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…
At the end of April, a Miami man returned to his vehicle at the Dadeland North parking garage and found it propped up on concrete barriers and stripped of its wheels and tires. “All four wheels were taken and left on bricks,” Juan Bisbal wrote on Facebook. “The garages have surveillance cameras but…
A spokesperson for the project points out that the under construction building is indeed under construction.
Miami presents itself with a lot of opportunities for Millennials to live a life that seems perfect on Instagram. You’ve seen all those selfies taken in front of Wynwood murals, group shots taken at exclusive-seeming parties, pics of craft cocktails and tapas, and carefully posed thirst traps taken at the…
David Beckham may be the figurehead, but he’s far from the only businessmen involved in the effort to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami. Sure, the business group is called “Miami Beckham United.” Sure, a discounted price on the franchise is only possible because of a special clause in…
Perhaps amongst the worst places to base your drug dealing business: a cop’s house. Even if that cop is your own father. Just ask Tyler Palmer. The 20-year-old son of a Miami-Dade Police Major was busted yesterday afternoon for dealing drugs out of the family home. The investigation was carried out…
There are few people in Miami who know more about trees than Bob Brennan. In 1969, the Coconut Grove native founded Brennan’s Tree Service, a tree care and landscaping company to inspect, feed and prune trees. Now an arborist at Fairchild Tropic Garden, Brennan is one of Miami’s foremost experts…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: A disbarrment case out of the Florida Bar that reads like a bad porno script, a man who told police he didn’t mean to miss when he shot…
Donald Trump’s pandering hit an all-new low on Cinco De Mayo today when he proclaimed his love for Hispanics with a photo of himself eating a taco bowl (not pictured: the margaritas he drank before posting this tweet). It turns out this isn’t the first time the Donald has blatantly…
A very petty local mayor couldn’t help but carry through on whatever point he was trying to make by paying his $4,000 ethics fine in petty coins. Last year, Hernandez was caught up in an ethics scandal for his business connections with Luis Felipe Pérez, a Hialeah jewler who also dabbled…
The first time we heard of architect Bernard Zyscovich’s plan to turn parts of the Rickenbacker causeway into a pedestrian and cyclist friendly linear park it was a revolutionary but still modest idea. His original plan called for lessening the number of car lanes on the bridge, and replacing them…
At the end of a semester-long study abroad program in Genoa, Italy in December 2014, a group of architecture students from Florida International University went out to a celebratory dinner. After the restaurant, many students and a handful of faculty members grabbed drinks at a local bar. At 2 a.m., three…
On Monday, Amy Plotkin and Laura Parsons wed in a small ceremony at Miami Beach City Hall. The two met about four years ago through a women’s bike racing team; Plotkin was an MD/PhD student at the University of Miami and Parsons was manager at a research lab at UM’s marine…
