In 2017, Miami Beach voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to move last call from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Ocean Drive. But at a recent meeting, the city’s police chief, Dan Oates, suggested closing area bars even earlier — at midnight — during the busiest two weeks of spring break.
Ahead of this year’s Memorial Day weekend, Miami Beach recruited local artists of color to put together a series of exhibits specifically for black visitors in an attempt to reframe the Memorial Day narrative.
For the past several years, Miami Beach Police have been using automatic license-plate readers to scan each and every car traveling to the city over Memorial Day weekend — an effort known to cause bumper-to-bumper traffic on the MacArthur and Julia Tuttle Causeways.
The cannabis compound Cannabidiol (CBD) is beneficial for treating everything from addiction to arthritis, but cops are incarcerating people over it in the name of public safety. Some recent examples: Last month, a 69-year-old grandmother Hester Jordan Burkhalter was arrested in Disney World after guards found a vial of CBD…
Fane Lozman’s U.S. Supreme Court victory against the city of Riviera Beach is highlighted in Matthew Billy’s new podcast about censorship, called Bleeped.
Dusty “Wild Man” Crum is a Sarasota, Florida native who’s been hands-on with nature his whole life. For years he’s been capturing and removing invasive pythons from the Everglades with a team of hunters, and now his efforts will be featured on a new Discovery Channel show: “Guardians of the Glades.”
You wouldn’t know it by their record, but the Miami Marlins have lots of pitching. The team’s farm system — and for that matter, the guys already toeing the hill in the major leagues this season — signal a bright future. Caleb Smith, Sandy Alcantara, Pablo Lopez, Jose Urena, Trevor Richards,…
Alessandra Mondolfi was painting hearts on a poster board outside of the Homestead child migrant camp last Friday when she spotted a pair of law enforcement officers walking toward her. An artist and activist who’s part of a group of protesters maintaining an almost daily presence outside the facility, Mondolfi…
Last week, New Times published images from a leaked, 150-page WhatsApp chat that included volunteers with then-Miami-Dade County Commission candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla’s campaign District 5discussing stealing and destroying ballots during the 2018 District 5 County Commission race. Diaz de la Portilla — who paid thousands of dollars to the political…
Around 7 p.m. last December 10, Miami resident Oscar Julien-Riou — a 63-year-old Army veteran, retired nurse, and minister — was sitting in Liberty City’s Alonzo Kelly Park alone with his phone in his hand. He lived across the street. He says he was minding his own business and filming as he recorded notes about his life on his cell phone when a Miami Police cruiser rolled up.
Not too long ago, this was peak-activity time for basketball in Miami. The Heat made the NBA Finals four straight seasons between 2011 and 2014, meaning things reached maximum playoff-white hotness on Biscayne Boulevard right about now. These days, things have died down a tad. Dwyane Wade has retired and the…
Most people haven’t heard of Professional Bank. The business is a tiny outpost in Coral Gables that doesn’t have a fraction of the name recognition of major Wall Street banks.
Public records show Messam and his wife, Angela, have a lengthy history of financial problems, from tax liens, to a home foreclosure, to a lawsuit from a former employee at Messam’s construction business who says he wasn’t paid for his work. Together, the documents paint the clearest picture yet of the candidate’s money problems.
After two hours of public comment, commissioners ultimately voted five to two against even entertaining a conversation with Ultra’s leadership team. But more importantly, the discussion revealed Miami Beach’s own worst impulses when it comes to tourism, class, and race. Multiple hoteliers and commissioners spoke in favor of attracting elite, moneyed visitors — supposedly the “right” kind of tourist.
Henny & Waffles, a traveling hip-hop brunch party that features Hennessy and a waffle station, has been described as an “affordable, good, clean and fun environment.” Founded by a D.C.-area duo, it’s aimed at young professionals and has made previous stops in Atlanta, Charlotte, and New York City.
Earlier this week, Miami New Times obtained a 150-page WhatsApp chat that appears to include volunteers working with the 2018 campaign of Miami-Dade County Commission candidate (and former Republican state Sen.) Alex Diaz de la Portilla. They discuss stealing and shredding absentee ballots taken from voters that year. The workers…
Fair warning: This article about American foreign policy and potential acts of war contains spoilers for the fantasy HBO TV show Game of Thrones, because we live in the bleakest and most hellish political timeline imaginable.
The reporting includes newly uncovered data about immigrant detainees at Krome Service Processing Center, an ICE facility at the western edge of Miami-Dade County.
In sports, there are constant forks in the road. Select a quarterback or a defensive end in the draft. Trade for a big name or bring along the young guy. Order nachos or just pour beer all over yourself. Every team and fan faces a litany of decisions each season…
If you’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, you’re not allowed to endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns of any kind. So it sure was bizarre to see Farm Share — a charitable organization that gives food to the needy — allegedly holding a campaign event with former state Sen. Daphne Campbell.
Baxley went on WLRN to talk about abortion, but for some bizarre and entirely in-character reason, he justified his anti-abortion stance by echoing straight-up white-supremacist talking points about Western European birthrates.
When workers at the federal courthouse in Miami received a letter in the mail on May 10 saying there were explosives in the building, the note warned them the threat was serious.
