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Miami Mom Posts World's Saddest Craigslist Ad for Lost Rabbit

Miami's Saddest Craigslist Posting? Mother Begs for Bunny for Daughter

"I am looking for this bunny," reads the enigmatic February 26 Craigslist ad. Beneath a photo of an absurdly cute rabbit with sparkling blue eyes, it continues: "I had it on hold for my daughter and it was not supposed to be sold. My daughter is devastated and she won't stop crying. I am willing to ... More >>

Mystery Diners Films at George's: "Did I Have to Take My Top Off for a Second Coca-Cola?"

Food Network puts out some pretty admirable content. So when we saw an ad on Craigslist calling food lovers as extras, we had to participate. The ad read something like this: CASTING IMMEDIATELY... ATTRACTIVE YOUNG LADIES We are shooting an episode for the FOOD NETWORK and need attractive young l ... More >>

Food Stamps Traded for Drugs and Cash, Welcome Crackdown Coming

Florida is notorious for Medicare fraud, and we also have more than our fair share of food stamp fraud. At least Miami residents can console themselves with the fact that our food stamp defrauders are not as shameless as those in other states.EBT cards, modern-day food stamps, are being traded for c ... More >>

Cuba's High-Speed Internet Link To Venezuela Was a Giant Lie

Last summer, millions of Cubans were deliriously ready to blow their meager earnings on badly knit Che dolls on Etsy, flood Facebook with Fidel-praising status updates and, yeah, just download mucho, mucho porn. High-speed Internet, they were told, was finally coming to the masses via a 1,000-mile l ... More >>

New law pits Florida tattoo artists against each other

Tattoo Artists Fight For Their Right to Ink at Home Under Restrictive New Florida Laws

Few cities, if any, have helped push tattoos into the American zeitgeist more than Miami. Between Rick Ross, Miami Ink, and Udonis Haslem's Sunshine State-covered back, there's no shortage of carved skin in the Magic City. In the early '90s there were just several dozen parlors. Nowadays, there are ... More >>

Health Drink Kombucha: Fermented Tea to Get Your Guts in Order

Kombucha is fermented tea crawling with live and active cultures. And it is taking up ever more shelf space in the beverage aisle at Whole Foods. Why? It may help restore health to your digestive tract and give you an immune boost.Probiotics are not just for yogurts anymore. In fact, they haven't be ... More >>

Who Wants To Buy a Food Truck? Truck Tracker For Tonight

Esther's Caribbean Grill Esther's Caribbean Grill is for sale.​The Miami food truck industry seems to add a new truck to the roster every day. If you want to get in on the booming truck industry, you can either pony upwards of $100,000 to purchase a brand new fully-customized food truck wit ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan Posts Craigslist Ad Seeking "Office Intern"! Or Did They?

Diversify yo resume, son.​Yesterday afternoon, Crossfade's covert East Coast correspondents alerted us to what appeared to be a run of the mill Craigslist post looking for an intern. Among the required attributes were the ability to meet deadlines, experience with social networking, and a professi ... More >>

Letters from the issue of July 14, 2011

Florida Woman Arrested for Posing as Her Husband's Ex on Craigslist and Posting BDSM Ads

Natasha Larson​Bradenton, Florida resident Natasha Larson really doesn't like her new husband's ex-wife, Tracy Wilder. So she decided to post ads on Craigslist while posing as the ex looking for men who would be interested in coming by and roughing Wilder up. Larson has now been arrested and faces ... More >>

Guns online: No permit needed

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 >>

Sensis: A new condom for drunks

Wynwood's April 9 art walk offers robots and body hair

Women's Funding Network sex trafficking study is junk science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media.

