Before those two failed Senate runs and his stint as attorney general, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum was a congressman for 20 years. During his freshman term in the House, a young McCollum had a dream. A dream that one day, there would never be a national holiday celebrating the…
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The former Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, and Land Shark Stadium will have a new name for the next five years: Sun Life Stadium. Somehow it’s even worse than the last one. Seriously, there are strip malls in Kendall with better names that…
Beloved luxury-porn mag Ocean Drive celebrated it’s 17th anniversary by putting beloved amateur-porn star Kim Kardashian on its cover and invited her to host their big self-congratulatory party last Thursday at the Delano. Half the point of throwing these parties is to get publicity, but not even Ocean Drive can compete…
An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne yesterday. Carlos Bertonatti, a 28-year-old who lives on Key Biscayne, was arrested yesterday near his battered Volkswagen after a short police chase. Officers…
Miamian Sef Gonzalez, AKA Burger Beast, might not be the burger “king,” but he has definitely turned his love of burgers into a growing social media empire. In a span of 15 months, thanks to his clever use of social media networks, the humble beef patty has become the focus…
Is Iowa Rep. Steve King aiming to be the most hated congressman from a flyover state since Tom “Miami is a Third-World Country” Tancredo?Late last year, King assaulted the ownership of our Miami Dolphins during a congressional hearing over much more important things, and now he’s gone and said something incredibly…
Every year, they arrive punctually on the same festive stationary, and every year, they’re tossed out faster than stale fruitcake. Well, dear reader, by throwing out your commissioner’s holiday newsletter, you’re trashing your own cash. Each newsletter costs the county 47 cents to produce, typeset, print, post, and mail. With…
The mother of two brothers living in South Florida was pulled alive from rubble in Haiti. [NBCMiami]Joe Biden was in Little Haiti over the weekend. [Herald]And he’s back in Miami to speak at a prayer breakfast at Florida Memorial Univerisity for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. [CBS4]Pundits have pretty much…
The announcement came in October with much ado and a “wire cutting” outside Miami Beach City Hall.”We are the first in the country to have a free citywide hotspot,” City Manager Jorge Gonzalez crowed to the Miami Herald.Well, Jorge, there might be a good reason for that.After a more than…
We reported yesterday about the tax documents uncovered by The Smoking Gun that made Haitian-born musician and producer Wyclef Jean’s NGO, Yéle Haiti, seem a bit self-serving. While Yéle Haiti has probably done plenty of good for the impoverish nation, the numbers and circumstances still raises a lot of red…
If you see grown men dressed in elephant costumes on Biscayne Boulevard today, it’s not conceptual art. Nor are they practicing for Burning Man or coming from a really good rave. Activists from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) plan to dress as ringmasters, clowns, and tigers to protest …
Sometimes I’m not entirely sure if we understand “democracy” here in Florida. Besides some presidential election in 2000 that people are still talking about, we could also point to the fact that in the past ten years only six incumbent members of the Florida House have lost their bids for…
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Tim Tebow may never have another chance to be associated with a Super Bowl, but why is he recording an ad for Focus on the Family? Yes, the James Dobson founded group announced today that they will air a 30 second commercial during the big game that will start former…
No one wants to coordinate the Miami Dolphins’ defense!The frontrunner in the race to replace fired Paul Pasqualoni, former University of Virginia coach and the remora to Bill Parcell’s Big Tuna, Al Groh, took the same position at Georgia Tech. Yeah, whatever, Groh, you can go Yellow Jacket. The guy was…
That earthquake in Haiti? Vice President Joe Biden is totally going to be all over it. He’ll be in South Florida Saturday to meet with the Haitian-American community and relief workers, which we’re sure is not just a token gesture and an opportunity for a photo op. No, not at all. This is…
via Dem UndergroundEven though the entire state knows Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are in total political love, Bush continues to remain neutral in the Republican primary for Senate.The Tampa Tribune asked Jebbers if he plans to make an endorsement soon. “I don’t know… I don’t know if I’m going to have…
Tripatini, founded last year in March by Miamians Jose Balido and Dave Appell, is a unique social networking site for travelers. The website launched in late August and was dubbed “Facebook for travelers” by the New York Post. Silicon Beach spent some time on the phone with Balido discussing the…
Who’s ready for liftoff? Apparently one NASA employee in Cape Canaveral, because a dime bag of cocaine was found inside the hangar housing the space shuttle Discovery.Drugs and space travel haven’t been this connected since David Bowie’s Space Oddity, but it seems there’s an actual “junkie, strung out in Heaven’s high,…
Michelle Spence-Jones is not taking her latest suspension from the Miami City Commission quietly.The District 5 commissioner has taken aim at her two biggest adversaries — Gov. Charlie Crist, who suspended her again yesterday, and the Miami Herald, which has oft criticized her attempts to keep her seat — with…
A Miami Shores man trapped in the wreckage of the collapsed UN building in Haiti was finally freed after 40 hours. [Herald]Wounded Americans in Haiti are being taken to Gitmo. [Herald]3 Lynn University students believed to had been found in Haiti are actually still unaccounted for. [CBS4]Miami-Dade Police and the…
