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Florida Man Took Key Photo of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, Now ID'd as Second Boston Bomber on the Run

All over the country, people are waking up, checking their Twitter feeds and then spending at least half an hour trying to figure out what the hell happened since they went to bed. In short: Police in Boston have killed one of the two marathon bombing suspects -- whom they've ID'd as two brothers or ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Would Love to Go to North Korea (Videos)

Anthony Bourdain's CNN show, Parts Unknown, premieres this Sunday, April 14, at 9 p.m., and the cable network is all behind him. Recently, the network placed a full-page ad in the New York Times "reintroducing" itself and featuring many of its headliners -- including Bourdain.Bourdain has also been ... More >>

Florida Man Swallowed, Likely Killed by Giant Sinkhole Under His Bed

Among the many natural calamities in Florida that are foreign to the average American -- killer alligators, Category 5 hurricanes, bath-salts abusing maniacs -- sinkholes are perhaps the most quietly terrifying. Think about it: At this very minute, you could be standing on a small layer of swampy di ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Is Dead, According to Questionable CNN Chile Report

Last night, CNN's Chilean affiliate reported that Hugo Chávez is not, in fact, recovering in a Venezuelan hospital because he is dead.The report was based on the claims of Guillermo Cochez, until recently Panama's ambassador to the Organization of American States. In the hours since it was publishe ... More >>

Miami's Ten Best Spots for Free Food

Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Miami® online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.We don't know who first said, "Nothing is free except my love," ... More >>

Biggest Food News Stories of 2012

In the sea of headlines you'll read throughout the day, few will likely have anything to do with food. Unless that's your thing, of course. But if you're like us, it is your thing, and you thrive on hearing news about restaurants and chefs just as much (or maybe more) as you would hearing about w ... More >>

Balloon Boy 2012: Three Years After the Hoax, Falcon Heene Fronts a Rock Band

First Trust: Free Cocktails at Pop-Up Lounge During Art Basel

Art Basel is just starting and Short Order is making plans for the closing night's festivities. We suggest you do the same, especially when it entails a pop-up lounge and four different cocktails -- and everything's free.First Trust is a new cocktail lounge scheduled to open in downtown Miami in fal ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Tweets About Secret Service Keg Party: State Department To Investigate

Looks like everyone in the free world takes what Anthony Bourdain tweets into consideration.Read also:Parts Unknown: Anthony Bourdain Previews New CNN ShowWhile filming episodes for his new CNN show Parts Unknown in Myanmar, Bourdain tweeted the following nugget of inside information:

Parts Unknown: Anthony Bourdain Previews New CNN Show (Video)

Though Anthony Bourdain has closed the door on his relationship with the Travel Channel (and burned all bridges with rants about the interweaving of Cadillac ads into his final No Reservations episode), he's opened a wide terrace with his new CNN gig.Parts Unknown, premiering in spring 2013, has Bou ... More >>

Rick Sanchez Gets a New Job at MundoFox

Two years after his fall from grace at CNN, Rick Sanchez has finally snagged a new regular TV job. He's headed to MundoFOX, Fox's newly created Spanish-language TV network aimed at Hispanics. According to The New York Times, he'll be filing daily news stories for the network, and hosting news specia ... More >>

Victoria Jackson Is Not Taking Obama's Reelection Well: "America Died"

Miami's own SNL star turned Tea Party Queen Victoria Jackson is not having a good day. After all, a communist remains in the White House. While it may not have been quite as ridiculous as Donald Trump's now infamous Twitter meltdown, Jackson vented her emotions on social media and proclaimed America ... More >>

Obama and Romney Tied in All Latest Florida Polls

So who is going to win Florida? Don't ask the polls right now. Three major polls of Florida's electorate were completed over the weekend (just in time for early voting), and all three show President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a statistical tie in the Sunshine State.

