The TV ad opens with Chris Bosh sinking a three in a dark practice gym and then turning solemnly toward the camera. “When I was sidelined with blood clots in my lungs, it was serious,” the ten-time All-Star says. “Fortunately, my doctor had a game plan.” The camera then catches…
Well, congratulations Miami. We’ve ruined Floatopia. The latest edition of the biannual beach bacchanal boosting all things buoyant drew tens of thousands of revelers to South Pointe Park on Saturday, but the partiers left behind mountains of trash. Now city officials are calling for an end to the event, seemingly…
The home ownership rate in Miami is down to historic lows, and most millennials in the metro area won’t in the market to buy a home anytime soon. According to a new survey by Apartment List, 81 percent of local millennials feel buying a home is just too expensive. This…
Well, this is unfortunate timing. Just weeks after famed architect Zaha Hadid died in a Miami Beach hospital, the city of Miami Beach has decided not to go ahead with plans to build a Hadid-designed public parking garage in the Collins Park neighborhood. The city commissioned Hadid, a part-time Beach…
Jeb Bush has been out of the presidential race for almost two months, but Donald Trump apparently loves to lambast the former Florida gov. Lil’ Jebbers was Trump’s favorite target during the debates. The mogul seemed to relish metaphorically wrapping his stubby little digits around Bush’s jowls any chance he…
This Sunday, the Miami Heat will play an NBA playoff game for the first time since June 15th, 2014. Finally, all is right in the world again. The playoff berth is all the more notable because the Heat epically pooped their pants against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday in a…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida every week. On Friday, we’re here to bring you some of the weirdest. This week: the bubble man fails to ride again, a man’s arrest report has almost as much going on as his face tattoo collection, a horny fake cop, and…
Forty-three-year-old Alex Sanchez spent just one night in jail last October after he was arrested for growing weed at his house in Kendall. When he returned home, the electricity wasn’t working. Sanchez called to figure out what was up and stumbled upon a little-known county ordinance that prevented him from…
Some thought she was behind a bizarre, eye-popping piece of performance art. Turned out she was actually carrying out an attempted second-degree murder. Siyuan Zhao, the woman who stabbed another woman with an x-acto knife in the middle of the Miami Beach Convention Center during the middle of December’s Art…
It’s not quite crickets yet, but don’t expect to hear quite so many cranes, nail guns and saws around Miami …or the ring of your Real Estate agent friend’s phone for that matter. All evidence points to a noticeable slowdown in the local real estate market, and here’s even more…
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine’s controversy meter is, at times, notably off. The millionaire Mayor made a historic trip to Cuba last month, and while speaking with Cuban officials, broached the idea of discussing bringing a Cuban Consulate to Miami Beach. This is, of course, Miami-Dade County, where all discussion…
Miami would be nothing without its hotels. Never mind that some of the juiciest bits of Miami history took place within their walls, those walls are basically Miami history themselves. These days all of South Florida — but especially Miami Beach — is known for its zeal for historic preservation…
Two years ago, 38-year-old Ale Ochoa heard that the Redland, the unincorporated mostly agricultural area of Southwest Miami-Dade County north of Homestead, had become a dumping ground for dogs. She did not believe it, so she drove to the area herself. “I came across injured, sick, and malnourished dogs. They…
When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists leaked the Panama Papers on April 3, it revealed a glimpse into the shadowy world of shell companies. More than 11 million files from law firm Mossack Fonseca showed celebrities, criminals, heads of state, and politicians from across the globe setting up virtually untraceable…
Every morning, researcher Tom Jackson photographs the sunrise from Virginia Key, where he works at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Some mornings as he walks out to the shoreline he finds the area empty and quiet. Other days, he spots interesting insects, plants and animals. During a morning…
That greatest college football rivalry rarely played may be making a comeback in 2019. The Miami Hurricanes and Florida Gators are reportedly very close to coming to terms to playing each other again in a neutral site matchup to open the 2019 season. “We’re still looking on that game in…
For years, the knock against Debbie Wasserman Shultz was that she was just too damn liberal for her own good. Everytime Florida political columnist mentioned the possibility of the Congresswoman running for state-wide office it came with the caveat that she was perhaps too far to the left to win…
On a Friday in late March of 2012, an exasperated mother drove her teenage daughter to the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter in Tavernier, a residential program with room for up to 18 kids on the island of Key Largo. By all accounts, it was a difficult ride. Twice, the girl…
When Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine not only became the first sitting head of a Dade County city to visit Cuba but also initiated the possibility of a hosting a Cuban consulate in Miami Beach it could be seen as a litmus test to see how charged the third rail of…
In November 2012, artist Brian Deutzman had just returned to his hometown of Miami from New York hoping to sell some of his work during Art Basel. So he was thrilled when a broker representing Donald Trump’s hotel chain asked to buy a stylized photograph of a classic car to…
In 2002, when Miami-Dade voters approved a half-penny sales tax to fund mass transit in the county we were promised the moon: namely, widely expanded MetroRail and bus services. We got, at best, the equivalent of a few orbiting space rocks. Now, the Miami-Dade Commission may consider asking voters to…
LeBron James left South Florida two seasons ago, but apparently he can’t get our women out of his head. At least, that’s according to the lastest social media rumors which we’re going to entertain, frankly, because we miss getting to write about weird LeBron James theories all the time like…
