For four years, Delia Kennedy worked as a grants administrator for the city of Opa-locka, taking home an annual salary of $60,000. Over the course of her tenure with the city, Kennedy helped bring in nearly $60 million in governmental grants. But after city attorney Vincent Brown revealed in a citywide…
It’s unclear what, if anything, Florida Rep. Charlie Crist believes. He won the Florida governorship as a Republican, spent his second term as an independent, and is now serving in Washington as a Democrat. He is a tanned, spineless nothing, a man with a backbone of a sea cucumber and apparently half the brain.
Modern-day robber barons Charles and David Koch inherited a glut of cash that their father Fred made in part by building a Nazi oil refinery for Adolf Hitler, according to New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer’s landmark 2016 book Dark Money. Charles and David later turned their father’s company into Koch Industries…
When Design District megadeveloper Craig Robins announced plans in 2015 for a huge five-story parking garage, residents in neighboring Buena Vista fell into two camps. Many who’ve lived there for decades see the garage as an intrusion that will usher in full-on gentrification, while others, including several newcomers, believe the…
Florida Power & Light, the third-largest utility in America and the private monopoly that Miamians are forced to pay for power every month, proposed building a coal-fired power plant as late as 2007 before state regulators forced the company to reconsider its plans. FPL still generates most of its power using natural gas, a fossil fuel that creates less carbon than coal but still pollutes the atmosphere and is dug from the ground using the carbon-intensive fracking process.
Alejandro Marcano stared into the camera and read the day’s news to millions of Venezuelan viewers on Globovisión’s 24-hour network. Suddenly, the studio’s windows erupted in a rain of glass. Gunshots ricocheted through the room. A militant colectivo that supported the government circled the lot and threw tear gas into…
In May, New Times broke the news that Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, the top prosecutor in a county of 2.7 million people, had not closed an investigation into the 2009 killing of Lawrence McCoy, a semihomeless man who was shot to death by a disgraced Miami Beach Police officer.
From Henry Flagler to Big Sugar, abusing the environment is a proud Florida pastime. The Sunshine State is a natural wonder, full of rare birds, beautiful fish, and people hellbent on killing every last living thing they encounter. Take, for instance, this week: On Monday, Capt. Mark “the Shark” Quartiano, the infamous Miami shark hunter New Times profiled in 2016, caught a group of would-be anglers torturing a shark by dragging it behind their boat until it died.
For the second year in a row, the Miami Hurricanes hosted their Paradise Camp last week in Coral Gables to bring in top high school football talent from all around the country. The football portion of the camp made plenty of news in college football circles but until today, the world…
Well, well, well. Rumor has it the milk has begun to sour in good old Believeland. LeBron James was already bothered by the Cavaliers’ lack of free-agent signings and the inexplicable decision by owner Dan Gilbert to let go of the team’s universally respected general manager, David Griffin. But then came Kyrie Irving’s shocking demand for a trade.
In 2001, when the very first uhntz-uhntz rattled the speakers at Ultra Music Festival at Bayfront Park, downtown Miami was a ghost town after 5 p.m. Ultra has grown exponentially since that first show — and so have the glass canyons of luxury condo towers rising over the EDM festival’s home territory.
A week after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Mosul’s liberation from ISIS, Miami native Jose Argueta paid a visit to the old city to document the ongoing humanitarian crisis. But in a turn of events, he found himself farther into the “belly of the beast” than he’d ever imagined. Escorted by Iraqi special forces to the frontlines, the 29-year-old freelance photographer realized that declarations of victory and liberation might have come too soon.
For nearly 20 years, Memorial Day in Miami Beach has been synonymous with Urban Beach Week, an informal hip-hop event that draws hundreds of thousands to the city for a days-long party. But that changed this year.
Across metro Miami, a vast array of underappreciated designs come in a variety of styles.
Under a canopy of twisted oaks and fluttering palms, an old coral-rock structure stands just off Biscayne Boulevard on the Upper Eastside of Miami. On a recent balmy Sunday, a small crowd gathered in the terraced backyard for brunch. They dined at café tables scattered amid tropical flora. In the…
Palmetto Bay Councilman David Singer readily admits he has a bit of a temper. In fact, the newly elected politician is suing a former opponent who posted audio of an expletive-packed tirade he left in a voicemail message.
This past Friday, Snooty, the world’s oldest captive manatee, celebrated his 69th birthday surrounded by a singing crowd and a smorgasbord of fruits shaped into a makeshift cake. Two days later, he was dead after getting trapped beneath an underwater hatch.
Sometimes, bros will be bros. Pranks will be played, and shenanigans will take place. Sometimes, though, bros being bros can go horribly wrong, especially when alcohol is involved and those bros joke about ISIS on social media.
Internationally known for its historic architecture, sultry beaches, and bumping nightclubs, South Beach has always had another claim to fame: its scandals. From the days of Prohibition to the era of the Cocaine Cowboys to the gruesome murder of Gianni Versace, the city has been plagued by crime and corruption since its earliest years.
If Bruce Matheson wants to tank a real-estate deal, the heir to one of the richest and oldest families in all of Miami knows how to do it. Through sheer force of will, he’s successfully prevented the ultra-rich owners of the Miami Open tennis tournament from plowing over portions of Crandon Park…
If there are two things Floridians are fantastic at, it’s wrestling alligators and racketeering. This week, New Times chronicled one group of particularly enterprising Sunshine State residents who combined the two: an alligator-thieving ring that took the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission two years of undercover tracking to nab.
Quick, what would be the single most embarrassing way for superstar guard Kyrie Irving to utterly upstage his Cleveland Cavaliers partner-in-crime LeBron James? If you said “abruptly quit the team, abandon LeBron, and flee to Miami to play for Pat Riley,” congratulations! Because this seemingly insane scenario…
