When Donna Shalala was inducted as University of Miami president on June 1, 2001, she became the first female president of the private university, breaking a 76-year streak of five male presidents. During her 14-year reign, she elevated the private university’s ranking so that it regularly appeared on the U.S…
A lot of crazy things happen in Florida every week, and we’re hear to round up the craziest every Friday. This week: twin trouble, a resident of “Moron County, Florida,” mischief at the most magical place on earth, and a new her for Florida: The “Ginja Ninja.” “Ginja Ninja” stops…
On its website Monsanto, the St. Louis-based biotech corporate giant, calls itself a “sustainable agricultural company” that’s focused on empowering farmers and conserving natural resources. An advocacy group says the company is an evil “Biotech Bully” with a “dastardly plan to lie and cheat its way to more profits and power.” …
There’s been few properties quite as indicative of Miami’s up-and-down real estate market as Biscayne Landings in North Miami. A former dump and Superfund site, the city of North Miami cleaned up the space located at 151st and Biscayne and has been trying to get someone to develop it since…
The Low Income Pool is a unique, complicated agreement between the Federal and State Government of Florida in which the Feds provide money to hospitals who treat people who are uninsured or underinsured. The deal was struck when Jeb Bush was Governor and George W. Bush was President, but President…
More than most cities, Miami is defined by its stereotypes in the eyes of the rest of the country. No one really bothers to get to know that much about the real Miami. To most we’re just a postcard image of a plump dumped bikini model drinking champagne on the…
The late-night party is over for Ocean Drive sidewalk cafes. The Miami Beach City Commission voted yesterday to ban all outdoor booze sales after 2 a.m., the first of several moves Mayor Philip Levine pledges will usher in a new era for the iconic beachfront boulevard. Several restaurant owners slammed…
A few months after Hurricane Sandy bared down on New York, killing over 150 people and wreaking $65 billion in damage, city leaders cried for help to make their city more flood-proof. Dutch expert Henk Ovink answered. Ovink had helped make his homeland, where 55 percent of the country is…
Something strange is happening on Google Maps. People first took notice early this week when it was reported that typing in the phrase “n**** house” brings up The White House, but apparently the problem isn’t confined to just that highly offensive example. Apparently if you type in “dumb fucks” while…
David Beckham announced he’d be brining a Major League Soccer team to Miami well over a year ago, and hasn’t said much since. It appears however Beckham will be beaten to being the first to bring professional soccer back to the 305. The North American Soccer League, America’s Division II league,…
Miami hasn’t hosted a Super Bowl since 2010. Which isn’t exactly an astounding drought, but we are Miami. We do things like host Super Bowls. We’ve hosted ten of them in fact, tied for most with New Orleans. But one day the NFL’s top brass decided our little Sun Life…
It’s May. Hundreds of thousands of students have recently put on those ugly polyester gowns, marched up on stage, shook some hands, grabbed a diploma and officially entered the real world. They’re on the lookout for jobs now, and there’s probably more than a few looking to take their talents…
Aaron Cohen. Christophe Le Canne. Walter Reyes. This evening, in a group bicylce ride leaving from Crandon Park, hundreds of people will ride for them, and for all the other cyclists who have lost their lives while riding in Miami and around the world. “(The ride will) honor those that have…
Tenth time’s a charm? Probably not for the Miami Marlins and looney tunes owner Jeffrey Loria. With the firing of manager Mike Redmond on Sunday, the Marlins are now on their 10th manger in just 12 years of Loria’s ownership. Just about every previous manager left the house on fire…
The party was jumping behind the small beige house backed up against I-95 in North Miami. Dance lights flashed on hundreds of liquor bottles behind the makeshift bar. A DJ dropped a bass-heavy mix. And just before midnight, a party bus full of girls rolled up. It was tough to…
Pam Bondi, champion of traditional marriage, practitioner of…yeah, whatever.
Politically, Alan Grayson is progressive Floridian’s wet dream. Many are still holding out hope that he’ll jump into the Senate race against establishment favorite and boringly moderate Rep. Patrick Murphy. There’s just one little problem with Grayson: his personality. The hot tempered Orlando-area Democrat is currently in the process of…
Despite continually dropping number of arrests during the weekend, despite having a new police chief and despite a recent racism scandal in the department, Miami Beach is once again turning itself into a mini-police state during Memorial Day Weekend this year. The traffic loops, barricades and checkpoints are all coming…
As he nears $100 million in fundraising and an official announcement he’s trying to follow his father and brother into the White House, countless sentences are being written about Jeb Bush every single day. But not many look like the description of a new tome for sale on Amazon about…
On April 25, 2012, Sharon Stern took her own life. The 33-year-old from North Miami Beach had spent part of the previous three years traveling the world with a Japanese dance master known as Katsura Kan, teaching workshops and performing. One video shows them on a black stage, side by…
The Miami Marlins continue to be a baseball diamond circus of shame, but luckily Miami has at least one competent and proud baseball organization in town. The Miami Hurricanes baseball team, already the owner of four national championships, are on a hot streak lately. Rocking up to 8th in the…
2014 saw a number of high profile boat accidents in Miami-Dade. Their was the Fourth of July weekend boating accident that claimed the life of four people, and an incident involving a boat driven by radio mainstay DJ Laz. His Voli Vodka sponsored boat got stuck on a sandbar, and…
