Diagnosing the state and the future of the University of Miami’s football program in the wake of the firing of Al Golden is currently the favorite parlor game of college football commentators. To some, the head coaching job is the single greatest open position in college football right now other…
At approximately 9 a.m. Saturday, Edgewater residents woke up to the roaring boom of another building demolition to make way for a much taller, luxury residential tower. It’s unclear what precautions were taken to notify residents (it’s believed that those living in the surrounding buildings were handed letters) but the…
Está ahí. Indudablemente es él. La cara benévola. La cabellera negra. Esos ojos oscuros, de mirada profunda. Va renqueando. Está herido. Lleva una pierna rota. Su brazo se balancea cual péndulo mientras un soldado, pistola al ristre, lo arrastra entre los pegajosos charcos de sangre que se escurren por los…
He’s there. Clearly. The kindly face. The mop of black hair. Those deep, dark eyes. He’s hopping. He’s hurt. A leg is busted. His arm swings like a pendulum as he’s tugged by a gun-slinging soldier past sticky rivulets of blood pouring down concrete steps. He’s a judge, one of…
The breeze whips off the sand as Kirk Paskal sweats under a hot October sun, his back to the turquoise Atlantic. With one hand over his brow, he squints longingly at a boxy, two-story beige hotel. Formerly known as the Ocean Way, the hotel is decayed, the paint now cracked…
Jeb Bush is not having a very good time. He’s currently stuck in 5th place in the polls, facing nearly daily snipes from Donald Trump and had to lay off a large chunk of his Miami-based campaign staff. Over the weekend, he gave his most candid public comments about his…
We’re big fans of Halloween, but remain on the fence about celebrating Halloween in Miami. In a town where partying just seems to natural occur every weekend of the year, something about having to actually map out specific plans weeks in advance, getting a costume together and making sure all…
The Golden era at the U turned out to be nothing more than Brass, and now the Hurricanes are on the hunt for a new head coach. Names like former FIU coach Mario Cristobal and former ‘Canes coach Butch Davis are the most frequently cited in actual media reports, but…
Saturday’s University of Miami loss to Clemson was costly. The 58-0 annihilation cost fans another season of false hope. It cost players their remaining shreds of dignity. And in the long run, it’s probably going to cost the University of Miami many millions of dollars. To loud cheers from pundits,…
Aylen Hidalgo says her supervisor has always been a stickler for clocking in on time and not leaving her desk or making personal calls. As a result, her job in finance at CareerSource South Florida, a county agency with a $70 million budget to help job seekers, has always been…
Is there a better way to summarize what’s happened so far in the GOP presidential primary by pointing out on the same day that Donald Trump makes his first official Florida campaign stop in Miami, Jeb Bush announces that he’s drastically cutting payroll and staff at his campaign’s Miami headquarters?…
In April, local fair housing organization Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence (HOPE) held an event at Jungle Island, the tropical zoo park on Watson Island, to honor “housing heroes” who had fought back against discrimination. Due to being mobility impaired, three of the honorees required use of a ramp to…
Wow! It’s hasn’t been this good of a time for fans of the ’90s since the actual ’90s themselves! Netflix is rebooting Full House, Gwen Stefani’s best breakup single since “Don’t Speak” is tearing up the iTunes charts, and Nickelodeon is playing all your favorite OG Nicktoons again! Now another…
The latest twist in Miami’s years-long soccer stadium saga—an unlikely partnership between David Beckham’s group and the Miami-Dade County school board—is looking ever more likely: At a school board meeting yesterday, members expressed unanimous support for a possible deal, voting to allow superintendent Alberto Carvalho to proceed with negotiations for…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday’s we’re here to round up the weirdest. In fact, this is a very special themed edition of WTF Florida brought on by the fact that Florida’s smalltime thieves were especially stupid this week, basically not only asking…
If there’s one place in America where the “build a stadium and the money will come” lie shouldn’t fly, it’s Miami. We’ve already suffered third degree burns from that tale tale. It’s exactly what politicians promised would happen in Little Havana as they crafted the worst deal in history to build…
It seems that certain Republicans in Florida see controversy erupt over legislation in other states and think to themselves, “Hmmm, how do we bring that controversy to the Sunshine state?” Rep. Julio Gonzalez, a freshman Republican lawmaker who was enthusiastically endorsed by Senator Marco Rubio, has introduced a wide-ranging “right…
We always took Jeb Bush as a bit of nerd, but apparently we were wrong. Turns out he’s just a creepy fake comic book fan bro, and we found this out in what might not be the biggest blunder of Bush’s presidential campaign so far, but certainly is the oddest. …
Miamians love soccer. This city would love to see a big-time team here. But by now, an element of stadium anticipation fatigue is surely setting in — for more than two years, since the news first broke that soccer giant David Beckham was interested in starting an MLS team right here…
When he was 18 years old, Stanley Victor Campbell moved from New York to Miami. Over the next seven decades, he would become an institution in the city, noted for his work in public schools and later in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Along the way, he also had five sons —…
Miami-Dade has a lot of interesting architecture and structures, but most of the attention is paid to Miami and Miami Beach. That doesn’t mean the suburbs don’t pull their weight, though. In fact, you can find everything from city halls that look ripped straight out of Aladdin to one of…
LeLe Pons is probably the most famous Miamian right now that no one over 21 has heard. She’s one of the most popular personality on the Vine social network, and came in at 6th on our list of most followed Miami Instagram accounts, ahead of bonafide celebs like Pitbull and…
