In January, as part of President Obama’s $15 billion plan to expand Head Start, Miami-Dade was awarded $290 million in federal funds to “provide opportunities for low-income children and their families.” Eight months later, county officials haven’t provided any details about these “opportunities.” We don’t know how the $290 million…
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…
When the Miami Dolphins signed Ndamukong Suh to a record breaking deal that will pay him approximately $114 million with $60 million in guaranteed money, most fans knew what kind of player the team was getting. In a day and age where large contracts are commonly given to questionable players, Suh…
As if it wasn’t hard enough to stand on stage in front of a stone-faced crowd and tell jokes, women comedians in Miami have to deal with misogynistic jeers, too. In a scene long dominated by men, sometimes the heckling even comes from fellow male comics. When 25-year-old Dominique Gelin…
As the 2015 Miami Dolphins training camp kicks into high gear, Fins fans’ annual preseason cockiness reaches stratospheric levels. Just recently, a Harvard University study pegged the Dolphins — owners of an 8-8 record last year and a seven-year playoff drought — as the AFC’s Super Bowl representatives. Emory University,…
The Miami Marlins’ owners have always been the worst — but this season the front office is finding new and exciting ways to break what most thought were untouchable high scores of awfulness they set over the years. As the trade deadline dust settles, Marlins fans are still trying to figure…
Not eating food for three days can be the worst. Except for when you rid your body of all the built up toxins and instead fill it with much needed nutrients from pure fruits and vegetables, resulting in some weight loss but also a I feel pretty good about myself…
Like many other Cuban Americans in Miami, Neyda Borges was shocked to hear President Obama’s December announcement that the U.S. would re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. The 34-year-old teacher, who works at Miami Lakes Educational Center, immediately turned on CNN in her classroom. Down the hall, two teachers with opposing…
On August 4, my memoir, The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City, will go on sale. I hope many young African-Americans who think the odds are stacked against them will read it and be inspired. I wrote the book, which is previewed in this week’s…
Miami Dolphins fans, there is officially a very faint light at the end of the tunnel: In roughly 72 hours, Dolphins training camp jumps off in Davie. If this offseason felt longer than most, it’s because there was no Miami Heat playoff run and the Marlins are terrible. So even…
Miami Dolphins training camp is just over a week away, so that means it’s time to breakout the good old spicy-hot take machine and shoot some sriracha covered ghost chili’s sports takes into the sky. This is a win-win situation here; if we’re right; you praise us, lift us up…
Last month, 31-year-old Loukucha Joseph was left for dead after she was shot and run over by a car driven by unknown assailants near NE 149th Street and Sixth Avenue. Two weeks later, just a couple of blocks from where Joseph died, unknown suspects in a white car fatally shot…
This upcoming Miami Dolphins season is arguably the franchise’s most important campaign in over a decade. That’s why the team should waste no more time in pursuing free agent guard Evan Mathis. New executive vice president of football operations Mike Tannenbaum has made it clear — not only with the Dolphins,…
NBA Summer League action is not for the casual fan; it’s normally akin to watching pick-up games at your local park, except the guys playing have way better gear. The thing is, sometimes you can actually learn something. Every once in awhile a player like Hassan Whiteside will come out…
Craving an Ex-pat Cuban sandwich from Sparky’s? Or maybe shroom buns from Gigi’s? What about a pan con minuta from La Camaronera? Thanks to Favor, which launched in Miami last Friday, you can get all of the aforementioned and just about anything else your heart and stomach desires (so long…
When Dinner Lab, the world’s largest member’s only pop-up supper club, launched in Miami last year you had to pay $150 annual fee to get access to their exclusive one night only events. But now, in an effort to grow Miami’s dining community and network and increase the fr equency…
I’ve been navigating the alcohol-infused waters of the Miami nightlife since I was 16-years-old. In total, I’ve spent 25 years in Miami club land. And for a good chunk of those I’ve been working as a promoter for various musicians and parties all around the Magic City. I put together…
Since August 4, 2009 a group of adventurous diners — led by formidable and candid local food bloggers/fans David Rosendorf (Frodnesor), Chowfather (or “Chowpapi”), and Steve Berry (Blind Tastes) — without a need to know what they were getting into for the evening food-wise began an underground dinner club concept…
Miami is about to enter the worst sports week of the entire year. Over the past decade July 10th-16th has proven to be the least active seven day stretch for local fans. Only Christmas Day rivals these next few days when it comes to inactivity in sports, and even then fans…
On a weekend where the United States of America celebrated it’s 239th birthday, we also got to celebrate the female footballers that saved their fireworks for the Fifth of July. An absolutely frantic offensive pace to start the match by the United States netted them four goals before the Japanese ladies could…
How do you define The United States? Well, technically by our borders and a complex set of laws that govern it, but it’s really so much more. It’s the land of opportunity, of hard work, and the American dream, and dammit we think Miami exemplifies as good as or better…
What was going on in your life around June 26, 2003? Believe it or not, that was twelve years ago — the time from kindergarten graduation to high school prom. Twelve years is enough time for three different United States Presidents to call the White House home. Michael Phelps won…
