When Justin Bieber gets in a jam or things get a little too wild for Girls Gone Wild head honcho Joe Francis, they know who to call: Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black. The famed attorney has represented scores of celebrity clients, appeared on “The Law Firm,” a short-lived legal version…
The fallout from the trove of Democratic National Committee emails published by Wikileaks has been swift. Bernie supporters have raged over his treatment by DNC staffers, and our own Debbie Wasserman Schultz has had to step down as the organization’s head. But the leak also shows that DNC staffers were…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has decided that her latest gaffe as Democratic National Committee chair will be her last. Today, the Florida congresswoman — whose 23rd Congressional District encompasses Miami Beach and the southern third of Broward County — announced she will resign as DNC chair after the party’s convention in…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi did not enter the Republican National Convention this week with the best credibility on ethics. Just last month, news broke that she’d personally solicited a $25,000 donation from Donald Trump just before dropping an investigation into fraud complaints against his private university. So it was a…
For a few months earlier this year, Sen. Marco Rubio seemed to have actually grown a spine. On the campaign trail, he dished out hard truths about Donald Trump, arguing passionately that Republicans would be making a historic mistake by nominating the xenophobic, serially dishonest populist. Then came Rubio’s crushing…
When fliers advertising a “no ID” teen party at King of Diamonds began circulating across social media earlier this year, local politicians reacted with horror. After the outcry, the promoter canceled the party at the famed strip club. But now some Miami-Dade commissioners want to make sure minors are not…
It’s May 13, just after 6:30 p.m., and a grimy Fort Lauderdale Denny’s reeks of cooking grease and industrial disinfectant when Tim Canova busts through the door. He’s trailed by a small team of handlers. An audience of about 20 ACLU members awaits him at a banquet table and surrounding…
Donald Trump just can’t get enough of that sweet, sweet, South Florida cash. After canceling a thinly veiled money-begging opportunity in Miami earlier this month due to the recent police shootings in Dallas, Trump has announced that he’s coming back to South Florida at the end of July. This time,…
Starting today, thousands of (mostly white) people will gather in Cleveland, Ohio to horribly embarrass themselves and our nation. They will argue that scientists are wrong about climate change, that gay people don’t have the right to marry, and that Americans shouldn’t be allowed to watch porn. And then they…
On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott’s “Let’s Get to Work” political-action committee published its very own presidential poll, which claimed Donald Trump had taken a two-point lead over Hillary Clinton in Florida’s presidential race. This being Scott, a man who lies about as often as Frank Abignale, the poll was met with…
Most human beings would have a hard time sitting down to some ropa vieja with a guy they just spent months calling a “con man” and suggesting on national television might also have a tiny little micropenis. But then again, most human beings aren’t shameless political opportunist on the level…
Donald Trump will give a his first campaign speech in Miami tomorrow — but it won’t be open to the public. Maybe that’s because was forced to cancel his last planned rally in Doral in March after protesters planned to storm the event. Or perhaps it’s due to the fact that…
Black people make up one-fifth of Miami-Dade County’s population. It doesn’t exactly take a Nobel Laureate to see the county hasn’t always treated its majority-black neighborhoods with a ton of respect. (See: Beckham, David.) There’s no one reason for the routine neglect of African-American areas, but a study released today…
When the Miami Herald recently asked for public records from Miami Beach about the city’s water quality, City Hall responded with a whopping $72,793.53 bill for the documents. That lead to loud protests from First Amendment groups, with one leader calling the bill “crazy” and filmmaker Billy Corben penning a memorable demand letter…
There are over 20 million people in Florida. That’s a population larger than all but two other senate districts. Which means there are millions of Floridians who are technically eligible to run for senate. Theoretically, at least a few thousands of them could actually do a damn good job at…
The rumors hit over the weekend: King of Diamonds, the legendary hip-hop strip club, was coming to Ocean Drive. By Monday, that idea had been dashed by KOD, which says a former manager had advertised the idea without first talking to the club’s new ownership. Then, that former manager claimed…
Hillary Clinton has a better chance of winning the traditionally deep red state of Texas than Donald Trump has of winning perpetually purple Florida. That’s at least according to one metric of FiveThirtyEight’s just debuted 2016 Election Forecast. That’s how bad things are looking for Donald Trump in the Sunshine State (his own…
William Jose Velez doesn’t necessarily hate the City of Miami’s flag. In fact, his problem is that he doesn’t think Miamians love the orange and green emblem enough. “There are cities that have flags they’re really proud of, like Washington D.C. or Chicago, or states like Maryland, and the…
Meet Mark Freeman. He’s a doctor who has decided to throw his hat into the race to represent Florida’s 18th Congressional district (the one Patrick Murphy is leaving to run for the senate). He’s self-financing his campaign and is strongly conservative. He also seems to see American politics as not just a battle…
Last March Governor Rick Scott signed one of the most sweeping anti-abortion laws in Florida’s recent history into law. It is scheduled to go into effect on Friday. One of the new law’s key provisions is that it requires any doctor performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local…
In his first national TV interview since committing the mother of all flip-flops to jump back into a race for Senate, Marco Rubio went on Face the Nation yesterday to take a strong, bold stand against Donald Trump’s signature policies — and to set the record straight that there was zero…
There’s been a war brewing on Ocean Drive for months now. On one side, residents and boutique hotel owners who argue that the iconic strip has devolved into a drunken, tacky mess. On the other, late-night restaurants and bars who say the strip is just catering to what tourists want…
