Every day, sometimes in small crowds, onlookers approach a fence demarcating a vacant plot of land, a rectangle of brown dirt sandwiched between high-rise apartment buildings downtown. Just a few steps from the whirring Metromover, they raise their phones to chest level and snap pictures, often making sure their own…
Dwyane Wade really likes socks. According to his old teammate LeBron James, he likes to paint his toenails in black and then immediately puts socks ons and wears them all the time. Maybe he’s got an issue with his feet, but regardless the man really loves socks. He also really…
American democracy is a complex system with multiple levels, branches and built in checks and balances, and it works best when people get informed and show up to vote for all offices. Of course, Floridians, by and large, aren’t quite ready to even start thinking about who will replace Marco…
Los Angeles is a city that has a difficult grasp on reality. They’re the world leaders in making television and movies after all. It’s also a place where it seems everyone has convinced themselves they’re 10 years younger than they actually are. Where women’s proportions and men’s hairlines an often…
Few cases lit up Miami’s news cycle like the tale of “toxic tush” fake doctor Oneal Morris and the victims like Rajee Narinesingh brutally disfigured by injections of “Fix-a-Flat” and cement. But years later, that kind of illegal plastic surgery is still on the rise in Miami — at least according…
Earlier this year, Hector Feliciano drove to Eneida Harter Elementary School to pick up his five-year-old son who’d gotten in trouble over a fight. As they pulled away, though, Feliciano heard a disturbing tale from the kid: A Miami cop at the school had pulled his ear and then handcuffed…
In Texas they want to build a border wall to keep people out. In Miami you can float right up to stretch of South Beach directly infront of the Ritz-Carlton in your makeshift sail boat and be greeted with cheers from locals. That was the scene earlier this morning when…
When you’re currently running for President and stuck in fourth place in your own home state, is it a good idea to piss off all the students and alumni of one of that state’s biggest schools? Probably not, but Marco Rubio pressed his lucky anyway. Rubio was on KNXO 1460’s The…
“Although some may consider this to be humorous or insignificant, the FIUPD takes these reports seriously and continues to investigate the matter,” a rep for the Florida International University Police Department tells the school’s student media. The incident that is neither humorous or insignificant is the fact that a suspected…
South Florida sports fans have experienced some of the highest highs and the lowest lows: the best season in NFL history and one of the worst, a baseball team that has won two World Series and finds new and almost comical ways to miss the playoffs every other season, a…
The only good news for Jeb Bush this morning is that the calendar still reads “September.” That means the Iowa caucuses are a healthy five months away. Which is important, because right now Jeb is seriously tanking among early state GOP voters. We’re talking Philadelphia 76ers looking for a number…
Tears silently stream down Maria Aguilar’s face as she listens to a vivid description of her daily torment. Sitting at a long wooden table inside an 11th-floor courtroom in Miami’s federal courthouse, the short woman with curly hair tied up in a bun holds hands with three other women while…
Nine months after gay marriage became legal in Florida, the state’s marriage license certificates have finally caught up. Instead of listing spaces for a husband and wife, the forms now just say spouse. Naturally, divorce paperwork will also be updated. According to The Buzz, clerks of court offices received the…
Exact details on what exactly David Beckham plans to do in Miami with his MLS team are still hard to come by, but pretty much everyone expects it to be big. So it’s not exactly a surprise that the British media is gossiping about the idea of the country’s former…
Between making billions with Amazon, experimenting with home drone delivery and buying a little publication called the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos also has been quietly pumping money into a secretive company aimed at blasting paying customers and scientists into space. Tomorrow, the Miami Palmetto Senior High School graduate is set…
In June 2014, Colin Foord and his assistants, with hammer and chisels in hand, dove to the bottom of the PortMiami shipping channel. Their mission: to rescue 500 native corals threatened by the Army Corps of Engineer’s massive dredging project to deepen the port. Foord also had a bigger mission…
Given its private and non-religious nature and its location in cosmopolitan Miami, one might expect the University of Miami to be a leader in accommodating LGBT students …at least in the South. Turns out that’s not the case. Not even close. They’re not even one of the best schools for…
Perhaps no one in the history of Miami-Dade County has faced more repercussions for telling someone to go fuck themselves then circuit Judge Jacqueline Schwartz. The Supreme Court of Florida didn’t appreciate the judge’s potty mouth, and has fined her $10,000 and suspended her for 40 days for the incident…
Just over a year after Pinecrest native and freelance journalist Steven Sotloff was brutally executed by ISIS, a new garden is opening in his honor. Tomorrow evening, in a ceremony open to the public, the Steven Sotloff Memorial Garden will be commemorated inside the larger Pinecrest Gardens on Red Road…
Work doesn’t matter today. Every second that passes is just one less moment standing between you and an actual, real-life NFL Sunday. It’s been more than seven long, hard months since we last saw the Patriots and Seahawks play in Super Bowl XLIX; but we made it, and now it’s…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week: You can now bring your gun to FSU’s football stadium, which, as a Hurricanes fan, terrifies me. A man named King got busted for having himself his way…
It’s no secret that virtually everyone in this town comes from somewhere else. But just where do we hail from and in what proportions? New migration data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows where people were coming from when they moved to the Miami area between 2009 and 2013. As…
