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  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    Five Tales of Office Nudity To Celebrate Working Naked Day

    ​Today is Working Naked Day! But don't get too excited. As much as you want the cute girl from accounting to know that you have a totally sweet tattoo of a hyena using nunchucks while surfing on the back of a giant piranha on your ass, today is not the day to reveal it. According to Lisa Kanarek, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Angela Castillo Says South Miami Hospital Fired Her For Grieving Her Dead Brother

    There are bosses, and then there are bad bosses. Orlando Valdez would seem to fall into the second category, at least according to Angela Castillo. When Castillo, a South Miami Hospital CAT scan technician, found out that her brother had unexpectedly died last month, she says she told Valdez th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    North Miami Beach Police Employees Fired Over Santeria Curse On City Manager UPDATE

    ​North Miami Beach has fired two police department employees after they allegedly were caught in the office trying to cast a Santeria curse on the city manager shortly before mass layoffs were planned. Veteran officer Elizabeth Torres and office manager Yvonne Rodriguez were canned last week over ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street Onscreen

    ​North Miami Beach has fired two police department employees after they allegedly were caught in the office trying to cast a Santeria curse on the city manager shortly before mass layoffs were planned. Veteran officer Elizabeth Torres and office manager Yvonne Rodriguez were canned last week over ... More >>

  • News

    September 15, 2011

    Andrew Marshall: Miami's Ted Kaczynski, Part 1

    Read Part 2: Marshall's answer — build an arsenal of assault rifles and explosives.

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Plum TV President Robert Gregory Leaves to Take Over Newsweek

    ​Less than a week after the departure of CEO Jerry Power and a day after mass layoffs were announced, the crumbling Plum TV luxury media empire now faces another loss. President Robert Gregory is leaving to take the same position at Newsweek Daily Beast Co. Of course, considering the state he left ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Plum TV: Large Layoffs and Major Restructuring UPDATED

    ​Just days after the resignation of CEO Jerry Powers, it seems Plum TV is headed for an uncertain future. Plum airs luxury lifestyle coverage on cable networks in a few high-end markets across America, including Miami Beach, Nantucket and Aspen, and recently launched magazines in Miami and the Ham ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    Rick Scott's dirtiest deeds

    ​Just days after the resignation of CEO Jerry Powers, it seems Plum TV is headed for an uncertain future. Plum airs luxury lifestyle coverage on cable networks in a few high-end markets across America, including Miami Beach, Nantucket and Aspen, and recently launched magazines in Miami and the Ham ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Miami Sports Teams that Pay Players the Most Suck the Least

    ​Remember the time that the New York Yankee's Alex Rodriguez's annual salary was greater than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins combined? Well, the Marlins have agreed to increase their payroll in anticipation of moving into their own ballpark, and now A-Rod only makes about 57 percent of w ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Pay Florida football coaches more

    ​Remember the time that the New York Yankee's Alex Rodriguez's annual salary was greater than the entire roster of the Florida Marlins combined? Well, the Marlins have agreed to increase their payroll in anticipation of moving into their own ballpark, and now A-Rod only makes about 57 percent of w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Nine City of Miami Workers Earning More Than $100K Get the Boot

    A couple months ago, the City of Miami's budget was about as well-balanced as Gary Busey on PCP. ​The Commission, Mayor Manny Diaz and the city's three unions staged a vicious tug-of-war over who would feel the most pain in plugging a $118 million hole.But as Tomas Regalado prepares to take o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Publix Responds To CIW Protest Actions

    Monday, we brought you protest images from a spot near a West Miami Publix, where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers staged a protest. The CIW is a farmworkers union seeking a contractual commitment from Publix to ensure fair wages and conditions for workers. So far Burger King, Taco Bell, McDonald' ... More >>

  • News

    September 17, 2009

    Baby Got Fatback!

    Why are so many cities laying off little guys and not cutting executives' porcine salaries?

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Most County Executives Safe from Budget Cuts

    Alex Izaguirre​UPDATE: Earlier this week, Miami-Dade County spokeswoman Vicki Mallette responded to my earlier report regarding executive salaries. I apologize to my readers for not posting her response sooner.She insisted that Alvarez is proposing in the budget a ten percent reduction to the coun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Male-on-Male Sexual Harassment Case Ends in $110,000 Settlement

    My, how sexual harassment claims have evolved. In the nineties, the headlines always went like this: Pretty Young Female Subordinate Sues Insensitive Boss. You didn't hear much about the unfortunate boys who were groped, gawked at or objectified on the job. But check this out: A group of Miami-base ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Flea Market Rapper Geisha Has a Unique (and NSFW) Way of Dealing With her Enemies

