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May 25, 2012
Florida Doctor Arrested for DUI, Spits Blood on Trooper, Goes Insane on Video
Dr. Zachary Bird, 41, was driving along a Central Florida road early Sunday morning, likely under the influence, when his car nearly sideswiped a Florida Highway Patrol captain's car. That's horrible enough, but it was Bird's outrageous actions caught on videotape after his arrest that are making ne ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
Truck Crash Spews Gallons of Sulfuric Acid Over Florida Highway
Massive semi-truck crashes can run the gamut from the comical -- liquor everywhere! and milk! -- to the bizarre -- like that Chinese truck that spewed live fish all over the highway -- to the profitable, when a bank truck overturns and spews millions of coins. It's hard to think of too many pr ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
Neo-Nazis Send Photos of Two Unarmed Members in Sanford, Insist They Really Do Exist
Attacked from across the political spectrum for exaggerating their "armed patrols" in Sanford, neo-Nazis have fired back -- with pictures of two people holding a Nazi flag in the central Florida town.No guns. Virtually no proof to back up their claims there are "ten to 20 people" in the area. "We're ... More >>
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April 4, 2012
Florida Man Molested Boys in Party Van Full of Video Games
Leonard Filipkowski drove what police describe as "a predator's paradise" -- a giant, colorfully painted van with darkened windows and a sophisticated system of flat screen TVs and video games installed in the back. Filipkowski has now been charged with 20 counts of counts lewd and lascivious acts i ... More >>
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March 19, 2012
Florida Atheists Spray Highway With "Unholy Water" to Protest Religious Blessing
The eternal war between righteous Christians and smarmy nonbelievers has a new ground zero: rural Highway 98 in Polk County, Florida. First, a religious group called Polk Under Prayer blessed the Central Florida asphalt strip with "holy oil" to protect the county from Satan, "evildoers" and "the ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Jason Smiddie Stabbed Grandma 100 Times and Shot Her With a Crossbow, Cops Say
Police across Florida are looking for a 19-year-old accused of killing his own grandma as brutally as possible: By stabbing her more than 100 times, beating her in the face with a wrench and even shooting her in the head with a crossbow.Jason Aristotle Smiddie has been on the run since police in ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Eight Reasons Why Florida is a Real-Life Horror Movie
photo by Logan FazioLincoln Road zombie walks got nothin' on real life in Florida.Time for a little Halloween honesty: Florida is terrifying. Serial killers Ted Bundy and Gary Ray Bowles have stalked our towns. Prehistoric, sharp-fanged creatures circle our swamps and oceans, hungry for blood. Real- ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
School Sign Misspelled as "Scohol" in South Florida, Again
Sure, there's book smarts and then there's street smarts, but the streets in South Florida have never been too bright. A road sign painted on Pine Island Road in Lauderhill has been misspelled as "SCOHOL." It shouldn't surprise anyone that this is a fairly regular occurrence in South Florida.
