There are a few non-negotiable rules of doing big business in Miami. Speak at least a little Spanish. Learn to enjoy cigars. Never speak ill of the Estefans. And — this one is important — do not, under any circumstances, reveal your admiration for Fidel Castro or Che Guevara. Marcelo…
Another year, another listical that claims Miami wouldn’t survive a zombie invasion. Which is, excuse my language but we’re talking about a life and undeath situation here, just pure bullshit. This year CareerBuilder.com analyzed the skills of the workforce of the country’s 50 biggest metro areas to decide which have the…
As King Tides rose in Miami Beach this week, brackish water spilled over sidewalks and drowned docks. There were at least two low-lying spots that stayed remarkably dry, though — the shopping plaza at Sunset Harbor, and the area near 10th and Alton. Both were saved by Miami Beach’s multi-million…
On October 9, Angelica Valle strutted into the Johnny Rockets on Ocean Drive topless and laughing. A man then created a barrier from management using chairs and tables. That’s when things really got crazy. As witnesses filmed, Valle then united her bikini bottom and “placed the steel chair leg into…
Drug smugglers from Lima, Peru showed up at Miami International Airport with just about every item in their luggage somehow stuffed with cocaine. Everywhere the smugglers could try and hide the marching powder they did. Unfortunately for them the approach didn’t work, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers busted their…
Former Miami Hurricane coach Al Golden is out of a job, and doesn’t seem to have a new one lined up, but he’d not taking any time to get out of Miami. The tie-wearing coach has put his South Miami mansion on the market for $1,990,000. Sure people say that the…
Happy Halloween! And—more to the point for cycling enthusiasts and anyone trying to get around tonight: Happy last Friday of the month! It’s time for Critical Mass! Tonight’s group ride heads way over to Miami’s southwest and back, for a total of approximately 13 miles. The ride begins, like always,…
For the least seven years, numerous female employees have been reporting their prominent county boss and the work environment at his agency to the authorities — all to no avail. Then, in August, the federal government handed down a ruling after investigating allegations against CareerSource Souht Florida’s executive director Roderick…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week that includes a gold digger who can’t drive, a very passionate karaoke performer, and a woman who attacked her old enemy at a gas station with a sausage. …
Is there nothing Republican can’t find to blame on Hillary Clinton? Apparently not. Marco Rubio is under fire this week after everyone collectively woke up and realized he hasn’t been doing his job as an elected US Senator of the third most populace state in the nation. He’s missed about…
For decades the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, the Coconut Grove estate built as a “dreamlike vision in the midst of the jungle on the shores of Biscayne Bay,” according to the museum website, has served as one of Miami’s most iconic landmarks — a lush, leafy symbol of the wealth…
Miami still has the 8th most expensive rental market in all of America, but rents in many neighborhoods have held steady according to Zumper’s latest maps of median rents in each neighborhood. Well, most neighborhoods anyway. They continue to soar in both East Little Havana and Little Haiti, two cultural…
The results of local elections have a huge impact on our lives. But across Miami, local election turnout has historically been meager. In the last Miami Beach mayoral race, in 2013, just 25 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot. In Miami, that number fell to 11 percent. And across…
Jeb Bush helped created Marco Rubio. He cheered him through his early victories in tiny West Miami. He even gave him a damned golden sword on the floor of the Florida House while blessing him as a “great conservative warrior.” And last night in front of a national TV audience,…
In the video, a topless young woman laughs and dances as a crowd of leering men on Ocean Drive hoots and hollers, yelling for more. Then she obliges, twerking on the leg of a table before going completely nude, lying spread eagle in a booth as the men grope her…
As if the week couldn’t get worse for the University of Miami football team, now a player is sitting behind bars on charges of domestic battery and has been suspended indefinitely from the team. Defensive Lineman Michael Wyche, a former USC recruit with a tragic history, was booked at 4:50…
The science is conclusive: vast swaths of Miami-Dade will someday be underwater thanks to rising sea levels caused by carbon emissions. How much of Miami-Dade ends up underwater however may depend on what we do now to curb carbon emissions. So it’s quite odd that Attorney General Pam Bondi announced…
Miami Beach voters are no strangers to shady election scuffles, but one commission race has now entered only-in-Florida bizarre territory, with one candidate sending out hundreds of mailers about charges that his opponent had battered a security guard — but neglecting to redact his Social Security Number from the police…
Marco Rubio doesn’t want to be Florida’s Senator anymore. This much is clear. A New York Times article form the summer quoted anonymous friends claiming that Rubio had grown tired of the work. That’s a big part of the reason he’s running for President, and has sworn he won’t backtrack…
We’d say Pedro Dayan Millan is an unlikely YouTube star, but then really it doesn’t take much more than luck to become a viral sensation. Under the nickname Peter La Anguila (“Peter the Eel” to us gringos), Millan became a sensation in 2012 thanks to a music video produced with the group…
As developers and residents duke it out over the future of a beachfront strip in North Beach, activists contend Mayor Philip Levine and Miami Beach commissioners were unduly influenced by big money from businesses with stakes in the controversial development. Voters next week will decide whether to allow developer Sandor Scher…
Florida’s standings in national rankings of students scores on standardized math and science tests paint, at best, a mediocre picture. In 2013, the last time the Education Department released such rankings, Florida sat at 30th, a troubling ranking for the third largest state in the nation. It’s also a ranking cited…
