A New Times story about a cult YouTube bodybuilding star and his oddball cast of characters has won national honors from the Society of Professional Journalists. SPJ announced today that the story by former Broward Palm Beach staff writer Kyle Swenson won the Sigma Delta Chi award for feature writing. Swenson’s…
Miami-Dade leaders have been talking about massive expansion of transit systems in the County for more than 15 years now, but little has actually been done. There’s, of course, the issue of how to actually pay for these things compounded by constant in-fighting over which project should be pursued first. …
Spend a few late-night hours outside Beach Towing’s walled-in lot in Sunset Harbour and you’ll surely hear this refrain from a furious tourist realizing they owe $300 to get their car back: “This is illegal!” There’s not much recourse for those burned tourists except to fork over the cash. But…
The swim race was meant to be a hilarious escapade of less-than-Olympic caliber politicians thrashing about for a good cause. Held last July at the West Grove pool, City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff lined up to race with two other commissioners and filmmaker Billy Corben, with each pledging $1,000 toward the…
A lot of dumb things happen in Florida every week. On Fridays we are here to bring you the oddest. This week: a quick reminder that dragons roam Florida, a Delray Beach bodyguard has changed his name to “Bruce Jenner” to retain the name’s “heterosexual roots,” and an item involving…
There’s really only two things we now for sure about the Major League Soccer team coming to Miami: 1) David Beckham is the public face of what will become the ownership. 2) The team has bought land to build a stadium in Overtown. Everything else seems to be up in…
Rep. Gwen Graham, a single-term Democratic congresswoman perhaps best known for being the daughter of former Senator and Governor Bob Graham, announced today that she won’t seek re-election and is instead strongly considering a run for governor in 2018. “I’m so excited to tell you first that I’m seriously considering…
If you hear a story about a woman seducing a man in South Florida only to make off with his Rolex, well, there’s a good chance that Subhanna Beyah was involved somehow. She’s been charged with several similar crimes in the past, but has managed to avoid jail time every…
The Miami Heat — yes, the same team you’ve been watching all season — are the most face-melting offense juggernaut in these here 2016 NBA Playoffs so far. That’s the only conclusion you can reach after the heat dismantled the Charlotte Hornets for the second-straight game last night. It’s also…
To many residents in Coconut Grove, trees are sacred. The neighborhood has long been known for its giant oaks, banyans and hardwoods that create an iconic tree cover. But over the last decade, that cover has been under increasing threat. As the neighborhood has undergone rapid development, some of the…
Teachers of the year, they were not: one was accused of punching a 17-year-old girl who refused to have sex with him and the second, of sending inappropriate texts and nude photos to male students. Late last month, both Miami-Dade educators were banned from teaching in Florida ever again. The…
In a letter to the Miami Beach Commission, City Manager Jimmy L. Morales has detailed what he believes went wrong and lead to the trash disaster after this weekend’s Floatopia event. His explanation can be best summed up by lightly tweaking some classic Milli Vanilli lyrics: ” Blame it on the rain…
Finally! Someone has combined the hit broadway musical you can’t stop hearing about and the failed presidential candidate you haven’t heard much about for two months. Yes, folks, Jeb!: An American Disappointment, a parody of Hamilton, is here to the delight of, well, some. Unfortunately, it’s not a fully staged…
According to a financial rule of thumb, a person should spend about 50 percent of his or her after-tax income on necessities. That includes things like rent, food, utilities, health care, and transportation. Another 30 percent should be spent on discretionary purchases, and the remaining 20 percent should be stashed…
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than two years after LeBron James left the Heat, here they are, not only back in the NBA playoffs, but back in a position to fight for another trip to the NBA Finals. The Heat’s retooling and transformation since the Big Three era has…
Retired Miami-Dade Police Det. Greg Smith spent 31 years investigating some of Miami’s most brutal crimes, from drug-fueled shootouts to heartbreaking family disputes turned violent. But ask him which killing he can’t get out of his mind, and he’ll answer without a moment’s hesitation: the 1967 murder of Coral Gables…
Rumors of Fidel Castro’s death have been greatly exaggerated for decades. Reports about the exact state of his health have notoriously been hard to verify. But now that Castro is 89 and rarely seen in public anymore, it’s likely that he won’t live much longer. In a rare public speech…
Maybe you remember Miami-Dade County Judge Jacqueline Schwartz from previous headlines. She’s the judge who told a Coconut Grove convenience store clerk to “go fuck yourself” in a row involving an opponent’s campaign sign. She also once sent out an election victory e-mail boasting about being an “Anglo” who defeated…
Miami’s cuteness quotient is about to fly off the charts. Over the past few months, as the weather warmed, stray cats across South Florida got, well, frisky. And now, hundreds of furry bundles of joy are being born across Miami-Dade. Sadly, many of those kittens are abandoned by their mothers…
The poster-sized map on Bruce Mowry’s desk is scrawled with blotchy patches of red, showing elevations across Miami Beach. Everywhere 2.2 feet or lower is shaded in deep crimson. That’s the same height, incidentally, that water reached last September during the King Tide, the highest nonstorm water level ever recorded…
In the midst of an already tense weekend on Miami Beach, David H. Johnson uploaded a video on Facebook informing friends that he had been robbed and was temporarily without a phone. His face was marred with stitches, contusions and scrapes, and the video soon spread outside of his friend…
Climate change? Real estate slow down? Rising rents? Continued unease about the health of the local economy? Apparently none of those concerns can curb growth in Downtown Miami. According to a new report from Realtor.com, the downtown zip code of 33132 is expected to be the fourth fastest growing neighborhood…
