With shiny new towers popping up all over the place now, it’s easy to forget that about four years ago the Miami real estate market was in shambles. Of course, the market has more than recovered and prices are now back on par with their previous peak in 2005 and…
Call it the holiday news dump: Earlier this month, the TSA quietly released a new policy on its airport security checks. The days when travelers can request a pat-down instead of going through a nude imaging scanner are coming to an end; instead, TSA can now decline that request and…
In the Atlantic Ocean, 17 miles southeast of Miami and 100 feet under the surface of the water, Lazaro Cabrera reaches the sunken remains of a steel freighter and swims inside. The lean 41-year-old, in an army-green camouflage wetsuit, scans for movement. Thirty seconds pass, and then he sees it:…
It’s not secret that Miami Beach is one of the hottest destinations for New Year’s Eve in the world. You probably couldn’t dream of a better place to spend the holiday. It has some of the best nightclubs and parties in the world for counting down the clock, and the…
Hoverboards were the numbers one gift for children of wealthy parents this holiday season, and a young member of Rep. Carlos Curbelo’s family was no exception. Curbelo’s nephew got a shiny new walking-avoiding-machine for Christmas, but when Uncle Carlos decided to take it for a spin he wound up in…
Miami Dolphins fans going on profane Twitter tirades against the team happens everyday. They can be entertaining, but its usually not news. Unless of course the person behind the Twitter account happens to be married to a Miami Dolphin player. Miko Grimes, wife of cornerback Brent Grimes and well known…
Seven-year-old Amir was visiting his cousins yesterday in southwest Dade County, hanging out inside their modest ranch home in the Jackson Heights neighborhood. That’s when a white Dodge Ram slowed to a crawl along Jackson Street, rolled down a window and peppered the house with bullets from a high-powered rifle…
For the last month, ten men from Bangladesh have been on hunger strike inside the Krome Service Processing Center over what they say is inhumane treatment of detainees inside the massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Last week, a federal judge ordered the strike stopped — by force-feeding the detainees. …
Just when you thought the Miami Dolphins couldn’t possibly hurt you any further, they ended Sunday’s game in such an embarrassing fashion that fans felt like someone superman-punched them in the gut. Down six with just 27 seconds left, the Dolphins found themselves faced with a 4th & goal with just…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and Friday’s where here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a failed time traveler, a shy butt plug enthusiast, and a woman who just couldn’t take her husband’s flatulence anymore. Man Attempting to Time Travel Crashes Into Building While…
Some say the longform story is a thing of the past, but in every weekly issue of the New Times, you’ll find one front and center. And if longform writing in dead, it seems nobody has told our readers because some of our most popular and most-read stories of 2015…
It was exactly one year ago that the US Census Bureau officially declared that Florida became the third most populace state in the union, finally overtaking New York. Well, the US Cense Bureau once again has announced that Florida has broken another milestone just intime for the Holidays. We’ve broken…
A little over two years ago two established old media companies decided they knew exactly what the elusive millennial network wanted: a joint venture between two established old media companies! Univision and The Walt Disney Company, through its subsidiary ABC News, launched the Miami-based Fusion network in 2013, but now…
Soccer superstar Cristian Ronaldo is in Miami to celebrate the holidays. Why? Well look at him. He looks like the kind of guy who should spend his entire life sitting by a South Beach hotel pool. But when he showed up to last night’s Miami Heat game, Miami sports fans…
Ken Bereski was cycling home in South Beach around 10:45 p.m. last Thursday when he heard a car horn honk. He went on the defensive and prepared for the worst. Ten seconds later, a car slammed into him from behind, hurling him to the ground. The crash, on Collins Ave…
We know the exact day the 2015-16 Miami Dolphins season will rest in peace; January 3, 2016, when the clock mercifully strikes zero against the New England Patriots. There is no intrigue in the Phins final two games. There is no more “in the hunt.” Another Dolphins season has perished far…
Looking back, it’s almost ironic that during the 2010 Senate campaign the Marco Rubio campaign and its surrogates attacked then-rival Charlie Crist for being too ambitious. Crist, they argued, was a professional politician of the worst kind who merely saw a Senate seat as a step to even higher ambitions…
This year during Art Basel Miami Beach, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly sent correspondent Jesse Watters down to the art fairs to poke fun of attendees. Waters was operating under the assumption that anyone who loves art must be some sort of out of touch hippie liberal. Not only was…
This month in the New Yorker, writer Elizabeth Kolbert makes it painfully clear that the city has essentially no battle plan to combat rising sea levels in South Florida. Between Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s wholesale denial of the problem and civic figures waiting on the savior of innovation, very little…
It’s almost noon when Christian Valdes blinks open his eyes. The muscular 32-year-old with short black hair and a goatee quickly realizes he’s hung over. His head is pounding, and his mouth is parched. If he doesn’t get water soon, he may puke. The last thing he recalls is stumbling…
Turns out if you scratch Rick Scott’s back, he’ll scratch yours. The Governor has now appointed failed Miami Commission candidate Teresa Sarnoff to the state’s Transportation Commission. The move comes after Sarnoff and her husband Marc made a surprising endorsement of Scott during his last run for Governor. Though Miami…
The most glaring missing option in Miami’s public transit arsenal: an easy and effective mass public transit system that connects Miami Beach to the mainland. Plans have been discussed for decades with no results. Well, now Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine says his city will take immediate steps towards starting…
