305 Photo of the Day: Words and Light
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Showing 23497 - 23518 of 31923Marijuana Smell Makes Lil Wayne’s Miami Apartment a Hard Sell
This seems almost as ridiculous as that Onion piece claiming Lil Wayne was recruited by the DEA to get rid of all the drugs in Mexico, but this one actually isn’t an attempt at satire.It’s no secret Weezy calls South Beach his part-time home and has his primary residence in…
Miami Herald Now Asking for Donations
Perhaps after a long, stressful day of crunching numbers and contemplating layoffs, some Miami Herald executive decided to go for a walk to clear his head. This being Miami and all, he came across a beggar asking for spare change. Wait, he could have thought, Maybe we have it all wrong…
News Roundup: Dumb Cops Finish First; SEC Probes Miami
This makes a lot of sense looking back at it: Miami Dade College was responsible for administering tests to Miami-Dade Police officers to be considered for promotions, but the college screwed up the process. So cops who didn’t get good scores were sometimes promoted, while officers who did well sometimes were not. In one…
City of Miami to Julia Tuttle Squatters: If You’re Not a Molester, You Gotsta Go!
For about two years, Daniel Zajac has lived in a tent tucked behind a big tree along the northern banks of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. “I can’t live in a shelter,” explains the jittery 47-year-old transient who wears a baseball cap reading “New York” and a William Taft mustache. “I’m…
305 Photo of the Day: Light House Near the End of the Light
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Florida Transportation Secretary Asked to Resign Because She Likes Blackberry Pancakes, or Something
Stephanie Kopelousos, Florida Department of Transportation Secretary, seems to like her breakfast food. So much so that in order to get her attention you have to put something like “Pancakes” or “Waffles” in email headlines. Or so says her staff.The Palm Beach Post infers that those wholesome hearty breakfast staples…
The U: Was Bernie Kosar Drunk? Can Notre Dame Learn Something From Miami?
Any Canes fan will tell you the media, especially ESPN, hates Miami, but ESPN aired its two-hour apology in the form of Rakontur’s fantastic documentary, The U, this past weekend. One segment, of course, focused on that perceived media bias, and right on cue, the media is stirring up some controversy…
News Roundup: One Epic Hotel Guest Dead, 400 Relocated
The Epic Hotel, in its quest to be fancy, has killed a man and hospitalized two others. It installed a powerful water filtration system that actually filtered out chlorine and caused the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires’ disease to grow. Four hundred guests were evacuated while the hotel figures out how to fix…
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Silicon Beach: Miami New Times Tweetup at Waxy O’Connor’s
No holiday would be complete without free booze, and as always, Miami New Times didn’t disappoint. The tweetup was held at Waxy O’Connor’s by the river, coinciding with another Miami Music Festival gig.The Scenestress (@newtimesstreet) arrived to hand out name tags, but not many @ signs were visible. Present were a handful…
Miami Dolphins in the Thick of It
If we had told you before this game started that the Dolphins would only manage to score 14 points in the first half, zero points in the second half, turn the ball over three times in enemy territory, but will still win the game, you would have stabbed us in…
After Trapping, Peahens Going Crazy in Coconut Grove
The other day, 44-year-old Carlos Iglesia was jogging in Kennedy Park when he heard a strange noise. It sounded like a lady screaming in pain — or intense pleasure? — so he slowed down to investigate, and found several wild peaheans huddled behind an old fence. “They yell like a…
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Floridians Like Spanking Children and John McCain in about Equal Amounts
Florida is such a swing state that we’re even polarized on whether or not we think spanking children, aka “Corporal Punishment,” is acceptable or not.Seems Talking Points Memo has found a correlation between child spankers and John McCain voters in 2008. Florida is almost directly on the trend line, with…
Glenn Garvin Totally Doesn’t Get The U, Insults Randy Shannon
via RakonturHow is it that a man who’s paid to review television doesn’t seem able to grasp ESPN’s The U in the same way that writers who don’t generally review films do? Oh right, because it’s The Herald’s Glenn Garvin we’re talkin’ about.While other early reviews of Rakontur’s documentary on…
305 Photo of the Day: The Only Snowflakes We See All Year
Are we the only ones who think the snow flakes that go up this time of year on the Bank of America Building look like giant glowing infectious sores? Probably. Sorry to ruin a holiday tradition. Today’s photo come MagicCity305’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join…
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Portions of Biscayne Boulevard Will Be Closed at Night for the Next Month
It figures: The only time construction doesn’t render portions of Biscayne Boulevard clogged with bumper-to-bumper traffic is when the road is closed completely.As part of the two-year reconstruction plan, the portion of Biscayne currently under construction from NE 29th to NE 33rd streets will be closed between 9 p.m. and…
Human Fights Day in Cuba
The three dozen “Ladies in White” who took to the streets of Havana on Human Rights Day on Thursday hoped to bring attention to husbands, fathers, and friends serving time in Cuban jails for speaking out. But it was the government that made the strongest case that human rights are…
Silicon Beach: Social Media Club Holiday Meetup
Although the year in social media in Miami has been no laughing matter, the South Florida club decided to end 2009 at John Martin’s last night with Freddy Stebbins’s comedy show. But first, there was the usual mingling and networking, which this month included the guys behind a Cuban social…
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News Roundup: Forgetful Grandmother Charged in Baby’s Death
The grandmother who accidently left a 3-month-old baby in a car to die is being charged with aggravated manslaughter. Temperatures in the car reached 134 degrees. [PBPost]She’s out on a $10,000 bond. [CBS4]Five Miami-Dade high schools make a national list of the 100 best high schools. [Herald]A cruise ship crew…
Three-Month-Old Baby, Forgotten by Grandmother, Left to Die in Car
For at least the second time this year in Miami, a baby has died after the caregiver left the child in a locked car. Police found a baby in a locked car at 6832 NW Fifth Ave. shortly after noon today. The infant was dead. Police believe the grandmother dropped the child’s…
305 Photo of the Day: Reindeer Shames
Well, of course this happens in Miami. Today’s photo comes from DKero’s Flickr. If you’d like to see your photo here, join our Flickr group…
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Alan Grayson Tells Dick Cheney to STFU, Literally
We know Alan Grayson only has a tenious connection to our local readership, but important news on our favorite hot liberal mess has just come to our intention: He has told former Vice President Dick Cheney to, and we quote, “STFU.”Dick Cheney occasionally pops out of his underground torture dungeon…