In the months since Uber and Lyft have set up shop in Miami and sparked a war of fines and impounded cars with the county commission, the battle lines have seemed fairly obvious. Commissioners — backed by a powerful union of cab owners and medallion-holders — oppose changing regulations to…
Does LeBron James’ defection to the Cleveland Cavaliers mean the Miami Dolphins could regain the top spot in Miami fans’ hearts? That’s the question many have been asking this past week as the dust settles from the Miami Heat’s loss of the best player in the NBA. Miami has always…
It’s not exactly a secret that Miami’s latest unhinged condo boom is being fueled by foreign money, but the exact number of new residential units being bought in downtown by those from abroad is eye-popping. According to a not-yet-released report from consulting firm Integra Realty Resources for the Miami Downtown…
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The Miami Hurricanes are gearing up for their 11th season in the ACC and have yet to even win the conference’s Coastal Division. That counts as a fall from grace for a team who used to be in the national title conversation every year. But damn it, at this point…
Daily Show alum John Oliver’s new HBO show Last Week Tonight is only on its 11th episode, but obviously a comedy program poking fun at politics and the news can only go so long until it features a few Rick Scott jokes. On Sunday’s episode, Oliver dug into America’s prison…
Emails and Facebook notices began pinging around Florida’s legal community Saturday with the unbelievable news: Florida State University’s nationally respected professor and legal scholar Dan Markel was dead. Shock soon turned to outrage when police confirmed that Markel, who was only 41 years old, had been shot inside his Tallahassee…
It’s been a chaotic summer for Colombians. First, they watched their national soccer team win four straight games at the World Cup. Then los cafeteros were cruelly denied a trip to the semifinals by a bunch of brutal Brazilians and a bogus referee. While Colombia was uniting around its team,…
No wedding bells will ring for gay couples in the Florida Keys tomorrow. Monroe County judge Luis Garcia ruled last week that Florida’s gay marriage ban was unconstitutional, and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi immediately filed to appeal the decision. Today Garcia refused to lift Bondi’s stay, and the ban…
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Katharine, a 14-foot great white shark that has spent the past several months off the coast of Florida, was back in South Florida last week. Katharine was tagged last August by marine biologists off Cape Cod, and they’ve been tracking her ever since. Earlier this year she headed down south…
Miami is a late-night city. Bars are open until 5 a.m. and even later in the Entertainment District. But the public transit system, which gets its deserved criticism in the daytime, shuts down almost completely after midnight. Only the bus is an option. That leaves Miamians traveling to and from…
So an NFL player and an NBA player walk into a bar… and they both end up getting arrested for fighting each other. St. Louis Rams linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar and NBA free agent Donté Greene both got cuffed after getting into an altercation early Sunday morning outside Dream nightclub in…
If you’ve ever enjoyed the cheesy pleasures of Disney World’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride, you’ve surely noted the numerous signs advising guests to keep their hands and arms inside the cars. It seems those are no idle warnings. Pirates of the Caribbean, in fact, is a voracious finger-eating monster…
One morning in the summer of 2008, just before the Beijing Olympics were set to kick off, Juan Zapata, then a republican Florida state representative, found himself having breakfast with Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the United States. The breakfast delegation was talking business, and someone floated the idea…
Dada 5000 — the Mohawked, muscled monolith born Dhafir Harris but better known as the P.T. Barnum of Miami’s backyard fisticuffs — spotted them through the window. It was July 5, and the promoter was chilling at home, the same “Famous Green House” where thousands of knuckle-busters and bloody noses…
On weekends and holidays Miami-area sandbars like Nixon and Haulover frequently transform into some of the area’s hottest water party spots. But policing the areas is exceedingly difficult, and after a spate of high-profile accidents at Nixon — including the May 4 death of 23-year-old Ernesto Hernandez, who was killed…
The nation’s roadway infrastructure is crumbling, but there’s one sunny exception: the state of Florida. The Washington Post reports that Florida’s roads and bridges are in some of the best shape in the nation. That’s in part thanks to favorable weather, but also to a relatively high gasoline tax and…
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Unemployment in Miami-Dade is down 2.9 percent from a year ago, according to the latest number from the Florida Department of Economic Activity, indicating that economic recovery in the county continues. The unemployment rate in the county now sits at 7.3 percent (not seasonally adjusted), and the county added 29,600…
Until this week, chikungunya fever was a difficult-to-pronounce, extremely painful mosquito-borne disease that dozens of Floridians had contracted abroad — particularly in the Caribbean, where the illness has spread like wildfire through Haiti and other island nations. Now, chikungunya is a difficult-to-pronounce, extremely painful illness that’s spreading all on its…
Around 4 a.m. last Sunday, neighbors of suburban Grand Junction, Colorado, were awakened by a man desperately running from house to house and knocking on doors, pleading for help as he tried to flee another man. The two eventually ended up in a front yard, where the man who had…
