The word “oversight” is not used very often in Miami. You’re supposed to make gigantic life decisions on a whim down here — that’s part of the draw. You can buy a gun, charter a boat, develop a drug habit, or get a neck tattoo, and pretty much nobody will ask any questions.
By now, you’ve probably made up your mind in the most important race on this year’s ballot. If you’ve been paying even a little attention, you know that medical marijuana is back up for a vote and that Florida’s Amendment 1 solar initiative is actually a trick…
Taiwan Smart hit the floor as bullets flew into his living room in Little Haiti November 13, 2009. The 21-year-old made a mad dash for the back door and ran down the street barefoot before finding refuge at a neighbor’s home. Soon he would learn that his two friends, 18-year-old…
Labor lawyers warned New Times in September that getting workers’ compensation after you catch the Zika virus would be difficult. But now it appears that applying for Zika-related workers’ compensation with the City of Miami Beach might be straight-up impossible. In a letter sent to the Miami Beach Police union president yesterday, City Manager Jimmy…
Four games and almost one week into the Miami Heat season, fans now have a better idea of what kind of team they’re cheering on. For better or worse, the chips are starting to fall and a clearer image of the team is taking form.
Donald Trump’s longtime supporters knew the drill at this point. Once Trump started name-dropping the “lying,” “dishonest,” “liberal” media corralled into a pen at Miami’s Bayfront Park today, the audience wheeled around and started shouting obscenities at them, per usual. A “CNN Sucks” chant bounced up from the crowd, to…
Whether you are a “nasty woman” or a “bad hombre,” this election cycle has been some kind of joke. And soon the electorate will deliver its punch line: “GOP, you’re fired!” Though the boundless bizarre badinage of the presidential race is getting more attention than your 13-year-old cousin on Instagram,…
When unarmed Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin was gunned down by wannabe cop George Zimmerman in 2012, protests erupted across the nation. Many demonstrators wore hoodies to push back against suggestions that Martin’s clothing choice had made him “suspicious.” The entire Miami Heat team, including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, even took part.
This coming Election Day, nearly 20 percent of American states will vote on whether to legalize marijuana. In exactly a week, we’ll know whether Florida voters joined the legal-pot club. For the second straight election, Orlando superlawyer John Morgan has backed a massive campaign to legalize medical marijuana…
Miami Beach Police Sgt. Michelle Sayegh lives in Broward County. So Miami Beach Fraternal Order of Police President Bobby Jenkins says he finds it particularly unlikely she caught the Zika virus sitting at home. But by day, she works on Ocean Drive, in one of the only two Zika “active…
Aerial pesticide spraying has not eradicated the Zika virus in Miami Beach so far, adding fuel to critics who have warned all along that buildings are too tall and ocean breezes too strong for that method to work there. So the city is resorting to less conventional methods: Officials have…
Nearly every major newspaper in Florida has told people to avoid Amendment 1 like a nest of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The amendment is deceptive and designed to prevent Floridians from getting solar panels despite fraudulently claiming to be pro-solar. It’s being pushed by corporations such as Florida Power & Light, ExxonMobil, and Koch Industries.
With his trusty German shepherd in tow, Rodney Irwin drives past a state mental hospital at the edge of the Everglades and pulls into the brush. A machete rests on the floorboard beneath his feet, and a gallon of his favorite drink — Walmart-brand black-cherry soda mixed with orange Gatorade…
Tonight is Halloween, which means you have a legitimate reason to go to clubbing on a Monday, and you need a killer topical costume to show off how cool and clever you are on social media. A last-minute banana suit from a pop-up costume shop simply won’t do.
We know: You’re tired of it. We, too, are tired of it. You’re tired of seeing Donald Trump’s face. You’re tired of hearing Hillary Clinton say the phrase “Trumped-up, trickle-down” over and over. You’re tired of the bickering and the fighting and the insults and that whole maybe-America-might-actually-end feeling you’ve had since September.
Dear Stoner: The holidays are coming up, and I’m thinking about getting a seasonal job for extra income, something with low responsibility, like retail or working with Christmas trees. I enjoy cannabis recreationally. Do you have any advice on how to surreptitiously find places of employment that do not conduct…
After months of savage campaigning, untold hours of blowhards screaming at one another on television, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertising, Florida’s vital 29 Electoral College votes are poised on a knife’s edge. The fate of the presidential election could well hinge on a few thousand votes in the…
Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco’s Sunday routine rarely varies: He begins the day with an early-morning, three-mile jog on Ocean Drive. Yesterday that routine took an unexpected turn. Although Ocean Drive has been bedeviled by crime this year, Grieco says he rarely sees any trouble along the iconic…
Jose Fernandez had cocaine and high levels of alcohol in his blood when he likely piloted his boat into a rock jetty just off Miami Beach last month, killing himself and two passengers. That’s the finding of the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner in a report just released to the press.
New Times does not endorse political candidates. Sure, there are some really well-meaning people running for office this year, but as anyone who’s lived in Florida for more than 45 minutes knows, even the most well-intentioned of political neophytes might end up embroiled in a corruption probe or sexting scandal.
There needs to be a hell of a lot of hate in your heart to think lynching black people on Halloween is funny. Yet here we are, Miami. A homeowner in Three Lakes, a small community in West Kendall, is celebrating the holiday by lynching two black dummies…
Dr. Ivan Rusilko is a strong believer in the power of intravenous vitamin therapy. The Miami Beach physician, who’s also a former model, two-time Mr. USA, and erotic-fiction novelist, custom-mixes IV concoctions he says can boost energy levels, improve sex lives, and strengthen immune systems.
