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Feverish Ice Cream Heads To The White House

Feverish Ice CreamFeverish heads to the White House​Feverish Ice Cream owners Felecia Hatcher and Derick Pearson are headed to Washington D.C., where they'll be feted for their accomplishments at a special White House reception tomorrow, Thursday, November 17. Business partners (and husband and w ... More >>

Lady Gaga and Obama! Five Presidential Meetings With Musicians

​Lady Gaga wants to meet with President Obama. Following the news that 14-year old Jamey Rodemeyer committed suicide after years of bullying, Gaga tweeted, "The past days I've spent reflecting, crying, and yelling. I have so much anger. It is hard to feel love when cruelty takes someones [sic] l ... 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 >>

Ten Reasons Rick Scott Will Never Be President

​This morning The Miami Herald ran a very chilling story asking "Is Gov. Rick Scott eyeing White House in 2012?" Amongst the evidence: his infatuation with federal issues, his appearances on Fox News, his apparent rivalry with other possible 2012 candidates, and his repeated attacks on Obama. ... More >>

Michelle Obama Visits Riverside Elementary -- Hide the Cuban Food!

White HouseFirst Lady Michelle Obama is in Miami today, and she wants to educate young children on the importance of a healthy diet.Students at Little Havana's Riverside Elementary will welcome Mrs. Obama and local area chefs at 2 p.m. to discuss what schools are doing to improve cafeteria lunch opt ... More >>

Five Stoli Losers Who Wouldn't Drink With Themselves

Stoli​Stolichnaya, the famous Russian vodka, is hunting for the next Stoli Original. The theme: "Would You Have a Drink With You?" To win, all you have to do is submit an audition tape online. The public will then vote on which video has the most "flavor." The winner will be announced on December ... More >>

Obama Brand Cigarettes Found in Florida: A Short History of Presidential Smokes

via ABC News​Jack Tapper at ABC News seems amused by a picture of Obama's brand cigarettes that a reader from Florida sent. Apparently, the presidential pleasure sticks are manufactured by a Uruguayan company, Montepaz, and sold in the States. Aside from that, there's little information about the ... More >>

Robert Straley's New Book Details Horror, Abuse At Florida School for Boys

​After running away from an abusive mother in the 1950s, the courts deemed Robert Straley an "incorrigible youth" and sent him to live at the Florida School for Boys in picturesque Marianna, near the Georgia border. Straley couldn't imagine the horror he'd endure: regular beatings and torture at t ... More >>

Election Day: Presidential Food Fetishes

​ ​ brownpau via flickr Exit polling says cake wins.​Famous French gastronomer Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said, "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are." On today, primary day, we offer this message: You can often tell the true measure of a politician more by what ... More >>

No Embargo on Rhythm

​ ​ brownpau via flickr Exit polling says cake wins.​Famous French gastronomer Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said, "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are." On today, primary day, we offer this message: You can often tell the true measure of a politician more by what ... More >>

Hungover from Too Much Freedom

​ ​ brownpau via flickr Exit polling says cake wins.​Famous French gastronomer Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said, "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you what you are." On today, primary day, we offer this message: You can often tell the true measure of a politician more by what ... More >>

Saturday Night Live Alum Victoria Jackson: Barack Obama is the New Fidel Castro

Jay Leno and other celebrities were at the White House this weekend for the correspondents' dinner, aka nerdprom. This is the event where the president and the press chummy it up and poke fun of each other for a couple of hours. Obama killed. Leno didn't.via shalf​That's where the White House went ... More >>

Blind Men Shall Lead Us

Jay Leno and other celebrities were at the White House this weekend for the correspondents' dinner, aka nerdprom. This is the event where the president and the press chummy it up and poke fun of each other for a couple of hours. Obama killed. Leno didn't.via shalf​That's where the White House went ... More >>

President Obama to Visit Miami on April 15

Pete Souza/White House Flickr​Apparently there's very few details yet, but President Barack Obama is planning to visit Miami on April 15 to help the White House's political wing Organizing for America. Sounds like a fundraiser.Naked Politics points to this email from the Democratic Party:We have e ... More >>

News Roundup: Heat Edge Nets, but Dwyane Wade Injured

7th Graders from St. Thomas Catholic Middle School joined President Obama at the White House as he made a call to astronauts on the International Space Station yesterday. [NBCMiami]The State has decided to challenge a local judge's decision to allow a lesbian couple to adopt a child. [Herald]Just wh ... More >>

The End Is Near

But did the Mayans happen to say if Palin will survive?

