Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up. It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August’s Juanes show. Singer René Pérez Joglar, shirtless and pissed…
Yesterday we showed you Charlie Crist’s first television ad for his floundering bid for the US senate. It’s an attack ad against his tea bagging superstar Republican rival Marco Rubio. Well, now Rubio has produced two ads of his own, and his campaign plans to buy up the 15 seconds before…
Apparently, there were so many cats killed during last Spring’s feline murder spree that rocked Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay that prosecutors forgot to charge the suspect, 19-year-old Tyler Weinman, with all of them. In a status hearing yesterday, prosecutors announced that they had left out two cat killings in their charges. Weinman…
An early morning crash between an SUV and a Nissan Maxima filled with five men has sent all of the Nissan’s passengers to the hospital after the car flipped. The driver and a passenger in the SUV took off on foot and have not been found. [CBS4]A house in Miami was sprayed…
A psychic predicts where Dwyane Wade will end up next year
Scott Rothstein’s work as a Mafia informant might help him in his Ponzi case
Gerald Posner plagiarizes again, this time at book speed
Hero for Haiti Jim Goodnow needs a ride to the island
Miami Beach cops are paid up to $225K and face lawsuits galore
We’re pretty sure the ornately logo-ed purse trend has been done with for a while. Now that we’re all “recessionistas” ladies who can still afford luxury leather goods prefer to buy expensive bags with the designer brand only noticeable to discerning eyes. Touting around a purse that cost $5000 and let’s everyone…
We in Miami like a really, really big show. As every professional sports endeavor in the city knows, if your event bores us even slightly, we have a tendency to do something else with our time. So we’re sure some Sony Ericsson Open ticket holders have their fingers crossed for a…
New Times decided to actually show a little restraint on one of our recent covers, and its ended up getting our models in trouble.Two weeks ago, both Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach ran a cover story about players for the Lingerie Football League’s Miami Caliente team. Now…
Charlie Crist keeps free-falling in the Republican Senate primary, but he’s not going down without a fight. He has a sizable war chest, and the campaign’s first attack ad against Marco Rubio is set to air with a “sizable buy” of air time. If you can’t wait to see it…
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Some of us see faith as a very personal matter. Others of us want to shout our faith from the rooftop. Tim Tebow, he of the Bible-passage eye black and religious right commercials, definitely falls into the latter category.Tebow is participating in the NFL scouting combine, and players are given…
Brickell, the so-called Manhattan of the South, was supposed to be Miami’s next hot spot. Developers fully bought into the idea, and for a while it seemed a new luxury condo high-rise was breaking ground every other month. Then, whoops, the housing bubble burst, the recession hit, and many of those condo…
A federal judge in Boston is set to sentence Miami’s own superhacker, Albert Gonzalez, tomorrow for leading what prosecutors call the largest identity theft ring ever busted. Gonzalez, who pleaded guilty in September to 19 counts, faces 15 to 25 years for stealing millions of credit card numbers from national…
Gail Posner, one of the four children of the infamous late businessman Victor Posner, passed away last week at the age of 67. She was reportedly battling cancer. However, for a member of one of Miami Beach’s most wealthy and notorious families, her obituary was never submitted to the Herald.Though bold-faced…
Apparently, there’s more excitement about the upcoming Florida Marlins season than previously thought. This reasonable proposal was found on a bathroom wall — Churchill’s? — and relayed to Deadspin:…
Corey Poitier, the lone Republican in the race to replace Congressman Kendrick Meek in District 17, has a message for President Barack Obama: “Listen up, Buckwheat.” Poitier, a teacher at North Miami Beach Senior High who is also African-American, made the comments at a Broward County Republicans meeting while giving…
An 11-year-old boy at Norland Elementary School has been charged with sexual assault after he had two friends lock a special needs student in a bathroom and forced the girl to perform oral sex on him. [WSVN]The wife of the man who was zapped with a stun gun after going…
They live, as quietly as cloistered monks, among us. They wash our dogs, write our blogs, prepare our taxes, and, you know, do other things people do for a living. They are Florida Marlins fans. They do exist — 600 at a time.OK, so Miami doesn’t have the most rabid fan…
