A lot of odd things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week: It turns out you’re more likely to be killed by a serial killer in Florida than most other states. Meanwhile, a clown that looks like he might be…
Turns out that residents of Miami’s District 2 won’t need to head back to the polls later this month to decide a city commission runoff match between Teresa Sarnoff and Ken Russell. Sarnoff has now just up and dropped out and decided to do so with a message. Basically she…
Last week we showed you what real estate website Zumper found to be the median rent of an apartment in several different Miami neighborhoods. The prices ranged from $680 in inner-city Brownsville to over $4,500 in exclusive Fisher Island. It got us thinking though, what would paying the median rent…
Jeb Bush is desperately trying to reinvigorate his flailing campaign. He unleashed a new slogan, “Jeb Can Fix It,” took a short tour through the friendly lands of his home state of Florida, and is now back in New Hampshire trying to re-sell his message to the first in the…
If you’re a Miamian and you still don’t care about the threat that global warming poses to the very continued existence of our city perhaps there’s another way we could get yo care. Turns out a new study co-authored by researches from Tulane, UC-Santa Barbara, and the University of Central…
If your dog bites someone, even if it hasn’t been previously declared a dangerous dog, and investigators declare the resulting wound “severe,” your dog will be put to death. That’s the law in Florida, but a case involving a black lab in Bradenton, Florida named Padi has caused so much outrage…
Today’s election slate might not be the most jam-packed or exciting, but the results will have reverberations in some of Miami-Dade’s most important cities for years to come. Though, local elections (especially in these parts) are plagued by notoriously low turnout, that does mean that, hey, we could be in…
If you’re a Democratic primary voter chances are you’re either feeling the Bern or silly for Hillary, but not former mayor of Miami Manny Diaz. Nope. He’s a Martin O’Malley guy all the way. In fact, when it came time for O’Malley’s campaign to round up state leadership teams, Diaz…
A video of a woman facing off against numerous workers at the Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurant on South Beach’s Washington Avenue has gone viral with little information about what actually lead up to the brawl. The video open with an employee throwing what appears to be a stack…
Miami’s high-end real estate market has been one of the hottest in the world for the past few years with properties popping off the market at record-breaking rates, but not everyone has been a winner in the market. Pharrell Williams, of all people, has been trying to unload his provocative…
Jeb Bush remains intensely popular in his home base. The Miami media market in fact may be one of the few places left in the country where the former Governor remains the most popular choice for the Republican Presidential nomination, but Bush’s popularity in the rest of the state continues…
Another year, another listical that claims Miami wouldn’t survive a zombie invasion. Which is, excuse my language but we’re talking about a life and undeath situation here, just pure bullshit. This year CareerBuilder.com analyzed the skills of the workforce of the country’s 50 biggest metro areas to decide which have the…
Drug smugglers from Lima, Peru showed up at Miami International Airport with just about every item in their luggage somehow stuffed with cocaine. Everywhere the smugglers could try and hide the marching powder they did. Unfortunately for them the approach didn’t work, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers busted their…
Former Miami Hurricane coach Al Golden is out of a job, and doesn’t seem to have a new one lined up, but he’d not taking any time to get out of Miami. The tie-wearing coach has put his South Miami mansion on the market for $1,990,000. Sure people say that the…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week that includes a gold digger who can’t drive, a very passionate karaoke performer, and a woman who attacked her old enemy at a gas station with a sausage. …
Is there nothing Republican can’t find to blame on Hillary Clinton? Apparently not. Marco Rubio is under fire this week after everyone collectively woke up and realized he hasn’t been doing his job as an elected US Senator of the third most populace state in the nation. He’s missed about…
Miami still has the 8th most expensive rental market in all of America, but rents in many neighborhoods have held steady according to Zumper’s latest maps of median rents in each neighborhood. Well, most neighborhoods anyway. They continue to soar in both East Little Havana and Little Haiti, two cultural…
As if the week couldn’t get worse for the University of Miami football team, now a player is sitting behind bars on charges of domestic battery and has been suspended indefinitely from the team. Defensive Lineman Michael Wyche, a former USC recruit with a tragic history, was booked at 4:50…
The science is conclusive: vast swaths of Miami-Dade will someday be underwater thanks to rising sea levels caused by carbon emissions. How much of Miami-Dade ends up underwater however may depend on what we do now to curb carbon emissions. So it’s quite odd that Attorney General Pam Bondi announced…
Marco Rubio doesn’t want to be Florida’s Senator anymore. This much is clear. A New York Times article form the summer quoted anonymous friends claiming that Rubio had grown tired of the work. That’s a big part of the reason he’s running for President, and has sworn he won’t backtrack…
We’d say Pedro Dayan Millan is an unlikely YouTube star, but then really it doesn’t take much more than luck to become a viral sensation. Under the nickname Peter La Anguila (“Peter the Eel” to us gringos), Millan became a sensation in 2012 thanks to a music video produced with the group…
Florida’s standings in national rankings of students scores on standardized math and science tests paint, at best, a mediocre picture. In 2013, the last time the Education Department released such rankings, Florida sat at 30th, a troubling ranking for the third largest state in the nation. It’s also a ranking cited…
