If you’ve ever found yourself mindlessly watching one of those Travel Channel top ten shows about water parks, you don’t have to speak German to know what Schlitterbahn is. Among the park’s four locations in Texas and Kentucky, at least one of their extreme liquid dream rides always makes the…
The foreclosure crisis hit a fever pitch in Liberty City Tuesday morning, as banks foreclosed on two buildings, causing the eviction of three families.Escorted by several police officers, a bank employee showed up at 820 and 840 NW 70th St. He evicted three families living in the building, which led…
Miami’s rainmakers are stopping at nothing to keep Dwyane Wade in town. In May, the Miami Heat and a slew of corporate sponsors launched an online campaign — wewantwade.com — to convince the NBA MVP from fleeing to another team when he becomes a free agent in July. The website…
Newton’s universal law of gravity tells us that all motion is comprehensible and predictable, that it guides planets and asteroids and keeps billions of stars in orbit within the Milky Way. But the Brazilian national team, along with its magical style of play, apparently thinks Newton’s universal law of gravitation…
We text. We BBM. We instant-message. We Facebook-chat. Welcome to the antisocial social-media generation, where communicating with others is just a click away, and avoiding face-to-face confrontation is the wave of the future. When I was in school, I communicated with friends and classmates via note-passing. Now an archaic means…
Now that the Jersey Shore scourge has left our fair shores (only to be replaced with the possible threat of something slightly less crude and greasy) it seems the entire city, even the criminal justice system, is ready to be done with them completely. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, in fact, tells…
When we first saw it, we so desperately wanted to show you this picture of our governor, Charlie Crist, looking at the be-thonged buttocks of a lady on Miami Beach yesterday, but, you know, copyrights and all of that. But here now is a fair-use thumbnail of the cover of…
We think billionaire Jeff Greene’s latest ad in his insurgent bid for the Democratic Senate nomination is trying to spell out the central theme of candidacy. We just can’t put our finger on exactly what it is. The guy who invented the iPod, maybe?Anyway, stay tuned for Greene’s next attack…
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Billionaire businessman Rick Scott has come out of virtually nowhere to take an astounding double-digit lead in a recent poll against Attorney General Bill McCollum for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. This is thanks mainly to three things: (1) charisma-less career politician McCollum isn’t exactly the kind of guy to excite any…
Ramon Loret Demola, age 73, was walking on the sidewalk along SW Eighth Street near 24th Avenue yesterday when he was struck by what’s being described as a white or light silver or gray SUV. The driver, who witnesses say was talking on a cell phone, drove his car onto…
Last week, the Florida Marlins announced plans to install saltwater aquariums behind home plate in their under-construction stadium in Miami. Well, PETA, an organization that now seemingly exists only to release stupid press releases and dumb letters about animal things (seriously, what the hell is this?), wrote an inane letter asking the Marlins to…
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Amid the depressing BP disaster, here’s a happy story about something dumped into the ocean and washing up on Florida’s shores.Seven months ago, Dick de Bruin, a Royal Dutch Navy sergeant stationed in the Dutch territory of Aruba, was salvaging an anchor from an American World War II ship that was to be…
In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.@AlfredSpellmantwitter.com/alfredspellmanMany people familiar with 31-year-old Alfred Spellman probably don’t realize the wealth of knowledge and topics that the Rakontur producer (Cocaine Cowboys, The U) frequently tweets. While…
Some would say the ultimate result of Saturday’s highly anticipated match between the U.S. and England was disappointing. The pre-game anticipation certainly didn’t help. It was six months of USA versus England! The Statue of Liberty versus Big Ben! Starbucks versus tea! James Bond versus Jason Bourne! Ronald Reagan versus…
When Carly Fiorina, a senatorial candidate from California, mocked U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s haircut last week as “sooo yesterday,” Boxer let political pundits do the barking for her.Instantly, talking heads and bloggers accused the former Hewlett Packard CEO of reviving stereotypes of female candidates’ cattiness. But when Fiorina criticized South…
Two children were swimming yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. off Virginia Key near the Miami Seaquarium when they began to struggle. Two men heroically jumped in to save them. However, one man died trying to the save kids.The man, identified as Douglas Frank Butler, was visiting from Gainesville and had…
Click here to view photos from this event.Saturday afternoon about 100 people gathered outside the BP gas station on NE 10th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. For one hour, a horde of social activists, students, artists, cyclists, and people upset about the oil spill stood in front of the gas station…
In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Mera and Don RubellWhen it comes to art collectors in town, there are the Rubells, and then there’s everybody else. Martin Margulies has his own minimuseum, so…
What’s free in the 305 this week? With the exception of one World-Cup-themed film, it’s the week of testosterone-fueled book readings. There’s a cranky British intellectual, a suave racecar driver, an embedded journalist, and the first Latin-American author to win a Pulitzer for fiction. Remember to also check our directory…
In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.”They don’t know this nappy-headed child of God has her armor on!”Wonky TV dramas have nothing on the real-life soap opera that is Miami politics. Take Michelle…
