This year during Art Basel Miami Beach, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly sent correspondent Jesse Watters down to the art fairs to poke fun of attendees. Waters was operating under the assumption that anyone who loves art must be some sort of out of touch hippie liberal. Not only was…
This month in the New Yorker, writer Elizabeth Kolbert makes it painfully clear that the city has essentially no battle plan to combat rising sea levels in South Florida. Between Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s wholesale denial of the problem and civic figures waiting on the savior of innovation, very little…
It’s almost noon when Christian Valdes blinks open his eyes. The muscular 32-year-old with short black hair and a goatee quickly realizes he’s hung over. His head is pounding, and his mouth is parched. If he doesn’t get water soon, he may puke. The last thing he recalls is stumbling…
Turns out if you scratch Rick Scott’s back, he’ll scratch yours. The Governor has now appointed failed Miami Commission candidate Teresa Sarnoff to the state’s Transportation Commission. The move comes after Sarnoff and her husband Marc made a surprising endorsement of Scott during his last run for Governor. Though Miami…
The most glaring missing option in Miami’s public transit arsenal: an easy and effective mass public transit system that connects Miami Beach to the mainland. Plans have been discussed for decades with no results. Well, now Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine says his city will take immediate steps towards starting…
During a dispute over payment for a roofing job, roofer Salomon Susi told attorney Rami Shmuely to “pay your fucking bill!” Shmuely, being an attorney and all, decided to sue. He claimed that Susi’s use of the profanity violated a law meant to curb harassment of debtors. Well, a three-person panel of…
Back in 2013, Miami New Times profiled Dave Strecker, a self-proclaimed sex addict who gave men information on prostitutes in the Caribbean including Cuba. He is a softball-playting construction worker from Minnesota who moved to Key West and found an avocation on the edge of the law. Not long after…
#HeatTwitter, here is your chance to use your terrifying social media powers for good; stuff the ballot box and send Udonis Haslem to the NBA All-Star game. No, I’m not joking. Years ago you almost got Joel Anthony there. You’re capable of anything. Udonis has just about it all. He’s…
Last December 4, during Art Basel, a 21-year-old amateur graffiti artist named Delbert Rodriguez stopped in Wynwood with a friend to visit some bars and soak in the art-festival atmosphere. Later that night Rodriguez, who went by the street name “Demz,” was tagging a wall on a dark corner of…
Florida Republican Primary voters continue to be fake as hell. They’re letting the men they at one point elected to serve as our Senator and Governor linger in polls of their home state. In the first poll of Florida Republicans taking since this week’s debate, it turns out that our…
Arrests for driving under the influence in Miami Beach have been noticeably down over the past few years. A reorginization of police patrol zones in 2011 meant that police ended up prioritizing their efforts targeting other crimes over catching those who were driving drunk. This despite the fact that Miami…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a horny male French maid, a nudist colony attack and the world’s most paranoid pot grower. Man in Maid Costume Arrested During Prostitution Sting The story of David…
Spurred by articles in publications from Vanity Fair to the New Yorker, the nation finally seems to be waking up to the fact that Miami is slowly being swallowed by the sea. With predictions ranging from eight inches to six feet of sea level rise over the next century, it’s…
In the wake of the 9-11 attacks, donations and federal funds poured into New York City, including millions sent to the medical examiner’s office to help identify the remains of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. At least $10 million of that cash, though, never made it to help…
A Florida mailman who broke several laws by flying a gyrocopter onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol this past tax day is now planning a more traditional route back to the building. He’s running for congress. Though, he won’t say exactly where in Florida plans to run, and that depends…
On a wooded plot of land in Southwest Miami-Dade, animals were allegedly stabbed, hooked and dragged around regularly. Some would even be boiled alive. It’s been dubbed an “animal house of horrors.” Now, after a seven and half month investigation into the illegal slaughterhouse, officials have now arrested two people…
Public sentiment against the death penalty has reached its highest peak since 1972. Even in states where the death penalty remains legal, death penalty sentences and actual executions are becoming rarer and rarer. Well, Florida is bucking the trend and remained quite death penalty-happy in 2015. In fact, a year-end report…
At a City of Miami Commission meeting last Thursday more than 50 men, women, and children crowded into the small gallery inside City Hall, an unusual, impossible-to-miss crowd for a run of the mill city meeting. The crowd wore fluorescent green shirts, for maximum impact, emblazoned with the message, “All…
Miami is closer to Havana than it is to any major U.S. city but for the past five decades, traveling those 230 miles south has been anything but routine. Even if you could snag a hard-to-get visa to get around the U.S. ban on spending any cash in Cuba, commercial…
On Monday night, identical threats promising bloody attacks were sent to public school systems in New York and Los Angeles. L.A. went ballistic, shutting down all schools on Tuesday at a cost of millions to taxpayers; New York, meanwhile, deemed the threats a “hoax” and went on with their business. …
The old golden rule is that you’re not supposed to spend more than a third of your income on rent, but for many Americas that’s just not possible anymore. In 1960 only 24 percent of Americans were paying more than that. By 2000 that number had reached 30 percent. As…
Amazon’s Prime Now one-hour delivery service has been operating in Miami since earlier this year. Maybe you’ve seen their white vans driving around. Sometimes with “Amazon” printed prominently on the side. There haven’t been any major hitches, but this is Miami and someone figured out you could probably just easily rob…
