When Miami Beach installed Tempest in Collins Park in 2010, the city’s website gushed that Brian Tolle’s giant sculpture was “a shimmering blue-green expanse which appears to have been carved from the sea, frozen in space and time, in the form of a swirling celestial maze.” The website even encouraged…
Former Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi won’t be heading back to office, but the Supreme Court has ruled that Governor Rick Scott must formally un-suspend him anyway…
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Saturday Night Live’s “A Very Cuban Christmas” sketch from this weekend’s show wasn’t just sort of offensive to Cubans and Cuban-Americans; it was offensive to the very idea of comedy. In a sketch that seemed to be written at the last minute, the SNL crew decided to pack together a…
As of January 6th, same-sex marriage may be technically legal in Florida. The only hitch: clerks who issue same-sex marriage licenses could end up in jail for a year. That’s according to a memo issues last week by law firm Greenberg Traurig to Florida Court Clerks & Comptrollers, but gay…
TV Martí was supposed to be made for days like Wednesday, December 17. After all, the U.S. government has spent more than a half-billion dollars on Martí over the years, all to beam American news into the heart of Cuba. Yet when the biggest Cuban-American story in a half-century broke…
What we have here is your classic good-news/bad-news situation. The bad news: The Dolphins were eliminated from playoff contention when the Steelers beat the Chiefs Sunday. The good news: The Fins still had a game to finish, and finish they did. Then there’s the news that could be either good…
Florida’s march to marriage equality has been slow and arduous, but the United States Supreme Court just cleared what could be the final obstacle. The justices ruled late today that they would not grant Attorney General Pam Bondi’s motion to continue a stay on an earlier ruling deeming the state’s…
What a week for crooked mayor news, even by Miami standards. After former North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau was found guilty on fraud charges earlier this week, another former area mayor received his sentence for an earlier corruption case. Steve Bateman, formerly the mayor of Homestead, will spend the next…
Everyone knows that Miami’s condo boom is being fueled by South American buyers, but many of the American citizens snapping up properties here tend to be New Yorkers. Well, the New York Times, whose coverage of Miami tends to be notoriously tone deaf when read by actual Miamians, is here…
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A former student who lost her virginity to her teacher in a classroom is now suing Miami-Dade County Public Schools for failing to properly protect her. The now-17-year-old victim says the teacher, 33-year-old Bresnniell Jansen, had previously been accused of sending an inappropriate text to another teen in 2008 but…
Across the country, strong resistance has cropped up against the oil extraction process known as fracking, or hydraulic fracturing. Even a single fracking job requires a staggering amount of water, as well as an abundance of toxic chemicals. Some evidence suggests the “fracking fluid” that has to be injected deep…
In September 2006, the crime that sparked one of the darkest sagas in Miami-Dade Public Schools history happened in a Northwestern High School bathroom. That’s where the school’s star 18-year-old quarterback had sex with a 14-year-old freshman girl. The crime soon began the focus of a mass coverup allegation as…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week, that includes innovative masturbation technique, a fake heart attack, and the worst office holiday party ever…
Former Miami Police officer Jose Maldonado-Dick will remain on lockup over the holidays. A judge ruled today during Maldonado-Dick’s second appearance in bond court that he will not be eligible for release before his January 25th, 2015 trial based on the severity of his crimes…
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On November 13th, Bradley Holt, 24, was standing in front of an apartment building when a yellow Mustang pulled up and tried to do donuts in a parking lot where a group of children were playing. Holt yelled at the driver to quit driving so erratically, but his attempt at…
From 1994 until 2008 the Miami Hurricanes were on a historic talent producing run, with a player being selected in the first round of the NFL draft every year for 14 years. Since then, however, not a single ‘Cane has gone in the first round. That drought may finally be…
A federal judge told him to drop the plan. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals told him it was illegal. Then the U.S. Supreme Court refused to listen to his arguments. But despite losing over and over in every court around, Gov. Rick Scott is still fighting for the right…
Yesterday’s joint announcement from President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raúl Castro that they intend to normalize relations between the two long-divided countries was undoubtedly the most momentous day in U.S.-Cuba relations in more than a half-century. It was business as usual at Yoyito Café. As cameras mobbed a tiny…
In 2013, Beyoncé and Jay Z randomly (and controversially) popped up in Cuba to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. Just 18 months later, President Obama has announced a normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations. Coincidence? A certain segment of Twitter thinks not…
