Does Donald Trump owe billions of dollars to Vladimir Putin-connected Russian oligarchs? Is his personal fortune so tied to loans from corporate fat cats that they’re secretly pulling the strings on all of his policy decisions? Trump swears the answer to both of those questions is no, but he also won’t let…
Everyone knew this year’s best-picture contest at the Oscars came down to two diametrically opposed choices: Moonlight, a coming-of-age tale of a young, gay black man in Miami created by Liberty City natives Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins, and La La Land, a big-budget Hollywood musical about how awesome Hollywood is.
On Instagram, Richard Rodriguez comes across as a high-living gym fanatic, posing with top bodybuilding athletes and posting photos of luxury sports cars and his extreme adventures, such as skydiving and firing high-powered weapons. As owner of the popular Iron Addicts gym just north of downtown Miami, he had recently become a…
This might be the most precarious moment in history for the free press. The president recently called reporters “the enemy of the American people” and wants to defund PBS. The internet has murdered daily newspapers. Made-up stories routinely go viral on social media.
For a brief, delirious moment, Marlins fans thought they were rid of Jeffrey Loria. Sure, they’d have to trade the worst owner in sports for a family best known for propelling a xenophobic garbage bag full of rancid Tang into the White House. But that would almost be worth it…
Like most of America, John DeVore was astounded to see the Facebook photos posted by a random Palm Beach rich dude last weekend. Thanks to his membership at Mar-a-Lago, some guy named Richard DeAgazio managed to sidle up to the nuclear football for a selfie and watch a North Korean…
Marco Rubio’s campaign-trail promises of being a strong foil to Donald Trump already felt like pulp fiction thanks to his 100 percent voting record for the president’s appointees and plans. Now they’re beginning to look as sordid as the latest Fifty Shades edition.
Jeffrey Loria’s endgame has always been obvious. Loria has spent two decades constructing an elaborate baseball Ponzi scheme, starting in ’99, when he dropped just $12 million for a stake in the Montreal Expos and culminating in 2011 when he wrangled a new Miami Marlins stadium paid for by the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County to the tune of $2.4 billion.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren stepped to the Senate floor last night with a simple plan: Reading a letter by civil rights icon Coretta Scott King that criticized Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. Given Sessions’ incendiary record on racial justice, King’s opinion was quite relevant to the debate on whether Sessions should…
Remember over the summer when Marco Rubio waxed eloquent about how he and his fellow U.S. senators would be a strong “check and balance” on Donald Trump? Hahahaha! That was a funny one, Marco. Rubio now has a sterling 100 percent voting record backing all of President Trump’s nominees and plans…
Remember way back in November when your most insufferable Facebook friends were insisting there was zero difference between Trump and Clinton? Besides, they cynically insisted, Trump would never do all of that crazy stuff he kept promising! Who cares whom you vote for?
For 23 years, a science station on Virginia Key tied to the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has carefully tracked conditions in Biscayne Bay. Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the school, has never seen anything like the data coming in since September.
On Friday, the morning after Mayor Carlos Gimenez kowtowed to Donald Trump’s demand that Miami stop protecting undocumented immigrants, a crowd descended on County Hall to protest. That’s a pretty normal occurrence in America, where residents have the right to tell their elected leaders they’re wrong. What the crowd found…
Marco Rubio is less a U.S. senator than a wide-eyed college freshman, lost in the gleaming halls of his institution, deeply curious but frankly very confused and a little frightened by his ignorance. Sure, the people of Florida elected him based on his promise to serve as a brake on…
County Hall went on lockdown this afternoon as a group gathered outside to protest Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s order to county officials to comply with all of Donald Trump’s strict immigration plans. Guards blocked the doors. The Metromover stop was closed. And then Rep. Keith Ellison crashed the party. The co-chair…
As portrayed by Jonah Hill in the film War Dogs, Efraim Diveroli is a borderline madman, rushing into danger and blowing through millions of dollars as he tricks the U.S. government into buying old Chinese ammunition. The real-life story of the Miami Beach stoner’s arms-dealing fiasco isn’t that far off of Hollywood’s take.
Stanley Glaser swats at mosquitoes outside his weatherbeaten house, which is shaded by towering mango trees and lush tropical ferns. Glaser learned to till a few small fields while living here in the early ’80s. Now the home sits at the center of an 20-acre South Miami-Dade oasis that churns…
Remember two weeks ago when your friends were all amazed at Sen. Marco Rubio’s gutsy showing at Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearing? Rubio roasted Tillerson for refusing to call Vladimir Putin a war criminal over his Syria campaign. Maybe, political columnists suggested, Rubio could be a GOP bulwark against Donald Trump’s neglect for basic human rights.
Elections have consequences. Sure, there are some Miami voters who leapt enthusiastically onto the Trump Train and embraced all of the Donald’s plans. But thousands of locals voted for him only because they wanted lower taxes or a wall in Texas or the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Even more in Miami-Dade didn’t bother showing up at the polls.
If you’ve lived in Florida for more than a few months, you’ve hopefully absorbed some firm rules regarding the living dinosaurs that populate our swamps and canals. You never swim at night, and honestly should never set foot in any freshwater that isn’t a swimming pool. You don’t feed the…
Rubio has thrown deep shade at Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private and WikiLeaks leaker whom President Obama pardoned yesterday. See if you can notice what’s off about Rubio’s statement condemning Obama’s move:
The herd of false killer whales, a kind of endangered, oversize dolphin, wormed its way into the narrow channels of Everglades National Park sometime over the weekend. The massive creatures, which can grow to 20 feet and 1,500 pounds, were soon trapped in the silty water, thick with mangrove roots…
