With cell phones held in tight grips over the ship’s railings, dozens of passengers looked down at the ice-blue ocean as 31-year-old Bernardo Texeira Garcia clung to the side of a lifeboat on Deck 6. It was November 6, 2015, and the Oasis of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship…
The Miami Dolphins are a .500 football team. Hi, haters! Since the funeral everyone held for the team following its 30-17 loss to the Tennessee Titans October 9, the Dolphins have won three straight, catapulting themselves to the top of the pack of teams hunting for that last AFC wildcard spot.
So much for that whole “Donald Trump deserves a shot” mentality Hillary Clinton was advocating yesterday. Thousands of Trump’s opponents — a multicolored coalition of civil-rights reformers, immigration activists, criminal-justice critics, LGBTQ allies, and others — have already taken to the streets around the nation to protest…
Cable television failed the American public in many ways this election cycle. But perhaps its biggest failure was letting the candidates get through three debates without asking a single question about climate change. For South Floridians, neither candidate was forced to answer any substantive questions about how he or she would handle the…
Scientific studies have shown that being exposed to large amounts of marijuana smoke in an unventilated room — AKA hotboxing — can increase your heart rate while decreasing cognitive skills, but the conditions have to be extreme.
Forty feet above Hollywood, Raymond Brown helps his friend Douglas “Hoxxoh” Hoekzema sketch out a design on the side of a new luxury high-rise. The two stand side by side on a narrow platform suspended over the side of the towering condo building. After weeks of work, they’re nearly finished…
In 1837, white men in Florida first floated the idea of draining a swamp. Men, who’d traveled from the north and had no real business being there, saw a wide, slow-moving sheet of shallow water barbed with sawgrass as a threat, a scourge, and a waste of valuable real estate…
Well, here we are. It’s been 17 months since Donald Trump announced his candidacy by declaring that Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists. It’s also been two days since the FBI announced it won’t charge Clinton for her deleted emails, but those last 48 hours somehow managed to feel longer…
Kate Jacobson had already picked out her seats and keyed in her credit card number for a last-minute flight to Fort Lauderdale when she decided to check the mailbox one last time. For weeks she’d been waiting at it “like a lovestruck teen,” but her absentee ballot was a no-show.
Florida sure looks like it’s on the verge of legalizing medical marijuana. Poll after poll shows Amendment 2 riding well above the 60 percent threshold needed to pass. And although casino magnate and Trump BFF Sheldon Adelson has dropped $1.5 million to defeat the measure, that’s way less than he…
We get it. This election has been harder to watch than the new Independence Day. It’s been more stressful than the build-up to Hurricane Matthew. And it’s all been even worse as a journalist. GOP rallies have turned into group anger management sessions directed at ink-stained scribes, actual facts…
The blond corpse floats in a blood-filled bathtub. The face bobs just barely above the surface. She wears nothing but a thong. Her hands are tied with a ribbed fabric sash. The feet are bound with a beige electrical cord. Stab wounds dot her body. The sprawling Mediterranean-style home is a…
Two things Miamians are tired of: Paying exorbitant amounts of money for rent, and hearing New Times complain about it. Nary a week goes by without some real-estate analyst looking at our housing prices and collapsing with an aneurysm. This week, the analysts turned their attention to Miami’s renters — and the…
In a year when an orangutan-colored casino franchiser wants to become president and grab the nation’s women by their you-know-whats, it’s easy to ignore the smaller local races. But it’s possible that Greg Capra, a man running for city commission in tiny Sunny Isles Beach might be the most entertaining candidate in Miami’s down-ballot elections.
There was the time Janet Reno found her mom wrestling an alligator in the kitchen. And there was that propensity to answer calls at home no matter the hour. And of course there was her appointment as perhaps the most prominent official from South Florida in national government.
If you’re even the tiniest bit etiquette-minded, you’ve probably spent the past year politely changing the subject when your dad, boss, or Aunt Sally starts talking about why Shillary belongs in jail or when your college roommate blathers on and on about why he’s expending his vote on Jill Stein.
Could another real-estate crash hit Miami sometime soon? Some analysts think think so. More than 3,000 condo units became available in the past few years, and a mind-blowing 11,000 are set to hit the market within the next two years. Miami’s housing market took a beating in the past three…
We’re at the point in this election cycle where time seems to slow down and stop functioning like normal. Candidates appear, speak, and then reappear just days later, having somehow criss-crossed the entire country. With just one weekend left before Election Day, the candidates’ planes are in overdrive: Today, Clinton will…
Bernard Williams was driving down busy Washington Avenue when a trio of police officers stopped him and ordered him to turn down his radio. Reaching for the volume control, though, he accidentally turned it up. That mistake, says Williams, who is black, set off a brutal beating.
Scott Melker lived in the same freshman dorm at UPenn as Donald Trump Jr.
When behavior technician Charles Kinsey was shot by a North Miami Police officer while trying to help an autistic client this past July, the outrage was pretty much universal. A witness released video of Kinsey lying flat on his back with his hands in the air, and dozens of horrified…
If the latest crop of polls is correct, medical marijuana will be legally available to sick people in Florida in just four days. As of last week, close to 80 percent of Floridians support Amendment 2, which would legalize weed statewide for medical purposes, such as helping cancer or Alzheimer’s patients.
