As Marco Rubio’s campaign buckled under a Donald Trump tsunami back in February, the Miami senator tried a last ditch maneuver to stem the tide: He started outright mocking a guy famous for brutally making fun of his opponents. Rubio — correctly — called him “orange” and a “con man.”…
King of Diamonds is arguably the hip-hop world’s most famed strip club. It’s a 50,000-square-foot warehouse packed with more than 200 dancers, some famous for clinging to the rafters before spiraling down a pole as dollar bills fall like a summer downpour. “It’s like going to a party at LIV,…
VFW Hall 3559 is a bizarre relic of an earlier time in glitzy South Beach. Hidden inside the Floridian condo tower, patrons have to ring a bell at an unmarked side door and get buzzed in via hidden camera. Inside, sweeping views of Biscayne Bay contrast with a grimy, smoke-filled…
Mickey Axelband may be the Miami Marlins’ biggest fan. Ever since the baseball team’s first game in 1993, the 59-year-old, bald veterinarian with lively green eyes has been a season ticket holder. He’s attended every single home opener and final game of the season. He sweated through thousands of brutal…
There’s already a Little Haiti Cultural Center and a Little Haiti Park. Ask any Miamian for directions to Little Haiti and they won’t hesitate to point you toward the Caribbean area centered on NE 2nd Avenue. And yet Little Haiti has never been an officially designated neighborhood in the City…
Bernie Sanders’ war to take down Hillary Clinton looks close to sputtering out. But that doesn’t mean the Vermont insurgent is done trying to reshape the Democratic Party. Sanders is now asking his considerable grassroots support to aim their ire at a South Florida target: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the…
For decades, one of two statues in the U.S. Capitol meant to celebrate famed Florida residents has depicted Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith. But Smith was a Confederate general with hardly any noteworthy accomplishments. Even worse, he was barely a Florida man at all. He never even lived in the Sunshine State…
In the grand scheme of violent crime in South Beach, an October 2014 drive-by shooting outside Ocean Drive’s Fat Tuesday outpost seemed far from notorious. In the wee hours of a Sunday morning, a group in an Altima fired at someone sitting in a dark-colored car and then sped away…
Despite being a stronghold of support for Barack Obama in both his presidential races, Miami’s two most prominent mayors — City Mayor Tomás Regalado and County Mayor Carlos Gimenez — are both Republicans. That’s a quirk of the outsized role traditionally Republican Cuban-Americans play in local politics. But that party…
In his short time campaigning for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat, Miami native Carlos Beruff has already earned his nickname — the Cuban-American Donald Trump — with extreme positions like a call to end all travel from the Middle East to the United States. So it shouldn’t be the shock of…
Three years ago, a soft-spoken mobile app developer named Jesus Rodriguez was hailed as one of the up-and-coming bright lights of Miami’s emerging tech sector. Rodriguez’s company, Kidozen, was among the first local companies chosen by tech business incubator Endeavor Miami for a grant. Rodriguez quickly claimed runaway success. He…
For months, fiery debate has raged over the future of Liberty Square, the notoriously dangerous housing project better known as Pork ‘n’ Beans. After Mayor Carlos Gimenez revealed an ambitious plan to raze the property and rebuild new housing, corruption allegations and fears that current residents will be shut out…
On the campaign trail, Marco Rubio painted the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency like some combination of allowing Bernie Madoff and Pol Pot into the White House. A brief selection of words Rubio used to describe Trump include “con man,” “dangerous,” “strong man,” and “catastrophic.” He (correctly) called him…
As the GOP primary melted down into a carnival sideshow even Hunter S. Thompson on acid couldn’t have dreamed up, many Democrats and neutral voters have been happy to point and laugh at the mess, assuring themselves that someone as bigoted, xenophobic and misogynist as Donald Trump could never carry…
Flash back to early March in the chaotic Republican primary. Miami’s GOP golden boy Marco Rubio was still clinging onto faint hope that he could bring mainstream Republicans together against insurgent Donald Trump. But then the latest polls started coming out of Florida, and it clear that Rubio was bound…
Don’t tell the thousands of tourists and locals who hop in black Ubers or Lyfts every day in Miami, but the rideshare services are still technically illegal in Dade County. For more than two years, the tech firms and local politicians have been locked in a tug-of-war with millions of…
If the Miami Marlins had one positive story during last season’s damp tissue of a season, it was spark plug second baseman Dee Gordon, who led the league in hits, batting average and stolen bases. The Marlins lavished a new $50 million contract on him, and just last night he…
Ed Cofiño isn’t sure his cousin, José, will ever make it back to South Beach. That’s because he has advanced ALS, the degenerative neurological disease made famous by Lou Gehrig. So when José visited last Sunday before boarding a cruise, Ed was excited to take him for a drink at the Delano…
Everyone knows who defeated medical marijuana in Florida two years ago: casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who singlehandedly pumped in millions to pay for scare ads that helped barely keep the amendment below 60 percent approval. But few remember that it was actually a St. Petersburg-based developer who created the anti-pot group…
Picture this: In less than a century, ice in Greenland and Antarctica has melted far more rapidly than even the most dire predictions. The seas worldwide have risen by meters, swamping coastal cities like Miami. Even worse, the rapid melt has led Atlantic currents like the Gulf Stream to collapse,…
Kevin Gibson has just half a beard. He also had a full stash of marijuana with an intent to sell, police say. The combination of those two factors — plus the fact that Gibson spent the stoner holiday of 4/20 in jail for his alleged misdeeds — means that the…
A New Times story about a cult YouTube bodybuilding star and his oddball cast of characters has won national honors from the Society of Professional Journalists. SPJ announced today that the story by former Broward Palm Beach staff writer Kyle Swenson won the Sigma Delta Chi award for feature writing. Swenson’s…
