In a few short hours, your torturous work will will be at an end. All that will stand between you and a glorious cocktail are a few painful moments slogging home through Friday afternoon traffic. But today, assuming you’re traveling anywhere near Miami Beach, those few moments are likely to…
When Carolina noticed the bus advertisements in 2011, she had already run out of hope. What had begun as a low dose of Percocet to manage back pain three years earlier had spiraled into a full-blown opioid addiction. The 30-year-old had lost her job. Relationships with her family were strained…
Outside of Washington, D.C., itself, Miami might be ground zero for Republican establishment-types who can’t stand Donald Trump. Both the city and county mayor refuse to endorse him. Local GOP power-players like Ana Navarro deplore him. All three local Republican members of congress want nothing to do with him. (At…
Tons of Miamians start their own businesses. Many maybe dream of running worldwide empires out of corner offices in Brickell office buildings. Turns out few of those would-be empires ever grow to employ more than 5 people. Back in August, The Kauffman Index crowned Miami America’s second hottest metro for…
Just two months ago, hundreds of grinning cyclists gathered at the western end of the Venetian Causeway. They had reason to celebrate: The scenic, historic link between downtown and South Beach had been closed for eight months of repairs, leaving bikes with a Sophie’s Choice of the high-speed MacArthur and…
If you had $455,000 sitting around in 2006 to buy a loft penthouse at Neo Vertika, a Brickell condo building on the banks of the Miami River, you might consider yourself a bit wealthy. Rich even. Perhaps even a “Rich Bitch.” In fact, Neo Vertika’s penthouse unit 19 is owned…
This past October, Florida held its first bear hunting season in more than 20 years. Though the mini-season was scheduled to last a week, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission called it off after just two days. Hunters took 302 bears in the short time, just short of the…
Eleazar Gadea thought that all it takes to get your way with Miami-Dade County government is a few discretely handed off $100 bills. He even thought that perhaps the county would look the other way if he wanted to hold a paint party until 4 a.m. despite local zoning laws…
The PGA is pulling its annual event out of the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort according to multiple reports and even Donald Trump himself. The World Golf Championship event may wind up in, of all places, Mexico City instead. Trump, the presumed Republican presidential candidate, actually broke the news…
There’s some bad news and some good news for debt-saddled graduates who paid a company called the Student Aid Center to help reduce their student loan debt. The bad news first: the Federal Trade Commission says the business was a scam. The good news? The FTC and Florida’s Attorney General…
Last week, Miami Beach Police busted a brazen cocaine and gambling operation run out of South Beach’s VFW hall. An illegal betting machine ran out in the open in the smoky South Beach bar, police say, while a bartender and a regular openly sold drugs. But the police failed to mention…
Vera Arias glides north along Federal Highway during morning rush hour, her black Republic road bike fast and light beneath her. All her senses are heightened at this intersection near the Miami-Dade/Broward County line, the worst part of her daily ride to work. Cars zoom past and honk aggressively. To…
Sure, sequels are never as good as the original, but enough folks in sports media seem desperate to paint Oklahoma Thunder Forward Kevin Durant’s upcoming free agency as the sequel to LeBron James’ “Decision” saga. Especially giving OKC’s ouster from the playoffs last night at the hands of the Golden…
Financial schemes are so common in Miami that not even one of the area’s most respected research institutes is safe from fraudster’s sticky fingers. The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, the University of Miami’s highly regarded Virginia Key-based oceanography school, was embezzled out of $2.3 million over a…
While the general consensus is that the calamity and controversy surrounding Urban Beach Weekend has continued to calm down since its peak in 2011, the arrest totals in Miami Beach over the 5-day Memorial Day weekend period were slightly up from last year. Police made 195 total arrests in Miami Beach…
Before it was the Flintstones mobile, it was actually the Pimpstones mobile, because this is Florida and a regular Flintstones car still isn’t weird enough. “We were coming to Fantasy Fest, and we decided we were going to be the Flintstones. Actually—” Lisa Bowman stops and corrects herself. “Actually, the pimped-out…
As Marco Rubio’s campaign buckled under a Donald Trump tsunami back in February, the Miami senator tried a last ditch maneuver to stem the tide: He started outright mocking a guy famous for brutally making fun of his opponents. Rubio — correctly — called him “orange” and a “con man.”…
Mention Miami today to an out-of-towner and a few images immediately pop to mind: Crockett and Tubbs in glorious pastel, white sand beaches and lots of extremely attractive people in scant clothing bathing in the sun. Miami is sexy. There is no denying it. But at heart the Magic City…
In 2020 Miami will host the Super Bowl for a record eleventh time; that’s for sure. It’s still a question though, whether South Florida will benefit from hosting the game.. After being turned down since 2010, Stephen Ross and his self-financed $450 million stadium upgrade finally lured a Super Bowl…
Four years ago, Stefanie Voigt, an underwater cinematographer, moved into a new apartment on a small island called Belle Isle in the Venetians on Miami Beach. Her building overlooked Biscayne Bay, her rent was affordable, and her neighbors were friendly and welcoming. It was pretty much the ideal living situation…
One of Miami’s most treacherous roads may be getting a serious safety upgrade, in the form of a 10-foot protected path for use by cyclists and pedestrians. The Julia Tuttle Causeway, a six-lane divided highway that connects Midtown Miami with Miami Beach, posts a speed limit of 55 miles per…
The University of Miami’s Health System has a department dedicated to gender confirmation services for transgender individuals. “Our goal is to help… make your transition as comfortable and easy as possible,” reads the department’s website. Though, if patients who sought help at the center then enrolled as students at the…
