Coconut Grove’s Blanche Park and Merrie Christmas Park – which were both closed recently after tests uncovered high levels of arsenic, copper, barium, cadmium and other contaminants in the soil – are not the only Miami parks sitting atop a former dumping ground of incinerator ash. According to records uncovered…
The number one rule of social media and the number one rule of crime should be the same: Don’t post your crimes on social media, and make sure no one else does either. Two Miami-Dade teens ignored that golden rule and wound up behind bars today after a video of…
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Miami is not only losing its City Attorney, but a police officer. Today, during her last city commission meeting Miami City Attorney Julie Bru spoke up at the dias to ask Miami Police Officer Suzy Izaguirre to marry her. Because gay marriage is not legal in Florida, the couple plans…
Miami Beach would normally love to be on any best dressed list, but real estate site Movato’s ranking of the town as the tenth best dressed small city in America is sort of a double-edge sword. Apparently Albany, New York and Evanston, Illinois have better fashion sense than Miami Beach…
Florida’s strange legal code means you can kill a kid armed only with a bag of Skittles, claim self defense, and get off scot-free, but if you fire what you claim is a warning shot during a dispute with your abusive husband you get 20 years in jail. Marissa Alexander,…
The Miami Heat season not only comes with the drama of trying to threepeat but also with the added tension of the fate of the team’s big three during the following offseason. Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James all have the option to become free agents this summer, and…
El Nuevo Herald’s jefe is abandoning the city he recently described as “the candy store of American journalism” for a town world-famous for, uh, being the seat of Collier County. Nuevo executive editor Manny Garcia told the newsroom yesterday he’s leaving to take the top job at the Naples Daily…
The Armed Citizens Project does exactly what its name implies: It hands out guns for free. Now the Texas-based nonprofit is turning its bullet-blasting beneficence on the Sunshine State. Promising to “deter crime by empowering neighborhoods,” the ACP has already begun distributing shotguns in Orlando’s Sunshine Gardens neighborhood. Two fun…
After locals were stung by the revelation that Miami leaders have known for two years that toxic ash is poisoning the Coconut Grove neighborhood surrounding its long-closed “Old Smokey” trash incinerator, city officials wasted little time last week confronting the latest environmental crisis. Just four days after learning that soil…
Hell in South Florida is a taupe, one-story house where rusted chains dangle from trees and the smell of feces and decay is so strong it lures rats at night. On even the brightest of days, sunlight doesn’t infiltrate its darkened chambers. And the baying of dogs — 34 pit…
Meet Josue Pierre, the Rickenbacker Causeway Creeper. The 25-year-old has a skeevy way of trying to pick up women — by groping the most intimate parts of their bodies. Four ladies jogging on the William Powell Bridge of the causeway experienced Pierre’s personal-space-invading mitts the morning of August 13. “If…
City politics is supposed to be simple. Private companies vie for public projects, with the job going to the best bid. But not in Miami Beach. Here, city officials secretly conspire to award friends with lucrative contracts in exchange for envelopes full of cash (just Google “Gus Lopez”). Government on…
Historically speaking, Marizel Almirall was not the first adolescent to ever feel “different.” Nor did she pioneer the concept of the black-clad teenage outcast. But the South Beach native might be the only person in the world who can say she tattooed a large upside-down cross on herself at age…
In the second high-profile case of a white powder leading to the evacuation of a government office this week, a white substance was sent to Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia’s office in Key West. This one probably wasn’t crack cocaine, but it was oddly marked “Tea Party.”…
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During last Saturday’s game, the Miami Hurricanes’ marching band and student fans performed a UM-specific rendition of viral hit “The Fox,” entitled “What Does the Ibis Say?” And apparently I’m getting really old, because up until I saw this I literally thought this song was just a really annoying jingle…
A cynic looking at Miami’s art boom over the past decade could make a strong argument that the art scene has been used as little more than a pawn by developers with the ultimate goal of selling more real estate. (See: the gentrification of Wynwood as the most obvious example.)…
A company associated with the Nakash family, which made its money off of Jordache jeans, recently won the bidding for the Casa Casuarina, more popularly known as the Versace mansion, on Ocean Drive. At first the new owners said they’d operate it as a boutique hotel in connection with the…
Earlier this week, Sports Illustrated unveiled their list of the best basketball players heading into the 2013-14 season. LeBron James was first, naturally. Though, Dwyane Wade’s spot at eight didn’t sit too well with the Oklahoma Thunder’s Kevin Durant, who himself took the number two spot. Durant suggested that his…
When Jeffrey Loria was seeking public funds to build Marlins Park, it came with the promise the Marlins would get better. Well, the team is only its second season at the shiny new park and they’ve hit a milestone the team has only hit once before in its 21-year history:…
Tarell McCraney, a 32-year old award-winning American playwright and actor from Liberty City, has been named a MacArthur Fellow, one of this year’s 24 winners of a no-strings-attached $625,000 prize dispersed over five years. Better known as the MacArthur “genius” grant, the stipend represents an increase from last year’s sum…
