If you polled 1,000 Miamians about what civic improvements they needed, almost none would say “new highways.” Miami-Dade County already has tons of them. Traffic remains bad, and the metropolitan area continues sprawling toward the southwest like a malignant tumor.
Even before yesterday’s wrenching Senate hearings, you probably already knew Sen. Marco Rubio is a simpering hog with horrible opinions about the sexual assault allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Yet hearing Rubio actually voice those awful thoughts still sucks.
Yesterday, hours before Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Politico, the Miami Herald, and dozens of other news outlets published stories noting that another woman who accused the Supreme Court nominee of sexual transgressions — Julie Swetnick — had a black mark on her resumé. A Miami ex-boyfriend, Richard Vinneccy, filed a restraining order against her March 1, 2001.
It’s been ten days since Nusret “Salt Bae” Gökçe was caught serving a bunch of ridiculous luxury steak to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Seriously: Screw Salt Bae for doing that while Venezuelans are starving. But also, ten days is way too long to care about him. He is famous for throwing salt on meat while looking like a douchebag…
Miami-Dade County’s proposed extension of the Dolphin Expressway has seemed to unite both Republicans and Democrats in anger: Everyone, from local environmentalists to Sen. Marco Rubio, has slammed the idea. In Miami-Dade, a county where public transportation options are short and traffic wait times are long, activists have warned…
After 18 years of EDM in downtown Miami, Ultra Music Festival will have to find a new home next year. The City of Miami Commission voted this afternoon to deny a new five-year agreement for the festival to remain at Bayfront Park.
For the past two decades, Pastor Rick Wiles has built a career on the far fringes of the evangelical movement by railing against Jews, gays, and immigrants in language so over-the-top it would make Pat Buchanan blush. Wiles blamed Hurricane Harvey’s devastation in Houston on the city’s “LGBT devotion,”…
If a City of Miami Police officer suspects you have drugs in your car, you’d better believe you’ll get arrested. Sure, prosecutors might eventually drop your case or send you to a pretrial diversion program, but there’s also a good shot you could end up in jail. Either way, the process is humiliating and expensive.
Under Miami Police Department rules, cops aren’t allowed to post selfies on Instagram showing them grinning next to detained, handcuffed people. The rule might seem self-evident, but in January, New Times caught Miami Police Captain Javier Ortiz — the city’s former police union chief known for insulting dead children…
The proposed Magic City Innovation District would instantly transform Little Haiti from an area of Caribbean immigrants and locally owned shops into a glitzy, landlocked version of Miami Beach. Though Little Haiti is already gentrifying at a rapid clip, locals worry the development would guarantee that the last stretch of affordable housing in the area would vanish.
Since signing on to the program, North Miami cops made 214 arrests of people with less than 20 grams of marijuana. The city is just the latest in Miami-Dade County to ignore a legislative push to arrest fewer people for weed possession, as well as a handful of other minor offenses covered by a 2015 county ordinance. Since the ordinance passed in June 2015, North Miami PD has made 549 arrests.
Even if you’re not a fan of South Florida sports teams, you know these people. They exist in large numbers and walk among us every day. They work in your office. They ride in your Uber Pool. They’re related to you. Hell, maybe you are one of these special brands of sports fan. These are the craziest-ass sports fans in Miami. Talk crap about them at your own risk.
When Tricia Fowley’s great-uncle moved to Surfside almost 70 years ago, he built three homes for his family on the corner of Harding Avenue and 93rd Street. Two of them were eventually knocked down to build a parking lot; Fowley grew up in and eventually inherited the third house — a two-bedroom, two-bath with a brick façade only one block from the beach.
Miami is unique. No other major city on Earth is wedged between the ocean and an endangered river of grass. No other metropolis in the United States was founded by a woman. So it makes sense the Magic City’s criminals are also an unusual breed.
The coolest bar in the known free world closed for good over the weekend. Sure, that was a title the International World Famous Treasure Trove (“IWF Treasure Trove” for short) bestowed upon itself, but the 23-year-old dive a block from the ocean was at the very least the coolest bar in Fort Lauderdale.
Wynwood is Miami’s least remarkable neighborhood. South Beach is one of the world’s most iconic art deco cityscapes. Little Havana is a melting pot of Cuban and American traditions that exists nowhere else on Earth. Wynwood has street art, endless EDM, and $17 cocktails. You could pluck any Wynwood bar, pop it into Brooklyn or Seattle or Portland or Los Angeles or Austin, and nobody would notice a thing.
Maurice Symonette has become a political celebrity thanks to Donald Trump’s staff, which has repeatedly given the ex-member of Miami’s deadly Yahweh ben Yahweh cult prime seats behind the president at nationally televised rallies to show off his “Blacks for Trump” signs. But Symonette recently told a bankruptcy court that he’s dead broke…
Most Americans outside the Midwest have probably never seen an Indianapolis Indians game. The Indians are the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Minor League Baseball affiliate — they play in the AAA International League in a stadium that holds a maximum of about 14,000 people. The single most exciting thing about attending…
All summer, Miamians couldn’t open Instagram without seeing a selfie under Umbrella Sky, the floating canopy of brightly colored umbrellas in Coral Gables. The installation came down last week after a three-month run.
Miami-Dade’s weird-crime chronicles include a fellow huffing dust-cleaner at a Homestead bus stop and a man allegedly tinkering with the dead at Miami cemetery.
The rally, organized by South Florida LGBTQ groups SAVE, Equality Florida, and the Human Rights Campaign, was a stark contrast to the crowd Gillum drew in Wynwood just seven weeks ago, when a Miami artist unveiled a mural of Gillum outside 004 Connec on NW 24th Street.
Pro tip: If you want to work in a job where you arrest people for doing cocaine, don’t do cocaine yourself. That advice might seem obvious, but the Miami Springs Police Department says former cop Christopher Dweck failed to follow those wise words. Now, after failing a test for coke and amphetamines and getting fired, he is suing the department in federal court.
