On Saturday, thousands of passengers on the Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas sailed out of New Jersey into calm seas, sipping margaritas and dreaming balmy beaches. Just off the coast of the Carolinas, meanwhile, a monster storm was brewing, with winds howling around a huge low pressure front. Last…
Will this finally be the year Florida bans red light cameras? State Senator Jeff Brandes sure hope so. The Tampa Bay Republican has introduced legislation for the past for years to ban the controversial traffic devices only to see the proposal die every session. His latest attempt has made it…
Derek Medina was sentenced to life in prison for the grisly 2013 murder of his wife Jennifer Alonso. The case made headlines after Medina posted a picture of Alonso’s lifeless murder on Facebook with the caption, “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife.” Though Medina correctly predicted his…
A Washington Post story last month revealing that Marco Rubio had been arrested after hours in a Brickell Park in 1990 quickly sparked far slimier allegations in the conservative Twittersphere: Namely, that the 18-year-old Rubio had actually been cruising for gay sex in the park with a good friend who…
Danielle Daals has been making the most of every minute with her family lately, from relishing strolls in the park with her pup Maxwell, a mixed rescue, to savoring sips of coffee during chats with her mom Stephanie. Because next week, the New Zealander plans to travel across the world…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. On Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a man manages to lock himself in his own trunk, a shoplifter is caught because she left her phone and her urine in a fitting room, and a woman makes a…
Joe Garcia may very well end up spending more of his life campaigning for congress than he does actually serving in it. The former one-term Democratic congressman announced his fifth straight candidacy for a Southwestern Miami-Dade congressional district after being defeated in 2014 by current the current Rep., Republican Carlos…
Yesterday we learned that Miami is one of the best cities to have a midlife crisis in. Perplexing, it’s also one of the best cities to get married in. At least according to a WalletHub analysis. Now, before you start scratching your head, the analysis isn’t about the chances of…
An anti-immigration bill with language so harsh it makes Donald Trump sound like Cesar Chavez by comparison is advancing through Tallahassee right now. How strong are the provisions in HB 1095, the “Prevention of Acts of War”? Not only would the bill let Florida’s governor ban immigrants or refugees from…
Twenty counties and forty cities have already banned fracking in Florida. Environmentalists warn that the oil extraction technique could put the final nail in the Everglades’ coffin. And with the price of oil plummeting, the expensive procedure may not make much economic sense. So why are Florida Republicans gung-ho to…
Ah, the Super Bowl. The one non-international soccer match sporting event that Miamians will watch en mass that a Miami team won’t actually play in. The only problem for many of us is figuring out which team to root for. Sure, in some cases it was obvious. Take last year…
A public health emergency has been declared in Miami-Dade County after a case of Zika was detected. Lee, Hillsborough and Santa Rosa counties are also affected by the warning. “We have to ensure Florida is prepared and stays ahead of the spread of the Zika virus in our state,” said Governor…
Hey men of a certain age, do you ever feel like there’s something missing from your life? Do you feel like you never took full advantage of your youth? Feeling bogged down by your increasingly mundane middle-aged life and saddened by that increasingly receding hairline and protruding gut? Well, we…
Last week we ran down the history behind some of Miami’s neighborhood names, but it appears that some neighborhood names are best lost to history. Take for example an small expanse in Little Havana that is still in some ways legally known as Swastika Park. Yes, Swastika Park. Yes, 92…
Max Martinez spent his youth worshipping David Beckham’s exploits on the soccer pitch. Growing up in Miami with a Real Madrid fanatic for a father, Martinez used to wear his number 23 Madrid shirt everywhere. So when MLS made it official that Beckham will be bringing an MLS club to…
Last week, a Miami woman named Claudia Castillo went nuclear on the Palmetto Expressway when she says a Miami-Dade cop went flying past her near 100 mph. Castillo followed the cop, got him to pulled over, then filmed an exchange that has since gone viral online, with many praising her…
Unknown assailants opened fire on a car waiting in line at a Burger King drive through this morning. Inside the car was Donesha S. Gantt, 17, her mother, and two others. Gantt and another woman were shot. In a state of panic, Gantt, who thought she might die, took out her…
Who gets control of your selfies when you die? Who can be entrusted with deleting your problematic tweets when you kick the bucket? Who gets access to your Facebook? Well, the law is murky, but a bill currently flying through the state legislature would clarify the matter in Florida. State Senator…
Haiti is in the midst of a serious presidential succession crisis, and current president Michel Martelly decided to make things even odder by dropping a sexist song targeting a female journalist, which, translated from Creole, is dubbed, “Give Themr The Banana.” Martelly, by the way, is required to leave office on…
Has $14.9 million ever bought less? As Jeb Bush’s dispiriting campaign for president limped to an all too predictable wet thud of a finish in Iowa last night, his supporters played down the ramifications. New Hampshire matters much more, they say. Iowa’s strictly conservative base was never a great fit…
On May 20, 2015, David G. Queen Jr., the son of community activist Tangela Sears, was gunned down in an apartment complex parking lot in Tallahassee. In the months that followed, Sears shared her pain with other parents whose children had been killed by gun-toting criminals. They’ve now formed an…
The bulldozers were the worst. The noise and dust bothered the residents of Little Farm Trailer Park — a 15-acre low-income community just off Biscayne Boulevard in El Portal — and so did the newly vacant lots. They were a stark reminder of the fate residents feared awaited their own…
