When his Bitcoin exchange went under last year, Cryptsy CEO Paul Vernon left the company’s headquarters in Delray Beach and fled to China with his mistress. Things weren’t great — his marriage was over, his company was kaput, and his customers were pissed. Vernon, a former Army intelligence officer, started Cryptsy in…
On paper, Miami’s public infrastructure is a nightmare. Our roads are clogged, we can’t walk anywhere, our doctors are only good at augmenting breasts and committing Medicare fraud, and the state keeps slashing education funding like Uma Thurman picking off baddies in Kill Bill. So it’s not exactly a horror movie-level twist ending that…
It seems like a police department in Miami-Dade County tries to make a huge weapon or ammo purchase every month. Since July, departments have asked for bulletproof vests, assault rifles, license-plate readers, sketchy gunshot detectors, and even free armored trucks. Those requests are almost always buried deep within county documents,…
The Atlantic held a conference in Miami this week. In addition to being an excuse for D.C. policy wonks to hang out in South Beach, the event included a candid interview with Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Frieden happens to be the guy in charge of eradicating Zika from the United States.
In 1985, Marco Rubio spent part of his early summer living in a small house facing a tepid canal just north of Bird Road in West Kendall. Cages full of squawking macaws filled the acre yard. And a major drug ring stored kilos of cocaine in a spare bedroom…
Julius Woods still remembers the Japanese fighter pilot who insulted him. It was 1943, the height of the World War II, and Woods and his fellow sailors on the USS Van Valkenburgh had just shot down several Japanese fighter planes over the South Pacific. Some of the enemy pilots survived…
Donald Trump attempted to say three whole Spanish words in Little Havana today.
Remember all those times as a kid when you bit into a delicious Snickers bar on Halloween night, only for a hidden razor blade to slice through your gums and send you to the emergency room? No? What about all the times you accidentally got anthrax from tainted candy? Not ringing any bells?
When Harvey Daniels, trim and broad-shouldered in a V-neck tee, walks into the one-room office with views of Biscayne Bay, the IV bag is already waiting for him. Its liquid a shade of amber, the bag dangles from a chain hooked to the ceiling. Dr. Ivan Rusilko stands from behind…
Donald Trump has spent the past month complaining that the election results against Hillary Clinton may be “rigged” November 8. The nation and all sides of the media, from Fox News to MSNBC, have said Trump’s claims are without merit. Now South Florida has its own “rigged” election controversy.
DJ Khaled’s greatest true skill is standing next to artists, recording them, and shouting over them on hit songs. Khaled is the featured artist on his Gold-selling single “For Free” despite the fact that he did not write, produce, or perform the song. So why would Khaled handle a little…
A nonprofit wants to turn shipping containers into temporary homes for people living in Miami’s slums.
In September 2015, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine had just one person on his Twitter block list: a user named “Asscakes,” with the handle @asscakessupreme. Levine voluntarily disclosed that information in response to a public-records request by California paralegal Angela Greben filed that year, which New Times has obtained.
The Miami Dolphins beat the Buffalo Bills 28-25 Sunday behind a 200-yard rusher, a tough defense, and a clutch, deep-bomb touchdown pass. It might or might not be a coincidence this happened the same day The Walking Dead returned.
Every four years or so, Miami becomes extremely important to Barack Obama. Though he’s immensely popular and appears to be mostly beloved in South Florida, the president has really only made time to visit us in election years, those blissful times when politicians magically start treating Florida swing-voters like beautiful, winged…
Marco Rubio said during this week’s debate that, if Florida reelects him to the U.S. Senate this year, he’ll absolutely serve a full, six-year term and won’t quit early to run for president. Knowing Rubio, this pretty much definitely means he’ll quit four years from now to run again. In…
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…
