Wynwood keeps it pretty low. Until very recently it was hard to find a building higher than two stories here, but Moshe Mana, a developer and the owner of the biggest continuous plot of land of in the rapidly changing neighborhood wants to get high. Really, really high. His company…
The major Cuban influx to Florida didn’t start with the Mariel boat lifts. In fact, Florida has always been a major destination of Caribbean immigrants, a situation unique amongst the states. A new interactive map from Pew Research Center remind us clearly of that. Researched combed through Census data all…
Have you walked outside lately? Like, anytime in the last four months? Miami’s been pretty damned hot. In fact, a University of Miami scientist says, it’s been the hottest year to date in recorded history. Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the Rosenstiel School (and a passionate meteorologist: “I just…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every single week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: Florida’s Captain Citrus gets the arch-nemesis he deserves, a mother steals her 12-year-old daughter’s ex-boyfriend, a middle-aged white lady has so much trust in police that she…
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Things did not go well in the home opener for the Miami Dolphins. They went so bad, in fact, that some fans took to the exits, choosing to beat traffic rather than watch the end of a pathetic 41-14 Buffalo Bills beat down. Some…
If you have a soft spot for failing outdoor shopping and entertainment complexes in the southern half of Miami-Dade then Federal Realty Investment Trust is your savior. After acquiring a majority stake in Coconut Grove’s CocoWalk earlier this year, Federal has now traveled a little bit down the South Dixie Highway…
Jeb Bush may not be anywhere near close to leading the polls anymore, but he does lead in another factor: endorsement. Bush has the backing of more notable politicians than any other candidate in the race, and today he announced another whopping round of endorsement. See, Florida currently has 26…
How about those Dolphins? Oh, right, lets not talk about it. Instead, lets talk about some of the greatest moments in Miami sports history, shall we? And we don’t things other team happened to do here that were history. Miamians do not care about Joe Namath winning the Jets their…
Any guess where Florida’s largest flock of sheep lives? Quite possibly right in the middle of Miami Beach, inside a nondescript Mt. Sinai research building just off the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Unlike their rural cousins, these fluffy animals, more than 100 of them, aren’t kept for wool or left alone…
As prices for beach and bayfront land continue to soar, developers are lining up for their parcel along the Miami River, which is quickly turning from a local hangout to the next Brickell. But not everyone’s in agreement about what the new neighborhood should look like. Plans and renderings were…
Jeb Bush is a man of strong opinions, forged in the intellectual fire of pure reason. Pick any contentious topic of the day, and he’ll be happy to share his thoughts. Say, for instance, the Washington Redskins, a team whose name most Native Americans and a whole lot of other…
The political conversation about sea level rise up in the nation’s capitol is a farce of deniers with their head in the sand. Meanwhile, down here in South Florida where literally starting to slowly drown. That’s been quite evident over the past few days as the high tides brought on…
Remember in August when half of Miami was loosing its mind over the possibility of Tropical Storm Erika coming our way? Yeah, well now Joaquin, which has reached full Hurricane status, is closer to us as a full fledged cyclone than Erika ever was as a mere Tropical Storm. In…
All the attention on Comedy Central late night may be centering on The Daily Show and its new host Trevor Noah this week, but last night on The Nightly Show Larry Wilmore put an epic smackdown on former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for his comments last week implying that African-Americans…
Just two days into an experiment to experience daily life on the minimum wage in Miami, Florida Representative Jose Javier Rodriguez says he failed the test. On Tuesday morning, Rodriguez planned to take the bus from home in Shenandoah to his downtown office. But after waiting for 30 minutes for…
Following an unloading of nearly $12 million worth of drugs just two weeks ago, the US Coast Guard has brought a whopping $41 million worth of cocaine and marijuana seized on the high seas to the shores of Miami Beach. Offloaded yesterday, the huge haul included 1,100 kilograms of cocaine and…
For the last month, Jonathan Harrington has been living every practical jokers’ worst nightmare. The University of Miami student faced a felony drug charge and expulsion from school — all because, he insisted, he’d put out lines of powdered sugar as a joke before a dorm inspection. When a police…
Roderick “Rick” Beasley earns more than Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. The burly middle-aged bureaucrat with a penchant for bow ties runs CareerSource South Florida, a county agency that connects thousands of local job seekers and employers. With a $70 million budget fed by state and federal funds, it’s the largest…
Detective Joe Mendez was going through a rough spot in his marriage. A bearded and burly 20-year veteran of the South Miami Police Department, and a second generation officer as the son of a cop, Mendez decided to get his mind off his home life by giving back to the…
Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road has gone under a lot of changes in its relatively short history. Originally envisioned by Carl Fisher as an automobile-friendly “5th Avenue of the South,” the strip was converted into America’s second pedestrian mall in the ’50s under the eye of famed Miami architect Morris Lapidus. The…
2008 Miami was in the worse shape it had been in ages. On top of a global economic meltdown, our local real estate market had collapsed and the foreclosure crisis was at three-alarm status. So it’s really no surprise that we’ve grown so much since then considering we had such…
It hasn’t been the easiest year for the Miami Beach Police Department and its new chief, Dan Oates. Within a few weeks early this year, Oates had to confront video of an MBPD cop punching a handcuffed woman in the face and then a national scandal that erupted when several…
