Seeing the space-age tower conjures images of the Jetsons. The spire-topped Pier 66, with its revolving rooftop restaurant, is a mid-century icon. Now it and the marina it calls home are under massive redevelopment. Pier 66’s iconic styling is known as “Googie”, coined after the futuristic lines of Googie’s coffee…
Loot Comics & Games sits in a strip mall in Coral Springs, wedged between a bakery, a barber, and a pain clinic specializing in back and neck issues. Or, rather, it sat there, having closed for good November 22 after a three-and-a-half-year run. A hastily drawn sign on the door…
Brightline has killed people at a constant and startling clip.
It was truly a momentous play not only for the Dolphins but also for humankind.
Rent-a-bank schemes are an age-old grift.
If 34 basketball players died during last year’s NBA season, the league might have canceled this year’s campaign. As Gulfstream Park opens for its championship meet, critics of horse racing are making arguments like that.
If you’re just settling down for a long Thanksgiving Day snooze, very little is dancing in your head except thoughts of football, festive desserts, and a work-free holiday weekend. Most of America has put the work-a-day world on hold to give thanks for life’s many good things. The yuletide, though,…
Attending your first Trump rally is a rite of passage of sorts.
After his arrest in the stabbing death of his roommate Brooke Preston, Randy Herman Jr. had a bizarre defense.
According to the FBI, Salman Rashid tried to contact ISIS to recruit someone to use explosives to kill deans at Broward College and Miami Dade College.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren just picked up a major endorsement from the Sunshine State.
The secret to defeating Donald Trump? A big orange balloon, obviously.
If approved in 2020, recreational marijuana could inject a whopping $190 million in sales tax and tourism dollars into Florida each year. That’s according to a recent financial analysis of an ongoing ballot initiative, which a state commission reviewed earlier this month. The analysts say the overall economic effect would…
In Florida, companies such as Philip Morris and Bacardi aren’t required to cultivate and process raw plant material and then package, distribute, and sell their cigarettes and rum. But for some reason, state law requires medical marijuana producers to operate exactly that way. Florida legislation requires the medical marijuana industry…
Despite the anticipated lull at this festive time of the year, the entertainment world and, yes, even sports, are at full tilt in South Florida — so there are plenty of fun and interesting things to do this weekend.
Broward County’s smallest village has been running amok. Lazy Lake, a municipality of a whopping 26 residents surrounded by Wilton Manors, violated state law and its own charter by seating village officials without holding elections, according to Broward’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
Riptide Festival (with the Killers, Jimmy Eat World, the 1975, and many other) will rock South Florida this week. Plus enjoy a beach bash and a new Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit.
Last week, the San Francisco 49ers lost 27-24 to the Seattle Seahawks in overtime on Monday Night Football. You’re probably wondering what that fact has to do with you. Well, if you’re a Miami Dolphins fan, it has everything to do with you because the 49ers were the last remaining undefeated team in the NFL for the 2019-20 season, meaning, once again, the 1972 Dolphins stand as the only undefeated team in NFL history.
Following a 0-7 start to the season, everything recently had turned to butterflies, lollipops, bubbles, and rainbows for the Miami Dolphins thanks to straight wins over the New York Jets and Indianapolis Colts. Head coach Brian Flores got a celebratory Gatorade shower after the Jets game, and Dolphins players no one had ever heard of got interviews with ESPN after the Fins pulled off a surprise win over the Colts last week.
Mere days after receiving more than three years in prison after lying on a gun background-check form, South Florida rapper (and accused rapist) Kodak Black is facing two additional felony gun charges after Miami-Dade prosecutors unsealed a new case against him. The Miami Herald first reported this afternoon that Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has hit Black with two felony counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Stone was found guilty on seven counts of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing the investigation into Russian interference of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Offering fancy clothes and luxury cars as bait to recruit vulnerable girls into years of prostitution, William Foster used South Florida as a home base for an expansive sex trafficking operation for at least 15 years, federal agents alleged in a criminal complaint filed yesterday in the Southern District of Florida.
