Plotting your long-awaited travel to Havana now that American access to the island is getting easier? Forget traveling by plane or cruise ship. Now you can legally get to Cuba from South Florida on a yacht — as long as you’re willing to pay at least $100,000. Last week, West…
Bud Cornell slumps into a chair under a thatched chickee roof at the Sunset Cove Beach Resort in Key Largo. Taking a break from wrestling with his motel’s plumbing, he wipes sweat from his flushed cheeks and rattles off a list of what needs upkeep on the old property, from…
America is rarely timid when it comes to a chance to put ads on anything possible …except our professional sports teams jersey. That’s not true over in Europe, where soccer team’s jersey routinely prominently feature the logos of corporate sponsors. Florida has decided to take full advantage of that, and…
According to post-debate polls, Marco Rubio didn’t come out of last week’s Donald Trump-dominated Republican debate any stronger, but he did leave aligned more closely than ever with pro-life positions. Rubio told the crowd that the didn’t support abortion even in cases of incest and rape, and he’s spent the…
It should be of little surprise that the tradition of pretty young women in tight costumes dancing at professional basketball games started right here in Miami. Back in the late ’60s, the ABA’s Miami Floridians’ Ballgirls became national sensations and lead the way for similar squads becoming de rigueur amongst NBA…
Real estate is a game of bravado, especially in Miami Beach where multi-million dollar penthouse suites fly off the market every week to a dizzying swarm of overseas investors. Kevin Tomlinson, a 48-year-old with One Sotheby’s International Realty, knew how to play that game as well as anyone, bragging on…
There were raised voices and broken glass and the high-voltage emotions that pinball between a wild teen and her worried mom. In their Davie home, Bonnie had installed new locks on the windows to keep her 16-year-old daughter, Cathy, from sneaking out again. The fight ended with Cathy waving around…
The Democratic senate primary between Reps. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson will likely be colored as moderate vs progressive, but Grayson is already trying to frame it more as effective congressman vs do nothing congressman. Grayson certainly go some help in the category last week from congressional tracking website Inside…
You’ve heard of “take your child to work day,” but the Florida Department of Education wants to flip it up and make “Dads Take Your Child To School Day” happen. Citing research that family involvement has a strong connection to academic success, Florida will encourage fathers or other male role…
Remember that whole messy Miami Dolphins saga involving the Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito. Of course, who could forget that? But the NFL hired mega-lawyer Ted Wells to come in and do an independent investigation of the matter, and when that report came out we all thought that was the…
Relations may well be warming at last between Washington and Havana, but that doesn’t mean the Castro regime is suddenly upping its human rights game just to please Obama. In fact, just yesterday the Cuban government threw an estimated 90 protestors — many clad in black-and-white Barack Obama masks —…
This past March, Killian High School was rocked by a shocking attack — a 17-year-old female student stabbed 15-year-old star football player DeAndre Johnson in the chest, leaving him clinging to life. Then news emerged of an alleged crime that had sparked that assault. Months earlier, the female student had…
Fark.com is the web’s original destination for weird news. Chugging along for 16 years now, the community-based site collects odd stories from all over and links out to them with tongue-in-cheek headlines. You should be under no surprise that a site dedicated to weird news has a special fondness for…
Jeisa Chiminazzo and Oliver Ripley are a couple out of a modern day fairy tail. She’s a transfixing Brazilian supermodel, discovered at the age of 13, who has appeared on the cover of at least 5 international editions of Vogue, modeled for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and starred in campaigns…
Haitian president Michel Martelly, a star singer who went by the stage name “Sweet Micky,” already had plenty of problems in his desperately struggling nation. Entering the final year of his five-year term, he’s been widely condemned for corrupting the country’s judiciary branch, governing as a quasi-dictator, and empowering alleged…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. Every Friday we’re here to round up some of the weirdest. This week: a mother who very much believes everything she read on the internet, and a very whacked up wang. Mom Is Human Manifestation of FoxNews.com Comments There’s so much weird,…
After decades of inaction from city leaders and the Miami Heat on creating a promised park behind American Airlines Arena, Miami activists took matters into their own hands in June. Hundreds gathered to rechristen a stretch of waterfront asphalt as “Dan Paul Park,” named for a pioneering parks activist, aiming…
The finally Daily Show with Jon Stewart airs tonight, and over his 16 years at the program he’s had a humungous effect on the American media and psyche. In fact, the man may have done more than anyone else in comedy or the media to help turn Florida into a…
It wouldn’t be a presidential election without a debate in Miami, and today the Democratic National Committee announced that Hillary, Bernie and whoever else jumps in or is still around by that time will be coming to Miami in either February or March. The debate will be co-sponsored by Univision…
After the state Supreme Court threw out Florida’s congressional districts as unconstitutional and politically motivated, the state legislature will assemble for its second special session of the year next Monday to redraw fairer district. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli and Senate President Andy Gardiner, both Republicans, instructed staff to draw up a…
Miami is a city in love with its cars that barely knows how to drive. So it’s no surprise that many of us don’t know the laws regarding the safe and legal operation of a bicycle either. In fact, it seems like every time we post a story about a…
Construction is almost done at 250 Wynwood, the modern, six-storied, 11-unit residential building going up on 24th Street. In a neighborhood that seems to have it all — world-class street art, craft beer, artisanal coffee, creative office spaces — there aren’t many options for people to actually sleep there at night. And that’s mostly…
