Key West’s Cat Man Is a Mystery
Dominique Lefort, a Frenchman known to many as “Cat Man,” has developed an enormously popular pre-sunset show over three decades in Key West.
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Florida Lawmaker Won’t Apologize for Trying to Make It Easier to Run Over Protesters
Over the weekend, a white supremacist drove a silver Dodge Charger into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. The terror attack killed 32-year-old Virginia civil rights activist Heather Heyer and severely injured 19 others. Police have charged the driver, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., with second-degree murder.
How Two Sisters Started Miami’s First Afro-Cuban, Woman-Owned Cigar Company
Yvonne Rodriguez nervously rapped on the front door of a Westchester home. She’d arrived to see her brother’s santera, Dulce, for insight into her future. In a cramped backroom with a card table draped in a white tablecloth, surrounded by statues of saints and offerings of fruit, Yvonne paid her $21 fee and looked to Dulce for answers.
Miami Is America’s Hardest City for Poor Renters
Last year, the Miami-Dade County Commission shot down a plan that would have forced local developers to include some affordable apartments in every new project. Commissioner Javier Souto claimed the idea was “social engineering,” one of the most profoundly stupid things said in South Florida politics this decade.
Miami to Rally at Bayfront Park Tonight for Victims of Charlottesville Terror Attack
This past Saturday, a Nazi-obsessed 20-year-old plowed a car into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was a brutal act of domestic terrorism that left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead and dozens seriously injured — even though the president of the United States has so far refused to call it terrorism or even criticize the violent racist mob that the terrorist had come to Charlottesville to support.
Five Things to Know About the New Miami Marlins Owner Who Isn’t Derek Jeter
Yesterday news broke that team owner Jeffrey Loria will officially sell the Miami Marlins for $1.2 billion and return to living in the primordial bog that birthed him two millennia ago. Former Yankee Derek Jeter will invest $25 million of his own cash into the team, but the major money is coming from investor Bruce Sherman, who lives in Naples and appears to be only a marginal improvement over Loria.
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Opa-locka Is So Corrupt and Broken That Residents Want to Abolish the City
At this point, it’s unclear why Opa-locka, the city of 16,000 people in Northwest Miami-Dade County, has a right to exist or what good the city government does for anyone. The city is transparently corrupt, money for basic public services has been squandered, and the police are forced to regularly…
Two Broward Teachers Punished for Calling Middle Eastern Students “Terrorists”
When you sign up to become a schoolteacher, no one hands you a book of names you shouldn’t call your students. That’s because most educators have good enough sense to know referring to their kids as terrorists is almost certainly a bad idea. Unfortunately, not everyone has good sense. This…
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine Took $200,000 From Russia-Linked Oligarch
In any race for the Florida governorship, it’s fair to question why a candidate’s political committee took $200,000 from a Ukrainian-born billionaire oligarch who owns a huge stake in an aluminum company with direct ties to the Kremlin. It’s doubly relevant in 2017, as Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans continue to question…
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Miami-Area Club Temporarily Shut Down for Holding Illegal Topless Dance-Off
Well, that was fun while it lasted. A mere 24 hours after prominent Miami nightclub La Covacha — a staple of the local Latin American music scene for decades — posted a video of multiple women stripping nude to try to win some concert tickets, the City of Sweetwater has…
Miami Beach Bulldozes Vegetation Where Feral Cat Colonies Lived
Every morning for the past seven years, Ethel Domiguez has fed the cats living in the tangle of vegetation on the beach behind her Collins Avenue condo building. But when she went down to the beach yesterday, she was horrified by what she saw: Workers were bulldozing everything. Most…
Critics Say Doral Officials Wasted Thousands Traveling Around Guatemala
As part of a “sister city agreement,” Doral officials frequently visit foreign cities including the City of Armenia, Guatemala City, New Taipei City, Oranjestad, and Barranquilla, allegedly to foster trade. But recently, Doral residents have begun to protest their city council members’ seemingly frivolous spending, particularly after a recent trip in which Mayor Bermudez and Vice Mayor Cabrera, along with other officials, visited Guatemala City in late July.
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Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting Victim’s Family Says Delta, County Acted Negligently
Before Esteban Santiago unpacked a gun from his checked baggage at the Fort Lauderdale airport, filled it with ammo, and then gunned down dozens of innocent people in January, no one from Delta Airlines, the airport, or the Broward Sheriff’s Office found his behavior suspicious enough to stop him. That’s…
Miami New Times Rolls Out New Article Page Design
Our stories now scroll without interruption, leading you seamlessly from one to another. And speaking of seamless, we’ve also streamlined our advertising to improve load times and give you a quicker, more elegant reading experience.
Miami Trump Operative Confirms She Had Affair, Child With Trump Spokesperson
Eight months ago, A.J. Delgado, a Cuban-American Donald Trump campaign adviser from Miami, hinted that Trump’s original White House spokesperson, Jason Miller, was having an affair with someone on the campaign staff. After she called Miller the “2016 version of John Edwards,” Miller resigned, and Politico later confirmed that the rumors…
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NOAA Says This Hurricane Season Will Be Even Worse Than Predicted
There are two tropical disturbances brewing in the Atlantic Ocean right now. It’s likely neither will hit Florida. One, called Invest 99L, very likely could become a depression, but current models predict it will loop back out toward the center of the ocean without hitting us. The other, a tropical wave floating over the Bahamas…
Video: Transgender Woman Kicked Out of Miami Beach Grocery Store
Cassandra Helton has shopped for years at her Normandy Isles neighborhood market, so she was shocked a few months ago when a manager abruptly demanded that she leave. Hoping it was an aberration, she went back last week — this time with her cell phone video camera ready to roll. Sure…
Here Are All the Best Jay Cutler Dolphins Memes
A week ago, the Miami Dolphins had the NFL world by the nipples. Ryan Tannehill was healthy and the Dolphins were a trendy dark-horse Super Bowl pick. Now, before they’ve even played their first preseason game, Tannehill is likely out for the season, and Jay Cutler…
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Video: Fort Lauderdale Cop Shoves Past Screaming Family to Make Minor Drug Arrests
The clip begins with police lights blasting red and blue strobes across an entire block of NW Fourth Street in Fort Lauderdale. A teenage girl stands handcuffed next to a white Infinity SUV as her mother screams at the officers and asks what they’ve done wrong, what law they broke,…
Leaked Climate Change Report Warns Only Massive Carbon Cuts Will Save Miami
Seawalls. Hotel lobbies designed to flood. Raising roads. Installing pumps to suck floodwater underground. Miami-area politicians have undertaken a smorgasbord of projects designed to mitigate the effects of climate-change and sea-level-rise in America’s most ocean-vulnerable city. But a massive federal report on climate change leaked to the New York Times today…
New Anti-Beckham Stadium Campaign Targets Overtown, Spring Garden
Last week, Miami’s futbol faithful were left disappointed again when Major League Soccer owners declined to give David Beckham’s group final approval for a new franchise. Although they did give Becks the nod to keep negotiating, there are plenty of looming hurdles: a land deal with the county that isn’t…
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Miami-Dade Police Deploying Military Unit Randomly Across Town
In August 2016, a group of campaign finance reform advocates tried to stage a protest inside Miami-Dade County Hall. The protesters, many of whom were elderly, were peaceful. Yet the Miami-Dade Police Department sent an officer to patrol the crowd with a semi-automatic weapon — terrifying some protesters, who said they…