Animal rights activists for years have complained that an orca named Lolita at the Miami Seaquarium has been held in unsafe conditions. Now, an investigation by federal authorities into the safety of the trainers who perform with the killer whale has lead to a big change at the park. A...
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A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week and on Friday we're here to bring you the oddest. This week we have a porno plot that actually played out in real life ... and ended badly, a snake on the loose in Florida that is crazy enough to...
The Bolero Ball & Live Music. In el Bolero Room with Lazaro Casanova, Dude Skywalker, and Austin Frank b2b Bryan Estefani. Presented by Deep Playa and PetFood; and live music upstairs with Delpaxton, Lavola, and Grey 8s. Presented by Gummdrops. Friday, September 11, 10 p.m. The Electric Pickle, 2826 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-456-5613; electricpicklemiami.com. Admission to...
The fight over how to help Miami's downtown homeless population has already devolved into poop maps, feces videos and ugly words between the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and the Homeless Trust. At issue: Who should pay for more toilets downtown for transients. Tomorrow, that fight is going to reignite. The...
It couldn't have been much closer in Miami Shores. At yesterday's village council election — which was tinged with county-wide significance because of the village's recent high-profile spat over gay marriage rights — the top vote getter only beat the bottom by 143 votes: According to unofficial results, Alice Burch won...
The officer stalks toward a group waving signs outside Miami Sequarium to protest the living conditions of Lolita, the park's captive killer whale. The officer gets right in front of a camera held by one man, and then goes off. "I'm gonna be honest with you," says the cop, identified...
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Just a day before thousands of fans converge on Sun Life Stadium to watch the Dolphins take on the Falcons, workers were busy cleaning seats and setting up souvenir stands as president and chief executive officer of the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium, Tom Garfinkel, showed a group of...
There's no space more infuriating for the local South Floridian than the driver's seat of a car, on a hot summer day, while stuck in traffic on I-95, the Palmetto, or MacArthur. Sealed off in separate air conditioned vehicles, transportation in car-centered cities has a detached feeling. Unlike pedestrian friendly...
Grab your plutonium, rev that engine to 88 mph, and hang on tight: It’s time for a journey to Miami's red-hot present. After all, Marty McFly traveled to 2015 in Back to the Future Part II. So consider nearly 350 of our picks for the best places to snag late-night...
Demand for Miami properties from South American buyers continues to subside as the economic situation changes and exchange rates fluctuate, and that's left Miami developers searching for a new hotbed of potential buyers to tap. Sure, they may be having to starting woo-ing actual Americans, perhaps even Miamians who already...
27 Restaurant & Bar 2727 Indian Creek Dr., Miami Beach; 305-531-2727; thefreehand.com Since the day it opened, 27 Restaurant & Bar has attracted the hip crowd that's been a fixture at Gabriel Orta and Elad Zvi's bar the Broken Shaker since its early days in the once-forgotten Indian Creek Hotel...
Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and everyone associated with Fox News has blood on their hands. By constantly spreading hatred of African-Americans and other minorities, Fox News and its commentators inspire domestic terrorists like Dylann Roof to commit atrocities. The 21-year-old's murder of nine African-Americans...
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As we near the three quarters mark of the baseball marathon, there's a fair argument to be made that the Miami Marlins are having their worst season ever, which is really saying something with a franchise that once endured a 108-loss season. So what went wrong in 2015? That's a...
Dough. Mozzarella. Onions. Oregano. The ingredients required to make one of Argentina’s regional specialties are almost as simple as its origins. Derived from Italy’s focaccia, then made entirely Argentine with the addition of melted mozzarella and charred onions, this South American delicacy isn’t readily available around Miami. Searching it out,...
Positive media exposure of transgender people has been growing steadily over the past few years, peaking with Bruce Jenner, Olympic hero and patriarch of America's most famous reality TV clan, debuted her new identity as Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of this month's Vanity Fair. The question however is how...
Two weeks after being busted for misdemeanor possession of marijuana in Fayette County, Georgia, Rick Ross was again picked up by authorities in Fayette County, but this time for a much more serious charge. Authorities arrested Ross early this morning at his home in Fayette County (formerly owned by Evander...
The Miami Marlins continue to be a baseball diamond circus of shame, but luckily Miami has at least one competent and proud baseball organization in town. The Miami Hurricanes baseball team, already the owner of four national championships, are on a hot streak lately. Rocking up to 8th in the...
It isn't just hall of fame football players like Michael Irvin and Jim Kelly or action movie stars like The Rock and Sylvester Stallone that have walked across The University of Miami's campus. There are also a boatload of renowned and acclaimed musicians who attended class in Coral Gables. And...
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Miami Worldcenter principal developer Nitin Motwani says he expected maybe 200 people to show up at Overtown's St. Agnes Episcopal Church for a project job fair this past Tuesday. Instead, there were more like 500. "We were overwhelmed with excitement," Motwani says. "It was supposed to end at 2 —...
If you live in MIami, you're likely aware that it's not a cheap place to live. Rents are the eighth-highest in the United States, with a median of about $2,450. Burgers sell for $15 in many restaurants, and a cocktail could set you back as much as $100 (if you want...
Think oil and gas drilling and nuclear power plants are only way to power South Florida’s economy? Think again. A group of Stanford scholars say they've proven that it is “technically and economically feasible” to run Florida’s economy 100 percent on renewable energy. And they’ve already done all the hard work...
In a world gone mad for superhero movies, what chance does the light spy caper have? Audiences will put total faith in a guy wearing a red metal suit, but the soft woolen folds of the bespoke kind barely register. When a whole city can be blasted to smithereens thanks...