Despite its never-ending supply of bad PR in the national press, Florida’s tourism business is booming. The state’s tourism officials claim that 23.4 million people visited the Sunshine State in the second quarter of 2013. That’s the largest amount of people to visit Florida during the second quarter ever…
Mansfield Staniford wants to make sure the Brazilian girl is in the picture. He’s running around in the anti-fashion trifecta of socks, sneakers and shorts, obsessively pulling his thinning brown hair. Little kids dash between the legs of the business men, photographers, models and moms who are gathered at South…
Before you get too excited, remember an important tool of the British tabloid journalist is pulling things out of thin air and basically churning out fan fiction, but it’s fun to think about anyway. So, yes, the UK’s Now magazine is claiming that Posh and Becks are reportedly thinking about…
Drivers headed west toward downtown on the MacArthur Causeway have been greeted by two strange sights lately. To the north, the old Miami Herald office has already begun to decay, its once grand signage replaced by the flickering neon of what looks like a dive bar named Brown Mackie College…
Add Shakira as the latest on the list of celebs looking to rid themselves of their Miami Beach mega-mansions. The singer has put her North Bay Road home on the market for $14.95 million. She bought the home 12 years ago for the considerably more affordable price of $3.38 million…
Miami’s local NBC affiliate is apparently selling on-air reporting credit for $2,500 in a Groupon that became available Monday. The site is now advertising an “Epic Deal” in which Miamians can purchase spots on three-minute segments with host Roxanne Vargas, complete with coaching and make-up. The journalistic credential will only…
Dave Daniels wants $2 million for Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti, and he’s got to come up with a way to justify it. A world record might help, he thinks, so the 72-year-old Brit is going back through old tear sheets, newspaper ads and flyers to calculate just how many…
Every door inside the former home of the slain fashion icon Gianni Versace was unlocked. Now on the auction block after its owner filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, the opulent 23,000-square-foot manse now known as Casa Casuarina was an open house this week as a team of lawyers, auctioneers,…
Tomorrow afternoon, Miami commissioners will vote whether to declare historic a 66-year-old church surrounded by skyscrapers in Brickell. For the past year, a small group of parishioners has drummed up support for officially protecting St. Jude Melkite Catholic Church. At first, the petition sounded like something you’d be asked to…
Daunte Culpepper, one of several players who have been part of the Dolphins’ never ending post-Dan Marino quarterback carousel, has lost his South Florida home in foreclosure court. According to the AP, Culpepper bought the nearly 10,000 square foot Broward County home back in 2006 while he was still playing…
Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old boy from Miami-Dade County, and tonight several high-profile members of the community took to Twitter to express their reaction to tonight’s verdict. Many sent their prayers to the Martin family and expressed grief over the results. See also: George Zimmerman Verdict: Not Guilty…
The real estate market in Miami may be slowly recovering, but that’s not good news for everyone. Foreclosures in the Miami metro area surged last month with one in 236 housing units in the market receiving a foreclosure notice. That’s more than four times the national average. The recent surge…
The future of one of the most storied buildings in Miami Beach is once again in question as the owner of Casa Casuarina, still widely known as the Versace mansion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the beginning of this month. It’s just the latest chapter in the building’s recent…
Miami certainly has some astonishing pools, but we don’t think the city has ever seen anything quite like what star architect Zaha Hadid has in store for the rooftop of the One Thousand Museum. If you’ve ever wanted to dive under water and see the view from 700 feet above…
Well, maybe he’ll have more time to watch Heat games. Less than a week after his NBA team won its third championship, Micky Arison finds himself out of a major job. Carnival Corporation announced today that Arison will be replaced as CEO by Arnold W. Donald. Arison has been the…
Florida’s unemployment rate hit another recent record low in May, according to numbers released today. The state’s unemployment rate is now down to 7.1 percent. That’s the lowest rate since September 2008 and down .1 percent from April. Though, it’s not all good news, especially here in Miami-Dade…
It truly is an end of an era. Rosie O’Donnell is no longer a resident of Star Island. The comedienne first bought the historic home back in 1999 for $6.75 million from a marijuana-loving church, and sold it recently for nearly $10 million more…
Miami’s overall economy may still be in recovery mode, but that doesn’t mean we’re scrimping when it comes to our cars. Luxury cars and trucks make up a higher percentage of the Miami area’s overall auto sales than in any other market in the country…
A higher percentage of Miamians don’t have bank accounts than any other large city in America. A new survey finds 20.1 percent of Miamians have neither a checking nor a savings account. Another 21.4 percent are considered “underbanked,” meaning while they do have a bank account, they rely more on…
The retiree is the unofficial mascot of the Sunshine State, and apparently people 65 and older are doing pretty well for themselves when it comes to money. A study compared the median income of those 65 and older with the pre-retirement 45-64 age group. Nationally, retirees make just 57 percent…
Rick Scott is personally reaching out to businesses in other states to try and get them to relocate to Florida. Which, OK, sure, we’re all for, but because Scott is apparently and almost comically incapable of doing anything without controversy, it seems he’s only trying to poach companies from states…
Malaysian gambling conglomerate Genting has taken its plans to build a casino in Miami from its initial fast and furious blitzkrieg to a long and slow waiting game. In the latest sign that the company is no longer in a hurry to plop a mega-casino downtown, Genting has allowed a…
