Donald Trump Is Annihilating Jeb Bush in Florida

You already know that Jeb Bush is struggling. He’s scuffling so bad that his mom is pleading his case in campaign ads and DJ Khaled is jumping on late-night TV to try to light a spark under the former governor.   But even the most cynical Jeb hater had to…

City Considers Burying Biscayne Boulevard and I-395 Downtown

Downtown Miami has changed immensely in the last twenty years, shifting from a sleepy business district to bustling bayfront of condo skyscrapers, museums and arenas. But one thing has stayed constant: The traffic clogged artery of Biscayne Boulevard dividing most of downtown from the waterfront. Next week, city commissioners will…

Getting on the Internet in Havana Is Still Really Difficult

Around 10 p.m. on a recent Wednesday night, some two dozen people huddled on a dark street corner outside of Havana’s Hotel Inglaterra, a dazzling, historic structure that faced the city’s Central Park. Just feet away, on the hotel patio, a live band regaled guests while bartenders pour drinks. Upon…

Video: Woman Trashes an Uber in Brickell Rage

A video currently going viral purports to show a woman trashing an Uber driver’s car near Mary Brickell Village over the weekend after a disagreement. According to YouTube user Juan Cinco’s description of events, he and his friends had ordered an Uber through the app, when the woman in the video…

Penthouse at Armani Casa Comes With Trip to Meet Armani Himself

If you want to live a lifestyle infused with that Armani touch, buy a unit in the underconstruction luxury towaer Residences by Armani/Casa in Sunny Isles Beach. But if you really, really love everything Armani and want a once in a lifetime Armani experiance, well, you’ll have to buy the Penthouse. …

Anti-Uber Bill Dropped After Uber Threatens to Pull Out of Miami-Dade

Last week, Uber e-mailed its Miami-Dade customers to not so subtly threaten to pull out of the county if the County Commission passed a ordinance the rider-sharing company viewed as unfavorable. Well, at today’s Commission meeting that ordinance’s sponsor, Chairman Jean Monestime announced that he was pulling the legislation.  “Based on…

Donald Trump Is Now Leading Among Hispanic Republicans in Florida

Donald Trump kicked off his presidential campaign with what many saw as anti-Hispanic remarks. According to the latest poll from Florida Atlantic University, Trump is now strongly leading among the state’s Republican GOP voters. Trump is now the favorite candidate of nearly 48 percent of all likely Republican primary voters (a…

Miami Muralist Depicts Her Mom in the City She Left in 1957

Like many older Cubans in Miami, Vania Salgar doesn’t plan to return to her homeland. In the decades since she left Havana in 1957, the city she once considered the “Paris of the Americas” has changed and deteriorated, and she fears the sight of it today. But Vania’s daughter Nicole…

Pam Bondi’s Star Rises by Doing GOP’s Dirty Work

TV cameras encircled Pam Bondi outside Bennett’s Fresh Roast, a quaint shop a block from the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, one more stop on a statewide tour in the fall of 2014 with Gov. Rick Scott. Bondi flashed her trademark high-wattage grin, shook her blond locks into place, and…

Trump Has More Support in Florida Than Rubio and Bush Combined

It’s been an entire month since a major presidential preference poll was taking amongst Florida’s Republican primary voters. They’ve had weeks of new developments, another debate, numerous new wacky ads put out by the candidates, and, we’re sure, wonderfully illuminating discussion about the race with their relatives over the Holiday…

Hundreds of Bikers Confound Miami Motorists in MLK Solidarity Ride

The dirtbikes, ATVs and motorcycles came to South Florida by the hundreds yesterday, popping wheelies and darting through traffic as they sped across Broward County and then south in to Miami. Police mostly left the mass ride alone as confused motorists took to social media in bafflement. The ride wasn’t…

Should the Miami Heat Trade Hassan Whiteside Before the Offseason?

Miami Heat fans are a fragile bunch at the moment, much like the team itself. Twitter arguments are erupting. Families are fighting families. Because midway through this wobbly season, so many questions remain for a Heat team that most figured would be on a roll by now. Instead, the Heat suffered…