A record 15.5 million people visited Miami in 2015, up nearly 1 million from the year before. The Greater Miami & The Beaches Visitors Bureau trumpeted the numbers at a ritzy breakfast this past Friday at the Rusty Pelican on Key Biscayne. Save for Venezuela, every major market, both domestic…
In a scandal that rocked Miami-Dade back in the ’90s, then County commissioner and chair of the county’s finance committee James “Jimmie” C. Burke was caught on tape accepting $5,000 in bribes. It was the downpayment on what was planned to be a $400,000 kickback in exchange for steering a…
A spokesperson for the project points out that the under construction building is indeed under construction.
Miami presents itself with a lot of opportunities for Millennials to live a life that seems perfect on Instagram. You’ve seen all those selfies taken in front of Wynwood murals, group shots taken at exclusive-seeming parties, pics of craft cocktails and tapas, and carefully posed thirst traps taken at the…
David Beckham may be the figurehead, but he’s far from the only businessmen involved in the effort to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami. Sure, the business group is called “Miami Beckham United.” Sure, a discounted price on the franchise is only possible because of a special clause in…
Perhaps amongst the worst places to base your drug dealing business: a cop’s house. Even if that cop is your own father. Just ask Tyler Palmer. The 20-year-old son of a Miami-Dade Police Major was busted yesterday afternoon for dealing drugs out of the family home. The investigation was carried out…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: A disbarrment case out of the Florida Bar that reads like a bad porno script, a man who told police he didn’t mean to miss when he shot…
A very petty local mayor couldn’t help but carry through on whatever point he was trying to make by paying his $4,000 ethics fine in petty coins. Last year, Hernandez was caught up in an ethics scandal for his business connections with Luis Felipe Pérez, a Hialeah jewler who also dabbled…
The first time we heard of architect Bernard Zyscovich’s plan to turn parts of the Rickenbacker causeway into a pedestrian and cyclist friendly linear park it was a revolutionary but still modest idea. His original plan called for lessening the number of car lanes on the bridge, and replacing them…
Turns out any rumored behind the scenes drama has been smoothed over, and Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat have jointly announced that the blood clot-plagued big man will not return to the court at any point during the rest of the playoffs. The official statement was delivered on Twitter…
Back in 2004, Florida voters overwhelmingly passed a state constitutional amendment that tied increases in the state minimum wage to inflation, meaning wages would automatically increase over time without going through major legislative fights. Originally pegged at $6.15 an hour, its now risen to $8.05. Many feel that’s still not enough. …
Uber and Lyft have operated in Miami-Dade in a murky legal gray area for years. After lots of talks and false starts the Miami-Dade County Commission finally passed an ordinance yesterday to legalize the car-for-hire apps. It wasn’t even a close vote. The ordinance passed 9-2, and was widely hailed…
It turns out Kim Kardashian has been mentioned at least three times in Cuba’s tightly censored newspapers, proving there is almost no media source in the world that can resist dropping her name. Indeed, a medical column published earlier this year in Juventude Rebelde, the Communist Party’s official youth newspaper,…
It’s been a hard year already when it comes to the loss of legends, but don’t worry. Don Shula will still be kicking around. The former Miami Dolphins coach was rushed to Aventura Hospital on Monday night to undergo treatment for sleep apnea but has now been released. “Coach Shula has…
Florida’s most read newspaper has swallowed the state’s print circulation runner-up (at least according to 2014 number). The Tampa Bay Times announced today that it has acquired cross-region rival The Tampa Tribune. Publication of the Tribune has stopped immediately, and while some staff will be absorbed, at least 100 layoffs…
The Heat have made it to the second round of the playoffs without having the help of one of their marquee stars since the All-Star Break. Putting Chris Bosh back in the game would instantly make the Heat the prohibitive favorites over the Toronto Raptors, and Bosh really, really wants back…
There are currently 389 inmates in Florida prisons awaiting the death penalty, the second-highest number of any state in the union. If the State Supreme Court agrees with a cadre of lawyers, every single one of them may see their death sentence whipped out replaced with life in prison without…
As if Cuba needed another dictator, fashion’s reigning tyrant Karl Lagerfeld will present Chanel’s 2017 Cruise collection in Havana tonight. It will be the first major fashion show by an international brand in Cuba in decades, but not everyone is pleased. Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has taken to Twitter multiple times…
Rick Scott has a habit of trying to lure jobs to Florida from states with Democratic governors in quite an unfriendly fashion. So when California passed legislation that will increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021, Scott couldn’t help but swoop in. He ordered Enterprise Florida,…
Gone are the days of early March when it seemed we were getting new polls and data about the political leanings of Florida voters every other day. Since the primary, it’s been quite a while since a pollster has come along and taken the political temperature of the state. Since…
We’ve seen some things on Miami roads, but maybe nothing quite as crazy as this. Video has emerged of what appears to be a road rage incident that occurred on Tuesday down in Kendall in which one man wound up taking a ride on the hood of a white VW while…
The state government is firmly controlled by Republicans, but that doesn’t mean that Governor Rick Scott gets whatever he wants. Scott, at times, has a notable aversion to compromise even with others in his party and is no stranger to angering other Tallahassee Republicans. Usually, this puts him at odds with…
