Maybe you’ve seen the meme floating around Facebook or Instagram. The one that says “Cuban coffee is the reason that crystal meth hasn’t taken of in Miami.” And there’s a hint of truth in it. Compared to the rest of the state (if not country), Miami-Dade doesn’t have a huge…
Veteran NBA forward David West has lost his mind. The 34-year-old former all-star just pulled off the craziest free agent move in sports history by taking a gargantuan pay cut to play for the San Antonio Spurs. West opted out of the last year of his contract with the Indiana…
Around 8:40 Wednesday evening, not long after sunset, a 51-year-old woman was driving east on the Tuttle Causeway in a 2015 Chrysler van, towards Miami Beach. West of Alton Road a man was walking across the highway from south to north. He was hit by the Chrysler, his body launching…
A newly surfaced map documenting water taxi routes for next year’s Miami Boat Show has Village of Key Biscayne officials and environmentalists up in arms. The proposed map, meant to alleviate traffic on Virginia Key Beach during the five-day event, criss-crosses protected manatee zones and critical wildlife areas. The map…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. We’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a Miami couple who found Naples just a bit too boring, the tale of Mistress Creammy Juicy, unlicensed massage therapy, and two women who would rather have Publix groceries than the…
What happens at Jackson Memorial Hospital is supposed to stay at Jackson Memorial Hospital. It’s Federal law. So how did ESPN scoop machine Adam Schefter manage to tweet NFL player Jason Pierre-Paul’s medical records? That’s what Jackson is now trying to find out. New York Giants defensive end Pierre-Paul, a…
You ever wonder how Florida has more Democratic voters than Republicans, has voted for Obama in the past two presidential cycle, has razor-close Gubernatorial elections and yet still send 17 Republicans to the House and only 10 Democrats? It just doesn’t make sense, does it? Well, Gerrymandering and the way…
Unlike some Republicans, Jeb Bush at least recognizes climate change as a reality. He won’t say what he thinks is causing it. He won’t say how large of a problem he thinks it is, but in an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader he did offer his vision of how…
Miami Worldcenter principal developer Nitin Motwani says he expected maybe 200 people to show up at Overtown’s St. Agnes Episcopal Church for a project job fair this past Tuesday. Instead, there were more like 500. “We were overwhelmed with excitement,” Motwani says. “It was supposed to end at 2 —…
There have been few stories as widely discussed in recent months as Caitlyn Jenner’s journey from gold medal-winning male track star to transgender woman. In June, as Vanity Fair’s cover made its rounds online, South Florida native Jazz Jennings sensed her own life would never be the same. The 14-year-old…
The Terminator is back, dropping one-liners in postapocalyptic Los Angeles. The Avengers have already banded together to defeat an alien menace, and soon everyone from Ant-Man to the Fantastic Four will save the world. In other words, it’s superhero movie season. And frankly, Miamians are feeling left out. It’s high…
A passerby spotted the body just after dawn March 29. It didn’t take long for Miami Police detectives to identify the man lying in a pool of blood near Biscayne Boulevard and NE 80th Street. But that only deepened the mystery. Shaun Cole, they soon learned, was a 22-year-old Scottish…
About 45 years ago, Dade County Mayor Chuck Hall had a grand idea. He wanted to build one of the world’s largest and most advanced airports smack dab in the middle of what is now known as the Big Cypress National Preserve. Environmentalists bulked, and the plan was abandoned after…
Alan Grayson might be the most interesting man in Florida politics, and should he officially announce his run for Senate tomorrow he could make the race one of the most interesting to watch in the nation. With Marco Rubio running for the presidency, that leaves his Senate seat wide open…
Just eight days after the Miami-Dade County Commission passed its own version of the ordinance, Miami Beach Commissioners haven o also passed a law that allows police to issue a $100 ticket to people found with 20 grams or less of marijuana on their person instead of arrested them. The…
It should be well established by now that the single biggest economic issues facing regular residents of South Florida is the fact that while rents continue to rise unabated, our paychecks remain relatively low. As a result, Miamians spend a higher percentage of their annual income on paying their rent…
Now that Uber has announced it will suspend operations in Broward effective July 31, Key West commuters are wondering if the island town could be the next domino to fall for the ride-sharing app in South Florida. Starting last week, the city has threatened to arrest any Uber drivers operating…
You don’t have to look very far to find examples of gringos playing white Cubans in our culture. There’s Taram Killam’s portrayal of Marco Rubio on SNL. Jimmy Fallon dressing up as Pitbull on Th e Tonight Show. Al Pacino in Scarface, of course. Some examples have been met with…
You know as far as Republican members of Congress go, Miami’s Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is probably one of the coolest to intern with. She’s got a well documented sense of humor. She’s the longest serving female Republican in the House. She sits on the powerful Foreign Relations committee. She’s down…
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Florida since early January, but the state Department of Health is having a hard time catching up to that reality. Florida’s marriage license forms still list one partner as the “bride” and the other as the “groom,” and same-sex couples are left to manually…
As commerce and tourism to Cuba open up amidst President Obama’s big thaw of relations between the neighboring nations, Miami’s biggest cruise line is ready to get in on the action. Carnival announced this morning that — barring a red-tape holdup on the Cuban end of the deal — you’ll…
George Gray, all five feet eight inches of him, flies up the court like a Chihuahua released from a cage. He bursts through midcourt, dribbling at hyperspeed, and weaves around two towering defenders near the goal. Just before slamming into another, an enormous center beneath the rim, he spins instinctively…
