There’s already a Little Haiti Cultural Center and a Little Haiti Park. Ask any Miamian for directions to Little Haiti and they won’t hesitate to point you toward the Caribbean area centered on NE 2nd Avenue. And yet Little Haiti has never been an officially designated neighborhood in the City…
Here’s a few numbers for you. ’68, ’69, ’71, ’76, ’79, ’89, ’95, ’99, ’07, ’10: The year Miami has hosted the Super Bowl. 0: The chance NFL execs told Miami Dolphins executive they’d have of ever hosting another unless major renovations were made to the Stadium. $450 million+: The…
Bernie Sanders’ war to take down Hillary Clinton looks close to sputtering out. But that doesn’t mean the Vermont insurgent is done trying to reshape the Democratic Party. Sanders is now asking his considerable grassroots support to aim their ire at a South Florida target: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the…
If you need a dose of rage to get your blood pumping on a Monday morning, take a few minutes to read the Yelp reviews of Tremont Towing. Amid the usual complaints of illegal tows and surly drivers, you’ll notice another common complaint: Drivers must pay nearly $300 to get…
Lack of belief doesn’t necessarily mean lack of anything to study. That’s the reasoning behind the University of Miami’s decision to establish what is believed to be the world’s first academic chair “for the study of atheism, humanism and secular ethics.” The school hasn’t publically announced it yet, but several key…
The number of million dollar-plus homes in Miami has doubled since 2012 (even as the number of millionaire has not). It’s part of a national trend, according to Trulia. In 2012, 1.6 percent of all homes in the USA were worth at least seven figures. That share is now 3…
Mention sea-level rise and most people conjure up images of coastal flooding, where water swells at the periphery and spills over seawalls into the city. But in South Florida, that’s not necessarily the way it’s going to go down. Because the entire state sits atop porous limestone, water is literally…
Proving complaints against police officers can be nearly impossible — a he-said, she-said situation putting cop versus suspect almost always ends in favor of the police. That’s one reason so many forces are now adopting body cameras. But Miami’s Civilian Investigative Panel, an independent city board that looks into complaints about…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday’s we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week: A weed-seeking tourist takes to Twitter, a lazy dildo thief and a Taco Bell-craving coma patient. Florida Police Department Responds to Tourist’s Twitter Plea For Weed Twitter user @preznixon16, who,…
At this point there can’t be many strange, threatening reptiles from across the globe that haven’t somehow popped up in the Florida wild. We already have instances of giant snakes like Burmese pythons and meat-eating lizards like Nile monitors. Now scientists have confirmed that Nile crocodiles are also in the state. Back in 2009,…
As we slog on towards the official end of this presidential primary season, perhaps the last thing you want to read about is more politics. Though, if we’ve taken one thing away from the past few months it’s that people are sick of the status quo and the establishment and…
In 2013, animal rights group Smash HLS announced the start of a campaign to shut down a Miami Dade monkey importing company. Since then, activists have garnered headlines — and arrests — for their aggressive protests outside the facilities of Worldwide Primates, Inc., as well as the homes of its…
Turns out Donald Trump’s most successful business move of the past decade wasn’t Trump Steaks, Trump University or Miss Universe. Nope, not at all. According to personal financial documents Trump released yesterday, out of his more than 150 various business ventures, by far the biggest money maker was the Trump National…
For decades, one of two statues in the U.S. Capitol meant to celebrate famed Florida residents has depicted Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith. But Smith was a Confederate general with hardly any noteworthy accomplishments. Even worse, he was barely a Florida man at all. He never even lived in the Sunshine State…
You wouldn’t shoot a Red Sox player in the middle of Times Square scarfing down a slice of New York-style pizza. You don’t pose Washington’s QB in downtown Dallas decked out in a 10-gallon hat and cowboy boots. You don’t let your high school team’s biggest rival’s star pose for…
On Friday, The Obama administration issued a set of guidelines directing public schools to respect the gender identity of transgender students or risk losing out on federal funding under Title IX. The response from Florida has been noticeably quiet. Both Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi haven’t commented…
In the grand scheme of violent crime in South Beach, an October 2014 drive-by shooting outside Ocean Drive’s Fat Tuesday outpost seemed far from notorious. In the wee hours of a Sunday morning, a group in an Altima fired at someone sitting in a dark-colored car and then sped away…
Picture your perfect beach. The one you imagine when you close your eyes and go to your calm place. Where the sky is clear, the vibe is chill, and you can hear the gentle crash of the waves against the shore. It’s the type of serene perfection brought to mind…
Sure, facilities, opportunities, and a chance at glory are probably still important when it comes to college football recruiting, but if we’re reading the trends correctly here, it seems like today’s high-schoolers and tomorrow’s college players apparently really, really get a kick out of seeing themselves talked about on social…
The world laughed when Jimmy McMillan ran for New York City mayor with the slogan, “The rent is too damn high!” Yet, how many of us now repeat that line verbatim whenever we cut our landlord a check or browse apartment listings in Miami? They are, indeed, categorically, undebatably too damn…
Miami Beach police have finalized their plans for controlling crowds and traffic on Memorial Day weekend, with one major change: This year, cars coming onto the Beach won’t be subject to a DUI checkpoint. Officer Ernesto Rodriguez, the department’s spokesman, said the checkpoint, which has been used for several years,…
So Miami Beach’s stormwater pumps shoot water from the city’s streets and street drains into Biscayne Bay to combat flooding. You know what’s in the water it pumps directly into the Bay from the streets? Unsurprisingly, some not so clean stuff. A new study of flood waters found incredibly high…
