Hillary Clinton’s coronation party will not be held in Miami. Local leaders have decided to drop their bid to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention, citing lack of time to prepare a competitive package. Though, organizers still have an eye on hosting a party convention in 2020. See also: Miami…
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Chuck Wielgus has been the executive director of USA Swimming since 1997. During his tenure, about 100 coaches have been accused of alleged misconduct that has ranged from placing video cameras in swimmers’ bathrooms to dealing steroids to molesting girls. A five-month New Times investigation into the claims that’s published…
“There has never been a player-owner, but maybe?” David Beckham says during a BBC documentary set to air next week, and that’s all it takes to fuel speculation that the retired superstar may be considering playing for the team he brings to Miami. See also: Miami Hurricanes Will Not Be…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi came under fire last week when she moved to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to have Florida recognize same-sex marriages from other states. In her brief, she wrote it would “impose significant public harm.” Well, today Bondi released a statement reminding Floridians that they were…
Fourteen years ago, Miami-Dade County negotiated one of the worst “profit-sharing” deals with a local sports franchise ever put to paper. Taxpayers gave Miami Heat owner Micky Arison $38 million in land and a $6.4 million annual subsidy to build the American Airlines Arena downtown, and in exchange the team…
Nothing is scarier than a city commission that’s all smiles. Politicians are preternaturally disposed to disagreement, so voters should be skeptical whenever commissioners suddenly go full kumbaya. On the scale of suspicious love-fests, this past April 10 was a doozy. City of Miami commissioners lined up to laud a so-called…
At a municipal meeting last month, one Miami Beach commissioner floated a simple idea in response to growing traffic and congestion concerns: permanently banning cars from Ocean Drive. In a city where Lincoln Road, another pedestrianized street, has become one of its biggest tourist draws, you’d think the idea might…
Sure, President Obama has made some high-profile celebrity friends since taking office. He’s close with Oprah, calls up LeBron for favors, and texts JayZ, but during his presidency Obama has managed to strike up a less public, more personal friendship with none other than former Miami Heat great Alonzo Mourning…
The Miami Hurricanes football team will not be moving to a stadium closer to their Coral Gables campus anytime soon. After pondering the idea of joining forces with David Beckham’s MLS team to split a new stadium, the school has decided it will stay put at Sun Life Stadium. That’s…
The problem with having your wedding on the beach is that just a few meters from your ceremony any old random schlub could be sitting on a beach towel oiling themselves up. Though one couple got lucky this weekend on Miami Beach when that random schlub turned out to be…
If you had stumbled across Moner Abu-Salha’s Facebook profile a year ago, you would have found a recently updated page fitting for any suburban South Florida bro. On June 24, he updated his profile pic to a selfie flexing his biceps in the bathroom mirror and his cover photo to…
The men work quickly in the cool emerald light. The thin one wields a hammer and chisel, deftly removing one prized piece after another. He passes them to his stockier accomplice, who stuffs them into a bag slung over his shoulder. Between the two of them, they look like Santa…
On May 20, 2013, Edduard Prince began walking from his home on 17th Street in Overtown to his job at a legal processing company at 15th and Biscayne, just as he does every day. He crossed the railroad tracks that bisect his street between NW First and North Miami avenues,…
Glenn Thor “Roach” Larsen is behind bars today after getting a little too medieval on his stepson after the young boy didn’t do his homework. 36-year-old Larsen allegedly beat and bit the 10-year-old boy after he admitted to not finishing his homework. Larsen now stands charged with two counts of…
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Earlier this year eight gay couples and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the state of Florida for failing to recognize their marriages that were performed in other states. Today, Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office filed a response asking a judge to throw out the lawsuit. Bondi’s main reasoning:…
While the rest of the America is gleefully welcoming the start of summer, Miamians are dreading it. It’s the worst time of the year, full of bugs, heat, and nothing to do. Let us count the ways we’re dreading the next few months. See also: Miami’s Five Best Public Pools…
On May 25, a massive truck bomb driven by a suicide bomber blew through a Syrian neighborhood, the latest strike in the nation’s brutal civil war. This bomb was different though; the Islamist force claiming credit quickly posted video of the attack and claimed that the jihadi who carried it…
Four years ago, Christophe Le Canne, a South Miami family man, was riding his blue Cannondale in the bike lane on the Rickenbacker Causeway when he was struck by a Silver Volkswagen and killed as the driver, Carlos Bertonatti, drove away dragging his bike. But without better safety measures in…
The Miami Heat must break the Indiana Pacers tonight. It’s time to rid themselves of, as Ray Allen would say, the Pacers “buffoonery.” It’s damn time to get this Pacers team out of our lives, and move onto an NBA Finals rematch against either the Oklahoma City Thunder or San…
There are people in sports with names like Isaako Aaitui (a Dolphins tackle), Thabo Sefolosha (Oklahoma City Thunder guard), and Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla (a Boston Bruins right wing), yet it’s Dwyane Wade’s little ten-letter name that is spelled incorrectly most often. The Wall Street Journal compiled…
