We’s all just some simple folks down hear in Florida. We ain’t to good at that fancy booky learning they like to do up yonder in the North. In fact, according to that there Washington Post we’re the fifth dumbest state in the nation. At least that’s what we think…
Imagine trying to walk into a Venture Capitalists office and pitching your brilliant business plan for “Uber for caviar.” “Imagine it!,” you might say. “A world where you can order caviar as simply as you can order a car. Just a few clicks on your smart phone and a tin…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s maternal Grandparents were Sephardic Jews who fled what is now present-day Turkey because of the fallout of the Balkan War. They settled in Cuba, where Ros-Lehtinen would be born, but at seven-years-old her family fled the Communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro for America. Which is say Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s entire…
A bizarre sight stopped passersby on rain-soaked Lincoln Road on Saturday. Forty people sat in a circle on the fake grass island in the pedestrian mall, silently staring into each others’ eyes. The participants were all joining a trend gaining steam in South Florida: “eye gazing,” a sort of social…
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his face contorted in a scowl, doesn’t get up to greet Alex Villalobos when the big-eyed 42-year-old state senator enters the dimly lit office connected to the executive suite of Tallahassee’s Capitol building. It’s early May 2006, shortly after the last day of the legislative session,…
Looking for a deal on a hotel rate in Miami? You might find it, but you probably won’t like it. Turns out that tourists that book rooms at cheaper rates end up having issues with their stays in Miami more than any other major tourist destination in America. The info…
The clock is ticking on David Beckham’s quest to build a new soccer stadium in Miami-Dade County. The sports icon and his business partners have until just December 5th to have a plan ironed out and presented to Major League Soccer. That doesn’t mean a plan has to be totally…
Miami-Dade County Public Schools is currently the fifth largest school district in the country and is responsible for the education of more than 300,000 students. Under a new amendment proposed by Republican lawmakers in Tallahassee however MDCPS could be abolished completely and replaced by up to dozens of smaller independent…
Were you hoping to get to work this morning? Or perhaps you had a busy day at school ahead of you that you planned to attend? Maybe a flight to catch at MIA? Sorry, folks. It’s probably not going to happen today. Details are still scarce, but an early-morning shooting…
Like the rest of the world, Miami spent the weekend in grief and shock over the brutal terrorist attacks that killed 129 in Paris. Our two native sons who are currently jousting for a chance to lead the free world went quite a bit further, however. Jeb Bush and Marco…
On a hot July afternoon, Steve Murphy was sweating inside a yellow, one-story house in West Little River. It was 1989, the height of the Cocaine Cowboy era, and Murphy and his partner, Kevin Stephens, were Drug Enforcement Administration agents working a sting deal on 17 kilos of coke. An…
Just after 9:30 p.m. October 28, at least three masked intruders barged into a home in Keystone Point, an exclusive waterfront enclave in North Miami. The house’s owner, Naim (who declined to provide his last name for fear of retribution) was brushing his teeth when he was led with a…
Maybe it’s not even a question of whether anyone out there likes the Miami Marlins. Maybe it’s one of whether anyone doesn’t think the team is a pox upon the house of Major League Baseball. If it was’t bad enough that most Miamians don’t particularly have warm feelings for the…
For months leading up to the District Two commission race, Ken Russell’s fundraising lagged far behind his chief rival, Teresa Sarnoff. By election day, he’d hauled in just $158,560 compared to Sarnoff’s $747,000 war chest. But hours after the shock results of the Nov. 3 ballot — in which Russell…
A day after we tested out eight different ways to commute through Miami, Uber is introducing a new one. The increasingly popular car-by-app service is set to launch its UberPOOL offering in Miami. UberPOOL is essentially carpooling through Uber. A user indicates we’re they want to go and the app…
The final details on a soccer stadium in Little Havana — owned by the Miami-Dade School Board and built and operated by David Beckham and his partners — may have just been hammered out at the SoHo Beach House in South Beach last night. That’s where Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and…
Where do you vacation if you’re a prominent Israeli businesswoman who makes a living brokering weapons sales to a notorious African dictator? A $4,500 per-night villa in Miami Beach, of course. But Yardena Odavia says her stay at the uber-luxury villa turned into a nightmare. In emails and a phone interview…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a home much too expensive for its own good, a drunk DUI officer and pizza fraud. A $159 Million “Palace” Hits The Market in Broward County, Making It One…
Last night on MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews stumbled into the tricky issue of Cuban identity and completely fumbled on the issue. Naturally, the host and his panel were discussing Tuesday’s Republican Primary debate, and while talking about an interaction between Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Matthews just decided…
We all enjoy a good city ranking list, but so many of them are quite tame. Miami has been ranked as everything from the city with the most attractive people (duh) to the best city to be a dog (interesting). Sometimes though we want to see rankings based on the…
As the price of oil has spiraled to record lows this year, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has struggled to hang on to power. Shortages of everything from toilet paper to McDonald’s french fries have rocked Caracas as the official currency has tanked with the country’s most abundant natural resource. But…
In a race that was going to last hours, trouble came just a minute after the starting gun. Caryn Lubetsky, a local mother, law professor, and veteran distance racer, was competing in the Ironman triatholon in Panama City Beach last Thursday, a grueling endurance race that combines a 2.4-mile swim,…
