You wouldn’t shoot a Red Sox player in the middle of Times Square scarfing down a slice of New York-style pizza. You don’t pose Washington’s QB in downtown Dallas decked out in a 10-gallon hat and cowboy boots. You don’t let your high school team’s biggest rival’s star pose for…
On Friday, The Obama administration issued a set of guidelines directing public schools to respect the gender identity of transgender students or risk losing out on federal funding under Title IX. The response from Florida has been noticeably quiet. Both Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi haven’t commented…
Picture your perfect beach. The one you imagine when you close your eyes and go to your calm place. Where the sky is clear, the vibe is chill, and you can hear the gentle crash of the waves against the shore. It’s the type of serene perfection brought to mind…
Sure, facilities, opportunities, and a chance at glory are probably still important when it comes to college football recruiting, but if we’re reading the trends correctly here, it seems like today’s high-schoolers and tomorrow’s college players apparently really, really get a kick out of seeing themselves talked about on social…
The world laughed when Jimmy McMillan ran for New York City mayor with the slogan, “The rent is too damn high!” Yet, how many of us now repeat that line verbatim whenever we cut our landlord a check or browse apartment listings in Miami? They are, indeed, categorically, undebatably too damn…
So Miami Beach’s stormwater pumps shoot water from the city’s streets and street drains into Biscayne Bay to combat flooding. You know what’s in the water it pumps directly into the Bay from the streets? Unsurprisingly, some not so clean stuff. A new study of flood waters found incredibly high…
When is Chris Bosh getting back on the court? The answer could possibly be “never.” Bosh has been sidelined since All-Star Weekend after complications from his blood clot situation flared back up, and according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst the situation may force Bosh into medical retirement. It’s the second season in a row…
Florida is ground zero of the foreclosure crisis. No other state even touches Florida when it comes to the number of foreclosure over the past decade. So you would figure our state government would be first in line when it comes to taking advantage of federal assistance programs meant to help regular…
When your political opponent posts a full, unedited video of your recent cables news interview to his YouTube page it’s probably an indication that the interview didn’t go so well. Rep. Patrick Murphy didn’t even bother to cut an attack ad against Rep. Alan Grayson, his opponent for the Democratic…
The closest you might get to a mastodon in modern day Florida is during a visit to the Dinosaur World theme park in Orlando, but it turns out that 14,550 years ago, people were visiting Florida to get close to real-life mastodons. In fact, newly uncovered evidence in northern Florida…
Every year Christie’s International Real Estate compiles it’s list of the world’s top luxury real estate markets. Miami’s made frequent appearances in the top ten, but its ranking in the newly released 2015 study is the highest it has ever sat. In fact, we overtook both Paris and San Francisco to…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida everyweek. On Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week: a man nicknamed “Murder” carried out his destiny, a stripper find a novel use for a shirt, and a man kills his borther over a cheeseburger. Man Nicknamed “Murder” who…
Here’s what the discussion around climate change desperately needs: serious international, national and state-level cooperation aimed at curbing man’s contribution and planning for the possible effects. Here’s what the discussion around climate change certainly doesn’t need: another article that basically boils down to “Miami is a dumb city and its going…
Florida Congressmen Alan Grayson stormed into yesterday’s meeting of the Progressive Caucus apparently thinking he was Beyoncé armed with a baseball bat in the “Hold Up” video ready to righteously smash things up with a devious smile on his face. Metaphorically at least. He was looking for Senate Minority Leader…
One time two, short 150 meter horse races began in Miami-Dade County and ended in Broward, so now Malaysian gambling conglomerate Genting should be allowed to operate a casino near Downtown Miami. Or, at least, that’s the oversimplified take on a lawsuit Genting has filed against Miami-Dade County and State…
“Opa-locka Hialeah is the place to go,” goes the familiar jingle. “It’s more than just a market, it’s a great big…” center of food stamp fraud, apparently. Multiple agencies raided the iconic Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market this afternoon. 22 shop owners ended up being indicated, and some were hauled off in zip…
Jeffrey Jason Cooper lured Asian college students to Florida for the summer with the opportunity of doing clerical for his Miami Beach yoga studio. When they arrived, the students were informed that no such yoga studio actually existed. Instead, Cooper ran an erotic massage parlor and forced the students into performing…
Medical marijuana will be back on the ballot in Florida in November, and according to the latest poll numbers it should pass easily. Eighty percent of all Floridians say they plan to vote for the amendment, and that includes vast majorities among all groups, including Republicans and those 65 and…
Florida’s Agriculture Commission Adam Putnam clarified today that he intended to vote for Donald Trump. His reasoning: Trump isn’t Hillary Clinton. Which isn’t exactly the world’s strongest endorsement. It’s essentially the political equivalent of the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ emoticon. if there ever was one. Putnam is one of four elected members of Florida’s…
How much are the keys to your own private key in the Florida Keys? They’re now just $95 million. Pumpkin Key, a small island in Card Sound off the coast of Northern Key Largo, has cut its price down down $15 million. That makes it a bargain right? Pumpkin Key originally…
Founded by former Studio 54 co-owner Ian Schrager, Morgans Hotel group is credited with creating the idea of “boutique hotels.” The company’s early ’90s renovation of the Delano Hotel in South Beach cemented their status as innovators in the industry, but, as a company, Morgans has seen better days. Schrager sold the…
Six months after the Supreme Court ruled that Florida’s previous death penalty sentencing law was unconstitutional, a Miami circuit court judge has ruled that the new law approved by the legislature and Governor Rick Scott is also unconstitutional. Eleventh District Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch struck the law down while considering the…
