When volunteers discovered a roost of Florida bonneted bats in the roof of an abandoned million-dollar house in Coral Gables two years ago, it was big news. The critically endangered species numbered in the hundreds, and a roost hadn’t been found in decades.
Florida is a hotbed for football talent, young and old. Many of Miami’s high schools are basically factories for college football programs and, by proxy, the National Football League. When players retire, many of them choose to buy mansions on the South Florida coast. And because the state is crammed with retired NFL players, it’s a mecca for both football-related wealth and injuries.
If the artist took himself seriously, he might make this his creative statement: “I think it was just because I thought he was such a piece of crap.” Recently, the South Beach resident has been sticking photos of President-elect Donald J. Trump into steaming piles of dog shit. He calls the…
Paulo Berejuk’s deep voice cracks over the phone from southern Brazil. He now lives in Santa Catarina, which boasts hundreds of miles of white-sand beaches crowned with lushly jungled hillsides. But to Berejuk, it feels like a prison, worse than the federal pen in North Carolina where he finished an…
Just after 9 a.m. today, Flavia Marlene Almonte, a Latina Muslim woman who lives in Miami, pulled her car over near a police officer in Fort Lauderdale and broke down in tears. “I just need a place to vent,” she said, speaking into a Facebook Live feed…
Many unarmed motorists shot by police officers don’t live to tell their side of the story. Michael Gavins is the exception. And the story Gavins tells is disturbing. He was unarmed and says he was not resisting when South Miami Police Officer Aryo Rezaie shot him in the back…
José Martí International Airport in Havana appears much as it did in the early 1960s. Large Casablanca fans, peeling paint, vinyl tiles, and faded plastic poster boards direct the flow of visitors to customs. The only sign of modernity to greet arrivals in the international terminal is a large billboard…
Not going anywhere for a while? Our Stoner has a strain for that.
Attention, yard-owning Miamians: For a few hundred bucks, you can spend every weekend until you die drinking beer from the porch of a reclaimed Miami Beach lifeguard stand. If you don’t think that sounds cool, you should probably leave South Florida immediately.
In September 2015, Elizabeth De Amat texted her landlord, Louis Puig, about a leak coming from upstairs. “The ceiling in the guest bathroom is leaking, and the floor is full of water,” she wrote. “Can you please have someone come fix it?” She says Puig — who founded legendary Miami dance club Space…
Since Donald Trump won the country’s presidential election last week, the prevailing wisdom from Trump’s supporters online has been “shut up, you lost, deal with the status quo.” This is bad advice. It’s never a good idea to sit back and accept anything in politics you don’t like. And so,…
Much to the dismay of local politicians and business leaders, the Zika virus has not left Miami Beach. Last Friday, the city’s true Zika nightmare became a reality: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said pregnant women should still avoid Miami Beach during Art Basel, one of the city’s biggest economic drivers every year.
Earlier this month, 16-year-old Jordan Nordelus was fading in and out of consciousness as bleeding that would kill him filled his lungs. Then a hospital visitor piped up that the University of Miami football team had beat Pitt. “He flashed the UM sign,” said his mother, Emma, a health specialist…
City of Miami Police promise this time will be different. Standing in front of the Miami City Commission yesterday, Police Chief Rodolfo Llanes — who was caught this week fudging the truth about when he learned about destroyed murder case evidence — promised that if Miami PD was allowed to purchase 148 new Bushmaster AR-15-style rifles…
Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, a handful of Miami residents are turning to the internet to crowdfund their way out of the country.
Around 4:30 p.m. yesterday, Miami real-estate developer David Sanguesa claims, a Miami Starbucks employee said she would not serve him coffee. The reason: He voted for Donald Trump.
Two months ago, Valerie Navarrete — a Miami Beach real-estate agent and chairperson of the city’s homeless committee — launched a passion project using nothing more than an iPad and her Facebook account.
When white people first “discovered” the Everglades centuries ago, they figured it wasn’t good for anything. To them, it was just a swamp full of bugs. But the weather was nice, so they just stomped all over everything, ruined the land, and dropped some roads and strip malls on the area.
Around 4:30 p.m. today, Jorge de Cárdenas was getting some work done in a Starbucks on South Dixie Highway near the University of Miami. A group of people stood waiting in line at the counter for their coffee and snacks. But one disgruntled white customer got so upset at how long his order was taking that he began screaming “Trump!” at a black employee.
When Univision bought Gawker Media, many media observers questioned whether Fusion’s days were numbered. For years, critics have touted Miami’s Univision as one of the most forward-thinking and daring media organizations in America. Jorge Ramos, the network’s charismatic lead anchor…
Thousands of Miamians have taken to the streets since last week to protest Donald Trump. By all accounts, they’ve been entirely peaceful. Miami Police Commander Albert Guerra even took to Twitter after a Wynwood protest on Saturday to “thank the protesters for peacefully exercising their [First Amendment] right.” But the Miami…
Donna Thomas-Jones fears she’ll soon be squeezed out of the neighborhood she has called home for most of her life. For years, she’s watched rent climb and apartment buildings crumble in the West Grove, forcing out families who have lived for generations in this historically Bahamian enclave.