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October 19, 2011
See Miami's Most Iconic Buildings Made with Legos
Central Florida's newest amusement park, Legoland Florida, officially opened its bricked doors on Saturday on the former site of Cypress Gardens. One of the main attractions includes massive displays of iconic skylines rebuilt with Legos, and obviously Legoland Florida's has an entire section dev ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
SpongeBob SquarePants AK-47 Robbery Spree Ends With Arrests
Surveillance footage of a SpongeBob robbery at a 7-11 three months ago.In the end, the police found SpongeBob SquarePants not in a pineapple under the sea, but hunkered down in an apartment complex off the Turnpike with three of his convenience store robbing cohorts.Last night, Orlando cops final ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Drag Queen Bandits Loot Florida Stores of Sequins, Boas and Fancy Silk
via Orange County CorrectionsThe suspects, mostly de-wigged.A vicious crime wave has gripped Central Florida's finest fabric stores, seeding blind terror in the sequin isles, panic in the feather boa racks and knee-shaking fear in the wig department. Tell us of the horror Amanda Marshall, Orlando ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Another Tourist Run Over on Florida Beach by Police Vehicle
via WSVNJust imagine the possible tourism campaign: "Visit Florida's Beaches: The nicest places to get run over in the world."Yes, for the second time in a month, another tourist visiting the state has been run over by a public vehicle. This incident occurred in Daytona and involves a part-time l ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
Rick Scott Gets Over His Fear of Trains and Approves SunRail
Gov. Rick Scott has seemed to overcome his hesitations about funding Central Florida's SunRail commuter train program and announced his approval of state funding for the program today. Scott's first big decision in office was surprisingly killing a federally funded high-speed train project, a mov ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Rick Scott, the Veto King: Record-Setting $615 Million in Vetoes (Many to Miami Programs)
Gov. Rick Scott coronated himself as Florida's veto king today by announcing a record $615.3 million in additional cuts to the already-reduced state budget. Scott made the announcement in the Republican-heavy Central Florida old-folks homes known as the Villages, and repeated his weird flip-flopp ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
Twenty-Two Men Arrested in Florida Underaged Sex Sting
Twenty-two men have been arrested for agreeing to have sex with young children, some as young as nine, that they had met online. When they arrived, though, they were met by the Polk County Sheriff's Office. The men arrested include a UCF Student, a former television executive, a specialist in the ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Florida's Swamp Snakes Are Now Reality TV Superstars
Could The Real Swamp Snakes of Everglades City or America's Next Top Invasive Species be coming to your television set anytime soon? Possibly. Over the next two months, not one, but two cable channels are set to roll out reality television shows based on snakes living in the swamps of Florida and ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Your Mother Likes Drugs! What the Hell, It's Roach Motel!
Roach Motel What the Hell, It's Roach Motel (Destroy Records) myspace.com/roachmotelrules Take the Dead Kennedys' linguistically progressive rants, the social critique via saxophones of CH3, water it down with the mind-altering misused politics of Minor Threat, add a half-cup's worth of the yout ... More >>
Culture
April 14, 2011
"The Wilderness" at MAM explores man's relationship with nature
Roach Motel What the Hell, It's Roach Motel (Destroy Records) myspace.com/roachmotelrules Take the Dead Kennedys' linguistically progressive rants, the social critique via saxophones of CH3, water it down with the mind-altering misused politics of Minor Threat, add a half-cup's worth of the yout ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
No, 70 People Were Not Trapped in an Airport Hangar Due to Central Florida's Crazy Weather
via Bay News 9It's in the 80s and perfectly sunny here in Miami, but our state-mates in the central part of Florida aren't enjoying the same good weather. An apparent tornado that ripped through Tampa has left many areas in Central Florida in disarray. But a report carried by numerous national me ... More >>
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March 27, 2011
Trouble & Bass and the Overthrow's Black Magick Party at the Castle, March 26
Sure, you could have been at the Fool's Gold party at Grand Central -- a decent enough choice. But you would have missed out on the next-level shit. The Overthrow and Trouble & Bass' Black Magick party at the Overthrow Castle surely had a darker vibe than other festivities last night. But th ... More >>
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March 15, 2011
Proposed Bill Would Make It a Felony to Photograph Farms
...and if you dare snap a photo of it, he'll make sure you wind up behind bars for 30 years, E-I-E-I-O!State Sen. Jim Norman, a Republican from Tampa, is very concerned about a farm's right to privacy, while showing little regard for the First Amendment. He has filed a bill in the Florida Senate ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Board Games
