Flash back to early March in the chaotic Republican primary. Miami’s GOP golden boy Marco Rubio was still clinging onto faint hope that he could bring mainstream Republicans together against insurgent Donald Trump. But then the latest polls started coming out of Florida, and it clear that Rubio was bound…
At the end of April, a Miami man returned to his vehicle at the Dadeland North parking garage and found it propped up on concrete barriers and stripped of its wheels and tires. “All four wheels were taken and left on bricks,” Juan Bisbal wrote on Facebook. “The garages have surveillance cameras but…
A spokesperson for the project points out that the under construction building is indeed under construction.
Miami presents itself with a lot of opportunities for Millennials to live a life that seems perfect on Instagram. You’ve seen all those selfies taken in front of Wynwood murals, group shots taken at exclusive-seeming parties, pics of craft cocktails and tapas, and carefully posed thirst traps taken at the…
David Beckham may be the figurehead, but he’s far from the only businessmen involved in the effort to bring a Major League Soccer team to Miami. Sure, the business group is called “Miami Beckham United.” Sure, a discounted price on the franchise is only possible because of a special clause in…
Perhaps amongst the worst places to base your drug dealing business: a cop’s house. Even if that cop is your own father. Just ask Tyler Palmer. The 20-year-old son of a Miami-Dade Police Major was busted yesterday afternoon for dealing drugs out of the family home. The investigation was carried out…
There are few people in Miami who know more about trees than Bob Brennan. In 1969, the Coconut Grove native founded Brennan’s Tree Service, a tree care and landscaping company to inspect, feed and prune trees. Now an arborist at Fairchild Tropic Garden, Brennan is one of Miami’s foremost experts…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: A disbarrment case out of the Florida Bar that reads like a bad porno script, a man who told police he didn’t mean to miss when he shot…
Donald Trump’s pandering hit an all-new low on Cinco De Mayo today when he proclaimed his love for Hispanics with a photo of himself eating a taco bowl (not pictured: the margaritas he drank before posting this tweet). It turns out this isn’t the first time the Donald has blatantly…
A very petty local mayor couldn’t help but carry through on whatever point he was trying to make by paying his $4,000 ethics fine in petty coins. Last year, Hernandez was caught up in an ethics scandal for his business connections with Luis Felipe Pérez, a Hialeah jewler who also dabbled…
The first time we heard of architect Bernard Zyscovich’s plan to turn parts of the Rickenbacker causeway into a pedestrian and cyclist friendly linear park it was a revolutionary but still modest idea. His original plan called for lessening the number of car lanes on the bridge, and replacing them…
At the end of a semester-long study abroad program in Genoa, Italy in December 2014, a group of architecture students from Florida International University went out to a celebratory dinner. After the restaurant, many students and a handful of faculty members grabbed drinks at a local bar. At 2 a.m., three…
On Monday, Amy Plotkin and Laura Parsons wed in a small ceremony at Miami Beach City Hall. The two met about four years ago through a women’s bike racing team; Plotkin was an MD/PhD student at the University of Miami and Parsons was manager at a research lab at UM’s marine…
Turns out any rumored behind the scenes drama has been smoothed over, and Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat have jointly announced that the blood clot-plagued big man will not return to the court at any point during the rest of the playoffs. The official statement was delivered on Twitter…
Back in 2004, Florida voters overwhelmingly passed a state constitutional amendment that tied increases in the state minimum wage to inflation, meaning wages would automatically increase over time without going through major legislative fights. Originally pegged at $6.15 an hour, its now risen to $8.05. Many feel that’s still not enough. …
Uber and Lyft have operated in Miami-Dade in a murky legal gray area for years. After lots of talks and false starts the Miami-Dade County Commission finally passed an ordinance yesterday to legalize the car-for-hire apps. It wasn’t even a close vote. The ordinance passed 9-2, and was widely hailed…
It turns out Kim Kardashian has been mentioned at least three times in Cuba’s tightly censored newspapers, proving there is almost no media source in the world that can resist dropping her name. Indeed, a medical column published earlier this year in Juventude Rebelde, the Communist Party’s official youth newspaper,…
It’s been a hard year already when it comes to the loss of legends, but don’t worry. Don Shula will still be kicking around. The former Miami Dolphins coach was rushed to Aventura Hospital on Monday night to undergo treatment for sleep apnea but has now been released. “Coach Shula has…
Six months after Miami Beach voters rejected a plan to demolish historic oceanfront properties in North Beach to make way for a luxury condo tower, developer Sandor Scher is back with a new proposal for the stretch known as Ocean Terrace. His new plan would only demolish one building, and…
Rosa Rey Napoles hovers over her lasagna inside the noisy lunchroom at the De Hostos Senior Center in Wynwood. Even in her late 80s, she’s vibrant and talkative. For two decades, she has walked most days from her apartment a few blocks away to this boxy pink building on NW…
Florida’s most read newspaper has swallowed the state’s print circulation runner-up (at least according to 2014 number). The Tampa Bay Times announced today that it has acquired cross-region rival The Tampa Tribune. Publication of the Tribune has stopped immediately, and while some staff will be absorbed, at least 100 layoffs…
The Heat have made it to the second round of the playoffs without having the help of one of their marquee stars since the All-Star Break. Putting Chris Bosh back in the game would instantly make the Heat the prohibitive favorites over the Toronto Raptors, and Bosh really, really wants back…
