If there’s one thing worse than dumb reality television, it’s the dumb reality television scandal. We place nobodies who might be better off keeping their opinions to themselves on a national stage because they’re a whole lot of odd and a little delightfully stupid, and then act all scandalized when…
For the past year, real estate site Movoto has ranked American cities by just about every criteria it can think of. Everything from smartest cities and best cities for homebuyers to more esoteric rankings like most steampunk city and preppiest city. With the year drawing to a close, it only…
Four people are dead, including a five-year-old girl, after a fiery crash on Okeechobee Road. The incident happened at about 8:30 p.m. last night just a mile north of the Turnpike. Police believe that the driver of the northbound car lost control and slipped into the southbound lane, according to…
Four years ago someone handed a Salvation Army bell ringer a gold nugget worth up to $4,000. The next year a gold and diamond ring popped up in one of the buckets. Last year ten $100 bills were found with Bible passages affixed. This year another gold and diamond ring…
Gerardo Benedit and Victoria Lopez apparently have hearts two sizes too small. They went on a crime spree that can be described only as Grinchian. The pair was arrested for stealing several packages full of Christmas presents from outside homes in Miami-Dade…
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The most anticipated merchandising ploy of the NBA season is almost upon us: The Miami Heat will soon debut its “nickname” jerseys that will swap out, well, nicknames for the players’ last names on the back of their jerseys. Knicks fan Spike Lee, of all people, apparently got one of…
Life in Florida imitates art — especially the kind of art that deals with drug dealing. Last week we noted a Miami cocaine shipping case that eerily mirrored the second season of The Wire. This week we bring you something of a real-life Breaking Bad. Well, at least it involves…
There’s no such thing as a free ride. The popularity of the City of Miami’s 2-year-old free trolley system has surpassed expectations, but so has its budget. Though the city allocated $2.36 million a year to the system, operating costs are closer to about $3.8 million. So to fill the…
In addition to the public polls touted by the news media, politicians have pollsters taking the public’s pulse for their own internal campaign purposes. Usually when those internal polls get leaked to the press it’s because they’re more favorable to the candidate than the independent media polls. Well, Politico got…
The art world is abuzz today about the price of George Zimmerman’s debut painting, “Untitled (One Nation Under God)” reaching nearly $100,000 at renowned auction house eBay. Zimmerman’s monstrous debut only adds to the growing importance of the Conservative Renaissance Art movement, which already includes promising young talents such as…
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Supporters of special interest group “Big Firearm” are at it again, trying to impinge on freedom-loving Americans’ constitutional right not to own a gun. Some fancy organized group calling itself the Marion County Campaign for Liberty is pushing for an ordinance in the Florida county of Marion that would require…
“This is absolutely bizarre, I can’t imagine somebody wanting to barter a live four-foot alligator for a 12 pack of beer, it makes no sense to me,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino told NBC Miami. Well, this is Florida. It only makes sense when it doesn’t…
Officials at the Pinellas County jail have been using X-Ray machines to spot counterfeit items on inmates since June. This past Thursday, they found an inmate who had swallowed the very things he had been accused of stealing. Joseph Ramos, 21, was arrested for a burglary that occurred in Safety…
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Let’s have a moment of silence for all our dearly departed smart phones. Because, apparently, in Florida there were a lot that left us this year. According to Squaretrade’s annual “Clumsiest States Index,” Florida led the states in damaging and destroying iPhones this year. (Well, technically Washington, D.C., came in…
A Miami man was caught trying to bring a green Christmas up to the folks of Pennsylvania. Randy Jesus Valdivia, a 38-year-old resident of Surfside, wasn’t driving a sleigh, but instead a 2014 Dodge Caravan. On Thursday afternoon, police pulled over the vehicle for displaying “criminal activity indicators” in a…
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Charlie Crist, in his new form as a Democrat, is running against Governor Rick Scott, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be attacking his former Senate campaign rival Marco Rubio apparently. Crist and Rubio got into a public snit today after Crist said that Rubio had “endorsed” Obamacare…
We may be so vain, but there’s little doubt this song is about us. Beyoncé shocked the world by releasing a secret new self-titled album, and the first track calls out South Beach, and not in the loving way her hubby Jay-Z usually does. “Pretty Hurts” places South Beach amongst…
Listen, building fancy-ass condo buildings for rich foreigners to buy on Miami Beach is not an art form. It’s business. It’s pure capitalism. Ain’t nothing wrong with that, but trying to claim otherwise gives off a vibe of mind-numbing pretension. Argentinian developer Alan Faena is busy building his “Faena District,”…
