Preservationists Call B.S. on County Plan to Restore Coconut Grove Playhouse
County officials say they have a plan to restore the storied Coconut Grove Playhouse. But the plan would save only the exterior building and demolish the theater itself.
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Showing 7437 - 7458 of 32023Burlesque Performer Warns Miami That Jazz Age Lawn Party Doesn’t Pay Workers
As the heat index reached 110 degrees this past August, Cathleen Parra stood attention at the side of an outdoor dance floor on New York’s Governors Island. Her job, she says, was “to make sure no one was getting too rowdy.” At first, Parra, a burlesque artist who performs under…
Nicki Minaj Made Fun of a Homeless Woman in South Beach Yesterday
A note to all celebrities visiting Miami for A-list events like New Year’s Eve, Ultra Music Festival, and Art Basel: Miami is a real place, with real problems, and you don’t live here. That’s typically still true for famous people who own Miami property: There’s a clear distinction between people like Iggy Pop and DJ Khaled, who live here year-round and give back to the community…
Faculty Demand FIU Become “Sanctuary Campus” for Immigrants
Florida International University is one of the most diverse schools in the nation. Some 81 percent of students are racial or ethnic minorities, and FIU advertises itself as the country’s largest “Hispanic-serving institution.” Some of those students are undocumented “dreamers” who have benefited from President Barack Obama’s DACA plan, which allows them to attend college legally.
The Weirdest Stuff We Saw at Art Basel 2016 (NSFW)
There comes a point during every Art Basel season when you find yourself staring at something patently ridiculous — be it a painting of Fran Drescher making out with Dwight D. Eisenhower, or a sculpture of Felix the Cat reading a copy of Eat, Pray, Love — without cracking a smile even once.
A Brutal Murder Sparks Debate on How to Treat Miami’s Mentally Ill Homeless
Just after sunrise on a muggy September morning, Steve Dutton and Tom Lang sip coffee at a sidewalk table in downtown Miami. Steve, who has warm brown eyes and an easy smile, drinks black coffee from La Provence; his husband of 11 years, Tom, blue-eyed behind the oval-shaped lenses of…
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Group Sues to Demand Florida Election Recount
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…
LAB Miami Co-Working Space Sues Wynwood Lab for Copying Name
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.
Cubans React to Fidel Castro’s Funeral: Everything Has Changed, but Nothing Has Changed
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.
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Ask a Stoner: Can NFL Players Use Medical Marijuana?
If a player gets legal medical marijuana and then fails an NFL drug test, who wins?
Miamians Are Going on Twitter to Ask Donald Trump to Deport Their Exes
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…
Miami’s Ten Worst Environmental Scandals This Year
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.
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Florida Has Its Own Pipeline Scandal, and Protesters Are Asking for Supplies
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.
Work by Israel “Reefa” Hernandez, Graffiti Artist Slain by Police, to Be Shown During Basel
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.
As Rock Mine Explosions Rattle Miami Homes, County Might Begin Monitoring Strength
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…
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Carnival Cruise Subsidiary Caught Blatantly Dumping Oil Into Ocean for Ten Years
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.
Miami Tech Guru Who Lied About Stanford Degree Charged With $7.4 Million Fraud
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.
Miami Gardens Cop Says He Was Fired for Reporting Illegal Stop-and-Frisks
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.
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Everglades Dolphins Have World’s Worst Mercury Contamination
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.
Miami Cops Tweet Photo of Themselves Breaking U.S. Flag Code
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.
Huge New “Innovation District” Planned at Little Haiti’s Magic City Studios
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.
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South Florida Activists Prepare for Life Under Trump
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…