We’ve already talked about how tweetups are out of hand. Some locals have tried to organize this mess. Lori Todd has put together a simple events-at-glance calendar that focuses exclusively on tech and social media tweetups. It’s a work in progress but a good place to start. Follow @loritodd to stay tuned…
Last time Michelle Obama was in Miami, she made her husband dance for the world as she mocked him. Well, not directly, but she had gone on Ellen earlier in the month to make fun of Barack’s dance moves, and then in a live link with Ellen from his Miami…
Last winter, the Miami Herald ran an article about pet owners who were forced to give up their animals. The reason: They were broke, the economy was crap, and having a cat or a dog is expensive. Fortunately, feline lovers were able to leave their pets at an intimate, family-run…
from Adrigu’s Flickr…
Last night’s Pink Dress Collection fashion show at the Eden Roc was for a good cause — the Susan G. Komen for the Cure — so we’re sure Dennis Rodman meant to look as ridiculous as possible to guarantee maximum coverage. OK, we’ll gleefully play along. Seriously, the former NBA player took to…
We’re not living in post-racial America quite yet. A new study conducted by the University of Miami School of Business Administration shows that white, Asian, and Hispanic managers tend to higher more whites and fewer blacks than black managers do. When a black manager is replaced by a white, Asian, or…
Hello, Kitty: After eight long years of friendship, I’m ready to tell my bff I’m in love with her. When we first met, it was under the pretense that I wanted to date her, but she shot me down completely. She said I wasn’t her type, she’d rather be friends,…
It’s been 12 years since Pamela Anderson left Baywatch. She’s gone through multiple other shows, a few marriages and divorces, and changed her breast size more often than her hairdo. But for a 42-year-old, she can still pull off the iconic high-cut red one-piece that caused countless boners in the…
Canes get cuts from Miami Hurricane on Vimeo.We were kind of hoping Jacory Harris would make good on his promise to grow out an Afro until the Canes won a national championship, but January 2011 is an awful long time to wait to trim your tresses. Instead, you’ll notice his intricate…
Stocks soared yesterday (over 10,000!), but not for Miami Herald owner McClatchy. Revenue is down 23 percent from a year ago. [Bloomberg]Jaclyn Torrealba’s mom pleas with youngsters to listen to their parents. [Crimesider]You know what just sounds so appetizing right now? A gator burger. Thankfully, one of the largest gator-processing…
Miami Police are on the lookout for a naked burglar.Sometime after midnight early this morning, a white Hispanic man crawled through a window of an apartment on the 1200 block of SW Sixth Street, says Det. William Moreno, a Miami PD spokesman.A woman sleeping inside with her two young children…
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is finally playing hero in the post-season. That whole notion of A-Rod-can’t-hit-in-the-clutch seems but a distant dream this October. Ditto for the steroid revelations that dominated sports pages this off-season and Spring Training. But Miamian Yuri Sucart, his cousin and right-hand man made infamous for…
Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter threatened at gunpoint by her father, Tamarac mayoral candidate Ed Portner
Hoops hero Rumeal Robinson lost his Maserati, machine gun, and mom
Miami commission candidate Frank Carollo had bitter breakup with Roy Black’s ex and lied to cops
Miami’s MSG Cartel graffiti crew crumbles
Jerry Powers, the man behind Ocean Drive, refuses to surrender
Vista) operating system from Microsoft, won’t be available to the general public until October 22nd, but some of Miami’s most disadvantage are already familiarizing themselves with it. Mayor Manny Diaz’s Elevate Miami program aims to “better prepare our community to participate and compete in the new digital society and digital economy by…
The Visionary Tattoo Expo & Art Gathering went down this weekend at the Doubletree Miami Mart, and Boggs Industries submitted this photo to our Miami New Times Flickr pool. It takes a person of a certain amount of testicular fortitude to get about 80 percent of his body tattooed, and…
Video remix gold, brought to my attention courtesy of “CK” on the comment board at finsnation.com, the Dolphins fan site partially run by Miami New Times sports guy Chris Joseph. This is already on repeat in my iPod.And I swear I’d tattoo the highlights of the game to the inside…
Oh, those poor young Miami Republicans with dreams of D.C. Unless they launch a long-shot Senate campaign against a popular governor, they’ll have to wait for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts to decide they’ve had enough of doing whatever it is they do with their congressional seats. (Seriously, what is…
The fine lady who has brought us lyrical gems such as “And I know I’m comin’ off just a little bit conceited / And I keep on repeatin’ / how the boys wanna eat it” and “I’ma get, get, get, get, you drunk, get you love drunk off my hump” is reportedly…
