Heat President Pat Riley has bigger problems this summer than just trying to re-sign guard Dwyane Wade. Riley is being sued for $5.5 million by a real estate broker who says the Hall of Fame coach didn’t live up to a promise he made to break him off a piece…
Chaya Lipschutz is a 52-year-old Orthodox Jew with a peculiar passion: Being a “kidney matchmaker.” If you’re in need of an organ, or you’re looking to give yours to a stranger, she’s your girl. She’s sort of the Patti Stranger of the altruistic set. Lipschutz doesn’t make any money from…
Tomas Regalado gets revenge
Marlins pitcher Renyel Pinto gets socked with a $922,000 lawsuit for unpaid bling
Shower Posse, the gang holding Jamaica hostage, has bloody Miami roots
Frenchie and Jeff, two renegade sailors, prowl the waters off Pelican Harbor Marina
Cowboy Down: Rob Krentz’s family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher
Ayahuasca: Believers call the Amazonian plant a sacrament; the state calls it illegal
For Romero Britto, luck and charm trump talent
If you’re like us, the first impulse you had after seeing your first oil-soaked seagull was to rip off your clothes and hop on a bike. This Saturday, you can do just that in the company of strangers at the Miami World Naked Bike Ride to protest our nation’s dependence…
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Everybody is waiting to see if the Gulf oil is going to wash up on Miami’s beaches anytime soon. Maybe we should be more conscious of what is already here. The Miami-Dade Health Department issued an advisory Wednesday for the atoll pool at Matheson Hammock in Coral Gables after two…
Even if experts warn that oil could already be off the coast of Miami and a University of Central Florida study estimates that the Gulf disaster could end up costing Florida $11 billion in lost tourism spending and 200,000 jobs, Bill Talbert, president of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors…
“There will be oil off the coast of Miami shortly, if it’s not already there. It’s happening,” says Dr. Robert H. Weisberg, director of the University of South Florida Ocean Circulation Group in the school’s College of Marine Science. And Weisberg says he has the forecasts to prove it–four of…
Every week, exiled Cubans are pissed about something. If it’s not a Los Van Van concert, it’s Hugo Chavez. Protesting outside Versailles is their idea of a Glee club, and their favorite pastime is tacking on new crimes, no matter how far-fetched, to Fidel Castro’s long list of offenses. In…
For those of you who haven’t heard about the new iPhone 4 yet (hiding under a rock?), it’s pretty big. And Apple’s trying to up the ante by hiring big shot movie director Sam Mendes (of Revolutionary Road and American Beauty fame) to direct their new Ad…
In 1987, weeks after a 7-year-old girl barely survived a brutal attack by a neighbor’s pit bull, Miami-Dade became the one of the first counties in the nation to ban the entire breed of dog. The law remains on the books today, even as it’s earned the scorn of everyone…
Let’s say, for argument’s sake, you are a big dumb homophobe. If you happen to work at a hospital in Miami-Dade, you should totally celebrate! You’re free to give gay parents the boot, turn away transgender folks, and block life partners from their dying loved ones. Reckon you found the…
Nothing like two years in the clink to plot revenge on the person who put you there. For Mercedes “Mecha” Morales of Miramar that meant ordering a hit on her husband–who ratted her out when he got pinched as part of a money laundering scheme in 2003 (and yes, the…
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Good pitching always beats good hitting. So goes the old baseball adage, and in the case of the dueling debuts of Florida Marlins outfielder Mike Stanton and Washington Nationals’ pitcher Stephen Strasburg–two of the most important prospects in recent years — it seems to be true again. As bad luck…
Gerardo Regalado, the 38-year old man alleged to have shot and killed four women, including his girlfriend, before turning the gun on himself, is the half brother former New York Yankee pitcher Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez. El Duque, in turn, is the half brother of former Florida Marlin pitcher Livan…
