Dear Stoner: I was at my neighborhood “gardening” store recently and noticed an ingredient I was not familiar with: bat guano. What is that? L.L. Pot Seed Dear L.L.: The answer is poop. Bat poop, specifically. While bats may be disease-carrying flying rats with poor eyesight, their excrement is like…
While they’re more typically used to explain the process of dealing with the loss of loved ones, the five stages of grief can also be applied to our own thoughts of fleeting mortality. There are those of us who deny it, those of us who are angry or depressed at…
At this point, Miami will do pretty much anything DJ Khaled says, so long as he lists it as one of his major keys. Free all the lions in Zoo Miami and hold a big-cat rap battle in Bayfront Park? Overthrow City Hall and turn South Florida into a town…
College students are America’s future. They’re the brightest hope we’ve got — statistically speaking, they’re among the most tolerant and friendly people in America. They study physics and poetry, shave their heads and start punk bands, and get pissed off about microaggressions and trigger warnings. A small percentage of them,…
In the last 12 months, traveling to Cuba has gone from an act of near treason to a dirt-cheap weekend getaway. The first modern commercial jet from the U.S. to Cuba took off mere months ago, on August 31. Now, starting next month, you’ll be able to just straight-up fly…
In last night’s presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump said he was “at Little Haiti the other day in Florida….I want to tell you, they hate the Clintons, because what’s happened in Haiti with the Clinton Foundation is a disgrace. And you know it, and they know it, and everybody knows…
Ever since the Zika outbreak hit Miami, the Centers for Disease Control has warned of “hot zones” where the virus has definitively been spread locally. Shaded alarmingly red on maps, the first zone in Wynwood was followed by another in South Beach and, last week, an area in Little River…
From his home in Miami, Eric Cardenas felt a too familiar surge of sadness and anger. It was July 6, 2016, and he’d just heard the news about Philandro Castile, a 32-year-old cafeteria supervisor who was gunned down by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds,…
In case Democrats and the #NeverTrump crowd didn’t have enough reason to mobilize for election day, the Donald did them a big favor at the debate last night. Refusing to promise you’ll accept a peaceful transition of power is not the kind of move likely to up your approval ratings…
Back in July, Miami developer Moishe Mana — the largest landowner in Wynwood — launched a public campaign against Donald Trump. He claimed Trump was a joke, and that no businessman in New York City, Mana’s other hometown, takes Trump seriously. Mana pledged to donate $1 million to a charity…
Among modern, industrialized countries, the U.S. is pretty much alone in not forcing employers to give paid leave to new parents. But in the last year, a handful of local municipalities in South Florida have decided to give that benefit to their own workers. In February, Miami-Dade County approved six…
Aaron Davidson was once a brilliant American soccer exec, the man who co-founded the North American Soccer League, the Miami FC and the reborn Fort Lauderdale Strikers. But behind the scenes, prosecutors say, he was also profiting handsomely — and illegally — from the beautiful game, in the form of…
As evidenced by the Miami Dolphins shocking 30-15 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers this past weekend, there is a reason the phrase “any given Sunday” is so popular. Any NFL team can beat any other team on any week, and that really isn’t all that surprising once the initial shock…
It sucks to be poor pretty much everywhere in America. But Miami is an especially cruel place if you’re low on cash. Without a car, it takes hours to travel a few short miles by bus. If you live in a cheap, residential neighborhood, congrats: Some rich asshole is going…
Let’s get this over with: The photo above is real, the man is alive, and his name is Carlos Rodriguez. He is 31 years old and goes by the nickname “Half Head,” and the reason is obvious. Half Head lives in Miami and got into a car accident when he was…
The more Americans get to know Marco Rubio, the less anyone appears to like him. Despite having better name recognition than almost any other politician in congress, a new Quinnipiac Poll released today says Rubio’s race against Democrat Patrick Murphy for Florida’s Senate seat is now “too close to call.”…
The white Volkswagen SUV was mired in traffic around 1 p.m. yesterday at a busy Miami Gardens intersection when Miami-Dade Police caught up with it. The driver had stolen the ride from a nearby dealership earlier that day. As bystanders filmed from their cars, police swarmed the SUV, busting open…
Miami Beach commissioners are already forced to disclose if their spouses have any sort of stake in the items they’re voting on. This is a standard government-ethics rule. But this Wednesday, the commission will discuss enacting a new law that will force commissioners to disclose if they’ve had a “dating”…
In the recent years, South Florida police have quietly started stalking citizens using a wide array of 21st century technology. License-plate trackers have popped up across Miami-Dade County. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, scores of Florida cops have now use Stingray devices, which track a person’s location using…
If you’ve been following Florida’s Senate race closely this year, you’ve likely been drinking heavily for months already. After November, one of the state’s two senators is guaranteed be either the gutless Marco Rubio — who failed to defeat Donald Trump and jumped back into the senate race after saying…
Last year, Commissioner Juan Zapata got caught using his $930,000 office budget to pay for a $30,000 master’s degree from Harvard, justifying it by saying his constituents would benefit from his continued education. That excuse didn’t go over so well. Within days, Zapata was outed by reporter Erika Carrillo of Univision and subsequently…
Miami is at war with the Aedes aegpyti mosquito. Though minuscule, the tiny, zebra-striped bug is wreaking havoc on the area’s economy through the Zika virus. Government officials have declared an all-out assault on the blood-suckers, but the county’s first line of defense — the much-debated pesticide naled — may not be…
