When FX’s American Crime Story premieres tonight, Miamians will be familiar with much of the landscape. Season 2 of the hit series explores the assassination of Gianni Versace, who was gunned down on the front steps of his Ocean Drive mansion in 1997. The death of the iconic Italian fashion designer stunned South Beach and sent police scrambling to find the murderer.
Sanguich de Miami, a shipping container converted into a wildly popular Cuban sandwich shop in Little Havana, has closed until further notice.
The central question facing the American empire in 2018 is whether Donald Trump has permanently broken U.S. politics or if the nation can revert to a country full of staid, run-of-the-mill public servants. Signs don’t look good: For one, even liberals now want Oprah Winfrey to run for president, which is a horrible idea.
Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which lets you shoot anyone who threatens your life, even if you provoked the encounter, is so shitty it’s been clearly tied to a huge uptick in murders since it was passed in 2005. It sucks so bad it let George Zimmerman kill 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012…
Hopping on a bike in Miami takes guts. Even for experienced cyclists, navigating aggressive drivers and oblivious pedestrians is a skill in and of itself. Picking a safe path is essential, which is why the Venetian Causeway has become one of Miami’s most used bike routes. And the Venetian just got an upgrade making it even more bicycle-friendly.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park yesterday to protest the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention of two of the city’s most prominent immigrant activists: Ravi Ragbir and Jean Montrevil. The two run the city’s New Sanctuary Coalition, a group that helps families fight deportation…
In a gilded, colonial-style home in Millstone Township, New Jersey, Mary nestled peacefully on her living-room couch. Fast asleep, the 35-year-old pregnant brunette didn’t hear her boyfriend drunkenly stumble in. Mary, a brown-eyed, five-foot-five former model from Bronxville, New York, and her boyfriend of nine months, David Sugarman, had recently…
If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he probably would have hated all of the bullshit, racist Florida politicians quoting him today. And they likely would have despised him right back.
Cornelius Brown lived with schizophrenia and liked to carry a broomstick around his Opa-locka neighborhood “playing nunchucks.” His family says that simply being black and carrying a stick in public eventually got him killed at the age of 25. In 2015, Opa-locka Police officers said they were forced to shoot Brown dead after he attacked them.
It’s time for fantasy to become reality. It’s time for Derek Jeter to finally do right by Miami Marlins fans. It’s time for the team to play in a ballpark that’s named for something that truly represents Florida.
A Virginia Key Beach cleanup rewarded with beer from Wynwood Brewing Co., an art exhibition in the Everglades, or a hike through Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park are great outdoors options, and if you’re looking to party with your tribe, check out Counter Corner at 1306 or Concrete-a-Con at Concrete Beach Brewery. Here’s a look at some of the week’s best free events in Miami.
It would seem to be a sorry state of affairs when a college student has to choose between massive debt and sleeping with a rich old dude for cash, but Seeking Arrangement spokesperson Brook Urick says, actually, that’s not what the company is about.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with doing drugs — so long as you’re not in the business of arresting other people who do drugs. This has been the dilemma for Miami-area cops since the city’s cocaine explosion began in the 1970s and ’80s — getting paid to bust people for drugs…
Donald Trump infamously visited Miami’s Little Haiti in 2016, stood in front of the city’s Haitian-American community, and promised to be a “champion” for Haitians. He was clearly lying through his teeth.
The Miami Heat’s famously hard-working culture is back in the news, which is always a good thing because it usually means the team is winning basketball games. This time, though, the rest of the NBA and much of the media seemed to be finally realizing this isn’t just a catchy…
It’s about time someone apologized for bringing Donald Trump to Miami’s Little Haiti in 2016 and letting him blather on about how he planned to be a “champion” for the Haitian people. Asking Trump to apologize and reconsider his recent actions is a fool’s errand.
This past Tuesday, when volunteers were preparing to open for their normal 6-to-9 p.m. shift, they discovered thieves had been broken into the collective’s modified shipping container. Someone had hauled away three new bikes, expensive tools, and a generator the nonprofit group uses to keep the lights on. The total value was $4,000. It is the fourth time the bicycle collective has been targeted since it moved to Omni Park last February, according to Ruben van Hooidonk, the group’s vice president.
Commissioner Ricky Arriola is reportedly the subject of an investigation into attempted sexual battery, the Miami Herald reported minutes ago. Both Miami Beach Police and Arriola himself confirmed the existence of the investigation to the Herald. He has not been charged with a crime.
Broward and Miami-Dade County U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a leading Democrat, just helped hand Donald Trump, a man too dumb to tweet the word “tap” correctly, extra powers to spy on American citizens without a warrant. She joined 54 other Democrats in voting down a measure to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency’s unprecedented warrantless spying program.
The Heatles aren’t back, but Miami’s scruffy bunch of locals is playing some kind of basketball. A day after defeating the Toronto Raptors with an amazing, last-minute basket by shooting guard and long-ball wiz Wayne Ellington, the Heat beat the Indiana Pacers last night for its first win in Indianapolis since LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade played together.
When you’re pals with the dumbest person ever elected U.S. president, it’s pretty easy to convince the Leader of the Free World to do some stupid shit that makes you look good. Take Florida Governor Rick Scott: After Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, announced a plan this…
In September 2015, Lisa was working as a pier attendant at the Deerfield Beach Fishing Pier when her boss, public works director Charles DaBrusco, called her into the bathroom to check out a broken toilet. Once the two were inside, however, it became clear he hadn’t summoned her for a maintenance issue.
