Michel Martelly’s career has been weird as hell. He went from performing as a misogynistic, rum-drinking singer wearing adult diapers onstage as the pop star “Sweet Micky” to somehow morphing into a repressive and allegedly corrupt Haitian president. In hindsight, his rise has been “proto-Trumpian.” And now he’s out of office and back performing as Sweet Micky.
A brave, free-speech MAGA warrior is under attack, America. Eugenior Joseph, a Miami native and former Westwood Christian School basketball star, says he walked into the Cheesecake Factory at Dadeland Mall with his girlfriend’s family on Mother’s Day wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat, sat down, and was — we can barely muster the strength to utter these words — ridiculed by the staff for supporting President Trump.
Formula One racing is already cruising a fast track to bring a high-octane Grand Prix to downtown Miami by 2019. The city commission voted last week to begin negotiating with the international race organization to hash out the details. Now Miami-Dade County will weigh in on the idea, which has drawn opposition…
The buzzed-on-the-sides, long-on-top haircut is now so ubiquitous among millennials that it has passed the point of even seeming edgy or new at this point. Among hipster-fashion types, the shaggy ’70s look is in vogue, and most rock bands and male models are growing their hair out into mop-tops once more. Buzzing the sides of your head is simply a sign of basic grooming and fashion sense in 2018: It looks clean, tidy, and uncontroversial.
After a huge U.S. Supreme Court decision today, gambling on sports might be legal in some states in time for this fall’s NFL season. But Florida won’t be one of them.
Just as the Miami City Commission was wrapping up a marathon meeting last night, Commissioner Joe Carollo turned to Commissioner Ken Russell and began chuckling.
In a 2016 clip uploaded to YouTube, North Miami’s Democratic state Senator, Daphne Campbell, told an interviewer that her mother and father were dead. She added that her husband’s parents were also dead. In fact, she said basically everyone close to her either was deceased or lived far away.
The fourth edition of Rolling Loud will kick off this Friday, but the scenery won’t be as spectacular as past years for fans forking over $300 to watch Future, Rick Ross, 21 Savage, Migos, J. Cole, and a platoon of other rap stars. The breathtaking view of Biscayne Bay that was the backdrop to last year’s Rolling Loud is being replaced with the hot asphalt of Hard Rock Stadium’s parking lot in Miami Gardens.
In 2007, New Times broke national news with a story about how a group of sex-offenders was forced to live in tents underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway because of restrictive laws barring them from living within thousands of feet of schools or playgrounds. Their case became a focal point in efforts to reform…
In September 2014, Norma Healey, a widow from Texas, took a weeklong Royal Caribbean cruise with a pack of younger friends. They’d leave Galveston, Texas, and stop in Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica. Healey, a rouge-haired, blue-eyed 75-year-old of medium build and a skin tone that “doesn’t do well in…
Thanks to the cache of John F. Kennedy-related files the government recently released, Miamians now know about the utterly bonkers plot the feds cooked up to stage a false-flag bombing on its own populace in Miami and then blame the deaths and chaos on Fidel Castro. But according to CIA documents the Miami Herald dug up yesterday (and a few that New Times subsequently found)…
Downtown Miami residents are known as tolerant people who understand that in exchange for world-class views and easy access to the city’s vibrant heart, they must live with a certain level of noise and chaos. Just kidding! Actually, the wealthy owners of bayfront condos have spent the past several years fighting to shut down nightclubs and shutter festivals to bring quiet to their neighborhood.
Long before he voted for it, economists and policy experts warned Marco Rubio that Republicans’ giant tax cut for the wealthy would not help the American working class. Barely a week after voting for the cuts anyway, Rubio admitted those experts were right, telling the Southwest Florida News-Press he didn’t think the bill would “create dramatic economic growth.”
Miami’s Democratic Socialists of America brought together former Florida state Sen. Dwight Bullard, United We Dream activist Maria Bilbao, National Nurses United representative Millicent Bowerbank, and Miami midwife Jamarah Amani, who phoned in from a live birth, to discuss a health-care plan that would work for everyone and how to push for it in Florida.
Of 193 countries on the planet, only a handful do not offer paid job leave for new parents: Suriname, Papua New Guinea, a few island nations in the Pacific — and the United States, the richest country in the world and only “developed” nation on the list. In light of how many other countries have solved this problem, fixing the issue should be easy.
Michael A. Needham has been described in various news profiles over the years as “too conservative” for GOP stalwarts such as former House Speaker John Boehner, as the Republican Party’s “loathed ideological commissar,” and as “a huge asshole.” For years, Needham chaired the Heritage Action Fund, the lobbying wing of…
If you were to strip away all the trappings of President Donald Trump’s inherited wealth — the planes, the superglued combover, the spray tan — it’s not hard to imagine our nation’s president could have easily wound up filtering down to the Keys and living a life of low-rent hucksterism. He loves the Florida coastline!
Florida governor, former white-collar criminal, and U.S. Senate candidate Rick Scott seems to have tiptoed extremely, oh-so-perilously close to breaking federal anti-corruption laws earlier this year, and, depending upon which government ethics experts you contact, he might have outright broken Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) law.
Few pockets of Miami-Dade are more hellishly clogged with hair-rending traffic than West Kendall. So passions ran hot when Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez held a town hall there yesterday. Fresh off a trip to China, where Gimenez cooled on his dreams of a new high-tech bus system, the county mayor was…
As payday lenders from across America converge on Miami this week for the industry’s annual conference, they’ll be greeted at the airport by signs protesting their arrival.
Just four days before he was sworn into office as a North Miami Beach commissioner, Anthony DeFillipo was cruising north on Collins Avenue through Surfside in a white Buick SUV when a local cop pulled him over for a broken taillight. The officer quickly noticed a “strong smell of marijuana,” according to a police report. He asked whether the 41-year-old property manager had any pot.
No one wants to get anywhere near Donald Trump right now. His former aides and confidantes keep flipping to help the federal investigation into his campaign’s Russia ties. He can’t buy an attorney to defend him in the wake of the FBI’s raid of Michael Cohen’s office. Post-Stormy Daniels, even Melania keeps swatting his hands away.
