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…
Despite the fact that there’s no doubt Máximo Caminero walked into Pérez Art Museum Miami and smashed a vase by artist Ai Weiwei (it’s on video, after all), Caminero has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. See also: Miami Artist Destroyed $1M Ai Weiwei Vase Because PAMM “Only…
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The Ponzi scheme epidemic of 2008 kicked off with part-time Palm Beach resident Bernie Madoff, and then hit Florida much harder than most states. That’s the consensus of a new Forbes analysis, which found that Florida was second in total number of dollars lost to Ponzis, trailing only New York,…
Charlie Crist may be running on a “man of the people” platform, but that hasn’t stopped him from moving to Florida’s most expensive and exclusive zip code. Crist and his wife Carol Rome are apparently spending so much time in South Florida that they’re now renting a condo on ritzy…
On the one hand, mass drug testing laws are inherently evil and unconstitutional. But on the other, required screening for the same elected officials who keep trying to force drug tests on welfare recipients and minimum wage-earning state employees would be beautifully ironic — especially in the wake of one…
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…
Who do you turn to when you’ve lost your way? Jesus. Because Jesus Shuttlesworth saves. It was Sunday after all. Ray Allen, AKA “Jesus Shuttlesworth,” held a come to Jesus meeting Sunday afternoon, scoring 14 of his Miami Heat career high 25 points in the decisive fourth quarter of the…
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise in a city where people often live above their means, but a new study show that Miamians simply can’t afford all those flashy cars they’re driving around town. A new study by Interest.com found that Miamians living on the median income level…
Protests have rumbled through President Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela for the past month, but in a televised press conference today, Hugo Chavez’s successor seemed more concerned with what was going on in Miami and Washington, D.C. Maduro singled out Senator Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinene as leaders of a “Miami…
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Gen. John F. Kelly, the chief of the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command, gave a surprisingly candid testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. He said that because of budget cuts and inadequate funding he’s only able to stop about 26 percent of illegal drugs that head from Latin America…
Chris Bosh may not be the league’s most valuable player, but he does own the NBA’s most valuable real estate portfolio. Not only is Bosh’s North Bay Road home on Miami Beach the most expensive home owned by a current player, but he also owns a home in California that…
Nearly three years after one of the bloodiest police operations in recent Miami history, prosecutors have issued a scathing report calling the killings “unusual, counter-intuitive, suspicious” and “disturbing.” The June 30, 2011 sting — in which four suspects, including a police informant, were shot dozens of times — was the…
The raccoons of Cauley Square will nibble on your shoe laces, crawl over your feet and brush up against your legs. They are wild but not rabid. They are cuddly but also conniving. Emboldened by decades of free reign, these intelligent creatures have turned treacherous. And they are legion. That’s…
The grizzled profile of a man with an exaggerated scar running down his face appears in almost every ad for the Miami International Film Festival, on buses, at bus stops, and in print. The tagline reads, “Every Character Under the Sun.” Oddly enough though, you won’t be seeing this character…
Logan Morrison played his entire major league career with the Miami Marlins before being traded to the Seattle Mariners this past December. He published what seemed like a heart-felt open letter to Miamians upon his departure, but apparently his view of the city wasn’t all that positive. He was on…
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Reubin Askew, the Democratic Governor who helped bring Florida into the modern age, died early this morning at the age of 85. Rated as one of the top ten governors of the 20th century by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Askew’s legacy still resonates throughout the state. He…
Following a lawsuit filed in January by six gay couples hoping to strike down Florida’s gay marriage ban, a new lawsuit has been filed by eight other couples seeking to have Florida recognize gay marriages performed in other states. Though the first lawsuit named Miami-Dade Clerk of Court Harvey Ruvin…
