Miami just might be the most image-conscious, beauty-obsessed place on Earth. So it’s no surprise that our sexy, superficial city is the American epicenter of a new controversial diet craze.It’s called ketogenic enteral nutrition, or the K-E diet for short. Translation: a doctor threads a feeding tube through your nose…
Boxer Yathomas Riley: Beast or Victim?
The next time you order a Domino’s pizza, pity your humble delivery man. It’s a precarious and potentially deadly world out there for your average door-to-door pie slinger. Take Francisco Prieto. The then-66-year-old Domino’s employee was sent on a run to Liberty City around midnight in October 2010. No sooner…
A Miami Dade College employee made a grisly discovery this morning, stumbling upon a dead body in a bathroom at the university’s Kendall campus.The employee found the unidentified man’s corpse between 6 and 7 a.m. A message was quickly sent out to university faculty, staff, and students, but police say…
Cricket Barons Fight for Control of Sport in America
After Trayvon Martin, Neo-Nazis Say They’re Armed and
Patrolling Sanford
Attacked from across the political spectrum for exaggerating their “armed patrols” in Sanford, neo-Nazis have fired back — with pictures of two people holding a Nazi flag in the central Florida town.No guns. Virtually no proof to back up their claims there are “ten to 20 people” in the area…
Ask your average American Joe about cricket, and he’ll picture noblemen, dressed in white livery, sipping cups of tea while a sickly servant polishes their finely carved bats. But a new lawsuit claims the state of cricket in the U.S. is anything but aristocratic. A Silicon Valley millionaire is now…
Neo-Nazis say they are conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida, and are “prepared” for violence in case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect “white citizens in the area who are concerned for their safety” in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting last month,…
Last November, local aspiring rapper Alex “Rube” Rubin released a song blaming the NBA’s “corrupt policeman” of a commissioner David Stern for the lockout.Now he’s turned his white boy wrath on the Miami Heat, a move he admits is akin to wearing a “I (Heart) George Zimmerman” t-shirt to a…
Two years ago, Barack Obama threw out the first pitch at the Washington National’s stadium to inaugurate the 2010 MLB season. The Marlins haven’t announced who will toss out the ceremonial first ball tonight. Could the president come running out of the brand-new bullpen?Today’s White House schedule ends at 11:55…
What a load of crap. Earlier this week, county officials warned that unless unruly Miami Beach condo owners allowed for construction on a waste pipeline stretching to Virginia Key, the sewer line could soon break. “I can tell you it’s going to rupture, I just can’t tell you when,” said…
A decade ago, Hector Pesquera was rumored to be a top candidate for Miami Police chief. Instead, the former FBI man — perhaps dogged by questionable ties to convicted felons — embarked on ever more obscure positions: first as head of the Broward Sheriff’s Office, lately as head of security…
So much for post-racial politics. The tragic shooting of Miami teenager Trayvon Martin last month by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman has once again exposed America’s deep racial fault lines. Jesse Jackson quickly announced that “blacks are under attack.” White supremacist websites circulated bogus pictures of the teenager in an…
Miami community development expert Cecilia “C.C.” Holloman’s legacy is empty coffers
Finally, Frank Martin has become the head basketball coach of… South Carolina? According to news reports, Martin is leaving Kansas State after five years to take over the struggling Gamecocks. The move brings Martin closer to his native Miami, where he coached high school ball for 15 years, but it’s…
Cecilia “C.C.” Holloman arrived in Miami around 2001 with an impressive resumé. She was an ordained minister, a published Christian author, and a “community builder” in the Clinton administration. Over the next decade, her organizations would receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grants, including $400,000 for a job…
This morning, we woke up and hopped into the shower as we always do before pulling on a dirty t-shirt and pajama pants and plopping down at our filthy computer to make fun of things.This time, however, our delousing was interrupted by a divine vision: somehow Mrs. Riptide’s stray hairs…
Fudge your expenses at work and you could get fired. Fudge them when you’re in Congress and you’ll probably get away with it.A new anti-corruption report spells out how hundreds of U.S. representatives use their positions to enrich themselves and their families. According to the report, those engaged in shady…
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Occupy Miami descends into drugs and chaos in an Overtown apartment building
Movie director James Cameron is poised to win the unofficial submarine race to the bottom of the ocean.According to news reports, Cameron and a team of scientists are perched atop the Mariana Trench waiting for optimal weather conditions to dive nearly seven miles straight down into the Pacific. If he…
