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…
So the Herald earlier this week stopped its experiment with asking for online donations. Maybe it was a little too inside baseball for most to care about, but a certain vein of the conservative movement loves it whenever the “mainstream media” admits failure.As part of his ever-growing stable of Internet…
Apparently, the Hurricanes have brought on Richard Simmons as a uniform consultant, because during spring practice yesterday, the team sported short shorts that left little to the imagination…
If there’s one defining feature of the Tea Party movement it’s that members hate freeloaders who let taxpayers, the government, or political money pick up their expenses (read: welfare, the stimulus, bailouts, etc.). Wonder how they’ll respond to the revelation that their current poster boy charged personal expenses to a…
Ousted West Miami Mayor Cesar Carasa says he’ll run again — you know, when he’s not busy macking on Dominican girls and trying to sell them shoes. [Herald]Oh, look, local women have dreams of one day competing in Olympic pole dancing. [NBCMiami]Two women pleaded guilty for trying to rob an…
In 2003, a ragtag team of Colombian soldiers hacked through the jungles on a search for three American contractors who’d been kidnapped by FARC rebels. Instead of finding the victims, the soldiers stumbled upon an underground stash of rebel cash totaling more than $20 million. The American contractors — Keith Stansell,…
North Bay Village Mayor Oscar Alfonso cheated the IRS, the bank, and his city
Cocaine king Max Mermelstein came out of hiding for a screenwriter
The busiest gallery in Wynwood might be at the Salvation Army thrift store
Rapper Lyrikill.com’s publicity blitz has made him an enemy among South Florida TV reporters
