Adidas may spend all day dreaming about sports, but the company is turning the unveiling of the new uniforms for the University of Miami into a major nighttime affair. They’ve booked out LIV, literally the hottest nightclub this side of Vegas, to launch the uniforms this Saturday night with an invite only…
Rent prices in Miami are out of control, but not all neighborhoods are as bad as others. Why you can still find affordable rents in places like Liberty City and Gladview. Looking anywhere else? Well, you better be making at least $55,000 a year. The folks at home and apartment…
Yathomas Riley has been tied to another suspicious shooting.
Five years after Durell Eskridge, Devonta Freeman, and Rakeem Cato led the Miami Central High Rockets to their first state title and made the cover of Miami New Times, the former teammates have fulfilled their dream of playing in the pros. Freeman, who also won a college football national title…
There’s a golden palace on Biscayne Bay. An imperial porte-cochère, vaulted ceilings, and grand fireplaces make the Miami Woman’s Club one of the most elegant structures in the American Southeast. Taxpayers recently forked over almost $4 million to freshen up the 89-year-old Spanish Renaissance structure, which was among the first…
Perhaps even before developers and tourism businesses, tech giants are some of the eagerest American companies ready to do business in Cuba. Last month, a Google executive traveled to the island, reportedly to discuss the idea of expanding internet service in the nation through an advanced WiFi network. Though, The…
Green City is an ambitious plan to create 860-acres of much needed state-of-the-art but affordable eco-friendly development. The catch: it would be built outside of the county’s Urban Development Boundary and creeps up into the Everglades. A genuine plan or a green-washed Trojan Horse meant to spur development past the…
The Marlins mercifully finished the first half of their season Sunday with an 8-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds, bringing them to a disappointing 38-51 at the mid-way mark of the year. For a team that came into the season with some predicting t hem to compete for a playoff…
This past February, the Palm Beach Post published renderings of Echo Brickell, a 57-story skyscraper planned for Brickell Avenue. The opulent interior looked incredible, particularly the avant-garde 12,000-gallon shark tank. In the image published by the Post, two large sharks circled a center column. The residential units, according to the…
For $54.99, on the website www.prepsportswear.com, you can buy a maroon Miami Springs Senior High School Golden Hawks hooded sweatshirt, complete with an image of Golden Hawk. Or you can buy a MAST Academy Makos hat, in navy for $21.99 . Or even, for $19.99, a white Avocado Aces t-shirt,…
Sea Land Distributors is a family-owned business that dates back for more than three decades. It’s a simple business. They distribute fresh frozen sea food to local restaurants. Today, owners walked in to find a hole in the wall of their Allapattah-area warehouse. During the night someone had smashed through…
Maybe you’ve seen the meme floating around Facebook or Instagram. The one that says “Cuban coffee is the reason that crystal meth hasn’t taken of in Miami.” And there’s a hint of truth in it. Compared to the rest of the state (if not country), Miami-Dade doesn’t have a huge…
Veteran NBA forward David West has lost his mind. The 34-year-old former all-star just pulled off the craziest free agent move in sports history by taking a gargantuan pay cut to play for the San Antonio Spurs. West opted out of the last year of his contract with the Indiana…
Around 8:40 Wednesday evening, not long after sunset, a 51-year-old woman was driving east on the Tuttle Causeway in a 2015 Chrysler van, towards Miami Beach. West of Alton Road a man was walking across the highway from south to north. He was hit by the Chrysler, his body launching…
A newly surfaced map documenting water taxi routes for next year’s Miami Boat Show has Village of Key Biscayne officials and environmentalists up in arms. The proposed map, meant to alleviate traffic on Virginia Key Beach during the five-day event, criss-crosses protected manatee zones and critical wildlife areas. The map…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. We’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a Miami couple who found Naples just a bit too boring, the tale of Mistress Creammy Juicy, unlicensed massage therapy, and two women who would rather have Publix groceries than the…
What happens at Jackson Memorial Hospital is supposed to stay at Jackson Memorial Hospital. It’s Federal law. So how did ESPN scoop machine Adam Schefter manage to tweet NFL player Jason Pierre-Paul’s medical records? That’s what Jackson is now trying to find out. New York Giants defensive end Pierre-Paul, a…
You ever wonder how Florida has more Democratic voters than Republicans, has voted for Obama in the past two presidential cycle, has razor-close Gubernatorial elections and yet still send 17 Republicans to the House and only 10 Democrats? It just doesn’t make sense, does it? Well, Gerrymandering and the way…
Unlike some Republicans, Jeb Bush at least recognizes climate change as a reality. He won’t say what he thinks is causing it. He won’t say how large of a problem he thinks it is, but in an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader he did offer his vision of how…
Miami Worldcenter principal developer Nitin Motwani says he expected maybe 200 people to show up at Overtown’s St. Agnes Episcopal Church for a project job fair this past Tuesday. Instead, there were more like 500. “We were overwhelmed with excitement,” Motwani says. “It was supposed to end at 2 —…
There have been few stories as widely discussed in recent months as Caitlyn Jenner’s journey from gold medal-winning male track star to transgender woman. In June, as Vanity Fair’s cover made its rounds online, South Florida native Jazz Jennings sensed her own life would never be the same. The 14-year-old…
The Terminator is back, dropping one-liners in postapocalyptic Los Angeles. The Avengers have already banded together to defeat an alien menace, and soon everyone from Ant-Man to the Fantastic Four will save the world. In other words, it’s superhero movie season. And frankly, Miamians are feeling left out. It’s high…
