Turns out Donald Trump’s most successful business move of the past decade wasn’t Trump Steaks, Trump University or Miss Universe. Nope, not at all. According to personal financial documents Trump released yesterday, out of his more than 150 various business ventures, by far the biggest money maker was the Trump National…
For decades, one of two statues in the U.S. Capitol meant to celebrate famed Florida residents has depicted Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith. But Smith was a Confederate general with hardly any noteworthy accomplishments. Even worse, he was barely a Florida man at all. He never even lived in the Sunshine State…
You wouldn’t shoot a Red Sox player in the middle of Times Square scarfing down a slice of New York-style pizza. You don’t pose Washington’s QB in downtown Dallas decked out in a 10-gallon hat and cowboy boots. You don’t let your high school team’s biggest rival’s star pose for…
On Friday, The Obama administration issued a set of guidelines directing public schools to respect the gender identity of transgender students or risk losing out on federal funding under Title IX. The response from Florida has been noticeably quiet. Both Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi haven’t commented…
In the grand scheme of violent crime in South Beach, an October 2014 drive-by shooting outside Ocean Drive’s Fat Tuesday outpost seemed far from notorious. In the wee hours of a Sunday morning, a group in an Altima fired at someone sitting in a dark-colored car and then sped away…
Picture your perfect beach. The one you imagine when you close your eyes and go to your calm place. Where the sky is clear, the vibe is chill, and you can hear the gentle crash of the waves against the shore. It’s the type of serene perfection brought to mind…
Sure, facilities, opportunities, and a chance at glory are probably still important when it comes to college football recruiting, but if we’re reading the trends correctly here, it seems like today’s high-schoolers and tomorrow’s college players apparently really, really get a kick out of seeing themselves talked about on social…
The world laughed when Jimmy McMillan ran for New York City mayor with the slogan, “The rent is too damn high!” Yet, how many of us now repeat that line verbatim whenever we cut our landlord a check or browse apartment listings in Miami? They are, indeed, categorically, undebatably too damn…
Miami Beach police have finalized their plans for controlling crowds and traffic on Memorial Day weekend, with one major change: This year, cars coming onto the Beach won’t be subject to a DUI checkpoint. Officer Ernesto Rodriguez, the department’s spokesman, said the checkpoint, which has been used for several years,…
So Miami Beach’s stormwater pumps shoot water from the city’s streets and street drains into Biscayne Bay to combat flooding. You know what’s in the water it pumps directly into the Bay from the streets? Unsurprisingly, some not so clean stuff. A new study of flood waters found incredibly high…
On a Sunday afternoon one week before Easter 1999, Mark Williams pulled his SUV into the parking lot outside his estranged wife’s West Palm Beach apartment with his 11-year-old son Lamatra riding shotgun. For most of his life, Lamatra had shuffled between his mother and his grandmother, but this week…
When is Chris Bosh getting back on the court? The answer could possibly be “never.” Bosh has been sidelined since All-Star Weekend after complications from his blood clot situation flared back up, and according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst the situation may force Bosh into medical retirement. It’s the second season in a row…
Florida is ground zero of the foreclosure crisis. No other state even touches Florida when it comes to the number of foreclosure over the past decade. So you would figure our state government would be first in line when it comes to taking advantage of federal assistance programs meant to help regular…
When your political opponent posts a full, unedited video of your recent cables news interview to his YouTube page it’s probably an indication that the interview didn’t go so well. Rep. Patrick Murphy didn’t even bother to cut an attack ad against Rep. Alan Grayson, his opponent for the Democratic…
Despite being a stronghold of support for Barack Obama in both his presidential races, Miami’s two most prominent mayors — City Mayor Tomás Regalado and County Mayor Carlos Gimenez — are both Republicans. That’s a quirk of the outsized role traditionally Republican Cuban-Americans play in local politics. But that party…
In his short time campaigning for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat, Miami native Carlos Beruff has already earned his nickname — the Cuban-American Donald Trump — with extreme positions like a call to end all travel from the Middle East to the United States. So it shouldn’t be the shock of…
Unless your team wins it all, there’s no way to escape the inevitable pain that comes with being eliminated from a playoff run. It’s like being tapped in the nuts with a ball-peen hammer. It’s a dull, implacable pain. It’s not fun. It sucks, even. Yet that’s exactly how Miami…
The closest you might get to a mastodon in modern day Florida is during a visit to the Dinosaur World theme park in Orlando, but it turns out that 14,550 years ago, people were visiting Florida to get close to real-life mastodons. In fact, newly uncovered evidence in northern Florida…
Three years ago, a soft-spoken mobile app developer named Jesus Rodriguez was hailed as one of the up-and-coming bright lights of Miami’s emerging tech sector. Rodriguez’s company, Kidozen, was among the first local companies chosen by tech business incubator Endeavor Miami for a grant. Rodriguez quickly claimed runaway success. He…
Every year Christie’s International Real Estate compiles it’s list of the world’s top luxury real estate markets. Miami’s made frequent appearances in the top ten, but its ranking in the newly released 2015 study is the highest it has ever sat. In fact, we overtook both Paris and San Francisco to…
For months, fiery debate has raged over the future of Liberty Square, the notoriously dangerous housing project better known as Pork ‘n’ Beans. After Mayor Carlos Gimenez revealed an ambitious plan to raze the property and rebuild new housing, corruption allegations and fears that current residents will be shut out…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida everyweek. On Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week: a man nicknamed “Murder” carried out his destiny, a stripper find a novel use for a shirt, and a man kills his borther over a cheeseburger. Man Nicknamed “Murder” who…
