You won’t win the Powerball prize. Your chance of winning that now $1.5 billion jackpot is something like 0.000000003 percent per ticket. That, of course, hasn’t stopped you from fantasizing about what you would do if you win. You’d probably buy a garage full of Ferraris (even, though, you know it’s…
If you’ve got $8.6 million sitting around you could buy your choice of any number of posh penthouses in Miami-Dade, or you could look a bit south and buy yourself your own private island. An island dubbed East Sister Rock that sits just off the coast of Marathon is on…
Governor Rick Scott’s promise to bar Syrian refugees from settling in Florida has gotten an assist from a bill filed in the state Senate. Sen. Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, has filed a bill dubbed “Prevention of Acts of War,” that would effectively ban “certain” refugees from entering the state of Florida…
One of the most ambitious development projects slated for Miami has ditched its signature feature. The Miami Worldcenter Development has announced that it will no longer include an enclosed shopping mall. The news comes just months before the mall was scheduled to breakdown. Instead, the development will now include a…
Anyone whose spent time walking around Miami has on occasion spotted an unexplained pair of heels left sitting in the streets. We’re never quite sure how they get there, but shoes on the street here isn’t an unusual sight. Unless its hundred of shoes sitting on the Turnpike. That’s what happened…
Who can forget all those magical television moments that happen on Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami? Like that time Kourtney said something ridiculous and Khloé just looked at her with that expression that was like “Wow, you’re being so ridiculous right now.” Or that other time they had an argument but…
Alot of weird things in Florida happen every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: Tampa gets seriously shaded, a portrait artist at Universal Studios gets seriously slashed, and some seriously uncouth Islamophobes. Tampa Named Least Sexy Travel Destination in America Poor Tampa. It…
It’s been said that some Republican candidates run their campaigns on a politics of fear. They constantly, forcibly remind their base of any potentially scary issue in the world like they’re a Boy Scout troop leader telling ghost stories around a campfire, and then present themselves as the only person…
The University of Miami’s Delta Gamma chapter has gained something of a reputation for putting out some of the most luxurious-looking recruitment videos in the entire nation, but, dear Lord, have they really out down themselves this year. This year the girl enlisted the help of Artect Media, who not only…
Registered Democrats in Florida far outnumber registered Republicans. The state has voted twice for President Barack Obama on the presidential level. Yet, up in Tallahassee, Florida’s state Government is currently controlled completely by Republicans. Governor Rick Scott and the entire cabinet belong to the party, and Republicans hold large majorities…
In hindsight, 2015 was the year America began a long, hard discussion about police-involved deaths. Already a tough and heated conversation to have, the talk was made all the more tough by the realization that no one — not the federal government, not an NGO, not a single journalistic institution…
Florida Governor Rick Scott isn’t ready to make an endorsement in the Republican presidential nomination race, but he does have kind words for frontrunner and fellow shady businessman Donald Trump. Which should surprise exactly no one. In fact, he seems so impressed by Trump he wrote an entire USA Today editorial…
Here’s the good news: Florida is no longer the most corrupt state in the nation. Here’s the bad news: We’re still corrupt as hell. In the period from 2000 to 2010, Florida led the nation with the most federal public corruption convictions. Integrity Florida reworked the number from the period from…
Ever since Miami Vice depicted Sonny Crockett cruising around town in a Ferrari Daytona, high-powered luxury sports cars have been an unshakable facet of Miami’s cultural identity (or, at least, the stereotypical postcard version of it). It seems music videos filmed down here are required to include at least one candy-colored…
The FAA has recently set new, higher limits in certain parts of Miami, and the race to build Miami’s biggest tower is on.
The State of Florida’s semi-annual Python Challenge is set to kick off on January 16th, and in advance the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is blasting the state for allowing hunters to decapitate the reptiles during the great snake hunt. PETA claims the method causes the snakes prolonged pain,…
While LeBron James was in town during those glorious but brief four years he and his family laid down roots here that had us thinking maybe, just maybe he truly was serious about staying in Miami for the long run. For example, his wife Savannah opened a juice cafe called…
When Cristiano Ronaldo spent his Christmas holiday in Miami and popped up at a Miami Heat game, local fans couldn’t help but fantasize about the idea of the Portuguese soccer superstar someday playing for David Beckham’s Major League soccer team in Miami. It was, at the time, the stuff of what basically…
If there’s one advantage traditional taxis have over Uber, it’s that their rates always remain the same. Not true for Uber. When the ratio between passengers requesting rides and the number of available drivers in an area become untenable, the “ride sharing” app jacks up prices and informs riders they’ll have…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement have identified more 13,435 untested rape kits throughout the state after conducting a study ordered by the state legislature. 2243 of those were in the hands of the City of Miami Police Department, the most of any agency that took part in the survey…
The Miami News Times website underwent some big changes this year. We got a complete redesign. We also killed off our “blogs” and replaced them with “verticles.” So if you want news stories you click on “news” instead of a blog called “Riptide,” or if you want music stories you…
“You know the old song, you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? We’re going to find out, apparently,” Eugene Stearns, a lawyer for the Miami Open tennis tournament told the AP. After losing a court battle, he’s now threatening that his clients will move the popular tournament elsewhere. The…
