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Suze Orman May Leave Florida Over Gay Marriage and Taxes

Financial guru Suze Orman may be packing up her partner and her jacket collection and moving to a state that recognizes gay marriage if the Supreme Court overturns DOMA.Orman currently lives in Fort Lauderdale with partner Kathy Travis, but the tax breaks that could come with federally recognized ma ... More >>

Kratom Comes to Florida: Is the Next Big Drug Craze Dangerous?

Republican Party of Florida Just Writing Weird Fan Fiction About Charlie Crist Now

This is an actual press release sent out by an actual political party. The Republican Party of Florida to be exact. Someone (or perhaps multiple someones) actually wrote this, and made a photoshop and decided it would be a good idea to send out. 

Romney Campaign Apparently Confident It Will Win Florida

There's no way around it: If Mitt Romney loses Florida he'll lose the election. After months of polling and campaigning, the conventional wisdom is that if Romney fails to capture the Sunshine State's 29 electoral votes he's left with very few paths to Electoral College victory.Well, just a day befo ... More >>

Vote For Political Cocktails From Eden Roc Renaissance

This Presidential election is enough to drive anyone (even Mitt Romney) to drink. After all, in the past few weeks, we've seen both candidates snipe at each other in the debates, watched aghast as Donald Trump failed yet again to be taken seriously, and stared in disbelief as Big Bird became caught ... More >>

Stripper Tip Drill Is Now a Rapper, Unveils Shit Happens Mixtape Cover on Twitter

It was not long ago that we here at Crossfade knew Tip Drill simply as Miami's most recognizable stripper. But then a fall during one of her signature, death-defying slides down King of Diamonds' massive pole left her with a broken jaw, bringing a premature end to her days as the top money earner ... More >>

King of Diamonds: How America's Favorite Black Strip Club Won Its Crown

Click for King of Diamonds cover shoot outtakes.

Marco Rubio Endorses Mitt Romney in Possible First Step Toward VP Bid

​Marco Rubio finally stepped off the sidelines of the GOP primary last night, backing Mitt Romney for president in an interview on Fox News. While the endorsement isn't all that surprising, Rubio's timing sparks a key question: Is he backing Romney because it's clear Mitt will hold off the competi ... More >>

Maxigate: A CVS employee and a menstrual pad make for a wild lawsuit

Strippers Skrawberry and Tip Drill evaluate the Republican contenders

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 >>

Hugo Chavez Releases Exercise Video

​It's the hottest aerobics video starring a communist-sympathizer since The Jane Fonda Workout.It's the craze sweeping hoards of South Americans looking to drop a few kilograms in time for summer.It's the latest sign that Venezuela's president is further sinking into some sort of out-of-touch Kim ... More >>

Heat-Bulls Game 4/Election-Results Live Blog-a-palooza

​Big night in Miami tonight. On one side, the Miami Heat hosting the Chicago Bulls in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. On the other, the Miami-Dade elections. What's a good Miamian to do? Watch the game? Check on the election results?Well, don't fret, good citizen. Just stay with us t ... More >>

Fat Boy Republican Presidential Contenders: Ranking 'em According To Girth

Let's face it: With Americans getting portlier by leaps and bounds, we need a President who reflects our food-obsessed values. That's right: It is time again for a fat person to inhabit the White House.It's been almost a century since our last obese leader, William Howard Taft, got stuck in the Whit ... More >>

Top Five Reasons Taco Bell Might Actually Be More Dangerous Than MTV's Skins

​MTV's latest series Skins aired its first episode last week (and its second last night) to the tune of a whole lot of controversy. From CNN to MSNBC to the friggin' Today Show, comparisons likening the show to "child pornography" and claiming it's "like peer pressure on steroids" have been swirl ... More >>

ESPN: Brian Daboll to Be Dolphins Next Offensive Coordinator

​Will Brian Daboll be the man to turn around the Miami Dolphins' faulty offense? According to ESPN, he's just been hired as the new offensive coordinator. He's spent two years in the same position with the Cleveland Browns, but before that spent time on the staffs of the Dolphin's two biggest riva ... More >>

Year in review: LeBron rescues Miami

Happy Holidays, You're Unemployed

Aflcio via Flickr ​You'd never guess it by the numbers retail stores pulled in over the busiest shopping weekend of the year, but the National unemployment rate is 9.6 percent. And by month's end, close to 2 million will have lost their extended unemployment benefits, according MSNBC.com. In ... More >>

Alan Grayson Auditions for MSNBC on the House Floor

​Our fellow Floridians in the Orlando area resoundingly kicked Rep. Alan Grayson out of office this election in a 19 point defeat. Apparently they do not care that the rest of America enjoys being entertained by his off-the-wall speeches on the House floor. He's already told Dick Cheney to literal ... More >>

Jay-Z shows up on Miami PD's gang web page

Rick Sanchez Says Jews Control the Media, Calls Jon Stewart a Bigot

​After years of toiling in the Miami TV market and a short stint on MSNBC, former WSVN anchor Rick Sanchez had finally made it to the big time with his own popular show on CNN. Of course the guy has become known for his embarrassing gaffes, but in his latest misstep he's implied that Jews control ... More >>

