Marco Rubio is spending this weekend pondering his future, possibly cruising around Miami’s waterways in his “luxury yacht” as he decides whether to make another run for Senate. All signs are that he will. The GOP leadership is begging him to do it. And now his good buddy Lt. Gov…
Almost 30 years ago, Hialeah passed an ordinance banning animal sacrifice in an attempt to stop a group of Santeria practitioners from building a new place of worship in the city. The church challenged the law all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which unanimously agreed that such a…
The evidence that FIU professor David Ralston raped an unconscious woman seems strong. The attack was caught on surveillance video, they say, that he had set up in his Lee County home. So when Ralston got word that detectives were trying to persuade him to voluntarily surrender, Ralston fled. After more…
Richard Florida, the country’s most famous urban studies scholar, and the FIU-Miami Creative City Initiative came out today with a major, in-depth and incisive report on the state of the Miami and what we must do to truly become a global city. Dubbed “Miami’s Great Inflection: Toward Shared Prosperity as a Creative…
In another sign of just odd this election is, Floridians, by and large, do not have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Both are seen negatively by well over 50 percent of the states. Here’s where things get even odder: compared to the vast majority of the…
Yesterday, three Florida International University students set out in a small center-console, Mako-style boat to collect water samples in Whitewater Bay, a huge expanse of water on the southwestern edge of Everglades National Park. They never made it back. Last evening, the U.S. Coast Guard got a call that the…
A few things Tremont Towing is well known for: pissing off South Beach drivers, accusations of shady business practices, tight political connections, and enriching us all with hilariously scripted “windmill roundhouse back flips” on the since-canceled reality show South Beach Tow. Some things Tremont Towing is not particularly well known for: improving…
It was exactly one year ago today when Jeb Bush strolled across the stage of the auditorium of Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus to confirm the years of speculation. Yes, he would run for president, and yes he was in it to win it. “We need a president willing to…
Tatiana F. Tascon had a good little scam going for a while. Out of a showroom set up in her pricey Coconut Grove home Tascon peddled fake designer handbags from the likes of Louis Vuitton and counterfeit Rolex watches. Through selling clients a fake version of the good life earned over $700,000…
Even as he’s promised to deport millions, vowed to build a massive new border wall and slammed a federal judge repeatedly over his Mexican heritage, Donald Trump has insisted that Hispanic voters “love him.” An odd echo of that message found national resonance in Miami last week, when a “Latinas…
It’s hard to believe in the middle of June, but real Miami Dolphins football is inching closer and closer. This week is the next step toward the NFL’s return, as the Dolphins conduct their annual mini-camp. This season is more intriguing than most because the Dolphins have a new coach…
Uber is a lot of things: Tech disrupter, enemy of taxi unions, godsend after a night of drinking. And according to one new lawsuit in Miami, it’s also the king of spammy text messages. Last week, a Tallahassee-based lawyer filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Uber in federal…
A tense showdown played out on CNN earlier today as openly gay journalist Anderson Cooper grilled Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi about her past defense of Florida’s ban on gay marriage. Unlike Governor Rick Scott, Bondi was quick to acknowledge that shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando was an attack…
The annual WalkScore rankings always include Miami in the top ten. In the latest edition, Miami was ranked America’s fifth most walkable city. Which inevitably leads to lots of locals shaking their heads. How could this city, with its gridlocked highways and sorely lacking public transit infrastructure, ever be considered walkable? …
The Southeast Financial Center is the crown jewel of Miami office towers and downtown’s skyline. When it was built in 1983, it not only became Miami’s tallest building but the highest skyscraper south of New York and east of the Mississippi. It still remains Miami’s second tallest building and its tenants…
For months, Marco Rubio has resisted increasingly desperate calls from his colleagues to throw his name back into the ring for the bruising race for his seat in the U.S. Senate. But Rubio hinted yesterday that he might just be softening that stance because the massacre in Orlando had pushed…
Traffic in Miami, on an average day, falls somewhere on the pain scale between a forced viewing of Michael Bay’s latest Transformers movie and a Floyd Mayweather punch to kidneys. Even worse, public transit is so lacking that most Miamians have no option but to bake in their cars along the…
Hang on to your pants, Miami, because the biggest competition of the summer lands today. No, not the 2016 Olympics. We’re talking about New Times’ annual Best of Miami issue. Our staff has chosen more than 400 winners, from the finest restaurants to the most notable new bars and clubs…
The U.S. Coast Guard today unloaded $214 million worth of cocaine in Miami Beach. If you’re not up on your street price-per-pound math, that’s about eight tons of pure coke. That’s the biggest unloading of cocaine at the Miami Beach Coast Guard station in more than four years. The drugs…
Fifty people dead at a gay club in Orlando. Another 53 injured. By all accounts, they were targeted specifically as members or allies of the LGBT community. The month is a nation-wide celebration of gay pride, timed to remember the Stonewall Riots when LGBT people fought for their rights, including…
Outside of Orlando itself, few places have been as closely impacted by the massacre at Pulse Nightclub as Miami — and in particular the Magic City’s LGBT community. South Florida’s gay scene is closely linked to that in central Florida, and at least one of the victims who died Sunday…
Hang on to your pants, Miami, because the biggest competition of the summer lands next week. No, not the 2016 Olympics. We’re talking about Miami New Times’ annual Best of Miami issue. Our staff has chosen more than 300 winners, from the finest restaurants to the most notable new bars…
