Can specially designed ambient music trick high-chasing teens into a drug-like zen state? Probably not.Can this Miami Herald article trick you into think you’re reading about something fascinating until you realize it’s ultimately about nothing? Probably.Today the Herald gets to the bottom of I-Doser, a website that sells “binaural brainwave…
It’s not exactly news that fans of different sports teams hate each other’s guts, but usually those teams play in the same league. The continuing war of words between Miami DolFans and Alabama’s Crimson Tide nation is a bit absurd considering one team is professional and the other is college…
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Democratic senate rivals Rep. Kendrick Meek and Jeff Greene met up for their first debate today hosted by the Palm Beach Post. Meek is the affable, but not exactly superstar, Democratic establishment pick, while Greene is a shady billionaire who plans on winning the election on the strength of his…
We might not have been very good about sustaining an MLS team, but it’s pretty evident from World Cup ratings that Miami loves fútbol. According to data from Nielsen ratings, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale TV market has by far the most interest in watching the World Cup on television — even in…
While Deepwater Horizon continues spewing black crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Cuban commies might be rejoicing. That’s because the oil spill could be the strongest argument yet for ending the embargo.Already, the two sides have been talking regularly about the Big Spill and how Cuba can protect itself from…
Poor Rolando Negrin. You remember him: The Miami International Airport screener who last month used his baton to beat a co-worker who had been habitually mocking the size of Negrin’s penis after watching him test-run a full-body x-ray scanner.It’s gotta suck to be made into a national punchline for one news cycle…
In March, we published a feature about the Miami Beach Police Department, detailing how more than 50 percent of the force earns at least six figures a year and profiling the myriad legal problems involving Beach cops. (You can read it here.) We’ve also reported extensively about former Officer Adam…
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Calle Ocho mainstay Sentir Cubano has long sold Fidel Castro toilet paper, but Fidel now has a new friend to hang out with while rotting away in a septic tank: Hugo Chávez. Yes, the store now sells toilet paper that features that oh-so-charming mug of Hugo. Dubbed “The XXI Century…
When Charlie Crist announced his candidacy for Senate, everyone kind of threw up their hands and thought, Well, guess ol’ Charlie is gonna be our next senator. But then he hugged Obama, and Marco Rubio and his brave battalion of Tea Partiers stormed his ships and threw all of his…
America has a new enemy. And his name is Koman Coulibaly. He’s like Lex Luthor, because he’s bald and because he could be responsible for America’s downfall in the World Cup. But mostly, because he’s bald. By now the whole world knows had badly team USA got hosed on Friday…
Warning to baseball purists: Watch the above video with extreme caution, industrial-grade earplugs and a few highlight reels of the 1964 World Series handy to revive your sense of basic MLB dignity. The Marlins have brought vuvuzelas to baseball. Specifically, they handed out 15,000 of the horns that are currently…
Heathrow Lounge in Miami Beach is supposed to have a classy, vaguely British atmosphere, but it’s located on Washington Avenue, so of course it still has the occasional Miami-style violence.The club was hosting some sort of Father’s Day bash (because nothing says “excellent dad” like hitting up the club. “Sorry,…
Colombians turned out to the polls yesterday — well, a few of them did at least — to choose a new president.Despite all the early promise shown by Green Party surprise Antanas Mockus — he of the 700,000 Facebook fans and 52,000 Twitter followers and reams of enthusiastic street-art supporters…
Dale Picardat isn’t your typical jailbird. The slight, bespectacled 53-year-old has zero criminal record, a degree from Michigan State University, and about as much street cred as a granny with a walker. But he ended up at the Miami-Dade Pretrial Detention Center in August 2009 after a fluke loitering charge…
By this point you’ve either seen the commercials on TV, heard about it on the radio, had someone knock on your door, or received a giant envelope in the mail — the U.S. Census is everywhere. But how can you be sure that your vote is getting counted and the…
Somewhat encouraging news on the employment front: Florida’s unemployment numbers fell for the second month in a row. That’s only the second two months run of dents in the massive unemployment rate since February 2006. For May, Florida’s unemployment rate was 11.7 percent, that’s three tenths of a percent less than April. Things…
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Whew. So how exactly is a U.S. soccer fan to feel after this morning’s nail-biter against Slovenia? Pissed that the defense slept through the first half to give the Slovenes a 2-0 halftime lead? Exhilerated that the Yanks pulled off a stunning second half comeback to walk out with a…
The University of Miami is about to take its proud athletic tradition into a whole new arena: 3D simulation robot soccer. Yes, a simulated soccer team known as the “RoboCanes” will be heading to the RoboCup, aka the Robot Soccer World Cup, being held in Singapore from June 19th to the…
Your Florida Marlins just finished their interleague series with the Texas Rangers last night. Good thing the World Cup and NBA Finals were on all week, because — holy crap — was it ugly. Here’s how it all went down:Game 1 — Rangers 3, Marlins 2: Matt Treanor’s revenge! Former…
