Ah, the Super Bowl. The one non-international soccer match sporting event that Miamians will watch en mass that a Miami team won’t actually play in. The only problem for many of us is figuring out which team to root for. Sure, in some cases it was obvious. Take last year…
A public health emergency has been declared in Miami-Dade County after a case of Zika was detected. Lee, Hillsborough and Santa Rosa counties are also affected by the warning. “We have to ensure Florida is prepared and stays ahead of the spread of the Zika virus in our state,” said Governor…
Hey men of a certain age, do you ever feel like there’s something missing from your life? Do you feel like you never took full advantage of your youth? Feeling bogged down by your increasingly mundane middle-aged life and saddened by that increasingly receding hairline and protruding gut? Well, we…
Last week we ran down the history behind some of Miami’s neighborhood names, but it appears that some neighborhood names are best lost to history. Take for example an small expanse in Little Havana that is still in some ways legally known as Swastika Park. Yes, Swastika Park. Yes, 92…
Unknown assailants opened fire on a car waiting in line at a Burger King drive through this morning. Inside the car was Donesha S. Gantt, 17, her mother, and two others. Gantt and another woman were shot. In a state of panic, Gantt, who thought she might die, took out her…
Who gets control of your selfies when you die? Who can be entrusted with deleting your problematic tweets when you kick the bucket? Who gets access to your Facebook? Well, the law is murky, but a bill currently flying through the state legislature would clarify the matter in Florida. State Senator…
Haiti is in the midst of a serious presidential succession crisis, and current president Michel Martelly decided to make things even odder by dropping a sexist song targeting a female journalist, which, translated from Creole, is dubbed, “Give Themr The Banana.” Martelly, by the way, is required to leave office on…
Lord knows that a lot of sinning goes down in Miami, but not that many of you are going to church on Sunday to repent. According to the Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Atlas, Miami has one of the highest proportion of people who aren’t affiliated with organized religion…
There are 120 different speciality license plates available to choose from at your local DMV, but state lawmakers are looking to trim the selection. A bill introduced by state Sen. Jeff Brandes, a Republican from St. Pete, would up the threshold of plates sold to keep speciality plates on the…
Despite the fact Roe v Wade has stood as the law of the land for over 40 years, a Florida House subcommittee passed a bill this week that would effectively make it a felony to perform an abortion in the state of Florida. The bill passed 8-3, but before taking…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida every week. On Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week that includes secretly LGBT license plates, a violent chicken and biscuits argument and a rage-filled Uber driver. “GAY” License Plates Don’t Mean Happy Fun fact. The Florida license plate…
After falling just short in 2014, backers of a proposed amendment to legalize medical marijuana in Florida have announced they’ve met the criteria to put the issue back on the ballot in 2016. Though there are multiple ways to get an amendment to the state constitution on the ballot, a citizen’s…
Last year hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin set Miami real estate records when he purchased the penthouse at the Faena House in Mid-beach for $60 million. It was the most expensive residential real estate transaction in Miami-Dade history, and the single most expensive home sale in America during 2015. Well,…
Compared to many American cities, Miami has a relatively short history. Much of that history involves real estate development booms and busts. The end result is that many of the area’s city and neighborhood names are either shockingly obvious, highly descriptive, or a result of someone just thinking the name…
This is an example of a kinkajou. Not to get all Buzzfeed on you, but it is clearly adorable. Let’s be honest, we’d all probably scroll through a post titled something like “19 Pictures of Kinkajous So Cute They’ll Make You Cry Glitter And Rupture Your Heart Into A Thousand Glistening…
Anjali Ramkisson, the a fourth-year neurology resident at Jackson Health System who was caught on camera trashing an Uber in Brickell, appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America today to apologize for her actions. The 30-year-old claims she upset that day after her father wound up in the hospital, and her boyfriend…
Rep. Alan Grayson may be Florida’s bluntest politician. He’s never short for words and always says what he means. Unless you ask him who he supports in the Democratic presidential primary. See, Grayson, who is currently running for Senate, accepted a spot on the Hillary Clinton Campaign’s Florida Leadership Council,…
Rapper B.o.B. is currently in a feud with astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson over whether or not the Earth is flat, because we live in a very strange world. However, if you want to hear about an even stranger theory about the shape of the earth you don’t have to leave…
Ten years ago, if you would have told anyone that the Miami Hurricanes basketball team trouncing the Duke Blue Devils would become a regular occurrence, they probably would have scoffed. The Blue Devils are the most successful college basketball team since 1985. They’re the elite of an already stacked ACC…
Rep. Charles Van Zant is one of the most socially conservative Republicans in the Florida House. It’s not surprising as the man is also a Southern Baptist minister. Every year since 2010 he’s filed legilsation that would criminalize abortion in Florida, in direct conflict with the Supreme Court’s ruling in…
Ask a bunch of kids which feature they’d like to see in their dream mansion, and you’ll likely hear a few of them say they’d want a water slide that connected their bedroom directly to the pool. Well, a newly built $34 million spec home on Miami Beach makes that…
It’s all the rage to register with no party affiliation in Florida. Independents now represent 24 percent of the electorate in the Sunshine State. Taking third party registrants into account, that means 27 percent of Florida voters aren’t affiliated with either major party. That’s a dramatic shift from just two…