Six Steps to Scoring a Ticket to the Totally Sold-Out Ultra Music Festival 2011

Photo by Ian WitlenSure, Ultra's sold out. But don't get sad. Find tickets!​Ultra Music Festival! It's the final countdown. Listen .. Can you hear it? Uhhntz, uhhntz, uhhntz . . . It's almost showtime. Yet many people don't have tickets. What do you do? Should you hit up Stubhub or Craigslist and ... More >>

Donate to the Mac'n Truck Kickstarter Fund, Get Double Pledge Dollars Back in Food

Mac'n cheese (or faux cheese!) from the Mac'n food truck​Francesca Lacuesta, a 28-year-old, full-time student, dedicated yogi, and vegan, has a dream: to get Miami's first all-vegetarian food truck on the road. She's almost there. She hopes to get her Mac'n Food Truck rolling by March, but with li ... More >>

Rosa Mexicano Jumps Into South Beach Mex Fray

​Rosa Mexicano will be opening on the ground floor of the the funky new 1111 Lincoln Road parking lot. That's an exclusive Short Order scoop -- which we scooped from Ryan at Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings, who scooped it from Chowhound, which got the scoop from a Craigslist job listing.That was ... More >>

Miami's Gourmet Food Truck Association Staffed an Accused Child Molester

Enrique "Kiki" Alard, arrested after allegedly seducing a child on Craigslist.​The Gourmet Food Truck Association promised to bring order and profit to the local fledgling mobile grub scene. In December, it partnered with the Miami Children's Hospital to hold a food truck rally and toy drive in So ... More >>

Top 10 Worst Burger Toppings In The World

via shinyplasticbag​This year, Burger King's gift to England was a limited time burger topped with brussel sprouts and emmental cheese.The Brits were pissed, the king apologized, and the Brazilians who bought the company are probably like, "WTF? They don't like the brussel sprout burger?"No! It wa ... More >>

Donating an Organ in Florida Shouldn't be so Hard, "Kidney Matchmaker" Says

Johnniekake via Flicker CC​Chaya Lipschutz is a 52-year-old Orthodox Jew with a peculiar passion: Being a "kidney matchmaker." If you're in need of an organ, or you're looking to give yours to a stranger, she's your girl. She's sort of the Patti Stranger of the altruistic set. Lipschutz doesn't m ... More >>

Discovery en Español's New Artsy Reality Show Could Feature Local Singer Josephine Bauza

​ Even if you're Hispanic and have lived in South Florida your entire life, you've probably never heard of Discovery Channel en Español. They've got lots of animals, travel, tornadoes, and quite possibly local singer Josephine "La Pepa" Bauza really soon. The channel (contact your cable provider ... More >>

Wildlife Cops Bust Man Selling Pythons on Craigslist

Bethany Berg Via Flicker CCThe ad on Craigslist Miami shows a photo of two large black snakes slithering on white carpet. "Ball Pythons for Cheap," the headline reads. "They are very tame and eat one mouse a week." Scroll down a bit and find a "dwarf pastel Colombian redtail boa" for $160. A bit f ... More >>

Shark Bites FIU Researcher in Everglades

Dr. Kirk Gastrich, a researcher at Florida International University, was out diving in the Everglades yesterday studying the ecological impact of sharks. What he got instead was a firsthand account of a different type of shark impact.A six-foot-long lemon shark attacked Gastrich and bit into his elb ... More >>

Florida Unemployment Alternatives, Working in Miami, Jobs Available

Dorothea Lange​Sure, Florida unemployment is at an all time high, but don't give up all hope, there are jobs in Miami's food service industry.The only other thing we're really qualified to do in life besides what you're reading now is wash dishes, which is more lucrative, but less fun, so nothing ... More >>

Behind the Scenes: MasterChef Casting Call, Miami

Jacob Katel​Gordon Ramsay is an asshole -- that's why he's fun to watch. So let's all watch him make amateur cooks feel like shit about themselves and their crappy food.MasterChef is new to FOX, but the program is already a UK and Australia phenomenon that has broken television viewing records in ... More >>

Lying 30-year-old grandmother was a stripper

Brazilian hair straightening can be deadly

Tired of Art Basel? Five Suggestions for a Culture-less Weekend Getaway!

