One of the perks in Congress is the right of “franking” — no, it has nothing to do with Barney Frank, tequila shots and a dark alley. It’s the ancient right to send constituents heaps of unwanted glossy fliers plastered with your grinning face at taxpayer expense. Franking is grossly…
When Robert McGary’s houseboat washed up on a sandbar in a Florida channel a few months back, he liked the scenery so much that he refused to move. After police insisted he get back on the water, McGary went all Blackbeard, equating his dilapidated wreck to the Queen Anne’s Revenge,…
On Tuesday, the new .xxx domain went live on the Web, drawing in more than 100,000 adult sites. The man behind this new .xxx empire is a British millionaire living in South Florida who had to navigate an outraged Christian Right and outlast the Bush Administration to found his online…
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011’s weirdest art: Balls in a jar and nude pig wrestling
Purebred Breeders allegedly sells sick dogs from puppy mills
Boy oh boy does everybody hate, hate, hate Rick Scott. Everybody! Well, more than seven in ten Florida voters can’t stand the guy, at least, according to a new poll out this morning from the Public Policy Polling firm.Scott’s 26 percent approval rating is so dismal, it got us at…
Elian Gonzalez is all growed up! Miami’s favorite raft-boy turned Cuban propaganda machine turned 18 last night, and in proper Revolutionary fashion celebrated not with a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of rum from his parents liquor stash but with a phone call to Rene Gonzalez, a “Cuban Five”…
From its South Florida headquarters, Purebredbreeders.com matches up thousands of pet lovers around the country every week with purebred puppies through a “network of responsible and professional dog breeders” that sell “happy and healthy” canines, according to the company’s website.The problem, according to a new lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit…
Sure, the big-money Warhols and eye-popping, million-dollar deals get all the headlines, but we all know what really gets your pulse jacked about Art Basel and its satellite fairs: the free booze and the really weird art.Sometimes it’s hard to recall the latter through the head-pounding hangover left by the…
Maybe federal investigators finally got around to reading our piece about the six biggest lies behind the monumentally awful Miami Marlins stadium deal? Whatever the motivation, the Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoened the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County for financial information about the $500 million in bond sales…
How do you smooth over a cop-on-trooper feud that’s escalated from high speed chases to retaliatory arrests to dumping five tons of human feces onto an official police vehicle?If you’re the Miami Police Department and the Florida Highway Patrol, you settle the simmering beef the old fashioned way: a good…
When Mac Premo, a D.C.-born, RISD-educated artist, was forced to move to a new, smaller studio space in Brooklyn, he came to a terrible realization: There was no way he could bring along the hundreds of objects he’d accumulated, from dusty baseball cards to antique cans to torn hats. Premo…
While Basel collectors plunk down millions on Miami Beach, this week’s biggest art buy went down last night on the other side of Biscayne Bay. Developer Jorge Perez’s $35 million bid to put his name atop the Miami Art Museum’s new bay front home was finalized by trustees.The gift seems…
North Miami Beach has fired two police department employees after they allegedly were caught in the office trying to cast a Santeria curse on the city manager shortly before mass layoffs were planned. Veteran officer Elizabeth Torres and office manager Yvonne Rodriguez were canned last week over the ceremony, says…
Florida’s Republican voters are making a firm stand for the conservative, pro-family values that have defined their party for decades by fleeing en masse from Herman Cain after multiple sexual harassment charges and new allegations that he carried on a 14-year affair.Yessir, there’s no place in the GOP for that…
Hugo Chavez has a new plan to save Venezuela’s teetering national economy and it’s, uh, shipping giant mountains of gold into Venezuela amid a procession of tanks so he can end the “dictatorship of the U.S. dollar” and possibly “offer President Obama a loan.”So how did his grateful people react?…
Concert promoters and musicians sue each other all the damn time over everything from disputed fees to canceled dates to whether all the M&Ms in the dressing room were green as specifically noted in the rider. Never before has a promoter taken a legal fight quite as hard, though, as…
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When we recently counted down the six most absurd lies about the new Marlins Stadium, fib number one was that politicians were working for taxpayers. Even a casual glance over the deal made it clear: This $550 million stadium was a cripplingly expensive gift from struggling taxpayers to the millionaire…
Horsing around with a coworker on an active construction site already seems like a fairly terrible idea — but when the play-fighting includes a real knife and an accidentally loaded gun, the game is downright fatal. Police now say that’s exactly what went down at an abandoned lot in El…
