Around noon on Monday, several cars belonging to relatives and friends were lined up outside a grieving family’s suburban Palmetto Bay home, and Craig Karpiak was still coming to grips with a bleak new reality. “Nothing matters except she’s gone,” a somber Karpiak said. “That’s my daughter.” More than three…
Venezuelans are used to going to great lengths to obtain everyday items. Under the country’s late president Hugo Chávez and his socialist party, basic foodstuffs have become scarce. Some Venezuelans wait hours for groceries, while others resort to smuggling items like chicken, flour, and toilet paper across the border from…
Out of the Big Three, Chris Bosh was the most vocal throughout the season that he’d hope to stay in Miami with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. In contrast, James has maintained an indecipherable silence, causing the media to chase every crazy theory. Apparently, even Bosh himself has no idea…
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Last time Miami got a Major League Soccer team, it actually played in Fort Lauderdale. Could history be repeating itself? The Miami Herald reports David Beckham and his Miami Beckham United partners are set to talk to Broward County commissioners about the possibility of building a stadium there. Is it…
In news that isn’t particularly new but is worth repeating, the Miami Herald reports that most Miamians can’t afford to buy units in of all those fancy condos being built at breakneck speed around town. Most buyers are wealthy people from Europe and Latin America who purchase units as investments…
More than 48 hours after four people were killed and several others injured in a gruesome boat collision near Dinner Key, authorities are still working to determine details of the crash. “Now it’s just a matter of putting the pieces of the puzzle together,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission…
The tenuous Israeli-Palestinian relationship teetered on a knife’s edge last week when the bodies of three murdered Israeli teens were found. It threatened to tip into outright mayhem days later when a Palestinian teen was kidnapped and burned alive in a revenge killing. And this weekend, a Florida teenager was…
The site had been lost to researchers for nearly a century. Tony Pernas had been looking for a decade. His team had logged nearly 100 search hours just this year. But last Monday, deep in the Everglades, miles from any sign of people, Pernas and two other amateur historians found…
Last month, the Miami Herald pointed out that the vast majority of Floridians will have no choice in choosing who represents them in Tallahassee come November’s elections. The deadline to run as a candidate to the Florida Senate and House of Representatives passed in late June and in the final…
Uber may be best known in Miami at the moment for it’s epic ongoing fight with county commissioners. But the ride-sharing service is trying to make a dent in another battle today, namely the effort against drunk driving on the Fourth of July. The controversial company has teamed up with…
The Dolphins just can’t catch a break. Defensive end Dion Jordan, the Fins’ first round pick in 2013, has been suspended for the first four games of next season without pay after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs…
Twice a year, local leaders have to remind Miamians of a basic facet of gravity: what goes up must come down. Because some people do not seem to remember this when they decide to fire their guns off during Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve. Because apparently when they…
Art By God is a Miami institution. Anyone who has been snarled in Biscayne Boulevard traffic has marveled at the bizarre whale bones and taxidermied cave bears in the window. Owner Gene Harris is also locally famous. He has traveled to more than 120 countries in search of treasure. Two…
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Florida’s first openly gay legislator will return to Tallahassee next year… because his GOP opponent’s filing fee check bounced. So much for Republican fiscal responsibility. David Richardson, who represents a district that includes parts of Miami Beach and the City of Miami, was elected to the house in 2012 as…
How dumb is the continued refusal of Florida’s GOP-dominated legislature to accept the federally funded Medicaid expansion? So dumb that even Gov. Rick Scott — who essentially ran on an anti-Obamacare platform — reversed course last year and admitted, yeah, a state full of uninsured poor folks probably should let…
We love our tourists down here in Miami, if only because they keep a large chunk of our economy running. But like anything we love, they sometimes annoy us. As the barrage of summer break tourists pours into South Florida this holiday weekend, let’s review the things that bother us…
On April 1,a young man and woman were walking along Miracle Mile near Barnes & Noble when they decided to cross the street. They glanced left. No cars coming. Then they glanced right. Nada. So they slowly crossed the four lanes without a problem. As they began walking along the…
Just before noon July 20, 2012, Aurora, Colorado police chief Dan Oates stood before a microphone in the parking lot outside the suburban Century 16 movie theater where, less than 12 hours earlier, a maniac in a gas mask had thrown smoke bombs and opened fire during a midnight screening…
King George III was “a Tyrant… unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence exactly 238 years ago this week. Tommy had it right. Ever since then, Americans have been calling out their leaders. “Tyrant” was just the start. We’ve moved…
One long night in the late ’90s, Coconut Grove native Robert “Beau” Thompson was “absolutely hammered” and about to get very lucky with the beautiful daughter of an oil tycoon. In the darkness Thompson fumbled for a condom, but he couldn’t tell which side was up. Forced to resign himself…
