Some thought she was behind a bizarre, eye-popping piece of performance art. Turned out she was actually carrying out an attempted second-degree murder. Siyuan Zhao, the woman who stabbed another woman with an x-acto knife in the middle of the Miami Beach Convention Center during the middle of December’s Art…
It’s not quite crickets yet, but don’t expect to hear quite so many cranes, nail guns and saws around Miami …or the ring of your Real Estate agent friend’s phone for that matter. All evidence points to a noticeable slowdown in the local real estate market, and here’s even more…
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine’s controversy meter is, at times, notably off. The millionaire Mayor made a historic trip to Cuba last month, and while speaking with Cuban officials, broached the idea of discussing bringing a Cuban Consulate to Miami Beach. This is, of course, Miami-Dade County, where all discussion…
Miami would be nothing without its hotels. Never mind that some of the juiciest bits of Miami history took place within their walls, those walls are basically Miami history themselves. These days all of South Florida — but especially Miami Beach — is known for its zeal for historic preservation…
Two years ago, 38-year-old Ale Ochoa heard that the Redland, the unincorporated mostly agricultural area of Southwest Miami-Dade County north of Homestead, had become a dumping ground for dogs. She did not believe it, so she drove to the area herself. “I came across injured, sick, and malnourished dogs. They…
When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists leaked the Panama Papers on April 3, it revealed a glimpse into the shadowy world of shell companies. More than 11 million files from law firm Mossack Fonseca showed celebrities, criminals, heads of state, and politicians from across the globe setting up virtually untraceable…
Every morning, researcher Tom Jackson photographs the sunrise from Virginia Key, where he works at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Some mornings as he walks out to the shoreline he finds the area empty and quiet. Other days, he spots interesting insects, plants and animals. During a morning…
That greatest college football rivalry rarely played may be making a comeback in 2019. The Miami Hurricanes and Florida Gators are reportedly very close to coming to terms to playing each other again in a neutral site matchup to open the 2019 season. “We’re still looking on that game in…
For years, the knock against Debbie Wasserman Shultz was that she was just too damn liberal for her own good. Everytime Florida political columnist mentioned the possibility of the Congresswoman running for state-wide office it came with the caveat that she was perhaps too far to the left to win…
On a Friday in late March of 2012, an exasperated mother drove her teenage daughter to the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter in Tavernier, a residential program with room for up to 18 kids on the island of Key Largo. By all accounts, it was a difficult ride. Twice, the girl…
When Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine not only became the first sitting head of a Dade County city to visit Cuba but also initiated the possibility of a hosting a Cuban consulate in Miami Beach it could be seen as a litmus test to see how charged the third rail of…
In November 2012, artist Brian Deutzman had just returned to his hometown of Miami from New York hoping to sell some of his work during Art Basel. So he was thrilled when a broker representing Donald Trump’s hotel chain asked to buy a stylized photograph of a classic car to…
In 2002, when Miami-Dade voters approved a half-penny sales tax to fund mass transit in the county we were promised the moon: namely, widely expanded MetroRail and bus services. We got, at best, the equivalent of a few orbiting space rocks. Now, the Miami-Dade Commission may consider asking voters to…
LeBron James left South Florida two seasons ago, but apparently he can’t get our women out of his head. At least, that’s according to the lastest social media rumors which we’re going to entertain, frankly, because we miss getting to write about weird LeBron James theories all the time like…
There are indications that Miami’s condo sales market may be cooling down, but rent prices aren’t necessarily cooling down with it. According to the latest numbers from Zumper, the median rent for a listed one bedroom condo in Miami right now is $1,900. That’s up from $1,840 in February, and a…
Marco Rubio says he’s not open to being anyone’s running mate, and that when his Senate term expire in January he’ll return to the private sector. Then again, Rubio says a lot of things he later goes back on. When he originally won that Senate seat he said he wouldn’t use…
On the campaign trail and his personal websites, Donald Trump has bragged that he’s an “ardent philanthropist” who’s given more than $100 million in recent years to worthy causes. To back up that claim, he sent reporters a 93-page document noting all his contributions. Well, the Washington Post took…
Todd Glaser steps onto the Sea Tabby, a wood-trimmed 1938 Mathis Trumpy yacht docked off Allison Island, a spit of land off Miami Beach just north of the Fontainebleau hotel. As he sits at a table toward the back, he calls out for a Johnnie Walker. An older, fully uniformed…
Jonathan Alexander Alonso has officially been charged with the murder of his older lover, 61-year-old Lou Piper. Appearing in bond court this morning, Alonso went on a bizarre rant in which he claimed he was “God’s will.” Police found Piper’s body Wednesday inside his Sunset Harbour apartment after co-workers reported…
Sure, the Miami Hurricanes football team is stuck in a slump of mediocrity, but the rest of the athletics departments has been having an amazing year. The men’s and women’s basketball teams both ended their seasons as ranked teams, and now the baseball team has snatched the number one ranking…
The bad news: Zika is coming to Florida. On Friday, two new cases of the virus linked to serious birth defects were reported in the state, and scientists believe it could spread rapidly come summer as mosquito populations explode. And we’re still a long way away from a vaccine for…
Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign was a slow-motion dumpster fire. In state after state, he struggled to find a win. And by the time he had lost every single county except for Miami-Dade in the Florida primary, Rubio couldn’t avoid the truth: his party’s voters had made it painfully clear that…
