Spend a few late-night hours outside Beach Towing’s walled-in lot in Sunset Harbour and you’ll surely hear this refrain from a furious tourist realizing they owe $300 to get their car back: “This is illegal!” There’s not much recourse for those burned tourists except to fork over the cash. But…
The swim race was meant to be a hilarious escapade of less-than-Olympic caliber politicians thrashing about for a good cause. Held last July at the West Grove pool, City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff lined up to race with two other commissioners and filmmaker Billy Corben, with each pledging $1,000 toward the…
The TV ad opens with Chris Bosh sinking a three in a dark practice gym and then turning solemnly toward the camera. “When I was sidelined with blood clots in my lungs, it was serious,” the ten-time All-Star says. “Fortunately, my doctor had a game plan.” The camera then catches…
In November 2012, artist Brian Deutzman had just returned to his hometown of Miami from New York hoping to sell some of his work during Art Basel. So he was thrilled when a broker representing Donald Trump’s hotel chain asked to buy a stylized photograph of a classic car to…
On the campaign trail and his personal websites, Donald Trump has bragged that he’s an “ardent philanthropist” who’s given more than $100 million in recent years to worthy causes. To back up that claim, he sent reporters a 93-page document noting all his contributions. Well, the Washington Post took…
The bad news: Zika is coming to Florida. On Friday, two new cases of the virus linked to serious birth defects were reported in the state, and scientists believe it could spread rapidly come summer as mosquito populations explode. And we’re still a long way away from a vaccine for…
Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign was a slow-motion dumpster fire. In state after state, he struggled to find a win. And by the time he had lost every single county except for Miami-Dade in the Florida primary, Rubio couldn’t avoid the truth: his party’s voters had made it painfully clear that…
On Tuesday, County Commissioner Sally Heyman had a serious question for the feds who have zeroed in on Miami as a haven of illicit money laundering: “Why target just Miami-Dade County?” she asked. Commissioners then approved her resolution, which expressed grave “concerns” that Miami’s image was being hurt by suggestions…
Talk to a certain kind of native Floridian about sea level rise and they’ll scoff at the idea that the floods regularly swamping cars and drowning businesses in South Beach are anything new. “Why, I remember a flood in 1962 that you can’t imagine!” they’ll say. Sorry, old timey climate…
If there’s a tragic figure in the unseemly Biogenesis steroid scandal that tore apart Major League Baseball three years ago, it’s Yuri Sucart, Alex Rodriguez’s cousin and longtime drug connection. After years at A-Rod’s side, often doing his less-than-legal bidding, Sucart fell hard in a federal criminal case tied to…
Last night, one of the biggest data leaks in history hit the web. The leak comes via a firm in Panama with a niche business: Setting up off-shore shell companies for clients who want to hide their cash from the tax man. A team lead by the International Consortium of Investigative…
The Florida Keys are hardly a crime-free haven. Residents in the watery string of islands are used to all kinds of extra-legal shenanigans, from mass drug rings to wild backhoe joyrides. But murder is rare. And the execution-style killing of two young parents just a few feet away from their…
In South Florida’s burgeoning tech sector, a non-profit called Endeavor Miami plays an outsized role. The group helps incubate new businesses with a $2 million Knight Foundation grant and a board stacked with a who’s-who of local power players. Since 2013, one of those players has been a charismatic Chilean tech…
As far as tech guru origin stories go, Alberto Chang-Rajii’s is as good as they get. As a humble, Chilean-born student at Stanford University in the mid-90s, Chang-Rajii has told audiences and journalists from Miami to Sydney, he met fellow students Sergey Brin and Larry Page just as they were…
By most accounts, President Obama’s historic visit to Havana last week was a success. His rousing speech to the Cuban people was roundly hailed as a step forward from musty Cold War-era policy, and even hardliners had to admit he got in a pretty good dig at Raul Castro over…
Tray Walker never had an easy path to NFL glory. After starring at Miami Northwestern alongside future star Teddy Bridgewater, he landed at a small college in Texas. His raw athletic ability netted him a draft pick with the Baltimore Ravens last year, but then his dad died the very…
In the days leading up to yesterday’s vote on whether to build a massive new convention center and hotel in the middle of South Beach, skeptics voiced a number of concerns: The snarled traffic in the heart of SoBe, the outsized scale of the building, the environmental impact. But when…
Six years ago, Marco Rubio rode an wave of insurgent resentment at the Republican Party to become “the first Tea Party senator.” But in the years since, the rebel became the establishment. And tonight, the same anti-Beltway GOP sentiment that sent him to Washington sent him tumbling out of the…
Donald Trump has not rolled out a textbook campaign to appeal to Jewish voters. First, he gave a speech laced with anti-Semitic jokes to the Republican Jewish Coalition. Then he started demanding a “loyalty pledge” that gave his rallies a distinctly Munich circa-1933 vibe. And just this past weekend, a…
Spring Break in South Beach got off to a chaotic start this weekend, with Miami Beach Police forced to shut down Ocean Drive on Friday night as a wave of brawls spilled through the crowd. The next night, the revelry turned bloody. As horrified partiers looked on, a 20-year-old named…
Since arriving as Miami Beach’s new police chief in 2014, Dan Oates has mostly steered clear of the scandals that plagued his predecessors in the high-profile department, the odd off-duty pay raise and fatal shooting during Art Basel aside. Back in Aurora, Colorado, though, where Oates spent nearly a decade…
David Rivera is the absolute last name Marco Rubio wanted to see in headlines four days before the biggest election of his life. Because whenever the former U.S. representative and longtime Rubio buddy makes the news, it’s for increasingly sordid allegations and federal investigations. Today is no different. Rivera is…
