Chris Bosh woke up last night and helped the Heat to a monster victory over the San Antonio Spurs, but it appears his flopping game is still a little rusty. NBA officials announced Bosh would be fined $5,000 for flopping during a play late in the first half…
Sure, the Skunk Ape doesn’t actually exist, but damn do we love some Florida folklore. Several people pulled off a road recently in Myakka River State Park in Sarasota County to catch a glimpse of what they thought was the elusive Skunk Ape, Florida’s very own and very smelly version…
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The great thing about vodka is that it mixes well with anything. Well, almost anything. We checked with our foodie obsessed sister blog Short Order and they informed us that cocktails involving vodka and firearms really don’t tend to go down easy. Case in point: this Florida Keys woman who…
The Hurricanes football season is still a few months away, but EA Sports already thinks they know who will be the ten best players for the Miami Hurricanes next year. The video game company unleashed details of its upcoming NCAA Football ’14 video game at industry showcase E3 this week,…
As about a hundred fans were rooting on the Miami Heat on the deck of Shuckers, Miami’s favorite waterside sports bar, when the structure collapsed just before halftime, at around 9:45 p.m. Twenty-four people were injured in the incident. According to NBC Miami, at least 15 have been sent to…
Earlier today Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen posed for the NOH8 gay rights campaign. Meanwhile, Sen. Marco Rubio, who as a young man got his political start as an intern in Ros-Lehtinen’s congressional office, made two jaw-dropping statements in which he firmly opposed gay rights…
Sure, there’s that other city out there that calls itself “Sin City,” but we’ve always known that Miami is America’s real capital of sin. Or so we thought. Real estate site Movato.com decided to calculate America’s most sinful cities. It’s no surprise we came in the top ten, but it’s…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has followed in the footsteps of the likes of the Kardashian sisters and the cast of Glee by getting “NOH8” painted over her face, duct tape placed over her mouth, and a ring flashed for the gay rights campaign. Whiles Ros-Lehtinen isn’t the first member of congress…
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Depending on which Bosh you ask, the Bosh family home may or may not be for sale. Chris Bosh told The Sun-Sentinel that he was planning to put his North Bay Road mansion on sale. His wife, Adrienne Bosh, took to Twitter last night to say that it wasn’t listed…
A higher percentage of Miamians don’t have bank accounts than any other large city in America. A new survey finds 20.1 percent of Miamians have neither a checking nor a savings account. Another 21.4 percent are considered “underbanked,” meaning while they do have a bank account, they rely more on…
On April 11, 28-year-old Suyima Torres went into an office in a West Miami-Dade strip mall to receive cosmetic injections in her buttocks. Ten hours later, she was dead. Police are investigating the case as manslaughter and are still searching for the man who preformed the procedure…
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Sports Illustrated is dropping a massive report on the NCAA’s investigation into the University of Miami’s football program this week, and the juiciest part includes claims by Nevin Shapiro, the convicted Ponzi schemer at the center of the scandals, that he had used inside information to bet on Hurricanes game…
Until last month, 36-year-old Chad Minor was director of community development for Venice, Florida, a Gulf Coast town of just more than 20,000 people. Kellie Bricker, who is 41, worked for the same city as a planning coordinator, but both were forced to resign after they got caught getting it…
Congratulations, Pam Bondi! As far as we can tell, you’re the first state attorney general in history who has ever given an exclusive statement to muckraking gossip website TMZ. Then again, as someone who used to be a Fox News legal analyst, maybe you don’t have high standards about what…
As part of Florida’s efforts to crack down on pill mills, the state initiated an online database in 2009 that tracked the store prescribing and dispensing data for controlled substances. Well, according to the ACLU, the private medical data of more than 3,000 Floridians has now leaked from that database…
Fourteen-year-old Chris Martin is probably cooler than you. He wears anarchy symbol shirts to school (because fuck the crumbling system, right?). He doesn’t label his sexuality (because labels are limiting anyway). And he wears makeup to school (because gender roles are outdated and oppressive social constructs). His middle school principal…
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Sen. Marco Rubio, the son of pre-Castro Cuban immigrants, has added a new amendment to his immigration bill that strengthens requirements that immigrants be proficient in English before being granted permanent residential status, also known as a green card. “On the day we announced the principles that would shape the…
The retiree is the unofficial mascot of the Sunshine State, and apparently people 65 and older are doing pretty well for themselves when it comes to money. A study compared the median income of those 65 and older with the pre-retirement 45-64 age group. Nationally, retirees make just 57 percent…
