The fallout from the trove of Democratic National Committee emails published by Wikileaks has been swift. Bernie supporters have raged over his treatment by DNC staffers, and our own Debbie Wasserman Schultz has had to step down as the organization’s head. But the leak also shows that DNC staffers were…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has decided that her latest gaffe as Democratic National Committee chair will be her last. Today, the Florida congresswoman — whose 23rd Congressional District encompasses Miami Beach and the southern third of Broward County — announced she will resign as DNC chair after the party’s convention in…
Four days after Charles Kinsey was shot in North Miami, police officials have identified the cop who shot him. Jonathan Aledda, a SWAT team member with four years on the job, fired the shot that hit Kinsey, an unarmed black behavioral technician who was unarmed and trying to assist an autistic…
Among Miami’s most prestigious high schools is the Marine Academy of Science and Technology, which is dedicated to giving gifted kids a rigorous education in the marine sciences. But according to one set of triplets who attended the school’s FIU campus in North Miami, MAST takes education so seriously that if…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. Every Friday, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. And to warn you to stay the hell away from folks to make a habit of huffing propane — or barbecue sauce. Naked, Toothless Woman Huffing Propane Threatens to Blow Up Cops We’ve…
National condemnation has been swift today after video showed Charles Kinsey, an unarmed black man trying to help an autistic patient, holding his arms in the air before a North Miami Police officer shot him. But Miami’s two most prominent police union chiefs have now leaped to the officer’s defense. …
There are three stages in the life cycle of every “hip” urban neighborhood. First, broke artists move into an economically depressed area of town, setting up studios and slowly making it cool — and often pushing out longtime residents as rents climb. In stage two, the full-on explosion arrives. The…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi did not enter the Republican National Convention this week with the best credibility on ethics. Just last month, news broke that she’d personally solicited a $25,000 donation from Donald Trump just before dropping an investigation into fraud complaints against his private university. So it was a…
The real-estate tracking website Zumper today released a map of what an average one-bedroom apartment will run you in every Miami-Dade County neighborhood this summer. And — surprise! — You basically can’t afford to live anywhere. Granted, Zumper’s map shows median prices, which means half of the apartments in every ‘hood…
Some criminals spend their dirty money on drugs. Others blow it on luxury cars, high-end escorts, or trips to obscure rich people enclaves like Gstaad, Switzerland. Or, if you’re Dr. Fernando Mendez-Villamil, a man accused of running one of the largest fake-prescription schemes in history, you invest heavily in paintings of…
Today, the Miami City Commission will finally decide whether to allow the RCI Group, a prominent development firm based in Miami Beach, to raze Miami’s historic marina on Virginia Key, formerly the county’s only “black” beach during segregation, and build a gleaming, $100 million facility in its place, complete with…
Christian Yelich, the Miami Marlins’ 24-year-old outfielder, is quietly having a very solid season for the Fish, batting .317 with seven homers. New Times earlier this year called Yelich the best player on the team, and though the team’s Giancarlo Stanton has made a mockery of that judgment, Yelich is still a very…
The American Dream is alive and well in Miami — provided that you aren’t actually trying to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. In that case, this city is most certainly not for you. Please find the nearest exit. Not only are rents astronomically high all over the place, but it’s almost…
It’s May 13, just after 6:30 p.m., and a grimy Fort Lauderdale Denny’s reeks of cooking grease and industrial disinfectant when Tim Canova busts through the door. He’s trailed by a small team of handlers. An audience of about 20 ACLU members awaits him at a banquet table and surrounding…
Donald Trump just can’t get enough of that sweet, sweet, South Florida cash. After canceling a thinly veiled money-begging opportunity in Miami earlier this month due to the recent police shootings in Dallas, Trump has announced that he’s coming back to South Florida at the end of July. This time,…
Late last week, South Florida social media users began circulating a screen cap that appeared to show Florida City Vice Mayor Sharon Butler sharing what looked to be a conspiracy theory about the recent shootings in Dallas, in which five police officers were killed by a sniper. “The government killed…
Javier Ortiz, Miami’s outspoken police union chief, habitually lets his opinions fly whenever law enforcement issues make national headlines. Famously, he called for a boycott of Beyonce’s latest concert in Miami after the artist’s Black Panther-referencing Super Bowl performance this year. He also called Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot…
Earlier this morning, an accused murderer executed a Houdini-like escape from the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, forcing the Broward Sheriff’s Office to evacuate the courthouse and mobilize an all-hands-on-deck manhunt. Dayonte Resiles, 21, had been charged with murdering Jill Su, a Davie woman who’d been found dead in…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. Every Friday, we’re here to bring you the week’s weirdest. Although there is nothing weird about befriending a pizza-loving alligator. Buzzkill Government Tried to Take Away Man’s Best Friend, Who is An Alligator That Loves Junk Food There is something so terribly…
It’s come to this: Society has broken down, social customs have been abandoned, and the young and spry among us have been doomed to wander the earth in leaderless mobs, hunting not for food or adequate shelter, but fugitive digital turtles. Pokemania has hit Florida International University, and there is…
Earlier this year, Miami Police sent out a bid request for 687 “active shooter kits,” which contain multiple types of military-grade body armor, as well as two holsters, apiece, for AR-15 rifle ammunition. On March 7, a police-supply company gave the city a quote, claiming the purchase would cost the…
In March, state regulators announced that the Turkey Point nuclear power plant had been leaking dangerous saltwater into the Biscayne Bay, and possibly the Biscayne Aquifer, the county’s largest source of drinking water, leaving local politicians were aghast. But environmentalists say outrage isn’t enough when dealing with the powerful Florida…
