Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and the county commission have thrown sizable pay raises to staffers as if they were life vests on a sinking ship. They’ve simultaneously tossed overboard funding to cultural efforts and other social programs.That hasn’t proven popular with voters. According to a new poll commissioned by Local 10 and conducted…
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Watching important YouTube videos (like Penis-mouthed shark), updating your twitter, and sexting on your iPhone is about to get twice as fast in Miami. AT&T, the iPhone’s carrier, announced today that Miami and five other cities will be the first in which the company rolls out its latest 3G network update…
Don’t get us wrong — Miami still attracts the olds by the tour bus full, but we’ve come a long way in distancing ourselves from our ’70s reputation as America’s retirement home. Then along comes Money magazine to list us as the 13th best place to retire in the nation. The problem…
Florida ranks 47th out of the 50 states in terms of influence and seniority in the U.S. Congress, according to an analysis by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. A dismal ranking by any means, but even more so considering we’re the fourth most populace state. Our legislators have less swagger on the Hill…
In honor of Whitney Houston taking the number one spot on the Billboard Albums chart, here’s another picture from Miami’s resident pictorial chronicler of all things crack, DCVision2006. Just kidding, as we all know. Crack is cheap. Whitney makes too much for her to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that…
Oliver Stone predicts he’ll have a hard time finding distribution for his latest documentary, South of the Border, a cinematic love letter to Venezuela’s controversial president, Hugo Chávez. “This is a bigger issue than Mr. Chávez and South America,” Stone tells Reuters. “Not only is there a revolution there, but…
First the models began leaving South Beach, and now, almost predictably, so is painfully hip hotelier Andre Balazs. According to the Miami Herald, Balazs is set to sell the Raleigh, which the newspaper describes as “a favorite stop for celebrities and local hipsters.” The sale will take Balazs almost completely out of…
Eleven ACORN workers in Miami-Dade were arrested or are being sought for falsifying voter registration cards, which, OMG, means Barack Obama stole the election. Oh, wait. ACORN claims to have alerted the police to the suspects in the first place and that there was no effect on the election outcome…
On Monday, a dispute — perhaps over parking — outside hipster-central Overtown club White Room turned shockingly violent. Two teenage girls trying to park on North Miami Avenue were pinned into their parking spot by an enraged SUV driver and peppered with gunfire. Reports originally suggested the violence was tied…
Could it really have been only January that Riptide, having gathered information from high-level sources within the Versailles Cafée waitstaff, declared Fidel Castro was “Totally Dying This Time, for Reals”? Now it seems El Supremo is less dead than ever. Recent pictures show him outside, shaking hands with a Chinese…
You know social media is working when realtors look to geeks. BarCamp has become a meet-up model for the sales set. The first one took place four years ago in Palo Alto, California. It was named for the computer programming term foobar (not to be confused with FUBAR). These geeks gathered for a…
Hey, look, it’s another Marco Rubio web ad. This one starts out well, listing all the problems Florida’s economy faces and prepares to point the finger squarely at the governor, who’s Goliath to Rubio’s David in the Florida Republican Senate primary. But then the Rubio team relies on a bit…
The American Institute for Economic Research found — through a complicated set of statistics involving academic environment, quality of life, and professional opportunities — that South Florida is the tenth-best large metro area in which to attend college. Of course, only 21 metro areas in America qualify as large, by having…
The AP poll is out, and the Miami Hurricanes are a ranked team once again, while the Florida State Seminoles have been totally knocked off from their former 18th spot. Meanwhile, the Hurricanes’ next three opponents line up one after another in the poll, with Oklahoma at 13, Virginia Tech at…
Back in my school days, when the president spoke, we listened (or at least pretended to). This was, of course, after walking 15 miles in the snow, uphill, to school. Nowadays, whippersnappers think they can just stay home from school because the president wants to address them. What in hell is wrong…
Today is sentencing for five members of the Liberty City Six. Each could face up to 70 years in prison. [CBS4]Miami 21 got its first stamp of approval from the city commission Friday night. But there’s still plenty of hoops the plan has to jump through before becoming official. [SFBJ]Say hello to…
Forget Montu, the Incredible Hulk, and Space Mountain. Last night’s football game between the Miami Hurricanes and the Florida State Seminoles might have been the best roller coaster the state of Florida has ever had to offer. By the end of it, I wasn’t sure if I was more happy…
The South Florida Twitter community is as varied here as types of palm trees. They might all look the same, but they’re not. Twitter, the social networking and conversation tool that has changed the way people communicate all over the world, is particularly buzzing here in the tri-county area with…
