For Karen Deilke, Coconut Grove’s monthly drum circle isn’t just a key piece of the neighborhood’s tight-knit artistic community and a vestige of its fading bohemian roots. The acclaimed Texas-born painter sees it as a way to give back and unite the area — especially the past two years, when…
A miracle. A blessing. A prayer answered by God. That is what Miami Beach Community Church (MBCC) leaders call a $100 million plan to replace the congregation’s historic courtyard with a clothing store. But preservationists and even some parishioners say newly appointed church leaders have misled their flock and lied…
After Miami Beach Police Sgt. Mike Muley was caught drunk while working an off-duty assignment at Mango’s last month, new Miami Beach Police Chief Dan Oates responded with a harsh edict: Beginning this month, MBPD cops are banned from working nightclub security jobs. The union balked, complaining that banning the…
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Máximo Caminero, the Miami painter who earlier this year deliberately smashed an expensive urn at Pérez Art Museum Miami, will not be headed to prison. Miami-Dade prosecutors announced today that Caminero pleaded guilty to criminal mischief for destroying an Ai Weiwei vase at PAMM February 16. Caminero will serve 18…
James H. Edwards III, a Miami-Dade Police sergeant and 27-year veteran of the force, now finds himself behind bars. Edwards allegedly provided a 15-year-old boy with booze and drugs, groped the boy, and then masturbated in front of him. He now faces charges of lewd and lascivious conduct and exhibition…
Just because LeBron James decamped back to Cleveland, it doesn’t mean that the Miami Heat’s fashion credentials are going anywhere. In fact, it’s the only professional sports team we can think of where not one but two players have their own designer necktie lines. Following Dwyane Wade’s collaboration with The…
A full decade after it closed to the public, Miami Beach’s South Pointe Park Pier is finally set to reopen later this week. The 100-year-old pier has been totally rebuilt after a yearlong, $4.8 million project and offers views of South Beach, Government Cut, and the downtown skyline. The renovations…
Crack open a Molson, Miami — our long Canadian nightmare is finally coming to an end. Justin Bieber, the tweeny-bopping scourge of South Beach, is reportedly set to plead guilty this afternoon to driving under the influence. Bieber was arrested in January after police say he and his crew blocked…
For Karen Deilke, Coconut Grove’s monthly drum circle isn’t just a key piece of the neighborhood’s tight-knit artistic community and a vestige of its fading bohemian roots. The acclaimed Texas-born painter sees it as a way to give back and unite the area — especially the past two years, when…
It’s official: Miami Dolphins football is back. Well, the real thing is still a few weeks off, but the Dolphins fumbled away a game-winning drive twice in a matter of 30 seconds in their preseason loss to the Falcons last Friday, so you can tell the real thing is just…
Merely owning a car in Florida could cost you $500 extra a year than it would in other states. In fact, according to a new analysis from BankRate.com, Florida is the third most expensive state in the nation to own a car…
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A divided Miami Beach Historical Preservation Board voted this morning to approve a controversial plan to convert a local church courtyard into a glitzy clothing store. In a 4-3 vote, the board reaffirmed its May 13 decision to allow the Miami Beach Community Church to lease its historic, 94-year-old courtyard…
In the early hours of Sunday outside of Mekka Nightclub in Miami’s 24-hour downtown entertainment district, a confrontation involving two different groups of friends ended up with one man stabbing another. The victim, 31 year-old Marlon Sanchez, is listed in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, and…
Miamians will soon be able to get super high-speed Internet. AT&T announced today that it’s bringing its ultra-fast “GigaPower” network to the City of Miami. The broadband Internet service features speeds of up to one gigabit per second, which is the same speed as Google Fiber. To put that in…
For Ada Nuñez, getting ready to go back to school is one word: overwhelming. Between the bumper-to-bumper traffic to get to school and creating lesson plans for a class full of incoming high school freshman, the first day of school is the beginning of another hectic year as a teacher…
When news broke last month that the University of Miami had sold an 88-acre plot of endangered pine rockland forest to a Palm Beach developer that planned to build a Walmart, environmentalists and activists were outraged. The rare forest is the only habitat of several species, most famously the Bartram’s…
The clock reads 20 to 6 as Robert Baumann wheels his Ford Escape north. The 26-year-old is beat-tired, his wide shoulders slumped like a bent clothes hanger from another day installing air conditioners in South Florida megamansions. His nerves, though, are on red-alert. Today, he’s going to pick up his…
Sometime this morning, the Miami Beach Historical Preservation Board will decide whether or not to grant a rehearing on the controversial plan to turn the Miami Beach Community Church courtyard into a clothing store. Church leaders claim the plan will save the struggling parish. Preservationists and some church members, meanwhile,…
If you thought the Biogenesis scandal couldn’t get any more seedy or bizarre, you haven’t been paying enough attention to the case that brought down A-Rod and resulted in seven indictments last week, including one against clinic founder Tony Bosch. Feds have now arrested three other men tied to the…
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