Herb Smith, a lanky 23-year-old, drove a slick crimson Audi through the streets of Fort Lauderdale while a friend rode shotgun. At 4 p.m. last October 7, they caught a red light. A Broward County Sheriff’s patrol car stopped beside them at the intersection. When the officer glanced over, he…
The GOP establishment’s concentrated push against Donald Trump seems to have paid some dividends over the weekend with Ted Cruz besting Trump in two states that Trump had a previous polling lead in. The attacks, concentrating on Trump’s questionable Trump University business, also appear to have dealt some damage to…
A who’s who of Miami’s mascot community came out last night to American Airlines Arean to “Feel the Burn.” No, that’s not a political statement. It was Miami Heat mascot Burnie’s birthday, and the team celebrated during the game against the Philadelphia 76ers. Some of the mascots ended up feeling…
Marco Rubio had a no good, very bad weekend. He’s now the de-facto establishment candidate, and in the four states voting on Saturday, he racked up tons of high-profile endorsements. He spent more per spent more per vote this weekend than any other candidate on either side of the aisle. It…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week: a man gets the ride of a lifetime after being sucked into power plant pipes, a disbarred lawyer confused strippers with prostitutes, and unfortunate back-stretching incident. Diver Sucked Into Power…
What an amazing time to be a rich person in Miami-Dade. The market just keeps providing you guys with luxury things that us poorer people couldn’t even imagine actually existed. Things like condos for your cars. No, not condos to actually live in and park your car nearby like the…
One of the odder habits of Donald Trump is that he likes to cut out articles from newspapers or prints them out from online, write notes on them in sharpie, and then send them off in an envelope in the mail to various people. This appears to be one of…
Marco Rubio’s website these days is basically an online fanzine for the anti-Donald Trump crowd. New visitors are prompted to join the effort to “Stop Trump.” The store hawks everything from “Dump Trump” yoga pants to #NeverTrump T-shirts. On the campaign trail, Rubio’s spent weeks slamming the real estate mogul…
Thirteen years ago, the City of Miami designated the Dorsey Memorial Library in Overtown as a historic site. But looking at the building today, you’d never know it. The windows are boarded up. The walls are covered in graffiti. The roof is caving in. “They never did the work to…
In the middle of the concrete jungle of the FIU Campus, there’s a unique refuge. It’s a giant green space made up of some 450 plant and animal species, where students and faculty go to get their hands dirty, research, learn and relax. But that urban oasis, the FIU Nature…
How do you quantify “charm?” Well, the website RentLingo thinks its figured out the mathematics behind what makes an area “charming” and have ranked Miami as America’s most charming mid-sized city. That’s a nice counterpoint to yesterday’s assertion that Miami was the 8th worst city to live in America by…
The race to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate is already one of the strangest soap opera-worthy down ballot races in the nation, and it might get even more bizarre. GOP operatives are apparently pressuring Ben Carson to make an official exit from the presidential primary to run for Senate…
Two things that are shamefully prevalent in Miami-Dade Counties: dirty needles littering the streets and HIV infections. Last year, New Times joined a needle exchange activist on a stroll through Overtown spotting the shocking number of needles left lying on the street. One was even on the grounds of an…
When it comes to the future of public transit in Miami-Dade, one thing we’re not suffering for is ideas. Oh, people have lots of ideas. Of course, ideas require studies, and those requires agreements between various local governments and agencies. Then there’s the process of figuring out which ideas are…
For years, Coors has branded its beer with soaring mountain landscapes and slogans like: “”Brewed With Pure Rocky Mountain Spring Water.” But what if it’s not? As Coors has expanded from a regional favorite to a corporate giant that brews Coors Light all over the country, it’s famed Golden, Colorado…
As New Times reported last week, Carlos Gutierrez – the only candidate who has filed to run for sheriff in Collier County in the upcoming November election – was fired from Key Biscayne’s police force for repeatedly falling asleep in his cruiser in 2007. But it turns out that’s not…
US News and World Reports, the also-ran news weekly famed for its rankings of colleges and universities, has decided to try and work its rankings magic on cities. The magazine ranked America’s 100 biggest cities by livability. Miami came in 93rd out of 100, or 8th worst. To come to…
In 2008, Patrick Murphy was a Republican who cut a $2,300 check to Mitt Romney. In 2016, he’s a Democratic congressman running for Senate who just got the endorsement of Barack Obama. My, my, how things can change. This despite the fact that a poll released yesterday shows that while the majority…
On Monday night the Los Angeles Clippers unveiled their new mascot: Chuck the California Condor. Unfortunately for Clippers fans, it was not free therapy session giveaway night. The image of Chuck will haunt their dreams until the end of time. Chuck’s ill-fated debut got us thinking; Which of our South Florida…
Even as scientists keep reminding us that Miami is one of the most susceptible cities to the potential damages of sea level rise, developers keep erecting shiny new luxury tower after shiny new luxury tower in the areas most threatened by rising tides. So EMiami Condos, a website that tracks condo…
On December 25, 2014, Danilo Maldonado Machado, thin and atrevido, rode in the back seat of a blue Lada with a smile dangling beneath defiant eyes. As the driver headed down Havana’s Malecón near Avenida 23, police sirens wailed. Maldonado was headed to a performance piece based on George Orwell’s…
The winds of change are blowing through American politics. Americans are sick of business as usual, sick of the establishment and sick of incumbent politicians. Insurgent, outsider candidates have been gaining steam over the past few years. It’ snot just present in the Presidential primaries. The phenomenon can be found…
