The judicial curtain has closed on one of the most bizarre sagas in arms dealing. In late August, Miami Beach’s Efraim Diveroli pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy for breaking an embargo against Chinese arms; over 80 other federal charges were thrown out in the plea bargain. The 23-year-old…
It’s been a busy few weeks for Niche Media overlord Jason Binn. When he wasn’t buying a $1.6 million two-bedroom apartment in Continuum on South Beach, he was dashing the hopes and dreams of inner-city schoolchildren. Or so a lawsuit claims. Binn’s Niche Media bought out Ocean Drive Media in 2007. Since then, a…
But for the grace of God do we ever head out to Dolphin Mall. However, this photo from MigRodz’s Flickr makes it look almost inviting. …
Like Chevy Chase’s old Weekend Update quip, “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!” the coverage of any inkling that Fidel Castro is still alive has become something of a joke. Take this absolutely ridiculous Associated Press headline (which also ran on the Herald’s website): “Photo shows Fidel Castro outside, in…
You don’t need fancy statistics and indices to tell you the obvious: Traffic in Miami sucks. Alas, we still have fancy statistics and indices to make it official. According to IBM’s Commuter Pain Index, Miami has the third worst traffic in the nation. Additionally, the index shows these to be the…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Riptide was one of the first outlets to jump on Jim Greer’s “Obama wants to indoctrinate your children into socialism” rant, and since then, it’s gone national. Last night, Greer hit up MSNBC’s Hardball, CNN, Fox, and the…
After last year’s Lingerie Bowl was canceled when the nudist resort that was hosting it wanted to allow spectators to be au natural, the Lingerie Football League is back for its first full season. Tonight at 8pm your Miami Caliente will take on the Chicago Bliss in the Windy City…
The county commission voted to keep the tax rate flat, which basically means a bunch of worthwhile, if not necessary programs are going to go through severe cuts, if not finding themselves totally eliminated. [Herald]Why is this Herald article titled “Residents still have a chance to dispute Miami 21” and…
Geeks don’t hide behind their Twitter accounts. And they do often come out from behind their computer screens. In the last three years the tech and social media communities have grown fast. There are all kinds of get-togethers for brainstorming, networking and yes — just plain socializing. Two of these meetups take…
It’s been a tough summer for Miami Beach’s most iconic hotel. via Wikimedia Commons The global Arma-recession has grounded flocks of would-be vacationers at home in Hamburg and Milwaukee and Bogota. A massive storm collapsed the roof at LIV. And Ben Novack Jr., heir to the Fontainebleau fortune, got himself murdered in New…
For the last two decades, the brilliant lunatics who run the King Mango Strut parade have been a happy little family. Their meetings — which were speckled with old hippie types — felt more like a showcase of standup comedy than a community planning board. Strutters sometimes had to hoop-jump…
The sun still shines. The beaches are still some of the best in the world. The weather, unfortunate for this time of year, is still the same as it ever was. All of those stereotypical things that draw people to call Florida home have gone more or less unchanged, so…
If you ask us, way too many of Will.i.am’s dreams have come true. The Black Eyed Peas’ resident shoddy producer has an ever growing ego, and now he has another modest dream: trying out for the Miami Dolphins. We say let him. Will.i.am took to some website called Dipdive… To brag…
A Persian Carpet Flower (edithcolea grandis) from inside FIU’s Wertheim Conservatory & Greenhouse, from Scott.Zona’s Flickr. …
The Herald has done a pretty good job of outlining the results of Man Up: The Crisis of HIV/AIDS Among Florida’s Men, by the Florida Department of Health, but the numbers are pretty shocking and worth repeating. And yeah, if you haven’t been tested lately, maybe you make an appointment.1 out…
Dan Marino “was arguably the biggest cocksucker to ever play” quarterback. All of this and more in your Deadspin Dolphins season preview. [Deadspin]Another photographer in Miami almost got arrested for simply taking photos — at least that’s what he says. He was snapping cute pics of his dog inside a…
You have to give the Fish some serious credit this year. For the 87th consecutive season, they rank last in the bigs in team salary. But somehow they’ve stayed in the Wild Card hunt. (Quick fun comparison sure to add to the New York Mets fan base’s collective PTSD: If the Mets finished…
Hello, Kitty: All of this talk about celebrities having babies has my wife really wanting to conceive, but I don’t think we’re ready. Hell, I’m not ready. We’ve been married for three years and both of us have steady jobs, but I’m 26 and she’s 24. I want to enjoy the…
On September 10, dozens of belligerent Miamians will storm city hall for the first public hearing on a brutal 2010 budget proposal. Commissioners will likely slash more than 60 city jobs and cut back everything from cops to trash pickup. Sadly, Christine Morales won’t get the ax. Instead, this former…
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Cuban dissident journalist Omar Rodriguez Saludes was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 27 years in prison simply for telling the truth. Today a U.S. federal judge ordered the government and communist party of Cuba to pay $27.5 million to Rodriguez Saludes’s mother. “During his imprisonment, he has been beaten, starved,…
