There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Florida Governor Rick Scott. Two videos purporting to be from the loosely organized hacktivist group “Anonymous” fail to make them. The videos, produced in the familiar style of Anonymous, popped up in the past few days on an obscure Facebook profile registered…
VFW Hall 3559 is a bizarre relic of an earlier time in glitzy South Beach. Hidden inside the Floridian condo tower, patrons have to ring a bell at an unmarked side door and get buzzed in via hidden camera. Inside, sweeping views of Biscayne Bay contrast with a grimy, smoke-filled…
If it seems like you can get almost anything delivered to your house these days, it’s because, for the most part, you can. Need a set of champagne flutes or a can of Fancy Feast or an extra phone charger? Amazon Prime Now can get it to you for free…
Jeb Bush built up a pretty nice life for himself after he left Florida’s Governors mansion. He snagged some cushy corporate gigs to bring home the bacon, and continued his public policy work through his involvement with various foundation. Most notably, he set up his own Foundation for Excellence in Education…
Good news Miami! The end to our long local nightmare of not hosting a Super Bowl since 2010 is in sight. After a meeting of team owners today, the NFL announced that Miami will host Super Bowl LIV in 2020. The game will mark the 100th anniversary of the league…
A day before he was scheduled to surrender to the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office on corruption charges, Opa-locka City Commissioner Terence Pinder drove his car into a tree near Opa-locka Executive Airport. The crash proved fatal, and by all indications, it appears that Pinder planned to commit suicide. According to The Herald, police…
Mickey Axelband may be the Miami Marlins’ biggest fan. Ever since the baseball team’s first game in 1993, the 59-year-old, bald veterinarian with lively green eyes has been a season ticket holder. He’s attended every single home opener and final game of the season. He sweated through thousands of brutal…
Fishing guide Mike Conner putters his skiff across the Indian River Lagoon near Stuart, about a two-hour drive north of Miami. He used to bring clients from all over the United States here to stalk delicious pompano, yard-long snook, and the Holy Grail of inshore fishing: sea trout longer than…
Florida is the biggest swing state prize in the general election. It’s also one of the most complicated to win. So, with Donald Trump having all but officially wrapped up his party’s nomination, you’d think his campaign would already be at work plotting out its path to victory in the…
Hurricane Season doesn’t officially start for more than a week, but apparently Mother Nature is itching to get a head start. A system of tropical concern is already developing out in the Atlantic, and it has the possibility to develop into a Tropical Storm that could target Florida. If it…
There’s already a Little Haiti Cultural Center and a Little Haiti Park. Ask any Miamian for directions to Little Haiti and they won’t hesitate to point you toward the Caribbean area centered on NE 2nd Avenue. And yet Little Haiti has never been an officially designated neighborhood in the City…
Here’s a few numbers for you. ’68, ’69, ’71, ’76, ’79, ’89, ’95, ’99, ’07, ’10: The year Miami has hosted the Super Bowl. 0: The chance NFL execs told Miami Dolphins executive they’d have of ever hosting another unless major renovations were made to the Stadium. $450 million+: The…
Bernie Sanders’ war to take down Hillary Clinton looks close to sputtering out. But that doesn’t mean the Vermont insurgent is done trying to reshape the Democratic Party. Sanders is now asking his considerable grassroots support to aim their ire at a South Florida target: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the…
If you need a dose of rage to get your blood pumping on a Monday morning, take a few minutes to read the Yelp reviews of Tremont Towing. Amid the usual complaints of illegal tows and surly drivers, you’ll notice another common complaint: Drivers must pay nearly $300 to get…
Lack of belief doesn’t necessarily mean lack of anything to study. That’s the reasoning behind the University of Miami’s decision to establish what is believed to be the world’s first academic chair “for the study of atheism, humanism and secular ethics.” The school hasn’t publically announced it yet, but several key…
The number of million dollar-plus homes in Miami has doubled since 2012 (even as the number of millionaire has not). It’s part of a national trend, according to Trulia. In 2012, 1.6 percent of all homes in the USA were worth at least seven figures. That share is now 3…
Mention sea-level rise and most people conjure up images of coastal flooding, where water swells at the periphery and spills over seawalls into the city. But in South Florida, that’s not necessarily the way it’s going to go down. Because the entire state sits atop porous limestone, water is literally…
Proving complaints against police officers can be nearly impossible — a he-said, she-said situation putting cop versus suspect almost always ends in favor of the police. That’s one reason so many forces are now adopting body cameras. But Miami’s Civilian Investigative Panel, an independent city board that looks into complaints about…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday’s we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week: A weed-seeking tourist takes to Twitter, a lazy dildo thief and a Taco Bell-craving coma patient. Florida Police Department Responds to Tourist’s Twitter Plea For Weed Twitter user @preznixon16, who,…
At this point there can’t be many strange, threatening reptiles from across the globe that haven’t somehow popped up in the Florida wild. We already have instances of giant snakes like Burmese pythons and meat-eating lizards like Nile monitors. Now scientists have confirmed that Nile crocodiles are also in the state. Back in 2009,…
As we slog on towards the official end of this presidential primary season, perhaps the last thing you want to read about is more politics. Though, if we’ve taken one thing away from the past few months it’s that people are sick of the status quo and the establishment and…
In 2013, animal rights group Smash HLS announced the start of a campaign to shut down a Miami Dade monkey importing company. Since then, activists have garnered headlines — and arrests — for their aggressive protests outside the facilities of Worldwide Primates, Inc., as well as the homes of its…
