During a dispute over payment for a roofing job, roofer Salomon Susi told attorney Rami Shmuely to “pay your fucking bill!” Shmuely, being an attorney and all, decided to sue. He claimed that Susi’s use of the profanity violated a law meant to curb harassment of debtors. Well, a three-person panel of…
Back in 2013, Miami New Times profiled Dave Strecker, a self-proclaimed sex addict who gave men information on prostitutes in the Caribbean including Cuba. He is a softball-playting construction worker from Minnesota who moved to Key West and found an avocation on the edge of the law. Not long after…
#HeatTwitter, here is your chance to use your terrifying social media powers for good; stuff the ballot box and send Udonis Haslem to the NBA All-Star game. No, I’m not joking. Years ago you almost got Joel Anthony there. You’re capable of anything. Udonis has just about it all. He’s…
Last December 4, during Art Basel, a 21-year-old amateur graffiti artist named Delbert Rodriguez stopped in Wynwood with a friend to visit some bars and soak in the art-festival atmosphere. Later that night Rodriguez, who went by the street name “Demz,” was tagging a wall on a dark corner of…
Florida Republican Primary voters continue to be fake as hell. They’re letting the men they at one point elected to serve as our Senator and Governor linger in polls of their home state. In the first poll of Florida Republicans taking since this week’s debate, it turns out that our…
Arrests for driving under the influence in Miami Beach have been noticeably down over the past few years. A reorginization of police patrol zones in 2011 meant that police ended up prioritizing their efforts targeting other crimes over catching those who were driving drunk. This despite the fact that Miami…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a horny male French maid, a nudist colony attack and the world’s most paranoid pot grower. Man in Maid Costume Arrested During Prostitution Sting The story of David…
Spurred by articles in publications from Vanity Fair to the New Yorker, the nation finally seems to be waking up to the fact that Miami is slowly being swallowed by the sea. With predictions ranging from eight inches to six feet of sea level rise over the next century, it’s…
In the wake of the 9-11 attacks, donations and federal funds poured into New York City, including millions sent to the medical examiner’s office to help identify the remains of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. At least $10 million of that cash, though, never made it to help…
A Florida mailman who broke several laws by flying a gyrocopter onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol this past tax day is now planning a more traditional route back to the building. He’s running for congress. Though, he won’t say exactly where in Florida plans to run, and that depends…
On a wooded plot of land in Southwest Miami-Dade, animals were allegedly stabbed, hooked and dragged around regularly. Some would even be boiled alive. It’s been dubbed an “animal house of horrors.” Now, after a seven and half month investigation into the illegal slaughterhouse, officials have now arrested two people…
Public sentiment against the death penalty has reached its highest peak since 1972. Even in states where the death penalty remains legal, death penalty sentences and actual executions are becoming rarer and rarer. Well, Florida is bucking the trend and remained quite death penalty-happy in 2015. In fact, a year-end report…
At a City of Miami Commission meeting last Thursday more than 50 men, women, and children crowded into the small gallery inside City Hall, an unusual, impossible-to-miss crowd for a run of the mill city meeting. The crowd wore fluorescent green shirts, for maximum impact, emblazoned with the message, “All…
Miami is closer to Havana than it is to any major U.S. city but for the past five decades, traveling those 230 miles south has been anything but routine. Even if you could snag a hard-to-get visa to get around the U.S. ban on spending any cash in Cuba, commercial…
On Monday night, identical threats promising bloody attacks were sent to public school systems in New York and Los Angeles. L.A. went ballistic, shutting down all schools on Tuesday at a cost of millions to taxpayers; New York, meanwhile, deemed the threats a “hoax” and went on with their business. …
The old golden rule is that you’re not supposed to spend more than a third of your income on rent, but for many Americas that’s just not possible anymore. In 1960 only 24 percent of Americans were paying more than that. By 2000 that number had reached 30 percent. As…
Amazon’s Prime Now one-hour delivery service has been operating in Miami since earlier this year. Maybe you’ve seen their white vans driving around. Sometimes with “Amazon” printed prominently on the side. There haven’t been any major hitches, but this is Miami and someone figured out you could probably just easily rob…
Despite trying to position himself as the Anti-Trump, Jeb Bush’s campaign continues to struggle. A fact that was underscored last night when a photo purporting to be of Bush’s nearly empty official Miami debate watch party went viral. The image was first tweeted out by Washington Post national political reporter…
Venezuela’s Chavista President Nicolas Maduro took a crushing loss at the polls earlier this month to opposition parties who say his government is horribly corrupt. This morning, U.S. prosecutors are dealing dealt him another vicious body blow. One of Maduro’s top military leaders — Néstor Reverol, head of the country’s National…
In light of thawing relations between Cuba and the United State, state Rep. Frank Artiles is now calling for an end to the decades-old “Wet Foot, Dry Foot” policy regarding immigration from Cuba. The Republican who represents portions of western Miami-Dade County, has filed a non-binding “memorial” ahead of next…
Apparently someone didn’t pick up their copy of The New Yorker this week, because despite growing concerns that sea level rise may some day in the not too distant future leave Miami Beach nearly uninhabitable, real estate on the island continue to be a hot commodity. In fact, the building…
Earlier this year we found out that Miami Dolphins fans have the third worst spelling and grammar skills in the NFL. Well, turns out that fans of Miami’s other teams aren’t exactly aspiring English professors either. The revelation comes from Grammarly, a souped up spell check web app. To determine the…
