Haider Zafar had quite some balls. He defrauded Mike Miller, James Jones, and Rashard Lewis out of a combined $7.5 million in a shady investment scheme, and then turned around to use some of that money to buy season tickets to watch his victims play basketball. Zafar was of course…
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Fido may live in your home now, but do you have any idea where your dog was born and spent her first few months of life? A new ordinance passed by the Miami-Dade County Commission aims to educate prospective owners about where their dog came from, and to place tougher…
It’s the first week of fall … or autumn. We’re not sure. Some people are so obsessed with this season that they’ve given it not one but two different names while using it as an excuse to put pumpkin spice on everything and knit mittens while drinking hot chocolate around…
Wynwood is getting a new park, and it will look kind of like a greenhouse. The plan, for a well-manicured space with grass and trees covered by a thin, translucent structure, was the winner in an international competition sponsored by Tony Cho, CEO of Wynwood real estate firm Metro 1…
The NFL has been slowly rolling out a cool new feature this season. At select games, a specially assigned photographer with custom gear takes hundreds of ultra-high resolution photos and then stitches them together into a panorama called a “gigapan.” The idea is that fans can later zoom into their…
Just before 11 a.m. yesterday, a woman pulled up to the JW Marriott Hotel downtown in a sparkling Lexus she’d only recently driven off the dealer’s lot, still decked out with paper license plates. She stepped out of the luxury ride as valets pulled her luggage from the trunk. Suddenly,…
Residents in the Caribbean came down with fevers as high as 104, migraine-like headaches, and sometimes bright-red rashes covering their limbs. But worst was the joint pain — typically so severe it made ordinary tasks like twisting doorknobs and tying shoelaces unbearable and forced even healthy young men to walk…
Listen up, kids. Next time you think science is boring, consider how Thaddeus McRae spent two years of his life: namely, chasing squirrels around the University of Miami campus with a remote-controlled cat on wheels and gliders painted to look like hawks. “We had some very interesting interactions,” McRae says…
What’s your condo horror story? An air-conditioning unit that wasn’t fixed for weeks? A neighbor whose loud music kept you up all night? How about a general contractor who ultimately bilked the condo company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars while residents were left with flooded apartments and spotty…
In March, 21-year-old Adonis Peña Escoto died after a day of partying at Ultra Music Festival. Until now, the cause of his death had been a mystery. A Miami-Dade Medical Examiner report obtained by New Times at last sheds some light on what killed him — and suggests that synthetic…
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John Thrasher has held a lot of positions in his life: speaker of the Florida House, chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, lobbyist, chairman of Rick Scott’s reelection campaign, and current state senator. Yesterday the Florida State University Board of Trustees voted 11-2 to appoint Thrasher as the 15th…
As his hometown presidential hopeful Marco Rubio fumbles for a coherent response to ISIS and his state’s attentions have been riveted to the Charlie Crist-Rick Scott slugfest, Jeb Bush has mostly kept his head low in Coral Gables. But if Dubya’s hermano isn’t 100 percent running for president just yet,…
Times are tough for the Miami Dolphins. No matter what they do, nothing seems to go their way. Year after year, high hopes turn into epic disappointments. Now, with coach Joe Philbin in the hot seat and Ryan Tannehill’s tenure as the Dolphins starting quarterback tenuous at best, the team…
Last month, an arbitration board decided that Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa was wrong to fire one of his officers for shooting and killing an unarmed man named Travis McNeil at a traffic stop. McNeil was the seventh black man killed in an eight month span by Miami police –…
Stereotypes be damned, a new analysis has found that the Miami metro area has the second most engaged workforce in America, and no that doesn’t explain why everyone at your work place has a fiancé but you. The analysis from Quantum Workplace (a company that sells software meant to drive…
Yesterday we wondered if there was any scam that Miamians don’t excel at? Well, it turns out you can’t even buy a lottery ticket in this town without running the risk of getting massively ripped off by a shady business owner (well, more than the lottery usually rips you off)…
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Is “three-breasted” woman Jasmine Tridevil a troubled soul? A fame-hungry schemer? The most brilliant American performance artist in years? Sometimes it’s best not to search too hard for a label and simply appreciate something for all of its possibilities. Whatever the case, the internet has largely reversed course since yesterday…
Florida’s heated gubernatorial race could use some chilling out, and there’s nothing cooler than Vanilla Ice. Am I right, kids? Well Rick Scott recently met Florida’s greatest white rapper, but Mr. Ice was quick to point out that the meeting did not equal an endorsement…
Coral Gables’s new city manager has stepped down less than a week into his new job. Last Tuesday, city commissioners unanimously voted to appoint Jim Beard to the post. But problems unearthed during a background check appear to have scuppered the appointment. “Mr. Beard has withdrawn his name from consideration,”…
