Miamians still aren’t sure if they should prepare for the III Points Music Festival this weekend or get ready for a multi-foot storm surge. Category 4 Hurricane Matthew is slowly barreling up through the Caribbean and this morning’s predictions that it would stay east of the Florida coastline is now…
In Miami Beach, it’s now illegal to hand anyone food or drinks in styrofoam containers, which dissolve into tiny particles that float along the top of the ocean for hundreds of years. Miami Beach has already issued hundreds of dollars in Styrofoam fines. But it’s apparently still perfectly legal to…
Had a few state senators voted differently last February, Miami-Dade County would have had zero control over whether oil companies could build fracking wells on county soil. That’s because the Senate proposed a bill that would have banned local governments from regulating the controversial oil-drilling process. Critics blasted the measure, saying…
Hurricane Matthew is already a monster, packing 130 mile per hour winds as of 5 am this morning as its howling center inches north toward Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Those islands are bracing for catastrophe, with storm surges up to 15 feet and 40 inch deluges of rain possible. The…
On Thursday, Newsweek investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald revealed that Donald Trump had violated the Cuban embargo by sending consultants to the communist island in 1997. Though this wasn’t the first time Trump had been accused of illegally dealing in Fidel Castro country, Eichenwald’s report is certainly the most comprehensive evidence yet that Trump…
Critical Mass participants typically grab a beer after the ride the last Friday of every month. The rides always begin and end at Government Center in downtown Miami, which means Wynwood is only a short ride away. But after tonight’s ride, bikers won’t have to pay for that first beer…
Hopefully by the end of wedding planning, you won’t feel like locking up your future spouse and throwing away the key. But in case you do, there’s a venue for that. Miami’s historic Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum is now welcoming brides and grooms who just don’t see themselves…
If you’re reading this story on a home computer, consider yourself luckier than a full third of Miami residents. This week, Florida International University took a look at internet connectivity across the country — and the startling results showed the city of Miami ranked second worst in the nation. FIU’s…
If Justin Bieber doesn’t return to Miami within the next 30 days, he’ll be arrested the next time he tries to enter Florida. Back in 2014, local paparazzo Michael Munoz sued the pop star, after he says Bieber’s security guards locked him inside a Miami Beach Subway restaurant and proceeded…
“An alien invader.” “Pretty much appalling.” “An eyesore.” “Cheap looking, inappropriate and ugly.” A “monstrosity.” It’s no secret some Coral Gables residents dislike the million-dollar sculptures that now grace two traffic circles on Segovia Way, but emails sent to the city commission reveal the depths of their distaste for the brightly…
Donald Trump will have a hard time showing his face in Versailles ever again. Just two days ago, Trump stood on a stage in Miami, said he had a deep love and respect for Miami’s Cuban community and added that Cubans immigrant deserve “the right deal” to renegotiate the American…
Jose Fernandez’s funeral procession left Marlins Park shortly after 2:15 Wednesday afternoon under a typical bright-cobalt sunny Miami sky, taking the casket into and through the heart of a Cuban community that had embraced the pitcher as its own son, friend, and brother. Traffic was snarled along Calle Ocho and all…
After a month of infighting among Miami Beach citizens, media outlets, and Gov. Rick Scott, Miami-Dade County has finally released the areas in South Beach where mosquitoes tested positive for the Zika virus. They are as follows: 932 Lenox Ave., which tested positive August 22 1619 Meridian Ave., which tested…
It’s a scary time to be a business owner whose employees work outside in Miami. Since Zika began spreading via local transmission in July, three employees at Wynwood Yard and one Miami Beach police officer have reportedly tested positive. Meanwhile, two pregnant firefighters were apparently reassigned to a station in…
Had Miami Beach Police fired a rifle at 51-year-old David W. Winesett in December 2016, he might have survived. Last December, police say Winesett escaped a halfway house, robbed a bank, and allegedly waved a razor blade at police before they fired their guns directly into his chest in broad daylight…
Being a Miami Dolphins fan just ain’t what it used to be. These days, it’s a love-hate relationship that on a weekly basis is this weird voluntary-hostage situation. We love the Miami Dolphins, but we hate that we love them; it’s basically a Rihanna song at this point. So many…
Police lights flashed outside Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti this past weekend during the Vote Yes Marijuana Fest, but no one seemed to mind. The officers had been hired to work the event. There were no plans to rough up any of the participants in the festivities, which included a…
As the gospel choir finished the last chords of “Going Up Yonder,” Deborah Frazier approached her brother’s powder-blue coffin. It was surrounded by heaping bouquets of baby’s breath and blue roses. For a moment, the cavernous sanctuary of the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was silent except the sound of her…
On the whole, Miami isn’t a great place to be a Millennial. As of last year, the city had the highest percentage of young people living with their parents in the country, and on the whole, young people seem to be fleeing. A Consumer Affairs report in March said that…
Long ago, Archbishop Curley Notre-Dame High School diffused a potentially explosive situation. I was the young, aggressive Miami-Dade County beat reporter for Miami Today. I had lunch with Norman Powell, at the time a high-powered downtown Miami attorney who represented individuals and companies doing business at County Hall. We didn’t fight or…
Donald Trump lied far more often than it seemed during last night’s presidential debate. Sure, he was called out for his obvious untruths, like misstating his initial support for the Iraq War, and pretending that crime is at epidemic-level rates when it’s actually hitting a low point. But he wasn’t…
While Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez’s fatal boating accident was a complete punch to the gut, it was unfortunately far from the first fatal boating accident in Biscayne Bay. And, unless Florida’s incredibly lax boating regulations change, his death will likely not be this city’s last high-profile maritime death. Florida has…
