Feb’s Social Media Club meeting took place on Tuesday at Citrix headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. The theme was “Social Media Predictions for 2010.” Predictions started long before when the club crowdsourced by asking others to post their predictions online by among other things, tweeting with the hashtag #sm2010.A panel, moderated…
As part of it’s ongoing efforts to promote volunteer-ism, Walt Disney World in Orlando unveiled a giant sculpture made completely of canned goods. It’s believed to be the biggest sculpture ever completed of canned goods, and the video above shows the time lapsed construction.&Made of 115,527 cans, the structure represents…
Lyrikill is a white rapper with dreadlocks from Broward County whose favorite hobby is hunting down news vans and holding a sign promoting his website during live broadcasts. This is apparently not some Ali G/Die Antwoord-type conceptual joke.His shot-crashing work is quite prolific, having appeared in the backgrounds of reports…
Last May, New Times ran a story about a Barry University technician who found a noose in his work shed and was fired after reporting it to cops. The incident, it turned out, was a symbol of a larger problem: Stacks of lawsuits showed the private Catholic university had a…
You might want to pass on that next round of vodka Red Bulls. A new University of Florida study shows that mixing energy drinks and alcohol can be a dangerous combination.Previous studies have shown that caffeine masks some of the sedative properties of alcohol, so drinkers feel less inebriated than they…
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Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart has announced he won’t seek re-election in 2010. Diaz-Balart, only 55 years old, has spent the past 17 years representing Florida’s 21st congressional district.After the 2008 election cycle, when Miami’s three Republican Cuban-American congressman faced the strongest challengers of their careers but still won re-election, the 2010…
Corporations like Gatorade, T-Mobile, and Nike have paid many millions of dollars to go into business with Heat demi-God Dwyane Wade. But what of the little man? Shouldn’t everybody, even if they live with their parents in South Miami, be able to partner with an NBA superstar? Apparently, 20-year-old Michael…
Did we just wake up in Bizarro World? Because usually when the Heat visits Atlanta, the Hawks tend to go all Cirque du Soleil on their asses with their slam dunk aerial assaults, sparking the home crowd into a frenzy and causing Josh Smith to hop up and down and…
After admitting to plagiarizing multiple passages from Miami Herald stories and other sources, Gerald Posner has resigned as chief investigative reporter for the Daily Beast.Posner, a Miami Beach author best known for investigative books such as Miami Babylon, posted an explanation of his resignation on a new blog, claiming he’d often create 15,000-word master files for…
Miami-Dade public schools are on the verge of another budget crisis, one that could ultimately affect arts education. [CBS4]A fatal accident shut down much of northbound I-95 this morning. [WSVN]A Miami-Dade Police fund set up to fight environmental crimes has been used to buy SUVs, satellite TV subscriptions, and boats…
Yesterday, a little after 2 p.m., a woman went to visit her friend in her new home, a squat, pastel-painted ranch on a quiet block of SW 5th Terrace just off SW 8th Street in West Miami. When she walked inside, she found her friend on the floor, dead in…
As Haitians begin to rebuild after the earthquake, a Miami photographer captures the catastrophe
Take a roundtrip ride on the Dade-Broward 95 Express Bus
Cutler Bay man smuggles cigarettes through the Port of Miami and goes to prison
Isiah Thomas struggles to reshape FIU hoops
Calder Race Course trainer suspected of selling thoroughbreds to a slaughterhouse
Coral Gables Police bought a $16,420 robot and other high-tech gadgets
Last season for Miami Hurricanes fans was a respectful rebound, and should provide encouragement that our days of being left off most pre-season polls are over.The season doesn’t officially kick off for another seven months, but that hasn’t stopped ESPN’s Mark Schlabach from making his pre-season rankings. He’s got the…
In what was meant to be a feel good story, a local fifth-grade girl, Caroline Masia, won an NFL-sponsored Super Bowl essay contest after writing about hearing for the first time after receiving a Cochlear implant. Though the win has caused some controversy in the deaf community and brought about…
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