Cops have a way with language. So when Miami police arrested the man whose extremely bizarre booking photo made him the star of Mugshots Friday, who was trying to purchase “street slang for vaginal” for $80 from an undercover detective, they didn’t hesitate when filling out the “unique physical features”…
Update: View the “Half a Head” police report here.Our inaugural Mugshots Friday post has been getting quite a lot of reaction– mostly because nobody can believe that the photo of the dude with the severely flattened head is real. It is…
Welcome to our first-ever Mugshots Friday — a collection of the craziest Miami-Dade County booking photos from the previous week. We’re going back two weeks just this time. And whoo, boy do we have a strong inaugural class…
Key West bicyclers beware: Local editor has waged war
Most people know how to eat an artichoke: Using your teeth, you scrape the meat from the bottom of each leaf. But Miamian Arturo Carvajal, a doctor with a family practice in Hollywood and a litigant in one of the stranger lawsuits we’ve ever seen, was mystified by the vegetable…
Like a growing number of Americans, Bryan “Birdman” Williams works from home. At least, that’s what we took from the Miami transplant’s epic new music video, “Fire Flame”, in which he spends the day conducting all of his business– which involves the trading of a lot of briefcases– without leaving…
We’ve given up on Miami — home of bloodthirsty drivers and bureaucrats too inept to implement bike lanes — ever being a good place to ride a bicycle…
Americans residing north of Palm Beach County have targeted their wrath at LeBron James, a basketball player and creator of the world’s worst television special. In this semi-regular installment, we figure out why American hates LeBron this week, so you don’t have to…
The most boldfaced name attending the book fair is an author so devoted to literature that he didn’t stop reading the children’s book The Pet Goat even as the Twin Towers fell. We got our hands on an early draft of George W. Bush’s Decision Points — and we must…
Florida Memorial University can’t find a president
Two days after Riptide published an article detailing the glacial pace of troubled Florida Memorial University’s search for a president– and calling Florida A&M University pharmacy professor and dean Henry Lewis III “our gambler’s pick”– FMU did indeed choose him for the presidential position…
In August 2009, Florida Memorial University, the historic black school rich in history but more recently notorious for a grade-fixing scheme that had students trading sex for A’s, abruptly canned its president, Karl S. Wright. No explanation was given, and the search for his replacement seemed casual at best…
Yes, we know it’s a week after Halloween. But as a Miami blog with a taste for the ridiculous we just couldn’t sleep with ourselves if we didn’t post the following video of Shaq channeling Beyonce in his “Shaquita” Halloween get-up — which, by the way, is worlds funkier than…
Well, no, he didn’t… we think. But the Miami Dolphins linebacker did somehow confuse the diary-writing Holocaust victim with deaf and blind author Helen Keller, which is a front-runner for this month’s Most Ignorant Comment By an Athlete Award…
From denying us an interview with Banana Man, to issuing an all-expenses-paid invitation to The Guy Who Wore a Heat LeBron Jersey to a Cleveland Indians Game, to rescinding said invitation, is anybody else getting the feeling that the Miami Heat’s PR office is a very bizarre place?…
This 20,000-square-foot, Tony Montana-esque mansion at 70 Palm Island is Miami embodied. It’s been bought for a lavish price during boom times, foreclosed on during lean times, seen monstrous amounts of cocaine snorted within its walls, swapped between new money, and now, with the real estate market just getting its…
The most famous author coming to the Miami International Book Fair this year is a guy so devoted to a good read that he refused to put down a children’s book even as the Twin Towers fell. We’re talking, of course, about George W. Bush, who will be coughing up…
Dalai Lama’s Miami Beach visit irks condo resident
Gino Cabanas’s work of genius doesn’t pay
Good ol’ Michael the Black Man — he should fit right in with the apocalyptic feel of this morning’s news. The former cult member, who once was charged with cutting somebody’s head off and led a group interrupting an Obama speech with signs bearing such slogans as “Obama is endorsed by…
We have developed an unhealthy obsession with Hollywood Whiskey Tango Bar & Grill’s offer to buy patrons’ $25 tab if the Miami Heat lose. It speaks to both the gambler and the drunk in us…
Was anybody surprised by the allegation that two brothers– one a Surfside police officer and one a Tremont Towing driver– were involved in a bribery scheme? Tiny Surfside is historically scandal-ridden, and this year another cop there was cuffed for a scheme involving false accident reports and insurance payouts. Tremont…
