For the first time since Miami teen Trayvon Martin’s death, legislators are poised to approve a substantial reform to the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law. A bill that looks likely to pass the House this week would add warning shots to the protections under the law — a response to…
Leo Gallagher is standing on the patio of Gramps Bar in Wynwood and explaining his new pro-gay play to a group of disheveled hipsters. The prop comic grew up in South Tampa and became famous in 1980 for his first special, “An Uncensored Evening.” Although in decades past, the now-67-year-old…
The lone bright spot in just a terribly annoying Miami Heat 101-96 loss to the Boston Celtics Wednesday night was the return of your boy Udonis Haslem. With LeBron James sitting out the game with back spasms, and Greg Oden sitting out on a scheduled day off, UD got the…
When Karina moved to Miami Beach from Eastern Europe in 2007, she used no nicotine, no alcohol, no drugs, nothing. Although she’d had a problem in her midteens with booze and MDMA, the 22-year-old was determined to begin her new life in America clean and sober. Soon after she arrived,…
Miamians hoping to take their careers to a higher level might get the chance as soon as next month. Medical marijuana may still be a pipe dream in Florida, but Jeremy Bufford, the founder of Medical Marijuana Tampa, says he’s planning to open South Florida’s first school aimed at teaching…
When news leaked last week about Stephen Ross’ revised plans to renovate Sun Life Stadium, most taxpayers had the same knee-jerk reaction: Victory! Just a year after public outrage helped sink Ross’ request for $127 million from the county, the Dolphins’ owner was now ready to open his own wallet…
Two years ago, a New Times investigation raised serious questions about the planning and execution of a Miami-Dade Police operation that left four robbers dead in the Redland. Last week — nearly three years after the June 30, 2011 shootout — the State Attorney’s Office finally announced that none of…
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Even the fiercest defender’s of Miami-Dade’s pride must admit we have our fair share of douchebags. Counterintuitively, a new “analysis” by real estate site Estately claims that of America’s 100 biggest cities, not only does the City of Miami proper rank low on the douche spectrum, but Hialeah also is…
Because apparently Miami is always in desperate need of another gigantic skyscraper meant to house the 1 percent, developers Related and Crescent Heights have teamed up to bring a code-breaking new vision to a piece of primo South Beach real estate at 500 Alton Rd. Today they unveiled plans for…
In Florida, you can get married if you’re a 13-year-old who accidentally knocks up his girlfriend, but not if you’re in a committed adult relationship with someone of the same sex. Rep. Cynthia Stafford, a Miami Democrat, wants to change that. No, not the part about allowing gays to marry,…
When Karina moved to Miami Beach from Eastern Europe in 2007, she used no nicotine, no alcohol, no drugs, nothing. Although she’d had a problem in her midteens with booze and MDMA, the 22-year-old was determined to begin her new life in America clean and sober. Soon after she arrived,…
Poll numbers about how many Floridians support legalizing medical marijuana seem to be all over the place — well, except below the 60 percent necessary it would need to pass. A new University of North Florida poll shows that 74 percent of Floridians intend to vote to legalize medicinal pot…
This week’s feature story focuses on Máximo Caminero, the local artist who made international headlines last month by destroying a precious urn painted by Ai Weiwei. At the time, much of the media attention centered on the urn’s million-dollar price tag. But Caminero says cops were guessing, and both PAMM…
LeBron James returned to his old home last night, and he didn’t bother knocking. No, no, he kicked in the door, walked directly to the Cavs’ refrigerator, ate their last snack pack, took a massive Hiroshima dump in their bathroom, asked for their Wi-Fi password, and downloaded a bunch of…
What started in Guatemala and took a financial detour to Miami has now ended in New York. Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo pleaded guilty in a New York courtroom today to a charge of money laundering designed to hide bribes he had taken from Taiwan…
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They don’t agree about much up in Tallahassee, but apparently every state senator is against “revenge porn.” A bill that would make it illegal to post explicit photos of another person online without his or her permission passed the state senate unanimously today. See also: Miami Revenge Porn Victim Holly…
The right wing’s most influential techno hermit, Matt Drudge, lives in a mansion out in the Redland and was driving around Southwest Dade yesterday when he saw two things that freaked him out: the word “Obamacare” and the Spanish language. He tweeted a picture of a van touting an Obamacare…
Wynwood is changing at warp speed. Some walls are going up. Others are coming down. Galleries go out. Ducati dealerships come in. The only constant seems to be the neighborhood’s ever-evolving coat of graffiti, shed periodically like a serpent’s skin. So it’s no surprise that yet another controversial condo project…
Amber is late to the party because she keeps screwing up her lines, laughing every time she gets to the part about the women who will “entertain [you] with their green knockers.” She clenches her fists as she repeats the words, concentrating superhard on getting the commercial spot down for…
Former Hialeah mayor and Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Julio Robaina was already in big trouble with prosecutors for allegedly taking $300,000 in secret loan payments from a buddy running a Ponzi scheme. Now he might just be in even bigger trouble with his wife and codefendant, Raiza Robaina. That’s because prosecutors…
