Drag Queens are the closest things the gay community has to real life super heroes (…or villains, depending on the queen). There’s the double identities, the mystical powers ranging from backhanding splits to the conjuring of drunk tickets, and, well, apparently even the occasional act of actual life saving. Elaine…
Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer’s awkward but emotional accidental reunion with a former middle school classmate who stood before her as a defendant in bond court went viral earlier this month. Well, Glazer just took a vacation on the Carnival Breeze and when she got back to work on Monday she…
By most expert accounts, Gov. Rick Scott’s tenure in Tallahassee has been a flat-out catastrophe for the Sunshine State’s already fragile environment. He slashed water management budgets and stacked regulatory board with developers. He battled tooth-and-nail against new clean water mandates. Even muttering the words “climate change” was banned in…
The memoir, due out August 4, begins this way: “I was born on Miami Beach on December 22, 1960. How I came out, what time I came out, I don’t know. What I do know is that it was unusual. Miami Beach was still segregated… and black people weren’t even…
Yes, the 2016 election is more than 15 months away and you’re all already sick of the Presidential race (thanks Donal Trump), thanks to Marco Rubio aiming for the White House, Floridians will also have a wide open Senate race to decide. A lot of the candidate are relatively unknown…
An 80-year-old man suffering from advances Alzheimer’s disease stabbed his to death on Sunday afternoon at their home in Southwest Miami-Dade and then drove to Publix to report it. According to police, Abner Peckman Lawton stabbed his wife multiple times at their home near Southwest 90th Street and 103rd Avenue. Then, with…
With the Heat trying to rebuild in time for next season, all sorts of your favorite supporting players who were with the team through the Big Three-ear are reportedly up for trade. However, one player known for his three-pointers who the Heat traded two years ago could have interest in…
It’s been seven years since President Obama ordered the detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed and yet more than a hundred prisoners of war remain. That could finally change. A top Obama official revealed this weekend that the president will soon ask Congress to let him transfer dozens of inmates…
Miami-Dade county’s new transit director has big plans. While Alice Bravo, the city of Miami’s former deputy city manager, has several short-term projects in mind, her grand vision is sure to raise eyebrows in South Florida: Eventually, she hopes that the plans her and her team put in place in…
Over 1 out of 10 Florida adult citizens are unable to vote. That’s the highest rate in the nation by far. In fact, about half of all disenfranchised Americans in the entire country are right here in Florida? Why is that? Because Florida places some of the toughest standards on…
Smart Amanda Wiz was three years old, with reddish brown fur, pointy ears, and a distinctive white mark above her nose. The Western Reining horse was beloved by her owners and had recently competed in her first show. Early Thursday morning she was found dead in the Hialeah field near…
Donald Trump may be the leading Republican candidate nationally according to both the Real Clear Politics and Pollster average of polls, but in Florida he’s an also ran candidate. In fact, a recent poll found that Trump is in a distant fourth place in the Sunshine State behind native boys…
You’ve undoubtedly seen the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag all over the internet this past year. Which means, if you were paying attention, you’ve probably seen some white person glide into Facebook comments or someone’s Twitter replies to declare, “Um, excuse me, but don’t you mean all lives matter?” This now familiar internet…
Just over one year ago, Miami voters approved a ballot measure giving developer Jeffrey Berkowitz the go-ahead to build an oddly shaped, 1,000-foot bay-front tower called Skyrise Miami. The tower would lure hundreds of thousands of tourists, Berkowitz pledged, and even better, taxpayers wouldn’t foot a cent. City Mayor Tomas…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: man vs motorbus, a sheriff’s office that is a little too cool on the internet, and another department that barely knows how to use it. Here’s a Man Headbutting…
Laura Pierre is an eighteen-year-old high school graduate who now works full time at a Miami Chipotle. Yesterday, she gathered with dozens of other fast-food, airport, and home-care workers with a simple demand local politicians: minimum wages to match the $15 an hour that New York’s wage board recommended for…
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced today that they will not be bringing charges against Miami Beach police officer Jorge Mercado for the Stun Gun-caused death of 18-year-old graffiti artist Israel “Reefa” Hernandez-Llach. Back in August 2013, Hernandez-Llach was caught tagging a shuttered McDonalds on 71st Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach…
When you think about Miami’s real estate market you can’t help but think of condos. New towers are popping up every day, but the single family home market is doing quite well for itself too, thank you very much. In fact, more single family homes were sold in Miami this…
Ivy league scholars may know a lot, but how much do they know about sports? Let’s hope a lot, because a new analysis from the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, a student-run organization, comes to the somewhat surprising conclusion that the Dolphins will be the very best team in the AFC…
Last May 4, 23-year-old Ernesto Hernandez just wanted to help. Hernandez was a big guy who had recently graduated from the police academy. Like dozens of others he had come to the Nixon Sandbar, off Key Biscayne, to spend the day on the water; when he saw the boat operated…
According to Open Secrets, the second-largest for-profit prison operator in the country, GEO Group, is one of the top contributors to Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. Between 2013 and 2014, GEO Group gave Rubio $41,500, more than any other presidential candidate . The group is the ninth highest contributor to Rubio’s…
As the Cuban flag was raised over Washington, D.C., on Monday, some 20 anti-Castro demonstrators gathered outside Versailles Restaurant in Little Havana to protest warming relations between the U.S. and Cuba. In Washington, a man rushed the embassy gate with red paint splattered across his shirt, yelling “This is Cuban…
