Museum Park Trial Balloon Bursts

The Livan Is Easy Filed Under: News Livan Hernandez pays rent. It just takes him nearly four years. Back in January of 2003 the former Marlins pitcher (now making $8 million a year with the Arizona Diamondbacks) displayed some behavior that was very unbecoming a Major League Baseball player. At…

Don’t You Just Want to Pinch Their Cheeks?

Baseball teams are like children. When they’re small, they’re kind of cute to look at, but they walk funny, they talk funny, and they make messes for other people to clean up. When they get just a smidgen older, they can actually, you know, do stuff — and still be…

A Mother I’d Like to … Vote For

“More people vote for American Idol than for the president, and that’s scary,” says Nancy Ferreira. That’s why she recently called up the Washington office of Rock the Vote and got permission to use the name for her own undertaking, South Florida Rock the Vote 2006, which is making its…

Who Are These People?

Early this season, the Florida Marlins were firmly entrenched in next-to-last place in all of Major League Baseball. Of course we sympathized with the batch of underpaid rookies, but they did seem comfortable hanging out at the bottom of the barrel. Then, all of a sudden, they did something funny:…

Paul van Dyk

“Electronic music,” DJ Paul van Dyk says in a hyper German accent, “is about so much more [than partying]. People donate money to charities [because of it].” Well, really, because of him. One of the world’s most popular trance DJ/producers advocates for poor children, public schools, democracy, and Greenpeace. Still,…