While the general consensus is that the calamity and controversy surrounding Urban Beach Weekend has continued to calm down since its peak in 2011, the arrest totals in Miami Beach over the 5-day Memorial Day weekend period were slightly up from last year. Police made 195 total arrests in Miami Beach…
The University of Miami’s Health System has a department dedicated to gender confirmation services for transgender individuals. “Our goal is to help… make your transition as comfortable and easy as possible,” reads the department’s website. Though, if patients who sought help at the center then enrolled as students at the…
Miami is a city that thrives on youth. Who else but the young is supposed to fill up the decks of party yachts, regularly dance until five in the morning, and still look good frolicking on the beach the next day? Yet, Miami is not a city where the young…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: discussion of transgender students’ rights hits a new low in Florida, a woman voluntarily shows a cop a video of her buying cocaine, and a man tries to pull…
Donald Trump’s two-pronged line of attack against Marco Rubio was that he was a tool of the Republican establishment with an abysmal attendance record as a U.S. senator. The line of attack worked so well that Trump shellacked Rubio by nearly 19 points in Florida. Rubio’s home-state loss was in…
In August, Florida voters will decide on a proposed amendment that would provide property tax cuts for anyone who wants to buy solar panels or other renewable energy equipment. If passed, it could lead to a lot of Floridians looking into installing solar panels on their roof. Though, tax breaks…
Miami is a city that seems to reinvent itself every ten years or so. Change is a constant. Neighborhoods are always reinventing themselves. Cranes and jackhammers are always busy erecting new buildings. We’re so used to it, sometimes we don’t even notice when it happens. In fact, looking back just 10 years…
New Miami Hurricanes head coach Mark Richt didn’t come to Miami to build his resume, he didn’t come simply for a paycheck, and he didn’t come to mess around. He came to rebuild a legacy, and in case anyone doubted that, Richt reportedly plans to donate $1 million of his own money…
Chicago-based LaSalle Investment Management dubs itself as “one of the world’s leading real estate investment managers” and their mega-profitable flip of Miami’s most iconic skyscraper certainly proves why. The firm announced today that they’ve sold The Miami Tower for a cool price of $220 million. LaSalle originally purchased the property then…
There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Florida Governor Rick Scott. Two videos purporting to be from the loosely organized hacktivist group “Anonymous” fail to make them. The videos, produced in the familiar style of Anonymous, popped up in the past few days on an obscure Facebook profile registered…
Jeb Bush built up a pretty nice life for himself after he left Florida’s Governors mansion. He snagged some cushy corporate gigs to bring home the bacon, and continued his public policy work through his involvement with various foundation. Most notably, he set up his own Foundation for Excellence in Education…
Good news Miami! The end to our long local nightmare of not hosting a Super Bowl since 2010 is in sight. After a meeting of team owners today, the NFL announced that Miami will host Super Bowl LIV in 2020. The game will mark the 100th anniversary of the league…
A day before he was scheduled to surrender to the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office on corruption charges, Opa-locka City Commissioner Terence Pinder drove his car into a tree near Opa-locka Executive Airport. The crash proved fatal, and by all indications, it appears that Pinder planned to commit suicide. According to The Herald, police…
Florida is the biggest swing state prize in the general election. It’s also one of the most complicated to win. So, with Donald Trump having all but officially wrapped up his party’s nomination, you’d think his campaign would already be at work plotting out its path to victory in the…
Hurricane Season doesn’t officially start for more than a week, but apparently Mother Nature is itching to get a head start. A system of tropical concern is already developing out in the Atlantic, and it has the possibility to develop into a Tropical Storm that could target Florida. If it…
Here’s a few numbers for you. ’68, ’69, ’71, ’76, ’79, ’89, ’95, ’99, ’07, ’10: The year Miami has hosted the Super Bowl. 0: The chance NFL execs told Miami Dolphins executive they’d have of ever hosting another unless major renovations were made to the Stadium. $450 million+: The…
Lack of belief doesn’t necessarily mean lack of anything to study. That’s the reasoning behind the University of Miami’s decision to establish what is believed to be the world’s first academic chair “for the study of atheism, humanism and secular ethics.” The school hasn’t publically announced it yet, but several key…
The number of million dollar-plus homes in Miami has doubled since 2012 (even as the number of millionaire has not). It’s part of a national trend, according to Trulia. In 2012, 1.6 percent of all homes in the USA were worth at least seven figures. That share is now 3…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday’s we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week: A weed-seeking tourist takes to Twitter, a lazy dildo thief and a Taco Bell-craving coma patient. Florida Police Department Responds to Tourist’s Twitter Plea For Weed Twitter user @preznixon16, who,…
At this point there can’t be many strange, threatening reptiles from across the globe that haven’t somehow popped up in the Florida wild. We already have instances of giant snakes like Burmese pythons and meat-eating lizards like Nile monitors. Now scientists have confirmed that Nile crocodiles are also in the state. Back in 2009,…
As we slog on towards the official end of this presidential primary season, perhaps the last thing you want to read about is more politics. Though, if we’ve taken one thing away from the past few months it’s that people are sick of the status quo and the establishment and…
Turns out Donald Trump’s most successful business move of the past decade wasn’t Trump Steaks, Trump University or Miss Universe. Nope, not at all. According to personal financial documents Trump released yesterday, out of his more than 150 various business ventures, by far the biggest money maker was the Trump National…
