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…
Diagnosing the state and the future of the University of Miami’s football program in the wake of the firing of Al Golden is currently the favorite parlor game of college football commentators. To some, the head coaching job is the single greatest open position in college football right now other…
At approximately 9 a.m. Saturday, Edgewater residents woke up to the roaring boom of another building demolition to make way for a much taller, luxury residential tower. It’s unclear what precautions were taken to notify residents (it’s believed that those living in the surrounding buildings were handed letters) but the…
Está ahí. Indudablemente es él. La cara benévola. La cabellera negra. Esos ojos oscuros, de mirada profunda. Va renqueando. Está herido. Lleva una pierna rota. Su brazo se balancea cual péndulo mientras un soldado, pistola al ristre, lo arrastra entre los pegajosos charcos de sangre que se escurren por los…
He’s there. Clearly. The kindly face. The mop of black hair. Those deep, dark eyes. He’s hopping. He’s hurt. A leg is busted. His arm swings like a pendulum as he’s tugged by a gun-slinging soldier past sticky rivulets of blood pouring down concrete steps. He’s a judge, one of…
The breeze whips off the sand as Kirk Paskal sweats under a hot October sun, his back to the turquoise Atlantic. With one hand over his brow, he squints longingly at a boxy, two-story beige hotel. Formerly known as the Ocean Way, the hotel is decayed, the paint now cracked…
Jeb Bush is not having a very good time. He’s currently stuck in 5th place in the polls, facing nearly daily snipes from Donald Trump and had to lay off a large chunk of his Miami-based campaign staff. Over the weekend, he gave his most candid public comments about his…
We’re big fans of Halloween, but remain on the fence about celebrating Halloween in Miami. In a town where partying just seems to natural occur every weekend of the year, something about having to actually map out specific plans weeks in advance, getting a costume together and making sure all…
The Golden era at the U turned out to be nothing more than Brass, and now the Hurricanes are on the hunt for a new head coach. Names like former FIU coach Mario Cristobal and former ‘Canes coach Butch Davis are the most frequently cited in actual media reports, but…
Saturday’s University of Miami loss to Clemson was costly. The 58-0 annihilation cost fans another season of false hope. It cost players their remaining shreds of dignity. And in the long run, it’s probably going to cost the University of Miami many millions of dollars. To loud cheers from pundits,…
Aylen Hidalgo says her supervisor has always been a stickler for clocking in on time and not leaving her desk or making personal calls. As a result, her job in finance at CareerSource South Florida, a county agency with a $70 million budget to help job seekers, has always been…
Is there a better way to summarize what’s happened so far in the GOP presidential primary by pointing out on the same day that Donald Trump makes his first official Florida campaign stop in Miami, Jeb Bush announces that he’s drastically cutting payroll and staff at his campaign’s Miami headquarters?…
In April, local fair housing organization Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence (HOPE) held an event at Jungle Island, the tropical zoo park on Watson Island, to honor “housing heroes” who had fought back against discrimination. Due to being mobility impaired, three of the honorees required use of a ramp to…
Wow! It’s hasn’t been this good of a time for fans of the ’90s since the actual ’90s themselves! Netflix is rebooting Full House, Gwen Stefani’s best breakup single since “Don’t Speak” is tearing up the iTunes charts, and Nickelodeon is playing all your favorite OG Nicktoons again! Now another…
