There are a lot of ways to get back at a horrible ex. The desire for revenge is so primal and prevalent that the internet is practically littered with lists about how to exact vengeance. Most of the suggestions are benign, from donating their stuff to Goodwill to sending over…
Laura Rollins, a 65-year-old fast-food worker in South Florida, has been protesting for fair wages for nearly three years. But earlier this month, she believes, her outspokenness might have cost her her job: On November 9, she was let go from McDonald’s after seven years of service.
For days after Hurricane Matthew battered the coast of Haiti Tuesday, October 4, people living in the country’s most remote areas looked for ways to communicate with the outside world. With cell towers down, they couldn’t talk to faraway loved ones or send photos of the damage. Journalists from all over the world parachuted in to survey the destruction in larger cities such as Port-au-Prince, but accessing rural villages was out of the question at that point.
If the artist took himself seriously, he might make this his creative statement: “I think it was just because I thought he was such a piece of crap.” Recently, the South Beach resident has been sticking photos of President-elect Donald J. Trump into steaming piles of dog shit. He calls the…
In September 2015, Elizabeth De Amat texted her landlord, Louis Puig, about a leak coming from upstairs. “The ceiling in the guest bathroom is leaking, and the floor is full of water,” she wrote. “Can you please have someone come fix it?” She says Puig — who founded legendary Miami dance club Space…
Two months ago, Valerie Navarrete — a Miami Beach real-estate agent and chairperson of the city’s homeless committee — launched a passion project using nothing more than an iPad and her Facebook account.
From the time she was 12 years old, Inez Barlatier would drive to Miami Beach every Friday night with her dad and younger sister. For three hours, her family’s musical group would play to tourists dining at Tap Tap, a colorful Haitian restaurant on Fifth Street. Murals by artists from…
When he ran for Miami City Commission last year, Ken Russell’s opponents mockingly called him the “Boy Wonder.” As a newcomer to politics, the 42-year-old was seen by critics as little more than a hipster activist with a penchant for Hacky Sack. “That nickname came about during the campaign I…
In March, citing an uptick in mass shootings and terrorist events, the Miami-Dade Police Department upgraded its officers’ gear to powerful AR-15 rifles and the most up-to-date bulletproof vests on the market.
With cell phones held in tight grips over the ship’s railings, dozens of passengers looked down at the ice-blue ocean as 31-year-old Bernardo Texeira Garcia clung to the side of a lifeboat on Deck 6. It was November 6, 2015, and the Oasis of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship…
If you’re even the tiniest bit etiquette-minded, you’ve probably spent the past year politely changing the subject when your dad, boss, or Aunt Sally starts talking about why Shillary belongs in jail or when your college roommate blathers on and on about why he’s expending his vote on Jill Stein.
When behavior technician Charles Kinsey was shot by a North Miami Police officer while trying to help an autistic client this past July, the outrage was pretty much universal. A witness released video of Kinsey lying flat on his back with his hands in the air, and dozens of horrified…
By now, you’ve probably made up your mind in the most important race on this year’s ballot. If you’ve been paying even a little attention, you know that medical marijuana is back up for a vote and that Florida’s Amendment 1 solar initiative is actually a trick…
Taiwan Smart hit the floor as bullets flew into his living room in Little Haiti November 13, 2009. The 21-year-old made a mad dash for the back door and ran down the street barefoot before finding refuge at a neighbor’s home. Soon he would learn that his two friends, 18-year-old…
With his trusty German shepherd in tow, Rodney Irwin drives past a state mental hospital at the edge of the Everglades and pulls into the brush. A machete rests on the floorboard beneath his feet, and a gallon of his favorite drink — Walmart-brand black-cherry soda mixed with orange Gatorade…
This summer, when rumors began to spread that a new King of Diamonds strip club would open on South Beach’s Ocean Drive, rapper Akinyele Adams fought back hard. The former KOD owner insisted his new venture — which the current KOD proprietors say has nothing to do with their establishment — was nothing more than a sexy soul-food restaurant.
When his Bitcoin exchange went under last year, Cryptsy CEO Paul Vernon left the company’s headquarters in Delray Beach and fled to China with his mistress. Things weren’t great — his marriage was over, his company was kaput, and his customers were pissed. Vernon, a former Army intelligence officer, started Cryptsy in…
While they’re more typically used to explain the process of dealing with the loss of loved ones, the five stages of grief can also be applied to our own thoughts of fleeting mortality. There are those of us who deny it, those of us who are angry or depressed at…
From his home in Miami, Eric Cardenas felt a too familiar surge of sadness and anger. It was July 6, 2016, and he’d just heard the news about Philandro Castile, a 32-year-old cafeteria supervisor who was gunned down by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds,…
Last year, Commissioner Juan Zapata got caught using his $930,000 office budget to pay for a $30,000 master’s degree from Harvard, justifying it by saying his constituents would benefit from his continued education. That excuse didn’t go over so well. Within days, Zapata was outed by reporter Erika Carrillo of Univision and subsequently…
Three years ago today, six-year-old Qwentyn Hunter was on a cruise with his parents and two older siblings heading back to Miami from Cozumel. Before dinner, Qwentyn and his brother asked their dad, Caselle, to take them up to the jacuzzi. He happily agreed. While up at the pool, however,…
On Sunday, a tourist from New York was gunned down on Ocean Drive around 7 a.m., just as South Beach was starting to wake up. Shot two times outside iconic sidewalk restaurant News Cafe, the young man was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he later died. This morning, Miami…
