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Mongol Rally Will Take Two Miamians Across One-Third the Earth's Surface In A Tiny Car

Think your commute sucks? ​South Florida market analyst Carlos Edde, 25, and graphic design consultant Alex Pretelt, 26, are preparing to driving 10,000 miles from England to Mongolia -- all without a GPS system in a 1.2 liter car. The insane drive is part of the international Mongol Rally, a seri ... More >>

Kostya Kimlat Brings Magic to Cafe DaVinci

Laine Doss Kostya Kimlat brings his "bag of tricks" to Cafe DaVinci​Kostya Kimlat has been a magician for almost two decades, even though he looks barely out of high school himself. The Ukraine-born magician, based in Orlando, performs and teaches magic around the world. Named the basketbal ... More >>

Seven Pretty, Evil, and Homicidal Easter Eggs

via evris28This egg is disgusted by your decorating skills.​Oh, you thought your children were so talented because they affixed a bunch of stickers to a hard-boiled egg and it looks cuter than a baby bunny sliding down a rainbow atop a unicorn? Well, we hate to inform you, but your child is a simp ... More >>

Alcee Hastings's sexual harassment woes

via evris28This egg is disgusted by your decorating skills.​Oh, you thought your children were so talented because they affixed a bunch of stickers to a hard-boiled egg and it looks cuter than a baby bunny sliding down a rainbow atop a unicorn? Well, we hate to inform you, but your child is a simp ... More >>

Fight over Modigliani masterpiece turns ugly

via evris28This egg is disgusted by your decorating skills.​Oh, you thought your children were so talented because they affixed a bunch of stickers to a hard-boiled egg and it looks cuter than a baby bunny sliding down a rainbow atop a unicorn? Well, we hate to inform you, but your child is a simp ... More >>

An Ugly Legal Fight Over A Lovely Modigliani Painting Nears An End

Amedeo Modigliani's "Young Woman With a White Collar"The painting is lovely: A young woman with a mask-like face twists her ethereal neck to the side. Titled Young Woman With a White Collar, it's a classic by Amedeo Modigliani. The fight over the $5 million work, however, is anything but beautiful.T ... More >>

Miami art this week: DNA science experiments

Amedeo Modigliani's "Young Woman With a White Collar"The painting is lovely: A young woman with a mask-like face twists her ethereal neck to the side. Titled Young Woman With a White Collar, it's a classic by Amedeo Modigliani. The fight over the $5 million work, however, is anything but beautiful.T ... More >>

Miami art this week: Black Square Gallery catches dreams

Amedeo Modigliani's "Young Woman With a White Collar"The painting is lovely: A young woman with a mask-like face twists her ethereal neck to the side. Titled Young Woman With a White Collar, it's a classic by Amedeo Modigliani. The fight over the $5 million work, however, is anything but beautiful.T ... More >>

Two Wynwood galleries cash in after Basel

Amedeo Modigliani's "Young Woman With a White Collar"The painting is lovely: A young woman with a mask-like face twists her ethereal neck to the side. Titled Young Woman With a White Collar, it's a classic by Amedeo Modigliani. The fight over the $5 million work, however, is anything but beautiful.T ... More >>

Liset Alea Talks Touring With Nouvelle Vague and Her Miami Music Festival Gigs

​I could praise Liset Alea's talent forever. But until you listen to this songbird for yourself (or better yet, hear her live), you won't really understand. This Cuban-born beauty has picked up a thing or two traversing the globe, from New York to Miami, Cuba to Costa Rica, and all over Europe. A ... More >>

Wynwood Second Saturday preview: Russkis and a new movement

​I could praise Liset Alea's talent forever. But until you listen to this songbird for yourself (or better yet, hear her live), you won't really understand. This Cuban-born beauty has picked up a thing or two traversing the globe, from New York to Miami, Cuba to Costa Rica, and all over Europe. A ... More >>

Hack Pack

The biggest identity theft case ever. Right here in Miami.

There is Enough Content: The Problems With iTunes and American Idol

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-d democratic strategist with no party affiliation. Each week, we surrender our space for his thoughts on the music indus ... More >>

Did Efraim Diveroli's Crony Ship Missiles to Hezbollah?