Three Lessons Democrats Can Learn From the RNC

Condoleezza Rice Is an Uncle Tom

DNC 2012: Three Lessons Democrats Can Learn From Republicans' Florida Fiasco

For the first time in decades, all of America can finally agree on something: Clint Eastwood has gone completely batshit insane. This was the real legacy of last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, where the 82-year-old actor pretended to interview President Obama (AKA an empty chair) on ... More >>

RNC 2012 Day Two: Doe-Eyed Kid Takes Stage, Talks About AC/DC, Vows Not to Kill Old People

On Tuesday, the GOP ended the first day of its national convention by letting Chris Christie pummel Ann Romney's message of love to death with his meaty, angry fists like a Garden State mob goon. Last night, Republicans tried a more refined tactic, choosing concert pianist and conservative counterpo ... More >>

RNC Visitor Booted For Throwing Nuts At Black Camerawoman, Saying "This Is How We Feed Animals"

After GOP Party Chairman Reince Priebus got into a heated shouting match on Monday with Chris Matthews over accusations that his party plays the "race card" against Obama, Republicans crowed that the clip showed the liberal media in its worst kind of attack mode. Race? We've never even heard of race ... More >>

Homocon Party Will Invade Tampa RNC For All Those Gay Republicans

Tampa's strip club industry may be revving up for the Republican National Convention, but for those Republican dudes who aren't exactly into the idea of seeing Sarah Palin's porno double spread eagle, don't worry, because GOProud, a gay Republican group, is hosting Homocon 2012.And of course, as eve ... More >>

Poll: Marco Rubio Big Favorite Among Republican Voters For VP Pick

Mitt Romney's still mum on who he'll pick as his VP to share the stage at this month's Republican National Convention in Tampa, but conservative voters sure aren't conflicted about who they'd choose. A new poll by CNN finds GOP-leaning voters want Marco Rubio as the veep by a wide margin.Of cou ... More >>

Obamacare Ruled Constitutional By Supreme Court; Sorry, Pam Bondi

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has upheld President Obama's health care mandate, with Chief Justice John Roberts casting the surprising, deciding vote that the sweeping reform is constitutional. The ruling is a blow to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who spearheaded the first national court ch ... More >>

Can a Tick Bite Make You a Vegetarian?

If you've been trying to become a vegetarian but just aren't able to find the will, there might be a solution: Go hiking with hot pants on.Apparently, experts are attributing an allergy to red meat, pork, and lamb -- in other words, all commonly consumed mammals -- to a bite from a tick, specificall ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain And Nigella Lawson's New Show Seeks Chefs

Anthony Bourdain is at it again!  Not content to have just a television deal with CNN and a book publishing deal with Ecco, the celebrity chef is working on a new reality cooking competition show for ABC.Bourdain has paired with Nigella Lawson for the as-yet-untitled show (the catchy working ti ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Inks Deal With CNN For New Show (Updated)

Anthony Bourdain is putting more on his plate to chew on. The author and host of Travel Channel's No Reservations has just signed on to host an as-yet-untitled weekend show on CNN, as part of the cable network's expansion from news-only to food and travel shows.Launching in early 2013, the show will ... More >>

Memorial Day Police Shooting Victims Are Suing Miami Beach

Remember last Memorial Day weekend on South Beach? Yes, that was the one when Miami Beach cops unloaded more than a hundred rounds into the car of Raymond Herisse, a Palm Beach resident police say tried to run them over on Collins Avenue. Not all those bullets hit Herisse, though. At least five ... More >>

Disney and Univision Launching Miami-Based Cable News Network

CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are about to get some Miami-based competition backed by one of the world's largest media conglomerates.Disney and Univision announced this morning that they are set to launch a 24-hour news network sometime in the next year, and the channel's operation will be headquartered i ... More >>

Rick Scott's State Employee Drug Testing Ruled Unconstitutional

Fire up those spliffs, DMV workers of Florida: A Miami federal judge has ruled that Gov. Rick Scott's plan to randomly drug test all state employees is unconstitutional. Judge Ursula Ungaro ruled today that random tests of 85,000 state employees would be an unreasonable search and seizure and issued ... More >>

Not "The Real George Zimmerman": Michigan Ex-Politician Tries To Capitalize On Trayvon Martin Shooting

Yesterday, Trayvon Martin's still-not-arrested shooter George Zimmerman launched a website, therealgeorgezimmerman.com, where supporters can donate to his theoretical legal defense fund. The website gained considerable media coverage last night, so a Michigan politician best known for intenti ... More >>

Mary J. Blige's Burger King Ad Triggers 11-Minute YouTube Rant

Mary J. Blige has been through a lot. She's a powerhouse of feminine strength and wisdom; a shining beacon of exemplary light for us girls everywhere. She killed it at Jazz in the Gardens, but apparently she took time out to make some deals with another Miami resident, Burger King. And the result i ... More >>

