The State of Florida’s semi-annual Python Challenge is set to kick off on January 16th, and in advance the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is blasting the state for allowing hunters to decapitate the reptiles during the great snake hunt. PETA claims the method causes the snakes prolonged pain,…
While LeBron James was in town during those glorious but brief four years he and his family laid down roots here that had us thinking maybe, just maybe he truly was serious about staying in Miami for the long run. For example, his wife Savannah opened a juice cafe called…
It’s the first week of January, so you know the drill: Gyms are packed with noobs misusing the squat racks, out-of-practice joggers are huffing along every beachside trail and Miami’s doctors are doing strong business in freshly pulled hamstrings. But some parts of Miami need to re-up those New Year’s…
By halftime, the ASA College Silver Storm had a commanding lead over the Alabama Prep Sports Academy Bearcats. The late Sunday afternoon sky was overcast and the metal bleachers all but empty at Ricky M. Cairns Memorial Stadium, a high-school field 35 miles south of Birmingham where one end zone…
When Cristiano Ronaldo spent his Christmas holiday in Miami and popped up at a Miami Heat game, local fans couldn’t help but fantasize about the idea of the Portuguese soccer superstar someday playing for David Beckham’s Major League soccer team in Miami. It was, at the time, the stuff of what basically…
If there’s one advantage traditional taxis have over Uber, it’s that their rates always remain the same. Not true for Uber. When the ratio between passengers requesting rides and the number of available drivers in an area become untenable, the “ride sharing” app jacks up prices and informs riders they’ll have…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement have identified more 13,435 untested rape kits throughout the state after conducting a study ordered by the state legislature. 2243 of those were in the hands of the City of Miami Police Department, the most of any agency that took part in the survey…
Today, the site of the MiamiCentral train station is a giant pit filled with concrete pilings and buzzing construction equipment just across from County Hall on NW 1st Avenue. The nine-acre complex will eventually be the home station for the Brightline, the new Orlando-to-Miami passenger train service. And it’s now…
In the early 1920s as Carl Fisher was building Miami Beach and his fortune, he decided he needed a publicist to get the word out about his new city. In 1924, he hired Steve Hannagan, a press agent he once worked with in Indianapolis. A year later, Hannagan opened the Miami…
The Miami News Times website underwent some big changes this year. We got a complete redesign. We also killed off our “blogs” and replaced them with “verticles.” So if you want news stories you click on “news” instead of a blog called “Riptide,” or if you want music stories you…
This is not what you want to be telling TV reporters after your relaxing ocean cruise: “It was a real life scene of The Shining.” Yet that’s exactly what Matt Davis was left telling the cameras this week after his experience on the Carnival Ecstasy cruise out of Miami. Davis,…
“You know the old song, you don’t know what you have until it’s gone? We’re going to find out, apparently,” Eugene Stearns, a lawyer for the Miami Open tennis tournament told the AP. After losing a court battle, he’s now threatening that his clients will move the popular tournament elsewhere. The…
Journalists look forward to the last week of December as the time of the year when the silliest civic press releases of the year hit our inboxes. The releases come from mayors, city commissioners and celebrities, all sincerely asking for the same thing: Please Miami, stop shooting your guns into…
Sure, like any big city Miami has its power-player mainstays — it’s hard to imagine Dade County without Kathy Fernandez Rundle and Xavier Suarez, for instance. But it’s also the kind of town where people’s influence can come and go quicker than Justin Bieber’s Ferrari on South Beach. Here’s a look…
Another Miami Dolphins season has come and gone, which can only mean one thing — your Christmas tree is still up. For those of you keeping score at home, you could now officially fit four World Cups between the Dolphins last playoff victory and their next one, whenever that happens. Seven-straight…
It’s no secret that Republicans control Florida’s legislature thanks to big help from gerrymandering, but after the current state Senate districts were invalidated earlier this year the Senate scrambled to draw new districts. Well, in a major ruling today a state judge threw out the Senate’s new map and instead…
Let’s say you’re the Florida Democratic Party, and you notice that while your state’s most populous county has a strong Democratic voter advantage, its highest office, the County Mayor’s seat, has been held by a Republican for over 10 years. So what would you do? Probably try and get an…
Public transit in Miami-Dade already has so many issues when it comes to running in the daytime that discussing the possibility of expanded services during late-night hours seems like wishful thinking. To Miami-Dade Transit’s credit, they do expand certain services into the wee hours of the morning during special events, but…
Protests and debates have erupted across the country this week in the wake of a grand jury’s decision not to indict the Cleveland police officers who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Most of that debate has centered on whether police had real reason to fear for their lives, as…
With their prime location just off South Beach and luxe cache, the four gated Sunset Islands are home to some of Miami Beach’s most rich and famous residents, from mega-developer Scott Robins to nightclub impresario David Grutman. In a neighborhood known for its epic sunset views, where homes sell for…
By 10 a.m. Wednesday, November 11, the health professionals in white coats and green scrubs have already filed into Jackson Health System’s $2 billion medical complex north of downtown Miami. But across NW 17th Street, scores of homeless individuals half-asleep on the sidewalk pull tarps and cardboard over their eyes…
Wouldn’t it be great to be Tarzan? You’d have great abs and get to hang out with wild monkeys all the time. Maybe more realistically you could, at least, get rid of those love handles and live in a place where you could occasionally see monkeys out in the wild…
