You’re Donald Trump. You’re running a Presidential campaign where the only clear part of your platform is that you insult Hispanic immigrants and want to deport every undocumented one. The single most profitable business in your portfolio however happens to be a golf resort in the middle of a county…
Thirty years after after it’s debut, the pastel aesthetic of Miami Vice continues to define Miami. So much so that the show’s logo’s colors of teal and pink are almost the unofficial colors of the area. So it wasn’t all that surprising when a Reddit user with some freetime and…
Patrick Wanninkhof loved bicycling, beat boxing, and helping people. Wanninkhof had a megawatt smile, a mop of curly brown hair (sometimes), and an affinity for math and engineering; he grew up in Key Biscayne, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida, and then taught physics and computer science…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Fridays we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week: some not-so-nice lice vice, men who really, really like shoes, the mystery of the Maryland Fried Chicken, and, ugh, George Zimmerman somehow becoming even more terrible. Homeless Man Gives…
In these days of complex computer-graphed simulations and space-assisted data mining, hurricane prediction has steadily approached something like a real, reliable science. Usually, scientists can at least guess with some decent certainty what a hurricane is going to do in the next couple days, if not four or five days…
Sports talk radio is not known as a haven for nuanced discussion of mental health, and sports jock around the country stumbled around talking about Jonathan Martin’s Facebook post from yesterday detailing his long struggle with mental health and numerous suicide attempts. Perhaps no one went further out of the…
Research suggests that people tend to end up in romantic relationship with people who are a lot like them. Never mind those Disney fairy tails about Princess that marry former street thieves or Princes who marry house maids. The real world doesn’t have genies or fairy godmothers, and the reality…
The projected path of Tropical Storm Erika has veered slightly north since yesterday, putting Miami out of the middle of various computer forcecasting models, but the city is still abuzz about the possibility of its first Hurricane strike in years (and knowing how quickly those forecast models can change, its…
Early on a Tuesday afternoon, Valentina Baiz, an 18-year-old FIU student, was walking in Wynwood with a friend and carrying a large purse. According to a police report, as she strolled east along Northwest 22 Street — just a couple blocks from Panther Coffee and Wynwood’s main business district —…
Earlier this year, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced $200 million plans to raze and redevelop Miami’s oldest housing project, Liberty Square Houses, also known as Pork ‘n’ Beans. Built in 1936, the buildings are in need of an upgrade — most residents complaining of the lack of air conditioning, along…
North Miami’s most politically-connected restaurant is also be failing to pay its staff — at least according to a former chef at Moca Cafe and Lounge, who says he’s been waiting for a check since May. That’s despite the fact that Moca has gotten thousands from city taxpayers over the…
Former Miami Dolphins player Jonathan Martin, the victim of a bullying ring lead by teammate Richie Incognito, announced his retirement from the NFL at the end of July. He officially cited a back injury that would have kept him out for the entire 2015 season anyway, but earlier this morning…
See the image up above? That’s the result of meteorologists running Tropical Storm Erika’s data through a bunch of different computer simulation models and placing them all on a single map. You’ll notice just one of those models makes a direct hit in Miami-Dade. You’ll also notice however that Miami…
In just a few months, Donald Trump has already had more politically deadly moments than most candidates manage in a lifetime. Only a campaign that’s playing to the most intolerant, xenophobic wings of American society could survive everything from Trump’s crass John McCain insults to his misogynistic Megyn Kelly rants…
Not too long ago, South Florida was a prescription painkiller dreamland, luring people from West Virginia to Kentucky down “Oxy Alley” to get millions of pills. At the height of the wave, from 2008 to 2010, Florida doctors purchased nine times more oxycodone than doctors in the other 49 states…
Randolph Williams, a stocky African-American accountant, stood outside the rusted gates of Lincoln Memorial Cemetery on an afternoon in 2001, mentally fishing around for memories from nearly five decades back. Try as he might, his past recollections couldn’t sync with what he saw. In front of him, the 20-acre Lincoln…
ABC’s long running ladies’ chat program The View has hit a slump. The backstage gossip involving the program’s ever revolving carousel of co-hosts has proven far more compelling than anything they’ve put on air lately. Execs have announced an overhaul of the program in time for the shows 19th season,…
Well, well, well. Look who’s no longer universally hated. Yes, Governor Rick Scott has a positive approval rating for the first time since his first month in office in the history of Quinnipiac University’s tracking of Florida Governor. 45 percent of Floridians said they approve of the job Scott is…
Last week, more than 2,500 new students were welcomed to the University of Miami’s lush Coral Gables campus. They picked up ID cards, checked into dorms and kissed sobbing parents goodbye. And at night, it appears that many attended a slew of “unauthorized social events” along San Amaro Drive —…
About three years ago, Sharif Salem, a native Londoner and part-time photographer, began noticing things left on the roadside around his adopted neighborhood of Little Havana: clothing, trash, miscellaneous junk. But nothing caught his eye quite like the abandoned furniture, which seemed to be everywhere, in every imaginable state. “It…
Stan Hughes, a tall, thin, straight-faced man with a gray ponytail, shuffles through dozens of boxes lining the shelves of a small storage space. They’re filled with memories of his brother-in-law’s exuberant life: an old coin collection, semiprecious gemstones and geodes, slot cars. It’s dusty in the small unit at…
According to a new poll from Quinnipiac University, more Floridians generally support the policies of Barack Obama and his Democratic party, but the controversial Iran Arms Deal is a bridge to far for most. It’s widely disapproved of in the state. Though, continuing federal funding to Planned Parenthood, allowing undocumented…
