Phil Busch has always been one angry dude. In 2006, the musclebound motivational speaker and born-again Christian fueled worldwide headlines when he sued über-evangelist Pat Robertson for using the bodybuilder’s well-greased, vein-popping physique to sell a mass-marketed protein shake without permission — and damn was Busch pissed about it. “Look in…
Most of us don’t make NBA money and we still manage to show up to work every day. And when we do decide to skip out, we at least have the decency to come up with an elaborate excuse. Not the Heat’s Rafer Alston. He didn’t show up to the…
The makeshift town that a band of sex offenders called home for years under the Tuttle has finally been demolished. [Herald]A mother and daughter plunged seven feet after the floor in the Marco Polo hotel and condos in Sunny Isles beach collapsed. [CBS4]The big gay Winter Party was this weekend…
Miamians are well known for their love of the coochie-cutter shorts. And if you’ve kept abreast of couture fashion this season, you’ve noticed our favorite short-shorts are gracing the runways of Milan and Paris. Biters! Gen Art, an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting emerging talents, will again lend our…
Each week, we think we’ve promised the impossible, that we won’t be able to deliver a free, cool event for every day of the week. But here we are again, disarming you of that handy excuse of being broke and giving you five reasons to go out. And this week…
“It’s gonna be a transvestite dictatorship,” says old-school drag queen Shelley Novak. “This year, I’m running the show — and all I need is a microphone and a spotlight.” She’s talking about the 17th annual Shelley Novak Awards — Miami Beach’s queer equivalent of the Oscars –which has gotten back…
Gorky Aguila, the front-man of Cuban punk band Porno Para Ricardo, returned Thursday to Cuba after an 11-month sojourn in Mexico. Aguila, who was arrested two years ago for writing songs sharply (and hysterically) critical of the Cuban government, asked supporters, via his twitter, natch, to follow his case, lest…
Apparently, Chad Ochocinco is preparing for his stint on Dancing With the Stars by jogging naked around his home.”I was running naked. It was in the privacy of my own home. Fuckin’ noisy people filmed me,” Ochocinco tells Sports Illustrated. “Yeah, why wouldn’t I? What’s wrong with that? I take…
Rick Sanchez is the king of Twitter, obviously and hosted the site’s annual award show “The Shortys” last night at the The New York Times’ TimesCenter. While he wasn’t meeting Grover, or joking about his recent criticized coverage of the Chile earthquake (From PRNewser: “I think the reason they chose me…
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Miami-Dade outlawed pit bulls in 1989, a year before the Florida Legislature passed a law banning all breed-specific dog laws. Our ordinance was allowed to stand, but 20 years later, the legislature might make it possible for other Florida counties to place restrictions on certain breeds as long as there…
So listen. Read this with the same grain of salt you read a Michael Musto column. Or perhaps a bit more, because we don’t even know if it’s true.Anyway, after yesterday’s news that an anti-gay Republican state senator in California was charged with a DUI after leaving a gay club,…
Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has unsurprisingly gone full tea bagger on us. The recipient of one of our Dirty Dozen “awards” has already endorsed Rush Limbaugh for president and compared President Obama to Hitler. Now she’s joined forces with the Pasadena Tea Party for her latest ukulele…
There are nights when the Miami Heat drop games against the crappiest of teams, causing you to want to punch random people in the pants at a bus stop. There are nights when it seems as if Dwyane Wade is playing alongside Michael Beasley, the churros guy from across the…
As Kendrick Meek leaves to pursue the Senate seat, just about everyone and their ex-spouse has filed to run for his congressional seat in District 17. Candidates Yolly Roberson and Phillip J. Brutus used to be married.Now, North Miami councilman Scott Galvin has thrown his hat into the crowded ring…
Broward’s Sun Sentinel announced its Best of Blogs award winners this past Wednesday. On the chilly night, local bloggers, along with their family and friends, gathered around the fire pit at Yolo’s on Las Olas Boulevard.Bloggers came from all over South Florida, as far south as the Keys and as…
Today’s chilly morning tied a record for coldest March 5th ever. The last recorded March 5th that saw Miami this frigid was during the Great Depression. [CBS4]A Miami-Dade motorcycle officer was injured in a major crash with a car in Hialeah, causing traffic delays. The officer is at the hospital…
This morning, there was food in my Miami Herald. Real, actual food.A “Sweet and Salty Nut” granola bar, to be exact. Inside my newspaper, which was buried underneath a bush, half covered by wet dirt, right next to the poisonous rat traps outside my apartment.To be fair, it’s not like…
There’s much to do this weekend with the Miami International Film Festival opening tonight at Gusman and the Winter Party Festival taking over Miami Beach. Until we master the art of being in two places at once, we wish we could save some of these events for Miami’s sticky, quiet…
In a crisp gray suit, United States Attorney Jeffery Sloman told a room full of TV news reporters today that the Department of Homeland Security has completed “the largest Visa fraud take-down in the agency’s history.” Dubbed “Operation Class Dismissed,” the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sting centers around…
Don’t be surprised if you see hockey star Wayne Gretzky’s son Trevor in a Hurricanes jersey some day.No, not the NHL team in Carolina, the original Miami Hurricanes. And we don’t mean the school is starting up a hockey team either, we’re talking football.Trevor Gretzky is heading into his senior…
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