It’s a Friday night in January 2011, and a cold front has swept through the city, plunging temperatures to a crisp 51 degrees. On North Miami Avenue, near the corner of 29th Street in Wynwood, a red and green neon sign entices passersby with the promise of “Bar Open Liquor.”…
An explosive, 150-page WhatsApp chat leaked to Miami New Times appears to show members of Miami-Dade County Commission District 5 candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla’s 2018 campaign team discussing destroying or stealing absentee ballots from voters who selected one of Diaz de la Portilla’s opponents, Zoraida Barreiro.
While in town for a wedding, Georgia resident Dave Jacobs and his family spotted a gator just casually chilling on an alligator-shaped pool float at their Airbnb in South Miami.
Fifteen-year-old Rick Naya was camping with a friend in South Florida’s J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area when he spotted a cargo plane flying above, dumping dozens of marijuana bales into the woods below. It was like a gift from the ganja gods. The year was 1975, and Florida was becoming…
The Miami Dolphins announced on Friday that they’ll beat the New England Patriots on September 15, which happens to be Dan Marino’s birthday. They’ll do so in style, wearing the universally praised throwback uniforms, this year in white. If you remember, the team wore the aqua version last season when…
Every Memorial Day, Miami Beach braces for an influx of visitors and the inevitable complaints about traffic. But thanks to the ongoing construction on the MacArthur Causeway, this year’s gridlock could be even worse — and police are basically telling drivers tough luck.
The Stonehenge rock was far from the first insane artifact that’s turned up in South Florida. In fact, the area’s unique combination of retirees, wayward travelers, and outright criminals have turned Miami into a haven for art thieves and black-market artifact deals
Today an off-duty Miami cop shot someone. Miami-Dade Police announced that a still-unnamed City of Miami officer got into an argument with a man in North Miami-Dade early this morning and wound up shooting the guy. According to NBC 6 South Florida (WTVJ), the cop shot his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.
Last week, on May 8, the Miami City Commission cast a 3-2 vote on a controversial revitalization plan that would save the façade but call for the auditorium to be demolished.
The Miami Marlins were expected to be bad. With their best talent residing in minor-league towns like Jacksonville and Jupiter, it was predictable. Most teams rebuilding are bad, but the Miami Marlins are historically bad. So spectacularly bad…
Since Hurricane Irma hit Florida in September 2017, the historic hotel has been closed for a massive renovation. But now that the windows and doors have been ripped out during construction, neighbors tell New Times they’re concerned rain and humidity could damage the property.
In a bizarre, cryptic announcement, Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen said this afternoon the Trump administration plans to begin shipping migrants from the U.S./Mexico border to Broward and Palm Beach Counties “on a weekly basis without designated shelters or funding to house them, feed them, and keep them safe.”
It turns out the accidental shooter is a Miami Police officer. And he isn’t just any cop: A department spokeswoman confirmed to New Times this afternoon that the officer is Mario Gonzalez, a police firearms instructor.
On Wednesday morning, Joel Franco woke up to an email stating that his Twitter account had been suspended. According to the email, a company representing the copyright owners of La Macarena had lodged a complaint with Twitter.
Pet leasing is the latest problem to hit would-be pet owners in Miami and across the country. Certain unscrupulous pet sellers lock buyers into contracts with monthly financing plans while hiding the fact that they can repossess the pet if the buyer misses a payment.
For the third year in a row, Verizon Wireless is offering a free STEM summer camp at Florida International University with the admirable goal of increasing minority representation in science and math fields. But apparently they forgot that girls, too, are underrepresented. The camp is for boys only.
William Thompson still has screenshots of the route, plus trip IDs, photos snapped at various pit stops along the way, a thank you message from the customer, and a payment from Uber. The price tag on just one of the receipts, for the stretch between Connecticut and Florida: $2,283.93.
On a recent Sunday in April, Rev. Kit Robison delivered a sermon about the commandment to love God and your neighbor as yourself. For a long time, Robison told parishioners, she struggled with the end of that edict: to love herself.
According to a story today in the Washington Post, revenue at Trump National Doral Miami is plummeting — and has been since 2015.
Earlier this week, a salacious video started making the rounds on social media. In it, a woman books it down a Miami Beach street, tailed by a man with nary a thread of clothing on his body. “Stop her!” he yells. “She’s got my Rolex!”
Here are a few promising signs that these Miami Dolphins aren’t the same old Miami Dolphins.
Amendment 4 was supposed to automatically restore voting rights for former prisoners after their sentences were over. But Florida Republicans clearly weren’t happy about that and passed a law forcing ex-inmates to pay a slew of exorbitant court fines and fees before getting their rights back — a law derided as a 21st-century version of a Jim Crow-era “poll tax.”
