Miami may not have headless horsemen haunting it, but our streets are pretty freakin’ scary nonetheless. We’ve got zombies eating people’s faces, sharks miraculously swimming our streets, and, of course, motorists driving like demons straight out of Hell. So it seems fitting that tonight’s edition of Critical Mass Miami will…
It all started last night around 11:15, when Jean Valeus, 28, pulled his Nissan Maxima off to the side of eastbound I-595 near Flamingo Road. A Road Ranger stopped to help Valeus, but Valeus pulled out a gun, fired it into the pavement, and told the Ranger to leave. The…
Yesterday afternoon, Carlos Dominguez and his girlfriend, Andrea Corrales, went for a bike ride. The couple headed toward a trail in North Miami, with Dominguez biking in the road and Corrales cycling on the sidewalk, where she felt safer. They never made it to the trail. Instead, a black SUV…
It’s that time again: when Miamians either don their spandex or their driving gloves, dust off their fixies or rent a Ferrari. Critical Mass is back. Tonight, Miami’s monthly bike ride will be carving a massive figure eight across Little Havana. If you want to participate in the peloton, show…
Jacob Landis had a bike, a passion, and a cause. Since April, the 24-year-old Annapolis, Maryland resident has been biking across America to attend games at every single MLB park with the hope of raising $1 million to help children who need cochlear implants. This past Saturday, he was on…
The baby born in the middle of a busy Miami road after his father got into a crash while driving his mother to the hospital he’ll grow up, get caught in Miami-Dade traffic, and think, “This is where I was born. This is where I am from. Bad driving brought…
In a town infamous for apathetic sports fans, Critical Mass is the exception. Almost no one is neutral when it comes to the monthly bike rides. You either love the last Friday of the month, or you hate it with the passion of a thousand burning South Florida suns. Whatever…
Last month, Slate concluded that Miami has America’s worst drivers, while Hialeah is third. Well, Allstate came out today with their own version of the list and while those Miami-Dade cities didn’t do quite so bad, there’s still nothing to be proud of. According to Allstate, Hialeah has America’s fourth…
For some reason, George Zimmerman is in Texas right now speeding down the roads with a gun in his car. Yes, seriously. TMZ reports he was pulled over for speeding by police in Forney, Texas, on Sunday…
This week’s news story about Critical Mass argues that Miami cops and motorists need to get over their anger and support the monthly cycling event. Many readers, um, disagreed, to put it politely. Some said they’d share the road when bikers stopped breaking the law. One swore he would pimp…
Traffic backups on I-95 are nothing new, but this morning’s installment was thanks to a mysterious metal object that left nearly every motorist who drove over it with two flat tires. According to WSVN, nearly a dozen drivers were victims of the pesky piece of metal, and the aftermath caused…
As the light leaks out of the sky over downtown last Friday, mechanical gears squeak in the distance. Slowly, small groups begin to gather at Government Center. Before long, the groups swell into a crowd, then a swarm. By 7:15 p.m., 4,000 people line NW First Street as if it’s…
Frankly, it’s almost embarrassing. Miami is one of the few major cities in America where taxi drivers aren’t required to take credit cards. Yet, as the Miami-Dade County Commission mulls over a proposal that would require some cabbies to install card readers, drivers are still resisting the change…
If you ask any Miamian which city has the worst drivers, they’ll say with absolutely no reservation and a strange mix of pride and disdain: “Miami. Duh.” Of course, there’s no agreed upon standard of how to determine the “worst” drivers. Several sites have tried. Forbes.com, for example, ranked Miami…
If revenge is a dish best served cold, Aleric “AJ” Constantin has just the recipe for Miami cops. The 26-year-old chef, who made headlines at last month’s Critical Mass when police arrested him for selling ice cream without a license, plans to debut a new flavor around town next month:…
If you’re a Miami Beach resident who, say, has a job on the mainland, coming home from work tonight will be the last time you can use the flyover that connects the MacArthur Causeway to Alton Road for about a month. As part of the Alton Road reconstruction project, the…
You’re always at your most vulnerable when you’re asleep. You never know who is going to come along and try to set you one fire. Jose Gonzales, 52, of Homestead, was taking a siesta in his truck while it was parked outside the Dog House bar in Marathon Key last…
It only took years of lobbying and three student deaths, but finally the University of Miami is getting a pedestrian bridge built over US 1 near its Coral Gables campus. Since 1989, eight students have been hit by cars while trying to cross the busy three-lane highway. Three of those…
Miami Police are investigating accusations that a local doctor hit a father and son with his car as he weaved his way through Friday’s Critical Mass bike ride. According to a police report and interviews with victims, Mt. Sinai surgeon Irvin Willis drove his black Mercedes SL 550 into the…
Critical Mass Miami has blown up over the past year. The last-Friday-of-the-month rides now regularly draw more than 2,000 cyclists at a time. Even celebs such as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Gabrielle Union have participated. But there are signs that the movement is experiencing some growing pains, not least…
Two sisters from Miami-Dade were arrested at the same time for DUIs in the Keys on Saturday night. The catch: there was only one car involved…
Remember how Miami’s tourism board last year put a pop-up pool in the middle of Manhattan? Well, this summer it’ll offer New Yorkers free rides in candy-colored high-end sports cars…
