The Catholic Church! Man, they are in the pits, right? Their Q score right now rivals Kate Gosselin’s. Heck, it’s probably worse than Michelle “Bombshell” McGee’s.Ever since international media reported the Pope, wacky Benedict, willfully ignored reports of kiddie-diddling priests, the church has had to go on a public relations…
Marco Rubio announced Friday that Rudy Giuliani endorsed his campaign for Senate. The two will campaign today in Coral Gables.The political press has interpreted this as a snub of the governor, because Charlie Crist endorsed John McCain for president in 2008. Not one, not two, but a million pundits went…
Who comes to Miami during spring break? Driving around the beach the past two weeks would suggest it’s mainly dumb post-pubescent kids in furry boots and microscopic bikinis. But maybe we’re being too hard on our vacationers. The Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages announced earlier this week it arrested nearly…
(Update) A local condo developer and a homeless advocacy group are nearing a landmark deal to house the remaining sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.The offenders would be housed at Brickell high-rises that have been all but empty since the real…
Police are after a former beauty queen who’s accused of being the ringleader of a gang of pinups who also work as international drug smugglers. Angie San Clemente Valencia is a bosomy 30-year-old Colombian who’s accused of paying her merry band of strumpets $5,000 for carrying pounds of blow from…
So it turns out hosting a wet jockeys contest doesn’t make you bad at your job. Ray Fetcho, the South Florida nurse and erstwhile drag queen who was fired from his job earlier this month, has been given his scrubs back.Fetcho, who we blogged about before, used to moonlight as…
Last month, we were vexed by an empty police cruiser that sat for a whole month at the entrance to Palm Island. Soon after, we found out it was actually a decoy cop car and that Miami Beach Police used five others around the city to spook speeding drivers. The…
Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up. It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August’s Juanes show. Singer René Pérez Joglar, shirtless and pissed…
Ah, the 1950s. An innocent time in Miami when a boxing fight at the Coral Gables Coliseum was just a buck, and a dog race at the West Flagler Kennel Club was only a quarter.Care to travel to Havana direct? Choose from a $30 plane ride or a $46 steamer…
Here is a job that exists only in Miami: tanning butler. And the Ritz-Carlton South Beach has lost theirs. Boo hoo.But that’s good news for the masses of sexy, needy unemployeds currently lollygagging in our beaches. The hotel is looking for a new one. Only men are asked to apply…
Michelle Spence-Jones did not enter a plea today on the latest bribery charges brought against her. Instead, she asked the court to dismiss them for being too vague. Two weeks ago, when she was arrested again for allegedly soliciting money from a local developer, readers responded in typically measured Miami…
Miami Art Museum in Bicentennial Park: “It’ll never happen”
Art Basel is many things to many people. Some see it as a drug-infused bacchanal where, occasionally, art is appreciated. Others see it as the art world’s seasonally scheduled hangover. Most would agree it’s a catastrofuck of major proportions. Do you remember anything from last year’s Art Basel? Don’t you…
Six years ago, county voters gave the Miami Art Museum $100 million to build a new home at Bicentennial Park. There were no specifics on the ballot, or timelines, but in the flush times of the early ’00s, it was another one of those “Sounds good and why not” votes.The…
Haircuts and back-waxes have gotten a lot of attention lately on the campaign trail. In March, the Miami Herald mocked Marco Rubio for spending $134 on a haircut at flossy-flossy downtown Miami barbershop Churchill’s. Then Wednesday, Charlie Crist took a misguided jab at Rubio’s hairy back. Who could settle this…
South Florida’s gay nightclubs cash in on the Avatar craze
On Sunday, Cuban television broadcast the first episode of an 8-part miniseries on the various assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. Just another jolly night on Cuban prime-time!Called He Who Must Live, the miniseries covers the “638” attempts on El Supremo’s life, including some that took place even before he came…
On a recent Friday night, Living Room, the cavernous Fort Lauderdale gay club, was bathed in black lights. There were the usual go-go dancers and drag queens. Men, and the occasional guidette, danced to stock tribal house in varying degrees of undress. The place was a jungle. Literally. This wasn’t…
Gorky Aguila, the front-man of Cuban punk band Porno Para Ricardo, returned Thursday to Cuba after an 11-month sojourn in Mexico. Aguila, who was arrested two years ago for writing songs sharply (and hysterically) critical of the Cuban government, asked supporters, via his twitter, natch, to follow his case, lest…
The Agency for Health Care Administration is in charge of policing registered nurses for complaints and criminal acts. Last month, it zeroed in on an ominous target: a South Florida nurse with a spray gun. Make that, a nurse who had once used a spray gun.Ray Fetcho, a registered nurse…
If you thought Cuba’s National Mule Census is dumb, think again
Chamaco is the only Cuban film showing at the Miami International Film Festival this year. Made for a few hundred dollars, it’s part of a new wave of independent movies now produced on the island thanks to cheap digital cameras. It’s also the first to seriously tackle homosexuality and chauvinism…
