Magic City Kitty: Should I Just Get a Prostitute?

Hello, Kitty: I’ve been single for close to three years, and even though I hook up with girls, I’m still sexually unfulfilled. Not that I want something more consistent, it’s just that the girls I find aren’t open to doing the things I want to do. It seems like they…

Parkview Point Condo Manager Busted for Organized Fraud

This past May, the New York Times quoted the property manager of Parkview Point Condo in Miami Beach. Rosa M. Rodriguez, age 60, told a sad story about being broke. The units around her were foreclosing, Rosa said, and she had to pay for the damages. She explained to the…

Liberty City Seven Member Sentenced to Six Years

U.S. District Court Judge Joan Leonard handed out the first sentence to a member of the Liberty City Seven. Burson Augustin will serve six years in prison. Significantly less than the 30 years prosecutors wanted. Leonard believed he played only a minor role. Augustin was arrested in 2006, with six…

Silicon Beach: Miami Startup Vzillion Surfs Different

Vzillion, a Miami startup based on Brickell Avenue, is quietly hovering right now not just on the edge of Biscayne Bay, but on the verge of something big. Vzillion stands for “virtually limitless” — limitless as in millions of possibilities and applications in what company president and founder Antonio Collier…

News Roundup: Runoff Winners; Heat Losers

Michael “Drunk Driving Godzilla” Gongora and Jorge Exposito have won the run-off elections for the Miami Beach Commission. [Herald]And Francis Suarez, son of former mayor Xavier Suarez, has won the run-off in Miami. In 5 days, when he’s sworn in, the city will have 3 out of 5 commission seats…

Chad Pennington Not Sure if He’s Coming Back …Ever

Chad Pennington has already worked his way back from throwing arm injuries twice in his career, and he’s not sure if he can do it for a third time.According to the Associated Press, Pennington has finished the first phase of rehabilitation, but may wait until as late as March to…

Michelle Spence-Jones May Run in Special Election

So, Miami will hold a special election to fill the seat that Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones was booted from after turning herself in for grand theft charges a day after she was sworn in for her second term. And you’ll never guess who’s considering a run: Michelle Spence-Jones! Spence-Jones is eligible to…

Rubio Says Reagan Was Wrong on Immigration

You know a candidate is really serious about painting himself as a hardcore conservative when he tries to place himself to the right of Right Wing Deity Ronald Reagan. But that’s exactly what Marco Rubio did today, by declaring that the Gipper’s support of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of…

Morning Shooter Meant to Kill Cops, Detectives Say

Neighbors near Westview Country Club awoke to the sound of gunshots at 3:20 this morning. According to Miami-Dade police, cops responded to a domestic dispute at the small home of a 24-year-old convict named Yves “Carl Love” Guerrier. He was choking his sister and carring a wooden bat. While cops…

Ex-Herald Reporter Evan Benn Defends Students Accused of Bribing Sources

At Northwestern University, there’s a remarkable student-led initiative called the Innocence Project. Since 1991, the J-school program has helped free 11 wrongfully convicted men with good old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting on the flawed cases. In the case of Anthony McKinney, sentenced to life over a 1978 shotgun killing, it looked like…

Is Watson Island the New Overtown (With a Mega-Yacht Club)?

Watson Island is the redheaded stepchild of Biscayne Bay. Star Island gets Shaquille O’Neal and Madonna. Fisher Island has its own private ferry. And poor Watson is stuck with a field of dry grass and a theme park full of restless parrots. Sure, it’s home to the Japanese garden and boasts…