​Art Basel has a funny way of making us feel like we're outsiders in our own town. Traffic is horrible. Parking even moreso. The line at your favorite Cuban restaurant (even if that happens to be Pollo Tropical) gets filled with hoity-toity Europeans trying to work in a little "authentic Miami exp ... More >>

Scared Stiff: In Miami-Dade, Back-Alley Beauticians Will Straighten Your Hair With Formaldehyde

tarus kumar via flicker cc Need something stronger?Andressa is a perky traveling beautician who specializes in Brazilian hair straightening. Sure, she uses formaldehyde -- found in embalming fluid -- to make curls straight as straw. And, yeah, inhaling the stuff causes nasal cancer in rats, bu ... More >>

New Burger King Whopper Bar South Beach Holding Casting Auditions

via Whopper Bar now hiring ad on CraigslistHahahaha. Doesn't that sign look like it says "Shave it your way?" ​​What is Whopper Bar? A high-falutin' fast food joint with an upscale interior, 22 topping choices for a Whopper-based menu, the fatter-patty casual dining upgrade burger, Whopperistas ... More >>

Cuba's Craigslist, Revolico, Blocked

1959 Buick for sale on Revolico.​So you had your heart set on that 1959 Buick advertised on Revolico and forgot to write the contact number down? You might have blown your chance.Reuters is reporting that the popular Cuban version of Craigslist -- which boasts 1.5 million page views a month -- is ... More >>

Beware of Clarence King, the Nigerian Scammer Trolling Craigslist Miami

Who knew Ziggy could be so topical?In April, we reported on the Craigslist Killings, in which murderers lured victims to their deaths using the classifieds site. Maybe my tale of barely escaping the jaws of a Craiglist predator won't make national news, but fuck me if it wasn't traumatizing. I almos ... More >>

Junk Cars for Cash

A South Florida Craigslist schemer wants your dubiously acquired vehicles.

RIP, Craigslist Erotic Services: 1996-2009

After a couple of high-profile murder cases in which the victim and killer met through Craigslist's "Erotic Services," the popular website has announced it's dropping the section. However, a new adult category has debuted to take its place; company staff will review all of those advertisements. ... More >>

The Fuzz Buster Strikes Again

A Coral Gables man stakes out speed traps in the name of justice.

Fuzz Buster to The Rescue

Gbalogh via Flickr/CC Miami-Dade police began an unholy crackdown on speeders this past week, leaving plenty of bad South Florida drivers to gripe about record-high $600 tickets. For road demons who are still stewing, meet the county's latest citizen watchdog: A self-appointed speed trap sleuth ... More >>

Are You An Out Of Work Musician? Want a Gig Just For the Money?

Do you wake up, smoke a bowl, bum a cigarette, drink a beer, eat some corn pops, play guitar, watch Judge Judy, Matlock and Oprah while "brainstorming" your million dollar ideas wearing dirty socks and wishing somebody would just pay your rent so you could concentrate on developing your unrecognize ... More >>

Free Lunch at Goldfinger Palm Beach

I was going to tell you about how to get a free drink at a strip club by printing out a coupon off of a Craigslist event posting, but that promotion expired yesterday, tough luck. Instead I'll tell you where to go for free lunch with bare naked ladies. Here are three promotions advertised by Go ... More >>

Any Compassionate Dentists or Plastic Surgeons out There in Need of a Body Rub?

By far the easiest "recession" story to write is finding weird, desperate postings on Craigslist. As if there aren't weird, desperate postings on Craigslist even in good economic times. That's just what MSNBC did, and they found a lady in Miami looking to trade a couple of hours of -- ahem -- "bo ... More >>

Venezuelan Indie Transplants CabinAffair Seek Members

Craigslist Will Start Charging For Job Posts In SoFla

South Florida Craigslist Musicians Ad Roundup

Magic City Kitty - Memorial Day Ass Edition

Last Night: Saves the Day, Metro Station, and Every Emo Band You Can Think of at Revolution.

Gossip 101

"How many times can you rank the hottest sororities? It just gets meaner and meaner."

Ikea: More Useless Crap?

Poison is Looking for Punanny