Florida's coral reefs are already in big trouble. Scientists around the globe have noted serious problems for the delicate but vital ecosystems, especially from "bleaching," a process that occurs when high heat and sunshine causes devastating effects. But that's not the only threat reefs in Florida face. A Florida Keys study...
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It's been almost five months since Uber launched UberPOOL in Miami, the carpool version of their original service that connects riders traveling along the same routes in an effort to save them money. As expected, the results have been interesting. After all, it's one thing to ride with a group...
Informed that the CDC has recommended that pregnant women avoid the Wynwood neighborhood where her new movie, Evolution, is to have its Florida premiere, writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic can’t help but burst into laughter. “Is this on purpose?” she asks during an interview from France. She wonders if the twisted minds...
Jeb Bush built up a pretty nice life for himself after he left Florida's Governors mansion. He snagged some cushy corporate gigs to bring home the bacon, and continued his public policy work through his involvement with various foundation. Most notably, he set up his own Foundation for Excellence in Education...
Despite an acknowledged longshot chance at the nomination, Bernie Sanders and his campaign has trudged on. One of their main reasons, as we're sure a friend or two of yours has explained in an impassioned Facebook status update, is that at that moment Sanders fairs better than Hillary Clinton in national...
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More than 127,000 people signed petitions demanding that Miami-Dade reform its campaign finance laws to keep big money out of local politics. So why did the commission vote 9-4 last night to effectively kill the measure? Mostly because the group that collected the petitions, Accountable Miami-Dade, used its own big...
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For the past seven years, Stephanie Coats and her four children have lived in a one-bedroom apartment on Hibiscus Street in West Grove, just four blocks east of bustling CocoWalk. But their building, built in 1948, stands in stark contrast to the Starbucks and Gap stores inside the upscale shopping...
The Republican establishment is rightfully worried that placing Donald Trump on the top of its ticket in November could lead to disastrous election results. His favorability rating among the general electorate is historically underwater, and in an average of the latest polls, he's trailing Hillary Clinton by 11.2 points in a...
Like American Sniper (2014), Clint Eastwood’s Sully is a movie of nightmares. In Sniper, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sits rigidly in the living room, imagining the gunfire, roaring helicopters and wailing bystanders of Fallujah playing out on a turned-off television as his children race through the house. In Sully, Chesley...
Other Body has been relentlessly pacing around the Miami alternative scene for over a year now, turning venues around town into pressure cookers of condensed punk vitriol. Formed in the wake of local acts like Teepee and Lil Daggers, the band includes Jacob Israel on bass, Melvin Zantua on drums,...
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You don't get to see a whole lot of Kanye West during the Kanye West concert. The light above him is hazy and pallid, somewhere between brown and yellow. Sometimes he's just a spasming shadow. Instead, the real show is below him, where his floating stage lights up the general admission...
Pablo Alvarez could feel his throat swelling. His tonsils were becoming raw and enlarged, and his sinuses started to clog. “I didn't understand that part. My body was shutting down on me — I could tell.” But he still had many hours left to go. Alvarez, of the Miami bred,...
Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets...
By now you've dropped off all your orange ties at the local Goodwill and picked up a pair of Mark Richt shades instead. The Mark Richt Era is barreling through its first offseason, and in a few short months, you'll be able to witness the results firsthand on a football field...
When Carolina noticed the bus advertisements in 2011, she had already run out of hope. What had begun as a low dose of Percocet to manage back pain three years earlier had spiraled into a full-blown opioid addiction. The 30-year-old had lost her job. Relationships with her family were strained...
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Into the quiet, a voice rang out amid the trees. "Everyone remain in prayer!" a man in a brown jacket instructed. "Keep your prayers focused! Keep your intentions pure!" Beneath the blue Suwannee County sky, someone tapped out a beat on a tribal drum. Two young women sat cross-legged behind...
A little over a year ago, as Peter Beach was riding his bike across the Venetian Causeway, something caught his eye. He turned around to get a closer look. There, lying in the grass in front of Biscayne Bay, was a person huddled under a blanket, the bridge and luxury...
Do you have cash to burn and no conscience about gentrifying historically poor, majority-minority areas of town? Good news! The website RealtyTrac has just finished a study on where to start buying up property. The site found that the zip code 33150, which encompasses parts of Little River, Little Haiti, and...
Although it may have taken some time, Marea Stamper’s rise to the forefront of electronic music has been nothing short of remarkable. Since her days peddling mixtapes outside of raves in the American Midwest, she has steadily become one of the most beloved and in-demand DJs on the international stage...