Like most of America, John DeVore was astounded to see the Facebook photos posted by a random Palm Beach rich dude last weekend. Thanks to his membership at Mar-a-Lago, some guy named Richard DeAgazio managed to sidle up to the nuclear football for a selfie and watch a North Korean…
Republicans claim to be a party of good old Christian values. They take photo-ops at church, post prayer psalms on Twitter, install unqualified Christian moonbats to run the Department of Education (See: DeVos Betsy), and quote Jesus in public whenever it’s convenient. But despite the fact that Jesus spent about…
The Miami Heat has played 56 of its 82 regular-season games, but for some reason, the NBA All-Star break this weekend still feels like the midpoint of the season. Maybe that’s because Heat fans are so used to playoff basketball stretching into May and June.
Floridians are suffering from an epidemic of head trauma.
At the beginning of last week, the room-sharing company Airbnb seemed to have a good relationship with the City of Miami — more harmonious than Miami Beach, where city officials have passed an ever-increasing series of restrictions on short-term rentals. But then City of Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado last week proposed an ordinance cracking down on Airbnb-style “vacation” rentals. Regalado’s new law would ban short-term rentals in roughly two-thirds of the city. It would also subject any Airbnb, Homeaway, or other temporary home rentals in the remaining third to some fairly strict licensing requirements.
Artist Cynthia Fleischmann lost the bottom half of her right leg in a brutal October 2015 motorcycle accident. And she says the Florida Department of Transportation’s shoddily maintained I-95 express lanes — where broken and missing poles let people illegally jump over into the express zones — are to blame…
A culture of misogyny and macho bullying at Magic Leap, a high-profile, billion-dollar virtual-reality startup based in Broward, has put the company behind schedule on its launch date, according to a new lawsuit.
The line stretched all the way down Biscayne Boulevard: thousands of Miamians clutching signs bearing phrases such as “Sister, act,” “The 4-year pussy riot starts now,” and “Trump voters: It’s fascism, stupid.” An hour after Bayfront Park Amphitheatre’s gates opened, they had to close. South Florida’s answer to the national…
Complying with Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants doesn’t seem to trouble Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez much. He’s spent the weeks since his January 26 order — which declared that his county will not act as a “sanctuary” to immigrants — by smearing his local opposition and spreading Trumpian falsehoods on the radio.
Marco Rubio’s campaign-trail promises of being a strong foil to Donald Trump already felt like pulp fiction thanks to his 100 percent voting record for the president’s appointees and plans. Now they’re beginning to look as sordid as the latest Fifty Shades edition.
For once in Miami-Dade County, a police officer caught doing something blatantly racist won’t be getting his job back. Former Miami Beach Police Lt. Alex Carulo was fired alongside one other high-ranking cop in 2015 for sending hundreds of racist, sexist emails. The slew of garbage included images of a “Black Monopoly” board where every space sent the player to jail…
Miami’s seemingly never-ending saga of Jeffrey Loria, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb might finally be coming to a close. Loria owns the Miami Marlins, a taxpayer-funded rich-person welfare program that occasionally hosts baseball games. After buying the team in 2003 for roughly $150 million, the sports-team equivalent of cereal box tops…
This morning, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine crossed Biscayne Bay and drove to WLRN public radio’s studios in Doral. He spoke to listeners about why his city had passed a resolution urging Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez to reverse an earlier decision — and make the county a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants.
Most burglars wouldn’t bother cutting the lawn. But on an April day in 2014, that’s exactly what raised the suspicions of a woman in one Miami neighborhood. When she saw a strange man cutting the grass outside a home on SW Fourth Street, she called the homeowner to let him know.
Cops are supposed to give other cops “professional courtesy” when they’re out in public. That means they’re not supposed to arrest or ticket one another when they’re caught breaking the law. But after Donna “Jane” Watts, a Florida Highway Patrol officer, caught Fausto Lopez, a City of Miami cop, rocketing up the highway at 120 mph, she pulled him over — at gunpoint.
Jeffrey Loria’s endgame has always been obvious. Loria has spent two decades constructing an elaborate baseball Ponzi scheme, starting in ’99, when he dropped just $12 million for a stake in the Montreal Expos and culminating in 2011 when he wrangled a new Miami Marlins stadium paid for by the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County to the tune of $2.4 billion.
Miami Beach Police want to install controversial license-plate readers permanently on the city’s causeways. But it’s difficult to imagine how the department’s plate-reading dragnet could possibly get bigger: According to data New Times obtained from MBPD, the department sucked up data from at least 11,388,106 license plates in the past year.
Dear Stoner: I keep seeing all these different “concentrates” in dispensaries, but I’ve yet to try any. I know this sounds dumb, but what is hash, exactly? Ivana Tryit
Ah, a day at the beach: sunny skies, white sand, gentle waves, and floating LED billboards for Señor Frog’s.
As Donald Trump and his cohorts have spread outright lies about immigrants to bolster their harsh policies, news organizations should take extra care to approach the subject with nuance, care, and proper context. Instead, two stories published Tuesday and Wednesday in the Miami Herald repeatedly omit basic facts about U.S. immigration,…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren stepped to the Senate floor last night with a simple plan: Reading a letter by civil rights icon Coretta Scott King that criticized Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. Given Sessions’ incendiary record on racial justice, King’s opinion was quite relevant to the debate on whether Sessions should…
The Miami Heat used to be really, really bad. Way back in January 2017, the Heat was a putrid basketball team that had lost 30 of 41 games. People wanted Miami to start tanking. They said the Heat should trade Hassan Whiteside for Carmelo Anthony. They threw dirt on the season before it was confirmed dead.
