The afternoon of May 31, 2008, a vigorous 95-year-old named Alice Mathas spent hours walking around South Beach with her son Paul. Around 7:45 the pair boarded a Miami-Dade bus headed back to their apartment in Bal Harbour. They didn’t make it. As Alice started down the aisle of the…
Anyone who’s tried to drive through South Beach in the past year can tell you that Alton Road has been a construction-induced nightmare: snarled bumper-to-bumper traffic and nearly impossible pedestrian access to shops and restaurants. Good news! The work on Alton is nearly done. But that means the next phase…
Two-time Miami Beach mayoral candidate Steve Berke had himself a pro-medical marijuana parody hit on YouTube with “You’re the Law that I Want (Yes on 2).” Set to the song “You’re the One That I Want” from the musical Grease, Berke and his crew dance and sing while urging Florida…
Heads up, Wynwood-goers: Three weeks after the Miami Parking Authority announced a new parking program for the neighborhood, the changes are set to take effect today. The program expands the neighborhood’s Pay by Phone parking areas west from the railroad tracks to NW Sixth Avenue, and from NW 20th Street…
Ana Alliegro, the former David Rivera campaign manager and “Conservative Bad Girl” currently serving six months house arrest for her part in a fake candidate scheme, posted a long statement on her Facebook page. While admitting that some of her actions “were wrong and illegal,” she also excoriates Rivera’s former…
Wynwood is getting a new park, and it will look kind of like a greenhouse. The plan, for a well-manicured space with grass and trees covered by a thin, translucent structure, was the winner in an international competition sponsored by Tony Cho, CEO of Wynwood real estate firm Metro 1…
What’s your condo horror story? An air-conditioning unit that wasn’t fixed for weeks? A neighbor whose loud music kept you up all night? How about a general contractor who ultimately bilked the condo company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while residents were left with flooded apartments and spotty…
Residents in the Caribbean came down with fevers as high as 104, migraine-like headaches, and sometimes bright-red rashes covering their limbs. But worst was the joint pain — typically so severe it made ordinary tasks like twisting doorknobs and tying shoelaces unbearable and forced even healthy young men to walk…
Biscayne National Park isn’t just one of South Florida’s crown natural jewels, its pristine waters are also a favorite of fisherman around the world. But decades of pollution and overfishing have wreaked havoc on the park’s reef fish and coral habitats. Now the park is proposing a drastic change to…
In mid-April, 39-year-old Belkys Jimenez came down with a high fever. She also developed a headache and then severe pain in her muscles and joints. Her feet and ankles became swollen, making walking painful. Jimenez had long battled hypertension, but this was clearly something new. Over the next two weeks,…
What’s your condo horror story? An air-conditioning unit that wasn’t fixed for weeks? A neighbor whose loud music kept you up all night? How about a general contractor who ultimately bilked the condo association out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while residents were left with flooded apartments and spotty…
Next Saturday the R.Y.P.E. Community Garden in Buena Vista will host en event. It’s a goodbye party — the garden will soon be demolished so a parking lot can be built in its place. “Pave paradise to put up a parking lot. Sooo sorry,” wrote Atiya Guianese on the event’s…
Yet another park in Miami-Dade has been fenced off today after officials found high levels of arsenic in the soil. This time, it’s the athletic fields at Colonial Drive Park that have been closed. “The closure has been implemented out of an abundance of caution and as a proactive measure,”…
The CIA created lesbianism. The Walt Disney Co. was secretly manufacturing cigars on the side. A Batman movie predicted multiple violent mass shootings. Spend five minutes on the internet and you can find a conspiracy theory to fit any warped frame of reference on the planet. But the more interesting…
The CIA created lesbianism. The Walt Disney Company was secretly in league with spies. A Batman movie predicted multiple mass shootings. Spend five minutes on the Internet and you can find a conspiracy theory to fit any warped frame of reference on the planet. But the more interesting question is…
As of last October 1, texting while driving in Florida is illegal. But almost one year after the ban went into effect, it’s clear police across the state — and in Miami-Dade County — are rarely enforcing the law. Only 352 texting while driving citations have been issued in the…
Being a hotel worker is hard — low pay, long hours, ungrateful clientele. But for hundreds of workers at the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc in Miami Beach, life just got that much harder: Because of a change in city parking policy, employees are no longer able to use a…
On Sunday evening, a 25-year-old man from South Florida named Peter Paul William Ferrero climbed down from the Palin family’s third-floor balcony, approached an arriving Bristol Palin in the driveway, took off his sunglasses, and proceeded to tell the terrified 23-year-old reality television star and oldest daughter of the failed…
After weeks of complaints from Wynwood business owners and employees over ongoing changes in parking fees throughout Miami’s hippest neighborhood, the Miami Parking Authority announced yesterday a new, more comprehensive plan that includes provisions for local employees. “In an area that has experienced fast-paced growth in a short span of…
Being a hotel worker is hard — low pay, long hours, ungrateful clientele. But for hundreds of workers at the Fontainebleau and theEden Roc in Miami Beach, life just got that much harder: Because of a change in city parking policy, employees are no longer able to use a nearby…
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating the City of North Miami and has requested reams of documents related to the town’s payroll and social security payments. In a letter addressed to the city manager, later published on Scribd by Commissioner Scott Galvin, the agency informs the city — which has…
In July the news broke that the University of Miami had sold an 88-acre plot of land, near Zoo Miami, to a West Palm Beach developer who planned to build a Walmart. Environmentalists were devastated: The land is comprised of rare pine rockland forest, a savanna-like habitat found only in…
