Last week, armored vehicles, two helicopters, and more than 40 officers picked up a notorious cocaine-era assassin who was first arrested a quarter-century ago after police shot and missed more than 130 times.
The Heatles aren’t back, but Miami’s scruffy bunch of locals is playing some kind of basketball. A day after defeating the Toronto Raptors with an amazing, last-minute basket by shooting guard and long-ball wiz Wayne Ellington, the Heat beat the Indiana Pacers last night for its first win in Indianapolis since LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade played together.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine wants to be governor, but the outlook is bleak.
We are wimps. After all that whining about the hottest year on record, cold weather arrived this morning and everybody went crazy. Iguanas will fall out of trees, the Miami Herald predicted. Plants will die. Tourists will head elsewhere. Well, there is something to this. Yesterday, cold rain turned to snow…
The president of the United States has spent more than a third of his time in office at his personal properties and a fourth at his golf clubs, Business Insider reported this week.
The best journalism gets results, and in 2017, Miami New Times staff raised serious hell and changed the city for the better.
What made Becks Lange Miami’s whirling dervish of a party girl? Maybe it was leaving Venezuela when she was only 15 and arriving in the Magic City as adulthood beckoned. “The hardest part was really not having my friends with me,” recalls Lange, now 34. “Maybe that’s what drove me…
Miami has a lousy reputation when it comes to civic pride and generosity. Thursday belied that notion. The Miami Foundation’s Give Miami Day set a fundraising record, making it one of the most active 24-hour charitable-giving events in the nation. According to the foundation, 20,413 donors gave $10.1 million to 695 local nonprofits.
Tortuga Music Festival announced its lineup for the three-day music festival and benefit in April, and it’s loaded with country stars and classic rock. The event, which benefits ocean environmental-related causes, will feature headliners Keith Urban, Florida Georgia Line, and Eric Church along with Snoop Dogg, Shaggy, Cheap Trick, and…
Just hours after President Donald Trump threatened war on North Korea, 3,000 people formed a huge human peace sign at Hialeah Gardens High School. The symbol wasn’t a protest, and Trump’s name never came up, but the message was unmistakeable: War is not something anyone wants.
There was a bright light, and her name was Frederica Wilson, the very same congressperson whom President Donald Trump called a liar this morning because she claimed he had told the widow of a soldier recently killed in an ambush in Niger that her husband “knew what he signed up for.” (Trump’s hundreds of lies have been catalogued by the New York Times.)
A University of Miami faculty exhibit opening next week will include American flags fashioned into Ku Klux Klan hoods on a cart with wheels shaped like like a Nazi swastika.
“The point is to be able to restore power more quickly,” Bubriski says. “There is no amount of hardening that is going to stop a 50-foot-tall date palm from falling on the lines.”
Wide receiver Kenny Stills kneeled. So did tackle Laremy Tunsil, safety Maurice Smith, and tight end Julius Thomas. The entire team locked arms in solidarity.
What does it take to publish a brilliant feature story, pictures, and cover when there’s no electricity or internet, and writers are pinned down by 100 mile per hour winds? The answer is ingenuity, luck, and communication over more than 6,000 miles. Miami New Times doesn’t have fancy generators or…
Epicure Market, a Miami Beach tradition, has closed for good thanks to Hurricane Irma. In a tweet this morning, the South Beach grocery/prepared-foods specialty store announced its days are done.
The National Hurricane Center is reporting that two new storm systems are forming in the far eastern Atlantic. While they are far from Miami, both show a 70 percent probability of becoming tropical depressions within five days. The NHC is predicting a more southerly track for the pair than Hurricane…
Standing defiantly in the distance off Islamorada is a century-old lighthouse that has survived much more than the wimpy winds of Hurricane Irma. The Alligator Lighthouse was built in 1873, before Miami even existed. The name honors a pirate-fighting schooner that sank there in 1822 and was blown up so…
There’s hope. The thousands of people on Florida’s east coast stuck without power should have it restored by this Sunday at the latest, Florida Power & LIght tweeted Tuesday morning. Those on Florida’s west coast, which took a stronger hit from Hurricane Irma, can expect electricity by September 22.
There is an increasing chance of seeing some impacts from Irma in the Florida Peninsula and the Florida Keys later this week.
Here’s how to help, Miami.
“Life is life,” Chris Wong Won said in an interview in 2000. “There’s only X amount of time to shine.” Wong Won, also known as Fresh Kid Ice and one of the founders of 2 Live Crew, has died. He was 53 years old. Along with rap mogul (and New Times columnist) Luther Campbell, Wong Won and several others made history in 1989 with their album As Nasty as They Wanna Be.
