It’s that time again when Coca-Cola holiday commercials constantly remind you ’tis the season to be giving.But every time you plug in that Christmas tree, electric Hanukkah ornament, or turkey carver, you’re only donating to one company: Florida Power and Light.Today, state regulators ignored arguments by consumer advocates and politicians,…
American politics is a fickle bitch. One day you’re Marco Rubio, Tea Party pretty boy and front-runner for the Republican vice presidential nomination. The next day, you’re just an asshole who distorted his family history to play on the sympathy of constituents, including fellow Cuban-Americans.According to documents unearthed by birthers earlier…
Ave Maria University: A Catholic project gone wrong
Walking anywhere in Miami often feels like running the trenches in World War I: randomly placed barbed wire tears at your clothing, errant bombs — or in this case, cars — send you diving into muddy ditches, and it’s hard not to trip over the occasional dead body or two.So…
“Where is Julio Llanessa!” screamed the lawman’s voice on the phone. Ivanhoe Smester was baffled. The Dominican immigrant hadn’t spoken to his childhood friend in more than a year, even when Llanessa was arrested for mortgage fraud. So why were U.S. Marshals calling him now? Unbeknownst to Smester, Llanessa and…
Miami has suffered nine of the Bible’s ten plagues
This weekend, Port of Miami director Bill Johnson wrote to The Miami Herald to rebut “naysayers” who just don’t understand what an “enviable position” the city will be in once we’ve blasted Biscayne Bay to accommodate super-sized freight ships. He refuted the warnings of local boat captain Dan Kipnis and called the dredge…
In the beginning was the swamp. Then God said, “Let there be Miami.” And there was. Then he said, “Gimme some beaches with bikini-clad models while I’m at it.” And there was that too. All was good.But sometime during the past century, we Miamians went way wrong. Maybe it was…
It’s gringos versus catrachos in tonight’s international friendly soccer match at Sun Life Stadium.The U.S. soccer team is looking for its first win under new coach Jurgen Klinsmann, while Honduras is looking for a bit o’ respeto against its normally dominant northern neighbor.We’re live blogging the game. After a crappy…
Chad Henne isn’t the only Miami quarterback struggling.After leading Miami Central High School to its first ever state title last year, Rakeem Cato has had an up-and-down season so far at Marshall. He’s started all five games, but has thrown as many interceptions (7) as touchdowns.Tomorrow he’s back in Florida…
The Condome: New Marlins stadium gets a rubber coating
”Welcome to RazzleDazzle Barbershop,” the video says before cutting to a photo of a busty young woman in a skimpy Moulin Rouge-style outfit. “Haircuts with a view. Only $20.”As blogger Al Crespo pointed out last week, the video — found on the City of Miami’s homepage — is straight-up creepy…
A few weeks ago, bigwigs at the Florida Miami Marlins announced they were putting the final touches on the team’s new stadium in Little Havana. The coup de grace: a rubber membrane designed to reduce the glare off its bulbous, retractable metal roof. Soon the stadium will be shrink-wrapped in the…
They came. They saw. They arranged to convene at a later date.Ar-Miami-geddon didn’t happen, but more than a hundred “Occupy Miami” protesters did meet on Saturday in Bayfront Park downtown. They agreed to gather again this Saturday to plan a camp-out beginning on October 15.With 700 protesters arrested on Saturday…
Brace yourself for waves of socially responsible hipsters.”Occupy Miami” — a protest against corporate greed modeled after the two-week sit-in currently clogging Wall Street in New York — will take over Bayfront Park tomorrow.But how will our soulless city respond? And will Miami Police bring out the storm troops like…
Sunshine or granite? Sex on the beach or maple syrup on hotcakes? “Welcome to Miami” or “Live Free or Die”?It’s been fun Florida, but you’re just too damn crazy for Jon Huntsman.After a three-month flirtation, the Republican presidential hopeful is ditching the nation’s dong and focusing on a state one…
FIU’s upstart law school kicks UM’s aristocratic ass
When Simon Cowell’s new show, The X Factor, aired last week, Charlese Uribe already knew what would happen. Earlier this summer, she and her then-15-year-old daughter Melody Haughn had driven to Miami from their home in Pembroke Pines only to get cut after a week of brutal tryouts.But when Uribe tuned in…
Conventional wisdom says that a team brings in a salty old timer coach to right the shaky ship, teach the young whippersnappers a thing or two, and claw its way back to respectability.But the Marlins have actually gotten worse since 80-year-old skipper Jack McKeon took over this summer, statistics show…
The Florida Marlins’ sad, sad season has gone from merely pathetic to positively ridiculous. Yesterday, the interwebs were atwitter with speculation over why the team suddenly sent closer Leo Nuñez to his native Dominican Republic only hours after helping the Fish defeat the Atlanta Braves.Well, last night we found out…
Unlike the giant, post-Panamax freighters that might never arrive, the deep dredging of the Port of Miami approaches with near certainty. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has promised funds, regulators have given a green light, and a Brazilian construction company has already landed a $57 million contract to upgrade the port.But…
Andrew Marshall: Miami’s Unabomber, Part 2
For details about Marshall’s childhood, injury, and lawsuits against the city, see Part 1.
