Five Reasons Miami Dolphins Fans Can to Look Forward to Next Season
The 2016 season just ended, but Miami Dolphins fans should already be looking forward to 2017.
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Grammy-Winning Saxophonist Ed Calle Resigns From Palo! After Obama Comment
Last week, Ed Calle — a Latin Grammy winner and one of Miami’s best-known musicians — found himself in hot water over a tweet in which he referred to President Barack Obama as “the Kenyan.” Now, it seems, that hot water has boiled over. Calle, who did not respond to an email from New Times seeking comment, resigned from Palo! — an Afro-Cuban funk band — this past Tuesday.
Marley Brothers Take the Stage Together for the First Time in More Than Two Decades at Miami’s Kaya Fest
For the first time in more than 20 years, Stephen Marley will reunite with brothers Ziggy, Damian, and Ky-Mani onstage at Kaya Fest. The inaugural event will take place Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre
Why Was Matt Moore Allowed to Play After Vicious Helmet-to-Helmet Hit?
There was a split second during the Miami Dolphins’ embarrassing 30-12 wildcard-playoff-game loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday when it appeared the Fins might still have a chance to pull off an upset. That moment, as well as portions of Matt Moore’s upper torso, were quickly destroyed thanks to a vicious — and illegal — second-quarter hit that had just about everyone expecting the worst.
Friends Organize Crowdfunding Campaign to Help Miami Musician Xela Zaid Recover From Recent Stroke
Friends of local musician Alex Diaz, better known as Xela Zaid, have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money that will go toward helping Diaz recover from a stroke he suffered last month just before Christmas. Organizers ask that anyone who enjoyed Diaz’s work to donate to help the musician regain his ability to speak. He has been a staple of the Miami music scene for more than three decades.
Why the Dolphins Will Upset the Pittsburgh Steelers This Weekend
The Miami Dolphin’s aren’t supposed to still be playing football, and according to Las Vegas, they won’t be playing much longer. Vegas pits the Fins as ten-point underdogs in Sunday’s 1:05 p.m. game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the biggest dog on the slate of playoff games. Even though Miami beat Pittsburgh 30-15 in mid-October, everyone assumes the Dolphins are about to get their asses whooped by the big, bad Steelers this weekend.
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Australian Duo Nervo Brings a “Miami Set” to Story Nightclub Tonight
Nervo, the Australian twin-sister DJ-and-EDM personality duo, will take its high-energy, love-inducing set to Story nightclub today for an 11 p.m. show that is sure to give fans New Year’s Eve flashbacks and lots of reasons to dance their asses off.
Billy Corben’s Rakontur Studios to Release Docuseries Cocaine Cowboys: Los Muchachos
For fans of Billy Corben and the content that his Miami-based Rakontur Studios continues to kick out, this latest bit of Twitter news will be music to their ears: A third installment of Cocaine Cowboys, Rakontur’s Miami-centric illegal-drug-trade series, is in the works. The series could even hit a small screen near you within the year.
Biscayne Green Will Turn Downtown Parking Lots Into Parks
Downtown Miami will become a bit greener to kick off 2017. Biscayne Green, a pop-up park and promenade project, will transform Biscayne Boulevard into a community gathering space this week. Parking lots across from the InterContinental, Bayfront Park, and Bayside will host the project, where the public will be able to enjoy free events and entertainment in a newly green space January 6 through 26. Biscayne Green is meant to give the 90,000 residents of downtown and the more than 235,000 who commute there a vibrant place to enjoy nature and the related perks that make Miami one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Next Weekend, the Miami Dolphins Will Play Their First Playoff Game Since 2008
Hold onto your butts, South Florida — the Miami Dolphins are back in the playoffs. Put your mock drafts and your lists of available free agents away. Forget what coaches might be available this offseason. The Miami Dolphins are a handful of games away from winning the Super Bowl.
Eight Moments That Shaped the Miami Dolphins’ Improbable Season
The Miami Dolphins are an NFL playoff team. What is an NFL playoff team, you might ask? It’s a team that plays all 17 regular-season games and then plays an additional matchup in a single-elimination tournament that concludes with a game between the final two remaining teams, called the “Super Bowl.”
