Thanksgiving morning began sweetly for Cesar Baldelomar. No work. Beautiful weather. And good tunes thumping from his car stereo. As the 26-year-old cruised through Hialeah toward his parents’ house, he could practically smell his mother’s cooking wafting down 24th Avenue. But when Baldelomar pulled up to the stoplight at West…
The Miami Dolphins’ 41-13 humiliating blowout loss to the New England Patriots Sunday wasn’t just the last nail in the Dolphins season, it was the six-feet of dirt on Joe Philbin’s tenure as head coach. With the team’s playoff hopes on the line, the Dolphins found every way, from start-to-finish,…
Miami Beach police are warning motorists to expect more protests on a major causeway connecting the mainland to the beach this afternoon. Though, this time police expect the protests may go down on the MacArthur Causeway as opposed to the Julia Tuttle. However, Facebook event pages affiliated with the planned…
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Finally, some Floridian behavior to celebrate. A new report concludes that Florida has the second lowest smoking rate amongst high school students of every state in the union. In fact, Florida’s efforts to curb youth smoking has been so successful that researchers are actually issuing a “Florida Challenge” to other…
Roger Perry does not seem like a nice man. The 53-year-old tried to check out with full basket of groceries in the express lane, and then when another man pointed out he was in the wrong lane, Perry allegedly hit him so hard he ended up in a coma. Perry…
A complaint that began with towing companies grumbling at a city commission meeting about “pirate” drivers stealing their city-approved jobs has reportedly blossomed into a mass FBI probe of Miami cops. Now three Miami officers and two public service aides have been suspended under allegations that they called unapproved tow…
This Saturday, Miami-based film director and University of Miami graduate Billy Corben will debut the sequel to his 2009 hit ESPN 30 for 30 film, The U. Airing just after the Heisman Trophy presentation, The U Part 2 picks up where the original ended, taking viewers from the unstoppable 2001…
For years, Adam Meyer has occupied a unique space on the local sports scene. A “sports handicapper,” he boasted he could predict which team would win 60 percent of the time, and through his Real Money Sports Inc., he offered that edge to gamblers for annual fees up to $250,000…
A 935-foot skyscraper has been proposed for downtown Miami. It’s dubbed “The World Trade Center of the Americas” (which isn’t a sensitive and awkward choice of names at all), though there will more than trade going on there. The plan calls for a mixed bag of residential units, hotel rooms,…
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Miami is a city with a short history, so historical objects don’t exactly turn up here everyday. So when a dredge team was relocating seagrass to an area near the Julia Tuttle Causeway and came across an old cannon, they were surprised to say the least…
Christmastime is all about roasting chestnuts on an open fire, building snowmen, and taking your sled for the first ride of the year — unless you live in Florida, where it hardly ever snows and you can comfortably wear shorts in December. It’s actually a bit odd watching holiday specials…
On Tuesday night, 21-year-old street artist Delbert “Demz” Rodriguez died from a brain injury caused by a collision with a Miami cop car. Demz had been tagging a wall in Wynwood during Art Basel when an undercover detective chased him down. Hours after Demz’s death, a strange video was uploaded…
For more than a decade, hip-hop has risen as a cultural force in Cuba, giving voice to a discontented generation’s frustrations with the fossilized Castro regime. The underground scene has become a rare outlet for genuine criticism of the government. So of course bungling U.S. spies tried to infiltrate the…
For shoppers in most of the country, Black Friday is a chance to dive-bomb the mall to load up on price-slashed Christmas gifts, clothes for the new year or that laptop that’s been too expensive to until now. Floridians, though, apparently thought the day after Thanksgiving was the perfect time…
Remember when Florida Senator Marco Rubio was dubbed “the Republican Savior,” and “the GOP Obama?” Yeah, so much for that. Voters in his home state have really, really chilled on the idea of Rubio running for president. Instead, they’re looking back to the past: Jeb Bush…
Some white people seem to think the only way to be racist is to wear a KKK hood while shouting the n-word. That’s not the case, and often racism is more subtle and codified. So much so that a racist may not even know how racist they’re being. Project Implicit,…
Hours after Delbert Rodriguez, a 21-year-old street artist known as “Demz,” died last night, the Miami Police Department reiterated its version of what happened: An undercover cop chased Rodriguez after spotting him tagging a building in Wynwood early Friday morning. When the cop turned a corner, police say, Rodriguez was…
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Ninety-five school shooting have occurred in the United State in the two years since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary, and eight of those have happened right here in Florida according to a new report by Everytown for Gun Safety. That’s the second most of any state, trailing only our…
Thanks mostly to tourists with fat wallets, the retail sector in Miami has reached an all-time high, and retailers are scrambling to get a piece of the action. Retail space vacancy rates have hit 3.8 percent, and the average rent in the third quarter of 2014 was $45.18 per square…
