Thirty-eight-year-old Jorge’s hands show the calluses from long hours spent toiling in the plant nurseries of Homestead, raising the trees, foliage, and potted plants you probably have in your yard. There have been cuts, sweat, and bruises too. All for less than minimum wage. But this is nothing, he says,…
Rep. Charles Van Zant is one of the most socially conservative Republicans in the Florida House. It’s not surprising as the man is also a Southern Baptist minister. Every year since 2010 he’s filed legilsation that would criminalize abortion in Florida, in direct conflict with the Supreme Court’s ruling in…
Ask a bunch of kids which feature they’d like to see in their dream mansion, and you’ll likely hear a few of them say they’d want a water slide that connected their bedroom directly to the pool. Well, a newly built $34 million spec home on Miami Beach makes that…
You already know that Jeb Bush is struggling. He’s scuffling so bad that his mom is pleading his case in campaign ads and DJ Khaled is jumping on late-night TV to try to light a spark under the former governor. But even the most cynical Jeb hater had to…
This past November 15, Michael Gavins was shot in the back by a South Miami Police officer during a traffic stop. As New Times detailed earlier this month, Gavins was unarmed, and an independent witness and physical evidence back his claim that his hands were in the air when he…
Who could forget one of the biggest Florida political controversies of 2003? Jeb Bush’s nebulous scheme to raise fees on snake owners was all Floridians could talk about in the spring of ’03. It nearly tore families and friends apart. I can still clearly remember one particular tense family gathering…
Last year The New York Times dug into Marco Rubio’s ticket-strewn driving history, and the local response was, “Well, he pretty much drives like a typical Miamian.” Turns out the Times missed a pretty big part of Rubio’s legal history that The Washington Post only just dug up: he was…
Downtown Miami has changed immensely in the last twenty years, shifting from a sleepy business district to bustling bayfront of condo skyscrapers, museums and arenas. But one thing has stayed constant: The traffic clogged artery of Biscayne Boulevard dividing most of downtown from the waterfront. Next week, city commissioners will…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week, one dog was traded for drugs and another met a cruel fate because he looked at his owner “weird.” In non-dog stories, while moonshine usually reminds us of authors…
Around 10 p.m. on a recent Wednesday night, some two dozen people huddled on a dark street corner outside of Havana’s Hotel Inglaterra, a dazzling, historic structure that faced the city’s Central Park. Just feet away, on the hotel patio, a live band regaled guests while bartenders pour drinks. Upon…
Florida’s Republican-lead legislature has a reputation for passing laws favorable to the gun lobby, but some measures even go to far for them. A bill that would have allowed people to carry guns onto college campuses has died in committee just nine days into the legislature’s 2016 session, and doesn’t…
A video currently going viral purports to show a woman trashing an Uber driver’s car near Mary Brickell Village over the weekend after a disagreement. According to YouTube user Juan Cinco’s description of events, he and his friends had ordered an Uber through the app, when the woman in the video…
Oh boy, what did we ever do to deserve this? A day after the Democratic presidential candidates come to Miami for their final debate, the Republicans will follow suit to conclude what’s proving to be America’s favorite reality series. The Republican National Committee announced last year that they’ll hold a…
The poker player got belligerent around 12:30 this morning, causing enough of a commotion that Magic City Casino staffers asked him to leave. When he wouldn’t, a City of Miami cop working security stepped in to force him to exit the gambling room. That’s when things got hairy. Police say…
Around 2 p.m. December 8, Jesús María Villalobos, a 16-year-old with a big frame and a bigger smile, pulled on his headphones and left his room in Delray Beach for a nearby gym. He walked north along the train tracks until he was near the intersection of Linton Boulevard and…
If you want to live a lifestyle infused with that Armani touch, buy a unit in the underconstruction luxury towaer Residences by Armani/Casa in Sunny Isles Beach. But if you really, really love everything Armani and want a once in a lifetime Armani experiance, well, you’ll have to buy the Penthouse. …
Last week, Uber e-mailed its Miami-Dade customers to not so subtly threaten to pull out of the county if the County Commission passed a ordinance the rider-sharing company viewed as unfavorable. Well, at today’s Commission meeting that ordinance’s sponsor, Chairman Jean Monestime announced that he was pulling the legislation. “Based on…
Donald Trump kicked off his presidential campaign with what many saw as anti-Hispanic remarks. According to the latest poll from Florida Atlantic University, Trump is now strongly leading among the state’s Republican GOP voters. Trump is now the favorite candidate of nearly 48 percent of all likely Republican primary voters (a…
Vivian Rubio, a veteran actress and model with scores of credits on telenovelas like La Reina del Sur, recently returned home to Miami from her base in L.A. and was looking for some extra work. When she found a Craigslist ad looking for an actress for a televised prank, she jumped…
Like many older Cubans in Miami, Vania Salgar doesn’t plan to return to her homeland. In the decades since she left Havana in 1957, the city she once considered the “Paris of the Americas” has changed and deteriorated, and she fears the sight of it today. But Vania’s daughter Nicole…
TV cameras encircled Pam Bondi outside Bennett’s Fresh Roast, a quaint shop a block from the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, one more stop on a statewide tour in the fall of 2014 with Gov. Rick Scott. Bondi flashed her trademark high-wattage grin, shook her blond locks into place, and…
Sure, it seems like a line out of a satirical article about media consolidation, but your abuela’s favorite porvayor of Telenovelas has bought a controling stake in your hipster cousin’s favorite fake news website. Univision announced this morning it has purchased a 40 percent controlling stake in The Onion, with…
