Miami Beach is losing its free public wi-fi system. But the bigger news to many Beach residents is likely that the city actually had a free public wi-fi system to begin with — it does. It’s just terrible. The Miami Beach city commission voted in fall of 2013 to…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and we’re here every Friday to share the weirdness with you. This week we have a rash of women in just their bra and panties behind the wheel, and proof that everything in America really comes down to cake. Drunk…
Until five years ago Florida has the most draconian anti-gay adoption laws in the entire country. Even a single, celibate gay person was banned from adopting in the state. That law was struck down in 2010, but the Florida House is intent and brining back some homophobia to the state’s…
Start to feel nervous around the first of the month when the landlord comes to collect the rent check? You’re probably far from alone in Miami-Dade. It’s no secret that rents have started to skyrocket recently (and they weren’t exactly cheap before), but things have gotten so bad that Miami-Dade…
Miami New Times loves its titular city. We right love letters to it just about every week, and are ready to defend it when its honor it attacked. But that doesn’t mean life in Miami is all sunshine and lollipops. We can’t even paint all our city’s defects as lovable…
He was finally sent back. Yesterday Carlos Vides, the former Salvadoran general, war crimes perpetrator, and central Florida resident was deported to El Salvador after being held for weeks at an immigration detention center in Louisiana. For Vides’ thousands of Salvadoran victims, and for the lawyers and activists in the…
For more than three decades, Cuba has joined such nefarious characters as Iran, Sudan and Syria on the U.S. State Department’s list of countries that support terrorism abroad. Even as Havana has become a well-traveled international tourism hub sharing little in common with Tehran or Damascus, the designation has remained,…
Fidel Castro should be thankful he never really had to run for re-election. A new poll conducted by a Miami polling firm of Cubans (as in actually living in Cuba) finds that his favorably ratings are pretty mediocre on the island. Only 44 percent of Cubans have a positive opinion…
Florida isn’t a red state or a blue state. You could call it a purple state, but really it’s more a gradient state. With a few notable exceptions, the deep red of the north fades into the deep blue of the south. So it’s really no surprise that Miami Gardens…
What do “I just flew in and boy my arms are tired,” “Take my wife …please” and The Florida Democratic Party have in common? They’re all worn out jokes whose punchlines have been told too many times. With the exception of the reelections of Senator Bill Nelson (a holdover from…
The nation’s eyes this morning have turned to South Carolina, where a white police officer has been charged with murder for fatally shooting an unarmed black man. The charges only came after a video emerged to contradict the officer’s story that the suspect had been threatening him with the cop’s…
After last night’s 105-100 win against the Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat fans find themselves between a rock and a hard place entering the last week of the season. Miami players keep dropping like flies and even the supposedly healthy guys like Dwyane Wade and Goran Dragic obviously aren’t one-hundred percent…
The word shot out on the police wire: Be on the lookout for a Ford Focus, black female at the wheel. The driver is waving a handgun at other cars. That muggy afternoon on July 10, 2012, a Fort Lauderdale community service officer coursing through a grid of industrial streets off Sunrise Boulevard tracked the driver down to a rental agency on NW Eighth Avenue.
It’s been 10 months since Uber launched in Miami, but its still unclear exactly how popular service is in town and how much its really cut into the business of traditional taxis. Today, Certify, a company that specializes in business travel and expense management software, released data that gives us…
Every year since 2011, Walk Score has released their rankings of America’s most walkable cities. Every year Miami lands in the top 10. Every year actual Miamians scratch their heads and think, “Wait, that can’t be right. I don’t walk anywhere.” Walk Score, owned by online real estate database company Redfin, remains…
South Florida is the Ponzi scheme capital of America, so perhaps its not that much of a surprise that a former Miami Dolphins player has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme of his own. Will Allen played four years with the Dolphins…
New studies emerge by the week illustrating how Earth’s climate is changing. Sea levels are rising, and the only real question is how quickly and whether low-lying regions — like, you know, the entire state of Florida — will have time enough to react to save themselves. The only significant group…
Just a few paces from busy Brickell Avenue, Ishmael Bermudez crouches behind his little clapboard house and drinks serenely from a hose lowered into the ancient bedrock. Skyscrapers drape his property in shadows. Across the street, a Metrorail train clamors to a stop at an elevated station. All around, construction…
Remember how the Miami Marlins spent hundreds of million of dollars to build themselves a new stadium with a fancy retractable roof? Remember how one of the main selling points was the fact that it tends to rain a lot in South Florida, and playing in the roof-less Sun Life…
Miami is definitely a city that places a high importance on the body, and apparently most locals are treating theirs like a temple. That’s at least according to Livability.com who ranked Miami as the fourth healthiest city in America. Perhaps that’s not much of a surprise for a place where…
It’s not a pun to say that Dr. Frederic Brandt literally changed the face of dermatology. Dubbed “the barron of botox” and the “the king of collagen,” Brandt is single handily credit with popularizing the use of injectables to fight the signs of aging, and had a long list of…
For months leading up to last year’s vote on Amendment Two, which would have legalized medical pot in Florida, polls consistently showed huge margins in favor of reform — and we all know how that turned out in the end. Still, the numbers are eye-opening in the latest survey out…
