A new book divides the U.S. into eleven separate “nations,” each with its own distinct culture and attitude toward violence. But bizarrely, South Florida doesn’t belong to any of them. It gets worse. SoFla is the only part of the country left out of author Colin Woodard’s eleven nations. In…
Miami Herald’s South America bureau chief Jim Wyss was detained last night by Venezuelan government authorities. Wyss, who is based in Bogota, was just across the border in southwestern Venezuela reporting on the country’s chronic food shortages when he was detained, the Herald reports. “We are very concerned,” said Herald…
Philip Levine managed to narrowly avoid a runoff in Tuesday’s dramatic Miami Beach mayoral election, and because that margin was so low (just 0.47 percent), state laws mandated an automatic recount. The results of that recount are now in, and Levine is now officially mayor-elect. No runoff against Michael Gongora…
Don’t mess with Donald Trump. He’s the kind of guy who, if you look at him the wrong way during a business deal, will find a way to exact revenge. City leaders in Doral found that out the hard way. The 2014 edition of the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant was…
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Another day, another serving of evidence that Richie Incognito is a giant douche potato. Back in 2012 during a Dolphins-sponsored charity golf event, a female volunteer claims that Incognito touched her private parts with a golf club, rubbed his groin against her buttocks and poured water on her face. The…
In 2011, Kevin Dineen’s first season as the Florida Panthers’ head coach, it seemed the team was ready to shake off a decade of sucking. Indeed, the Cats won their first division championship. But Dineen’s next season saw the team finish second to last in the league, and now the…
A corporate affiliate of the Mormon Church announced it’s finalizing a deal with St. Joe Company that will bring its overall land ownership to nearly 670,000 acres.
Dwyane Wade scored 29 and LeBron James had 18 Thursday night in a 102-97 Miami Heat win over the Los Angeles Clippers. The game marked the biggest test the Heat has faced this season, with many observers predicting these two teams will meet in the finals come June. Miami passed…
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Shortly after Charlie Crist announced he’d be running for governor as a Democrat on Monday, word came that he’d be doing his first big cable news interview as a candidate on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. Crist was likely hoping this would be a chance to raise his national profile…
We’ve already made the case that in light of the Dolphins scandal involving Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito, general manager Jeff Ireland should resign or be fired, but new reports of his ridiculous immediate response upon learning of the problem only add to that argument. When Martin’s agent called Ireland…
Apparently it’s more controversial in America to call a white man a racist than it is to call a black man a “n*gger.” When it came to light that Richie Incognito had bullied Jonathan Martin until he walked out of the Dolphins facilities to seek help, the word from inside…
Safety tip: do not mess with a Floridian in a fast-food drive-thru line. You do so at your own risk. A incident at a Jacksonville Chick-fil-A is just the latest violent outburst caused in the state by someone cutting in a fast-food line…
The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing plans for a 1,100-foot-tall monstrosity planned for 700 Brickell Ave., currently the Northern Trust Bank building. One Brickell City Centre would be taller than any skyscraper in Miami or Atlanta or anywhere else in Dixie. It would even be taller than Manhattan’s Chrysler Building…
Facebook is a humorless overlord that has taken sweeping control over our lives, subconscious, and, apparently, the freedom we have to create domain names. That, at least, is the message that was sent loud and clear to Key West native Cody Romano late last month when he unwittingly started a…
This year has not been kind to Marco Rubio. It began with talk of Florida’s junior senator being the savior of the GOP. But then the prodigal son got parched on national television, and his insipid immigration reform was roundly rejected by fellow Republicans. In recent months, Rubio has begun…
Florida’s convoluted gun laws are up for debate today, although not really. It kind of just felt nice to say that for a second. It’s true that the criminal justice subcommittee of the Florida House of Representatives will hold a five-hour hearing about Stand Your Ground, among other things. However,…
The first thing cops noticed was the footprints. They began near the entrance to the expensive oceanfront townhouse: size-12 sneaker outlines, stamped in blood. They wound up a flight of stairs to the second floor, across smooth white marble tiles, and around rich leather furniture. They led through the kitchen…
At the end of a leafy, dead-end street in Coconut Grove, past actor Christian Slater’s new digs and the sprawling grounds of Hollywood director David Frankel’s home, sit mounds of rubble. Just a few days ago, this was one of Miami’s grandest, most envied private homes: the five-acre, 26,000-square-foot du…
Straddling a mountain bike at the corner of 71st Street and Dickens Avenue in North Beach last weekend, a man in sunglasses grinned, grooving to the music blasting in his headphones. His face was hidden in scruff, and there was a certain street hardness about him. His dirt-splattered hands held…
Downtown Nightclub Owners Fight Wynwood’s First Megaclub
