Well, it’s official. Dwyane Wade needs a crap-load of help. Sure it was great to see D-Wade back in action last night after being sidelined with a strained calf since February 17. But even with Wade doing his usual routine of denting asses in a single bound, the Miami Heat…
Our longstanding love-hate relationship with former WSVN turned CNN anchor Rick Sanchez continues, and as it does more often than not, it’s veering more toward hate at the moment.This weekend he got a chance to break out of his Twitter-addicted regular show on CNN, to host some of the network’s…
Two important things happened on the NBC television network this weekend. The Winter Olympics finally ended and Jennifer Lopez, who has been busy raising her twins, buying an apartment in Miami, and letting her husband buy a stake in the Dolphins, finally got back to the important work of being…
Metro West Detention center held an America Idol-style talent show for inmates: “Second place went to Cortez Atkins, 32, for his rap about treating women well. Atkins is awaiting trial on drug, alcohol and domestic-violence charges.” [NBCMiami]A gunmen opened fire on a Liberty City BBQ this weekend, and injured two…
On Friday, Miami’s best and brightest crowded inside City Hall to watch the city commission confirm Mayor Tomas Regalado’s pick for our new city manager. Carlos Migoya, a career banker and philanthropist, pledged to right Miami’s battered budget — and to do it for free, forgoing his job’s $300,000 annual salary…
Last week, Cuba’s daily newspaper breathlessly announced that the country faced a mule deficit.Yes, you read right: mule, as in, donkey, hee-haw, Mr. Ed* and all that. Breaking! Also in short supply in Cuba: everything.The dip in the mule community — their words — has triggered a countrywide census of…
The relatives of the kingpin who once ran the planet’s largest cocaine ring were indicted yesterday in Miami. Federal court documents allege six family members tied to the Colombia-based Cali Cartel lied to prosecutors and hid millions of dollars, using “deceit, craft, and trickery” to “defraud the United States,” (Check…
After first being reported by former New Times scribe Isaiah Thomas in 2007, the group of sex offenders who were forced to take up residence under the Julia Tuttle Causeway caused controversy and left a black eye on the city of Miami.Now, the Miami Herald reports that the makeshift camp…
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Just days after a veteran trainer was killed after being attacked by an orca at SeaWorld Orlando, president and general manager Jim Atchison says that the park’s marquee Shamu show will resume tomorrow. Atchison made his statement speaking in front of a tank filled with whales.Trainers at the three locations…
Phrases like “bleeding heart liberal” and “conservative ideologue” get thrown around in political discussions like slurs, but the National Journal’s annual congressional vote rankings actually show you how liberal and conservative each congressman and senator is.The 2009 rankings are in, and there are a few surprising results from Florida.First off, “hot…
Michelle Spence-Jones and Charlie Crist could write a bad romance. Classic story of boy meets girl: city commissioner runs for re-election, picks up a grand-theft charge, and gets suspended after her big win. She runs again, wins again, and he still throws her out of office. Rah-Rah-Rah. After a month-long…
Miami-Dade can feel Third World sometimes. It seems like there are more chickens than humans on Little Haiti’s sidewalks; Overtown boasts a single working street lamp; and western Dade rivals Cuba when it comes to blackmarket slaughterhouses.Then there’s the environmental and recycling stuff. Although the county passed an ordinance last…
With Gov. Charlie Crist trailing Marco Rubio by 18 points in the latest poll of likely Republican primary voters, the biggest question in Florida politics is whether or not he’ll ditch the GOP in his bid for the Senate.Well, two anonymous sources close to Crist tell the Sun-Sentinel’s Jack Furnari…
We don’t know about you, but whenever Riptide dreams of robbing a bakery, it’s usually for the baked goods.”Okay, put all the muffins and raisin bread in the bag and nobody gets hurt. This bad boy’s breaking his no-carb diet tonight.”Not that we’d ever actually rob a bakery. Unfortunately Vicky Bakery…
An 81 year-old Miami Lakes woman who used a wheelchair couldn’t get out of her house when it caught fire and was burned alive early this morning. [WSVN]Thinking now is a great time to bring up Killer Whales, the Miami Seaquarium says that their orca, Lolita, is doing just dandy…
The Future of Web Apps Miami conference took place this week bringing together geeks, developers, programmers, tech companies, investors and visionaries from all over the world to Miami Beach for three days of talks, workshops and, of course, parties.Among talk of HTML 5, JQuery, app branding, startup strategies and much…
Cesar Carasa, the ex-Mayor of West Miami, was suspended by Governor Charlie Crist in December after racking up a $70,000 cell phone bill on his city-issued phone.Besides the fact that works out to about $11 per West Miami resident, he racked up a good deal of the minutes chatting with…
A baker’s dozen of your favorite Florida Mayors will literally be thrown out of an airplane for what could be the most extreme political stunt ever.Of course the mayors will have parachutes and will jump with the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team at the Homestead Air Reserve Base. Once they…
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Sen. Frederica Wilson has put on her anti-FCAT hat today and proposed a bill that would make schools with large populations of Haitian students exempt from many FCAT standards this year.Wilson believes the devastation in Haiti could have an adverse effect this year on students’ scores , which are used…
Oh look, former Gov. Jeb Bush has apparently joined Twitter, and even though he hasn’t twatted anything into his tweet machine yet he already has 2,323 people following him!That works out to a little less than 1 percent of the people who have followed Conan O’Brien since he joined the…
