On November 25, President Obama signed a piece of landmark legislation: the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act. It’s a space mining law. The law sets the framework for American companies to own the resources they may extract from outer space — like minerals from asteroids, for instance. Space…
Five days after bystanders filmed Miami Beach Police shooting and killing a man in the middle of Alton Road during Art Basel weekend, details about the fatal encounter are becoming more clear. The suspect, 51-year-old David Winsette, had escaped a halfway house, just tried to rob a bank and held…
While the world was aghast at Donald Trump’s latest discriminatory comments about Muslims, Marco Rubio more quietly recommitted himself to discriminatory policies against the LGBT community. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network this weekend, the Miami Republican and surging presidential candidate announced he’d appoint anti-gay marriage justices to…
While plans to bring a fifth professional sports team to the area now are firmly in place thanks to David Beckham and his partners finally securing a site for an MLS stadium, South Florida was in some danger of losing its fourth pro-team. The Florida Panthers continue to bleed money,…
Despite worries about a lagging economy in Brazil and a less favorable currency exchange, Brazilians are visiting Miami more than any other country in 2015. In fact, through the first nine months of 2015, Brazilian tourism is actually up 3 percent compared to the same time last year. The data…
Wayne Rosen does not fit the bill of a low-income individual living in a blighted community. In fact, he’s the wealthy owner of Shores Development, one of the biggest homebuilders in southwest Dade. Rosen himself lives in a $3 million Coral Gables mansion and enjoys showering political allies with donations…
Last month, sign-waving demonstrators massed in front of Tropical Park to try to dissuade customers from buying tickets to Christmas mainstay Santa’s Enchanted Forest. Their complaint? The live tigers and other animals used in shows at the theme park, which activists claimed are mistreated. “These animals are forced to live…
With the well-run Miami Heat constantly giving their fans reasons to look forward, sometimes the franchise has a tendency to forget to look back at the past. Last year, the team’s “Heat Lifer” campaign last year made us all a little nostalgic for where it all started. Back in the…
For years the University of Miami has coasted along on a reputation as a relatively LGBT-friendly campus in a relatively LGBT-friendly city without actually having much infrastructure and services in place for its LGBT students. The ranking of UM as merely a three-star school when it comes to LGBT inclusiveness…
Are you or someone you know a rich person who lives elsewhere who is interested in making the change to become an “Official Miami Rich Person?” Well, it’s not always that easy. There’s a lot of things you have to acquire before you become a true Official Miami Rich Person…
Florida politicians, as a group, aren’t exactly known for being on the rails to begin with, but Donald Trump has gone so far off the rails that Sunshine State pols on both sides of the aisle are calling him out in no uncertain terms. After Trump’s call for “a total and…
It’s been more than a month now since we fell back to standard time, but if you’re like, you still probably haven’t gotten used to it getting dark so early. Well, consider state Rep. Kristin Jacobs your new hero. The Broward County Democrat has introduced a bill that would keep Florida…
By definition, Miami Art Week is always strange. When patrons have to wander through thousands of pieces of art at dozens of fairs, shock-and-awe is an effective eye-catching strategy. Still, 2015 has to go down as one of the weirdest editions of Art Basel ever, from the nonstop monsoons to…
Noon, Saturday, November 14: The Hollywood Broadwalk is choked with people. Vendors hawk beer, shots, and margaritas on the ribbon of pavement along the beach. Couples trip over their flip-flops. Beers slosh in plastic cups. Today is the grand opening of Margaritaville, a 349-room luxury beachfront resort parked right in…
If you opened The Miami Herald yesterday, you might have noticed a giant full-page ad blasting Donald Trump as a “narcissistic BULLYionaire” and comparing him to Hitler. The ad was paid for by Mike Fernandez, a Miami-based healthcare magnate and billionaire in his own right. Fernandez is also one of the…
There is nothing more that Rick Scott hates more than Florida’s corporate income tax. He’s made it his mission as Governor to try as best he can to completely eliminate those taxes. He wants to stalk those taxes around an art fair and stab them with an X-acto knife just…
The neighborhood Holly Woodlawn grew up in was, for this past week during Art Basel Miami Beach, the epicenter of the world’s art scene, but back in the ’60s Woodlawn didn’t see much of a future for herself there. So at 15 she decided to drop out of high school,…
What’s the beef? The Miami Heat beat the LeBron-less Cleveland Cavaliers back on Friday 99-84 — but you knew that already. Heat fans broke out in a hilarious “LeBron Is Tired” chant late in the big win, referencing James deciding to sit out the game due to fatigue caused by…
For the past 17 years, the Chavista wave started by Hugo Chavez and carried on by his successor Nicolas Maduro has held an iron grip on Venezuelan politics, from the national assembly to the presidential palace. While Maduro still holds onto his executive power, Chavismo has taken a historic blow at…
Fane Lozman wants what everyone in Miami wants: a nice home with a beautiful view and quick access to the water. That real estate trifecta, however, usually costs a fortune. But Lozman, a six-foot-five former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, figured out years ago how to get those niceties at a…
Dramatic video captured by a bystander and uploaded to Instagram this morning captures a man being shot by Miami Beach Police officers in the middle of Alton Road. Details on the shooting are still scarce. An MBPD spokesperson tells New Times the department will release a statement on the shooting…
Amidst the endless stalls of modern art choked with thousands of patrons inside Art Basel Miami this afternoon, a scream burst through the cacophony inside the Miami Beach Convention Center just after 5 p.m. today. Was it performance art? A prankster? As fairgoers converged, they quickly realized something more serious…
