If Bay Harbor Islands, the two-island, 5,000-person town on Biscayne Bay between North Miami and Bal Harbour, is known for anything, it’s MiMo architecture. But at a commission meeting earlier this week, the town moved closer to breaking away from the county’s historic building preservation rules, and some town residents…
Last month, the City of South Miami passed a resolution calling for the area from Orlando and Tampa Bay to the Florida Keys to secede from the rest of the state to form America’s 51st state: the state of South Florida. We, of course, love the idea (even if we…
DirecTV’s pre-game show for tomorrow Dolphins vs, Bills game is in question thanks to some local thieves. A producer for the network’s Rich Eisen Show went out to the parking lot at the Marriot Hotel in Miami Lakes to check on the production truck they had booked to help produce…
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For the past few presidential elections, Florida has been the grand prize of swing states. It’s 29 electoral votes could have conceivably gone either way. President Obama was able to win Florida in the past two elections, but that was only after hard campaigning and a sophisticated “get out the…
The Miami Marine Stadium is coming back. It’s really coming back. After sitting dormant and abandoned for over 20 years, the Miami International Boat Show is expected to announce that they’ll move their 2016 and 2017 editions from Miami Beach to the Virginia Key aquatic stadium. Though renovations haven not…
Welcome to Hurricanes-Seminoles Week 2014, the latest installment in one of college football’s most recognizable rivalries. When it’s UM-FSU, shit goes down — it’s science. Canes-Noles is a game that garners attention around the nation regardless of the stakes, and rightfully so — the matchup has produced multiple memorable moments…
It’s getting late at the South Beach restaurant Bâoli when ripped, shirtless waiters start pouring liquor directly into women’s mouths. Bass lines thunder from the DJ booth built right in the middle of the Collins Avenue dining room. Soon dancers in sequined thongs leap onto the bar and gyrate to…
A dramatic traffic accident created a bizarre scene last night in Little Haiti. Around 1:30 a.m., a red sedan lost control on North Miami Avenue near 79th Street, flipping upside down and landing on its roof. Afterward, the car’s occupants appeared unhurt and could be seen making phone calls. Passersby…
Rick Scott and his fellow Tallahassee Republicans’ strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act has resulted in the state refusing to allow the federal government to expand Medicaid in Florida. But their refusal could cause Florida hospitals to miss out on billions in funding, with Miami’s cash-strapped Jackson Memorial Hospital…
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Last week we urged you to go vote, even if you didn’t want to vote for Rick Scott or Charlie Crist: At Least Vote for Third-Party or Write-in Candidates. It’s not throwing your vote out. The only way to throw your vote out is not to vote. If 60,000 voters…
On a rural compound just 11 miles from Disney World, Marcus Faella and his followers spent years stockpiling weapons and food, erecting barbed wire, and conducting elaborate paramilitary drills. Their goal, according to federal agents: igniting a “race war” in Central Florida. Two years ago, the feds busted the Aryan…
Florida International University is a juggernaut. The school is fast approaching 60,000 students, has two major campuses plus half a dozen satellite locations, and received voter approval last week to expand into 64 acres of Tamiami Park. But not all members of the FIU family are happy. In fact, some…
Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on March 3, 2011, 16-year-old Susan Jackson returned to the Vanguard School in Lake Wales after a trip to Starbucks with a classmate. The girls’ dorm monitor, Kami Land, had driven them in her car to the coffee shop and then dropped them off near Boyd…
Earlier this season, Facebook data already confirmed the obvious: The Miami Hurricanes are the most popular college football team in South Florida. Duh. But that was just amongst people who liked any college football on Facebook, and it didn’t provide context on how big of a percentage of the local…
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Sears, the department store that time, fashion trends, and shoppers forgot, is struggling nationwide. Decades of dwindling sales have put the once-great chain’s future in question, but the company has proposed a radical strategy for its location at Aventura Mall that may signal the future of the company. Sears execs…
It seems like anytime we elect a new mayor in Miami we’re also kickstarting the political career of at least one of their children as well. Raquel Regalado, a School Board member and daughter of current Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, announced this morning that she’s very possibly eying a run…
Last November, Maryland resident Charles Atwell boarded Pride, a 1,000-foot, 12-deck Carnival cruise ship that sails from Baltimore and Tampa to the Caribbean and carries more than 2,000 passengers. The ship features a nightclub, piano bar, and water slide, and Atwell was also likely attracted by the great reputation of…
Brent Grimes is the most un-Dolphinsy Dolphins player to ever Dolphins. In the second quarter of the Dolphins’ super-Dolphinsy 20-16 loss to the Detroit Lions, Brent Grimes made headlines on all the sports shows with his jaw-dropping, high-flying, acrobatic interception of a pass by Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford…
Marco Rubio hasn’t even completed a full term in the Senate, but he’s taking the presidential buzz that surrounds him (or used to, anyway) seriously. He says he’ll decide whether or not to make a bid for the White House in the coming weeks…
