As far as newly elected Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is concerned, the city will continue to be known more for its silicone implants than silicon start-ups. While attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Levine straight-up told the Washington Post that the idea of turning Miami Beach into some sort…
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As hard as it seemed to believe, reports that Miami Marlins president David Samson had taken off in the middle of the season to go film a reality TV show weren’t rumors. He was officially announced today as a cast member of CBS’s Survivor: Cagayan…
Seantrel Henderson came to Coral Gables as a recruiting miracle. He leaves with a reputation of wasted potential and a string of unexplained suspensions from the team. Now Henderson has his eyes on the NFL and has admitted to teams that most of his suspensions with the Miami Hurricanes were…
Maybe this governor’s race isn’t totally over before it even began. Back in August, when Public Policy Polling asked Floridians whether they plan to vote for Charlie Crist or Rick Scott, Crist had a 12-point lead. Now, for its first poll in the new year, PPP has found Crist’s lead…
By the time the boy arrived at Jackson North Medical Center, he’d already been dead for three hours. His face, lips, and fingers were all burned. And it was clear to investigators that he had “suffered.” The child’s mother, 21-year-old Fafane Caze, initially told police the injuries marring the boy,…
In what is becoming a trend, the Heat once again Tuesday night played a game you would like to punt into a canal, jump in after it, drag it to the bottom, and put it under a rock like an alligator. Except they won this time, 93-86. Yeah, the Celtics…
City of Miami officials are quietly debating what to do with their latest toxic playground: Curtis Park, a sprawling sports complex and recreational facility at NW 19th Street and 24th Avenue The site also houses the city’s Allapattah Neighborhood Enhancement Team (NET) office. See also: Miami’s Toxic Parks…
Eighty-two percent of Floridians support the legalization of medical marijuana, but Gov. Rick Scott isn’t one of them. Apparently, despite the broadly supported issue heading to the ballot at the same time as his re-election, Scott announced he would vote against legalization…
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Following the lead of successful lawsuits in Utah and Oklahoma in recent months, six same-sex couples in Florida plan to sue the state in order to overturn ban on same-sex marriage. Back in 2008, Florida voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment that banned not only gay marriage but any recognition…
Miami Heat players’ tendency to video bomb each other during post-game interviews has become the stuff of meme legend. So when the Heat visited the White House last week, none other than First Lady Michelle Obama decided to get in on the fun. Naturally, it was to help promote her…
Eighteen-year-old Robert Marucci started working in adult entertainment to support his family, but managed to keep his education on track. In fact, he’s a high school senior at Cocoa High School in Cocoa, Florida. However, when fellow students discovered his extracurricular activities, the school’s principal suspended Marucci and put his…
Father Jose Antonio Fortea, author of a famous treaty on demonology, spent about an hour with the press at Miami’s Archdiocese on Friday. He framed the conversation around the idea that people are turning toward secular solutions or other faiths to overcome spiritual obstacles. Fortea, who is from Spain, said…
The Miami Heat lost to the Atlanta Hawks Monday night, 121-114. The game started at 5:30 p.m., and ended at 8:02 p.m. That recap of the game gives pretty much as much effort as the Miami Heat defense right now. I will only continue out of respect to Pat Riley…
Alex Inman runs a high-end head shop in Westchester about 20 blocks from Florida International University. Casa de Cristal is one of a handful of places in Florida that sell Mothership brand glass items, the Holy Grail of the water pipe world. The company bills its products as “elite functional…
Across rebel-held Syria last September, an innocuous-seeming image of a man kissing a woman flashed across computer screens. It prompted curiosity and clicks. But as rebels soon learned, the image was actually a virus, and they’d just infected their computers. For months, as Syria descended deeper into chaos and President…
These are trying times at WLRN. All media companies are struggling to shake off the death grip of declining ad revenue (New Times being no exception). The past year has been particularly turbulent for South Florida’s award-winning public radio station, however. WLRN’s best-known host, Phil Latzman, was canned in mid-July…
For a few hours Friday, Luther Campbell’s rocky relationship with the University of Miami athletic department appeared to be headed off a cliff. Craig Anderson, associate athletic director for compliance, ordered Uncle Luke — who despite recent criticism of the U, still bleeds orange-and-green — to leave the building minutes…
Bullies, beware. You could soon find yourself hit with a misdemeanor in Florida if bill introduced in the state House and Senate prove successful. The bipartisan-backed bills would punish anyone who “willfully, maliciously, & repeatedly harasses or cyberbullies another person.”…
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Attacking a man recovering from knee surgery in an electric wheelchair is never a good look, but we at least empathize with what sent 77-year-old William Golladay over the edge. He was just sticking up for basic manners and civil decency when the man in a wheelchair tried to sneak…
