Nick Barbella can pinpoint the exact moment he tumbled down Jeffrey Loria’s rabbit hole. It was late August, and Barbella was pleading with a Miami Marlins sales rep to be allowed to hand over around $4,900 for a season ticket package — and repeatedly being refused. “That’s when it hit…
Now that Carmel Cafiero is gone, it’s hard not to wonder if serious journalism on local television is also finished.
Almost the minute the Zika virus hit Wynwood at the end of July, Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control scrambled low-flying planes into the sky. Trails of pesticides — one of them highly controversial and possibly harmful to humans — billowed from their wings on early weekday mornings, under the assumption that…
The call came in to Miami Beach police early on a Monday morning two years ago: An MBPD sergeant, the witness said, had gotten hammered while working off-duty at Mango’s Tropical Cafe on Ocean Drive. Police arrived to find Sgt. Mike Muley in such bad shape he had to be…
We feel your pain, Miami. Not only is it Monday, but you just spent your entire weekend stuck in the house because of drenching rainstorms from a tropical wave. You deserve a little bit of a distraction this morning. Thankfully, the internet specializes in such things. Here we have stumbled…
Obviously, fewer people are going to want to live in Miami once this whole place floods under an onslaught of sea level rise, but most assume that’s going to happen decades from now. But a new study suggests that fears of Miami Beach turning into a modern Venice are already hurting…
It’s the last Friday of August, which means everyone’s either out of town on vacation or about to ride in this month’s Critical Mass bicycle meetup. Last month, the ride plowed right through Miami’s active Zika transmission zone in Wynwood — tonight, the ride zips through the somewhat-safer roads of…
Miami Beach’s crackdown on AirBnB and other short-term renters has been swift and brutal. In March, the city changed its rules to levy $20,000 fines on anyone who rents out a space for less than six months, and since then has handed out $1.6 million in fines. But was that…
A lot of weird stuff happens in Florida. Most of those things tend to involve meth, alcohol, or combinations thereof. Every Friday, we bring you the three weirdest stories of the week. This week: A dark reminder that hard drugs and scotch will get you nowhere in life, save the…
Almost 11 years later, Wilma is still Miami’s last brush with hurricane destruction. Earlier this week, a tropical wave in the Caribbean briefly looked like it might break that amazing streak. But now, forecasters say Florida’s chances of a significant hit this weekend are nearly gone. The system, which never…
With even more locally transmitted Zika cases announced this week in Wynwood and Miami Beach, officials are squabbling about who’s to blame and what we can do to end the outbreak. Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine accused Gov. Rick Scott of “blindsiding” him with news that Zika was on the…
Real-estate mogul Moishe Mana, the largest landowner in Wynwood, has huge plans for the arts district. He’s trying to convert a space he owns in the neighborhood’s southwest corner into a full arts-themed village, complete with a promenade, shops, galleries, and 24-story residential towers. Mana’s team has spent months crafting…
Few Miamians have seen the devastating effects of Colombia’s 52-year war with the FARC on a more human level than Philippe Houdard. For a decade now, Houdard’s nonprofit, Developing Minds Foundation, has worked with former child soldiers forced into brutal combat by FARC’s leaders. He’s seen the bullet wounds and…
Dear Stoner: I just got some pot brownies, and I’m not planning to ingest them for two weeks. Do you think the potency will still be the same, and if they’ll be okay to eat? Can I heat them up if they go hard?Tasnim Dear Tasnim: We’ve talked to multiple…
‹ Left Center Right Resize Cancel Crop 67 x 100 ?i › Back in February, State Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla used his powers as chairman of the State Senate’s Judiciary Committee to prevent the senate from voting on two controversial pro-gun laws. One would have allowed 1.5 million…
Summer break is over, and if you’re a female student at Miami Arts Charter, you might want to stock up on pants. That’s because all skirts and dresses are now banned. But even pants options are tightly limited: No leggings, yoga pants or ripped jeans are allowed this year. Shorts are…
It can be hard for non-pregnant Miamians to gauge how much they should really worry about Zika. On one hand, a new University of Florida study predicts South Florida’s outbreak should top out at 400 locally transmitted cases and end by the winter. But another new study paints an more…
In Miami Beach, it’s no secret that the hotel industry is the city’s biggest economic engine. City Hall certainly knows who pays the bills. Back in March, the city voted to start fining AirBnB-type short term renters a whopping $20,000 a pop. Hoteliers say the new fines protect the tourism industry…
Miami Hurricanes football is just ten days away. We can almost see the smoke and hear Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” already. But this Canes season is different: the stakes are exponentially higher thanks to another coaching staff reboot. The fan base is as restless and thirsty as ever to get back…
On an August morning two years ago, Eric Cheeley arrived to work at the City of Miami’s capital improvements department at his usual time, around 6 a.m. A devout Pentecostal, he liked to get there early to read his Bible. On this day, however, he took his religious practices a…
Earlier this month, a Miami-Dade County mosquito control plane buzzed over New Times’ Wynwood office building at around 11:15 a.m., wafting the organic, larva-killing bacterial pesticide Bti over the neighborhood. A nearby worker noticed a reporter taking photos and chimed in. “If you’re under the cloud, it gets on your skin,”…
When installing a bat house, which is just like a bird house except with a slit-shaped hole for the tiny flying mammals, it’s important to keep the box out of direct sunlight. Bats are notoriously temperamental, and if the lighting isn’t quite right, the home could get too hot or…
