King of Diamonds might be the world’s greatest hip hop strip club, a place where Floyd Mayweather makes it rain $100,000 in one night and Lil’ Wayne regularly drops the equivalent of a small European nation’s GDP. But some of KOD’s strippers say that wealth hasn’t filtered down to them,…
Earlier this month, a high school soccer game at Florida Christian’s campus in southwest Dade County ended in chaos. The opposing team’s coach says he watched in horror as a swarm of Florida Christian fans and players surrounded a ref and began “pummeling” him. Both Miami-Dade police and the Florida…
Another reason why owning a Lamborghini in South Beach is no longer worth it: can you really trust the valets to handle your car with care? According to a few recounts on social media, back on December 29th a valet was tasked with parking a red Lamborghini on South Beach,…
A coach being fired and replaced can often wreck havoc on a college football team’s recruiting class during the first year, but Mark Richt seems to be determined to make sure that the Miami Hurricanes keep their class in the top 25. And he’s doing something sort of odd to…
Last Thursday the Marathon High School boys’ soccer team traveled down to Miami to play at Miami Christian. It was a close game, with a lot of penalties—the refs dished out maybe 10 yellow cards—but by the final minutes Marathon was up 2-1. Then the real action started. The Key…
Things have taken a turn for the worse for the Miami Heat this month, and it doesn’t appear they are trending toward getting any better any time soon. The Heat’s loss to the Clippers on Wednesday was their third straight, dropping the team to 22-17 — good for sixth in…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a man who used his bride as a mop, a boy band vet gets arrested for a Key West bar fight, and two Deadpools break a fourth wall. Man…
The Real Housewives of D.C. and Miami are the only two entrants in the Bravo franchise that have been cancelled, and yet somehow one of Miami’s representatives in Washington D.C. has snagged herself a cameo on one of the shows. This Sunday, Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Miami Gardens Democrat, will…
Uber continues to thrive in Miami-Dade despite the fact its technically illegal. After some early attempts to get the ride-sharing service out of town after its initial launch, Mayor Carlos Gimenez decided to let the company, and its competitor Lyft, continue to operate in a legal gray area. On January…
Part-time Florida man Donald Trump stopped into the state last night to address his fellow Florida Republicans at a Pensacola rally. At least 11,000 people showed up to hear Trump speak, but the GOP frontrunner reserved his speech’s harshest anger for his microphone. “Five hundred and five billion, and by the…
“Mary” grew up in Ontario. She was a competitive swimmer and a violinist, and was always fascinated by cruise ships — whenever she passed a travel agency, she told New Times, she would run and pull out the cruise brochures, transfixed. Mary says that love was horribly tarnished, though, when…
The ten-minute clip wouldn’t be out of place on WorldStar Hip Hop — in short bursts of cell phone video, it captures drunken screaming matches and knock-down, bareknuckle brawls soundtracked with a thumping club beat. But the piece isn’t meant as street-fighting clickbait. The video was actually edited and uploaded…
Hotels, by definition, are for tourists. Yet Miami locals love our hotels. We love eating at their restaurants, sneaking into their pools, dancing at their clubs … sometimes waking up in their beds next to a Brazilian we met at their club. You know how it goes. There’s no short…
Despite the fact that neither Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush are the frontrunner, the pair and the political PACs continue to duke it out in a fight that’s starting to seem as much like a playground fight as it does an odd personal matter. In today’s episode, Bush called Rubio…
New coaches can have the effect of having causing an immediate turn around for a team, but if you think new Miami Hurricanes coach Mark Richt is going to be able to come in and collect a National Championship in his first year, well, Vegas wants to tamper your expectations…
The dirty secret of Miami’s latest luxury condo boom? Some of those sky high penthouses are being bought by international criminals and other shady individuals in order to launder money. How many? Well, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) wants to find out. Take Spanish drug kingpin Alvaro Lopez…
The new Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is planned as the centerpiece of the emerging bayfront area downtown, an eco-friendly tourist mecca with a jaw-dropping, enormous shark tank as its centerpiece. Miami-Dade County is so bullish on the plan it sank $160 million in taxpayer funds to help pay…
The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. the FEC paved the way for SuperPACs, independent political action committees that could raise unlimited donations and spend as much as they want in pursuit of their goals. Some predicted the development could forever ruin democracy as we knew it, but Jeb Bush, the…
You won’t win the Powerball prize. Your chance of winning that now $1.5 billion jackpot is something like 0.000000003 percent per ticket. That, of course, hasn’t stopped you from fantasizing about what you would do if you win. You’d probably buy a garage full of Ferraris (even, though, you know it’s…
Last year, Florida was one of the most enthusiastic states in the nation for handing out the death penalty — and it sentenced those prisoners to death with an unusual system. It’s one of just three states that doesn’t require a unanimous jury to deliver the ultimate punishment. Now, that…
If you’ve got $8.6 million sitting around you could buy your choice of any number of posh penthouses in Miami-Dade, or you could look a bit south and buy yourself your own private island. An island dubbed East Sister Rock that sits just off the coast of Marathon is on…
In 2012, New Yorker reporter Mattathias Schwartz covered the tribunal of suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on two separate occasions at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Each time, Schwartz was permitted to sit inside a separate room behind three panes of sound-proof glass and watch the tribunal in real time, but…
