Diaz says the cabinet rumors are just rumors. [Naked Politics]
Unfortunately this isn't the first time we've heard something like this, but a 19-year-old in Broward committed suicide using drugs on webcam. [Local10]
Condo sales in downtown might be rebounding, but not for long. [Herald]
Gas prices continue to get lower. [Herald]
Rick Sanchez narrates the saddest moment of George W. Bush's life. [SFDB]
Some rumored marching unit themes for the King Mango Strut. [CGGV]
Opa-locka wants to name a s
When Glenn Terry started King Mango Strut to
protest getting snubbed from the Orange Bowl parade in 1981, it was an easy place to
poke fun at politics and society. The old hippie and his band of misfits
slapped two cardboard boxes at the ends of a four-block stretch with signs
reading: "Street closed for parade." And it was that simple.
Lately, though, The Man has been getting Terry down.
Sure, the Coconut Grove parade is still as irreverent as ever. It's the type of
place an (aging) flower
Yesterday, we informed you that the King Mango Strut- Coconut Grove's irreverent, wacky, and somewhat inexplicable post-Christmas parade -- might be no more after this year. The Man's got them down.If so, it's going out with a bang -- or more of a peck, really. (What is it about certain animals that makes you want to make really lame puns?) They've just named the Grand Marshal for this year, and it's Mr. Clucky. The impressively crowned, irresistibly friendly male chicken became a South Beach fi
There were plenty of exciting things that happened during 2008, but the final week of the year was just as busy as any other. Mild, sunny weather meant it was a great weekend to relax poolside and call up your friends up north to remind them that you haven't even broken in your winter sweater. But just in case Christmas dinner and visiting relatives kept you at home, here is what you missed over the weekend:Steve Aoki at B.E.D.Tony VargasHipster icon and DJ Steve Aoki once again was booked at an
Jacqueline CariniMr. Clucky and Buckley in 2007 What started out as a simple blog post on Riptide bringing the bizarre news that local celebrity rooster Mr. Clucky may be getting the boot from his Miami Beach home because of code violations has turned into a full fledged media firestorm. A crew from The Today Show has been following Mr. Clucky and his owner Mark Buckley for a feature set to air Friday morning. The Miami Herald, Fox News, NPR, The AP,and UPI have all chronicled the
"Sarah Palin" at King Mango Strut.​For the last two decades, the brilliant lunatics who run the King Mango Strut parade have been a happy little family. Their meetings -- which were speckled with old hippie types -- felt more like a showcase of standup comedy than a community planning board. Strutters sometimes had to hoop-jump for the city, but they never let The Man bring them down too far.
Now the family is going through an awkward divorce. Founder Glenn Terry and Treasurer Antoinett
