Editor’s Note: After this post was first published this morning, a spokesperson for UberX contacted Riptide and said the company does not have a driver registered under the name Jahrvone Bentley. Riptide got in touch with Bentley, who claimed he was using a pseudonym out of fear of reprisal from…
On March 15 a Miami-Dade metrobus, travelling east across the Venetian Causeway near the old Miami Herald building, suddenly got stuck. The weight from the bus had opened a hole in the structure, and engineers later discovered that a portion of the bridge had fallen loose. A month later, in…
Back on June 11, when Miami Beach commissioners passed a motion in favor of gay marriage, Mayor Philip Levine promised more than talk. “It’s important,” he said, “for us not to be pro LGBT by word, but more importantly by action.” Now Levine and Miami Beach appear to be following…
At 1:35 this morning two North Miami men, 22-year-old Kenson Pierre and 31-year-old Justin McAdam, were killed in a double shooting in front of a home on NE 133rd Street, according to North Miami police. Pierre was an emerging local rapper known as Short Kidd; McAdam was a photographer, known…
After two deaths and a rash of serious injuries just in the past year — including DJ Laz’s headline-grabbing incident when a man was chopped to death by the DJ’s boat propeller — the Key Biscayne Village Council has moved to ban motorboats from the offshore sandbar known as the…
The temple on the river is gone. The Mahi Shrine Auditorium, for decades the boxy, Miami River-adjacent home of the Mahi Shriners fraternity, was demolished Tuesday to make way for a new $200 million mixed-use commercial project on the site. The new megasite is slated to include 444 residential units…
More than three days after a shooting at Mansion’s VIP section left chef Antaun Teasley dead, Miami Beach police say the investigation remains ongoing and no names of suspects have yet been released. In the first day after the shooting, detectives interviewed six to eight potential suspects, Sergeant Bobby Hernandez…
via Miami-Dade School BoardCarlos Cubelo, left, at a high school pep rallyFor years, Florida’s 26th U.S. Congressional District has been defined less by politics than by outright scandal. Two years ago, Republican David Rivera lost the seat amid revelations that he had funded a shadow campaign in the Democratic primary…
The memories are etched in Melecia del Carmen Casco’s face. They show in the deep, thin lines that run across her caramel-colored forehead and in the prominent half-star patterns that surround her small brown eyes. Casco wears a turquoise cotton shirt with matching earrings. Her silver hair is pulled into…
An early-morning shooting at popular Washington Avenue nightclub Mansion has left one man dead and police on a manhunt for the suspect. The shooting happened around 3:30 a.m., prompting a panicked crowd to rush out of the packed club as one partier lay dying on the floor. “All we know…
It’s the playoffs. Three-peat. LeBronmania. Whatever: For horndog Miamians, the Heat games are also, apparently, the perfect opportunity to ask strangers to watch basketball. Or, you know, “watch basketball.” On Craigslist, more than 30 posts from the past couple of weeks specifically mention Heat games in personal posts soliciting sex…
On May 20, 2013, Edduard Prince began walking from his home on 17th Street in Overtown to his job at a legal processing company at 15th and Biscayne, just as he does every day. He crossed the railroad tracks that bisect his street between NW First and North Miami avenues,…
If it’s ever completed, SkyRise Miami — the proposed bayfront tourist attraction which some have already derisively tabbed the “Paperclip Tower” — is slated to be 1,000 feet tall, making it the tallest building in Florida. In addition to a bungee jump, it would have a ballroom, three observation decks,…
At a municipal meeting last month, one Miami Beach commissioner floated a simple idea in response to growing traffic and congestion concerns: permanently banning cars from Ocean Drive. In a city where Lincoln Road, another pedestrianized street, has become one of its biggest tourist draws, you’d think the idea might…
On May 20, 2013, Edduard Prince began walking from his home on 17th Street in Overtown to his job at a legal processing company at 15th and Biscayne, just as he does every day. He crossed the railroad tracks that bisect his street between NW First and North Miami avenues,…
Four years ago, Christophe Le Canne, a South Miami family man, was riding his blue Cannondale in the bike lane on the Rickenbacker Causeway when he was struck by a Silver Volkswagen and killed as the driver, Carlos Bertonatti, drove away dragging his bike. But without better safety measures in…
At a swanky luncheon yesterday inside a softly lit ballroom at the Coconut Grove Ritz-Carlton, former and likely future governor Charlie Crist had a few things to say. Among them: His favorite movie is Philadelphia; his new book costs $25 but will be cheaper in paperback; and his campaign had…
The big party starts tonight in South Beach, and local police are determined to keep drunk drivers out. (Makes sense, no?) With Urban Beach Week beginning in earnest this evening, local police will implement a DUI checkpoint on the eastbound MacArthur Causeway beginning at 8. A team of at least…
A month ago, Chicken Kitchen owner Christian de Berdouare stirred controversy by applying to demolish the North Bay Road home where he lives and where the Beatles were once famously photographed. Early this month, he made bigger real estate news: For nearly $10 million, he bought the coral-pink waterfront mansion…
Segways: They’re silent, they’re funny-looking, and they never go faster than 12 mph. And soon they could be banned from much of Miami Beach because of apparent clashes with pedestrians. At a public hearing later this morning, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wilson will propose an amendment to city code that…
Memorial Day weekend is just three days away. That means Urban Beach Week — and its hundreds of thousands of revelers — is once again slated to descend on Miami Beach. Three years ago the event was marred when police fired more than 100 shots in an incident that killed…
In August 1962, when Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home of a probable suicide — lying face down in bed, nude, and with a telephone in one hand — the news captivated America. But so did the star’s funeral. Joe DiMaggio, Monroe’s baseball star ex-husband, was…
