Kevin Adorno wanted to combine his bucket list with his engagement. The 28-year-old graphic designer from Uniondale, Connecticut, always wanted to bike down the East Coast from Maryland to Miami, and he decided that once he arrived here he’d propose to his girlfriend. Unfortunately, Adorno met a sad end when…
A day after a video depicting his beheading was posted online, more details are emerging about the life and death of Middle East correspondent and Miami native Steven Sotloff. Perhaps the most heartbreaking is the revelation that his family hid Sotloff’s Jewish identity in a desperate attempt to save him…
It’s amazing what $25.6 million can buy you these days. A condo in South Beach. A season of CC Sabathia’s pitching services. Or if you’re Rick Scott, a five-point lead in a hotly contested governor’s race. That’s what a new poll out this morning from the Tampa Bay Times finds…
We waited eight months for that? This past Monday, Hurricanes fans got a glimpse of their 2014 squad in a nationally televised 31-13 blowout loss to the Louisville Cardinals. The fans were not impressed. The play was much the same as what we saw all last season, which was incredibly…
In a race between two known devils, Floridians can’t seem to figure out which one is better. A new poll from Gravis Marketing shows that Floridians are split dead even between who they’d prefer as governor. Rick Scott or Charlie Crist sit at exactly 37 percent each. Perhaps the bigger…
Today’s photo comes from Claudio Baglietto’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group. Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
Steven Sotloff, a 31-year-old Miami-raised journalist, has apparently been beheaded by ISIS. Video purporting to show the attack is circulating online, though no official confirmation has come from American officials or ISIS. See also: Steven Sotloff’s Mother Pleas to ISIS for His Release…
Oh sure, the weather is fine, the people look sexy, and the beaches stretch for miles, but that doesn’t mean life is all good in the 305. According to a new analysis by Nerd Wallet, Miami has the lowest quality of life of any big city in the entire United…
The FBI has opened an investigation this morning after hackers flooded internet message boards yesterday with hundreds of nude photos of celebrities, apparently stolen off their cell phones and computers. Among the victims: Ariana Grande, the teeny-bopping star from South Florida. Most of the celebs involved, including Oscar winner Jennifer…
The slumbering 2014 hurricane season is finally coming out of hibernation. Just over a week after Hurricane Cristobal pulled together in the Caribbean, the fourth named storm of the year has become official in the Gulf of Mexico. Miami’s National Hurricane Center this morning named Tropical Storm Dolly, which is…
Thirty-year-old Lytisa Small says that last November she was talking to her ex-boyfriend, Irrington Roberts-Isaacs, outside his home on NW 140th Street in Opa-locka when another woman approached. The woman, a friend of both Roberts-Isaacs and his current girlfriend’s, was incensed that Small was speaking to Roberts-Isaacs and smacked her…
Though the security and secrecy surrounding Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union’s wedding was tight, it turns out the pair got married at a moat-surrounded castle in the Redland. Yet despite the signed confidentiality agreements, key details about #TheWadeUnion still leaked. See also: Castle With a Moat in the Redland Selling…
Isabella’s lawsuit could open a pandora’s box of problems for Florida’s porn industry.
Just 17.5 percent of Florida’s registered voters bothered to turn out for Florida’s primary election on Tuesday. That’s the lowest turnout in a state-wide election in the state in 16 years. The last time voter turnout was lower was when only 16.6 percent of Floridians bothered to turn out for…
Today’s photo comes from Rober1000x’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group. Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
It may be the biggest South Florida wedding of the year, but if all goes well you won’t hear anything about it. Dwyane Wade is marrying Gabrielle Union tomorrow somewhere in Miami. Though the wedding comes with an official hashtag (#TheWadeUnion, naturally), the couple is going through great lengths to…
Last week the University of Maryland made headlines by guaranteeing all of its student athletes lifetime scholarships. That means even if the athletes leave early to pursue professional opportunities and they don’t quite work out, they can always come back and finish their education. It got a lot of ink…
First it was 228 Miami-Dade police officers facing layoffs, then it was 110. Now, apparently, it’s zero. At a press conference yesterday, Miami-Dade County mayor Carlos Gimenez said that no officer job cuts were now on the table for next year’s budget after he had come to new agreements with…
Tonight the Miami Marlins should call up Giancarlo Stanton’s agent and offer the ballplayer a $200 million contract. Yes, tonight. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not this off-season. Tonight. It’s becoming increasingly clear that one surprisingly not-totally-crappy Miami Marlins season is not enough to convince Giancarlo Stanton that Miami is…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. LeBron is gone. No longer will we have wet dreams about attending Critical Mass and spotting King James next to us in the peloton. But Miami’s monthly bike celebration continues without him. Tonight’s ride will take cyclists 11.5 miles along…
Today, the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami denied a motion by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to freeze the marriage equality cases in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties from advancing through the court system. “The Third District Court denied her the motion to stay briefings, which was seen as…
In 2012, Miami Heat point guard Mario Chalmers bought a condo from Drake for $2.4 million. Only two years later, he’s put it back on the market for $4 million. Yes, it is the condo from the “I’m on One” video…