    Something tells us that if Shaquille "Kobe, Tell Me How my Ass Taste" O'Neal has heard of Liberty City flea market rapper Geisha, he's a fan. It's Friday morning, as good a time as any to post the new ditty that has all the kids singing along... about arching up their backs and tooting up their ass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    ¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.? My Excuses For Being Late

    Not too long ago, as impossible as it looks, sounds and seems, I held a day job. It was a mundane era of wearing socks, shaving, and having far fewer groupies. Sometimes, I needed to call this day job of mine and tell them I was not feeling so good. Every time I called in sick, I felt a sense of do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2008

    Shake Ups at Ocean Drive Become Clearer

    Not too long ago, as impossible as it looks, sounds and seems, I held a day job. It was a mundane era of wearing socks, shaving, and having far fewer groupies. Sometimes, I needed to call this day job of mine and tell them I was not feeling so good. Every time I called in sick, I felt a sense of do ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    The Power Is Yours

    Tap into potential and own yours today.

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    Craigslist Will Start Charging For Job Posts In SoFla

    Tap into potential and own yours today.

  • Calendar

    August 14, 2008

    White-Collar Dollar Clones

    Free your wallet at Poplife.

  • Calendar

    March 20, 2008

    Calling All Vets

    Free your wallet at Poplife.

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2008

    Shocking News Break: Brian Gaine Quits Cowboys

    Free your wallet at Poplife.

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2007

    Cane Deserves a Whacking

    Free your wallet at Poplife.

  • Calendar

    May 24, 2007

    Make It Memorable

    Don’t waste your Memorial Day off

  • News

    February 16, 2006

    Fewer Lawmen

    May mean more lawlessness

  • City Life

    May 12, 2005

    BEST SPECTACLE

    Demolition of the Everglades Hotel

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Photo Finish

    Where has the Daniel Azoulay Gallery gone?

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST PUBLIC RESTROOM

    Houston's

  • News

    January 22, 2004

    Pity the Poor Politicos

    Voters gave Miami's city commissioners a huge raise, but that hasn't stopped them from keeping their day jobs

  • News

    January 8, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of January 8, 2004

    Voters gave Miami's city commissioners a huge raise, but that hasn't stopped them from keeping their day jobs

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Letters from the Issue of November 27, 2003

    Anarchists and baseball and parrots and jazz

  • News

    November 13, 2003

    Calendar of FTAA Events

    Anarchists and baseball and parrots and jazz

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Ramp Rats' Revenge

    Checking luggage? Think long and hard before answering yes to that question at MIA

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Lexus Scurrilous

    This Kendall dealership sells pretty cars, but six former employees claim that working there is pretty ugly

  • City Life

    May 17, 2001

    Best Way To Renew Your Driver License

    By appointment

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Honk If You Like Chickens

    The Green Party stumbles toward election day

  • News

    March 30, 2000

    Border Wars

    Nearly a dozen people in the local INS office have filed sexual-harassment complaints against the agency

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    The Perfect Scam

    For the workers life is no carnival, believe it or not

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Standing Pat

    The school board may vote to name a school after a powerful union boss. That's politics, baby.

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    The Doctor is Out

    Beset by internecine battles, troubled leadership, and funding cuts, the local office of the Florida Department of Health is in need of intensive care.

  • News

    July 2, 1998

    Wheels of Fortune

    Why are the county's Metrobus drivers such a happy lot? Maybe because some earn more than $90,000 per year.

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Fall from Grace

    Health Crisis Network's stunning financial meltdown has spurred an outpouring of concern and a raft of rumors

  • Film

    July 31, 1997

    Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

    Health Crisis Network's stunning financial meltdown has spurred an outpouring of concern and a raft of rumors

  • News

    May 29, 1997

    Quit Your Bellyachin'!

    The City of Miami's version of the EEOC hasn't upheld a discrimination claim in years

  • News

    February 20, 1997

    A Revoltin' Development

    Dade's shoddy builders beware: A new business regulation task force is looking to make some surprise visits

  • News

    August 29, 1996

    Give It Arrest

    The ACLU claims Dade County is using a temporary employment law to keep Hispanic day laborers off the job and in jail

  • News

    December 14, 1995

    Say "Uncle!"

    Ivey Kearson says he was wrongly fired from his City of Miami job -- and he alleges a conspiracy involving Miller Dawkins's nephew

  • News

    August 18, 1993

    Male Order

    Bruce Wheatley is a man. Bruce Wheatley is a nurse. Bruce Wheatley can't find work as an ob-gyn nurse.

  • Film

    December 30, 1992

    One Union Under Mob

    Bruce Wheatley is a man. Bruce Wheatley is a nurse. Bruce Wheatley can't find work as an ob-gyn nurse.

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