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…
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…
