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…
Here’s what the discussion around climate change desperately needs: serious international, national and state-level cooperation aimed at curbing man’s contribution and planning for the possible effects. Here’s what the discussion around climate change certainly doesn’t need: another article that basically boils down to “Miami is a dumb city and its going…
Florida Congressmen Alan Grayson stormed into yesterday’s meeting of the Progressive Caucus apparently thinking he was Beyoncé armed with a baseball bat in the “Hold Up” video ready to righteously smash things up with a devious smile on his face. Metaphorically at least. He was looking for Senate Minority Leader…
One time two, short 150 meter horse races began in Miami-Dade County and ended in Broward, so now Malaysian gambling conglomerate Genting should be allowed to operate a casino near Downtown Miami. Or, at least, that’s the oversimplified take on a lawsuit Genting has filed against Miami-Dade County and State…
As the City of Miami Beach continues to roll out an unprecedented array of sea-level rise solutions, a top Miami engineer is worried that city officials have overlooked one key factor: Back-up generators. In the case of a major storm or hurricane, the electricity that powers the city’s expansive pump…
On the campaign trail, Marco Rubio painted the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency like some combination of allowing Bernie Madoff and Pol Pot into the White House. A brief selection of words Rubio used to describe Trump include “con man,” “dangerous,” “strong man,” and “catastrophic.” He (correctly) called him…
“Opa-locka Hialeah is the place to go,” goes the familiar jingle. “It’s more than just a market, it’s a great big…” center of food stamp fraud, apparently. Multiple agencies raided the iconic Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market this afternoon. 22 shop owners ended up being indicated, and some were hauled off in zip…
Jeffrey Jason Cooper lured Asian college students to Florida for the summer with the opportunity of doing clerical for his Miami Beach yoga studio. When they arrived, the students were informed that no such yoga studio actually existed. Instead, Cooper ran an erotic massage parlor and forced the students into performing…
Medical marijuana will be back on the ballot in Florida in November, and according to the latest poll numbers it should pass easily. Eighty percent of all Floridians say they plan to vote for the amendment, and that includes vast majorities among all groups, including Republicans and those 65 and…
Every year, the massive Yachts Miami Beach event showcases hundreds of yachts along a ten-block stretch west of Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach each winter. All those boats require temporary docks to tie up to, though, and for years the company who runs the show has installed floating styrofoam structures in…
Miami Heat fans might be witnessing the most confusingly heroic and disgustingly enjoyable brand of their team’s playoff basketball ever. Each playoff game has been a bag of jelly beans: a fair share of deliciously fruity moments, mixed with some disgusting black licorice ones. Well, nobody said it was going…
It was 1 a.m. Saturday, January 16, when a pair of uniformed men shook Jaiema Pierre awake. The petite 18-year-old nursing major had fallen asleep in a friend’s dorm room at the Indian River Towers on Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus. “What year is it?” one of them asked…
Florida’s Agriculture Commission Adam Putnam clarified today that he intended to vote for Donald Trump. His reasoning: Trump isn’t Hillary Clinton. Which isn’t exactly the world’s strongest endorsement. It’s essentially the political equivalent of the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ emoticon. if there ever was one. Putnam is one of four elected members of Florida’s…
How much are the keys to your own private key in the Florida Keys? They’re now just $95 million. Pumpkin Key, a small island in Card Sound off the coast of Northern Key Largo, has cut its price down down $15 million. That makes it a bargain right? Pumpkin Key originally…
Founded by former Studio 54 co-owner Ian Schrager, Morgans Hotel group is credited with creating the idea of “boutique hotels.” The company’s early ’90s renovation of the Delano Hotel in South Beach cemented their status as innovators in the industry, but, as a company, Morgans has seen better days. Schrager sold the…
As the GOP primary melted down into a carnival sideshow even Hunter S. Thompson on acid couldn’t have dreamed up, many Democrats and neutral voters have been happy to point and laugh at the mess, assuring themselves that someone as bigoted, xenophobic and misogynist as Donald Trump could never carry…
Alan Amron’s living room on Evernia Street in West Palm Beach is barely wider than the dark sofa that dominates it. The kitchen is too small to eat in, so a tiny round table is crammed into the living room. It’s unclear whether two people can eat there at once…
Six months after the Supreme Court ruled that Florida’s previous death penalty sentencing law was unconstitutional, a Miami circuit court judge has ruled that the new law approved by the legislature and Governor Rick Scott is also unconstitutional. Eleventh District Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch struck the law down while considering the…
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A record 15.5 million people visited Miami in 2015, up nearly 1 million from the year before. The Greater Miami & The Beaches Visitors Bureau trumpeted the numbers at a ritzy breakfast this past Friday at the Rusty Pelican on Key Biscayne. Save for Venezuela, every major market, both domestic…
In a scandal that rocked Miami-Dade back in the ’90s, then County commissioner and chair of the county’s finance committee James “Jimmie” C. Burke was caught on tape accepting $5,000 in bribes. It was the downpayment on what was planned to be a $400,000 kickback in exchange for steering a…
Flash back to early March in the chaotic Republican primary. Miami’s GOP golden boy Marco Rubio was still clinging onto faint hope that he could bring mainstream Republicans together against insurgent Donald Trump. But then the latest polls started coming out of Florida, and it clear that Rubio was bound…
