Lord knows that a lot of sinning goes down in Miami, but not that many of you are going to church on Sunday to repent. According to the Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Atlas, Miami has one of the highest proportion of people who aren’t affiliated with organized religion…
There are 120 different speciality license plates available to choose from at your local DMV, but state lawmakers are looking to trim the selection. A bill introduced by state Sen. Jeff Brandes, a Republican from St. Pete, would up the threshold of plates sold to keep speciality plates on the…
At first glance, the video looks like a million others on YouTube — a wary citizen films a vertical cell phone video from their front seat as a stern police officer leans in. But then it’s the driver who speaks up. The cop stands silent, looking mildly confused. “The reason…
In the wake mass protests in Cleveland, Ferguson and Baltimore, cops nationwide have scrambled for ways to better police themselves. Body cameras have quickly emerged as a consensus choice to add clarity to the often muddy waters that follow a fatal police shooting. Miami’s no different — the past year,…
Despite the fact Roe v Wade has stood as the law of the land for over 40 years, a Florida House subcommittee passed a bill this week that would effectively make it a felony to perform an abortion in the state of Florida. The bill passed 8-3, but before taking…
Check your calendars and grease up your gears — or point your car in the opposite direction, if you’re not of in the spokes-and-pedals crowd. It’s the last Friday of the month, which means hundreds of cyclists in Critical Mass will rolling through city streets at rush hour tonight. The…
Last weekend, a horrified visitor from Michigan filmed as Miami Beach garbage crews trashed hundreds of unopened gallons of water left over after the Miami Marathon. The man couldn’t help but think of the lead water crisis in Flint back in his home state while wondering if the race couldn’t have conserved…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida every week. On Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week that includes secretly LGBT license plates, a violent chicken and biscuits argument and a rage-filled Uber driver. “GAY” License Plates Don’t Mean Happy Fun fact. The Florida license plate…
After falling just short in 2014, backers of a proposed amendment to legalize medical marijuana in Florida have announced they’ve met the criteria to put the issue back on the ballot in 2016. Though there are multiple ways to get an amendment to the state constitution on the ballot, a citizen’s…
Last year hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin set Miami real estate records when he purchased the penthouse at the Faena House in Mid-beach for $60 million. It was the most expensive residential real estate transaction in Miami-Dade history, and the single most expensive home sale in America during 2015. Well,…
Gun lovers across Florida who fear someone is coming to steal their guns now have even more places to go shopping for more guns, according to a new report. Data analyzed by research firm BuildZoom shows there are now 47 percent more sellers from which to buy guns in the…
Gray-haired abuelas roll creaky carts stacked with clothes inside Wash Time Coin Laundry, a bustling Little Havana storefront a mile west of Marlins Park. Angel Barrios, the owner, folds his arms across his chest and laments his bad luck that a kid he was arrested with 26 years ago has grown…
Compared to many American cities, Miami has a relatively short history. Much of that history involves real estate development booms and busts. The end result is that many of the area’s city and neighborhood names are either shockingly obvious, highly descriptive, or a result of someone just thinking the name…
This is an example of a kinkajou. Not to get all Buzzfeed on you, but it is clearly adorable. Let’s be honest, we’d all probably scroll through a post titled something like “19 Pictures of Kinkajous So Cute They’ll Make You Cry Glitter And Rupture Your Heart Into A Thousand Glistening…
Anjali Ramkisson, the a fourth-year neurology resident at Jackson Health System who was caught on camera trashing an Uber in Brickell, appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America today to apologize for her actions. The 30-year-old claims she upset that day after her father wound up in the hospital, and her boyfriend…
Rep. Alan Grayson may be Florida’s bluntest politician. He’s never short for words and always says what he means. Unless you ask him who he supports in the Democratic presidential primary. See, Grayson, who is currently running for Senate, accepted a spot on the Hillary Clinton Campaign’s Florida Leadership Council,…
Rapper B.o.B. is currently in a feud with astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson over whether or not the Earth is flat, because we live in a very strange world. However, if you want to hear about an even stranger theory about the shape of the earth you don’t have to leave…
Ten years ago, if you would have told anyone that the Miami Hurricanes basketball team trouncing the Duke Blue Devils would become a regular occurrence, they probably would have scoffed. The Blue Devils are the most successful college basketball team since 1985. They’re the elite of an already stacked ACC…
On Sunday thousands of runners lined up early in the morning at American Airlines Arena for The Miami Marathon. They ran across the MacArthur Causeway, then did a loop around South Beach, then ran back across the causeway and all the way south to Coconut Grove before looping back up…
Thirty-eight-year-old Jorge’s hands show the calluses from long hours spent toiling in the plant nurseries of Homestead, raising the trees, foliage, and potted plants you probably have in your yard. There have been cuts, sweat, and bruises too. All for less than minimum wage. But this is nothing, he says,…
Rep. Charles Van Zant is one of the most socially conservative Republicans in the Florida House. It’s not surprising as the man is also a Southern Baptist minister. Every year since 2010 he’s filed legilsation that would criminalize abortion in Florida, in direct conflict with the Supreme Court’s ruling in…
Ask a bunch of kids which feature they’d like to see in their dream mansion, and you’ll likely hear a few of them say they’d want a water slide that connected their bedroom directly to the pool. Well, a newly built $34 million spec home on Miami Beach makes that…