Wit and Wisdom

Charlie Crist Says He Might Just Vote for Obama

​What a difference four years make. Back in 2008, Charlie Crist played a crucial in the Republican primary by working to deliver Florida to John McCain. Now, in 2012, he's so fed up with shenanigans of this Primary season that according to Politico the now independent says he might just end up vot ... More >>

Drunk Miami Republicans Rally For Santorum and Rick Scott

Jacob KatelRick Santorum vs Victor Gonzalez​Alcohol impairs your judgment? Screw it, we'll have a shot of whiskey, a beer, and a Latin Builders Association membership application.Starting early Friday morning in downtown Miami, the LBA invited guests to drink their way to Decision 2012, offering 2 ... More >>

In 2011, Luther Campbell ran for mayor, sued Nevin Shapiro, and called out rappers

Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled Better Give Back In 2012 or Answer to Mayor Luke

Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Campbell looks back on the Year of the Booty Man.I had an exciting, productive 2011. I set goals for myself and accomplished quit ... More >>

FAMU Band Director Julius White Fired, Family Plans Lawsuit in Wake of Hazing Death

​Dr. Julian White, the longtime and highly decorated band director of the Florida A&M University Marching 100, has been effectively fired following the hazing-related death of 26-year-old drum major Robert Champion. Champion's family now also plans to file a lawsuit against the university.

FAMU Band Suspended After Drum Major Dies After Possible Hazing

​The Florida A&M University marching band has been put on suspension following the mysterious death of drum major Robert Champion over the weekend. Champion, 26, was found dead on the band's bus shortly after the band's performance this Saturday during the halftime show of the Florida Classic ... More >>

Mitt Romney Firmly Back On Top of Cain in Latest Florida Poll

​Florida has apparently stopped gorging itself on pizza man Herman Cain, and ol' reliably boring Mitt Romney has taken a giant lead in the latest poll conducted by Time and CNN. Romney leads the pack with 30 percent, while Cain is now a distant second with 12 percent. Compare that to an American R ... More >>

Florida Woman Dies From Being Exposed to Toxic Fumes at a Georgia McDonald's

Yesterday at a McDonald's restaurant in Pooler, Georgia a woman died and nine people had to be taken to the hospital after inhaling toxic fumes inside the restaurant.I know what you're thinking, and no, the chemical fumes were not coming from the kitchen. So far, police believe chemicals from c ... More >>

Bob Marley Song Re-Released to Help Fight East African Famine

Photo by Laine DossMaasai Boy, taken in Amboselli, Kenya​We interrupt our coverage of $100 dinners, fancy wine tastings and being generally blessed to remind you (and ourselves) of just how lucky we are to live in Miami (and the United States). While we're living the "good life" (and pretty much ... More >>

Reader mail: "Nepotism is how you get a job in Miami"

Rick Sanchez, the New, Questionably Informed Voice of FIU Football

​Local folk hero and fired CNN anchor Rick Sanchez will strap on a headset this fall and announce football games for Florida International University, according the Miami Herald.We thought he might have had some kind of circus deal with Mega TV in the works, but he's pulled another drunken sw ... More >>

New Video of Raymond Herrise Shooting Released: Police Threaten Cameraman at Gunpoint

​A second graphic video of Miami Beach and Hialeah police officers firing over 100 bullets into Raymond Herrise's car has been released, and it's one the officers really didn't want you to see. When they noticed 35-year-old Narces Benoit had filmed the incident on his phone they threatened him at ... More >>

Today We Are All Proud Americans

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition, Luke praises George W. Bush, President Barack Obama, and the U.S. soldiers who took out Osama Bin Laden.I wish e ... More >>

Blogger Catches State Rep. Frank Artiles Living Outside His District Five Months After Election

Rep. Frank Artiles ​Florida law isn't murky when it comes to residency requirements for state representatives: "Upon taking office" you must be living and voting in your district. Pretty simple, right?Well, five months after getting sworn to represent a district in West Kendall, Republican Frank A ... More >>

Woman Pinned Under 300-Pound Ray: "It Could Have Been a Much Worse Outcome"

​Jenny Hausch, the woman who found herself pinned underneath a 300-pound eagle ray during a chartered fishing trip off Islamorada, is speaking out after the freak incident. The mother of three young children tells CNN she instantly went into survival mode after the ray jumped out of the wate ... More >>

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