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Top Five Eats & Drinks This Week: From Beast's Frita Fest to SoFAB

Another Monday morning is here and groggy doesn't even begin to describe us. Have you ever set your alarm across the room to help you wake up? How about setting up an elaborate series of obstacles and barriers on the way to the blaring torture machine? I'm sure we're not the only ones hitting the ... More >>

FSU Campus Wi-Fi Users Redirected to "Meat Spin" Shock Site by Hacker

On March 1, students who tried to log on to the Internet using the free Wi-Fi network on Florida State University's Panama City campus found themselves automatically redirected to an infamous Internet shock site called Meatspin.com. In case you're unfamiliar, the site does not feature a 24-ounce por ... More >>

Miami Hurricanes Basketball Ranked 14th in AP Poll, 15th by Coaches

The Miami Hurricanes men's basketball team wrapped up their extraordinary week with a 71-47 drubbing of Florida State last night to remain undefeated in the ACC. Taken with their historic win over Duke on Wednesday, the 'Canes were rewarded handsomely in both the AP and USA Today Coaches' polls.

Miami Dolphins Stadium Renovation: A Political Insider's Guide

Give Stephen Ross props. He stepped up to Norman Braman one billionaire to another and slapped him across the face with a clean white glove. With a full page ad undermining Braman's credibility in Tuesday's edition of the Miami Herald, Ross let Braman know he's got the cash to parry any attacks the ... More >>

Digital Domain: The Fall of a Movie Empire

How Do You Know When You're a Real Floridian?

Earlier this year, we asked the question, "How do you know you're a real Miamian?" Which obviously got us thinking: How do you know when you're a real Floridan?This is a state full of retirees and transients. Even if you were born here, there's a good chance your parents probably weren't. So how doe ... More >>

University of Miami Drops in College Rankings, But Still Best In Florida

The University of Miami has dropped out of the top 40 of US News and Colleges Reports' widely cited college rankings, reversing years of slowly trudging up the rankings. The school dropped from 38th, its highest ranking ever, to 44 this year. Despite that, UM still remains the highest ranked school ... More >>

Almost Every Florida Team (Including FIU) Got a Vote in Preseason Coaches Poll, Except for the Hurricanes

According to voters in the just-released preseason Coaches Poll, the University of Miami Hurricanes are about on the same level as the Florida Atlantic University Owls: Neither team received a single vote in the poll. Every other Division I FBS team in Florida did, though. Even Florida International ... More >>

Six Best Club Parties on South Beach This Weekend

Legendary fitness guru and Florida State University alum Richard Simmons is 64 today. And frankly, he doesn't look a day over 64. The peppiest man in short-shorts is a true testament to healthy living, proving one jumping jack at a time that dedication, dancing, and dieting can keep you looking li ... More >>

Miami Not Likely to Follow If FSU Moves to Big 12

Could all three of Florida's traditional football powerhouses end up in separate conferences? News broke this weekend that Florida State University could be entertaining a move to the Big 12. That lead to some rumbling in the sports rumor-sphere that the Big 12 could also end up targeting some other ... More >>

Blue Collar Miami: A working-class joint wins with American comfort food and just plain comfort

These Are Their Stories

FSU Player Arrington Jenkins Arrested for Stupidest Motorcycle Theft Ever

​When former Coral Park Senior High standout Arrington Jenkins chose to play for Florida State University over his hometown team Miami, he told an ESPN reporter: "I don't have to worry about the 'U' anymore. I want to put them in the ground for the next four years."However, after getting arrested ... More >>

University of Miami Ranked 38th Best University in Nation by US News

​The University of Miami has risen nine spots in the latest edition of US News & World Report's annual college rankings. The school is now ranked the 38th best in the nation, up from the 47th position last year. For the second year in a row, the school is the only Florida institution ... More >>

Only God and LeBron Can Improve Sales of Florida Specialty License Plates

​Florida offers 122 specialty license plates, and all but two saw declines in sales between 2009 and 2010: The "In God We Trust" plate and the Miami Heat plate. Yep, unless you're God almighty or LeBron almighty, Floridians just don't want to shell out the extra cash to worship you on their bumper ... More >>

A notorious Miami football recruiter has a new "diploma mill"

Sports Poll: Only 22 Percent of Floridians Like LeBron, Gators Are Favorite Team

Finally a political polling firm has decided to poll on something other than politics. Public Policy Polling surveyed Floridians on another contentious topic: sports. The poll shows LeBron James isn't exactly that popular in his new state, while Florida's favorite pro team is the Tampa Bay Bucc ... More >>

Key Biscayne Beach Named One of America's Top Ten Beaches

​Sure, saying you're taking your talents to Cape Florida State Park Beach doesn't have much of a ring to it, but the stretch of sand on Key Biscayne is apparently the best Miami-Dade has to offer, and one of the best in the country. The annual list put out by Stephen Leatherman, director of Florid ... More >>

