University of Michigan

Brad Meltzer's "The Fifth Assassin"

Brad Meltzer, Miami Author and TV Host, Releases Assassination-Themed Novel Just In Time For Inauguration Week

For two years, a slight, balding man in Miami has hunched over his desk, making dozens of calls a day peppered with phrases custom-built to perk up Secret Service ears: "assassination," "president," "John Wilkes Booth." This week, just days before Obama is sworn in for his second term, his fiendish ... More >>

New Study: Americans Are Big, Fat, Gullible Dummies

According to a study conducted by Professor Aradnha Krishna from the University of Michigan, many Americans are big, fat dummies whose psyches and eating habits are manipulated by suits in the marketing, advertising, and fashion industries. Krishna's study involved one experiment in which she m ... More >>

Danell Leyva, Miami's Olympic Prodigy, Goes for Gold

Miami Heat Dominates GQ's Most Stylish Players List

Was there really any question that the Miami Heat are the most "GQ motherfucker" team in sports history? GQ itself seems to confirm this, because their recent "Most Stylish NBA Players Ever" list is dominated by Miami Heat players. And yes, the big three dominates the top five.

The Five-Year Engagement Is Like Stale Doughnuts

Miami is the Sixth Most Well-Read City According to Amazon

​According to the stereotypes, Miami is supposed to be a bit of a shallow city and not exactly an intellectual hot spot. Yet, we're apparently the sixth most book-looking city in America according to Amazon.com sales data. The book-selling super site totaled all book, magazine and newspaper sales ... More >>

Ryan Roman of Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings is a Funny Guy

Spain's Asador Etxebarri, where Ryan Roman hopes to eat himself to death and have his ashes scattered.​After following Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings on Twitter, we knew we had to find out more about this funny food loving character. Blogger Ryan Roman has something to say about everything and ... More >>

Rumeal Robinson, Prison-Bound NBA Baller, Screwed Over a Miami Mom Too

​Rumeal Robinson, the onetime University of Michigan hero who spent six seasons in the NBA, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in federal prison Friday for masterminding a bank fraud. Even in the days leading up to his sentencing, the consummate huckster was trying to raise cash from old friend ... More >>

FAIR-y tales: The immigration saga continues

Convicted NBA Fraudster Rumeal Robinson Joins South Florida's Blown Fortune Hall of Fame

That blindfolded chick holding the scales just made it rain justice on Rumeal Robinson. The former University of Michigan basketball hero and NBA journeyman-- whose addiction to strip clubs was first exposed by this blog-- has been convicted in Iowa federal court of fraud. The Aventura resident was ... More >>

Hoops hero Rumeal Robinson lost his Maserati, machine gun, and mom

How Hoops Hero Rumeal Robinson Lost His Guns, Cars, Stripper Girlfriend... and Even his Mama's House

Robinson blew $20,000 a night on strippers, his brother claims.With three seconds left in the game and his University of Michigan squad trailing Seton Hall by one point, 22-year old guard Rumeal Robinson lined up for two all-important free throws. The NCAA Division 1 basketball title hung in t ... More >>

Cipher Complete

South Florida Native Daniel Levin Reads from His Debut Novel

Riverhead Books​An antiquities expert is summoned in the middle of the night to a major European city in order to investigate a mystery that he soon realizes is a cross-historical conspiracy with devastating modern implications. If you thought, "That's the plot of The Da Vinci Code," you're close ... More >>

Matthew Dear: Spectral Shapeshifter

He touches down in Miami as two versions of himself.

Michigan Leaves the Gators Maize and Blue

Breakaway

Against long odds and even longer distances, a group of Miami-Dade teens competes for a shot at hockey glory

Gamers Give Flowers

To the most moral man in town

Dreadlocked and Loaded

Scientific Method

There's nothing romantic about Robert Ashley's approach to opera

Three Women and a Romance

Now for something completely different: One of the festival's popular features stars older women

Cybersleuth

How a former FBI agent with a yen for computers became one of the most powerful men in Miami

The Lord Should Be So Lucky

Remember the Alaimo

Clinical Depression

Hounded by budget crises, unflattering audits, and general gripes about management, the Economic Opportunity Family Health Center circles the wagons

Letters

Evans and Odds

Jazz and blues do the horizontal bop as William Evans looks forward and back

Raising Cane

Home may be where the heart is, but sportswriter Gary Long's vote is in the state of Washington