First, the good news for Florida booze-hounds: A bill that would help craft distilleries in the Sunshine State is headed to the House floor for a vote. If it passes, you’ll be able to buy small-batch liquors straight from distilleries, ending a Prohibition-era ban that has prevented local rum and…
At the Marlins’ home opener on Monday, commentators threw around words like “respectable” and “surprising” to describe the announced crowd of 34,439 (minus a few troublemaking protesters, of course). By the season’s second game last night, though, the more appropriate adjectives were “embarrassing” and “unsurprising.”The Fish drew just 14,222 to…
Looks like there’s not going to be an Elian Saga Part Two, despite the best efforts of a fugitive couple who kidnapped their kids in Florida and fled to Cuba hoping to hide out. Authorities in Havana have just announced that the couple, Joshua and Sharyn Hakken, will be sent…
Like most lifelong Marlins fans, Dan Barton feels like team owner Jeffrey Loria spent the offseason repeatedly kicking him in the junk. So the 25-year-old and three of his friends showed up at last night’s home opener with some homemade signs and T-shirts — “Free the Marlins” and “F Jeff”…
If you live in South Beach, chances are you’ve seen Alex Mesa. He’s the 44-year-old, neon-clad Colombian guy whose passion is jogging backward. Mesa runs all over SoBe the wrong direction, drawing honks, stares, and — today at least — a 911 call and a citation from police.Mesa complains that…
Hope you’re psyched for Opening Day, Miami! Your hometown Marlins are off to a roaring start. If by “roaring,” you mean they’re tied for the worst record in baseball, have scored just 14 runs in six games, and are so desperate for a first-baseman they held open auditions yesterday, that…
Last week, T. D. Allman sent Florida the worst birthday card ever. The author’s widely shared column in the New York Times trashed Ponce de León and bemoaned celebrations of his “purported discovery” of the peninsula in 1513 as a “fiesta of illusion.” OK, so Ponce was a racist, imperialist…
The horrifying wrong-way crash that killed four people and snarled traffic for hours on I-95 Wednesday is beginning to look worse and worse for the troubled Opa-locka Police Department. Though city officials have denied that Cpl. Sergio Perez pursued a suspect well out of his jurisdiction onto the highway in…
Donna Shalala is done messing around. This morning, the University of Miami dropped a 45-page bomb on the NCAA, detailing the dozens of reasons why the school believes the Nevin Shapiro case should be dropped. You’ve already heard most of the juicy parts: Nevin’s attorney getting paid by the NCAA…
On Memorial Day Weekend in 2011, Miami Beach police killed a Palm Beach man named Raymond Herisse in a hail of more than 115 bullets, wounding five bystanders in a terrifying scene caught on camera. Two years later, those shootings victims are still trying to figure out what happened that…
Hope you like a long, drawn-out campaign, GOP faithful! Because three years out from choosing a nominee to run in the 2016 presidential race, Republican voters aren’t showing any inclination toward picking a favorite yet.Marco Rubio narrowly leads the field in a new Quinnipiac poll out this morning, but garners…
When a Monroe County Sheriff’s deputy clocked a maroon Mitsubishi blazing past his stakeout a few miles north of Key West this weekend, the car was doing 87 mph in a 55 zone. The cop gave pursuit and then watched in astonishment as the Mitsubishi roared up to 127 mph…
Andrea Bocelli might just be the most popular Italian on Earth. The 54-year-old operatic tenor has sold more than 80 million records, sung for every world leader this side of Kim Jong Un and yeah, has a duet with J. Lo on his new album, which debuted at No. 2…
All across our lovely, sun-drenched peninsula, acres and acres of cookie-cutter suburbs sit wilting in the humidity, bereft of human beings. They’re “zombie homes”: properties mired in foreclosure whose owners have simply walked away, leaving the rotting places to become havens for drug dealers and squatters.Florida has more zombie homes than…
On Friday, the University of Miami will file a motion asking the NCAA to dismiss its Nevin Shapiro investigation, which was tainted when a now-fired investigator paid Shapiro’s attorney to grill witnesses. New Times poured fuel on that fire last week by reporting on the questionable history of another key…
Miami Marlins Threaten to Sue Longtime Season-Ticket Holders
As the Marlins gear up for what many predict will be their worst-performing, least-attended season ever — just one year after opening a taxpayer-funded ballpark — the wolves are howling outside owner Jeffrey Loria’s door. The latest barrage of bad press comes in Sports Illustrated, where former Miami Herald scribe…
When Ultra Music Festival announced plans to expand to a second weekend, Commissioner Marc Sarnoff predicted an onslaught of “urinating, defecating … throwing up” kids on “mind-altering drugs” wreaking havoc. Well, Miami police have released their crime stats from the second week of Ultra and the actual results were something…
How often have you seen this headline in Miami? Yet even in Dade, where hit-and-runs are as regular as dubstep floating around South Beach on Ultra weekend, the wreck that killed a cyclist in North Dade yesterday was particularly brutal. After an SUV slammed into the man, the driver stopped twice…
When Shane Larkin drained a game-winning three yesterday with seconds left to secure the U’s second-ever trip to the Sweet 16, Canes fans everywhere went bananas. But no one — repeat, NO ONE — rocked the win as hard as Coach Jim Larranaga.Inside the locker room after the W, the…
Major League Baseball is set to file a lawsuit today against Tony Bosch, the former head of Coral Gables anti-aging clinic Biogenesis, alleging he damaged the sport by providing performance-enhancing drugs to baseball players, the New York Times reports. The suit follows a Miami New Times investigation into Biogenesis that…
Florida may well be the “Gunshine State,” but like the rest of the nation, its residents still overwhelmingly support background checks on all gun purchases. More surprising, a solid majority of Floridians also want a national ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.That’s according to Quinnipiac’s new poll, which found…
