Unlike her husband Governor Rick Scott, Florida First Lady Ann Scott has mostly stayed out of controversy and out of the headlines. Unfortunately, an embarrassing mix-up lead to the low-key First Lady to read a passage from a book to fifth graders that described Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard back in the…
After Louis Piper didn’t show up to work for a few days his co-workers informed police. They went to his South Beach apartment in the Sunset Harbour neighborhood on Wednesday and found 61-year-old Piper’s decomposing body. That explained the foul stench neighbors had been smelling. Police believe Piper may have already…
We’re a third of the way through 2016, and what a time to be alive. We’ve got hoverboards that actually hover, “super bananas” that can prevent blindness, and technology for self-driving cars that is getting better by the day. But this is America, and our appetite for consumerism knows no…
What do an architect, an insurance broker and a teacher have in common? In South Florida, they should all be thinking about sea level rise. You know the story by now: The seas are rising, to the tune of at least three feet over the next 100 years. And Miami…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida every week. On Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a creepy YouTube confession, a woman who took parenting classes from Don King, and a man who tried to escape police on his hoverboard. Man Creepily Brags About Groping Women…
If you’re staying at a hotel near Ocean Drive or Collins Avenue, you should expect to get ripped off — usually by overpriced shrimp cocktail or colossal margaritas at a sidewalk café. Baltimore Ravens running back Terrance West, however, claims he got ripped off when he was staying at the…
The stadium christened as “Joe Robbie” 29-years ago now officially has its seventh name. After the “Sun Life” naming rights expired last month, Stephen Ross and the Miami Dolphins decided not to return to the most recent generic name, Dolphin Stadium, and have instead picked a new name. Emphasis on the…
On Tuesday, County Commissioner Sally Heyman had a serious question for the feds who have zeroed in on Miami as a haven of illicit money laundering: “Why target just Miami-Dade County?” she asked. Commissioners then approved her resolution, which expressed grave “concerns” that Miami’s image was being hurt by suggestions…
Miami may not be considered a city of high manners, but some people get awfully awkward when you ask what exactly it is they do for a living. Not because you’re breaking any of Emily Post’s rules of etiquette by asking, but because they may be admitting to breaking some…
This week, ex-Heat center Shaquille O’Neal was one of the ten inductees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. That should come to as a surprise to no one. “The Big Aristotle” was a Four-time NBA champion, league MVP and three-time Finals MVP. What has been a surprise to…
Back in 2003, photographer Kenneth Adelman was working on a project that documented the coastline of California, which includes the cliff of Malibu, which happens to include the home of Barbara Streisand. Adelman posted his photos online, and, well, not many people actually bothered to pay attention to the project…
Angel Nolasco was arrested on charges of practicing dentistry without a license in 2011 you’d figure he’d take the hint and pack up his probes and retractors for good. Sure, the charges ending up being dropped, but that didn’t mean he was free to keep on pulling teeth. Turns out…
Talk to a certain kind of native Floridian about sea level rise and they’ll scoff at the idea that the floods regularly swamping cars and drowning businesses in South Beach are anything new. “Why, I remember a flood in 1962 that you can’t imagine!” they’ll say. Sorry, old timey climate…
Last Friday evening as the sun was setting, 21 Cuban refugees carried their handmade boat to freedom on Marquesa Key. Silvio Hernandez, a 29-year-old from Mariel, documented their arrival using his Galaxy S3 cellphone camera. His cousin, Raydel Moreno uploaded it to YouTube Monday afternoon. Since then, the video has garnered over…
A typical student in Miami-Dade public schools is twice as likely to bump into a cop in the hallway than a school counselor. That’s one eye-opening revelation nonprofit group The 74 gleaned from a public records request to 10 of the country’s largest school districts, four of which are in Florida…
Governor Rick Scott is vastly unpopular. Almost half of Floridians disapprove of the job he’s doing, while only 38 percent approve of his work in Tallahassee according to the latest polls. Which isn’t news. His approvals ratings have famously been horrible practically since the moment he stepped into office. Yet, somehow we’ve…
The Office of Congressional Ethics dropped its report on Rep. Alan Grayson today, and found that there is “substantial reason to believe” that Grayson broke the law and ran afoul of House ethics rules while he ran a small hedge fund. Grayson’s campaign has shot back by calling the investigation a “politically…
Waka flakka, flamed out? The synthetic-drug epidemic that has gripped Broward County and spilled over into Miami-Dade more than two years ago may already be over thanks to an unprecedented level of coordination involved in the war on that drug. Flakka, known scientifically as alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone, had been floating around for years…
Stray cats riddle Miami-Dade like pigeons in New York or rats in Chicago. Except, you know, cats are cute, and come people can’t help but feed the feral felines, often to the chagrin of their neighbors. It’s a common quarrel, but one that usually doesn’t end in bullets. Then again,…
If there’s a tragic figure in the unseemly Biogenesis steroid scandal that tore apart Major League Baseball three years ago, it’s Yuri Sucart, Alex Rodriguez’s cousin and longtime drug connection. After years at A-Rod’s side, often doing his less-than-legal bidding, Sucart fell hard in a federal criminal case tied to…
Don Festge, a hospitality and tourism teacher at Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School in North Miami, had already been toying with the idea of running for office when he traveled to Tallahassee in January. It was Rep. Frank Artiles who pushed him into the fray. Unable to arrange a meeting…
A half-mile off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, 35 feet below the ocean’s surface, two battery-powered golden-yellow submarines the size of Volkswagen Beetles puttered around Barracuda Reef. In one submarine’s cabin — a transparent sphere that looks like a giant fishbowl — sat Rachel Silverstein, a dark-haired PhD who holds…