...and if you dare snap a photo of it, he'll make sure you wind up behind bars for 30 years, E-I-E-I-O!State Sen. Jim Norman, a Republican from Tampa, is very concerned about a farm's right to privacy, while showing little regard for the First Amendment. He has filed a bill in the Florida Senate ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Teen Robbers in Central Florida Threaten to Kill Man, Steal Beanie Babies and Make Off on Bikes
Beanie Babies, Nintendo video games, souvenir baseball bats and bicycles: all part of a wholesome, suburban Central Florida childhood, right? Well two teenagers in St. Cloud, Florida managed to combine all of these things into a chilling yet almost comically inept home invasion. Ah, the youth of ... More >>
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January 17, 2011
The Jameses and Jacuzzi Boys at Florida's Dying's Six-Year Anniversary Party
Something to remember about roadtripping to Orlando: If you leave anywhere near dusk, you'll always hit shitty traffic leaving Miami. Crossfade braved the "four" hour drive to check out Florida's Dying's six-year anniversary at Will's Pub and experience what the fuck is going on up there and me ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
The Magic of Art
Something to remember about roadtripping to Orlando: If you leave anywhere near dusk, you'll always hit shitty traffic leaving Miami. Crossfade braved the "four" hour drive to check out Florida's Dying's six-year anniversary at Will's Pub and experience what the fuck is going on up there and me ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
The Wholesome Grocer Brings The Farm To The Beach
courtesy of The Wholesome GrocerThe Wholesome Grocer, a community service created by cooking instructor Cindy Hill, brings fresh, local and organic foods from farmers, ranchers, artisans and vendors to Miami Beach every month. It works like this:You start by selecting the products you want a ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Green Table Artisan Kitchen & Bistro Coming; Whisk Gourmet Moving
The future home of Green TableGreen Table Artisan Kitchen & Bistro hasn't opened yet, but from what we can tell, owner Monica Rios is serious about regionally sourced, artisanal food.Rios arrived in Miami eight years ago from Venezuela and she quickly started transitioning from accounting to ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Two Florida Firemen Resign Over Tea-bagging (The Real Deal, Not the Marco Rubio Kind)
photo by Tomasz Sienicki via Wikimedia CommonsIn a story sure to outrage the Marco Rubio camp on the eve of the midterms, two Florida firefighters have resigned after an investigation into their tea-bagging while on duty. What kind of upside-down nation are we living in where two public servants ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
American Therapeutic Corp. Charged with Fleecing Medicare out of $200m By Using Dementia Patients
Bad doctors, bad. Miami has long been the country's capitol for Medicare fraud schemes, and today federal authorities arrested four people associated with American Therapeutic Corporation and charged the Miami-based company with fleecing $200 million from Medicare. The company is accused of preyi ... More >>
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September 29, 2010
Five Questions with StumbleDrunk's Jason Villenes and Frankie Pointless
Most people will remember Frankie Pointless from his old days in Miami rock with the outfit Splat, a pop-punk band that touted the best in excess that dear old Coconut Grove had to offer. They gave the hippies and Bahamians a run for their money when they held down at their old Macdonald St ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Junior Bruce's Self-Titled EP Is an Explosion of Hardcore Metal and Horny Toads
Horny toadzzz!!!Junior Bruce Self-Titled EP (Self-released) juniorbruce.com The newest breed of Floridian metalhead is a bunch of savvy mothers! These are the righteous bearers of the torch ignited in the '80s and then kept lit by the awesome sludge and power violence scenes of the '90s. No ... More >>
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September 14, 2010
Local Motion: Young Livers - Of Misery and Toil
Shiny!!!Young Livers Of Misery and Toil (No Idea Records) www.noidearecords.com I believe that the great and sorely missed Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts was the butt of the Poison Idea joke of record collectors being pretentious assholes. That much is true dear readers, but I'm not as much a pre ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
Westboro Baptist Church Will Burn Korans Now
Back when we first picked up on the story of Dove World Outreach Center's planned "International Burn a Koran Day," back before it had become a media spectacle, we mused, "The Westboro Baptist Church currently holds the title of most insane thing purporting to be a Christian church in America, ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Florida Church Hosting "International Burn a Koran Day" on 9/11
This sign proudly sits outside the Dove World ChurchThe Westboro Baptist Church currently holds the title of most insane thing purporting to be a Christian church in America, but could a small congregation of horribly misguided Christians in central Florida soon be taking their pla ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Rick Scott Promises to "Look Into" Obama's Birth Certificate
