Next time you’re sitting in gridlock on the Palmetto Expressway or spending a half-hour to drive four blocks on South Beach during rush hour, console yourself with the fact that six other metro areas in the United States have worse traffic. Does that relieve you? As your grip slowly tightens on your…
Throughout the history of any city, lots of people have lots of ideas about how to improve and enrich the town. Of the few ideas that are realized, we cherish the good and learn to live with the bad. Of the many that are never implemented, most are long forgotten. However,…
New Dolphins coach Adam Gase is known as a sort of quarterback whisperer. Besides the fact that Gase seems like the sort of guy who will relate to players much better than Joe Philbin, the boldest part of his coaching resume is his ability to get the best out of…
A 1931 home at 22 Star Island was placed on industrial-grade wheels yesterday, rotated 180 degrees, and moved to the other side of the property, where it will be fully restored. Lennar CEO Stuart Miller owns the home, which was designed by Martin Hampton, a renowned local architect who also…
Call it irony. On the week of President Obama’s visit, during which he talked about freedom and justice, the US Coast Guard returned 58 Cubans to the island, the US Coast Guard reported last night. They came in small boats with homemade sails like the one pictured above. Seven times…
Perhaps you’ve noticed the phenomenon of major articles about Miami popping up in the national press roughly between November and April every year. This year, a general theme of many of those articles has emerged: the serious subject of climate change. Vanity Fair led the pack in December. The New…
For the past three years, the Miami Dolphins had a very fine cornerback in Brent Grimes. They’ve also had a very prominent critic in Grimes’ Twitter-happy wife Miko. So when the Dolphins parted ways with Mr. Grimes earlier this month, everyone couldn’t help but wonder if Mrs. Grimes (AKA @iHeartMiko)…
Miami-Dade Police confirmed officers shot and killed Ethan James Rincon last night. The 25-year-old had allegedly been roaming a street in Palmetto Bay with a pickaxe and was damaging cars. When officers confronted him, Rincon lunged at them, forcing them to shoot. The incident began last night before 9:30. Police…
It’s the debate that seems to continually have legs; Is Miami a basketball town — or does its heart belong to football? The answer depends on whom you ask. Some point to eyeballs on TV sets, but comparing ratings from an 82-game season to one of 16 games (in which…
The future of the Miami Open is in doubt. The facilities at the Crandon Park Tennis Center are woefully out of date. IMG, a sports management firm that owns the tournament, wants to spend $50 million to renovate and expand the facilities. Miami-Dade voters approved of the plan at the ballot box…
In his historic speech this morning, President Obama praised Miami several times. The most interesting mention was this: In the United States, we have a clear monument to what the Cuban people can build: it’s called Miami. Here in Havana, we see that same talent in cuentapropistas, cooperatives and old…
You won’t often hear Donald Trump admit he made a mistake, but his personal charity has for donating to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s election campaign. See, Trump and Bondi go way back. Well, at least as far back as 2013. Bondi was deciding whether or not her office should…
Opponents of the Midtown Miami Walmart aren’t surrendering. Miami Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman yesterday said Miami Planning Director Francisco Garcia should hand over “qualifying emails” related to the construction of the 203,000 square foot, three-story store planned for North Miami Avenue and 29th Street. Though a court found in…
Prince Royce is making all sort of moves lately. The Bronx-born, Latin pop star cracked the mainstream last year with his first English-language album. Ten he starred in Fox’s live broadcast of The Passion over the weekend — and has a role in the upcoming Hulu series East Los High. …
Carl Lee Wilt, a 41-year-old Miami-Dade Metromover supervisor, is behind bars on allegations that he raped a 25-year-old Brazilian tourist who was in town for the Ultra Music Festival. It happened around 9:30 on Saturday night at the Metromover station in Park West. The woman was intoxicated and wasn’t allowed…
After continued efforts to increase safety and security at Ultra Music Festival, Miami police report a decrease in arrests from last year. Felony arrests, however, were up almost 50 percent. For the second year in a row, former Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez served as the festival’s head of…
Erik Spoelstra has accomplished quite a bit since taking over as head coach of the Miami Heat in 2008. He’s won nearly 400 regular season games, 63 playoff games, and two championships. He led the Heat to four straight NBA Finals appearances. He’s coached an All-Star team. He’s the second-longest…
More than 200 Cuban protestors were arrested over the weekend as the island prepared for President Obama’s historic visit, which started yesterday. Dissidents of the human rights movement, #TodosMarchamos, including the Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White), and Unión Patriótica de Cuba (Cuban Patriotic Union, UNPACU), gathered at calle 26 and…
For years, animal rights activists have argued that Miami Seaquarium is breaking federal law by keeping its orca, Lolita, in a tank that’s too small. Now they say a new statement by the agency that regulates those tanks bolsters their argument. According to the Animal Welfare Act, the minimum space…
Everyone knows Cuban-Americans in Miami vote Republican. That’s been common knowledge for years. After all, 70 percent of that demographic voted for George W. Bush in 2000. Sure, Miami-Dade is, in most cases, a reliably blue county, but Democrats win here by margins slimmer than those in neighboring counties. If…
Guadalupe Ortiz walked out of the Ocean Drive hotel where she works into a warm March evening on the iconic beachfront stretch. After years of living and working in South Beach, Ortiz has seen her fair share of drunken debauchery: spring break, Memorial Day weekend, run-of-the-mill Friday nights. But the…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Fridays, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a Florida sheriff who is just going to settle this whole “FBI vs Apple” thing himself, a high school pep rally stunt that went up in flames, and a…
