The March for Our Lives will be a moment that reverberates not only in Washington but also far and wide, with more than 700 marches around the world. And for those who want to show their support for the Never Again movement and the students who are seeking change but who can’t make it to D.C. for the main rally next Saturday, here is a list of sister marches that will take place around South Florida March 24.
As medical marijuana becomes a big business in Florida, the companies who got in the door first are doing everything in their power to minimize competition and maximize their bottom line. And that means pushing for a closed system that prevents most people from breaking into the cannabis industry — and hurts patients by stifling competition and innovation.
This week, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High returned to school — to the hallways and classrooms where they had watched people die, where many of them thought they, too, would probably die. It’s impossible to imagine what that place must feel like to them now, once an average part of everyday life, now something wholly different.
Most attorneys don’t deserve the bad rap their profession has gotten. But when a lawyer hires an unlicensed doctor to help sell fake marijuana certificates for $800 apiece that supposedly give people legal cover to grow weed, he has earned a bit of that ugly reputation. And once SWAT teams start kicking those clients’ doors down and hauling them off to jail, it’s probably time that lawyer lost his license.
Brad Meltzer is one of South Florida’s most celebrated thriller writers. For more than two decades, the author of page turners such as The Tenth Justice, Identity Crisis, and The Millionaires has more than proven the width and breadth of his imagination. In his latest book, The Escape Artist, due out March 6, he draws from some of the least-known segments of America’s military and turns them into a tale all their own.
Before there was the South Pointe Pier most Miamians know, there was the First Street Pier. Back then, locals could cut bait, cast, and fish at their leisure from the pier. But as Miami Beach began to draw more tourists, the city began encroaching on the fishermen who had long called the pier home.
What do some people call cocaine? Try Bolivian marching powder. What is alien sex fiend? PCP combined with heroin, at least according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s report on drug slang.
Last week, Nikolas Cruz took an AR-15 to Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and opened fire. He attacked students and faculty alike, and when the day was done, he’d left 17 dead.
South Floridians are still trying to make sense of yesterday’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. It was the act of a madman, a teenager with a gun in a country plagued by gun violence and a state that saw one of the worst mass shootings in history less than two years ago in Orlando. Seventeen people are dead.
After almost three years of construction, Miami’s most eagerly awaited skyscraper is almost done. 1000 Museum, also known as the Scorpion Tower, is already one of the most distinct buildings in downtown and it’s not even finished yet. Last night, developers and supporters of the high-rise gathered at the Frost Museum of Science to celebrate the skyscraper’s topping out with a lighting ceremony.
For the past five years, the SLS South Beach has been home to one of the most titillating networking events in the nation: CamCon. For a few days a year, many of the most beautiful and brazen faces (and bodies) of internet stardom come together to have fun in the sun, make new professional connections, and show their fans some love.
The Remyz doesn’t sound like a typical Miami band, but it might just be one of the most Miami acts playing in the city right now. The five-piece lineup includes a Bahamian frontman, a Colombian bassist, an African-American drummer, a Puerto Rican guitarist, and a Dominican guitarist. They all attended…
Florida medical marijuana seems hopelessly mired in bureaucratic gridlock. Monday morning in Tallahassee, legislators on an oversight committee vented their frustration with the Department of Health’s Office of Medical Marijuana Use and the man appointed to run it, Christian Bax.
With Valentine’s Day nearly here, it time to start planning what you’re going to do to woo your special someone. But sometimes romantic ideas can be hard to come up with. Don’t fret – the New Times has you covered. Here’s our list of 10 things couples can do on Valentine’s Day.
Charles J. Kropke is an author, entrepreneur, and environmental activist who has owned the tour company Dragonfly Expeditions for the past 27 years. Kropke also served as a first lieutenant for more than a decade in the volunteer efforts of the Everglades Restoration Movement. He has created a number of PBS films, The Unseen Everglades: Stories of a Legendary Wilderness, which won an Emmy. Now he’s releasing a project with PBS titled Battleground: Everglades, a six-part series dedicated to looking at both the wonders of the Everglades and the dangers that face them.
Rufus Wainwright is not your typical musician. Apart from having a voice that is evocative, sultry sweet, luscious and classically iconic, Wainwright is one of the most eclectically capable musicians around. His repertoire ranges from the baroque pop Want One and Want Two, to his own opera, Prima Donna, which is…
The people have spoken: They want to smoke weed. In a recent nationwide Gallup Poll, 64 percent of respondents said the use of marijuana should be legalized. That’s the highest response rate in favor of legalization Gallup has recorded since 1969. And do you know how many people smoked pot in…
Monkeys are running around Florida with a strain of herpes that can kill you. A recent study published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal shows that among the several hundred rhesus macaques living in Central and North Florida, about 30 percent of the monkeys sampled were infectious carriers of herpes B.
Medical marijuana is not at all like other prescribed drugs. It’s a living, cultivated product. Whereas most pharmaceuticals are mass-produced according to recipes that result from chemical testing and engineering, cannabis is a crop. And just like tomatoes or soybeans, there’s no real guarantee that one harvest will be the same as another.
There’s nothing wrong when other states say they’re proud of their beaches or they want to protect them from the dangers of offshore drilling. But when they start saying their beaches are the same as Florida’s beaches and saying there’s nothing about our beaches that makes them more special, somebody needs to tell those people it’s time to go to bed — because our beaches are better.
Have you ever wanted to have a drink with a dinosaur and then get loose in the realm of virtual reality? Believe it or not, you’ll be able to do just that come Saturday, January 20, when the Frost Museum of Science throws open its doors for the Big Bang: Sonic Odyssey, a fundraising event unlike any other you’ve seen in Miami.
From monstrous mystery eyeballs to Lego men bearing incoherent messages, this is our list of the ten weirdest things to wash up on Florida’s beaches over the years.