How George Alan Rekers and his rent boy got busted by New Times

Battle of the Blowhards: Keith Olbermann vs. Glenn Garvin

via the front page of The Herald's website todayGarvin, who's taking part in The Herald's weird Biggest Loser-esque "thing," getting back to his fighting weight.​MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has this terribly annoying habit of self-righteously addressing any criticism directed against him in overly dra ... More >>

The 2009 Miami Book Fair offers a strange brew of talent

Blanket Jackson: Al Malnik is Not the Father

TMZMalnik with BlanketAl Malnik continued his "I am going to talk about Michael Jackson until everyone stops caring" tour yesterday on the Today Show. He brought new personal photos, but wanted to clear up a few things. Like the rumor he is the biological father of Jackson's youngest son Blanke ... More >>

MIA Will Not Accept Chewed-Up Passports

via d70Focus's flickrHere's a cute golden retriever to illustrate this blog post. A 17-year-old Wisconsin boy was on his way to a trip in Peru with his Spanish class. Only problem was that his passport had been previously used as a chew toy by his family's 1-year-old golden retriever, Sunshine. ... More >>

Buckley: Joe Scarborough Has the Best Face in the GOP

Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman and current MSNBC host, laughed away talks he might run for Florida Senate: "I don't really think it would be good to run in 2010 with a party that is actively associating itself with the Taliban." Christopher Buckley, son of conservative icon Willia ... More >>

Matt Drudge Makes Out's Gay Power List

Steve SatterwhiteHere is how your basic "Matt Drudge is a homosexual" gossip item reads: "I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend that Drudge is totally gay" and then that person cites an interview Drudge gave to New Times in 2001, one of the few personal interviews Drudge has ever given. "So ... More >>

State Sen. Larcenia Bullard Was Yesterday's "Worst Person In The World"

Somewhere, sometime ago in one of the many wonderful comments we get, someone accused me of blindly following MSNBC in my political mumblings. Which was funny to me because at the time I didn't watch much of the channel, and had never seen an episode of Countdown or The Rachel Maddow Show. Well, si ... More >>

Scarborough Vs Limbaugh: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Rush Limbaugh, as you know, has been busy running the Republican party from his West Palm Beach radio studio. Too bad he can't seem to even get the support of another prominent, conservative talking head from the Sunshine state.If anyone didn't believe Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough's denial that ... More >>

As Predicted, Crist Loses CPAC Poll Horribly

via sky820's flickrSomething that actually appeared at this Carnival, CPAC, last year. So maybe this took about as much insight as it would to predict that Rosie O'Donnell wouldn't win Ms. America, but it still feel good to be right. Friday we had this to say of Ol' Charles Crist's chances in the CP ... More >>

Tom Delay: Charlie Crist Drove Florida "Into the Economic Toilet"

DeLay's actual mugshot. I think MSNBC takes a sick delight in putting the most ridiculous Republicans on their programs just to let them sprout all sorts of nonsense. So naturally, Tom DeLay, the disgraced former Republican house majority leader, stopped by Hardball with Chris Matthew last night to ... More >>

Joe Scarborough Won't Run For Senate Because Republicans are Now the Taliban

Just Yesterday, we were talking about a Joe Scarborough Senate run in 2010. And why not? If Charlie Crist doesn't run, former Rep. Joe "I Have a TeeVee Show" Scarborough sounds just as good or better than Connie "Hey, Remember my Dad?" Mack IV, Vern "Not Katherine Harris" Buchanan, and Marco "Check ... More >>

Why is Obama Avoiding the Littlest Journalist?

Damon Weaver, the ten year old journalism superstar, snagged VIP tickets to the inauguration yesterday, but was held up in the security line and missed the main event, reports CBS4. Is the Obama administration trying to censor the most trusted name in news? Quite possibly. Why won't Obama sit down w ... 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 >>

Letters from the Issue of December 25, 2008

"He has managed to buy the majority of his support with false promises of better lives for the population."

Miamians Passed Over For Another Cabinet Post

America, meet your new Transportation Secretary (reportedly)! It is Republican Congressman Ray LaHood. Miraculously LaHood did not serve in the Clinton Administration or run against Obama in the primaries like every other member of the Cabinet, but he is a white guy and from Illinois (oops, he's of ... More >>

Election Night: Hipsters at PS14 Forgo Apathy in Support of Obama

Southern Hip-Hop = Fox News?

Both appeal to red-staters, and both are unfairly maligned.

Stacey and Friends

Four characters in search of a talk show.

Blind Date

Tasha Joseph's Website shows fiction is stranger than truth

The Bad America

Bill Maher continues to coax controversy

Savage Station

WFTL-850 AM was an oasis of local talk; now it's just another haven for hate

Politics and Policy

With its severe new Cuba regulations, the Bush administration alienated some Miami exiles, but not the ones who matter

Card Shark

A Delray Beach businessman has made quite a splash. But is he all wet?

La Cosa Nuestra

The war on sexual orientation reveals the organization and structure of the Take Back Miami-Dade political family

News Before Rick

Seven Heaven

The Drudge Retort

Democrats hate him. Journalists scorn him. Most Americans ignore him. Which is fine with Matt Drudge. He's taking it to the bank.

Tales in the Storm

Spaceballs!