A controversy involving a Broward County Arby’s employee refusing to serve a Pembrokes Pines police officer has spilled over the county line as Miami-Dade County Police Benevolent Association has called for a nationwide boycott of the roast beef chain. The incident allegedly happened on Monday night when an Pembrokes Pines…
The Miami Marlins’ 2015 season started off as so many of them do with slight hope. Some predicted they might even compete for the wildcard. It soon however devolved into the type of stunning tragicomedy that only the Marlins can pull off. Owner Jeffrey Loria fired manager Mike Redmond less…
He started out as Mr. 305, then morphed into Mr. Worldwide, but for the next year Pitbull will be Mr. Florida. Visit Florida has struck a deal with the Miami rapper to official serve as Florida’s tourism ambassador for the next year. Yes, the state’s official private/public tourism wing hopes that…
“Oh my god,” a woman intones, a shaky camera phone aimed at the sky. “There’s something that is releasing a whole bunch of light in the … Oh my god!” No, the footage isn’t the start of the latest insufferable “found footage” horror flick about an alien invasion. It’s just…
In the heat of summer, it seems President Obama is dancing la salsa dura. Along with 40 artists, including Justin Timberlake, Aretha Franklin and Bob Marley, the President chose Miami-based Colombian salsa band Sonora Carruseles to appear on his summer POTUS playlist late last month. The chosen song, “La Salsa…
She remembers the way he smelled. Groomed and clean. No cologne, no cigars. Just soapy. His beard was soft. When she called home from her hotel room the following night, her daughter Maggie, then age 13, answered. “Mom!” She sounded panicked. “What?” Magda said, thinking, Christ, what now? Which one…
Comcast has been testing internet data caps in some markets for the since 2012, and has slowly been rolling them out across the country. On October 1st, they’re coming to South Florida. For Comcast costumers on the most common plans that means that if you use anymore data than 300…
The Fairholme Capital headquarters and art museum is a bizarre thing. First of all, it looks like some sort of fortress from a dystopian sci-fi movie. Secondly, it will be part open-to-the-public art museum and part equity fund management offices (which unintentionally says a lot about the state of the commodification…
Donald Trump is currently the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president. This despite the fact that the guy has a lifelong history of supporting several ideas more at home in the Democratic party. Jeb Bush, whose undergone a stunning fall from front runner to third place candidate, seems…
Miami Police Officer Luis Weinad was annoyed: The young cop he was in charge of training had just arrested a man for walking around with crack cocaine and a pipe and sent him off to jail. But instead of filling out an electronic arrest form — as per department policy…
Pelting rain has glued red-and-yellow-striped jerseys onto the soaked bodies of 6,000 fans scattered around Lockhart Stadium’s metal bleachers. The waterlogged pitch looks more like a World War I battle site than a soccer field, but the true believers in the stands chant and sing ecstatically. For the first time…
It’s not exactly breaking news that Florida is a good place to retire. It’s kind of half of what the state is known for. So it’s not shocking that the state pretty much dominated WalletHub’s analysis of the best cities to retire in, but have you wondered what the worst…
While David Beckham is still trying to nail down a spot for his MSL stadium, Miami’s other brand new professional soccer team is moving fast and furious. Today, Miami FC announced that they’ve hired Italian soccer legend Alessandro Nesta as their head coach. Though, Nesta has never been a head…
A team of residents has been working to keep the billion-dollar retail chain out of their neighborhood and over a year of legal hurdles hasn’t dissuaded Walmart from opening one of its superstores in Midtown. The company won an appeal last week, and now it looks like Walmart is coming…
Right about now, thousands of especially grumpy Miamians are sitting in traffic wondering what the hell happened to the tropical storm that was supposed to get them out of work today. Erika was a dud, turning into nothing more than a wave of decent thunderstorms on Saturday and Sunday. If…
Earlier this summer, the nation was startled to learn that the FBI operates a fleet of more than 100 small planes that gather surveillance around American cities. The planes, an Associated Press investigation revealed, fly low in mysterious circular patterns; their registrations, meanwhile, are often tied to fake companies. “The…
The streak is alive! After nearly a week of dire predictions about Tropical Storm Erika, it looks this morning like South Florida’s decade-long hurricane-free run is going to continue. Erika is actually no longer a tropical storm — overnight, it weakened into a depression. And this morning’s projections now call…
You’re Donald Trump. You’re running a Presidential campaign where the only clear part of your platform is that you insult Hispanic immigrants and want to deport every undocumented one. The single most profitable business in your portfolio however happens to be a golf resort in the middle of a county…
Thirty years after after it’s debut, the pastel aesthetic of Miami Vice continues to define Miami. So much so that the show’s logo’s colors of teal and pink are almost the unofficial colors of the area. So it wasn’t all that surprising when a Reddit user with some freetime and…
Patrick Wanninkhof loved bicycling, beat boxing, and helping people. Wanninkhof had a megawatt smile, a mop of curly brown hair (sometimes), and an affinity for math and engineering; he grew up in Key Biscayne, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida, and then taught physics and computer science…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Fridays we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week: some not-so-nice lice vice, men who really, really like shoes, the mystery of the Maryland Fried Chicken, and, ugh, George Zimmerman somehow becoming even more terrible. Homeless Man Gives…
In these days of complex computer-graphed simulations and space-assisted data mining, hurricane prediction has steadily approached something like a real, reliable science. Usually, scientists can at least guess with some decent certainty what a hurricane is going to do in the next couple days, if not four or five days…
