The rumors hit over the weekend: King of Diamonds, the legendary hip-hop strip club, was coming to Ocean Drive. By Monday, that idea had been dashed by KOD, which says a former manager had advertised the idea without first talking to the club’s new ownership. Then, that former manager claimed…
On a Sunday afternoon back in December 2014, Charlie Silberman boarded a county bus at the Omni Bus Terminal with his psychiatric service dog, Oscar. He was grateful for the ride — at that point Silberman says he had already watch two separate buses pass him by. But as he…
Hillary Clinton has a better chance of winning the traditionally deep red state of Texas than Donald Trump has of winning perpetually purple Florida. That’s at least according to one metric of FiveThirtyEight’s just debuted 2016 Election Forecast. That’s how bad things are looking for Donald Trump in the Sunshine State (his own…
As a young man back in 1992, Thomas S. Ross drew up plans for a then-futuristic handheld gizmo he dubbed the “Electronic Reading Device.” He envisioned it as a way for people to read novels, check the news, and view pictures and even videos, but also dreamed that the device…
If you wake up each morning and stroll out to the balcony of your luxury downtown condo in nothing but a silk robe to leisurely spend the morning checking your E-Trade account and making reservations for the night at Prime 112, you may, in fact, think Miami is the best…
William Jose Velez doesn’t necessarily hate the City of Miami’s flag. In fact, his problem is that he doesn’t think Miamians love the orange and green emblem enough. “There are cities that have flags they’re really proud of, like Washington D.C. or Chicago, or states like Maryland, and the…
The grainy security video shows Steven Rodgers, a 43-year-old Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police officer, inside his Miami Edison Senior High School office. His silver badge glints against the dark blue of his uniform as he grins into the camera. And his penis is in his hand as he pleasures…
There’s no question that Miami was one of the cities hardest hit by the housing market collapse, but can the City of Miami actually sue big banks over it? The U.S. Supreme Court will decide next year. Back in 2013, the City of Miami sued Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and…
The action in Carl Hiassen’s Miami crime novel debut Tourist Season begins when a body is found floating down a river in a suitcase. That was very much fiction, but the idea of body parts being found stuffed into weird things in weird places remains very much a chilling reality…
Meet Mark Freeman. He’s a doctor who has decided to throw his hat into the race to represent Florida’s 18th Congressional district (the one Patrick Murphy is leaving to run for the senate). He’s self-financing his campaign and is strongly conservative. He also seems to see American politics as not just a battle…
If a Gap or Urban Outfitters popped up in Wynwood anytime soon, many local would decry it as the official death of the neighborhood. The fear is that in less than 15 years, Wynwood would have transformed from genuine art district into an outdoor suburban shopping mall full of the…
The sharing economy is alive and well in Miami. Your average Miamian can make some extra cash by renting out their home or pick you up in their car using smartphone apps like Airbnb and Uber, all while possibly skirting a few laws along the way. Now, Magic City’s caviar…
Two men burst into a suburban Delray Beach office park on a muggy weekday in August 2014, demanding to talk to the CEO. They were there to get answers. In a beige office lobby decorated with abstract IKEA-style art, their target crossed his arms and smiled nervously. Dressed in an…
Plans for SkyRise Miami, the much talked about planned observation tower near Bayside Marketplace downtown, continue to trudge on. The biggest question left is how the project’s mastermind, developer Jeff Berkowitz, is going to pool together the estimated $430 million price tag to build it. Well, today Berkowitz announced that SkyRise…
Last March Governor Rick Scott signed one of the most sweeping anti-abortion laws in Florida’s recent history into law. It is scheduled to go into effect on Friday. One of the new law’s key provisions is that it requires any doctor performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local…
In his first national TV interview since committing the mother of all flip-flops to jump back into a race for Senate, Marco Rubio went on Face the Nation yesterday to take a strong, bold stand against Donald Trump’s signature policies — and to set the record straight that there was zero…
There’s been a war brewing on Ocean Drive for months now. On one side, residents and boutique hotel owners who argue that the iconic strip has devolved into a drunken, tacky mess. On the other, late-night restaurants and bars who say the strip is just catering to what tourists want…
This morning, Americans awoke to the news that the British had officially voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. Or in media and hashtag parlance, they pulled the trigger on the #Brexit. Many Americans found it fascinating to view such a complicated and momentous political moment through…
Meet Andrew Korge. He really, really wants to become a politician. He first signaled his political ambitions last year by publicly discussing a long-term plan that would see him run for a Florida Senate seat that included Miami Beach and much of coastal Miami in 2020. Then redistricting happened. Korge…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. Elderly Florida Man Shoots Up Woman’s Home Over Sex Refusal The Villages is Central Florida’s massive planned retirement community that sometimes gains national notice for its reputation of unbridled elderly…
From The Sting to Oceans 11 to The Inside Man, good heist tales are widely loved in America. Though Miami may not have any masterminding thieves quite as suave as George Clooney and Robert Redford, the Magic City has been home to its fair share of amazing and downright bizarre real-life…
Roberto Verdaguer doesn’t think Donald Trump needs his money. That’s one of the main things he likes about the real estate magnate. But that didn’t stop him from sending $250 to Trump’s campaign. “I like the fact that he wants to finance this campaign with his own money,” says Verdaguer,…
