The action in Carl Hiassen’s Miami crime novel debut Tourist Season begins when a body is found floating down a river in a suitcase. That was very much fiction, but the idea of body parts being found stuffed into weird things in weird places remains very much a chilling reality…
Meet Mark Freeman. He’s a doctor who has decided to throw his hat into the race to represent Florida’s 18th Congressional district (the one Patrick Murphy is leaving to run for the senate). He’s self-financing his campaign and is strongly conservative. He also seems to see American politics as not just a battle…
If a Gap or Urban Outfitters popped up in Wynwood anytime soon, many local would decry it as the official death of the neighborhood. The fear is that in less than 15 years, Wynwood would have transformed from genuine art district into an outdoor suburban shopping mall full of the…
The sharing economy is alive and well in Miami. Your average Miamian can make some extra cash by renting out their home or pick you up in their car using smartphone apps like Airbnb and Uber, all while possibly skirting a few laws along the way. Now, Magic City’s caviar…
Two men burst into a suburban Delray Beach office park on a muggy weekday in August 2014, demanding to talk to the CEO. They were there to get answers. In a beige office lobby decorated with abstract IKEA-style art, their target crossed his arms and smiled nervously. Dressed in an…
Plans for SkyRise Miami, the much talked about planned observation tower near Bayside Marketplace downtown, continue to trudge on. The biggest question left is how the project’s mastermind, developer Jeff Berkowitz, is going to pool together the estimated $430 million price tag to build it. Well, today Berkowitz announced that SkyRise…
Last March Governor Rick Scott signed one of the most sweeping anti-abortion laws in Florida’s recent history into law. It is scheduled to go into effect on Friday. One of the new law’s key provisions is that it requires any doctor performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local…
In his first national TV interview since committing the mother of all flip-flops to jump back into a race for Senate, Marco Rubio went on Face the Nation yesterday to take a strong, bold stand against Donald Trump’s signature policies — and to set the record straight that there was zero…
There’s been a war brewing on Ocean Drive for months now. On one side, residents and boutique hotel owners who argue that the iconic strip has devolved into a drunken, tacky mess. On the other, late-night restaurants and bars who say the strip is just catering to what tourists want…
This morning, Americans awoke to the news that the British had officially voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. Or in media and hashtag parlance, they pulled the trigger on the #Brexit. Many Americans found it fascinating to view such a complicated and momentous political moment through…
Meet Andrew Korge. He really, really wants to become a politician. He first signaled his political ambitions last year by publicly discussing a long-term plan that would see him run for a Florida Senate seat that included Miami Beach and much of coastal Miami in 2020. Then redistricting happened. Korge…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. Elderly Florida Man Shoots Up Woman’s Home Over Sex Refusal The Villages is Central Florida’s massive planned retirement community that sometimes gains national notice for its reputation of unbridled elderly…
From The Sting to Oceans 11 to The Inside Man, good heist tales are widely loved in America. Though Miami may not have any masterminding thieves quite as suave as George Clooney and Robert Redford, the Magic City has been home to its fair share of amazing and downright bizarre real-life…
Roberto Verdaguer doesn’t think Donald Trump needs his money. That’s one of the main things he likes about the real estate magnate. But that didn’t stop him from sending $250 to Trump’s campaign. “I like the fact that he wants to finance this campaign with his own money,” says Verdaguer,…
When Al Golden got canned as the Miami Hurricanes head coach, the general feeling was that he was a decent guy who just couldn’t get it together and live up to the hype. “Coach Golden has led our program through some very difficult times and he has done so with…
Marco Rubio’s decision to run for reelection was highly orchestrated. He wanted to make it seem like other Republicans politicians were basically begging him to get into the race. According to one report, he even tried to get Sen. Ted Cruz to send out an e-mail blast publicly asking for…
One of Rafael Pedroza’s earliest acting credits was a burglar on the Colombian soap opera Me Amaras Bajo La Lluvia (or, in English, You Loved Me in The Rain). Now he’s a suspect in a real life robbery here in Miami-Dade. Sunny Isles Beach Police are on the hunt for…
The poll numbers for Donald Trump among Hispanic voters are dire. Just last week, ABC found that 90 percent of Latin voters nationwide have a negative view of the Donald. Among Florida Hispanics, Hillary’s lead has polled as high as 51 percent. So as Miami’s own Latinas for Trump group…
Today, a committee in Tallahassee will meet to decide the winner among three finalists for a new statue to represent Florida in the U.S. Capitol Building. Those finalists — who are all perfectly respectable choices — were picked by ordinary Floridians in a monthlong online survey. But we know…
About a year ago, 21-year-old Oscar Yglesias started filming a cop after his mom got pulled over in traffic. The officer was not a fan of the camera. According to Yglesias, the cop threatened to ticket them for cutting him off. “It was actually the opposite. He cut us off,”…
Floridians often joke about Publix being our one shared pride as a state. Whether Republican or Democrat, North Floridians or South, white, black, Latina or otherwise, it seems the one thing that the vast majority of Floridians can completely agree upon is that we love a good Publix supermarket. Shopping there…
Marco Rubio announced this morning that he’s running for Senate after more than a year of not only swearing he wouldn’t run for reelection but openly decrying the work of the legislative body itself. It’s a flip-flop so big that Shaquille O’Neal could happily wear it to the beach. Though,…
