There’s two types of mothers on the day after thanksgiving: those who rush out to get Black Friday deals and those who need to get “the tree” and immediately get into Christmas mode. Well, if your mom was the later type and hoped to pick up a Christmas tree at…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week a probation party gone seriously wrong, a Darth Vader imposter who did not let the force be with him, and a reminder not to film yourself damaging police…
Two years ago Derek Medina wrote in a caption a chilling photo of his wife’s slumping, lifeless body that, “I’m going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife.” This afternoon a jury decided he was right. A jury found Medina guilty of the second degree murder of his…
A former standout at Miramar High School, St Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey was presumably in town this week visiting family for the Holidays while serving a suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. While sitting in an SUV last night with a cousin, and two young relieves…
Photojournalist Kim Badawi has a global family history, but is an American citizen. Of Slovenian and Egyptian decent, Badawi was born in France, frequently works in the Middle East, and is currently based in Brazil, but his parents are both Americans and he got full citizenship at birth. Despite his…
There are few cities in America quite as in love with their primary area code as Miami. It’s pretty much in every Miami rap song. Pitbull calls himself “Mr. 305,” and has an upcoming Miami-set drama in the works called “305.” You can see it on tattoos, hats, shirts and…
You ever find yourself stuck on the Palmetto during rush hour and think, “Jeez, their can’t be traffic anywhere else in the country worse than this.” Well, technically, there are 19 stretches of road in the country with worst traffic. Not that that’s much of a consultation, and indeed a…
The Miami Marlins are what happens when you remove any semblance of magic from professional sports and reveal it to be the cold hard public welfare-leaching business it is. In just the latest attempt to alienate every possible person in South Florida, the team has reportedly parted ways with long…
The Miami Hurricanes flew to Puerto Rico this weekend for ESPN’s Puerto Rico Tip-Off tournament as an unranked team pegged as finishing somewhere in the middle of the pack of the ACC. They returned as not only tourney champs but as now the most buzzed about team in college basketball…
Bad news for families in most Miami-Dade cities: you’re not living in the best place to raise a family according to, well, math. WalletHub.com decided to celebrate Florida’s recent accession to the country’s third most populace state by analyzing the hell out of us, and ranking the 115 largest cities…
Another month, another massive haul of seized cocaine being unloaded at the Miami Beach Coast Guard station. This morning the Coast Guard unloaded $17 million worth of white stuff that had been seized in conjuction with the Royal Netherlands Navy earlier this week. On November 15th, a Joint Interagency Task Force South…
When asked last night on Fox News if he’d follow Donald Trump’s suggestion of possibly shutting down American mosques in the fight against ISIS, Rubio decided to do him one better by claiming he’d go as far as shutting down Radical Muslim cafés and diners too. Do those things even…
Things appear to have slightly improved for Governor Rick Scott since he was awarded the title of America’s worst Governor back in 2011. According to a new survey from Morning Consult, Scott is now just the 8th least popular governor in America. That’s actually something of a surprise for a…
A lot of strange things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the week’s weirdest. This week: a woman who thought she found a cozy nap spot in a grease dumpster, another woman who tried to use 911 like it was Seamless, a naked…
The dynamics of Florida’s Democratic Senate primary is one of a milquetoast moderate vs a firebrand progressive, and the moderate in that equation, Rep. Patrick Murphy, certainly drove the point home by being one a small number of Democrats today to cross party lines and vote for a bill that…
U.S. News and World Reports has released their annual rankings of America’s best high schools, and Miami-Dade Schools pulled a lot of weight when it came to representing Florida on the list. Five Miami schools were ranked within the top 100 in the nation, which also means 5 of the…
Florida is known as God’s waiting room for a reason, and Miami has its fair share of notable people who spent their last days here you might not have known. Edith Bouvier Beale AKA “Little Eddie,” Socialite and Documentary Subject Died January 9, 2002 in Bal Harbour The first cousin of …
If a new Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative is any indication, Donald Trump’s grip on first place in the Republican primary isn’t going away anytime soon, but the placement of the rest of the field continues to shift. The poll shows that Senator Marco Rubio is now…
A bill that would give the terminally ill in Florida the “right to try” medical marijuana is moving through the Florida legislature smoothly. Introduced by Republican state Rep. Matt Gaetz and state Sen. Rob Bradley last month, the bill passed the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee in a 9-4 bipartisan vote…
Local election season in Miami-Dade is now officially over with voters heading to the polls today in two commission runoffs in both Miami and Miami Beach. In Miami, Ken Russell has now officially been declared victor in the “election that didn’t matter.” Meanwhile in Miami Beach, two weeks after voters…
We’s all just some simple folks down hear in Florida. We ain’t to good at that fancy booky learning they like to do up yonder in the North. In fact, according to that there Washington Post we’re the fifth dumbest state in the nation. At least that’s what we think…
Imagine trying to walk into a Venture Capitalists office and pitching your brilliant business plan for “Uber for caviar.” “Imagine it!,” you might say. “A world where you can order caviar as simply as you can order a car. Just a few clicks on your smart phone and a tin…
