Miami Beach Philip Levine, known for his acute attention to quality of life issues in his town and his often cagey relationship with the local press and social media critics, decided to try his hand at crafting his own social media moment yesterday afternoon. Traffic is undoubtedly a major issue…
If the X-men or anyother self respecting superhero team had a luxury yacht, we’re pretty sure it would look like the Silver Fast. Designed and built by Burgess Yachts, the 253 foot superboat is both the world’s largest and fastest aluminum yacht. It’s making it’s debut this weekend in Miami during the…
Miami Beach has spent much of February touting its plans to become a more bike-friendly city and splashing bright green paint on one prominent bike lane. So it was curious that today the city’s official Twitter account promised aggressive action against cyclists who dare to lock up to a street sign…
Thousands of hotel rooms are scheduled to come on the market in the next few years in the already hotel-heavy Miami market, but hotels are no longer the only choice tourists have for lodging. Airbnb has shaken up the hotel market by allowing people to directly lease their homes out…
Just a week ago, the GOP establishment hoped New Hampshire might clean up their muddled primary mess by highlighting a mainstream savior to take down Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The man most hoped would do so: Miami’s own Marco Rubio, who’d steamrolled to a surprisingly third place finish in…
We’re at the halfway mark of the Florida legislature’s two-month annual session. Like every year, politicians from across the state are filing plenty of bills that are either patently ridiculous or laughably controversial. Many of these pieces of legislation never so much as make it to committee hearing, but thanks…
Last month, county officials reacted with shock and horror at news that the Frost Science Museum — a signature project at the heart of the new Bicentennial Park downtown — had run out of cash before construction could be finished. Taxpayers were already on the hook for $160 million for…
University of Miami, a young person’s active retirement community that doubles as a respected University, has a new luxury feature for its weary students: two $9,000 high-tech napping pods in the University Center and Student Center. The futuristic alternative to sleeping in class are aimed tired commuter students, and delivered…
Even though same-sex marriage is now legal in Florida, it’s still completely within the law for an employer to fire someone for being gay or a landlord to deny housing to a transgender tenant in large swaths of the state. For the 10th time, a coalition of bi-partisan lawmakers (yes,…
In the last decade, skateboarding has exploded in Cuba, with hundreds of skaters now crowding the capital Havana. But the roots of skateboarding in the communist island go back to the early ’80s. Forty-one-year-old Alexander Gonzalez Borrego has been skating since 1982, when a skateboard was a slab of wood…
En la última década, el skate se ha disparado en Cuba, con cientos de patinadores en la capital, La Habana. Pero las raíces del skate en la isla comunista se remontan a principios de los ’80. Con 41 años de edad, Alexander González Borrego ha estado patinando desde 1982, cuando…
O.J.-mania is once again gripping America this month thanks to “The People vs. OJ Simpson,” a new FX series dramatizing the sordid trial that gripped the nation in the mid-90s. But it was fifty years ago this year when Miami that found itself in the center of one of America’s…
In Florida, Atlantic City, and Las Vegas, T.J. Shulman has won almost a half-million dollars in poker tournaments. One day this past August, the talkative Boca Raton pro sat beneath a wall of TVs that brightened Hialeah Park’s poker room. He saw dollar signs in the eyes of the players…
Last night two children reported to security officers at the Flamingo condominium building in South Beach that their mother had been assaulted in her unit. When police showed up they found the 31-year-old woman dead. Police identified Samir Jemaaoui as the main suspect, and CBS Miami reports that the victim was his…
Throughout much of the state of Florida, it’s still completely legal to fire someone simply for being gay. Sure, several cities and counties in the state have passed local ordinances barring anti-gay discrimination, but those only protect 55 percent of Floridians (and not all of those local laws extend to…
Miami’s urban core has long been missing a feature almost every major city on earth has: an Apple store. For years downtowners and mainlanders have had to travel to South Beach, Kendal or Aventura if they’ve wanted to visit the Genius Bar or pick up a new Mac charger chord. …
What a strange month February has been for Marco Rubio. It was barely a week ago when the pride of West Miami sprinted out of Iowa in third place, riding waves of momentum as the establishment candidate who could take down Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. But an odd software…
Belkis López Correa is poised on her skateboard, ready to give herself over to one of the most epic hills in all of Havana. The 16-year-old stands under a fierce midday sun with a forward gaze, steady and cool. Her knees are slightly bent, pink Vans sneakers stacked atop a…
Lakatriona Brunson has been a lot of things in her life: A high school track star, a college basketball player, a 10-year-veteran of a woman’s football league, and a physical education. Perhaps she’s best known as her alter-ego “Bernice,” the cult hero of the reality TV program South Beach Tow. …
Major League Baseball player Delmon Young found himself behind bars and accused of battery this weekend after threatening to kill a valet at the Viceroy hotel in Brickell over the weekend. Young reportedly unleashed a tirade full of ethnic insults at the valet before leaving. Police eventually found him at his…
There’s still a little over a month and about 20 state primaries and caucuses to go until Floridians get to go vote in their presidential preference contest, but by all indications, the race for both party’s nomination may still very much be contested by then. A new poll out of…
Anchelin Gonzalez was just 17 when she left the Bronx and moved to Palm Beach to give birth to her son back in 2005. She was “leading a fast and dangerous life” in New York, she says, but relocated to live with her uncle in a sunnier side of the…
