Are you or someone you know a rich person who lives elsewhere who is interested in making the change to become an “Official Miami Rich Person?” Well, it’s not always that easy. There’s a lot of things you have to acquire before you become a true Official Miami Rich Person…
Florida politicians, as a group, aren’t exactly known for being on the rails to begin with, but Donald Trump has gone so far off the rails that Sunshine State pols on both sides of the aisle are calling him out in no uncertain terms. After Trump’s call for “a total and…
It’s been more than a month now since we fell back to standard time, but if you’re like, you still probably haven’t gotten used to it getting dark so early. Well, consider state Rep. Kristin Jacobs your new hero. The Broward County Democrat has introduced a bill that would keep Florida…
If you opened The Miami Herald yesterday, you might have noticed a giant full-page ad blasting Donald Trump as a “narcissistic BULLYionaire” and comparing him to Hitler. The ad was paid for by Mike Fernandez, a Miami-based healthcare magnate and billionaire in his own right. Fernandez is also one of the…
There is nothing more that Rick Scott hates more than Florida’s corporate income tax. He’s made it his mission as Governor to try as best he can to completely eliminate those taxes. He wants to stalk those taxes around an art fair and stab them with an X-acto knife just…
The neighborhood Holly Woodlawn grew up in was, for this past week during Art Basel Miami Beach, the epicenter of the world’s art scene, but back in the ’60s Woodlawn didn’t see much of a future for herself there. So at 15 she decided to drop out of high school,…
David Beckham’s year’s long struggle to find land to build a soccer stadium in Miami may now be over. The soccer star and his business partners are believed to be on the verge of announcing a plan to bring a stadium to Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. Though no one is talking…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. In fact, as a bit of a break from all that human weirdness, this week is a very special reptile-themed WTF Florida. What were our coldblooded friends up to this…
Students at Florida International University’s main Modesto A. Maidique Campus are on hinge after reports of threats made against the school swept through social media. Though, school officials have not verified the threat, they’ve alerted students to be cautious. Meanwhile, a student at the University of Miami reportedly threatened to…
In many ways, Mark Richt is unlike any head coach the Hurricanes have hired in their recent history. He’s not a coordinator getting his first shot at the captain’s chair, nor is he a promising talent plucked from a mid-major. The man has spent 15 years coaching in College Football’s…
It’s only Thursday and the traffic in both Miami and Miami Beach has already reached nightmare status. It’s particularly bad this year considering one main link between the mainland and SoBe, the Venetian Causeway, is shuttered for construction. So if you’re about to get in your car this week to…
Welcome to Florida. Where we can’t even draw proper congressional districts. Every ten years the state legislature is entrusted with redrawing the boundaries of both state and federal congressional districts to account for changes in population. The process began four whole years ago, but the original districts drawn were thrown…
Climate change and rising sea levels are very real threats, but there’s no need to be hyperbolic about it. “Hey, large portions of highly populated land could go completely under water in the next few centuries,” seems alarming enough to us. Yet, while speaking at a new conference during the Organization…
With plans to build a Major League Soccer stadium in Little Havana now seemingly dead, reports suggest that David Beckham and his business partners are now considering a plot of land in Overtown. “I think we have found a site,” team partner Tim Leiweke told CNBC last week. Well, Miami’s…
The Miami Hurricanes have reportedly interviewed a good portion of the high profile names that have been floating around as possible replacements for Al Golden. Well, everyone but Texas’s Charlie Strong and current Alabama offensive line coach and former ‘Canes player Mario Cristobal. That list however does include recently fired…
There’s tons of exclusive parties in Miami this week, but not every single one of them will have New York hipsters trying to crash them. Take for example a fundraiser for Jeb Bush, Miami’s somewhat now embarrassing presidential candidate, hosted by Romero Britto, Miami’s somewhat now embarrassing celebrity pop “artist.” …
Just two years after the Justice Department found one local major local police department, Miami PD, liable of engaging “in a pattern or practice of excessive use of force through officer-involved shootings,” police through out the county still regularly have fatal encounters with suspects. According to a database maintained by The Guardian,…
The hot topic of discussion at the past few Miami Art Weeks has not been the art, but ironically how many people attend now who don’t come here for Basel’s main attraction at all. Let’s get real, though. The only people who actually come purely for “the art” are the…
The old stereotype about the worst kind of Florida drivers is that they’re old snowbirds who have forgotten how to drive. The kind of person who drives 20 MPHs under the speed limit in the left lane with their turning signal accidentally on for 10 minutes. The latest analysis of…
In almost every other county in Florida, voters directly elect a sheriff to head up the county’s law enforcement office. Not in Miami-Dade. Back in 1966, voters here decided to abolish the position after years of suspe cted corruption in the department. Since then a Police Director, now appointed by…
David Beckahm hasn’t built a soccer stadium in Miami yet, but he has built a graveyard of failed soccer stadium plans. Much like attempts to build a stadium near American Airlines Areana and at PortMiami, Beckham and his business partner’s latest plan to build next to Marlins Park in Little…
To quote our favorite Christmas movie Batman Returns, mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it, but a kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it. Especially if that kiss is from an invasive insect known as the Kissing Bug. The Center For Disease Control reports that the insect,…
