By trade, Valerie Navarrete is a Miami Beach real-estate agent with Keller Williams. But she is most passionate about helping the homeless. As far back as she can remember, seeing homeless people always made Valerie Navarrete feel deeply distressed. Growing up in São Paulo, Brazil, she couldn’t comprehend how, as…
The ninth edition of Miami New Times’ People issue will dunk you in the water with the mermaid MeduSirena, fly you to a rooftop with Miami Marlins top prospect Lewis Brinson, and then drop you on the street with one of the city’s most beautiful women, Gabriella Katia, and her…
From a public-relations standpoint, 2018 was a rough year for the Miami Marlins. The team sold off or traded away many of its most famous and skilled players. The Fish then played to small crowds for much of the year. But hated team owner Jeffrey Loria has finally skipped town,…
Valencia Gunder isn’t merely “from Miami.” The roots of her Miami heritage run deeper. “My family is one of the pioneer Bahamian families in Miami. My great-great-great-great-grandfather was born in Dade territory 20 years before the city was chartered,” she explains. “So I consider that I have a birthright to…
Gabriella Katia is a longtime model who’s made repeat appearances at Miami Swim Week. But that’s not why people are always stopping her on the street. It’s because of her pet monkeys. With boyfriend Matt Crown, Katia has two marmosets, Diddy Kong and Yeti Kong. The tiny primates have become…
Police departments are supposed to submit hate-crime data to the FBI every year. In 2016, Miami-Dade County Police — the largest force in the Southeast, overseeing a population of 2.7 million people — reported that just a single hate crime occurred all year. That number seemed low, so New Times last year asked MDPD Director Juan Perez about it…
The bad news: If the season had ended this past Sunday, the Dolphins would have been left on the outside looking in at the NFL playoffs. At 5-5, the team would be the eighth seed in the AFC. The players would be preparing for the draft, not the postseason.
The Florida 2018 midterm election is finally, mercifully over. Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and longtime Sen. Bill Nelson have conceded their races to Republican challengers who openly stoked racist and anti-immigrant hatred in order to win. Broward’s embattled and bungling supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, has resigned…
After enduring criticism from all sides, including the White House and U.S. Senate, Broward County’s supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, has resigned, the Sun Sentinel and others reported Sunday.
Wells Fargo’s reputation has been pretty much destroyed since the company got caught making 3.5 million fake checking accounts and 500,000 fake credit card accounts in customers’ names without their permission. The company wound up paying $185 million in fines to the Consumer-Finance Protection Bureau, as well as another $145…
When Satara Monroe tried to cash a paycheck at a local Wells Fargo, the teller called the cops on her. An hour-long police interrogation ended only when her boss drove to the Pompano Beach branch to personally verify the check was legitimate. Finally, two hours after walking through the bank’s…
According to Elisabeth Kubler Ross, there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. With the Heat currently a middling, capped-out under-.500 non-contender in a league filled with superteams and ascending second-tier teams, fans have definitely reached the fourth stage. We are bummed. That’s…
Cynthia and Humphrey Braaf left their home in Sunrise last November for a six-night Caribbean cruise to celebrate their 30th anniversary — but only Humphrey made it home.
Rent in Miami is not quite as expensive as New York, San Francisco, and other major metro areas. But compared to those towns, Miami’s median income — around $46,000 — is absurdly tiny. As such, Miamians wind up spending some of the largest portions of…
Believe it or not, there’s a reason to be happy with the Miami Marlins today. As one might expect, the event doesn’t have anything to do with the team’s roster or on-field performance. But today the Fish formally unveiled a new set of logos and team colors. In what is now becoming a trend for Miami sports teams, the Marlins are switching to a uniform that’s pink, blue, and black.
For years, Miami resident Sabrina Zampa had no idea her teenage sons were regularly vaping. It was only last August, after discovering her son’s Juul, that she learned her kids had been “juuling” since middle school. Her now-16-year-old son says he bought his first Juul products from the company’s website and later used Postmates to buy pod replacements — as did her younger son, now age 14.
Internal Affairs concluded that the allegations of improper procedure and discourtesy against Ortiz were not sustained. During his tenure as a City of Miami police officer, Ortiz has racked up 38 citizen complaints regarding 56 different allegations of misconduct, according to his IA summary obtained by New Times. Only six of those complaints have been sustained (five for improper procedure and one for discourtesy).
A series of far-right social media pages and groups have been reported to law enforcement for doxxing Brenda Snipes and Susan Bucher, the supervisors of elections in Broward and Palm Beach Counties, respectively. According to redacted screenshots obtained by New Times, at least one of the posts doxxing Snipes…
Most of what President Donald J. Trump says is drivel. He gets mad online to impress what appears to be an army of online Twitter robots. His tweets and public statements are almost never worth writing about. That is, except for today, because Trump’s latest confused, old-guy meltdown is objectively hilarious.
Garland Creedle is an American citizen. But he nevertheless spent a night in a Miami-Dade County jail waiting to be deported in 2017, thanks to a mistake by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So, he and the American Civil Liberties Union sued ICE and Miami-Dade County…
For most Heat fans this weekend brought bad news: Disgruntled All-Star guard Jimmy Butler was traded by the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Philadelphia 76ers, rather than to the Heat. Some fans thought acquiring Butler would have returned our Vice jersey-wearing ballers back to the NBA Finals conversation. Then the Heat, an underdog…
Stephen Bittel, a real-estate billionaire who enjoyed a short reign as head of the Florida Democratic Party before resigning in disgrace last fall, sexually harassed a female employee by describing his sexual partners’ pubic hair, detailing his pornography preferences, offering to take her shopping for lingerie, and touching her toes on his private jet, according to a new complaint filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court.
