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…
The latest twist in Miami’s years-long soccer stadium saga—an unlikely partnership between David Beckham’s group and the Miami-Dade County school board—is looking ever more likely: At a school board meeting yesterday, members expressed unanimous support for a possible deal, voting to allow superintendent Alberto Carvalho to proceed with negotiations for…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday’s we’re here to round up the weirdest. In fact, this is a very special themed edition of WTF Florida brought on by the fact that Florida’s smalltime thieves were especially stupid this week, basically not only asking…
If there’s one place in America where the “build a stadium and the money will come” lie shouldn’t fly, it’s Miami. We’ve already suffered third degree burns from that tale tale. It’s exactly what politicians promised would happen in Little Havana as they crafted the worst deal in history to build…
It seems that certain Republicans in Florida see controversy erupt over legislation in other states and think to themselves, “Hmmm, how do we bring that controversy to the Sunshine state?” Rep. Julio Gonzalez, a freshman Republican lawmaker who was enthusiastically endorsed by Senator Marco Rubio, has introduced a wide-ranging “right…
We always took Jeb Bush as a bit of nerd, but apparently we were wrong. Turns out he’s just a creepy fake comic book fan bro, and we found this out in what might not be the biggest blunder of Bush’s presidential campaign so far, but certainly is the oddest. …
Miamians love soccer. This city would love to see a big-time team here. But by now, an element of stadium anticipation fatigue is surely setting in — for more than two years, since the news first broke that soccer giant David Beckham was interested in starting an MLS team right here…
When he was 18 years old, Stanley Victor Campbell moved from New York to Miami. Over the next seven decades, he would become an institution in the city, noted for his work in public schools and later in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Along the way, he also had five sons —…
Miami-Dade has a lot of interesting architecture and structures, but most of the attention is paid to Miami and Miami Beach. That doesn’t mean the suburbs don’t pull their weight, though. In fact, you can find everything from city halls that look ripped straight out of Aladdin to one of…
LeLe Pons is probably the most famous Miamian right now that no one over 21 has heard. She’s one of the most popular personality on the Vine social network, and came in at 6th on our list of most followed Miami Instagram accounts, ahead of bonafide celebs like Pitbull and…
Florida Democrats just really, really love Hillary Clinton, and nothing can shake their resolve. Back in 2008, Clinton took a brief break from getting bested in earlier primary states by our current president, and absolutely crushed both Barack Obama and Johns Edwards in the Florida primary. Now polling for 2016…
When it comes to real estate in Miami right now there’s really no such thing as a deal, but if you’re a millennial looking to save some money, Trulia reports that it’s much cheaper for you to buy a home or apartment than it is to rent. In theory anyway…
Elections are coming up in the City of Miami, and in the race for the city’s highest profile commission seat, the fundraising, at least, isn’t even close: The big money is in the hands of Teresa Sarnoff, wife of incumbent Marc. Sarnoff is running to represent District 2, the jurisdiction…
Shark programs hit the sweet spot for ocean-side research universities – weighty enough with scientific import to justify the eyeballs of the hardcore scientific community, gnarly enough to reel in the interest of your plain ol’ Discovery Chanel fiends. For almost a decade, the University of Miami has been one…
Pitbull’s entire image is of a globe trotting cool guy who attends the coolest parties and hob knobs with the elite. Listening to his lyrics it seems like his entire life is one of refined hedonism. But apparently in real life he does do some boring things, like occasionally having…
There’s few cities that have been has burned as badly by a stadium deal as Miami, and few voting blocs that have made politicians pay the price for that as Miami’s. That political atmosphere has made it difficult for David Beckham and his business partner to nail down a site to…
Last month, the nation rallied behind 14-year-old Ahmed Muhamed after he was arrested when school officials mistook his science project (a digital clock he built out of a pencil case) as bomb. The story mirrored Kiera Wilmot’s: a Florida teen who was arrested two years ago after conducting a volcano…
Storage Wars: Miami has only aired two episodes so far, and already the show has produced off-screen tragedy. Hashim Saeed Pew, the 23-year-old son of cast member Kevin Pew, is behind bars for murdering a 19-year-old woman at this father’s home during a viewing party last week. The murder was originally…
Three years ago, a female graduate student at the University of Miami accused her professor — the most prominent member of the philosophy department — of sexual harassment. Her case against Colin McGinn, a world-renowned author, grew into a contentious battle detailed by New Times earlier this year, with UM…
Neikole Hunt, an assertive mother of three who lives in Little Haiti, on NW 50th Street, had just gotten home from her youngest son’s PeeWee football practice when someone knocked urgently on her front door. Just a few blocks away, the visitor said, something had happened to Hunt’s older son,…
At 7:30 in the evening, Terri Frana noticed two black bears gallop through the backyard of her 10-year-old, $725,000 house in Lake Mary, just north of Orlando. Frana, a 44-year-old banker with brown bangs and a kind face, was used to seeing the beasts around her woodsy neighborhood, but she…
The Florida Senate was going to mess around when it came to removing the Confederate flag from its official seal. The Senate started its third special session of the year. The official business at hand is yet another attempt to redraw Florida’s unconstitutional congressional districts, but, surprising many, the Senate…
