Davone Bess’s latest bizarre confrontation with police started as a simple, routine traffic stop and then quickly escalated to a standoff with a SWAT team. Bess, best known as a former player with the Miami Dolphins, is behind bars today in Maricopa County, Arizona and facing three felony charges after the…
London is one of the greatest cities in the world. It’s got centuries of history, non-stop culture and great architecture. You know what it doesn’t have? Particularly great summer weather and a beach. So this summer, Londoners looking for a bit of subtropical thrill can get a small taste of…
For Miami condo developers there’s no such thing as too many balconies too high up in the air. Unfortunately, when the weather gets rough and the winds starts to gust, all those high-rise balconies can prove dangerous. Especially when patio furniture isn’t properly secured. On Saturday, the inclement weather apparently…
Just over a week after the most deadly mass shooting by a lone perpetrator in American history occurred in Florida, a state politician has decided to bring attention to his congressional campaign by giving away a version of the weapon used in the attack. State Sen. Greg Evers, who…
The internet can be like one permanent, painful Thanksgiving dinner where everyone has had one too many glasses of wine and just decides to unload and fight about everything. No subject seems to be safe from concern trolling. Maybe some of this discussion can be enlightening, if not necessary. Sometimes…
Rep. David Jolly, who had a nominal lead among announced candidates in polls for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, has dropped his bid for the higher house. Instead, he’ll try to keep his seat in the House of Representatives. The move comes as anticipation grows that Marco Rubio will announce his…
A Facebook posting declaring “I am not Orlando” has gone viral. The original posting, made by someone in California, has been shared close to 15,000 times. Screenshots of the post have popped up on Tumblr. One version has racked up more than 32,000 notes. It’s spread to places like Twitter,…
Normally on Fridays we use this space wrap up all the weird “Florida man” stories of the week, but this has been an incredibly devastating and depressing week for the Sunshine State. So, for this week and this week only, we’ve decided instead to bring you all the happy and…
The evidence that FIU professor David Ralston raped an unconscious woman seems strong. The attack was caught on surveillance video, they say, that he had set up in his Lee County home. So when Ralston got word that detectives were trying to persuade him to voluntarily surrender, Ralston fled. After more…
Richard Florida, the country’s most famous urban studies scholar, and the FIU-Miami Creative City Initiative came out today with a major, in-depth and incisive report on the state of the Miami and what we must do to truly become a global city. Dubbed “Miami’s Great Inflection: Toward Shared Prosperity as a Creative…
In another sign of just odd this election is, Floridians, by and large, do not have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Both are seen negatively by well over 50 percent of the states. Here’s where things get even odder: compared to the vast majority of the…
It was exactly one year ago today when Jeb Bush strolled across the stage of the auditorium of Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus to confirm the years of speculation. Yes, he would run for president, and yes he was in it to win it. “We need a president willing to…
Tatiana F. Tascon had a good little scam going for a while. Out of a showroom set up in her pricey Coconut Grove home Tascon peddled fake designer handbags from the likes of Louis Vuitton and counterfeit Rolex watches. Through selling clients a fake version of the good life earned over $700,000…
A tense showdown played out on CNN earlier today as openly gay journalist Anderson Cooper grilled Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi about her past defense of Florida’s ban on gay marriage. Unlike Governor Rick Scott, Bondi was quick to acknowledge that shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando was an attack…
The annual WalkScore rankings always include Miami in the top ten. In the latest edition, Miami was ranked America’s fifth most walkable city. Which inevitably leads to lots of locals shaking their heads. How could this city, with its gridlocked highways and sorely lacking public transit infrastructure, ever be considered walkable? …
The Southeast Financial Center is the crown jewel of Miami office towers and downtown’s skyline. When it was built in 1983, it not only became Miami’s tallest building but the highest skyscraper south of New York and east of the Mississippi. It still remains Miami’s second tallest building and its tenants…
The U.S. Coast Guard today unloaded $214 million worth of cocaine in Miami Beach. If you’re not up on your street price-per-pound math, that’s about eight tons of pure coke. That’s the biggest unloading of cocaine at the Miami Beach Coast Guard station in more than four years. The drugs…
Fifty people dead at a gay club in Orlando. Another 53 injured. By all accounts, they were targeted specifically as members or allies of the LGBT community. The month is a nation-wide celebration of gay pride, timed to remember the Stonewall Riots when LGBT people fought for their rights, including…
American Airlines has won approval from the Department of Transportation to begin eight regular daily commercial flights between Miami and Cuba within the next 90 days. The airline will run eight daily flights between MIA and five different Cuban cities. Though, approval for direct daily flights between anywhere in America…
Miami Beach is moving swiftly with its plans to bring a light rail system to the city, and, now, one of the three organizations bidding to build the project has released renderings of what their vision of that system might look like. On Facebook, Connect Miami Beach (a consortium of…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week we learned not to drink vodka on a Monday, and not to smoke pot in the SUV our father bought us. Florida Tourist Pours Vodka Into Kid’s Eye,…
Frank Hammar, a student originally from Sweden, was expecting to graduate from the Miami Ad School next week. His parents were in town, and the family went out to eat at the trendy Wynwood Diner. After finishing up at around 11:30, Hammar separated from his family and headed back to…
