To quote our favorite Christmas movie Batman Returns, mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it, but a kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it. Especially if that kiss is from an invasive insect known as the Kissing Bug. The Center For Disease Control reports that the insect,…
There’s two types of mothers on the day after thanksgiving: those who rush out to get Black Friday deals and those who need to get “the tree” and immediately get into Christmas mode. Well, if your mom was the later type and hoped to pick up a Christmas tree at…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week a probation party gone seriously wrong, a Darth Vader imposter who did not let the force be with him, and a reminder not to film yourself damaging police…
It’s the day after the big day. That extra piece of turkey is sitting heavy in your stomach. Those three extra glasses of merlot are throbbing straight through to your brain. If you’re a lunatic, you’re eagerly planning some kind of marathon shopping spree that will take you to hordes…
Black Friday, the day Americans decide cheap waffle irons and flat-screen televisions are enough reason to hurdle other shoppers, face-smush an old lady, and dive into Macy’s before the doors close like in Indiana Jones. It’s a tradition like no other. Being a sucker for an unbelievable deal isn’t unique…
It’s the happiest time of the year — except for the animals at Santa’s Enchanted Forest. At least that’s what a group of animal activists planning a protest against the venerable holiday theme park says. They believe Santa’s Enchanted Forest, which bills itself as the “world’s largest holiday theme park,”…
Almost 20 million people live in Florida. Last year, almost 100 million more visited. This is a state, in other words, with a whole lot of people who need to move around — especially in and around hyper-congested South Florida and family vacation-mecca Orlando. As any Floridian knows, public transportation…
Two years ago Derek Medina wrote in a caption a chilling photo of his wife’s slumping, lifeless body that, “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife.” This afternoon a jury decided he was right. A jury found Medina guilty of the second degree murder of his…
A former standout at Miramar High School, St Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey was presumably in town this week visiting family for the Holidays while serving a suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. While sitting in an SUV last night with a cousin, and two young relieves…
First it was the Port of Miami. Then a boat slip next to the American Airlines Arena. Finally, with a plot next to Marlins Park in Little Havana it seemed like David Beckham’s group had at last found a spot to build a stadium for a new Major League Soccer…
Aaah, Thanksgiving. The holiday when we’re called to give thanks for the fall harvest and harken to centuries past, when scores of immigrants arrived to the shores of the New World to begin to build the United States of America. It’s a time to share — and to be grateful,…
Photojournalist Kim Badawi has a global family history, but is an American citizen. Of Slovenian and Egyptian decent, Badawi was born in France, frequently works in the Middle East, and is currently based in Brazil, but his parents are both Americans and he got full citizenship at birth. Despite his…
The Miami Heat are your rock. They are Netflix on a gloomy South Florida Winter day. They make you feel more emotion on a nightly basis than any Adele album ever could. They are waking up in the middle of the night and remembering tomorrow is Saturday. They are chicken…
There are few cities in America quite as in love with their primary area code as Miami. It’s pretty much in every Miami rap song. Pitbull calls himself “Mr. 305,” and has an upcoming Miami-set drama in the works called “305.” You can see it on tattoos, hats, shirts and…
You ever find yourself stuck on the Palmetto during rush hour and think, “Jeez, their can’t be traffic anywhere else in the country worse than this.” Well, technically, there are 19 stretches of road in the country with worst traffic. Not that that’s much of a consultation, and indeed a…
After a controversial development proposal that would have transformed a historic beachfront stretch of North Beach was rejected by Miami Beach voters earlier this month, many residents were left wondering about the fate of their neighborhood. They got some clues Monday night, when esteemed urban planning firm Dover Kohl launched…
In summer 2012, lawyer Laurence Leavy was late to a Miami Heat playoff game. Before the matchup began, the team had laid out white T-shirts on every seat so the crowd would match. “But somebody had stolen my shirt,” he remembers, so he remained in a gaudy bright-orange Marlins jersey…
The Miami Marlins are what happens when you remove any semblance of magic from professional sports and reveal it to be the cold hard public welfare-leaching business it is. In just the latest attempt to alienate every possible person in South Florida, the team has reportedly parted ways with long…
There’s not a sports journalist in America with a better office than Bomani Jones. Jones records both his ESPN radio show, The Right Time With Bomani Jones, and the TV hit he cohosts with Dan Le Batard, Highly Questionable, right inside the Clevelander, the iconic oceanside South Beach hotel. In…
As a kid on Chicago’s gritty West Side, Germane Barnes spent a lot of time with friends in a neighborhood park across the street from a striking home. Barnes was way too young to know much about the brilliant designer behind the sprawling, geometrically intricate estate — the genius Frank…
A conversation with José Díaz-Balart is a master class in journalism. The MSNBC and Telemundo anchor, a 30-year TV news veteran, repeatedly directs the conversation away from himself and toward the people and stories he’s reported on across the world. In an age when journalists increasingly lay out their own…
Officer Miguel Romain was just a few months into his new job as a full-fledged Miami Beach cop when the routine call came in on Sunday: A burglar alarm was going off in a building near 51st Street and Alton Road. The former public service specialist hopped in a patrol…
