In a race that was going to last hours, trouble came just a minute after the starting gun. Caryn Lubetsky, a local mother, law professor, and veteran distance racer, was competing in the Ironman triatholon in Panama City Beach last Thursday, a grueling endurance race that combines a 2.4-mile swim,…
After 65 years of shoveling snow in Iowa, Frank Poma was tired. “You get rid of it,” he says, “and then it keeps coming back.” So about five years ago, Poma and his wife Cindi bought an RV and headed for Knight’s Key RV Resort and Marina, an unpretentious, 24-acre…
Michelle Coleman had her baby daughter in her arms when the men materialized out of the darkness. Coleman, a 25-year-old mother of four with a pretty, roundish face and thick, straightened hair, was walking home to the apartment in Liberty Square where she’d lived for five years, a spartan place…
Happy Halloween! And—more to the point for cycling enthusiasts and anyone trying to get around tonight: Happy last Friday of the month! It’s time for Critical Mass! Tonight’s group ride heads way over to Miami’s southwest and back, for a total of approximately 13 miles. The ride begins, like always,…
For decades the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, the Coconut Grove estate built as a “dreamlike vision in the midst of the jungle on the shores of Biscayne Bay,” according to the museum website, has served as one of Miami’s most iconic landmarks — a lush, leafy symbol of the wealth…
The latest twist in Miami’s years-long soccer stadium saga—an unlikely partnership between David Beckham’s group and the Miami-Dade County school board—is looking ever more likely: At a school board meeting yesterday, members expressed unanimous support for a possible deal, voting to allow superintendent Alberto Carvalho to proceed with negotiations for…
Miamians love soccer. This city would love to see a big-time team here. But by now, an element of stadium anticipation fatigue is surely setting in — for more than two years, since the news first broke that soccer giant David Beckham was interested in starting an MLS team right here…
Elections are coming up in the City of Miami, and in the race for the city’s highest profile commission seat, the fundraising, at least, isn’t even close: The big money is in the hands of Teresa Sarnoff, wife of incumbent Marc. Sarnoff is running to represent District 2, the jurisdiction…
Neikole Hunt, an assertive mother of three who lives in Little Haiti, on NW 50th Street, had just gotten home from her youngest son’s PeeWee football practice when someone knocked urgently on her front door. Just a few blocks away, the visitor said, something had happened to Hunt’s older son,…
Jordan Redavid, a New York native, was a top student at the University of Miami School of Law, graduating in 2013. He became a Miami-Dade public defender, and then moved into private practice, co-founding a criminal law firm based in Brickell. He’s won numerous accolades, and his firm bio lists…
After years of roller coaster speculation and hand-wringing, it’s now all but certain that David Beckham’s long-lost professional soccer franchise will play in a revamped stadium on the site of the former Orange Bowl, across from Marlins Park in Little Havana. But there’s still a problem: How to clear out enough…
For four years, ever since New Times first reported that corporate behemoth Walmart planned to build a store in Miami’s burgeoning Midtown district, residents and protesters have vehemently opposed the big box store. Since then the retailer has all but assured a legal victory, but concerned citizens haven’t given up. The…
Yes, there is already Facebook,Twitter Instagram, and Tumblr. But two local recent college grads have brought another social network into the world: SLFY, a free app that’s restricted to university students and meant to facilitate interaction across the quad, not across the world. “Basically it creates a private social network…
There’s no better real estate in Miami than the 30 acres of downtown waterfront space just south of the Pérez Art Museum Miami. But in its current iteration, the rectangular block known as Museum Park is pretty much a waste — an exposed, feature-less patch of shrubby grass that’s great…
One night in late June, Gus Kalogeras, a retired St. Thomas University dean, was driving south on U.S. 1 back to his home in Sunny Isles Beach. Just past Aventura Mall, he turned left on a yellow that quickly switched to red. A couple of weeks later, Kalogeras received…
Have you walked outside lately? Like, anytime in the last four months? Miami’s been pretty damned hot. In fact, a University of Miami scientist says, it’s been the hottest year to date in recorded history. Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the Rosenstiel School (and a passionate meteorologist: “I just…
Any guess where Florida’s largest flock of sheep lives? Quite possibly right in the middle of Miami Beach, inside a nondescript Mt. Sinai research building just off the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Unlike their rural cousins, these fluffy animals, more than 100 of them, aren’t kept for wool or left alone…
On a rainy Thursday morning in August, Tangela Sears parks her Mitsubishi SUV in front of a small yellow house on a quiet street in Liberty City. Her grandfather bought the home about six decades ago. Sears was raised there. She raised her own son David there, too, and had…
It’s that time again — the last Friday of the month. Time for Critical Mass. And tonight the massive group bicycle ride heads north. Like, way north. After starting downtown, the ride heads west, along Flagler Avenue. At Northwest 22nd Avenue, in Little Havana, cyclists will turn north, passing through…
Around 5:30 in the morning on August 18, a young woman sleeping inside her home on Byron Avenue, in North Beach, was woken up by an intruder who had entered her bedroom. The woman didn’t know the man, but he seemed to know her, calling her by her first name…
Every day, sometimes in small crowds, onlookers approach a fence demarcating a vacant plot of land, a rectangle of brown dirt sandwiched between high-rise apartment buildings downtown. Just a few steps from the whirring Metromover, they raise their phones to chest level and snap pictures, often making sure their own…
Just over a year after Pinecrest native and freelance journalist Steven Sotloff was brutally executed by ISIS, a new garden is opening in his honor. Tomorrow evening, in a ceremony open to the public, the Steven Sotloff Memorial Garden will be commemorated inside the larger Pinecrest Gardens on Red Road…
