In a small, cheery, wood-paneled office in the back of the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach, the young, wavy-haired receptionist was polite but firm. “Mr. Abovitz isn’t available right now.” A green cartoon dragon grinned from the wall to her right, next to a glass-walled conference room…
The family of Emilio Macias, who died in a tragic boating accident alongside 24-year-old Marlins pitching star Jose Fernandez this weekend, is asking the public for help to pay for their loved one’s funeral. The family has started a GoFundMe page to try and collect $30,000 for funeral arrangements —…
Former Miami Springs High School employee Rodolfo “Rudy” Camejo, Jr. housed four teenage baseball players from Mexico and Puerto Rico in a rented Virginia Gardens home. He regularly told colleagues he was “sponsoring” the boys. No one seemed to mind. But there’s a problem, say Miami-Dade County Public Schools investigators. Housing…
Dear Stoner: I’ve been smoking pot for a few years, but in the last six months I’ve started smoking more as I drink less (I’m 25). My parents have always been against marijuana, but I want to be honest with them if I continue to partake. How should I break…
Last week, Miami-Dade County Police Director Juan Perez announced in a press conference that the department will spend $2.6 million over the next five years, and possibly another $3 million in the following five, on ShotSpotter, a police technology that uses microphones to listen for gunshots. Perez did not mention…
Things were looking rather bleak for the Dolphins Sunday. The Browns, led by a third-string quarterback who had never made an NFL start, had somehow managed to take a 13-10 lead into the half. Out of halftime the Browns marched the ball deep into Dolphins territory on a nine-minute drive,…
Perhaps the greatest Cuban pitcher of all time was killed at 24 years old in a boating accident early Sunday morning. Jose Fernandez, who was the brightest light on the Marlins and a hero to millions of young baseball pitchers, was expected to pitch this week against the Mets. The 6’2″…
Miami-Dade County set its annual budget late Thursday night. According to the Miami Herald’s Doug Hanks, County Commissioners argued over whether it was worth spending $100,000 to revive the county’s Civilian Investigative Panel, which employs non-police civilians to investigate complaints against police. Many law-enforcement scholars agree civilian-led panels provide an…
Chris Bosh is a 32-year-old adult, a multimillionaire, and a person who will likely one day end up enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He can afford many of the world’s greatest doctors, is an Olympic Gold Medalist, National Basketball League champion, and is certainly capable of…
Dr. Philip Stoddard, a Florida International University biologist and the mayor of South Miami, has released a study that shows definitively that Miami-Dade County’s spraying of naled, a controversial neurotoxic pesticide, is not working to combat the Zika virus in Miami Beach. Provided Stoddard’s analysis is correct, the study shows…
“Just look at our skyline and imagine what’s going to be there in five or ten years. If the public knew the extent to which some of those buildings were pushed through, I think it would reflect poorly on the City and the City Attorney’s office.” This is Justin Wales,…
Is it possible? Just plain wrong? Sacrilege? You can no longer get a colada in Miami Beach in a Styrofoam cup. At David’s Cafe, the iconic Cuban restaurant at 9th and Alton that’s been a staple for more than four decades, the coffee is now served in tan-colored paper cups…
In a few short weeks, the state of Florida may finally vote to legalize medical marijuana statewide on November 8. Until then, medical pot remains illegal statewide. But starting Monday, a few select South Floridians will be able to use a strain of low-THC cannabis oil called Haleigh’s Hope. The oil…
Miami police can’t stop people from firing celebratory gunshots on holidays like New Year’s Eve and July 4. This past Independence Day, someone made the moronic decision to fire his or her gun in the middle of the tourist-heavy Bayside Marketplace downtown. Apparently, current Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall (not the…
Like it or not, real estate is the bread and butter of Miami’s economy. In the last four years, more than 3,000 condo units were built in town, and a whopping 11,000 are slated to finish construction by 2018. If it seems like an insane proposition to sell 14,000 new…
Dear Stoner: I just heard about Foria, some marijuana oil claiming to enhance a female’s sex life. Is it basically female Viagra that also gets me high down there? Brittany Dear Brittany: I’m still looking for a girlfriend who will help me with hands-on research, but reviews of Foria describe…
Sana Ullah and her sister were shopping at Sawgrass Mills Mall when they realized it was time to pray. They grabbed “probably the ugliest shirt” in the store, she recalls, and hurried into a changing room. The whole situation had Ullah laughing to herslf. It was hardly the first time…
In 2014, New Times reported that Miami-Dade County Police abandoned using ShotSpotter, a controversial police technology that uses microphones to listen for gunshot noises, after realizing it didn’t work very well. ShotSpotter’s “success in directly leading to the apprehension of individuals involved in shooting incidents [was] minimal,” MDPD told New Times that…
In the wake of a controversial North Carolina law designed to keep transgender people from using the bathrooms of their choice, a small but growing number of progressive cities have gone the opposite way, taking steps to make public restrooms completely gender neutral. To date, cities including Seattle, Philadelphia, Austin,…
No one seems to be sure if Miami Heat basketball star Chris Bosh will ever play again. Bosh has been diagnosed with blood clot issues — while Bosh said today that the way the Heat treated him made him feel “written off,” Bosh says he has every intention of playing…
Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old, black father of four, was killed by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday. He was shot to death, on video, after walking peacefully with his hands raised away from three cops. Crutcher, a Christian who regularly sang in church, had stopped his SUV in the middle…
When Andrew Mossberg, then 50, stumbled upon what he says was a man beating up a woman in Miami Beach in 2013, Mossberg immediately assumed the man was a thieving bandit. So Mossberg stepped in to help. It turned out the man harassing the woman, Phillipe Archer, was actually an…
