Mayra Baruh, a single mom from Nicaragua, has raised two daughters in the heart of Brickell, in a diminutive building in the shadow of ever-taller towers sprouting up around the financial district. Gretel Hebbert, her oldest daughter, now 27, remembers a childhood of low-rise residences occupied by fellow recent immigrants,…
Just another lazy Sunday afternoon. Just another dominating performance by LeBron James. Just another Knicks loss. Like they say, all totally predictably awesome things come in threes. This past Sunday, LeBron James continued to put the shorthanded Heat on his back by scoring 38 points, along with five rebounds and…
Continuing the parade of high-ranking Miami Beach officials who have left City Hall since November’s incumbent-bouncing election, City Attorney Jose Smith announced to that he’s resigning. He’s leaving to take over the same job in North Miami Beach…
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During the 2005 offseason the Dolphins traded Brendon Ayanbadejo to the Bears. he went on to have three consecutive Pro Bowl seasons and would eventually win a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens. The Dolphins meanwhile would endure a season of mediocrity under Nick Saban. Well, Ayanbadejo seems to think…
Florida’s beer laws are already about as logical as David Samson’s Survivor strategy. Thanks to the oversized influence of big money distributors, antiquated laws like one banning 64-ounce growlers (which are legal in 47 other states) stay on the books. Craft brewers have spent four years trying to change that…
Miami has the Dolphins Heat Marlins, the greatest baseball team? The Marlins 8-5 comeback victory over the Colorado Rockies Thursday afternoon means your favorite little local baseball club has started the season 3-1, their best start since they began the 2009 season 4-0. I don’t know what to do with…
Rick Scott’s 2010 campaign was such a Tea Party-assisted, out-of-nowhere effort that many Floridians barely had time to fully comprehend his past. Well, this time around Democratic groups have ample time to remind voters of the governor’s checkered business past. Democratic political committee American Bridge is out with a new…
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Another Florida legislative session. Another bill that would allow for destination casinos in Miami-Dade. Another quiet death? With the legislative session hitting the halfway point, House Speaker Will Weatherford admitted today that it’s looking more and more likely neither the House nor Senate will take action on the bill this…
Anyone walking in downtown after business hours is greeted with the unwelcoming sight of several storefronts closed off with shutters or metal-barred screens. It’s not perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing sight. Well, a new ordinance would ban such screens in an attempt to make downtown more visually pleasing and welcoming…
David Kennedy, a 74-year-old retired property manager who moved to Miami 38 years ago from Cuba, has lived in the same downtown public housing building for decades. So have many other residents of the Harry Cain Towers, at 490 NE Second Ave., and they weren’t asking to leave. But Miami-Dade…
You know how leftist Latin American leaders like Nicolas Maduro are forever claiming the American government is trying to unseat them via wild plots that sound cooked up by guys living in tin-foil-covered studio apartments? This morning comes a stark reminder that — at least when it comes to Cuba…
On Tuesday, LeBron James released a freestyle rap. Last night, he released the frickin’ kraken on the entire Bucks’ buttocks. On numerous occasions in the first half, LeBron unleashed some of the best dunks you will see all year, flying, reversing, and tomahawking his way to the rim seemingly whenever…
The man knows how to make an entrance. In April 2012, fireworks split open the night sky over Star Island. Below, topless women wiggled by a pool lit the color of blue Kool-Aid. Veiled belly dancers tossed around fire sticks. Camels munched grass around the two-acre property. All through the…
TerRio is exhausted. The 6-year-old internet star is slumped over on the hood of a limousine outside downtown Miami’s Grand Central nightclub. It’s only 9:47 p.m. on a Saturday, but filming on TerRio’s first professional music video is scheduled to continue through 7 a.m. the next day. Suddenly, the somnolent…
When Porter Fischer exposed Coral Gables clinic Biogenesis as the source of performance-enhancing drugs to scores of top athletes, including baseball stars Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, his motivation was simple. The clinic’s owner, Tony Bosch, had stiffed him on a $4,000 loan, so he shared records implicating Bosch with…
Meet your new and improved 2014 Miami Marlins! Now with 100 percent less Logan Morrison but the same great taste! The good news is that improving upon the tire fire that was the 100-loss 2013 Marlins shouldn’t be too much of a task. The bad news is that the Ponzi…
Ultra Music Festival’s latest edition last weekend was marred by a trampling and a death, leading to political fallout and blowback from police. The first incident came Friday, when a crowd of people without tickets rushed a fence and pushed a gate onto a security guard. The guard, 28-year-old Erica…
Braulio Valenzuela-Villanueva, a 73-year-old Miami man, set his neighbors’ trailer home on fire simply because they were lesbians. “He stated that he despised the two adult victims for the simple fact that they were lesbians,” the arrest report reads. “According to the defendant, every time he saw them kissing, he…
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In an attempt to distinguish various regional “bro” cultures from one another in “The United States of Bro,” Jezebel has attempted to define the “Miami bro.” In the rest of America (or as some Miamians calls it: America) the term “bro” carries a certain connotation. “An adult male whose social…
