It’s no secret that University of Miami men’s basketball coach Jim Larranaga has a rather zen outlook on life and basketball. He schools his team on the teachings of Deepak Chopra. Yet, we couldn’t have imagined that the team’s success in knocking off highly ranked programs this year could be…
In the wake of the massacre at the offices of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, the American media, both mainstream and social, has almost become a satire of itself. We have a media landscape in which everyone feels the need to say everything there is to say about an…
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Miami is a melting pot of douchebags. Seriously, so many types of douchebag. In fact, happy long-term social survival in Miami means quickly spotting douchebags and avoiding them at all costs or dealing with them properly. To help you with that task, we’ve prepared this guide to various kinds of…
In Miami not even superstar athletes are immune from getting played by shady conmen. Today, a judge sentenced Haidar Zafar to six years in prison for defrauding former Miami Heat players Mike Miller, James Jones, and Rashard Lewis out of $7.5 million. To add insult to injury, Zafar then used…
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Considering numerous Real Housewives have been in the news more for their legal battles than their television show, the latest development connected to the reality show only makes sense. Joanna Krupa, one of the stars of Real Housewives of Miami, is suing Brandi Glanville of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,…
In December, Barack Obama announced he would normalize relations with Cuba and ease some travel restrictions, but he didn’t give a clear timeline for when that would happen. Well, surprise, the Treasury Department announced today that the new travel rules will go into effect tomorrow. See also: America’s Cuba Ties…
Dear person reading this on either their WiFi-connected laptop or smart phone after having been directed here likely either by Facebook or Twitter: tech, alongside science, math, and engineering, is one of the fastest growing industries in the world right now. Sadly, Miami is doing a horrible job or attracting…
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The Miami-Dade Charter’s Citizens’ Bill of Rights prohibits local politicians from lying to the public under the “Trust in Government” clause. Yet the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust has never actually targeted an official for breaking that trust in government. Well, until now. Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez has…
Same sex marriage is now legal in Florida, but that doesn’t mean the state is now a haven for gay rights. In fact, it’s still perfectly legal for an employee to fire someone simply for being gay in the state unless there are local protections in place. Now a bill…
There was a brutal scene in front a Westchester strip mall Party City last night. A man gunned down his estranged wife in the busy parking lot while the couple’s 15-year-old daughter looked on. He then turned the gun on himself in an apparent suicide attack…
Hey, Florida, remember Jeff Kottkamp, your former lieutenant governor? The mustached politician served alongside Charlie Crist and was chosen mostly because he was a reliable conservative in contrast to Crist’s more moderate stance. Well, after a failed run for state attorney general in 2010, Kottkamp has emerged from political obscurity…
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The relationship between Donald Trump and the City of Doral has more drama than an episode of Celebrity Apprentice. Mayor Luigi Boria originally planned to give Trump a key to the city yesterday before changing his mind within hours, claiming, “Trump doesn’t deserve my key.”…
Sometimes a politician introduces a bill that makes you think, Yes, that seems like a very sensible idea, before you realize, How big of a problem could that actually pose anyway? That was our reaction to Florida Rep. Bob Cortes’ “All-American Flag Act,” which forbids Florida or any county, or…
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Developers are busy dreaming up ways to fill downtown Miami with even more mega-skyscrapers. Airplanes taking off and landing at Miami International Airport regularly fly above downtown. It’s someone’s job to make sure skyscrapers and airplanes don’t become tragic problems for each other, and that someone is the Federal Aviation…
With the Miami Hurricanes football team marred by mediocrity, it seems everyone on campus wants a piece of the school’s basketball team. Even the football players. Cornerback Corn Elder and receiver D’Mauri Jones are reportedly in the process of joining the basketball team. They’ll be practice squad players at first,…
In Miami, identify theft starts young. Brothers Stanley and Steven Fertil, now just 20 and 19 and who started an ID theft ring more than two years ago, have been sentenced to nine and 12 years in prison respectively…
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