Something weird happened at Marlins Park on Monday. People actually showed up. The stated attendance was 37,116, though the actual butts-in-the-seat number was about 35,000. Still impressive by Marlins standards. But it appears that the team just isn’t ready when fans actually show up. The wait for concession food was…
Ever since Marco Rubio was first elected to the senate over four years ago he’s carried out his career like a guy who may one day run for president, but he rarely openly talks about those ambitions. Well, at a Reuters Health Summit in Washington he openly addressed his future…
It is too early to tell what, exactly, killed Adonis Escoto, the 21-year-old Ultra-goer found dead inside a car parked near the music festival on Saturday night. But the tragedy was a reminder of a similar incident from last year, when Anthony Cassano — a boy of almost the exact…
A few months before the 2012 presidential election, Gov. Rick Scott sold a massive voter purge as a way to eliminate hundreds of “non-citizens” who were supposedly threatening democracy. Instead, the effort was a xenophobic joke. In Miami alone, hundreds of mostly Latino voters were forced to prove their citizenship…
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…
The super developers behind 500 Alton, an ambitious development plan that focuses on what would become Miami Beach’s tallest building, knew their plan didn’t meet city codes. But, hey, it’s only local government and they’re super developers. There’s ways of getting around those things, but it’s quite possible things could…
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Korine Teamer says a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent at Miami International Airport left her feeling humiliated after demanding to see compromising pictures of her. Teamer, a Jacksonville resident, traveled to the Dominican Republic to get cheaper cosmetic procedures. Her flight included a connection in Miami, and Teamer went…
“As I travel the district, I hear the exact same things,” Florida Republican congressional candidate Jacob A. Rush writes on his campaign website. “People are nervous; they don’t understand their government anymore — it literally makes no sense.” Rush, however, has now been outed as an active member of an…
Vanity can be deadly. More specific, a Brazilian butt lift procedure performed last July at Miami’s Vanity Cosmetic Center proved to be deadly. An autopsy report concludes that Maribel Cardona, a 51-year-old mother of five and Walmart cashier from Naples, died from complications from the increasingly popular surgery…
Waves of protesters clad in masks and hoods battled riot police in Caracas and other major Venezuelan cities last night, leading to at least two more deaths in the latest outburst of unrest against President Nicolas Maduro. Back in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott seized the opportunity to slam the White…
After last week’s loss to the Pacers, most people assumed the race for the first seed was over. Many predicted it would be very likely the Heat would just turtle into some sort of pre-playoff cocoon, content with the second seed in the East. Last Wednesday’s loss to the Pacers…
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Is there anything more glamorous than Florida’s aquatic preserves? Yes, darling, lots of things, but a new proposed bill hopes to bring a bit of a ritzy touch to the areas by allowing and promoting the idea of “glamping” on islands and “uplands” in the preserves…
Some MLB team’s fan bases cover entire states if not large regions of the country. Most are at least the most popular team in every county in their home metro-area. Of course, the Marlins are not like most MLB teams. The Fish have one of the smallest geographical fan footprints…
What began with a Twitter campaign ended with LeBron James realizing the dreams of 16-year-old cancer patient Ebony Nettles-Bey. She’s a star high school basketball player from Milwaukee who was blindsided last October with a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Her teammates decided to cheer her up by starting a Twitter…
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 out of a $4,000 loan, so he shared records implicating…
Kevin Wills has a controversial business model that’s made him a villain to bargain-seekers everywhere. Now he’s starting a beef with the stores themselves. Two years ago, he and his then-wife stirred up a righteous shitstorm by snatching up thousands of dollars’ worth of limited-edition designer merch from a Miami…
Meet your new and improved 2014 Miami Marlins! Now with 100 percent less Logan Morrison but with the same great taste! As Marlins fans get ready for tonight’s home opener against the Rockies, they really should be used to the drill. The Ponzi scheme that was owner Jeffry Loria’s 2012…
An eyewitness to the trampling of an Ultra security guard says the moment of mob violence was “one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.” Ivette Lozano was outside the music festival Friday night when she saw a group of young men suddenly force their way over a flimsy chain-link…
Update: We spoke with a witness to the stampede that landed security guard Erica Mack in the hospital. Ultra Music Festival was marred by a horrific incident last night as a “mob” of people pushed down a gate onto a female security guard. The guard, Erica Mack, is now fighting…
If you’re anything like us you probably appreciate the message of Critical Mass but have some really dark fantasies when you’re in your car and get stuck in the traffic caused by the monthly bike event. The best way to avoid that is checking the route first and staying as…
