By day, they arrive on red double-deckers and luxury coaches, tourists from Tokyo, Toronto, and Teaneck who hit the streets of Little Havana hungry for a taste of Cuban Miami. Poking their heads into the shops and cafés on Calle Ocho, they linger for a cafecito, buy a cigar or…
Florida’s Senate is backing off its ludicrous post-Parkland massacre plan of arming school teachers, so your child might end up getting accidentally shot by a math teacher after all. But a librarian, school nurse, or guidance counselor might still accidentally wind up pulling a gun on your children. During a debate…
In 2003, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and Defense Minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín fled to Miami amid roiling protests in La Paz. The two had enraged indigenous Bolivians by trying to sell off the country’s natural gas reserves to private corporations and then had responded to peaceful protests by ordering out the army, which killed 58 civilians and wounded more than 400 people.
The absolute worst thing you can ask Florida’s current cadre of politicians to do is solve a problem. Tallahassee is, by design, filled with barely literate Cro-Magnons who basically just put their name on whatever bill a lobbyist places between them and a free sandwich. Floridians saw the worst of…
Rick Ross, one of Miami’s all-time great hip-hop acts, seemed to be on a health kick lately. He melted 100 pounds off his infamously round frame between 2014 and 2016 and told anyone who would listen he had proudly adopted “RossFit” (a play on CrossFit) as a way to “save his life” from the ills of obesity.
“Excited delirium” is not an officially recognized medical condition. The term was invented in Miami to describe why so many cocaine and crack addicts were dying in the city’s streets during the 1980s, but many medical experts say the condition — when someone’s brain basically short-circuits due to a combination of drugs and stress…
In his 15 years with the Florida East Coast Railway (FERC), Natale Sacco performed many jobs. From 1986 to 2001, he fueled and maintained trains at the Hialeah yard and along the railway from Miami to Jacksonville, working as a switchman, engineer, conductor, hostler, and trainman.
In 2015, Jessica Mooney sat next to her fiancee at a Fort Lauderdale bus terminal as he filmed Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Victor Ramirez slapping a homeless man in the face. The In 2015, Jessica Mooney sat next to her fiancé at a Fort Lauderdale bus terminal as he filmed Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Victor Ramirez slapping a homeless man in the face.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvahlo will, improbably, remain in his job for the foreseeable future. After flying to New York City for multiple dinners with Mayor Bill de Blasio, being offered a prestigious job running America’s largest public school system, and even being formally welcomed into the post yesterday, Carvalho did a 180 this afternoon.
Go back and watch the CNN town hall on the Parkland massacre — you know, the one where Marco Rubio was repeatedly owned so hard that he could barely stutter out his canned lines — and the survivors and victims’ families repeatedly make three demands of the senator: Reinstate the federal ban on assault weapons, ban high-capacity magazines, and stop taking money from the Nation Rifle Association.
Skateboarding came to Cuba in the early ’80s, when Soviet soldiers, doctors, and students brought boards to the communist island. Intrigued, kids in Havana soon began riding, using boards handmade from plywood or smuggled in from abroad. Though the sport was seen as rebellious and countercultural even in America, and the Cuban regime frowned upon it, a small but vibrant skate scene took hold.
A Cat 5 PR shitstorm hit Miami’s Tri-Source Pharma late last year after the Wall Street Journal published a story showing the company had raised the price of a cancer drug more than 1,400 percent. Some internet commenters were quick to compare Tri-Source CEO Robert DiCrisci to Martin Shkreli, the now-convicted “pharma bro” who in 2015 jacked up the price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV patients. One particularly angry Twitter user went as far as to call DiCrisci “the human equivalent of a loaded cat litter box.”
On Tuesday, January 2, Miami Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) teacher Orestes Amador Jr. turned his black Volkswagen Passat left on Hialeah Drive just after 7 p.m. Seconds later, a police cruiser plowed into him at the intersection of East Fifth Avenue. The crash was so violent the police car flew into a neighboring ice-cream shop, and witnesses said the boom shook the entire block.
Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade County Schools’ acclaimed superintendent, is leaving his post after nearly a decade and taking over the New York City public school system, New York Mayor Bill De Blasio announced today. Carvalho, 51, has been one of the few — and we do mean few — examples of good governance…
Miami Beach promotes itself as a haven for progressives, LGBTQ people, and open-minded folks from all over the globe, yet in its recent push to crack down on crime, the city has alarmed civil liberties groups. The city and police department have recently praised the local group Crime Prevention and Awareness, a collection of vigilantes fighting to increase bond amounts for criminals.
After Parkland massacre survivors roasted Sen. Marco Rubio like a pig in a caja china at CNN’s nationally televised town hall, he took to Twitter to complain that their demands for an outright ban on the military-style assault weapons that helped slaughter 17 people at the school were “well outside the mainstream.”
Most attorneys don’t deserve the bad rap their profession has gotten. But when a lawyer hires an unlicensed doctor to help sell fake marijuana certificates for $800 apiece that supposedly give people legal cover to grow weed, he has earned a bit of that ugly reputation. And once SWAT teams start kicking those clients’ doors down and hauling them off to jail, it’s probably time that lawyer lost his license.
The first Miami Marlins spring training of the Derek Jeter era kicked off last week at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter. That much we know happened. Who actually played in the tune-up games for the Marlins is largely a mystery we are still trying to solve. When a team trades the NL MVP…
Sen. Marco Rubio is very bad at standing in front of human voters and saying words. It’s his biggest weakness. He sweated his career away when he responded to the 2013 State of the Union address, flunked out of the 2016 Republican presidential primary for robotically repeating the same phrases…
People who deliver pizza in Miami live in the most disparate city in America. Study after study shows that Miami-Dade County is arguably the cruelest metro area for the working poor, a place with next to zero affordable homes. The city’s lack of middle-class job opportunities means residents make a median income of $43,000 per year…
If you’re trying to predict what kind of new legislation Tallahassee will eventually pass in response to the Parkland massacre, just ask a simple question: What would Marion Hammer do? The über-powerful NRA lobbyist has spent the past 20 years methodically turning the Sunshine State into a heavily armed free-for-all, and so far, the bought-and-paid-for GOP Legislature has never failed to do her bidding.
After the school massacre in Parkland two weeks ago, Mark Cowan, a grizzled man in Fort Wayne, Indiana, began standing outside the town’s North Side High School. With a handgun. And an AR-15 in his car.
