Miami-Dade County’s Mosquito Control experts are struggling to contain the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which brought the Zika virus to Wynwood this week. Workers are frantically treating open water in the area, and planes will soon drop aerial spray on the neighborhood. Despite all that, a 15th locally transmitted case of…
On Sunday, the Florida Medical Association voted to oppose Amendment 2, Florida’s latest effort to legalize medical marijuana. The FMA, which represents more than 20,000 physicians in the state, also opposed a similar effort two years ago. So why is the doctor’s group hell-bent against a treatment option that has…
Miami is to new reality shows what Rio is to shoddy Olympic construction projects, so you’re forgiven if you missed the news yesterday that E! is debuting the 305-set show WAGS Miami. The series will be about the “wives and girlfriends of sports stars” (hence “WAGS”). In the new show’s cast, E!…
Pot is everywhere in Miami. Its scent wafts from bus stops, floats from open windows, and cascades out from under lifeguard stands on the beach at night. Spend more than a week here and you will, at least once, wonder if the server bringing you overpriced cocktails is stoned out…
This morning, a man riding through a fairly empty area of Homestead pulled his horse to a screeching halt. He called Laurie Waggoner, director of branch operations for the South Florida Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, also known as the SPCA, and said he had found something…
According to Gov. Rick Scott, 10 more people have caught Zika from Florida mosquitoes. This brings the total caught in Florida so far to 14, and brings something of a panic to the streets of Miami. According to a statement from Scott’s office, the Centers for Disease Control is now…
On February 27, 2014, Miami-Dade County cops paid a visit to 37-year-old Maykel Antonio Barrera’s Miami home. They knocked on the door, but Barrera, high on cocaine and PCP at the time, tried to slam the door and run out the back of the house. Before he could escape, the…
June marks the official beginning of hurricane season, but most Miamians know August can be prime time for destructive action. Given the fact that we’ve gone a historically long time without a major storm, though, it’s safe to assume most locals aren’t worried about hurricanes this year. However, it appears…
Four days after moving to Florida, I got in my first-ever car accident. In response, my coworkers simply shrugged. One of them grabbed my shoulder in solidarity. “Welcome to Miami,” he said, and then tottered off cackling. A study released yesterday has confirmed what anyone who’s driven along I-95; plowed…
The Florida Department of Health announced today that a grand total of two people in Miami-Dade County and two people in Broward County have contracted Zika virus from native, Florida mosquitoes. This is cause for alarm and for caution, but not, as many folks on the internet are saying, to…
It’s the last Friday of the month, which means traffic across town will come to a screeching halt as hundreds of cyclists commandeer the streets tonight. It’s Critical Mass, the one night every month when Miamians who hate cyclists are forced to shut up and deal with bikers for once…
A lot of weird stuff happens in Florida. Every Friday, we’re here to bring you the week’s weirdest. This week, we probe the very nature of identity itself: Does a man who resembles a meth addict deserve to go to jail for doughnut possession? Do you trust a man named…
It’s pretty darn clear orca whales shouldn’t be kept alone in small enclosures. We’ve all seen Blackfish by now. And yet, the Miami Seaquarium’s Lolita remains the sole killer whale on the premises, despite years of protests to free her from her relatively tiny tank. Because PETA is PETA, and pretty…
Marco Rubio, Florida’s most brazen political opportunist, used the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando as an excuse to run for Senate reelection, despite having said about a thousand times that his career as a U.S. Senator was over. After the shooting, he told the Advocate, the nation’s largest LGBT magazine, that the…
When a police officer shot and killed Homestead’s Edward Foster in 2015, his mother was shattered. “She didn’t take the funeral well,” Foster’s sister, Crystal, tells New Times. “She lost her memory.” Last night, Foster’s mother, who is in her late 50s and finally in better shape, showed up at…
For decades, oil tycoons have had their eyes set on Big Cypress National Preserve, a pristine national park in the Everglades at the western edge of Miami-Dade County. The preserve has been a battlefront since at least 2002, when New Times detailed the U.S. government’s fight to block drilling in Big Cypress…
This has been YesJulz’s year. With the key exception of DJ Khaled, YesJulz (real name: Julieanna Goddard, 28), is the biggest social-media star in America right now not named Kardashian. After getting her start promoting events for South Beach clubs like LIV and Story, she now spends her time jet-setting…
Moishe Mana loves America, and he certainly isn’t going to let a man like Donald Trump walk all over it. During an interview with New Times yesterday, the Miami super-developer, who owns most of the southern end of Wynwood, sounded choked up talking about his pride for this country. “I came…
Florida loves Publix, the supermarket chain routinely ranked as the most valuable and beloved company the whole state thanks in no small part to the fantastically salty sub sandwiches. So it’s sure to jar a few hardcore Publix fans to learn that the family who founded the chain just donated $800,000 to…
The officers involved in the shooting of Charles Kinsey — an unarmed black behavioral technician shot in the leg last week while trying to aid a 23-year-old autistic man — currently sit on administrative leave, as state officials investigate the shooting. One high-ranking officer, Commaner Emile Hollant, was suspended without…
Do you have cash to burn and no conscience about gentrifying historically poor, majority-minority areas of town? Good news! The website RealtyTrac has just finished a study on where to start buying up property. The site found that the zip code 33150, which encompasses parts of Little River, Little Haiti, and…
Florida’s anti-pot lobby is back. And just like in 2014, it’s spreading straight-up lies about medical marijuana to try to frighten voters. Two years ago, Amendment 2 netted 58 percent of the vote — just short of the 60 percent it needed to pass. That result likely had something to do…
