When Miami Beach shut down Mokai Lounge last week over a viral video showing a horse panicking inside the nightclub, city leaders cited an “active threat to public health, welfare, or safety.” After all, somebody is bound to get hurt when a fully grown horse goes crazy inside a packed club…
Last December, a platoon of bulldozers descended upon one of the last stretches of endangered pine rocklands in America and flattened the area to build apartments, a Chili’s, an LA Fitness, and a Walmart on the critically threatened area. The tractors would have done even more damage had a group of South Florida environmentalists not filed an emergency lawsuit and obtained a restraining order to halt construction.
At 10 a.m. today, thousands of South Florida students will set down their books and walk out of their classrooms for 17 minutes. Their message is simple: Ban the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that helped Nikolas Cruz murder 17 kids and teachers in Parkland last month.
There are definitely pros and cons that come with being a fan of each South Florida team. Here are a few that any true believer knows all too well.
After Allen West wrapped up two years of representing Broward County in Washington by disparaging Muslim people and proposing terrible laws, he set up a massive right-wing clickbait empire that flooded Facebook with articles designed to gin up fear among terrified conservatives. One of those pieces has now landed the ex-congressman in federal court.
Barely a week after South Florida resident Anita Britt joined the corporate board of American Outdoor Brands, Nikolas Cruz used one of the company’s AR-15 assault rifles to murder 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. That wasn’t Britt’s only high-profile role, though: Just a month earlier, she’d been hired as chief financial and administrative officer at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens.
Florida charges way too many people with felony theft for a simple reason: Under state law, anytime someone steals something worth at least $300, it qualifies as “grand theft.” That threshold is among the lowest in America. Florida has not raised that amount since 1986 despite the fact that the U.S. dollar has undergone inflation in those 32 years and other states have raised their limits to as much as $2,500 to qualify as a felony.
The doors were locked at Mokai Lounge this past weekend after the City of Miami Beach shut it down over a viral video showing a horse freaking out and bucking off its scantily clad rider inside the club. Animal activists have poured vitriol on the nightclub’s social media accounts over the horse stunt, which the city said represented a threat to public safety.
With every Miami street festival comes a series of silly, petty squabbles with law enforcement, and 2018’s Calle Ocho Festival in Little Havana appears to have been no different. In a video posted online yesterday, a group of City of Miami Police officers sprung into action after a man in a wide-brimmed hat tried to use a plastic drink cooler to wallop an opponent.
Victor Díaz de León slices through Biscayne Bay in a craft that looks more insect than boat, with a small sail and a pair of wings extending from a narrow carbon-fiber hull. As he glides at breakneck speed past downtown Miami’s skyline on a gray February afternoon, the vessel abruptly…
To understand YouTube star Jake Paul, look no further than the video “Failed Icy Hot Bath Challenge,” which has been viewed more than 19 million times. In the clip, Paul fills a bathtub with Icy Hot ointment, pulls on swim trunks, lowers himself into the vat of ooze, and screams. It turns out you are definitely not supposed to bathe in Icy Hot…
As medical marijuana becomes a big business in Florida, the companies who got in the door first are doing everything in their power to minimize competition and maximize their bottom line. And that means pushing for a closed system that prevents most people from breaking into the cannabis industry — and hurts patients by stifling competition and innovation.
Miami Dolphins fans deserve better. Or worse. But not this. Not the in-between place. The latest example of the Dolphins taking one step forward and one and a half steps back came Friday when they traded Jarvis Landry to the Cleveland Browns in return for two draft picks.
Miamians get nearly all of their drinking water from the Biscayne Aquifer, a clean source of natural H2O that stretches underground from the southern tip of the state north to Palm Beach County. This being Florida, developers, utility companies, and scammers of all stripes are constantly devising new and…
The nation’s affordable-housing woes are, at their root, a problem of allocating resources. The richest nation in the history of the world absolutely has enough supplies and space to ensure that every person or family has a usable, affordable home. But that’s not the world we live in: Instead, poor people…
For the past 24 hours, animal rights activists have been bombarding the social media accounts of South Beach nightclub Mokai and lighting up phone lines at Miami Beach City Hall to demand action over a viral video that shows a horse panicking in the middle of the club. It didn’t take city officials long to act on those demands.
LeBron James is arguably the first iconic celebrity athlete since Muhammad Ali to use his superstar status to shine a light on American injustice and empower black people to lead successful lives. So it’s an honor to know the NBA’s best player is staking his name as a Hollywood player…
Here’s a sentence that perfectly explains the state of Democratic politics in 2018: Former Clinton Foundation chief Donna Shalala, who helped lead a major homebuilder during the 2008 housing crash and also made $5 million after sitting on the board of a massive, for-profit health insurance company, is poised to steamroll a crowded field of Democratic competitors in a race for the U.S. House.
A bikini-clad dancer rides a white horse into the middle of a raucous nightclub crowd — until the animal suddenly bucks, throwing off its rider and stamping in a panic around the club. The cheering crowd is suddenly horrified, gasping as the clearly distressed horse tries to escape the noisy room.
With Miami-Dade rents skyrocketing, the county has repeatedly acknowledged the area’s affordable-housing problem. But so far, most attempts to solve the crisis have been futile.
Florida, as a state, is so poorly planned and designed that simply walking around city streets is legitimately dangerous. Cars clip pedestrians all the time — every year, the state has ranked either first or near the top when it comes to the number of people run over by cars.
As politicians like Marco Rubio and Rick Scott have shown no appetite to buck their NRA donors by banning assault rifles after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre last month, activists have turned the pressure on corporate America instead. It’s worked: Dick’s has stopped selling the weapons, and major firms such as Delta have ditched the NRA.
