In the horrible hours after 49 club-goers were massacred in Orlando early Sunday morning, everyone in Florida grasped for how to respond to the brutal tragedy. Family members texted and checked in safe on Facebook. Hundreds lined up to donate blood. And one Florida sheriff decided the moment…
At least fifty people are dead, authorities have now confirmed, in an overnight mass shooting inside a packed gay nightclub in Orlando. At least 53 others were wounded and are in local hospitals. Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency and leaders asked for blood donors to step…
American Airlines has won approval from the Department of Transportation to begin eight regular daily commercial flights between Miami and Cuba within the next 90 days. The airline will run eight daily flights between MIA and five different Cuban cities. Though, approval for direct daily flights between anywhere in America…
Miami Beach is moving swiftly with its plans to bring a light rail system to the city, and, now, one of the three organizations bidding to build the project has released renderings of what their vision of that system might look like. On Facebook, Connect Miami Beach (a consortium of…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week we learned not to drink vodka on a Monday, and not to smoke pot in the SUV our father bought us. Florida Tourist Pours Vodka Into Kid’s Eye,…
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. Inside, our staff has chosen more than 300 winners from the finest restaurants to the most notable new…
Getting onto the beach in the tiny Miami-Dade town of Golden Beach is, in and of itself, no easy feat. There’s no public access onto the sand, and anyone driving into town has to enter through a gate that snaps their picture. But say, for argument’s sake, you find yourself…
Frank Hammar, a student originally from Sweden, was expecting to graduate from the Miami Ad School next week. His parents were in town, and the family went out to eat at the trendy Wynwood Diner. After finishing up at around 11:30, Hammar separated from his family and headed back to…
In terms of their stated underlying political ideologies Donald Trump and deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez don’t have much in common. For starters, Trump loves capitalism. He happens to think he’s one of the best capitalists of all time. Chávez has such a disdain for capitalism that he once wondered…
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s political headache is getting worse. Calls for an independent investigation into a $25,000 donation made by Donald Trump to Bondi’s PAC continue to grow, and the AG has now been hit with three separate ethics complaints filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics, Florida Elections Commission, and…
A rough guide to getting the national press’ attention during a heated presidential election: Paradoxically back a candidate who has repeatedly denigrated your ethnic heritage. Print bright T-shirts. Invite the TV crews. That was the game plan this week for a small Miami group calling themselves Latinas for Trump and…
For paddle sport enthusiasts like Sunny McLean, Miami should be a paradise — surrounded by water, blessed with year-round warm weather. But paradoxically, finding a safe place for sports like dragon boat racing and kayaking in the 305 is really difficult. In fact, the waters off Virginia Key are some…
The City of Miami Beach Commission unanimously approved an ordinance today that will raise the minimum wage in the city to $13.31 an hour by 2021. Miami Beach will be the first municipality in Florida to hike its minimum wage above the state level, and the new law falls in…
Even by Miami’s usual standards for knock-down, drag-out development fights, the political brawl over a proposed luxury condo tower in booming Sunset Harbour has been especially bare knuckled. First, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine recused himself from the deal in March because he owns property nearby. Then, when Beach Towing began…
Residents on Miami Beach’s exclusive La Gorce Island have a new neighbor: retired boxing champ Floyd Mayweather. The pugilist recently bought up a newly built home on the island and paid its $7.7 million price tag in cold, hard cash. The modern home makes liberal use of white surfaces, steel and…
The backlash against red light cameras conintues. The Miami-Dade County Commission voted this week to rescind the county’s power to install the cameras in unincorporated areas. That means you’ll never see red light cameras in places like Kendall, Westchester, Brownsville and The Redlands. Back in 2011, the County Commission tentatively…
Two years ago, Miami Beach banned all styrofoam from its city. Banning the notoriously polluting material wasn’t particularly controversial, with most local businesses telling reporters they didn’t mind making the change to more compostable materials. Well, Florida being Florida, the state legislature found this simple eco-friendly move abhorrent. Earlier this…
For more than eight years, Don Worth has watched plan after plan to restore the Miami Marine Stadium fall apart. Abandoned after Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the stadium on Virginia Key has taken on a new, graffiti-covered life as a hangout for street artists and skateboarders. Worth dreamed of seeing…
Two candidates running against state Sen. Gwen Margolis in the newly redrawn District 38 are demanding an apology from the 81-year-old senator after she allegedly referred to three of her five opponents as “three Haitians” at a recent campaign event. Don Festge, a North Miami teacher who is running for…
Last night the Associated Press announced that Hillary Clinton had secured the support of enough delegates (both super and otherwise) to clinch the Democratic nomination for president. Tonight, she’s widely expected to shore up a majority of the popular vote and pledged delegates during the final round of primary contests…
“When I want something I get it,” Trump memorably said of his relationships with career politicians at a rally in Iowa back in January. “When I call, they kiss my ass. It’s true.” Turns out, sometimes Trump doesn’t even have to make the call to get an ass kissing. Florida…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Miami, is like the Azealia Banks of Congress. She always seems to find herself feuding with some celebrity or another. Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez have all found themselves on the other end of a critical Twitter lashing from Ros-Lehtinen. Though the congresswoman…
