A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the weirdest. Florida Mom Leaves Kids in Car to Drink, Has Child Blow into Breathalyzer to Start Car Oh, the rewards of having children. They bring joy into your life, carry on…
Malaysian tourism and gambling conglomerate Genting Group took Miami by storm back in 2011 by buying up the old Miami Herald building and a bunch of surrounding properties with plans to build a major destination resort and casino. Those plans were scrapped after lawmakers refused to rewrite gambling laws, and…
The year was 2005, ten years removed from Don Shula’s retirement. The Dolphins were very much in the midst of a mediocrity-strewn identity crisis that stretches on to this day. Nick Saban was the hottest coach in college football. He had turned LSU into national champs. So when the Miami…
Same-sex Marriage became legal in Miami-Dade on January 5th (a day before the rest of the state), and Cathy Pareto and Karla Arguello were the first couple in the entire state to get married. Since that historic day, Florida has dragged its feet catching up to reality. LGBT people can still…
A Doral strip club has been temporarily closed down by authorities after a Hialeah man tried some unconventional father-daughter bonding on site. Hialeah police say Jose Manuel Arguelles, 59, took his 16-year-old daughter and her teenage friend to the Pink Pony gentlemen’s club and allowed the two girls to drink, smoke…
You can now get married to your same-sex partner in Florida, but its still legal in much of the state to get fired or denies housing simply for being gay. Legislators, mostly Democrats, have tried for the past ten years to pass a law that would protect LGBT people from…
While David Beckham’s proposed Miami MLS team is still trying to hammer out the details of where it will call home, Miami FC, the team’s newly announced NASL team, is breezing along and already has a logo. Announced just months ago, Miami FC will play in the second tier North…
Stephen Ross has trouble filing seats for America’s most beloved sport, so he can help launch an entirely new sport? We’re about to find out. The Dolphins owner has invested $1 million in a new drone racing league through a venture firm he co-founded. Yes, drone racing. The Drone Racing…
America is rarely timid when it comes to a chance to put ads on anything possible …except our professional sports teams jersey. That’s not true over in Europe, where soccer team’s jersey routinely prominently feature the logos of corporate sponsors. Florida has decided to take full advantage of that, and…
According to post-debate polls, Marco Rubio didn’t come out of last week’s Donald Trump-dominated Republican debate any stronger, but he did leave aligned more closely than ever with pro-life positions. Rubio told the crowd that the didn’t support abortion even in cases of incest and rape, and he’s spent the…
It should be of little surprise that the tradition of pretty young women in tight costumes dancing at professional basketball games started right here in Miami. Back in the late ’60s, the ABA’s Miami Floridians’ Ballgirls became national sensations and lead the way for similar squads becoming de rigueur amongst NBA…
The Democratic senate primary between Reps. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson will likely be colored as moderate vs progressive, but Grayson is already trying to frame it more as effective congressman vs do nothing congressman. Grayson certainly go some help in the category last week from congressional tracking website Inside…
You’ve heard of “take your child to work day,” but the Florida Department of Education wants to flip it up and make “Dads Take Your Child To School Day” happen. Citing research that family involvement has a strong connection to academic success, Florida will encourage fathers or other male role…
Remember that whole messy Miami Dolphins saga involving the Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito. Of course, who could forget that? But the NFL hired mega-lawyer Ted Wells to come in and do an independent investigation of the matter, and when that report came out we all thought that was the…
Fark.com is the web’s original destination for weird news. Chugging along for 16 years now, the community-based site collects odd stories from all over and links out to them with tongue-in-cheek headlines. You should be under no surprise that a site dedicated to weird news has a special fondness for…
Jeisa Chiminazzo and Oliver Ripley are a couple out of a modern day fairy tail. She’s a transfixing Brazilian supermodel, discovered at the age of 13, who has appeared on the cover of at least 5 international editions of Vogue, modeled for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and starred in campaigns…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. Every Friday we’re here to round up some of the weirdest. This week: a mother who very much believes everything she read on the internet, and a very whacked up wang. Mom Is Human Manifestation of FoxNews.com Comments There’s so much weird,…
The finally Daily Show with Jon Stewart airs tonight, and over his 16 years at the program he’s had a humungous effect on the American media and psyche. In fact, the man may have done more than anyone else in comedy or the media to help turn Florida into a…
It wouldn’t be a presidential election without a debate in Miami, and today the Democratic National Committee announced that Hillary, Bernie and whoever else jumps in or is still around by that time will be coming to Miami in either February or March. The debate will be co-sponsored by Univision…
After the state Supreme Court threw out Florida’s congressional districts as unconstitutional and politically motivated, the state legislature will assemble for its second special session of the year next Monday to redraw fairer district. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli and Senate President Andy Gardiner, both Republicans, instructed staff to draw up a…
Miami is a city in love with its cars that barely knows how to drive. So it’s no surprise that many of us don’t know the laws regarding the safe and legal operation of a bicycle either. In fact, it seems like every time we post a story about a…
So long San Jose. According to the latest startup rankings from the Annual Kauffman Foundation Report, Miami has overtaken the California City in startup activity. San Francisco fell from number one in 2014 to number three this year. Formerly the bronze medalist, Miami moves up to second place while Austin, Texas…
