Do you think that when Nick Saban goes down to the cement dungeon underneath his Alabama mansion to unwind and walks past his trophy case full of CFB National Championship, his collection jarred tears secretly obtained from rival SEC coaches and the collection of locks of hair he’s pruned from…
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert only debuted last night, but if there’s one thing clear thing Colbert is trying to achieve to differentiate his shows from the competition its brining on guests from outside of Hollywood. Jimmy Fallon has his celebrity lip-synch games and Jimmy Kimmel has his cameo-filled…
Last Thursday, State Representative David Richardson of Miami Beach filed a bill (HB 137) that, if approved, would prohibit the use of so-called “gay conversion therapy” on minors, a practice that aims to change the sexual orientation of people who are same-sex attracted. Critics of the practice say that conversion…
The warning came three days after Magda Montiel Davis embraced Fidel Castro. A client called, saying that a rabid Spanish-language radio host was urging the public to kidnap the liberal lawyer’s small children. Montiel Davis had three older kids, but Sadie and Ben were then only 3 and 4 years…
Each state gets to enshrine statues of two of its most notable historical residents in The National Statuary Hall Collection at the US Capitol Building in Washington DC. Florida’s choices, made all the way back in 1914 and 1922 respectively, area guy who invented an early version of air conditioning…
Receive a speeding ticket? Get into a crash? Accused of a crime? Well, expect to have your phone now blown up with text messages from Florida lawyers. That’s because the Florida Bar Association recently removed its ban on lawyers soliciting potential clients via text. The American Bar Association officially bars…
On a searing Thursday afternoon, Carlos Franco saunters down an Overtown sidewalk with a navy backpack slung over one shoulder. Inside are 18 wrapped syringes. Locals call out to the 66-year-old retired rehabilitation specialist: “Hola, Profe” and “¿Que onda, Tío?” Two men approach, their eyes scanning the street for cops…
For longtime Redland resident Pat Milone, the best part of her commute home from Kendall is a stop at a farm stand along Krome Avenue. She takes her pick from dozens of vendors selling fruits and vegetables — many grown just a few feet away. “There are grove trees and…
A little ways up the Florida coast, a little-known company in Melbourne makes a device of great concern to civil liberties activists. Called the “Stingray,” it allows law enforcement officials to track the whereabouts of a specific cell phone — a useful investigative tool that advocates argue also violates privacy…
Tropical; Storm Grace is headed for Puerto Rico and could be in South Florida next week, the National Hurricane Center is reporting..The storm, still far out to sea, is moving west at a good clip and strengthening. It was about 685 miles west-southwest of the Republic of Cabo Verde on…
Back in early July, an Italian-based company called Hacking Team — which had been criticized for profiting by selling malware to regimes with poor human rights records — was itself ironically hacked. Its Twitter account taken over and a 400 gigabyte trove of internal information on the company in the form of emails…
LGBT athletes have increasingly come out and into the spotlight over the past couple of years, but what about the high profile journalists who cover them? Obviously there’s more than a few gay people in the sports reporter ranks, and former Miami Herald reporter and still South Florida-based ESPN personality…
It started, as only a romance between two multi-millionaire retail developers can, with a lawsuit over a private jet. It ended up in marriage. Craig Robins, the man responsible for turning the Design District into a luxury shopping mecca, married Jackie Soffer, who, amongst other things, oversees the Aventura Mall,…
Just a couple weeks ago, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson was on the all-out offensive to back his controversial fundraising efforts. Wolfson even took out three full-page Miami Herald ads to attack journalists Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg over Putney’s criticisms of how the politician and his ally, Mayor Philip…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week and on Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week we have a porno plot that actually played out in real life … and ended badly, a snake on the loose in Florida that is crazy enough to…
Yesterday, the Miami Marlins went full Deadspin, for all the most Deadspin-y reasons. The story details a tip New Times had looked into last month — one that turned out to be to complete-and-utter bullshit — that involved a brief, secret, and poorly-recorded audio clip that supposedly caught David Samson saying some…
Surely sensing a growing public relations disaster on its hands, Arby’s has decided to try and qualm tensions between them and local police forces following an officer receiving poor costumers service at a Pembrokes Pines location of the roast beef sandwich chain. “As a show of our appreciation and support,…
When new host takes over a storied late night chat show franchise they look to start the show with the biggest guests they can get. Stephen Colbert is no exception. He’s booked George Clooney as his first guest ever when he kicks off his duties on The Late Show next…
Following years of legal challenges involving religious inmates in Florida prisons and their right to eat meals based on the dietary principals of their faith, the ACLU of Florida and Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida has filed a lawsuit against the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department for refusing to serve Muslim inmates…
SwiftKey, a maker of customized keyboard apps, recently decided to dig into its databases to find out which emojis are used most in each state. Some made perfect sense. New York really loves the Statue of Liberty emoji. Hawaii is keen on pineapples, surfing and rainbows. Florida’s however have us…
On Friday August 22, Andres Pombo was in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon with three friends competing in a paddelboarding competition. They were on a practice run, stand-up paddling in gusty downwind conditions. Three miles short of the finish line, the group stopped for photos amid the swells. That’s…
Most Miamians can never quite seem to get around to purchasing that pesky flood insurance for their house or apartment. Try as they might to put it on a to-do list, dishing out the bucks for a weather event that never seems to happen inevitably gets eclipsed by other tasks…