FSU Whores Out Its Econ Department To Billionaire Activist Koch Brothers

​Basic values like "academic integrity" and "common decency" usually lead universities to accept big donations only under strict guidelines: namely, that the benefactors trust the school to use the money without meddling.So it's really awful what's going on up at Florida State University, where th ... More >>

Hurricanes Women's Basketball Enters AP Top 10

The University of Miami women's basketball team finished regular-season play last night with a 70-59 victory over Georgia Tech. That win secured the team for a first-place tie atop the ACC with Duke, a second seed in the ACC tournament, and, for the first time all season, a place in the AP poll's to ... More >>

Guns at College? Father of Girl Shot at FSU Frat House Doesn't Think So

​Ashley Cowie, a sophomore at Florida State University, was shot and killed last month after an AK-47 accidentally went off at a party at a property housing fraternity brothers. Clearly, firearms and college parties don't mix well, but a bill introduced last month would allow students at Florida ... More >>

FSU Snaps Miami Women's Basketball Winning Streak

​There's something special going on this season with the Miami Hurricanes women's basketball team, but the squad experienced its first setback since their second game by falling to FSU last night 66-59. The loss ends Miami's 17-game winning streak, which tied Duke's longest winning streak in the n ... More >>

Weare the Dance Is

Pay Florida football coaches more

High School Football Coaches Deserve More Cash

​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. This week, Luke tackles high school football coaching salaries.Florida -- and Miami-Dade -- seriously need to change the way high school ... More >>

College Daze

Number One Partier

University of Miami Rises in U.S. News College Rankings, Finally Bests UF

​Under President Donna Shalala, the University of Miami has seen a slow but steady rise in U.S. News & World Report's highly touted college rankings. Last year, it became a top 50 university for the first time. This year, it continued to climb and became the highest-rated school in Florida. La ... More >>

Florida Schools Rank Low on Forbes Best Colleges List

​In US News and World Report's rankings of America's best colleges, the state of Florida boast two schools in the top 50: University of Florida and University of Miami. Forbes is now in the college ranking business too, and the rankings for the schools in Florida strike as a bit weird. Only o ... More >>

Scientist: "Oil Could Make It From Louisiana All the Way to Miami in a Week"

via US Coast GuardCrews trying to put out the flame after the initial explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.​This morning, Gov. Charlie Crist announced the entire state of Florida should brace for the impact of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Ecologists and residents are alr ... More >>

Could the Hurricanes Be Headed to an Expanded SEC?

​College athletic conferences are always finding new and exciting ways to further screw with the already tortured fabric of college football. The Big Ten has been talking for so long about expanding to 12 in order to get a championship game that we're surprised it hasn't happened. N ... More >>

Stormin’ to Omaha

Miami Hurricanes 2010 Schedule Released

The ACC released its 2010 schedules today. The Hurricanes will open their season Thursday, September 2, against FAMU, but things get considerably harder after that, when the Canes take on two out-of-conference teams that finished well ahead of them in the Top 25 last season.They'll have ten days aft ... More >>

Win Over Wake Forest Puts Miami Basketball in the Polls

Despite the fact UM Basketball has only lost one game this season they've lingered in the "also receiving votes" section of the AP's college basketball poll. Most likely because detractors pointed to the team's relatively easy early season schedule. But Saturday's win against ACC rival Wake Forest s ... More >>

Will Wax Ass for Dough

Hunters Push to Legalize Fishing Once-Endangered Goliath Grouper

scuba diver via flicker cc​Shhhhhhhh. Listen to that. It's the sound of hundreds of feisty, cow-size fish making sweet, sweet love. Early October is the height of spawning season for goliath grouper, which means the rare floating horndogs are getting busy in Miami waters as we speak. In early fall ... More >>

Edison High Football Star Makes a Great Escape

Philip Thomas dodges the tackles of a crime-ridden childhood.

Walk into a Windmill

And catch a black eye from the Revolution Fighting Championships.

Canes Got Sugar

Miami versus FSU rocked. Next up: Stanford.

It’s a Small World After All

Enjoy global music tonight at The Standard

Pay off Your Loans

Gabe Pendas wants to save college kids a bundle. And this brawler might just do it.

Being Straight Edge in Drug-laced College Culture

Orange Bowl's Fate Riles Facebookers

What's That Cop Doing in Our Huddle?

When campus police tangle with football players at FIU, you can expect a punt

Tourist Trappings

Altcountry newcomers send a mint julep postcard from Holopaw

Staging a Challenge

The Modern Stage's Nocturne wants you to feel -- anything

Gridiron Fever

FIU administrators think spending millions on a football program will do wonders for their school, and they'll sideline anyone who disagrees

School of Hard Rocks

From his wheelchair Doug Burris runs the show, loud and proud, at Miami Beach High

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