The Key Biscayne Village Council has proposed a toll for bicyclists crossing the Rickenbacker causeway. The council wants Miami-Dade County to erect a wall on the Rickenbacker that would separate bike traffic for vehicle traffic, and has suggested a bike toll as a way to fund the project…
Should Charlie Crist return to politics as a Democrat his biggest roadblock may be, well, Democratic voters. After all, one would figure that a man who has a pretty solid Republican political history (despite what Tea Partiers might have had you believed) would have a hard time winning in a…
Tales of the great South Beach Shark Attack of 2012 are already swimming around social media, but there’s actually no proof yet that the thing involved was necessarily a shark.The incident happened earlier this afternoon in the waters behind the W Hotel on 23rd Street and Collins Avenue. A man…
“Oh, down 14-0 on the road in the first quarter,” some of us might have thought. “Whatever, we did it last week.”If that gleeful optimism wasn’t wiped away once you realized the ‘Canes were playing a ranked opponent and not an ACC bottom dweller, Kansas State certainly reminded you of…
Ana Alliegro, the self-described “Conservative Bad Girl” and a central figure in the latest round of scandal to hit Republican Congressmen David Rivera, has gone missing. Her mother told El Nuevo Herald that she has not heard from her since Wednesday night. Her lawyer also tells the paper that he…
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Miami Beach is quickly becoming the capital of parking garages designed by world renowned architects. This week, the community got its first in depth look at what the latest, designed by Zaha Hadid — perhaps the world’s leading female architect — will look like. To our relatively uninformed eyes, it…
Sure, things might come together for the Miami Dolphins this year. Ryan Tannehill could quickly develop into a stud. Our offense may surprise. Joe Philbin might reveal himself as a true coaching genius in his first season. The team might make the playoffs. You might win the lottery. The polar…
I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing for Tom, the winner of a Mike’s Hard Lemonade sweepstakes for a trip to South Beach over Labor Day weekend: that he spent much of the weekend filming a commercial with a bear in a bikini, that he brought his mother, or that now…
Florida is keeping disabled children in nursing homes and similar institutions, even though several of those children have families that want to care for them at home but don’t have the money to do so. The U.S. Department of Justice has now sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi…
Two students at Florida’s St. Leo University decided to play a little prank, so they sprayed furniture polish on the terrazzo floor of their residence floor and hoped that someone would slip.Some one did! Hahahaha! Hilarious! Watching people fall is truly the most satisfying source of laughter ever. Let me…
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In the worst acted anti-Obama ad released, well, since this little homophobic ditty that came out earlier this week, a new National Republican Committee ad features a pretty, young woman pretending to be a dissatisfied former Obama voter who decides to “break up” with the president. Except the woman in…
ABC affiliate WPLG Local 10’s website has crossed over to the dark side. Apparently, hungry for pageviews, the station posted a slide show featuring photos from a recent Star Wars convention, complete with mocking captions like “Dateless men for as far as the eye can see.” Star Wars fans didn’t…
“Everything that happened today is actually in my dream, and I want to prove it to everybody,” 18-year-old Mark Welch of Volusia County told a 911 dispatcher.It sounds like the beginning of a reality-bending sci-fi movie, but it was actually the beginning of a kid who smoked too much synthetic…
In one our more irresponsible traditions, the media tends to sensationalize any random event that bears a passing resemblance to a bigger tragedy. So today, a man in a Brevard County, Florida move theater was arrested on an outstanding warrant. His hair was dyed red, and he was wearing weird…
So, just in case Mitt Romney fails to deliver, Public Policy Polling decided to jump way ahead of things and conducted a poll asking Republican voters who they’d like to see as their candidate in 2016. Surprisingly, two politicians from Florida took the top two spots: Marco Rubio and Jeb…
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Those of us with access to professional organizations’ Twitter accounts live in fear that we’ll accidentally send a tweet meant for our own personal followers. I for one wouldn’t want the entirety of @MiamiNewTimes’ followers to know that I had a dream that Diplo was dating my mother. Oh, wait,…
After announcing that he was sending his last Tweet ever back in May, Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen is officially back on the social networking and giving his period key a workout. Like, we seriously are wondering if Guillen has forgotten the correct way to type in his months-long Twitter…
So, um, yeah, this seems awkward and kind of emotionally unhealthy. Weeks after being arrested for assaulting his wife, Evelyn Lozada, after which she promptly filed for divorce, former Dolphin Chad Johnson got a giant tattoo of Lozada’s face on his leg…
Kind of like the last-place finisher in a footrace between a tortoise, a sloth, a three-legged pug and a snail, David Garrard is officially the loser in this season’s Dolphins QB contest. According to multiple sources, including Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer, Garrard will be officially released by the team today.That…
