Last month, county officials reacted with shock and horror at news that the Frost Science Museum — a signature project at the heart of the new Bicentennial Park downtown — had run out of cash before construction could be finished. Taxpayers were already on the hook for $160 million for…
What a strange month February has been for Marco Rubio. It was barely a week ago when the pride of West Miami sprinted out of Iowa in third place, riding waves of momentum as the establishment candidate who could take down Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. But an odd software…
On Saturday, thousands of passengers on the Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas sailed out of New Jersey into calm seas, sipping margaritas and dreaming balmy beaches. Just off the coast of the Carolinas, meanwhile, a monster storm was brewing, with winds howling around a huge low pressure front. Last…
A Washington Post story last month revealing that Marco Rubio had been arrested after hours in a Brickell Park in 1990 quickly sparked far slimier allegations in the conservative Twittersphere: Namely, that the 18-year-old Rubio had actually been cruising for gay sex in the park with a good friend who…
An anti-immigration bill with language so harsh it makes Donald Trump sound like Cesar Chavez by comparison is advancing through Tallahassee right now. How strong are the provisions in HB 1095, the “Prevention of Acts of War”? Not only would the bill let Florida’s governor ban immigrants or refugees from…
Max Martinez spent his youth worshipping David Beckham’s exploits on the soccer pitch. Growing up in Miami with a Real Madrid fanatic for a father, Martinez used to wear his number 23 Madrid shirt everywhere. So when MLS made it official that Beckham will be bringing an MLS club to…
Last week, a Miami woman named Claudia Castillo went nuclear on the Palmetto Expressway when she says a Miami-Dade cop went flying past her near 100 mph. Castillo followed the cop, got him to pulled over, then filmed an exchange that has since gone viral online, with many praising her…
Has $14.9 million ever bought less? As Jeb Bush’s dispiriting campaign for president limped to an all too predictable wet thud of a finish in Iowa last night, his supporters played down the ramifications. New Hampshire matters much more, they say. Iowa’s strictly conservative base was never a great fit…
At first glance, the video looks like a million others on YouTube — a wary citizen films a vertical cell phone video from their front seat as a stern police officer leans in. But then it’s the driver who speaks up. The cop stands silent, looking mildly confused. “The reason…
In the wake mass protests in Cleveland, Ferguson and Baltimore, cops nationwide have scrambled for ways to better police themselves. Body cameras have quickly emerged as a consensus choice to add clarity to the often muddy waters that follow a fatal police shooting. Miami’s no different — the past year,…
Check your calendars and grease up your gears — or point your car in the opposite direction, if you’re not of in the spokes-and-pedals crowd. It’s the last Friday of the month, which means hundreds of cyclists in Critical Mass will rolling through city streets at rush hour tonight. The…
Gray-haired abuelas roll creaky carts stacked with clothes inside Wash Time Coin Laundry, a bustling Little Havana storefront a mile west of Marlins Park. Angel Barrios, the owner, folds his arms across his chest and laments his bad luck that a kid he was arrested with 26 years ago has grown…
You already know that Jeb Bush is struggling. He’s scuffling so bad that his mom is pleading his case in campaign ads and DJ Khaled is jumping on late-night TV to try to light a spark under the former governor. But even the most cynical Jeb hater had to…
This past November 15, Michael Gavins was shot in the back by a South Miami Police officer during a traffic stop. As New Times detailed earlier this month, Gavins was unarmed, and an independent witness and physical evidence back his claim that his hands were in the air when he…
Downtown Miami has changed immensely in the last twenty years, shifting from a sleepy business district to bustling bayfront of condo skyscrapers, museums and arenas. But one thing has stayed constant: The traffic clogged artery of Biscayne Boulevard dividing most of downtown from the waterfront. Next week, city commissioners will…
The poker player got belligerent around 12:30 this morning, causing enough of a commotion that Magic City Casino staffers asked him to leave. When he wouldn’t, a City of Miami cop working security stepped in to force him to exit the gambling room. That’s when things got hairy. Police say…
Vivian Rubio, a veteran actress and model with scores of credits on telenovelas like La Reina del Sur, recently returned home to Miami from her base in L.A. and was looking for some extra work. When she found a Craigslist ad looking for an actress for a televised prank, she jumped…
The dirtbikes, ATVs and motorcycles came to South Florida by the hundreds yesterday, popping wheelies and darting through traffic as they sped across Broward County and then south in to Miami. Police mostly left the mass ride alone as confused motorists took to social media in bafflement. The ride wasn’t…
King of Diamonds might be the world’s greatest hip hop strip club, a place where Floyd Mayweather makes it rain $100,000 in one night and Lil’ Wayne regularly drops the equivalent of a small European nation’s GDP. But some of KOD’s strippers say that wealth hasn’t filtered down to them,…
Earlier this month, a high school soccer game at Florida Christian’s campus in southwest Dade County ended in chaos. The opposing team’s coach says he watched in horror as a swarm of Florida Christian fans and players surrounded a ref and began “pummeling” him. Both Miami-Dade police and the Florida…
The ten-minute clip wouldn’t be out of place on WorldStar Hip Hop — in short bursts of cell phone video, it captures drunken screaming matches and knock-down, bareknuckle brawls soundtracked with a thumping club beat. But the piece isn’t meant as street-fighting clickbait. The video was actually edited and uploaded…
The new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is planned as the centerpiece of the emerging bayfront area downtown, an eco-friendly tourist mecca with a jaw-dropping, enormous shark tank as its centerpiece. Miami-Dade County is so bullish on the plan it sank $160 million in taxpayer funds to help pay…