Miami Book Fair: Taylor Branch Talks About 'The Clinton Tapes'

Back in the 1970s, while working on George McGovern's doomed presidential bid in Texas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch shared a room with two driven young Yalies named Bill and Hillary Clinton. via Wikimedia Commons​When the man from Hope won the White House in '92, Clinton i ... More >>

In Liberty City, Obama Wants You to Buy Schlitz Malt Liquor and Newports

Obama is so enthusiastic about these products he added an extra r to his first name. It's tough to drive through Liberty City these days without running into President Obama. He's there on the side of Liberty City Elementary, next to the MLK portrait. He's painted on the walls of at least a c ... More >>

Least Powerful VP Since Quayle in Miami For Two Days

When Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his running mate, America responded with a resounding, "oh, ok." He's an experience, competent guy, don't get us wrong. And by all accounts he made some serious contributions to getting the cabinet together, but it seems that Mr. Biden has returned the Vice P ... More >>

On the List - XXXChange, VNDLSM, Little Louie Vega and Yo! Majesty

Should we be worrying, ya'll? Economy is going to shit. Let's hope Obama fixes things soon after he gives Bush the boot from the White House next week. Until then, there shall be more drinking and partying to forget we are on the verge of going broke.Here is what you'll want to check out this weeken ... More >>

Code Pink Inspires Shoe Puns

Here is Calle Ocho's favorite protest group Code Pink throwing shoes at a guy in a Bush mask outside of the White House, because these very mature actions will end the Iraq War tomorrow. The Washington Post has decided to be a very wry version of The Daily Show, and documented the whole thing while ... More >>

A Letter to Barack Obama

Joe Arriola kisses up to the future prez.

Next Step In Gay Marraige Fight: Waiting Game For The Obama Supreme Court

Joe Arriola kisses up to the future prez.

D-Day

Regardless of whom you’re for, get out the vote today!

The Future’s So Bright

You might need to wear shades to this Popular Science mall tour.

Wyclef, Kanye West, and N.E.R.D. to perform at the Democratic National Convention

You might need to wear shades to this Popular Science mall tour.

Remember Old Jim Crow

You might need to wear shades to this Popular Science mall tour.

Vote for Change Tour

You might need to wear shades to this Popular Science mall tour.

Current Stage Shows

You might need to wear shades to this Popular Science mall tour.

Little Goes A Long Way

Immigration attorney Cheryl Little spent years banging her head against INS bureaucracy, until a Haitian boat cracked it open

Heretics in the House

They came to Miami. They gathered publicly. They showed no fear. And they trashed the Cuba embargo.

Waiting for Otto

Why would a man sullied by Iran-contra and illegal propaganda campaigns be a Bush nominee? Good question.

Best Hole At A Golf Course

Number six

Revelation 19.63

For nearly four decades the CIA has kept secret the identity of a Miami agent who may have known too much too early about Lee Harvey Oswald

One Last Push

A decision on Homestead is imminent, and nobody wants to guess what will happen next

The Great Divide

Correspondence from our readers

I Am Truly Sorry

Correspondence from our readers

Radio Free Miami

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

Secretary of Limbo

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

Letters

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

Point Plank

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

Acting with Valor

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

Stone's Throw

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

The Script

Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

Politics and Prosecutors

Why is it that naming a U.S. Attorney for Miami seems to be one of the world's most complicated tasks?

The Collector

What do Armando Valladares, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Miriam Alonso, Xavier Suarez, Alex Penelas, Steve Clark, and the Miami Herald editorial board have in common? They're just a few of the big names enlisted by accused embezzler Roberto Polo in his fight to a

Meditations on the L-Word

Janet, Donna, Hillary, and Me

Inside Feature

Janet, Donna, Hillary, and Me

Fraudbuster!

Janet, Donna, Hillary, and Me