How tight can a governor’s race get? Tighter than Rick Scott’s terrifying debate smile? Tighter than Charlie Crist’s artificially orange skin? Yep, that’s how tight the race for the Florida governor’s mansion has gotten, according to a pair of new polls. The fresh Quinnipiac and Rasmussen polls both show the…
Florida’s billionaire Gov. Rick Scott paid for his first campaign out of his own incredibly deep pockets. This time around, he promised to fund his reelection efforts through more traditional means, but as Charlie Crist’s camp has seen an incredible last-minute fundraising surge, Scott has changed his mind. He’s writing…
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Lincoln Road’s transformation from bohemian strip to a sunny urban outpost for suburban mall chain stores continues. The nonprofit ArtCenter South Florida has sold their outpost at 800 Lincoln Road to developers for a tidy $88 million. See also: ArtCenter/South Florida Is Selling Its Iconic Lincoln Road Gallery Building…
One of the most viral stories on the internet in the past 24 hours is the news that South Miami City Commission passed a resolution calling for the division of Florida into two separate states. It’s not something that’s going to happen, but, hey, it’s fun to click on. The…
For years, a prevailing knock on Miami has been that the young and educated move away in a perpetual brain drain to towns with more diverse, tech-driven economies. Sure, the Magic City is lovely, they said, if you want to work in real estate or restaurants. Well, a new study…
Hal Kreitman is having a staring contest with an eight-foot bull gator. It’s a Monday morning, and fast-moving cloud cover yanks shadows across a shallow pond nestled along an empty stretch of Loop Road in the Everglades. Kreitman — 51 years old, salt-and-pepper hair, circle medallion glinting off his gym-ripped…
Amazingly enough, it’s already almost time to turn your attention to what’s happening down on Biscayne Boulevard, as your new-look, less-hyped Miami Heat returns a week from today, looking to prove to the world that its world does not revolve around one man. The Heat still has the same goal…
On June 30, 2011, Miami-Dade Police officers ambushed a band of robbers in the Redland, killing four — including the cops’ own informant — in a fury of bullets without receiving a shot in return. But when it came time to investigate the suspicious shootings, the agency leading the inquiry…
Remember your TV friend Montel Williams? He hosted a daytime tabloid talk show for nearly 20 years. Not the one with the white cousins fighting over dwarf boyfriends (that was Jerry), or the one where men found out if they contributed genetic material that helped make a baby (Maury), or…
After the bizarre #Fangate moment during last week’s gubernatorial debate between Rick Scott and Charlie Crist, don’t expect any similar shenanigans tonight. CNN is hosting the event, and they run a tight ship. The 24-hour news channel has explicitly banned fans from the podium. Oddly, they’ve also banned other media…
Last week, Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally selling testosterone from his Coral Gables clinic to hundreds of clients, including Major League Baseball players. Today, the feds have arrested another man who they say supplied some of that illegal testosterone. Paulo Berejuk, a chemist based…
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Judges may set bonds over $1 million for serious crimes such as murder, high-profile cases, or for defendants who present a serious flight risk. Jorge Vargas simply got caught with some undersize lobster tails, so why did a judge set his bail at a hefty $1.4 million? Well, Vargas was…
It seems a bit odd that in light of Miami’s out-of-control condo boom, the full plans for midtown Miami still have not come to fruition. This despite the fact that it was one of the few development projects that really thrived during the valleys between the booms. Well, according to…
Finishing off the end of a joint, the DeLisi brothers slid into a 7-Eleven parking lot just off Sample Road in Pompano Beach. It was the end of 1974, and they were ages 30 and 38, full of New York swagger, and feeling invincible. Tucked into the yellow 1965 Porsche’s…
Last week, New Times revealed at least two Miami Police officers had been customers of Biogenesis, the notorious Coral Gables steroid clinic at the heart of Major League Baseball’s biggest doping scandal, and that a former Florida Department of Health investigator refused to involve the force in his case after…
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Seemingly every discussion of Miami’s recent development boom includes someone sneering, “Yeah, and all those condo lobbies will be underwater in 100 years.” And every discussion of the potentially devastating effects of global warming on South Florida comes with someone quipping, “And yet they keep building towers down there.” But…
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled in favor of protecting a privacy right that many Floridians might not have even known they’d lost, and we have a convicted drug dealer to thank. Police departments often use cell phone data and spying tools known as “stingrays” to track people’s locations through…
For all the Colbert and Daily Show hilarity and the week’s worth of Twitter hot takes, did Fangate actually matter in the race to decide who will be Florida’s next governor? Not according to a new poll out this morning. The Republican-leaning 0ptimus firm finds the two candidates virtually tied…
For Collon Brown, the revelation came in Toronto, when he was fiddling around with the large elastic bands that are used as truck tie-downs. Brown had already burned out of his career as a graphic designer and had lately become obsessed with yoga, meditation, and righting his body and mind…
