Four days after moving to Florida, I got in my first-ever car accident. In response, my coworkers simply shrugged. One of them grabbed my shoulder in solidarity. “Welcome to Miami,” he said, and then tottered off cackling. A study released yesterday has confirmed what anyone who’s driven along I-95; plowed…
The Florida Department of Health announced today that a grand total of two people in Miami-Dade County and two people in Broward County have contracted Zika virus from native, Florida mosquitoes. This is cause for alarm and for caution, but not, as many folks on the internet are saying, to…
It’s the last Friday of the month, which means traffic across town will come to a screeching halt as hundreds of cyclists commandeer the streets tonight. It’s Critical Mass, the one night every month when Miamians who hate cyclists are forced to shut up and deal with bikers for once…
Earlier this week, the North Miami Police Department set up a hotline to field calls from people about the July 18 police shooting of behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey. New Times listened to roughly 50 of the calls posted on the department’s website, and not one showed support for the cops…
A lot of weird stuff happens in Florida. Every Friday, we’re here to bring you the week’s weirdest. This week, we probe the very nature of identity itself: Does a man who resembles a meth addict deserve to go to jail for doughnut possession? Do you trust a man named…
It’s pretty darn clear orca whales shouldn’t be kept alone in small enclosures. We’ve all seen Blackfish by now. And yet, the Miami Seaquarium’s Lolita remains the sole killer whale on the premises, despite years of protests to free her from her relatively tiny tank. Because PETA is PETA, and pretty…
Marco Rubio, Florida’s most brazen political opportunist, used the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando as an excuse to run for Senate reelection, despite having said about a thousand times that his career as a U.S. Senator was over. After the shooting, he told the Advocate, the nation’s largest LGBT magazine, that the…
When a police officer shot and killed Homestead’s Edward Foster in 2015, his mother was shattered. “She didn’t take the funeral well,” Foster’s sister, Crystal, tells New Times. “She lost her memory.” Last night, Foster’s mother, who is in her late 50s and finally in better shape, showed up at…
Let me say this to all you perpetually negative Miami Dolphins fans; you’re being ridiculous. The 2016-17 NFL season marks a fresh start for the Dolphins, a time where all fans can come together, embrace, pull out their pocket schedule, point to each game, and confidently state “win”. It’s July;…
A few months ago, a group of Miami Beach police officers homeless listed the city’s most troubled homeless people — those who lived on the streets, were in poor health, and were severely dependent on alcohol. Those on the list had consistently refused offers of treatment or shelter, and it didn’t…
For decades, oil tycoons have had their eyes set on Big Cypress National Preserve, a pristine national park in the Everglades at the western edge of Miami-Dade County. The preserve has been a battlefront since at least 2002, when New Times detailed the U.S. government’s fight to block drilling in Big Cypress…
This has been YesJulz’s year. With the key exception of DJ Khaled, YesJulz (real name: Julieanna Goddard, 28), is the biggest social-media star in America right now not named Kardashian. After getting her start promoting events for South Beach clubs like LIV and Story, she now spends her time jet-setting…
A former reporter for Fox News in Miami is being held without bail after he was indicted Tuesday in Virginia on charges of forcible sodomy and rape. Orlando Salinas, who left Fox in 2012 for a job at Roanoke’s CBS affiliate, was booked into the Montgomery County jail last night. Few…
Moishe Mana loves America, and he certainly isn’t going to let a man like Donald Trump walk all over it. During an interview with New Times yesterday, the Miami super-developer, who owns most of the southern end of Wynwood, sounded choked up talking about his pride for this country. “I came…
Modesto “Mitch” Maidique is so convinced there’s a divide between what Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says and what he truly believes, he says he’s “almost at the point of making a Trump dictionary.” “Trump says we have to build a wall because all of these people, some of whom…
Look outside. The streets are teeming with zombiefied screen watchers. People wander day and night through parks and parking lots. They’re trying to catch ’em all, dammit! These digital pocket monsters aren’t going to catch themselves. Pokémon Go became a worldwide sensation literally overnight earlier this month. The mobile app…
Florida loves Publix, the supermarket chain routinely ranked as the most valuable and beloved company the whole state thanks in no small part to the fantastically salty sub sandwiches. So it’s sure to jar a few hardcore Publix fans to learn that the family who founded the chain just donated $800,000 to…
The officers involved in the shooting of Charles Kinsey — an unarmed black behavioral technician shot in the leg last week while trying to aid a 23-year-old autistic man — currently sit on administrative leave, as state officials investigate the shooting. One high-ranking officer, Commaner Emile Hollant, was suspended without…
Do you have cash to burn and no conscience about gentrifying historically poor, majority-minority areas of town? Good news! The website RealtyTrac has just finished a study on where to start buying up property. The site found that the zip code 33150, which encompasses parts of Little River, Little Haiti, and…
On the surface, it seems like a pretty easy question to answer: Should Florida allow more cancer-causing chemicals to pollute its water? But then again, this is Gov. Rick Scott’s Sunshine State, where concerns like “public health” often take a back seat to corporate cronyism. Critics say that’s exactly why…
The conflict over this neighborhood’s name remains tense and loaded with complicated issues of race and poverty.
When Justin Bieber gets in a jam or things get a little too wild for Girls Gone Wild head honcho Joe Francis, they know who to call: Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black. The famed attorney has represented scores of celebrity clients, appeared on “The Law Firm,” a short-lived legal version…
