The last time O.J. Simpson lived in Miami, he allegedly spiraled into drug addiction, had the FBI raid his house, and by most accounts allowed the city’s worst impulses to totally consume him. According to the recent documentary O.J.: Made in America, the football star-turned-accused murderer sank deep…
Andrea Landa and two friends were sitting in her parked car one Sunday night when a trio of young police officers walked up with flashlights. The cops checked the friends’ IDs, but wouldn’t let them leave. Instead, over the next two hours, the officers toyed with their guns, told one of…
The Miami Marlins, a Ponzi scheme operated by Major League Baseball’s premier flip-phone enthusiast, made national headlines last week after New Times reported that the team was suing at least nine season ticket holders and even trying to seize one fan’s building. The team is such a noxious trash heap…
On an April afternoon back in 2015, a homeless man named Andrew Toombs experienced something so routine that it’s happened to him more than 70 times in the last decade. After approaching some cars underneath the I-95 on-ramp on NE First Avenue, Toombs was stopped by police and arrested for…
Good news! We’ve finally found a bipartisan issue that has united Democrats and Republicans across the state of Florida! Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen have signed on to support a bill alongside Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ted Deutch, Alcee Hastings, Frederica…
Some notes up front: Paul Congemi, who is running for mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, is not going to become the mayor. He’s a fringe candidate who’s run in the last three mayoral elections. According to the Tampa Bay Times, he only received a few hundred votes in each…
By this spring, it was obvious Dwyane Wade regretted his choice to leave the Miami Heat for the Chicago Bulls. In fact, earlier this month it was already worth speculating about where Wade might jump to next after the Bulls inevitably buy him out. Sure, the Heat were a possible…
Under flashing neon green and purple lights, a busty dancer whips her blond hair and grinds against a pole, her bikini top pulled up to her collarbone. It’s “Tip Out Saturday” at Club Climaxxx, a gentleman’s club in North Miami-Dade, and hordes have come to see buxom dancers strip and…
Every five years, Miami-Dade County convenes a task force to propose changes to the county charter, which basically serves as the “constitution” for a 2.7 million-person metropolis. In 2012, Miami’s ultrapowerful lobbyist class was banned from serving on that Charter Review Task Force out of fear they’d introduce self-serving new…
All the palm trees in the world can’t fan away the stress of maxing out your credit cards while trapped in a hateful marriage based exclusively on money, prestige, and Botox injections. Such is life in Miami: For the last eight years running, the city has ranked as one of…
The Republicans control every piece of machinery in Washington D.C., but they’ve been operating all that powerful hardware like a sketchy bus driver fresh off a five-martini lunch. Last night, their latest attempt to replace Obamacare collapsed. Their only remaining plan, according to Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, is to simply…
The arrest last week of eight people for racketeering is part of a conspiracy to get back at jail escapee Dayonte Resiles for the embarrassment he caused the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the inmate said from jail. Resiles stunned attorneys and judges in the Fort Lauderdale courthouse when he fled out a…
In February, the Miami-Dade County Commission made a Faustian bargain: The county said it would start holding undocumented people in jail for the feds, all to shed its label as a “sanctuary” community and avoid President Donald Trump’s scorn. Given that some 156,000 undocumented people live in Miami, this terrified…
Caked in mud, the black Chevy pickup made a careful left turn from the main highway onto a dirt driveway in rural Southwest Florida. Four young men in jeans and scuffed-up cowboy boots hopped out to meet their new business partner, a lanky, middle-aged Hawaiian guy named Curtis Blackledge. After…
South Florida’s Venezuelan community came out in full force yesterday to take part in the opposition-sponsored referendum on President Nicholas Maduro’s attempt to rewrite that country’s constitution. The Maduro government likely won’t acknowledge the symbolic vote, but the more than 100,000 South Floridians who took part hope the high turnout will ensure…
Gentry Lane is used to getting insulting messages from strangers. That comes with the territory when you run an activist organization like her Rebel Action Network. But one recent message she got was particularly unhinged — and when she clicked on the sender’s profile, she was shocked to see that…
After a Homestead cop tried to run him off the road, Eric McDonough started keeping tabs on the local police. The Homestead resident, who has a doctorate in organic thermochemistry, started filming cops, criticizing the department at public meetings, and demanding the city institute a body-camera program. As a thank-you, McDonough…
All political scandals run through Miami. The Magic City is a lawless Casablanca of sorts, a town where the world’s worst rich people all congregate, party together, and hatch crackpot schemes to defraud taxpayers and/or tip presidential races. In 2000, a bunch of GOP operatives caused a ruckus outside County…
The public has largely forgotten that Florida Gov. Rick Scott — a loose conglomeration of bats that accidentally got trapped inside a suit — once ran a hospital system that stole a record amount of money from poor, sick people. Scott ran Columba/HCA hospital system, which in 1997 got caught…
This week, Miami was the epicenter of Major League Baseball as the 88th MLB All-Star Game descended upon Marlins Park. No one had been looking forward to the attention more than Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, who long pegged his taxpayer-robbing stadium deal on a pledge from MLB to bring the showcase to town.
While supposedly transferring data to a customer’s new iPhone one day, an employee at a Kendall T-Mobile store decided to go on a little fishing expedition through her photos and videos. When he found some that piqued his interest — nudes and videos of the woman having sex — he took the liberty of sending them to himself and then forwarded them to a few friends.
Over the past three years, ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft have not only decreased the demand for taxi services in Miami-Dade County, but also depreciated the taxi industry’s most valuable asset: the medallion.
