Each state gets to enshrine statues of two of its most notable historical residents in The National Statuary Hall Collection at the US Capitol Building in Washington DC. Florida’s choices, made all the way back in 1914 and 1922 respectively, area guy who invented an early version of air conditioning…
Receive a speeding ticket? Get into a crash? Accused of a crime? Well, expect to have your phone now blown up with text messages from Florida lawyers. That’s because the Florida Bar Association recently removed its ban on lawyers soliciting potential clients via text. The American Bar Association officially bars…
LGBT athletes have increasingly come out and into the spotlight over the past couple of years, but what about the high profile journalists who cover them? Obviously there’s more than a few gay people in the sports reporter ranks, and former Miami Herald reporter and still South Florida-based ESPN personality…
It started, as only a romance between two multi-millionaire retail developers can, with a lawsuit over a private jet. It ended up in marriage. Craig Robins, the man responsible for turning the Design District into a luxury shopping mecca, married Jackie Soffer, who, amongst other things, oversees the Aventura Mall,…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week and on Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week we have a porno plot that actually played out in real life … and ended badly, a snake on the loose in Florida that is crazy enough to…
Surely sensing a growing public relations disaster on its hands, Arby’s has decided to try and qualm tensions between them and local police forces following an officer receiving poor costumers service at a Pembrokes Pines location of the roast beef sandwich chain. “As a show of our appreciation and support,…
When new host takes over a storied late night chat show franchise they look to start the show with the biggest guests they can get. Stephen Colbert is no exception. He’s booked George Clooney as his first guest ever when he kicks off his duties on The Late Show next…
Following years of legal challenges involving religious inmates in Florida prisons and their right to eat meals based on the dietary principals of their faith, the ACLU of Florida and Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida has filed a lawsuit against the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department for refusing to serve Muslim inmates…
SwiftKey, a maker of customized keyboard apps, recently decided to dig into its databases to find out which emojis are used most in each state. Some made perfect sense. New York really loves the Statue of Liberty emoji. Hawaii is keen on pineapples, surfing and rainbows. Florida’s however have us…
A controversy involving a Broward County Arby’s employee refusing to serve a Pembrokes Pines police officer has spilled over the county line as Miami-Dade County Police Benevolent Association has called for a nationwide boycott of the roast beef chain. The incident allegedly happened on Monday night when an Pembrokes Pines…
The Miami Marlins’ 2015 season started off as so many of them do with slight hope. Some predicted they might even compete for the wildcard. It soon however devolved into the type of stunning tragicomedy that only the Marlins can pull off. Owner Jeffrey Loria fired manager Mike Redmond less…
He started out as Mr. 305, then morphed into Mr. Worldwide, but for the next year Pitbull will be Mr. Florida. Visit Florida has struck a deal with the Miami rapper to official serve as Florida’s tourism ambassador for the next year. Yes, the state’s official private/public tourism wing hopes that…
Comcast has been testing internet data caps in some markets for the since 2012, and has slowly been rolling them out across the country. On October 1st, they’re coming to South Florida. For Comcast costumers on the most common plans that means that if you use anymore data than 300…
The Fairholme Capital headquarters and art museum is a bizarre thing. First of all, it looks like some sort of fortress from a dystopian sci-fi movie. Secondly, it will be part open-to-the-public art museum and part equity fund management offices (which unintentionally says a lot about the state of the commodification…
Donald Trump is currently the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president. This despite the fact that the guy has a lifelong history of supporting several ideas more at home in the Democratic party. Jeb Bush, whose undergone a stunning fall from front runner to third place candidate, seems…
It’s not exactly breaking news that Florida is a good place to retire. It’s kind of half of what the state is known for. So it’s not shocking that the state pretty much dominated WalletHub’s analysis of the best cities to retire in, but have you wondered what the worst…
While David Beckham is still trying to nail down a spot for his MSL stadium, Miami’s other brand new professional soccer team is moving fast and furious. Today, Miami FC announced that they’ve hired Italian soccer legend Alessandro Nesta as their head coach. Though, Nesta has never been a head…
You’re Donald Trump. You’re running a Presidential campaign where the only clear part of your platform is that you insult Hispanic immigrants and want to deport every undocumented one. The single most profitable business in your portfolio however happens to be a golf resort in the middle of a county…
Thirty years after after it’s debut, the pastel aesthetic of Miami Vice continues to define Miami. So much so that the show’s logo’s colors of teal and pink are almost the unofficial colors of the area. So it wasn’t all that surprising when a Reddit user with some freetime and…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Fridays we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week: some not-so-nice lice vice, men who really, really like shoes, the mystery of the Maryland Fried Chicken, and, ugh, George Zimmerman somehow becoming even more terrible. Homeless Man Gives…
Sports talk radio is not known as a haven for nuanced discussion of mental health, and sports jock around the country stumbled around talking about Jonathan Martin’s Facebook post from yesterday detailing his long struggle with mental health and numerous suicide attempts. Perhaps no one went further out of the…
Research suggests that people tend to end up in romantic relationship with people who are a lot like them. Never mind those Disney fairy tails about Princess that marry former street thieves or Princes who marry house maids. The real world doesn’t have genies or fairy godmothers, and the reality…
