Yesterday’s joint announcement from President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raúl Castro that they intend to normalize relations between the two long-divided countries was undoubtedly the most momentous day in U.S.-Cuba relations in more than a half-century. It was business as usual at Yoyito Café. As cameras mobbed a tiny…
In 2013, Beyoncé and Jay Z randomly (and controversially) popped up in Cuba to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. Just 18 months later, President Obama has announced a normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations. Coincidence? A certain segment of Twitter thinks not…
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President Obama’s announcement that he would seek to normalize relations with Cuba landed like a thud among many of Miami’s Cuban-American Republican politicians today. Though almost all applauded the fact that former prisoner Alan Gross was freed, most blasted Obama over the wider implications. Sen. Marco Rubio led the charge…
There’s no such thing as an ex-gay, just people with a whole lot of issues. Any efforts to try to change a person’s sexual orientation have been proven to be dangerous quackery. Well, Rep. David Richardson (D-Miami Beach), has introduced a bill in the Florida house that would ban gay…
As President Obama preps for a noon announcement about a new era of U.S. and Cuba relations, TV crews from around the nation did the predictable: They descended on Versailles Restaurant, long the hotbed of anti-Castro protests in Miami. So far, at least, they haven’t had much to broadcast home…
SkyRise Miami is happening, and its developer isn’t shy about it. The 1,000-foot entertainment tower on Biscayne Bay has been billed as the “Eiffel Tower of Miami.” After county commissioners approved the project yesterday, however, developer Jeff Berkowitz said SkyRise will surpass its Parisian competitor. “I think it’s better looking…
Update: The White House confirms it plans to normalize trade and travel to Cuba, saying, “It is clear that decades of U.S. isolation of Cuba have failed.” In Little Havana, the news has yet to stir any real protests as TV crews far outnumber a handful of sign-waving protesters. American…
The 1987 University of Miami Hurricanes team is justly famous for any number of reasons. Michael Irvin. Brian Blades. Swagger. An undefeated campaign and an infamous comeback over FSU. But that season is historic for another reason as well: It marked the first time a school had signed a big…
This hasn’t been the easiest season to be a Miami Heat fan. The Heat are in danger of heading into their Christmas Day match-up against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers as a sub-.500 team. The fact is, the Heat are a middling Eastern Conference team at the moment with…
Bobby Lee Bryant and Derrick Barnes are behind bars after allegedly committing a heinous crime in the alleyway behind a popular Miami Beach bar. Police say the men were caught raping a mentally ill woman in the alley way behind the Lost Weekend and Kill Your Idol bars near Espanola…
Lucie Tondreau’s political rise and fall was swift. She was elected to office as North Miami’s first female mayor in May 2013. Then she was arrested and suspended from office less than a year later, and now she’s been found guilty on all charges. After just two hours of deliberation,…
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Rick Scott was ostensibly reelected this year based on Florida’s economic recovery, but a new report from the Center for American Progress reminds us that that “recovery” has left many in Florida behind. That state lags behind in many poverty indicators, and Scott’s own decision not to expand Medicaid in…
Jeb Bush has spent the better part of the last eight years denying that he was going to run for president. Now he’s finally confirmed what everyone has long suspected. He’s thinking about making a run. In a Facebook message posted today Bush announced that he will “actively explore the…
Up until October, developer Jeff Berkowitz’s audacious plan for a 1,000-foot tall tower on the bay front had sailed through with scant opposition from politicians or residents. The city commission quickly signed off on the Skyrise plan, and voters gave it a green light in August. But then came news…
Spirit Airlines is no stranger to complaints. From its tiny seats and crippling pilot strike to advertising campaigns that have used devastating oil spills, MILFs, and prostitution scandals to hawk tickets, no airline draws groans from consumers quite so regularly than the South Florida-based budget carrier. But even for Spirit,…
Alan Levan, the former chairman of Florida-based BankAtlantic Bancorp, has been found responsible by a federal jury for intentionally defrauding investors in 2007 right before the bottom fell out of Florida’s housing market. Levan will not face criminal charges, as the judgment came as the result of a civil suit…
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Michele Traverso will spend at least the next two years in prison for violating probation after having already previously served 22 months for the 2012 hit-and-run death of cyclist Aaron Cohen. Last Saturday, Traverso was supposed to be in his parent’s Key Biscayne condo when a probation officer came to…
Rodolfo “Rudy” Llanes has been chosen as the next chief of the Miami Police Department, according to the Miami Herald. Currently a deputy chief, Llanes, a department lifer, will take the helm following current chief Manuel Orosa’s scheduled retirement next month…
There are a few unmistakable signs that a candidate is about to declare his run for the White House. His travel schedule is suddenly peppered with appointments in small-town Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s on Sunday morning talk shows every week trashing the opposition or talking up his narrative. Or…