via Internet WeeklyBirther in chief, Lou DobbsFollowing in the footsteps of Marco Rubio, Republican Governor Candidate Rick Scott has found himself flirting with the birther movement. When speaking today at a rally in Central Florida's uber-retirement mecca, The Villages, he was confronted w ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Dr. Captain America Will Not Go To Jail For Burrito Groping Incident... Or Something
In yet another of our occasional reminders that Floridians outside of Miami-Dade are crazy, horrible people here's the lead from a newstory from Central Florida news station WFTV: "The Brevard County doctor who was arrested for groping a woman while dressed as Captain America with a burrito in hi ... More >>
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May 20, 2010
Governor Crist Declares State of Emergency in Miami-Dade Due to Oil Threat
NASAA satellite view of the oil spill taken by NASAOn news that some oil had begun leaking into the Loop Current, Governor Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency for Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Collier, Lee, Charlotte and Monroe counties. A state of emergency had already been decla ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Florida Mints Joe Arpaio's Dream License Plate
Bill 1070 from Arizona requires immigrants to carry residency papers and allows law enforcement to randomly pull over those suspected of being in the country illegally. But how will la migra know who to stop? One congressman, Brian Bilbray of California, suggested illegals can be spotted by sart ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
Green Sky, Bad Actor, and Nebraska Sun Bring the Sludge to Sweat May 22
A conundrum: What kind of sound would a morbidly obese, four-titted, screaming Cyclops make while being probed by multicolored psychic lamprey? Hmm ... That's a mind-bender so deep and twisty it could put you into a permanent coma, turning certain centers of your brain into scorched-out pudding. ... More >>
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May 5, 2010
MP3 of the Day: Fireside Social - "Wristbands"
Empty bars with sticky floors is a pretty good way of summing Fireside Social up as far as playing with gusto and passion is concerned. And while they are currently caught between Miami and St. Augustine, it is refreshing to find out they've committed to some studio time. This track, " ... More >>
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May 5, 2010
Dan Fanelli, Alan Grayson's Tea Party Opponent, Runs Pro-Racial Profiling Ad
Hot liberal mess Congressman Alan Grayson is one of the Tea Party movement's biggest congressional targets for 2010. Respected politician Dan Webster, who served in the state legislature from 1980 until 2008, is the biggest name and presumed front runner in the Republican primary. That hasn't sto ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
$5.2 Million Worth of Designer Knock-Offs Seized at MIA
We're pretty sure the ornately logo-ed purse trend has been done with for a while. Now that we're all "recessionistas" ladies who can still afford luxury leather goods prefer to buy expensive bags with the designer brand only noticeable to discerning eyes. Touting around a purse that co ... More >>
Music
March 11, 2010
Diocious
We're pretty sure the ornately logo-ed purse trend has been done with for a while. Now that we're all "recessionistas" ladies who can still afford luxury leather goods prefer to buy expensive bags with the designer brand only noticeable to discerning eyes. Touting around a purse that co ... More >>
Dining
October 1, 2009
Norman Van Aken does a 180 in the Gables
We're pretty sure the ornately logo-ed purse trend has been done with for a while. Now that we're all "recessionistas" ladies who can still afford luxury leather goods prefer to buy expensive bags with the designer brand only noticeable to discerning eyes. Touting around a purse that co ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2009
Is Maurice Ferre About to Mount a Senate Campaign?
Jonathan PostalA couple of Democrats have flirted with the idea, but so far no one has stepped up to mount a real challenge against Kendrick Meek in the Senate primary. Now, though, there's buzz that former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre will enter the race next week.Beth Reinhard says Ferre will make ... More >>
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August 20, 2009
Dan Webster Added to Senate Shortlist
Charlie Crist has added former state legislator Dan Webster to his ever-growing shortlist of possible Senate appointees. The Central Florida political vet has already said he'd be open to the job, because "it would be prety cool." Webster served in the Florida House for 18 years and became ... More >>
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August 6, 2009
Scales and Tails a Plus
Charlie Crist has added former state legislator Dan Webster to his ever-growing shortlist of possible Senate appointees. The Central Florida political vet has already said he'd be open to the job, because "it would be prety cool." Webster served in the Florida House for 18 years and became ... More >>
News
May 14, 2009
Letters from the Issue of May 14, 2009
"I surely hope our entire community will show Barry this is intolerable behavior."
News
July 31, 2008
Sham Marriage Hell
Bigamy charges and dozens of people busted after fake weddings: It must be South Florida.
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