Walmart’s plans to build a superstore in the heart of midtown Miami are now just one vote away from becoming a reality. The retail giant won an appeal with the city’s zoning board last night, overcoming hours of pleas from residents who say the store would turn one of Miami’s…
Eight months after a Miami New Times investigation revealed that Coral Gables anti-aging clinic Biogenesis was slinging performance-enhancing drugs to pro athletes, the fallout keeps growing. Fourteen baseball players were suspended by August. Hometown superstar Alex Rodriguez’s career hangs in the balance as he appeals his historic 211-game ban. One…
Coconut Grove’s Blanche Park and Merrie Christmas Park were both recently closed after tests uncovered high levels of arsenic, copper, barium, cadmium, and other contaminants in the soil. But it seems they’re not the only Miami parks sitting atop former dumping grounds for incinerator ash. According to records uncovered by…
“They are stealing my, my boat in the back,” Yasmin Davis stuttered into the phone. Seconds earlier, the pretty Peruvian architect had been eating lunch in her $2 million Miami Shores mansion. As she tucked a slice of sushi into her mouth, she glanced out the huge glass windows and…
The wall: a six-foot stack of blue bricks. The mission: go up and over it, the first hurdle in a 16-part obstacle course. Me: suddenly, surprisingly nervous. The vertical lift has resurrected some anxiety from seventh-grade gym, where the prospect of flinging my pear-shaped, hormone-chemistry set through a public display…
On a cool November night, just days before Thanksgiving, a spaceship landed on the corner of Collins Avenue and 16th Street. In an instant, traditional gawker fodder cruising through the streets of South Beach — the Lamborghinis, Bentleys, Bugattis — were made irrelevant by comparison. In terms of strangeness and…
Because what we really need more of in Washington, D.C., is partisan bickering and petty name calling, Miami-area Rep. Joe Garcia took to the House floor yesterday to compare House Republicans to the Taliban…
Charlie Crist hasn’t officially announced his candidacy yet, but with Alex Sink deciding to forgo another run, there’s a good chance he’ll be the Democratic candidate for governor in 2014. And, if this latest Public Policy Polling survey is any indication, there’s a good chance he’ll be governor once again…
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Despite scores of scandalous Facebook posts depicting rampant drug dealing, hazing, and creep shots of allegedly underage women, members of Florida International University’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will not face any criminal charges. Pi Kappa Alpha frat brothers — or Pikes, as they are known — have apparently closed ranks,…
It all started last night around 11:15, when Jean Valeus, 28, pulled his Nissan Maxima off to the side of eastbound I-595 near Flamingo Road. A Road Ranger stopped to help Valeus, but Valeus pulled out a gun, fired it into the pavement, and told the Ranger to leave. The…
Facebook continues to shed light on a murder that made headlines when the perpetrator posted photos of his wife’s body and a confession on his public profile page. NBC 6 has obtained messages that Jennifer Alfonso, the wife and victim of Derek Medina, sent to a friend just hours before…
The Health Insurance Marketplace ostensibly opened yesterday. Beginning at midnight, Americans could create an account and shop for coverage plans that would go into effect at the beginning of next year. The operative word here being “ostensibly.” Somehow the biggest hindrance to the rolling out of Obamacare wasn’t a policy…
Tonight, critics will once again outline their opposition to Walmart’s midtown Miami plans. And while the Planning, Zoning, and Appeals Board meeting won’t be the last time the issue arises, it will likely be opponents’ best shot to derail the big-box store’s development project. It was the same board that…
For a world-class con man, James Sabatino has a habit of burning out in blazes of self-inflicted pain. As a teenager, he pulled off an incredible run of schemes, including getting close to Julio Iglasias by posing as a Sony Music executive and wrangling more than 200 Super Bowl tickets…
The Miami Heat kicked off their 2013 training camp Tuesday in the Bahamas, because of course they did, officially kicking off their attempt at back-to-back-to-back NBA titles, or as many are terming it, “Three-Heat.” The team largely returns most of the same key components that led it to the past…
Yesterday the sports world was taken by surprise when the Marlins announced that they were selling unsold tickets to a game that had been played the day before. Ostensibly they were meant as memorabilia to commemorate Henderson Alvarez’s walk-off no-hitter. Turns out the “tickets” are just PDFs you’re meant to…
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The Miami Dolphins were the first NFL team to ever lose a regular season in London. They kicked off the league’s experiment of playing in Wembley Stadium back in 2007 with a 13-10 loss to the New York Giants. Well, this past Sunday when the Vikings and Steelers played in…
David Beckham Major League Soccer contract came with a clause that he’d be able to purchase an MLS franchise of his own one day. It’s been no secret that he’s been scouting Miami as a potential location over the past few month. British tabloid the Daily Mail reports that Beckham…
Thanks to the government shutdown, national parks are closed, hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been sent home without a paycheck, and all federal government activities considered nonessential will effectively halt. However, controversial and ineffective government-sponsored broadcasts to Cuba through Radio and TV Martí will continue with little change…
Thomas Cypress, the brother of Billy Cypress, the former chairman of the Miccosukee Indian Tribe, has been ordered by a civil court to pay $5 million for the deaths of Robert and Paulette Kirkpatrick. The elderly tourist couple was killed back in 2009 when Cypress hit their car with his…
