Back when word came last year that there would be another bill filed in the Florida Senate to ban texting while driving we wondered why MSMing was being singled out when technology allows us about a million and one ways to distract ourselves while we should be keeping our eyes…
The Dolphins’ Ricky Williams has always been one of the NFL’s most complicated players. ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series, which also brought us The U, focuses on Williams’s life and his hiatus from football in 2004 in Run, Ricky, Run. It premieres tomorrow night on the channel, with a special…
Pam Grier, the star of Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown, has a new memoir out. Besides a guest stint on Miami Vice, she doesn’t have much of a local connection, but in Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, she chronicles a previously unheard-of medical condition that we’re guessing might alarm…
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Aspiring model Paula Sladewski went missing after leaving Club Space shortly after 7 a.m. New Year’s Eve weekend. Her body was found later that day on fire in a North Miami trash bin. The murder follows a small but shocking rash of violence and murder in Miami-Dade clubs that operate…
Greatness is forged through adversity: when one’s back is against the wall, when one is faced with a do-or-die situation, or when someone keeps reminding everybody that WE JUST MIGHT BE WITNESSING HIS LAST GAME IN A HEAT UNIFORM!Dwayne Wade is greatness. Even when besieged with the burden of being…
Shots rang out last night near 95th Street and NW 29th Avenue, as two unidentified men shot at four others. Police were called a little after 9:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found the four victims, all males between the ages of 30 and 40. They were taken to Ryder…
While writing “Blow Hard,” this week’s feature about douche-tastic hip-hop megaproducer Scott Storch — which reveals that (a) his mother claims he financially abandoned her, (b) he apparently ordered a handler driving a German-made coupe to run down a child-support court server, and (c) he likes cheese manicotti — I procrastinated…
Marlins fans, that proud clan of several hundred clad in teal and black, didn’t spend their off-season dreaming of free-agent fire-throwers. They didn’t lie awake imagining Matt Holiday patrolling left field, or drooling over how the NL East could fall their way. Nope. Fish faithful spent a long winter chewing…
The Miami Dolphins entered the NFL draft with a plethora of needs, most notably at outside linebacker, safety, nose tackle and tight end. They spent their first pick on a defensive end, while pulling the ole switch-a-roo on us and moving Randy Starks to the defensive tackle position. PING! Defensive…
A young person jumped from the 21st floor of Park Place by the Bay at 10 p.m. last night, according to witnesses. Cops and paramedics temporarily blocked off the yellow apartment building, located at 915 NW 1st Avenue. The jumper landed in a cement walkway, not far from the pool…
Welcome back to our second night of NFL Draft Live-Blogging! Brought to you in 3D!* (*-not really, but everything else is in 3D, so why not). Tonight we’ll roll through the second and third rounds, where the Dolphins hold the 40th and 73rd overall picks. Tonight’s blog will be more…
Hey, you. Yeah, you over there. You look like a man who enjoys watching a video of people being beaten, maimed, tortured, maybe even killed. Yeah, I can tell that about ya. Listen, I know a guy who might be able to get some of those kinda films, but it might…
Some animals urinate on things to mark their terrority. Despite what a certain human nature photography blog would have you think, the organisms that shop at Wal-Mart are not animals. Though in some cases we’d forgive you for getting confused. Christina Cifaldi, 22, was arrested for suspicion of urinating on clothing at a…
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Each of the three main contenders for Florida’s open Senate seat have their charms. Marco Rubio has his unwavering conservative principals and his strong stump speech. Charlie Crist has shown he isn’t beholden to his party and its fringe elements, but to the people of Florida. Kendrick Meek has a…
PBS’s Patchwork Nation project recently put together a county-by-county map comparing the concentration of residents who have registered as members of a Tea Party-affiliated group. Surprisingly, given Marco Rubio’s success, Florida had only three counties (Gilchrist, Flagler, and Sumter) where more than ten of 10,000 residents identify as members of the movement. Miami-Dade…
Southwest Florida thrives on offering all the good weather and beaches of South Florida except with a whole lot more white people. A British family staying at the Ritz-Cartlon in Naples (the beach resort, not the other Ritz-Carlton in town) and specified they wished not to be served by “people…
Jack Barouh, a 65-year-old Golden Beach man, pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges related to the probe of Swiss bank UBS. His attorney blames it on the Holocaust. Barouh’s parents apparently evaded the Holocaust, and Barouh claims that because of this, he had a compulsion to hide his money in case…
Let’s call it the Week of the Floaters: Since Monday, three mysterious corpses have bobbed to the surface in waterways around the metro area.Saddled with three new homicide investigations, Miami detectives have made progress in at least one case this morning.Last night, police arrested a man suspected of fatally stabbing…
Students who smoke at the University of Miami will soon have to pay a $50-per-semester fee if they get their health insurance through the school’s health plan. Some believe it is the school’s first step to making the Coral Gables campus smoke-free. The school’s medical campus is already a cigarette-free…
City commissioners love curfews. No issue has pissed off as many of Marc Sarnoff’s constituents as his approval of Coconut Grove’s 3 a.m. last call. And horrible driver Richard Dunn has recently urged cops to cite teenagers and fine parents who violate the 11 p.m. teen curfew that’s been in…
