Alfonso Fanjul is one of South Florida’s most powerful businessmen, a Cuban exile and longtime critic of the Castro regime, but apparently he’s changing his tune. He’s now laying plans to quietly invest in the Communist nation. Cuban-American politicians were quite blunt in their response…
Jean Price was so insistent that a television reporter leave her alone that she jumped in his car and took off, all while the reporter’s camera was rolling. Josh Taylor, a reporter with Sarasota’s ABC affiliate, was working a pretty standard consumer rip-off story. An older woman had agreed to…
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Like a college freshman named Jamie who’s decided to reinvent herself under the name “Jaymi,” Coconut Grove will likely rebrand itself “the Nearby Republic of Coconut Grove.” No word on how Key West, the “Conch Republic,” feels about the Grove piling on its branding shtick. But seriously, the Grove’s current…
Despite everyone knowing that David Beckham is actively trying to bring an MLS franchise to Miami, he hasn’t said anything official about it. That will change Wednesday, when he’s scheduled to make an announcement alongside Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and MLS president Don Garber at Pérez Art Museum Miami…
Over at HuffPost Miami, writer J.J. Colagrande, a man who just a few months ago declared that Miami is the best city in America, authored a Holden Caulfield-level diatribe claiming that “Miami is so fake it’s frustrating.” You’ve probably seen it pop up on your Facebook news feed these past…
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To bolster Richie Incognito’s position that threats of violence between him and Jonathon Martin were just the pair’s special way of “bantering,” Incognito’s attorney released 40 pages of text messages between the former teammates to CBS Miami yesterday. Ironically, the controlled leak could lead to more problems for both Martin…
When it comes to presidential candidates, Floridians greatly favor people who are related to someone who has already held the job. A new Quinnipiac poll shows that Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are the presidential favorites among Democrats and Republicans respectively, with Hillary being the favorite in Florida overall. Meanwhile,…
Every year, there is a Super Bowl. Every year, for the past 31 years, the Miami Dolphins have not been in that Super Bowl. So every year, Miamians are left deciding which team to nominally root for that night. In fact, over the past few years, Riptide has used a…
In response to Jonathon Martin’s first interview after leaving the Miami Dolphins, Richie Incognito’s lawyers have released 40 pages of text messages between the pair to certain media outlets. Some of the texts don’t make Incognito look too good, including a joke about how he’d shoot Martin and get away…
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Forget cheering in the stands. If you really want to get a hold on a football team’s fandom’s true feelings you might be better off checking their Facebook posts. In fact, Facebook has done just that. They tracked fans (identified as people who liked a team’s official page on Facebook)…
It’s 2014. Pot houses are so out. Pot pools are totally in. No, seriously, last week Miami-Dade Police discovered a massive hydroponic marijuana growing operation located at the base of a suburban home’s pool…
Last time we checked in with polling for Florida’s gubernatorial race, Public Policy Polling showed a surprising Rick Scott surge in which he had pulled into a statistical tie with Charlie Crist. However, Quinnipac has come along and released a poll this morning that shows Crist still eight points ahead…
If you want to hail a cab in Miami, you better make sure you have lots of cash on hand, because there’s no guarantee the cab will accept credit cards. Despite most major cities requiring taxis to accept plastic, Miami cab drivers have been a hold out. Until now. The…
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This shouldn’t be much a surprise to anyone, but, yes, Wynwood is Miami’s closest equivalent to Brooklyn’s formerly hip, currently over-gentrified Williamsburg neighborhood, and a big New York City website says so. Gawker recently asked its readers what the Williamsburg equivalent was in their city. See also: Wynwood Named One…
It’s a weird bit of civic pride, sure, but have you thought about how lucky we are to live in a city with as pretty a name as Miami? We could live in some town with a clunk of a name like “Fresno” or “Pittsburgh” or “Fort Lauderdale,” but instead…
The twisted tale of Derek Medina, the South Miami man who shot his wife and then posted pictures of her body on Facebook, has taken another strange turn. According to CBS Miami, his lawyers have filed paperwork with the court declaring that bath salts were found in the couple’s home…
Like Justin Bieber, producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri was pulled over by Miami Beach police after a night out partying recently. Unlike Justin Bieber, though, he walked free. Dupri doesn’t think though that both stars’ trouble with cops on the island were a coincidence. He told TMZ he thinks that…
Wynwood continues its transformation from gritty arts district to commercialized, glitzy “arts” district with the addition of its first bank since the transformation. C1 Bank, a St. Pete-based bank, is opening shop on NE 26th Street and N. Miami Ave. (a plot it bought for a pricey $2.85 million) as…
