Florida’s economy might not exactly be fully recovered, but one of our main industries broke a record last year. Tourists spent a combined $71.8 billion in Florida in 2012. That’s an all-time record, and a 6.8 percent increase from 2011, which was also a record year…
Sean Bignami was taking his usual Sunday-afternoon jog through Virginia Key when his jaw dropped at what he saw: Covering the usually pristine island was a sea of garbage, swirling over protected dunes and floating away into Bear Cut. Bignami quickly realized that revelers at the Nine Mile Music Festival…
The NFL’s free-agency period begins this Tuesday, March 12, and your Miami Dolphins — with about $36 million in cap space — are poised for one of the biggest offseasons in franchise history. Naturally, there’s a good chance they’ll fuck it up, but here are the five free agents the…
During his political life, Hugo Chavez took more than a few pages out of the playbook of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, and the emulation will continue even in death.To this day, Lenin’s embalmed body is still on display in Red Square in Moscow. Now, acting Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro announced…
Charles Hurley keeps dropping. The former chief of the Miami-Dade Schools Police was suspended from the position back in May after reports he had sexually harassed female officers. He was officially demoted in January, and now its come to light that a few days later, he turned in his resignation…
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LeBron James is about to make it official. Savannah Brinson, James’ longtime partner and baby mama, will officially become Mrs. James this September. According to TMZ, the two have sent out save-the-date cards for their planned wedding in San Diego…
It’s not too difficult to imitate the artwork of Damien Hirst. Paint some circles on a canvas, throw some crystal on a skull, or encase a big-ass animal in a tank of formaldehyde and call it a day. But you didn’t think of it first, did you? Which is at…
We were perusing Complex’s “50 Best Strip Clubs in America” with a bit of disgust. The mag rattles off multiple clubs in places like Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Pompano Beach, and we were just sitting there thinking, The hell, you not gonna put some Miami clubs on this list? There’s…
Just weeks after two Metrorial security guards were caught on video roughing up photography-rights activist Carlos Miller, another Metrorail security guard has been recorded yanking an elderly woman off the train for singing gospel music.Emma Anderson, age 82, had broken into some impromptu gospel singing when a guard decided to…
Hugo Chávez once said, “If they kill me, the name of the person responsible is George Bush.”Bush is long gone from office, of course. But now that the larger-than-life leftist is dead, some in Venezuela believe that the U.S. really is to blame. On Tuesday, Chávez’s handpicked successor, Nicolas Maduro, said…
Marco Rubio has never been shy about his rap fandom, telling GQ that Tupac’s “Killuminati” is among his favorite songs and offering Spotify playlists packed with Kanye, Pitbull, and Flo Rida.But last night probably marked the first time Rubio took his hip-hop love to the Senate floor, where he quoted…
Down 96-95 with 12.3 seconds left, LeBron James took the ball with the weight of Miami’s win streak on his shoulders. And 12.3 seconds later, the Heat had a 97-96 win — their 16th in a row. Phewwww.James last-second drive and layup not only saved Miami’s winning streak but also…
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Florida Legislature’s Weirdest Bills of 2013
State Sen. Audrey Gibson, a Democrat from Jacksonville, has drawn the ire of gun rights groups after introducing a bill that would require anyone who wishes to buy ammunition in Florida to complete an anger management class. The bill would also require a three-day waiting period for the sale of…
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Last summer — fresh off a corruption raid by the FBI — the City of Miami Beach asked Miami-Dade Inspector General Chris Mazzella to help investigate its shady deals. This week, Mazzella gave the city an answer: Thanks, but no thanks. Mazzella tells New Times that his office simply doesn’t…
The Miami Dolphins are failing miserably in their efforts to convince the public to fund half of the $400 million proposed upgrades at their stadium. A new poll shows that 73 percent of Miami-Dade resident oppose the idea, with not a single group, not even residents who live near the…
