Sometimes more is not necessarily better. The Miami metro area is one of just 12 in the entire nation to host a team from each major sports league. One team or another is in season all year long, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Especially when your team don’t…
Three people are recovering from being shot after a routine traffic stop turned into a bizarre cop car highjacking and police chase. The incident started around 9 a.m. when a Miami police officer stopped a cab driver for speeding near NE 79th street and 4th avenue. During the stop, the…
Marco Rubio is scheduled to speak at the Freedom Tower today, and news that he’s told donors he will run for President is already out of the bag. Comparisons to the current president have followed Rubio since he burst on to the national scene in 2010. He’s been dubbed “The…
After being lead by the former American Secretary of Health and Human Services for 14 years, the University of Miami will now be lead by a former Mexican Secretary of Health. According to The Miami Herald, the university is expected to announce that Dr. Julio Frenk as the replacement for…
What started as an investigation of a bizarre robbery of two men dressed as fake police officers, lead real police to busting a grow house in Hialeah. Police responded to the armed robbery call at around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday morning. Two men with guns barged into a house in…
Andras Vass, a 25-year-old Hungarian national, faces up to 155 years in prison after being convicted of running a gay sex-slave ring that eventually made its way to Miami-Dade County. Vass was one of three men arrested last October after authorities busted them keeping another three men captive in a…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and we’re here every Friday to share the weirdness with you. This week we have a rash of women in just their bra and panties behind the wheel, and proof that everything in America really comes down to cake. Drunk…
Until five years ago Florida has the most draconian anti-gay adoption laws in the entire country. Even a single, celibate gay person was banned from adopting in the state. That law was struck down in 2010, but the Florida House is intent and brining back some homophobia to the state’s…
Start to feel nervous around the first of the month when the landlord comes to collect the rent check? You’re probably far from alone in Miami-Dade. It’s no secret that rents have started to skyrocket recently (and they weren’t exactly cheap before), but things have gotten so bad that Miami-Dade…
Miami New Times loves its titular city. We right love letters to it just about every week, and are ready to defend it when its honor it attacked. But that doesn’t mean life in Miami is all sunshine and lollipops. We can’t even paint all our city’s defects as lovable…
Fidel Castro should be thankful he never really had to run for re-election. A new poll conducted by a Miami polling firm of Cubans (as in actually living in Cuba) finds that his favorably ratings are pretty mediocre on the island. Only 44 percent of Cubans have a positive opinion…
Florida isn’t a red state or a blue state. You could call it a purple state, but really it’s more a gradient state. With a few notable exceptions, the deep red of the north fades into the deep blue of the south. So it’s really no surprise that Miami Gardens…
What do “I just flew in and boy my arms are tired,” “Take my wife …please” and The Florida Democratic Party have in common? They’re all worn out jokes whose punchlines have been told too many times. With the exception of the reelections of Senator Bill Nelson (a holdover from…
It’s been 10 months since Uber launched in Miami, but its still unclear exactly how popular service is in town and how much its really cut into the business of traditional taxis. Today, Certify, a company that specializes in business travel and expense management software, released data that gives us…
Every year since 2011, Walk Score has released their rankings of America’s most walkable cities. Every year Miami lands in the top 10. Every year actual Miamians scratch their heads and think, “Wait, that can’t be right. I don’t walk anywhere.” Walk Score, owned by online real estate database company Redfin, remains…
South Florida is the Ponzi scheme capital of America, so perhaps its not that much of a surprise that a former Miami Dolphins player has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme of his own. Will Allen played four years with the Dolphins…
Remember how the Miami Marlins spent hundreds of million of dollars to build themselves a new stadium with a fancy retractable roof? Remember how one of the main selling points was the fact that it tends to rain a lot in South Florida, and playing in the roof-less Sun Life…
Miami is definitely a city that places a high importance on the body, and apparently most locals are treating theirs like a temple. That’s at least according to Livability.com who ranked Miami as the fourth healthiest city in America. Perhaps that’s not much of a surprise for a place where…
It’s not a pun to say that Dr. Frederic Brandt literally changed the face of dermatology. Dubbed “the barron of botox” and the “the king of collagen,” Brandt is single handily credit with popularizing the use of injectables to fight the signs of aging, and had a long list of…
If you work for a small or mid-sized business in Florida, well, you’re boss probably has a good outlook on business right now. Just be thankful that you have a job, because according to a new PNC survey, those business owners aren’t particularly looking to hire anyone new in the…
That room above that’s forgone traditional paint and wallpaper for LED lighting? It’s not the set for the next Daft Punk video. It’s the foyer (dubbed the “Digital Cave”) to one of the penthouses at the Bentley Bay South tower in South Beach. If you have $18.9 million lying around…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and we’re hear every Friday to share the weirdness with you. We warn you however that this week’s batch of stories is mostly depraved. We have a blow job entrepreneur who tried to get out of arrest by offering to…
