According to a financial rule of thumb, a person should spend about 50 percent of his or her after-tax income on necessities. That includes things like rent, food, utilities, health care, and transportation. Another 30 percent should be spent on discretionary purchases, and the remaining 20 percent should be stashed…
Rumors of Fidel Castro’s death have been greatly exaggerated for decades. Reports about the exact state of his health have notoriously been hard to verify. But now that Castro is 89 and rarely seen in public anymore, it’s likely that he won’t live much longer. In a rare public speech…
Maybe you remember Miami-Dade County Judge Jacqueline Schwartz from previous headlines. She’s the judge who told a Coconut Grove convenience store clerk to “go fuck yourself” in a row involving an opponent’s campaign sign. She also once sent out an election victory e-mail boasting about being an “Anglo” who defeated…
In the midst of an already tense weekend on Miami Beach, David H. Johnson uploaded a video on Facebook informing friends that he had been robbed and was temporarily without a phone. His face was marred with stitches, contusions and scrapes, and the video soon spread outside of his friend…
Climate change? Real estate slow down? Rising rents? Continued unease about the health of the local economy? Apparently none of those concerns can curb growth in Downtown Miami. According to a new report from Realtor.com, the downtown zip code of 33132 is expected to be the fourth fastest growing neighborhood…
Well, congratulations Miami. We’ve ruined Floatopia. The latest edition of the biannual beach bacchanal boosting all things buoyant drew tens of thousands of revelers to South Pointe Park on Saturday, but the partiers left behind mountains of trash. Now city officials are calling for an end to the event, seemingly…
The home ownership rate in Miami is down to historic lows, and most millennials in the metro area won’t in the market to buy a home anytime soon. According to a new survey by Apartment List, 81 percent of local millennials feel buying a home is just too expensive. This…
Well, this is unfortunate timing. Just weeks after famed architect Zaha Hadid died in a Miami Beach hospital, the city of Miami Beach has decided not to go ahead with plans to build a Hadid-designed public parking garage in the Collins Park neighborhood. The city commissioned Hadid, a part-time Beach…
Jeb Bush has been out of the presidential race for almost two months, but Donald Trump apparently loves to lambast the former Florida gov. Lil’ Jebbers was Trump’s favorite target during the debates. The mogul seemed to relish metaphorically wrapping his stubby little digits around Bush’s jowls any chance he…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida every week. On Friday, we’re here to bring you some of the weirdest. This week: the bubble man fails to ride again, a man’s arrest report has almost as much going on as his face tattoo collection, a horny fake cop, and…
Some thought she was behind a bizarre, eye-popping piece of performance art. Turned out she was actually carrying out an attempted second-degree murder. Siyuan Zhao, the woman who stabbed another woman with an x-acto knife in the middle of the Miami Beach Convention Center during the middle of December’s Art…
It’s not quite crickets yet, but don’t expect to hear quite so many cranes, nail guns and saws around Miami …or the ring of your Real Estate agent friend’s phone for that matter. All evidence points to a noticeable slowdown in the local real estate market, and here’s even more…
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine’s controversy meter is, at times, notably off. The millionaire Mayor made a historic trip to Cuba last month, and while speaking with Cuban officials, broached the idea of discussing bringing a Cuban Consulate to Miami Beach. This is, of course, Miami-Dade County, where all discussion…
Miami would be nothing without its hotels. Never mind that some of the juiciest bits of Miami history took place within their walls, those walls are basically Miami history themselves. These days all of South Florida — but especially Miami Beach — is known for its zeal for historic preservation…
That greatest college football rivalry rarely played may be making a comeback in 2019. The Miami Hurricanes and Florida Gators are reportedly very close to coming to terms to playing each other again in a neutral site matchup to open the 2019 season. “We’re still looking on that game in…
For years, the knock against Debbie Wasserman Shultz was that she was just too damn liberal for her own good. Everytime Florida political columnist mentioned the possibility of the Congresswoman running for state-wide office it came with the caveat that she was perhaps too far to the left to win…
When Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine not only became the first sitting head of a Dade County city to visit Cuba but also initiated the possibility of a hosting a Cuban consulate in Miami Beach it could be seen as a litmus test to see how charged the third rail of…
In 2002, when Miami-Dade voters approved a half-penny sales tax to fund mass transit in the county we were promised the moon: namely, widely expanded MetroRail and bus services. We got, at best, the equivalent of a few orbiting space rocks. Now, the Miami-Dade Commission may consider asking voters to…
LeBron James left South Florida two seasons ago, but apparently he can’t get our women out of his head. At least, that’s according to the lastest social media rumors which we’re going to entertain, frankly, because we miss getting to write about weird LeBron James theories all the time like…
There are indications that Miami’s condo sales market may be cooling down, but rent prices aren’t necessarily cooling down with it. According to the latest numbers from Zumper, the median rent for a listed one bedroom condo in Miami right now is $1,900. That’s up from $1,840 in February, and a…
Marco Rubio says he’s not open to being anyone’s running mate, and that when his Senate term expire in January he’ll return to the private sector. Then again, Rubio says a lot of things he later goes back on. When he originally won that Senate seat he said he wouldn’t use…
Jonathan Alexander Alonso has officially been charged with the murder of his older lover, 61-year-old Lou Piper. Appearing in bond court this morning, Alonso went on a bizarre rant in which he claimed he was “God’s will.” Police found Piper’s body Wednesday inside his Sunset Harbour apartment after co-workers reported…
