Judd Allison, the owner of 305 Films and the Wynwood event space Toejam Backlot, was already upset about Gov. Rick Scott’s handling of Miami’s Zika outbreak. And then he read about Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control experts spraying naled, a controversial pesticide linked to disorders in fetuses. During a meeting between Wynwood…
If Marco Rubio wants to deny Zika-infected women the right to abortions, Alan Grayson has a suggestion for him: He should be willing to personally adopt every single baby born with microcephaly. In an interview Wednesday with New Times, the liberal Orlando congressman blasted the Florida Republican senator’s comment to…
Watching preseason NFL football is like watching a remake of your favorite show with completely different characters. Would you watch Breaking Bad if Scott Baio played the role of Walter White? Maybe out of morbid curiosity, but like preseason football you’d never make it to the end. You’d probably check…
Even for a shameless opportunist like Marco Rubio, agreeing to host an event by a virulently anti-gay conservative group in Orlando later this month went beyond the pale. After all, Rubio had used the massacre of gay patrons at Pulse Nightclub as an excuse to get back into his Senate…
A semicircle of balding military bureaucrats glowers across a mahogany desk at two 20-something stoners from Miami Beach. “Frankly, we were a tad concerned with your performance history against a deal of this size,” one of the bureaucrats intones. “But after meeting you two face-to-face, we feel like we’re in…
Remember in high school when you were supposed to finish Great Expectations for class the next morning but you left it until the last minute and were finally just like, ‘nah’? You could think of more interesting things to do, so you did what scores of sophomores had done before…
Headlines about Donald Trump saying insane things have become as routine as morning weather reports. Yet Trump’s suggestion yesterday that “Second Amendment people” might “do something” if Clinton is elected feels different. The Secret Service is investigating it. Thomas Friedman called Trump “a disgusting human being.” Even his old friend…
When the Centers for Disease Control tried to spray Naled, a controversial pesticide used to kill mosquitoes, over Puerto Rico to stamp out the Zika virus last month, the island’s residents erupted. The city’s streets filled with protesters, and Puerto Rican Governor Alejandro García Padilla forced the CDC to send back…
Reza Baluchi was drifting in the Atlantic Ocean 23 miles off the coast of Florida. The sea was calm and the sky dark. The new moon had dipped below the waves to the west hours earlier. In the quiet night, the wiry, wild-haired 44-year-old rolled over the waves in a…
To Hillary Clinton supporters, Donald Trump is a boogeyman, a know-nothing Kremlin stooge, and a borderline fascist salivating at the idea of raining nuclear bombs down on anyone who insults him online. To Trump fans, Clinton is an oligarch run wild, a conspiratorial murderer, and a war criminal. Tension between…
With another medical marijuana legalization vote coming this November, legal weed opponents have spread a ton of misinformation over the last few months. The idea that pot is ten times as powerful now as it used to be? Straight-up lie. The rumor that marijuana caregivers will turn into “dope dealers…
New Times has an immediate opening for a layout editor. This person will produce sophisticated and vibrant layouts for the print and online versions of the paper, produce and supervise interactive and multimedia features for MiamiNewTimes.com and BrowardPalmBeach.com, organize and manage digital assets, and assist and support the art director…
Humans found the first instance of the Zika virus in Uganda’s Zika Forest in 1947. But, notably, the original Zika carrier wasn’t a person — it was a rhesus monkey. Since then, scientists have found the virus in all sorts of primates, including capuchin monkeys in Zika-affected towns in Brazil…
Long before the “Thanks, Obama” meme was a glimmer in your racist aunt’s eye, people were blaming things on Hillary Clinton. From Vince Foster to Benghazi to Emailgate, Hillary is old hat at battling away accusations by now. But there’s one thing that we actually can blame on Clinton today: She’s coming…
As crowds stumble along South Beach’s most iconic strip of art deco hotels and restaurants on a hot Saturday in July, the chipper sidewalk hostesses do a quick mental calculation, looking for a phrase that might lure passersby. “Table for two?” they hawk. “Happy hour!” “Two-for-one drinks!” It’s 5:45 p.m…
When Wikileaks published a trove of hacked Democratic National Committee emails in July, website founder Julian Assange promised the world he’d upend the 2016 presidential election. That hasn’t quite happened, but Assange did get to at least claim one politician as a trophy: The document dump forced Rep. Debbie Wasserman…
It’s no secret that Miami’s high cost of living is one of the biggest problems in the metro area. With median rent for a one-bedroom apartment at nearly $2,000, the county’s millennial population has largely fled. A 2012 study found that Miami is the least affordable city in the entire country…
Zika panic is real, and it’s got Miami in its insect-like pincers. Your boss smells like DEET. Your friends have canceled their trips to come see you. And any pregnant people you know are, understandably, very worried. All this concern has sadly led to some folks spreading serious misinformation about…
Bad idea: Kicking any Muslim person off a plane just for being Muslim. Worse idea: Kicking a Muslim journalist with a large internet following off a plane just for being Muslim. Niala Mohammad, a reporter for the government-funded outlet Voice of America, said via Facebook on Wednesday that she, along with…
As an American, you have a right to know if the food you’re eating or the mosquitoes biting you have been genetically modified. As a Floridian, you also apparently have the right to ignore the opinions of thousands of scientists and scream your dang head off whenever anyone confronts you…
Since the 1980s, Miami residents have been able to judge their city’s relative economic health just by counting the number of cranes in the sky. More than 10? Congrats, the city’s in the midst of a housing bubble. Zero? Recession. Right now, the downtown Miami skyline is absolutely flooded with…
A whole lot of weird stuff happens in Florida. Every Friday, we’re here to help you take a load off, procrastinate at work, and sort through the weirdest news of the week. Among other items this week: A man got so pissed at a flamingo — a real flamingo, not…
