The afternoon of May 31, 2008, a vigorous 95-year-old named Alice Mathas spent hours walking around South Beach with her son Paul. Around 7:45 the pair boarded a Miami-Dade bus headed back to their apartment in Bal Harbour. They didn’t make it. As Alice started down the aisle of the…
With less than a month left before the election, most recent polls have shown Charlie Crist and Rick Scott switching slight leads well within the margin of error. The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Crist with a 1.4 lead while Huffington Post’s Pollster gives Scott the 0.8 percent…
Today’s photo comes from Kevin Sean’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group. Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
Local activists hope to bring the 2013 death of teenager Israel “Reefa” Hernandez at the hands of Miami Beach Police to the attention of the United Nations Committee Against Torture. The Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project of Florida Legal Services have filed a report with the UN in…
UPDATE: A second teen has now been arrested. According to WSVN, an unidentified 15-year-old who also attends Norland High has been arrested in connection to the shootings. Police believe they have in custody the person responsible for shooting up the Spot nightclub and leaving 15 people injured. The suspect is…
It’s happened to all of us. One minute you’re minding your own business on Lincoln Road, slaloming among septuagenarians with sugar babies on their wrinkly arms, or awkwardly grimacing at the toxically tan hostesses imploring you to look at monstrously large menus. The next you’re caught in the tractor beam…
Joseph Kuhn’s head was a madhouse, and all he wanted was a becalming glimpse of the ocean. The bad economy had killed his business first, then finished off his savings; now, he was facing foreclosure. The only thing that could douse his nerves was a daily trip to the beach…
It’s no secret Miami is experiencing another condo boom. Construction cranes once again screech and pivot over downtown. Towers that were stalled in 2009 are now complete. We are quickly running out of vacant lots to build on. So it’s little wonder that lawmakers are looking for solutions. Today, county…
Between 2012 and 2013, Treon Harris lead Booker T. Washington High’s football team to two state championships and a 22-game win streak as quarterback. On Saturday, he came off the bench and lead the Florida Gators to a come-from-behind win over SEC rivals Tennessee. Today, he finds himself suspended from…
Today’s photo comes from Tommy’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group. Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
The Miami Beach bike-sharing program formerly known as DecoBike will finally expand across the bridge to the city of Miami in November, but the expanded service area isn’t the only thing changing. Thanks to a sponsorship from CitiBank, the service will now be known as CitiBike, which is also the…
Next week, Tony Bosch will be sentenced for his role in running Biogenesis, the Miami clinic that illegally sold performance-enhancing drugs to baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez and scores of other athletes. Instead of enjoying his final days of freedom on a $100,000 bond, though, Bosch will now await his punishment…
It seems a bit strange that gay couples in Moab, Utah; and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, are now free to marry, while LGBT citizens in gay meccas like South Beach, Wilton Manors, and Key West are still forbidden to even enter a civil union. But the path toward progress doesn’t always…
Miami’s viral disease specialists went on high alert yesterday after a boy visiting from West Africa showed up at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach with flu-like symptoms. Was it Ebola? The boy was quickly taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where nearby streets were blocked, hazmat crews were assembled,…
Opinion polls generally show the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) falling somewhere between Kim Il-sung, herpes, and getting hit in the face with a bag full of rancid fish. People cannot stand America’s airport security force. But not too many among the grumbling masses have the commitment to wage a four-year…
Anyone who’s tried to drive through South Beach in the past year can tell you that Alton Road has been a construction-induced nightmare: snarled bumper-to-bumper traffic and nearly impossible pedestrian access to shops and restaurants. Good news! The work on Alton is nearly done. But that means the next phase…
Three Hungarian men are behind bars after Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and Homeland Security busted a gay sex ring the trio was running out of Miami. Gabor Acs, 31, Viktor Berki, 28, and Andras Janos Vass, 24, are accused of recruiting three other young gay men also from Hungary and…
Today’s photo comes from Rokkor Fella’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here join our Flickr group. Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes…
We here at Riptide are staunch supporters of the South Florida secessionist movement. So when the New York Times put together a map of college football team fandom based on Facebook likes across the country, most probably saw it as a welcome excuse to click on something for five minutes…
How high are prices is Miami real estate? Well, only overpriced, densely packed Manhattan has more listings on the market priced at $1 million or more. The city of Miami comes in second, while Miami Beach has the third most. Though, Miami Beach has far more listings in the $5…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. We’re here every Friday morning to give you the week’s weirdest. This week, that includes police pinning their shooting on someone else, a misguided grandma and the worst television commercial ever…
Would Amendment 2 — Florida’s bid to legalize medical marijuana on this November’s ballot — really let convicted felons sell pot with no penalties? That’s what a new statewide ad urging voters to turn against the proposition claims, with an ominous voice intoning that “Even felons and drug dealers could…
