When Gov. Rick Scott signed the Infectious Disease Elimination Act into law this past March, Dr. Hansel Tookes nearly fell off his rolling chair. Tookes had encountered such stiff resistance over the past four years while fighting for Florida’s first needle exchange program that he’d nearly given up. But now…
When he ran for Miami City Commission last year, Ken Russell’s opponents mockingly called him the “Boy Wonder.” As a newcomer to politics, the 42-year-old was seen by critics as little more than a hipster activist with a penchant for Hacky Sack. “That nickname came about during the campaign I…
Chances are, a Plantain article has probably come across your Facebook feed by now. The 6-month-old Miami satire website has gone viral by offering cutting takes on everything from local politics (“Summer Camp Run by Jeb Bush Sued After Leaving Child Behind”) to transit (“Miami-Dade to Create Freeway ‘Texting Lane’…
The day after Hurricane Matthew hit western Haiti, the country’s main airport stopped accepting flights. But across the border, the storm hadn’t touched the Dominican Republic. So Michael Capponi, a Miami Beach nightclub promoter-turned-humanitarian, chartered a flight from South Florida to the DR and then hopped a small private plane…
The business card lists his job title as “atmospheric manipulator.” That’s how Alejandro Gonzalez describes what he does as the owner and founder of Kryogenifex, which creates special effects using liquid nitrogen. Unless you’ve been to one of the many Miami-area clubs that cools partiers using puffy white clouds of…
Over the weekend, a Columbia University professor from Turkey, N. Turkuler Isiksel, shared his best advice for fighting Donald Trump if his administration turns toward autocracy. “Protest early and often,” wrote Isikel, who lived through the rise of the democratically elected strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Florida Democratic Party hasn’t won a governor’s race in Florida since 1994 but in recent years has been totally unwilling to invent a new strategy to change that streak. For the past four elections, like clockwork, the party has nominated a milquetoast Tampa-area centrist. And for the past four cycles, they’ve all lost.
In March, citing an uptick in mass shootings and terrorist events, the Miami-Dade Police Department upgraded its officers’ gear to powerful AR-15 rifles and the most up-to-date bulletproof vests on the market.
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…
