Miami often acts as a bellwether for the nation’s issues. After all, the Magic City is a majority-minority community with serious affordability, transportation, and climate problems. If Miami finds a way to beat those challenges, that’s a great sign for the rest of the country.
If you want to snap Miami out of its warm, tropical stupor, you shut down its highways. At 6 last night, a few hundred Miamians upset by Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency gathered outside the entrance to the Bayfront Park Amphitheater downtown. The crowd quickly spilled into the…
There are a hell of a lot of Democrats in Florida. In fact, more of them are registered here than Republicans. Obama won the state twice. And the blue party has demographics on its side thanks to a growing, left-leaning Hispanic population.
Styrofoam would also be prohibited from public and private waterways in Miami Beach under a proposed resolution.
While President-elect Donald Trump spent yesterday mugging his way through White House photo ops, America’s huge contingent of nonwhite, nonmale citizens began packing in for a four-year polar night. The Republican Party has control of the Senate, House, and presidency for the first time since 1928…
Last month, New Times told the story of Julius Woods, Miami’s oldest security guard, a 90-year-old Navy vet who battled the Nazis in the east Atlantic during WWII. Today, Woods works 40 hours a week as a security guard in Belle Meade. In the story, Woods told the tale of…
The greatest athlete in the history of South Florida sports history returned to his house last night, and what a night it was. For one evening, at least, all was back to normal along the bay. Dwyane Wade was back on the Miami Heat’s floor for a home game…
The fates haven’t been kind to Miami this November. Despite the fact that our multicultural, immigrant-heavy city roundly rejected Donald Trump at the polls last Tuesday, we’re stuck with him. But we have some extra awful news: Construction on the Venetian Causeway begins Monday.
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.
