to be moved, a Tampa TV station has reported. Now the ABC Action News I-Team is suggesting Gov. Rick Scott’s politics are part of the problem.
Miami New Times staffers brought home the bacon in two contests recently, with staff writer Jessica Lipscomb the big winner, taking a first in profile writing at this past weekend’s Sunshine State Awards for a piece about a reality star, Ted Vernon, whose history of abuse had gone largely unnoticed…
Miami’s best electronic act? Get Face, a 25-year-old kid from Tampa. The city’s top dance club? Treehouse Miami. The finest band? Viniloversus, Venezuelan musicians who had “built a sizable following in their native South American nation and were already Latin Grammy winners by the time economic and political turmoil forced them to emigrate to the United States.”
Miami New Times and the Memphis Flyer dominated the Society for Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Awards in its nondaily journalism awards, which were announced last week. The competition covers the 11 Southeastern states.
An always-smiling six-foot-five science teacher, he explained how the cancer began in the pancreas and spread to the liver. But that really wasn’t the lesson. Those kids were learning about daily life with death — being valiant, caring, and loving both your family and your profession.
A judge Monday sealed tapes of hours of jailhouse phone calls made by chart-topping Lauderhill musician XXXTentacion. The decision is an affront to anyone who believes in open-record laws. It also violates state law.
Tyrese Cooper, an 18-year-old who’s one of the ten fastest mid-distance runners in the world, was arrested for trying to steal cars at Miami International Airport. Now he might not be able to take part in this weekend’s state tournament in Jacksonville.
Miami New Times’ managing editor has won a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award in non-deadline reporting for his story “Hooked: How a Floating Bale of Cocaine Led to the Florida Keys’ Worst Murder in Decades.”
The Swedish DJ/producer Tim Bergling, AKA Avicii, is dead at the age of 28. His publicist, Diana Baron, said in the statement that the EDM superstar was found dead Friday, April 20, in Muscat, Oman.
On the eve of the nation’s best-known marijuana holiday, South Florida breweries have been thrown into chaos by cease-and-desist letters sent to breweries using terpene, an ingredient that can be related to cannabis and hemp.
Miami Beach is famous for debauchery, not debate. But Saturday morning, more than 3,000 people showed up to protest Florida’s lousy gun laws and the watered down measure that was recently approved by the state legislature. Rapper Flo Rida addressed the crowd. So did singer Emily Estefan, Miami Beach Mayor…
H. Wayne Huizenga, the man who brought both hockey and baseball to South Florida — and who made three Fortune 500 companies — is dead of cancer at 80.
The 2018 Grammys are over. Kendrick Lamar got screwed. Bruno Mars won maybe a little bigger than he should have. And Miami pretty much got skunked. But as the Washington Post pointed out this past weekend, the Grammys have always been bad at choosing winners or moving beyond the curve.
Last night amazing dancers, half nude, turned the stage of the Knight Concert Hall of the Adrienne Arsht Center into a fusillade of athleticism, color, and beauty. There was old-timey, contemporary, and timeless gyration that brought the audience to two standing ovations and at times left even veteran dance…
The guy behind South Florida’s best market — and that is saying something — left this world recently. Ben Laurenzo, the genius of Laurenzo’s Italian Market in North Miami Beach, died of a liver ailment January 15. A half century ago, the man who entered the military at age 15…
Various media sources are reporting this morning that Kodak Black, one of the most talented rappers in South Florida but a magnet for trouble, has been arrested for grand theft of a firearm, possession of marijuana, child neglect, two counts of possession of a weapon by a felon, and two counts of probation violation.
Amazon has narrowed its list of cities for a second headquarters to 20, and amazingly, Miami is there along with New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Austin, and Atlanta.
More than a 120 people gathered last night at the Greater Holy Cross Missionary Baptist Church on NW 93rd Terrace to solve the problem of gun violence in Miami’s black neighborhoods. Neither Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez nor the county’s police director, Juan Perez, attended.
