As if the current development boom already didn’t feel like the pre-bust early 2000s, news that famed director Baz Luhrmann has joined the creative team of mid-Miami Beach’s Faena District development should be the clearest signal yet that the local real estate market is officially back to its over-the-top, celebrity-obsessed,…
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Philippe Archer, the Miami Beach Police detective who has demonstrated a flair for beating the shit out of people and is now the subject of three lawsuits, has been relieved of duty. See also: Miami Beach Man Claims Cop Knocked Him Out When He Tried to Be a Good Samaritan…
It shouldn’t be that much of a surprise that Ricky Williams used to smoke pot the night before Dolphins games. And it’s even less of a surprise that former Dolphins Channing Crowder is blabbing about it…
Eighteen-year-old Jesus Trejo had been missing since Tuesday. His blue Honda Civic had been discovered empty in the remote area of Ingraham Highway and SW 232nd Avenue in South Miami-Dade. Yesterday, divers found a body in an Everglades canal near that general area and have now confirmed it is that…
With his $4.4 billion in the bank, couldn’t Dolphins owner Stephen Ross afford a few remedial classes in basic public relations? We’ll give you this crash course for free, Steve: Do not throw an insane $200 million donation at your alma mater months after stomping around and demanding that broke-ass…
Last year, two Miami reps pushed a bill banning red light cameras through a committee with some loud public support (thanks in part to a Tampa TV station’s investigation showing Florida had helped shorten yellow light times to collect more ticket revenue). But that bill eventually flopped in the full…
The Internet works in mysterious ways. How else could one explain an 8,000-word feature from 16 years ago accumulating almost five thousand Facebook “shares” in the course of a day? About a decade before social media became prevalent and “upvoting” became a verb, former New Times staff writer Lynda Edwards…
The name Booby Trap Love Stuff connotes a certain level of trashiness. Although it’s shaped like a cottage and customers enter through castle-like wooden doors, they have to flash an ID before they can behold rows of phallic objects and feather boas. But the Fort Lauderdale store, located 397 feet…
Benjamin Prows settled a pirate mask over his brown eyes, took a deep breath, and tiptoed out onto the slackline — nothing but 12 feet of air between him and the ground. Anything but a conformist, Prows dresses like Jack Sparrow, juggles daily, and lives on a 65-foot catamaran. But…
On August 8, the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced that a lucky break had led them to solve a grisly three-year-old murder. DNA taken in a South Beach drug bust had connected a muscular, 26-year-old man named John Snavely to the 2010 slaying of businessman Samuel Del Brocco. The case’s closing…
In the days after his August 6 arrest on federal bribery charges, Michael Pizzi walked around shellshocked and despondent. In a blockbuster moment for public corruption fighters, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had nabbed the Miami Lakes mayor; his counterpart in Sweetwater, Manuel Maroño; and two lobbyists allegedly accepting payoffs…
Is Florida devolving into a complete “murder first, ask questions later” mindset? (That’s assuming you think it already hasn’t.) A Florida man who snuck up on his neighbor’s yard and pumped Labor Day party attendants full of lead is claiming that his action should be declared legal not only under…
Rafael Munguia will plead guilty to raping a woman while she was asleep in a room at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach, but he’ll be sent home a mostly free man immediately. Why? Because he’s a citizen of Mexico and Florida’s sex-offender probation program isn’t equipped to deal with…
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There’s a line in Deadspin’s “Why Your Team Sucks” pre-season write up of the Miami Dolphins that theorizes that Stephen Ross will extract his revenge on the public for not supporting his stadium renovation plans “by slashing expenditures, threatening to move, and hiring Pitbull to perform at EVERY halftime.” Turns…
The group that successfully pushed for an ordinance in Los Angeles that required all adult productions to use condoms on set has now set its eyes on Florida’s less regulated porn industry. If they’re successful, they may have to start packing condoms on the Bang Bus…
Local students are just in their third week of classes for the year, but one local 12-year-old has already found himself expelled and his family is none to pleased. So as punishment, the boy’s mother made him stand outside alongside a road holding a sign touting the fact…
Just before 11 p.m. this past Monday, Pinecrest police responded to a mansion just off Old Cutler Road to reports that a naked intruder was terrorizing the home’s owners. The cops found a 43-year-old man in the buff, and when he attacked police, they hit him with a Taser. He…
The Miami Herald is an institution. It has won 20 Pulitzers and continues to employ some of the best journalists in the state. But ever since the Herald moved from downtown to Doral, there have been some noticeable problems. Last week, for instance, the paper printed the same exact page…
In what hasn’t exactly been the most enjoyable season for Miami Marlins fans, every fifth day has been a reward for the four prior. Jose Fernandez’s story has been well documented, and beyond his dominance on the mound, his genuine upbeat personality and demeanor on the baseball field have been…
It must be hard to date when you’re son is one of the world’s biggest athletes, but Gloria James, LeBron’s mom, has apparently found love in a little known local rapper named Lambo who is just three years older than her son…
