For the second time this year alone, the Florida legislature has vowed to give up on the tasks they were elected by Floridians to do instead of coming to a consensus. After the state Supreme Court ruled that the federal congressional district maps drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2012…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday’s we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: proof that there’s always a Florida connection, a flash-happy defendant, and two theiv Florida Woman Claims She Knew About Jared Fogel for Years Proving there’s always a Florida connection,…
Right now, if you happen to be in the middle of the Atlantic, say 1000 miles or so east of Puerto Rico, you should really be prepared for some serious anthropomorphized weather hell. If you’re in Miami, or anywhere on land, for that matter, there’s nothing much to worry about…
On July 16, Edward “Butch” Foster III walked to the M&M Meat Market a few blocks away from his Homestead home to pick up some items. The 32-year-old father of six never came home. At 4 p.m., two Homestead police officers, responding to a 911 call about a gun-wielding man,…
Here’s the good news for those wary of Donald Trump’s surging popularity: Amongst the major Republican candidates polled against major Democrats in three major swing states, Donald Trump does the worst. Here’s the bad news: In Florida he’s still beating Hillary Clinton. The data comes from Quinnipiac University’s latest telephone survey…
After five students at the Homestead Job Corps campus took part in the brutal murder of 17-year-old Jose Amaya Guardado, two stayed behind to have sex in the wood according to new details released after the arrest of the fourth suspect in the case. Arbelo, 20, Jonathan Lucas, 18, and Christian Colon,…
In April 2012, Miami-Dade Animal Services began using a new chemical disinfectant to clean the floor of its kennel. Within weeks, multiple male dogs at the kennel developed an alarming problem, a former employee says: their scrotums were badly irritated or burned. It happened more to large dogs, and sometimes…
1. The city of Miami proper is the smallest city by area to anchor a major American metropolis. 2. Miami has been the setting of scenes in three James Bond movies: Goldfinger, Thunderball and Casino Royal. That’s the most of any US City. Indeed, Thunderball centers on a villain’s nefarious…
When 95-year-old Lloyd Miller stepped to the mic to testify at a congressional hearing in Homestead earlier this month, the three Republicans on the panel may not have known they were about to be versed by a conservation legend. U.S. Reps Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Curbelo had called…
As Miami Beach is midway into a $300 million project to install dozens of anti-flooding pumps around the island, the jury is still out on their effectiveness at battling sea level rise and tidal flooding. But some residents say they’re sure about one thing: That the pumps are flooding Biscayne…
Today’s travel programs are hosted by Anthony Bourdain-type figures who purport to show you the lesser known jewels of a place, but back in the ’60s they were all surface and shine set to groovy soundtrack narrated by a person talking in some sort of accent that just doesn’t exist…
Miami is a city constantly trying to improve ourselves and our image. We’re gleeful just about anytime we wind up on some positive city ranking list. “Miami is the 17th best city in America for hamster enthusiasts? Fuck yeah!” “We’re 9th for art galleries specializing in neo-post-modern figurative art! Let’s…
Miami may not have the television production reputation of Los Angeles or New York, but television shows are being produced here everyday that are being seen by millions of people across the globe. Some of the most popular telenovelas, and, in fact, Telemundo says its been operating over capacity for…
For months, lame-duck Commissioner Jonah Wolfson’s new Political Action Committee has been the talk of Miami Beach. The PAC has raised more than $1 million in just three months amid accusations of high-pressure tactics aimed at city vendors by Wolfson and Mayor Philip Levine. Miami-Dade’s ethics commission has even opened…
During rush hour, the 18-mile commute from FIU to Miami Beach can easily take 45 minutes by car. On public transportation, that same trip now requires at least three buses and some two hours to complete. But a group of FIU students has a plan to make the trip far…
It was the Monday after Christmas, 2014. Night had fallen, and the air was crisp. In front of the Hollywood Beach Theatre — a pale-yellow concrete bandshell located where Johnson Street meets the ocean — a crowd of a few hundred people danced to a cover of Duke Ellington’s 1940s…
Marco Rubio is a big Dolphins fan, so its quite possible that after watching Ryan Tannehill struggle with last year’s crop of receivers that this is just how he thinks football is played now. Rubio was hanging in Iowa with his family for the Iowa State Fair, and started up…
This headline feels like it could be the result of some sort of specially tuned fake headline generator designed to spit out fake news items guaranteed to infuriate people with even the slightest tinges of progressive leaning. Other possibilities could have been, “Westboro Baptist Church Paints Portrait of Man Dying of…
Following the release of a series of controversial and highly-edited videos showing officials at Planned Parenthood centers in other states discussing the donation of tissue from abortion procedures, Governor Rick Scott launched an investigation into Florida’s 16 Planned Parenthood offices. This despite the fact that donating tissues from abortion procedures…
It’s now been a whole decade since Hurricane Wilma tore through Miami as a Cat 2, and without a single landfall since then, all has been quiet on the hurricane front. Too quiet. This summer, with a historic El Nino building and widespread Saharan dust spreading over the Atlantic, we’ve…
On October 1, 2013, more than 60 men in jumpsuits crowded into the austere cafeteria at the Krome Service Processing Center, a huge Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on the edge of the Everglades. The men, detainees from various Latin American countries, were gathered for a Spanish-language Catholic service…
All a Miami woman wanted to do was stop at the Big Lots so she could buy some feminine products. All her husband, Rafael Chacon, 24, wanted to do apparently was act insane. Chacon, enraged by the idea of his wife wanting to buy her lady products, allegedly dragged out the…
