On a Wednesday evening in early October, Congressman Joe Garcia strides through the empty lobby of a Key Largo community center, his black dress shoes clacking against the marble floor. Garcia is both affable and imposing. He has a large body and a broad face, with small dark eyes set…
Could a fan make the difference in the incredibly tight governor’s race? A new poll seems to think so. Gravis Marketing reports that Charlie Crist is up 44 percent to Rick Scott’s 42. The poll also specifically asked previously undecided voters who watched the debate whether #Fangate played a role…
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Would you have your toe crushed if it meant you got to meet Oprah Winfrey? Lori Geller Bender didn’t have a choice in the matter, but this past Saturday she narrowly avoided a trip to the hospital and got a picture with Oprah after the mogul’s SUV accidentally ran over…
The fate of Florida’s gay marriage ban won’t jump directly to Florida’s Supreme Court. The Third District Court of Appeal denied Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request to have the case bypass the lower courts and has decided to rule on the matter itself…
The Cuban expression “mañana, mañana.” is often interpreted by Anglos as an excuse for laziness. In fact, the saying speaks volumes about its island of origin. In a country that has been led by one Castro or another for more than half a century, what hope can there be that…
Frank Bocanegra, an attorney and former Miami-Dade Police officer, is running for county court judge on the November 4 ballot based largely on his three-decade career in law enforcement and his role as a former city manager of Miami Lakes. “I… truly believe that hard work and unrelenting professionalism are…
The Miami Dolphins beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-13 on Sunday, but it was a pigeon that trended worldwide on Twitter. Wait, what? Yup a pigeon. A pigeon that by the end of the game had it’s own Twitter account. What a world. During the second half of the game a…
If you see someone holding a handmade sign at a political rally you usually assume that person took the time to actually make that sign themselves and brought it along. But it seems that either Scott’s biggest fans all either had the same exact strike of sign-making genius, or someone…
Three cats have been found dead in Palmetto Bay in the past week, with at least one cat having been shot with a bow and arrow. The news comes five years after several cats were found dead in Palmetto Bay and neighboring Cutler Bay. Police believed a human was behind…
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The internet is constantly ranking cities to the point where we wonder if there’s any criteria left to rate cities by. Well, Real Estate firm Redfin has come up with a novel ranking: toilets per capita. As it turns out, Miami has the least amount of residential toilets per capita…
Call it a split decision. The latest legal skirmish over the Deep Dredge devolved into an all-day court battle over contracts and language yesterday. Despite the dredge drudgery, however, environmentalists emerged from federal court claiming important concessions in their ongoing battle against the Army Corps of Engineers, including almost half…
Florida has one of the nation’s strictest open records laws, but Gov. Rick Scott doesn’t seem to take much pride over his state’s achievement. In fact, according to an ongoing lawsuit, Scott openly flaunted those rules by setting up a Gmail account for secretly doing much of his official business…
In 2007, Miami New Times first documented the unintended side effect of Miami-Dade County’s strict laws about where convicted sex offenders can live: Namely, that dozens of men were forced by law to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in squalid conditions. The men were eventually moved out amid national…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week: a new definition of “stubborn fat,” a twisted tale about spaghetti, and a man simply too sexy for Chili’s…
This is not a joke about Juwan Howard. Promise. Illuminada Magtoto was facing her 90th birthday earlier this month and she realized she had one item left on her bucket list: playing one-on-one against Dwyane Wade. So she uploaded a plea on YouTube…
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Behold above. This is Dolphins Nation. It is not very big. In the map, the shaded counties are places where the Dolphins are amongst the top three teams — but in most of those spots out of South Florida, that share is very small. That’s according to Twitter anyway. The…
When news broke that County Mayor Carlos Giminez was mulling a plan to give millions in subsidies to the oddly shaped SkyRise observation tower, his administration also noted it wanted to shepherd money to 20th Century Fox’s plan to build a theme park on land near Zoo Miami. But details…
We’re not quite sure why Ryan Murphy set the freak-show-themed season of American Horror Story — whose third episode aired last night — in 1950s Jupiter, Florida, unless there’s some secret planetary or zodiacal theme at work (which might also explain why the lead character’s name is Elsa Mars). Because…
Everyone knows that adult fish can produce sounds, right? Well, maybe not, but trust us, they do. But earlier this month, a team from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School became the first ever — ever! — to document that fish larvae, also known as baby fish, can also make…
