The future of the Miami Open is in doubt. The facilities at the Crandon Park Tennis Center are woefully out of date. IMG, a sports management firm that owns the tournament, wants to spend $50 million to renovate and expand the facilities. Miami-Dade voters approved of the plan at the ballot box…
In his historic speech this morning, President Obama praised Miami several times. The most interesting mention was this: In the United States, we have a clear monument to what the Cuban people can build: it’s called Miami. Here in Havana, we see that same talent in cuentapropistas, cooperatives and old…
You won’t often hear Donald Trump admit he made a mistake, but his personal charity has for donating to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s election campaign. See, Trump and Bondi go way back. Well, at least as far back as 2013. Bondi was deciding whether or not her office should…
Opponents of the Midtown Miami Walmart aren’t surrendering. Miami Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman yesterday said Miami Planning Director Francisco Garcia should hand over “qualifying emails” related to the construction of the 203,000 square foot, three-story store planned for North Miami Avenue and 29th Street. Though a court found in…
Prince Royce is making all sort of moves lately. The Bronx-born, Latin pop star cracked the mainstream last year with his first English-language album. Ten he starred in Fox’s live broadcast of The Passion over the weekend — and has a role in the upcoming Hulu series East Los High. …
Carl Lee Wilt, a 41-year-old Miami-Dade Metromover supervisor, is behind bars on allegations that he raped a 25-year-old Brazilian tourist who was in town for the Ultra Music Festival. It happened around 9:30 on Saturday night at the Metromover station in Park West. The woman was intoxicated and wasn’t allowed…
After continued efforts to increase safety and security at Ultra Music Festival, Miami police report a decrease in arrests from last year. Felony arrests, however, were up almost 50 percent. For the second year in a row, former Miami Beach police chief Ray Martinez served as the festival’s head of…
Erik Spoelstra has accomplished quite a bit since taking over as head coach of the Miami Heat in 2008. He’s won nearly 400 regular season games, 63 playoff games, and two championships. He led the Heat to four straight NBA Finals appearances. He’s coached an All-Star team. He’s the second-longest…
More than 200 Cuban protestors were arrested over the weekend as the island prepared for President Obama’s historic visit, which started yesterday. Dissidents of the human rights movement, #TodosMarchamos, including the Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White), and Unión Patriótica de Cuba (Cuban Patriotic Union, UNPACU), gathered at calle 26 and…
For years, animal rights activists have argued that Miami Seaquarium is breaking federal law by keeping its orca, Lolita, in a tank that’s too small. Now they say a new statement by the agency that regulates those tanks bolsters their argument. According to the Animal Welfare Act, the minimum space…
Everyone knows Cuban-Americans in Miami vote Republican. That’s been common knowledge for years. After all, 70 percent of that demographic voted for George W. Bush in 2000. Sure, Miami-Dade is, in most cases, a reliably blue county, but Democrats win here by margins slimmer than those in neighboring counties. If…
Guadalupe Ortiz walked out of the Ocean Drive hotel where she works into a warm March evening on the iconic beachfront stretch. After years of living and working in South Beach, Ortiz has seen her fair share of drunken debauchery: spring break, Memorial Day weekend, run-of-the-mill Friday nights. But the…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Fridays, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a Florida sheriff who is just going to settle this whole “FBI vs Apple” thing himself, a high school pep rally stunt that went up in flames, and a…
Tray Walker never had an easy path to NFL glory. After starring at Miami Northwestern alongside future star Teddy Bridgewater, he landed at a small college in Texas. His raw athletic ability netted him a draft pick with the Baltimore Ravens last year, but then his dad died the very…
Yesterday SeaWorld announced it would stop breeding orcas, the latest fallout from the Blackfish documentary. The news comes on the heels of the theme park’s announcement that the company will also construct larger, more “natural” habitats for its killer whales. Miami activists celebrated the news — but were also left…
Anyone planning to spend time downtown or in South Beach this weekend may want to rethink their plans — and fast. With tens of thousands of extra party people here for Ultra, LeBron back in town to play the Heat, and South Beach raging with spring breakers, our already traffic-choked…
Following his crushing loss in the Florida primary on Tuesday, the press has been churning out lots of “What will Marco do next?” stories. Speculation that Marco Rubio could try to run for Florida governor in 2018 existed even before he dropped out. The one thing he promised at the…
Former Rep. David Rivera loves holding political office. He loves it so much he once, amongst other allegations, illegally funded a ringer candidate in a primary race against his Democratic opponent. Miami-Dade voters apparently no longer like having David Rivera in political office. After serving a single term in the…
The Wynwood real estate market certainly isn’t settling down anytime soon. Prices just keep going up. In fact, a warehouse that sold for just $3,000,000 in 2014, was just re-sold for an astounding $22 million. That’s an astounding 663 percent gain on an investment that was made a mere 17 months ago. …
A few years ago we looked up the weirdest Maimi-related terms on Urban Dictionary, but, we realized, there’s the entire state of Florida out there and an entire world of Florida-related terms. The internet’s favorite depository for slang definitions did not dissapoint. Here’s our favorites. Exlcuding most of the sexual…
Hidden cameras were rolling as Officer Jose Maldonado Dick, a seven-year veteran assigned to Wynwood, slid into a McDonald’s parking lot and calmly watched as a drug deal went down. A few days later, he did it again — this time even getting out of his car to offer the…
Zika has put the spotlight on mosquito control in South Florida. And there’s nothing like a gnarly green pool to encourage mosquitoes to lay their little eggs. That’s why code inspectors county-wide are cracking down on negligent pool-owners. Among those caught in the crosshairs: None other than Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent…
