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  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Is Your Smartphone Spying On You? Miami Lawsuit Targets "Invasive" Carrier IQ Software

    photo by John Karakansantis via Wikimedia Commons​What if your smartphone has secretly tracked everything you've done for the past two years: every Google search, every website, every key stroke -- not to mention everywhere you've traveled? Sounds like a paranoid fantasy from Enemy of the State, b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Government Backs Off the Food Industry

    ​Anti-obesity lobbyists and children activists have been trying for years to get food companies to stop marketing high sugar, high sodium, and overall unhealthy foods to children.Food companies, such as McDonald's, General Mills, and others, create advertising campaigns that include cartoon charac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Four Loko Has the Alcohol Content of Four Beers, According to the FTC

    ​The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that Four Loko maker Phusion Products, LLC has agreed to relabel its frat-boy-friendly beverages to reflect the actual alcohol content in every can --  which roughly translates to "a shitload of booze."According to the FTC, "one can of ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Doral companies sued for scamming radio and TV listeners

    ​The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that Four Loko maker Phusion Products, LLC has agreed to relabel its frat-boy-friendly beverages to reflect the actual alcohol content in every can --  which roughly translates to "a shitload of booze."According to the FTC, "one can of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2011

    All Dream Vacations and VGC Corp Accused of Ripping Off Hundreds of Spanish Radio and TV Viewers

    photo by Krismast via Wikimedia CommonsNope, you're not actually going to Disney World.A couple of weeks ago, 21-year-old Juan Rivera was listening to his favorite station, New York's 97.9 La Mega, when an excited voice announced a contest: "Answer this trivia question first, and you'll win a four-d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Judge Keeps Results Of Commission Race Secret Thanks to Banned Banker Ricardo Corona

    via Mega TVRicardo Corona​Want to know who will replace mayoral candidate Carlos Gimenez on the County Commission? Too bad! The results will be secret thanks to a bizarre ruling last night by a judge who wants more time to decide whether candidates had enough time to file for the race. Even strang ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Revealed: USDA Plot To Kill Americans With Cheese!

    "Domino's Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies. Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino's to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 perce ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2010

    South Florida-based Ponzi scheme dupes investors out of Costa Rican real estate

    "Domino's Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies. Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino's to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 perce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    A Costa Rica Land Grab Smells Like a $50 Million Ponzi Scheme

    Photo from Paragon's website, paracr.com.How come Bill Gale didn't want to talk to a New Times reporter?In 2005, Dallas resident Richard Silverman returned from vacation in Costa Rica convinced the Central American paradise was a perfect spot for a second home. So after searching online, Silverman ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    There is Enough Content: How to Decentralize South Florida's Radio Markets

    Photo by Stephanie Rae Berzon​Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small democratic strategist with no party affiliation. From time to time, we will surrender our space for his thoughts on t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Talula & Rigatoni, Oceanaire & Caymus, Gonzalo & Olé, the FTC & Me

    ​Talula turns ItalianTalula restaurant recently launched Buon Appetito!, also known as Wednesday pasta night.  "We wanted to give our diners a special taste of the type of food we love cooking at home for our families," says Andrea Curto-Randazzo, the Italian chef/co-owner who opened Talula i ... More >>

  • News

    January 25, 2007

    Cut and Run

    Hundreds of mostly poor investors taken for millions? Say it ain't so.

  • News

    October 7, 2004

    The Bitch

    Definitive Gaze

  • Culture

    July 26, 2001

    It Happens

    Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    The Last Service Station, Part 2

    As Big Oil forces out the last independent gas station dealers, the era of truly giant oil begins

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    The Last Service Station

    Why did the big oil companies want to put Ron Gregory and other independent operators out of business? That's right, to pad their profits.

  • News

    November 9, 1995

    Cat Scratch Fever

    A TV show about a curative plant sends Miami's Spanish-speaking community into a buying tizzy

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