In the five years since he was killed by Miami Beach Police while tagging an abandoned building, Israel “Reefa” Hernandez has returned to life in countless street tributes, a graphic novel, a skateboard line, and his own art. Now, the story of the 18-year-old, Colombia-born artist is headed to the…
Over the last year or so, money from the City of Miami’s Anti-Poverty Initiative has gone toward setting up college savings accounts for kindergarten students, helping low-income residents purchase vehicles to get to work, and funding the United Way’s Thanksgiving Drive. But Commissioner “Loco Joe” Carollo has his…
President Donald Trump has effectively deputized Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to lead the administration’s regime-change efforts in Venezuela. Despite the involvement of warmongering National Security Advisor John Bolton and genocide abetter Elliott Abrams, even most mainstream Democrats are praising Rubio’s push to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
CBS Corporation is making buyout offers to hundreds of employees in cities across the nation including Miami, New Times has learned. At least 20 highly paid longtime employees of WFOR, the CBS-owned-and-operated TV station in Doral, began receiving offers last week. Senior vice president and associate general counsel Adam Siegel confirmed the buyouts…
In theory, Florida’s Constitutional Revision Commission is a useful body: The group convenes every 20 years and considers amendments to the state constitution. But in practice, the CRC lately has been gamed by lawmakers. It’s bundled disparate concepts to produce absolutely weird results: an amendment put up for public vote…
Things aren’t exactly going too well for the Miami Heat on the court these days. The Heat is a middling team in the NBA’s Eastern Conference that’s fighting to stay on the right side of the eight-nine seed playoff lottery line. Few improvements are likely coming anytime soon, as the team is…
Earlier this year, the federal government announced it was closing a massive camp full of immigrant kids in Tornillo, Texas. Immigrant-rights activists say the camp was a humanitarian nightmare — most of the kids had been sent there after U.S. immigration officials ripped them from their parents in contravention of…
Sure, the National Enquirer of old might have been a ruthless publication that had mafia and CIA ties and occasionally “caught-and-killed” stories about famous people. But Paul David Pope, the son of Enquirer founder Generoso “Gene” Pope Jr., claims that the paper’s latest attempt to blackmail Amazon CEO (and Miami native)…
The topic of Ocean Drive has been a contentious one on Miami Beach for the past few years.
Just yesterday, alt-right hero and white-supremacist-adjacent Florida congressman Matt Gaetz tried to kick parents of Parkland shooting victims out of a federal gun-violence hearing. The video footage of the event, captured by CSPAN, is insane for a number of reasons: For one, Gaetz conducts himself like a petulant child. Moreover:…
With the Miami Heat battling it out for a higher playoff seed — while at the same time making money moves in trading Tyler Johnson to the Phoenix Suns to save cap room — there’s a question on the minds of all Miami Heat fans:
A group of female workers has been fighting for nearly two decades to force Walmart, America’s largest employer, to recognize what workers say is clearly a gender-based pay gap. In 2001, Betty Dukes spearheaded a class-action lawsuit alleging she and other women had been regularly passed up for raises and promotions…
In late November, a woman showed up at the Pelican Harbor Seabird Station with a bizarre find: Two freshwater turtles that had been chained together. Attached to the chain was a bag packed with a cinnamon stick, two red voodoo dolls, and two photos of a couple.
An Opa-locka precious metals company that supplied gold to Tiffany & Co., Apple, and General Motors went bankrupt after its owners siphoned off a fortune to buy, among other things, a giant Golden Beach mansion and a multimillion-dollar beachfront condo, a new lawsuit charges.
Yesterday, the United Way released an utterly bleak dataset showing that, in both Miami-Dade County and Florida overall, most residents struggle to afford basic goods and services, like rent, groceries, and childcare. According to the United Way, nearly 60 percent of Miamians are either living underneath the federal poverty line…
Nothing says Miami like a boozy cruise on someone else’s million-dollar yacht. And thanks to the sharing industry’s foray into the boating world, chartering a yacht is now within reach for anyone with an internet connection and a credit card. But, as this week’s New Times feature reveals, many of…
In 2014, American television producers adapted “Juana la Virgen,” a highly rated Venezuelan telenovela, and brought the series to an English-speaking audience on the CW. Since that time, “Jane the Virgin” has been nominated by the Golden Globes for best TV comedy, and lead actress Gina Rodriguez in 2015 won the award for best actress in a TV comedy.
The nation’s unemployment rate is low and the stock market is high. Considering only those simple benchmarks, you’d think life was pretty great in America in 2019. Miami, where unemployment is at a near-record low, should also be living well. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find tons of data explaining why…
By now, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has made it almost blatantly clear he’s in the pocket of the gun lobby. Less than two weeks after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Gaetz tweeted, “The @NRA is an organization that takes 100% of the blame for the conduct of 0% of its members.” Then, in May, he accepted a $2,500 campaign donation from the organization. To no one’s surprise, the NRA endorsed Gaetz, a Republican who represents the Pensacola area, for Congress last July.
Westernbank used to be one of the largest financial institutions in Puerto Rico. At its peak, it employed 1,500 people. But it took just one man to take down the San Juan-based bank. In 2010, a Key Biscayne resident named Jack Kachkar brought its operation to an end with a $142 million…
By now, it’s pretty much universally accepted that this year’s Super Bowl was the worst one yet. That’s actually great news for Miami, which will host the event in 2020 — it’s almost guaranteed that anything that happens next year will seem wayyyy more exciting in comparison.
Two years ago, the Miami Dolphins introduced coach Adam Gase to their fans. We here at Miami New Times attempted to give him a glimpse into what Dolphins fans were all about, what they were thirsty for, and, in general, what to expect. He didn’t listen. He did not provide any…