Courtesy of Miami-Dade CorrectionsEfraim DiveroliIn early 2007, after winning a $300 million U.S. Army contract to equip Afghanistan with munitions, Miami Beach arms dealer Efraim Diveroli, age 21, went scavenging in Albania. There he subcontracted Ylli Pinari, head of that Balkan country's state-ru ... More >>

News Roundup: Hotel Bookings on the Rise; Heat Beat Blazers

Miami hotels may be seeing an increase in booking this winter, but with discounted rates it may not help them turn a profit. [Herald]Lincoln Diaz-Balart received an award from the Ukraine. [Herald]Here's an explanation of all those fancy designer stores (Gucci, Louboutin, etc.) that have popped up t ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Refresh Miami, September Edition

Douglas Suarez, Jose Gonzalez and Joel Cloralt, three of Worsterer.com's founders, posing with a dress installation by artist Theresa Marie Calluori, currently on exhibit at Windisch-Hunt Gallery.​Wednesday was that time of the month again when local tech and social media pros gathered to share id ... More >>

Miami Hacker Indicted In Largest ID Theft Ring In History, 130 Million Cards

A Miami computer hacker who went by the screen name of "soupnazi" was indicted today in what the feds call the largest identity theft case in history.​Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old from the Magic City, and two unnamed sidekicks from Russia hacked into the networks of major retail chains includin ... More >>

Gogol Bordello

A Miami computer hacker who went by the screen name of "soupnazi" was indicted today in what the feds call the largest identity theft case in history.​Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old from the Magic City, and two unnamed sidekicks from Russia hacked into the networks of major retail chains includin ... More >>

Battle of the Bulge

A Miami computer hacker who went by the screen name of "soupnazi" was indicted today in what the feds call the largest identity theft case in history.​Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old from the Magic City, and two unnamed sidekicks from Russia hacked into the networks of major retail chains includin ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays: Phil Spitalny - "What's the Use?"

Today's throwback comes from wayyyy back in the way-back machine's gears: 1930, when Phil Spitalny's orchestral jazz compositions were pop hits. It's hard to imagine a time before popular music was splintered into a thousand different subgenres, but think about it: Beyond classical and real folk t ... More >>

2007 Music Year in Review

It's all in the stars.

Daddy's Dog

Saying she's treated no better than a stray cur, the fifth wife of Daddy's Girl millionaire Bruce McMahan breaks her silence

The Bedroom Tapes

Miami DJs Adam Singer and Vitaliy Levin could mix in their pajamas if they wanted to

The Drink-'Em-Up World Cup

America's most international city was scandalously lubed

Night&Day

America's most international city was scandalously lubed

This Week's Day by Day Picks

America's most international city was scandalously lubed

Dark & Dirty

America's most international city was scandalously lubed

e-Cuba

One guess who'll control access to the Internet

Donato's Closet

When an INS officer confronted el Pescador and Elian, he didn't know what he was facing

Spanish Word Plays

When an INS officer confronted el Pescador and Elian, he didn't know what he was facing

News of the Weird

When an INS officer confronted el Pescador and Elian, he didn't know what he was facing

News of the Weird

When an INS officer confronted el Pescador and Elian, he didn't know what he was facing

Kings of Rhyme

When an INS officer confronted el Pescador and Elian, he didn't know what he was facing

Deconstructing Tommy

How a Bensonhurst boy rose to the summit of South Beach's promotion biz

The Three B's

How a Bensonhurst boy rose to the summit of South Beach's promotion biz

Every Lawyer's Nightmare

How infuriating is Joe Blake? Let's put it this way: His attorney is accused of trying to have him murdered.

24 Hours a Stray

The Humane Society's animal rescue drivers work hard to save the wounded, to rescue the sick and abandoned. But usually the endings are not so happy.

A Date with Destiny

Karma bum Lionel Goldbart puts himself in Jeopardy! -- again

From Moscow to Miami

When Cuba's top students were sent to the Soviet Union, no one could have guessed they would change from revolutionaries to refugees.

Female Trouble

When Cuba's top students were sent to the Soviet Union, no one could have guessed they would change from revolutionaries to refugees.