With most of the major renovations at the Doral Golf Resort Trump National Doral completed, the Trump family has spent the better part of 2015 promoting their recent acquisition. As the story goes, Ivanka Trump, Donald’s daughter, was key in negotiating the deal to acquire the property back in 2011…
When you think Florida you think retirees. Just about everyone has a grandparent or at least a great aunt living down here. We were the setting of the Golden Girls after all, and somehow the average age in Florida just keep getting older. So we may be a popular place…
Starting pitcher Jarred Cosart came to the Miami Marlins last summer hoping for a fresh start after a sometimes rocky tenure with the Houston Astros. Instead, he finds himself this morning amidst a Twitter-storm of allegations tying him to gambling. MLB is now looking into the claims, a spokesman tells…
The first call came to police just after rush hour, around 7 p.m. — two 16-year-olds had been gunned down on a busy Allapattah corner, killing one and wounding the other. Just two hours later, as crime scene technicians were still working in the taped-off murder site, another frantic call…
The Miami Heat’s seemingly cursed 2014-15 regular season is mercifully clanging toward the finish line, and there’s surprisingly more gas left in the tank than most Heat fans would have expected. Despite a crushing one-point loss to the Bucks last night, the Heat are still clinging on to the seventh…
Cesar Vasquez is a 28-year-old, soft-spoken AT&T customer service rep with a flowing imam-style beard and dark features. On a recent still, scorching day around 3 p.m., he leads me to a shady spot near the corner of a large apartment building in Naranja, five miles north of Homestead. Soon…
According to Best Doctor, Miami is the 8th “most bike-friendly” city in America, only behind a handful of cycling meccas like Portland, Oakland and DC. To determine this the analysis graded each of America’s 52 largest cities on three different criteria. Miami actually did horribly in two of the three,…
Ana Quincoces’ time on The Real Housewives of Miami was brief, but her vacation time down in the keys was cut even shorter. First by cockroaches and then by the law. Quincoces has a suspended license, but continued to drive freely. Apparently she’s been spending a lot of time down…
Among the eight men charged by the feds over the Biogenesis steroid scandal, only former University of Miami pitching coach Lazer Collazo has managed to beat the rap. Despite allegations from the clinic’s owner, Tony Bosch, that Collazo had helped recruit young athletes to the Coral Gables clinic, the government…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection made interesting discovery back on February 27th right here on the Miami River. They found 797 pounds of cocaine hidden inside a boat on the Miami River, leading to one of the largest recent cocaine seizure in Miami in recent memory. The Miami Border Enforcement Security…
It was less than two years ago that Lucie Tondreau was elected as North Miami’s first female Hatiian-American mayor. This morning she was sentenced to 65 months behind bars for her role in a real estate fraud scheme. No one said that corruption wasn’t an equal opportunity in Miami-Dade. Tondreau…
The proposals for a new supermall called American Dream Miami have caught international headlines, especially since the mega-project is set to include a roller-coaster, water park and even a ski-slope. The plan has also caught plenty of flak from everyone from politicians to economists. But now a new wave of…
Bernie Weiss could be your grandpa. Nestled on the 12th floor of a custard-colored Collins Avenue retirement home, his small studio apartment bears all the signs of senescence. The air inside is as cool and moist as a supermarket veggie aisle. The coffee table is spread with gummies and Publix…
Last July, Alexander Figueroa was one of two players who was promptly kicked off the Miami Hurricanes football team after an arrest on charges that he and teammate JaWand Blue drugged and raped a 17-year-old girl on campus. Figueroa ended up avoiding jail time and will have his felony charges dropped…
With Debbie Wasserrman Schultz and Charlie Crist officially out of the race, Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democrat from Palm Beach County, announced today that he’ll run for Senate in 2016 …whether or not Marco Rubio decides to vacate it to run for President or not. At just 31 year of…
With a raucous crowd and a national broadcast crew, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber sat yesterday in sunny, southern weather in his league’s newest stadium and raved about the future of his sport. But more than a year after David Beckham’s gala press conference promising a downtown Miami soccer…
Of the City of Miami’s five commission districts, it’s District 2 that wields the most power: The district stretches along the city’s eastern edge from Coconut Grove north past Edgewater, encompassing Brickell’s moneyed condos and much of downtown. And eight months before the election to decide the district’s next commissioner,…
Last month, faux doctor Tony Bosch at last faced the music for running a freewheeling steroid clinic from a storefront on bustling South Dixie Highway in Coral Gables. He’ll spend four years in federal prison for posing as a doctor and selling roids and HGH to scores of athletes, bodybuilders,…
When one thinks of South Florida it’s not hard to imagine brightly colored speedos, drag queens doing splits on sidewalks, movies like The Birdcage, gay enclaves like Wilton Manors, circuit parties and the Gianni Versace heydays of South Beach. The region isn’t exactly trying to downplay its shades of gay,…
Settle down, this has nothing to do with towing on the Beach, but the FBI did make six arrests for local towing corruption involving city of Miami police officers and public safety aids. When you get into a car accident and an officer arrives on the seen in Miami you…
This past October the city commission of South Miami, which for better or worse hardly ever makes local headlines, made national headlines by passing a resolution calling for Florida to be split into two separate states. The idea didn’t go anywhere but viral online, but the commission decided to try…
Dan Bilzerian’s Instagram feed is like a 14-year-old boy’s fantasy world come to life. Guns, beautiful women who forgot their pants, more guns and baby alligators at fancy nightclubs keep Bilzerian’s 7.1 million followers coming back for more. The trust fund playboy and professional poker player’s lifestyle seemed to at…
