Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek all showed up for a US Cuba Democracy PAC luncheon, and when it came to Cuba they all had the same thing to say. [CBS4]FIU will play host to a conference dealing with sex differentiation disorders in sports. [Herald]Police are still looking for the…
First came that deadly strain of meningitis.Then, who could forget about Swine Flu?And of course the EPIC hotel is currently in the middle of a Legionnaire’s Disease controversy.Now, The Herald reports, there’s yet another threatening disease that’s popped up in South Florida: extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis!Up until now the particular strain of…
The case of Carlos Miller started in 2007 while he was on assignment as a photojournalist for a now-defunct website. He took some photos of police, refused their order that he stop, then found himself in succession with his head against concrete, in the back of a police car, a…
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No college football team hit such heights and then sunk to such lows this decade than the Miami Hurricanes. From the 2001 team that won a national championship — and is considered by most sane sports commenters as the best college team of the past ten years if not of all time…
Poor Charlie Crist. As he tries to make the move from governor to senator, he finds himself in quite the political quagmire. Much of which has been brought on by primary foe Marco Rubio hitting Crist from the right every chance he gets. So in response, Crist, whose reputation has…
The South Florida Blade has closed, but soon the region will have not one, but two gay newspapers.Window Media, which owned a number of GLBT newspapers, including the Blade and it’s pervy little listing mag brother 411, abruptly closed its doors in November. In a nice web-to-print story, local gay…
The Coast Guard called off the search for two boaters who went missing of the coast. [NBCMiami]It got really really cold yesterday, how cold was it? Apparently cold enough to warrant this long article. [Herald]Kool & the Gang performed in Cuba on Saturday. Our apologies to the Cuban people. [CBS4]Thanks to the Legionnaire’s disease…
Just days before Christmas, the Miami Dolphins were supposed to come up with another big win to inch closer to a post-season berth. Instead, they delivered a stocking full of turds in the form of a 27-24 loss in overtime to the Tennessee Titans. There’s plenty of blame to go…
The year came to a close rather quietly with a laid-back cocktail party at the Mutiny Hotel in Coconut Grove on December 16.According to Refresh Miami co-founder Brian Breslin, the group has grown considerably this year — by about fifty percent, with more than 2,000 people subscribed to updates.Topics in…
Gender Bender doesn’t usually preview nightlife events, but the drag show at Voodoo Lounge is worth checking out. We’ve seen similar acts in Boston, San Francisco, and Miami but this one — based in Fort Lauderdale — had the best mix of comedy, dancing, and music. Plus it’s a diverse…
Twenty-one-year-old Geraldo Pagano of Orlando was driving his scooter over the wet and rainy 79th Street Causeway just before midnight yesterday when he lost control. He fell to the ground but managed to pick himself up. Then a gray four-door Kia hit him, sending Pagano and the scooter flying into…
Miami resident Albert Gonzalez shocked the world when he was indicted for the largest case of identity fraud in history. Using colorful aliases such as “Soupnazi,” he hacked into the databases of several retail chains and stole information from more than 130 million credit and debit cards. Gonzalez made a plea deal…
Thirty-year-old Jaime Edmondson has lived something of an interesting life. Once a member of Boca Raton’s police force, she quit to become a cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins. She parlayed that to a stint as a contestant on the 14th season of The Amazing Race, and now she’s been chosen…
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Last night, Univision aired Gloria Estefan, the queen of Miami, interviewing Barack Obama, the president of the United States, during which she made Obama pledge to bring about a free Cuba by the end of his first term, provide a path to citizenship for all undocumented workers, and vow not…
Considering the chief financial officer job is the only statewide position up for re-election in 2010 that the Democrats currently hold, they should be eager to keep it. But with CFO Alex Sink running for governor, no big-name Dem has stepped forward to run. In fact, the only one who has…
The employment rate in Florida increased slightly in November to 11.5 percent, up from 11.3 percent in October according to the South Florida Business Journal. That’s the highest rate since May 1975, when 11.9 percent of Floridians were out of a job, and translates to roughly 1 million people out of work. However,…
Turns out the Epic Hotel has not been completely cleared as the cause of Legionnaires’ disease. [Herald]However, the disease might also be linked to the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship. [SFBJ]The Supreme Court of Florida has decided it’s no longer legal to put shackles on kids in court. [JustNews]Anyone…
Very few of us have gone down the yellow brick road to see the wizard behind the curtain. But Gus Moore, owner and publisher of Miami Beach 411, the area’s largest travel website, will have lunch at the Googleplex December 21.Moore has opened up a thread on the site’s community…
Santa Claus is coming to the Shops at Midtown Miami (3401 N. Miami Ave., in front of Loehman’s and West Elm) this Saturday, and he’s bringing his rubbers.Rubber ducky reindeer, that is. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Santa and his helpers will set up rubber duck reindeer races for…
Riptide has long been a proponent of changing our official State Song to “Happy Happy Joy Joy,” for no other reason than it’d be kind of funny, but now we have cold hard numbers to back us up: According to the Centers for Disease Control, Florida is the third happiest…
