Protect Our Elections, a liberal-leaning group based in Washington, D.C., says that more than 160,000 votes in Florida weren’t counted during last month’s presidential election. The group claims each of those votes matters a great deal, since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 112,911 votes in the Sunshine State. Trump…
If you’ve spent any time with out-of-towners during Art Basel, you’ve probably sighed deeply as they referred to Wynwood as “Miami’s Brooklyn.” At this point, “Brooklynization” is a worldwide scourge: Whether you travel to Miami, Portland, Paris, or Istanbul, you’ll see the same “third-wave” coffee locations, 1920s-style speakeasies, and twee childcare facilities full of parents in beanie hats. Hipster creativity is dead.
In the week following the death of El Comandante, across this tiny island nation, Cubans repeated this paradox: Fidel was everything; his death means nothing. The sentiment was echoed in dozens of interviews — in cities and small towns, by the farmers who stood along the highway running through seemingly endless fields of sugarcane. That Cubans see Castro as “a father,” “an idol,” and their “soul” speaks to a precarious cult of personality that amassed around the revolutionary leader over his 47 years in power.
If a player gets legal medical marijuana and then fails an NFL drug test, who wins?
There are a lot of ways to get back at a horrible ex. The desire for revenge is so primal and prevalent that the internet is practically littered with lists about how to exact vengeance. Most of the suggestions are benign, from donating their stuff to Goodwill to sending over…
The very concept of “Florida” is bad for the environment. America saw the Everglades, shining, glorious, and pristine, and agreed to put people — trash-burning, alligator-punching, Panda Express-eating people — smack in the middle of the area. Florida became a state 172 years ago and has been shoveling vomit and oil runoff into the Everglades for 172 of those years.
On November 12, more than a dozen Americans were arrested for disrupting work at a natural-gas construction site. One man locked himself inside a tanker truck delivering water to the work area, and protesters say law enforcement officers punished a crew of demonstrators and arrested them all.
Three years after Israel “Reefa” Herandez’s Taser-induced death, his family still clings to the young artist’s dreams as a way to keep him alive. This Sunday, they’ll make one of them come true by displaying his artwork at a Wynwood gallery.
In 2015, state Rep. Manny Diaz Jr. and state Sen. Rene Garcia tried and failed to persuade the state to crack down on Miami-Dade County’s rock-mining industry. Over the years, the mines, concentrated heavily in Northwest Miami-Dade near Hialeah and Opa-locka, have been blamed for scores of environmental issues…
It takes a preposterous amount of gall to dump a gigantic vat of oil into the ocean. It’s cartoon-level evil, like something Biff Tannen’s toxic-waste company BiffCo from Back to the Future Part II would do. But in real life, that’s exactly what a subsidiary of Miami’s Carnival Corporation has been doing for years.
For years, Alberto Chang-Rajii charmed Miami power brokers with his rags-to-riches story of immigrating from Chile to attend Stanford University, meeting Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and investing in Google before the company blew up. He turned that origin story into a multimillion-dollar tech investment fund and a board seat with Endeavor Miami.
A former Miami Gardens Police officer says he was fired for blowing the whistle on the department’s practice of stopping and frisking all 15-to-30-year old black men, which sparked outrage after it came to light through a man stopped more than 400 times.
First, the good news: Bottlenose dolphins still live along the South Florida coast and within the Everglades despite humanity’s century-long quest to murder every creature native to the River of Grass. Now, the bad: Those dolphins are dying, and Florida International University scientists now say the aquatic mammals that live in the Glades have soaked up more mercury than dolphins in any other habitat on Earth.
Will Donald Trump strip a group of Miami cops and U.S. military veterans of their citizenship? If he makes good on his promise to crack down hard on anyone caught desecrating the U.S. flag, he’ll now have to: Today the City of Miami Police Department tweeted a photo of a group of military veteran officers signing their names on an American flag.
As Wynwood has transformed from gritty, graffitied artist haven to high-rent hipster district, developers have turned to a new frontier. Little Haiti has already seen galleries and trendy restaurants creep in. Now the traditionally Caribbean neighborhood will get a huge signature project.
A few friends, some oysters, and a lot of Ketel One were Rand Hoch’s day-after-election hangover remedy. But the president and founder of Palm Beach County Human Rights Council was back at work the next day. Aiming to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender, he quickly planned a meeting…
Donald Trump has been the president-elect for exactly three weeks. As he has endlessly Twitter-beefed and mulled over cabinet picks, though, it seems as if he’s been president-elect since Tsar Nicholas II was assassinated. But there’s already been a darker side to Trump’s ascendency than watching the future leader of the free world go on unhinged social-media rants.
The word “basel” is actually old German for “Please help, I cannot stop belching wads of money into the sky.” Art Basel Miami Beach, which begins this week, may be America’s most frightening display of the useless expenditure of wealth. Pretty much the entirety of Manhattan and Los Angeles converges on…
Few parts of the lexicon of American politics are more brazenly undemocratic than “legalized monopoly.” The phrase conjures images of failed nation states and robber-baron America in the 1890s. Government-backed corporations abuse vital resources with impunity, hike fees and scam customers with glee as the government pretends things are cool…
It’s been a long, tough, and overall stinky sports year in South Florida. Thankfully, we have only a month left of a 2016 that has mostly brought us tears and heartache. Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh left the Heat. Jose Fernandez tragically died. But it hasn’t all been bad in Miami sports. There have been moments of greatness that make even the worst of times not so bad.
Laura Rollins, a 65-year-old fast-food worker in South Florida, has been protesting for fair wages for nearly three years. But earlier this month, she believes, her outspokenness might have cost her her job: On November 9, she was let go from McDonald’s after seven years of service.
Depending upon your income bracket, Art Basel either conjures images of yacht cruises from Martha’s Vineyard to Biscayne Bay or standstill traffic full of wailing babies on the MacArthur Causeway. Driving in Miami sucks all year, but the hordes of wealthy tourists who arrive for Basel take congestion to hellish levels.
