Believe us, Miami Heat fans: We know it hurts. We feel your pain. It’s totally understandable if you feel a little empty inside this week. It’s not every offseason that a legend is unexpectedly plucked from your hometown team and replaced by ex-New Orleans Hornets star forward Luke Babbitt. Not…
Like a group of teenagers playing hooky, they roam the streets hooting and hollering, trespassing through backyards and having sex in inappropriate places. Their strength is in numbers, and these peacocks roll deep. “They’re beautiful animals and in the beginning, they’re nice,” says Coconut Grove resident Danny Mugnai. And then comes…
One day early last year, Luiz Rodrigues gazed out at the dunes near the Fourth Street Beach. The sandy hills are cordoned off with rope and wooden fencing, a sanctuary for many amid the bustle of South Beach. Inside, sea oats swayed in the wind. Fuchsia bayhop flowers blossomed. But…
Miami’s WPBT2 TV host Kalyn Chapman James has been suspended from her job for calling Micah Xavier Johnson, the man who killed five police officers at an anti-police-brutality march in Dallas last week, a “martyr” in a video posted earlier on Sunday. In a video that has since been deleted…
After suing nine of his own fans during the last few years, Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria has had to get creative to keep upsetting the twelve remaining people who still buy tickets. Against all odds, his team succeeded again in pissing off die-hards today — on what should be of…
Dear non-Miami residents: This city is trying to move on from its days as the nation’s drug-crime capital. We’ve built an entirely new, “hip” neighborhood miles from the beach, where the world’s best visual artists visit every December. We’re trying to invest in start-ups. We even might ban liquor sales…
In an already wild political season, first-time Democratic candidate Andrew Korge has been an agent of chaos. Korge started off in a heated race against sitting GOP Sen. Anita Flores, then hastily switched last month to District 40, where sitting Democratic Sen. Dwight Bullard was already running. Bullard says Korge — …
Jay Scott, sporting a brown ponytail and a shirt that exposes his tattoos, walks through Habatat Galleries in West Palm Beach, past Dale Chihuly’s fluorescent, coral-like cylinders and William Morris’ display of ancient tools. The 39-year-old weaves among pieces created by some of the world’s most renowned glass artists and…
Sherbrooke Hotel owner Mitch Novick woke up Friday to news of three robberies on South Beach. Novick, an outspoken critic of what he calls “a crisis situation of utter lawlessness” on Ocean Drive, was incensed, calling crime on the stretch a “cancer.” He didn’t have to wait long for a…
Across the nation, Black Lives Matter protesters have taken to the streets over the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Miami’s marchers gathered on Saturday, shutting down traffic downtown and on the MacArthur Causeway. More than 200 people started the protest outside the Wynwood…
In April, City of Miami Police arrested the University of Miami’s star running back Mark Walton in one of the oddest DUI cases in recent South Florida memory. A man resembling Walton, cops said, had pretended to be a cop, pulled a woman over, and allegedly rubbed his genitals on…
A small but obvious tip for police: Don’t accuse a man with a debilitating eye condition of “turning a blind eye” to drug dealers in his area. And then don’t also hit him right in the eyes. Yet that’s exactly what a 74-year-old landlord accuses a group of City of…
For an entire generation of South Floridians, Dwyane Wade is the last connection to long-gone period of sports fandom. When Wade arrived in Miami in 2003, there was no Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, or Instagram. “Hot takes” seemed more like the name of a food truck than a way to describe…
A little over a year ago, as Peter Beach was riding his bike across the Venetian Causeway, something caught his eye. He turned around to get a closer look. There, lying in the grass in front of Biscayne Bay, was a person huddled under a blanket, the bridge and luxury…
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is on lockdown while Miami-Dade police investigate reports of an active shooter and a bomb threat, according to the department’s Twitter feed. The threat was reported around 3 p.m. “Precautionary measures” are being taken to ensure the safety of patients, doctors, and visitors. A hospital representative tells…
Tensions between police-reform activists and law enforcement could not be higher today. Cops shot two nonviolent black men dead this week on film. A Dallas sniper gunned down 11 officers during a police brutality protest last night, killing five. So when Dashana Honore, a 26-year-old resident of Ives Estates in…
Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men, were killed by police in separate incidents this week. Sterling, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had been pinned to the ground and appeared to not be resisting when a cop pressed a gun to his chest and fatally shot him. Castile, from Minnesota,…
In 2013, New Times called Jimmy Sabatino Florida’s “most notorious con man.” For a con man, the word “notorious” basically means “has been caught a bunch of times,” so we’ll refrain from calling the 39-year-old “talented” — but damn if he isn’t persistent. Case in point: Federal authorities said yesterday that…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. And, also, this week we’re here to remind all Floridians that despite any appearances to the contrary, babies are incredibly fragile creatures and should be treated as such. Woman Allegedly Swung…
Most human beings would have a hard time sitting down to some ropa vieja with a guy they just spent months calling a “con man” and suggesting on national television might also have a tiny little micropenis. But then again, most human beings aren’t shameless political opportunist on the level…
When the City of Miami changed Wynwood’s zoning codes last year to make it easier for people to live in the area, everyone knew it was just a matter of time before a huge condo complex landed in the heart of the uber-hip neighborhood. That time is now, if developer East…
Donald Trump will give a his first campaign speech in Miami tomorrow — but it won’t be open to the public. Maybe that’s because was forced to cancel his last planned rally in Doral in March after protesters planned to storm the event. Or perhaps it’s due to the fact that…
