Three years ago, Porter Fischer sparked the biggest steroid scandal in baseball history when he leaked files from the Biogenesis clinic to Miami New Times. Fourteen MLB players were later suspended in the saga, none more visibly than Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees superstar who lost a whole year on the…
Miami-Dade County has one of the highest HIV rates in the country and Florida lead the nation in HIV-related deaths. So it’s troubling, activists say, that a new survey suggests not enough residents know about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medication that inhibits HIV transmission. The data comes from a survey on…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. In fact, as a bit of a break from all that human weirdness, this week is a very special reptile-themed WTF Florida. What were our coldblooded friends up to this…
Students at Florida International University’s main Modesto A. Maidique Campus are on hinge after reports of threats made against the school swept through social media. Though, school officials have not verified the threat, they’ve alerted students to be cautious. Meanwhile, a student at the University of Miami reportedly threatened to…
In many ways, Mark Richt is unlike any head coach the Hurricanes have hired in their recent history. He’s not a coordinator getting his first shot at the captain’s chair, nor is he a promising talent plucked from a mid-major. The man has spent 15 years coaching in College Football’s…
As the art world descends on South Florida for Miami Art Week, there’s no doubt that the glitterati are shifting their gaze to Little Haiti. Everyone from New Times to the New York Times has written this year about the Caribbean neighborhood’s shift as galleries flee rising Wynwood rents. This…
There’s not a more legally hazardous job in Miami than taking the reigns of CONCACAF, the soccer federation in charge of North America, the Caribbean and Central America. The past past two jefes of the Miami Beach-based organization are already at the center of the biggest corruption scandal ever to envelope…
At first glance, the tour bus looks like the real thing: It’s huge, it’s painted the right color blue, and covering one side, in all caps and that signature white font, it’s painted with TRUMP. But look again. A large period has been painted after the T, so the bus…
It’s only Thursday and the traffic in both Miami and Miami Beach has already reached nightmare status. It’s particularly bad this year considering one main link between the mainland and SoBe, the Venetian Causeway, is shuttered for construction. So if you’re about to get in your car this week to…
Welcome to Florida. Where we can’t even draw proper congressional districts. Every ten years the state legislature is entrusted with redrawing the boundaries of both state and federal congressional districts to account for changes in population. The process began four whole years ago, but the original districts drawn were thrown…
Climate change and rising sea levels are very real threats, but there’s no need to be hyperbolic about it. “Hey, large portions of highly populated land could go completely under water in the next few centuries,” seems alarming enough to us. Yet, while speaking at a new conference during the Organization…
With plans to build a Major League Soccer stadium in Little Havana now seemingly dead, reports suggest that David Beckham and his business partners are now considering a plot of land in Overtown. “I think we have found a site,” team partner Tim Leiweke told CNBC last week. Well, Miami’s…
The archetypical tale of the young grasshopper surpassing his mentor is still playing out between Miami’s two native presidential candidates. Except in this case, the mentor is desperately outspending his protege — and everyone else for that matter — in a last-ditch effort to stay relevant. And so far, it’s…
Miami Police Officer Vincent Miller has misused his Taser twice in the past two years while working off-duty at the Publix at 17th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. In 2013, he needlessly Tasered a homeless man and then tried to cover it up. Then last year — in a case New…
The Miami Hurricanes have reportedly interviewed a good portion of the high profile names that have been floating around as possible replacements for Al Golden. Well, everyone but Texas’s Charlie Strong and current Alabama offensive line coach and former ‘Canes player Mario Cristobal. That list however does include recently fired…
There’s tons of exclusive parties in Miami this week, but not every single one of them will have New York hipsters trying to crash them. Take for example a fundraiser for Jeb Bush, Miami’s somewhat now embarrassing presidential candidate, hosted by Romero Britto, Miami’s somewhat now embarrassing celebrity pop “artist.” …
It started like a normal art auction: Late Monday afternoon in the Design District, a smattering of well-heeled buyers sipped champagne and prepared their numbered paddles, ready to bid on some 200 pieces from a collection of works by famed Cuban sculptor Agustín Cárdenas. The items up for sale included…
Just two years after the Justice Department found one local major local police department, Miami PD, liable of engaging “in a pattern or practice of excessive use of force through officer-involved shootings,” police through out the county still regularly have fatal encounters with suspects. According to a database maintained by The Guardian,…
Jeffrey Loria is the most despised team owner in Major League Baseball, not just among local fans — who he’s spent years antagonizing with brutally bad rosters and a highway robbery stadium deal — but also among fellow owners and league officials. Barry Bonds, meanwhile, left the game in 2007…
The hot topic of discussion at the past few Miami Art Weeks has not been the art, but ironically how many people attend now who don’t come here for Basel’s main attraction at all. Let’s get real, though. The only people who actually come purely for “the art” are the…
The old stereotype about the worst kind of Florida drivers is that they’re old snowbirds who have forgotten how to drive. The kind of person who drives 20 MPHs under the speed limit in the left lane with their turning signal accidentally on for 10 minutes. The latest analysis of…
In almost every other county in Florida, voters directly elect a sheriff to head up the county’s law enforcement office. Not in Miami-Dade. Back in 1966, voters here decided to abolish the position after years of suspe cted corruption in the department. Since then a Police Director, now appointed by…
