Here’s What Giant MiamiCentral Train Station Might Look Like Inside

Today, the site of the MiamiCentral train station is a giant pit filled with concrete pilings and buzzing construction equipment just across from County Hall on NW 1st Avenue. The nine-acre complex will eventually be the home station for the Brightline, the new Orlando-to-Miami passenger train service.  And it’s now…

Blood-Spewing Elevator on Cruise Ship Horrifies Passengers

This is not what you want to be telling TV reporters after your relaxing ocean cruise: “It was a real life scene of The Shining.” Yet that’s exactly what Matt Davis was left telling the cameras this week after his experience on the Carnival Ecstasy cruise out of Miami.  Davis,…

Hey, Miami, Don’t Fire Your Gun Into the Air to Celebrate NYE

Journalists look forward to the last week of December as the time of the year when the silliest civic press releases of the year hit our inboxes. The releases come from mayors, city commissioners and celebrities, all sincerely asking for the same thing: Please Miami, stop shooting your guns into…

Nine Newly Minted Power Players Who Will Shape Miami in 2016

Sure, like any big city Miami has its power-player mainstays — it’s hard to imagine Dade County without Kathy Fernandez Rundle and Xavier Suarez, for instance. But it’s also the kind of town where people’s influence can come and go quicker than Justin Bieber’s Ferrari on South Beach. Here’s a look…

Five Stages of Miami Dolphins Fandom

Another Miami Dolphins season has come and gone, which can only mean one thing — your Christmas tree is still up. For those of you keeping score at home, you could now officially fit four World Cups between the Dolphins last playoff victory and their next one, whenever that happens. Seven-straight…

Metromover and Metrorail Will Run Until 4 a.m. New Year’s Eve

Public transit in Miami-Dade already has so many issues when it comes to running in the daytime that discussing the possibility of expanded services during late-night hours seems like wishful thinking. To Miami-Dade Transit’s credit, they do expand certain services into the wee hours of the morning during special events, but…

Miami Activist Sues TSA Over Mandatory Nude Body Scans

Call it the holiday news dump: Earlier this month, the TSA quietly released a new policy on its airport security checks. The days when travelers can request a pat-down instead of going through a nude imaging scanner are coming to an end; instead, TSA can now decline that request and…

Miko Grimes Rips Ryan Tannehill on Twitter

Miami Dolphins fans going on profane Twitter tirades against the team happens everyday. They can be entertaining, but its usually not news. Unless of course the person behind the Twitter account happens to be married to a Miami Dolphin player.  Miko Grimes, wife of cornerback Brent Grimes and well known…