Holy Crap, the Miami Dolphins Are Going to the Playoffs
On Christmas Eve, old Saint Nick brought Miami Dolphins fans an amazeballs 34-31 win over the Buffalo Bills. The victory was the tenth of the year for the Dolphins and, according to Nate Silver and the website FiveThirtyEight, moved their chances of making the playoffs to 92 percent. A Kansas City Chiefs win over the Denver Broncos Christmas Day would bring that number to 100-holy-shit-the-Dolphins-are-in-the-NFL-playoffs-percent.
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The Buffalo Bills Have the Worst Fans in the NFL
The Miami Dolphins travel to Buffalo this Saturday for a huge 1 p.m. game against the Bills. That makes this as good a time as any to remind you of something that you no doubt have been fully aware of forever: Buffalo Bills fans are legitimately the craziest group of assholes in the NFL, and they are scaring the rest of us.
Miami’s Five Biggest Sports Stories of 2016
For Miami sports fans, 2016 has been a trying year with some of the lowest lows imaginable, moments likely to make national lists of “worst sports disasters.” But don’t forget it’s also been a year when we’ve seen a lot of change, and some of it has been unquestionably for the best.
Goodbye, Ballers: The Miami Moments We’ll Miss in Season 3
Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and his HBO football comedy Ballers have decided to relocate for Season 3, ditching continued production in Miami in favor of a move to California. Hollywood has promised the show a $8.3 million TV tax incentive for making the move, as well as a few other bells and whistles the Sunshine State just couldn’t match.
Dolphins Can Still Win With Matt Moore at Quarterback
Fact: The Miami Dolphins are an 8-5 football team with a real chance of making the playoffs for the first time since the 2008 season. Counterpoint: Matt Moore, the new Dolphins quarterback, has been a part of roughly 1 percent of that 8-5 record and has completed 19 passes since the week the South Korean recording artist Psy released his megahit “Gangnam Style.”
Ryan Tannehill Out for the Season After Tearing ACL UPDATED
The Dolphins beat the Arizona Cardinals 26-23 on a 20-yard field goal as time expired yesterday. But Miami fans were not celebrating. Just when he looked to be finally fulfilling years of teasing promise, Ryan Tannehill tore his ACL during the game. The team has confirmed he’s out for the season.
Miami Dolphins Have the Brightest Future Among South Florida’s Pro Teams
The Miami Dolphins are spending this week licking their wounds after the Baltimore Ravens blew them out last week. But even after that ugly loss, it’s clear the Fins have the brightest future of all the South Florida sports teams.
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Ron Brewer Is Leaving the Paul and Young Ron Radio Show After 26 Years
Since 1990, Paul Castronovo and Ron Brewer have cohosted the Paul and Young Ron show on South Florida radio airwaves. For years, the two have been some of the most recognizable faces plastered across billboards and signs all over Miami. If you have lived in South Florida for any meaningful amount of time, you’ve likely come across the duo at a festival or event.
Humiliating Loss to Baltimore Drops Dolphins Out of Playoff Spot
Welp, it was fun while it lasted, but at some point you knew the Miami Dolphins would eventually have to put their pants back on. The Baltimore Ravens’ 38-6 ass-humbling blowout of the Dolphins yesterday was that time. The party is over. Everyone, please help pick up these red Solo cups all over the lawn.
Miami Heat Fans Among Most Die-Hard in NBA, New Study Finds
Wins haven’t been easy to come by for the Miami Heat this season, but according to a new study, Heat fans keep winning off the court. They don’t need science to prove they are among the best fans in all of sports — but science keeps stepping in to prove it’s true.
High Art: Marijuana Masterpieces Get Their Own Booth at Spectrum Miami
Art Basel is upon us, which means all sorts of cool, interesting, weird, shocking, and downright breathtaking art will soon be splashed across town for all the world to see. If you can imagine it, it’s probably represented somewhere during Miami Art Week. And one booth at the art fair Spectrum Miami aims to set your imagination ablaze — with weed.