305 Photo of the Day: Scraping the Sky with Rainbows
Today’s photo of condos on Brickell Avenue comes from Chrisacuna’s Flickr. …
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Showing 24223 - 24244 of 31931Fisticuffs Break out at Senator Nelson’s Event in Miami
The debate over health care might be heated across the nation, but leave it to Miamians to turn it violent. Luis Perrero, a 65-year-old man demonstrating in favor of health-care reform, was punched in the face and knocked to ground by a man who disagreed with him, according to Naked Politics…
Fidel Castro Met with Perennial C-Lister Aubrey O’Day
Fidel Castro apparently once took time out of his busy schedule of ruining Cuba to meet with reality contestant turned fame whore Aubrey O’Day. She came away from the encounter with the impression Castro was “brilliant.”O’Day came to “fame” as a cast member on Diddy’s reality show, Making the Band,…
Lazy Government Worker Christine Morales Caught on Tape Cheating the System
The story of Christine Morales, the should-be-ashamed former assistant director at the City of Miami Building Department, is one of squandered opportunity. Christine earned more than $100,000 a year doing who knows what, and not very much of it. Surveillance footage obtained by Miami New Times reveals Christine’s nervous body language…
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The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office decided the cops who pulled their guns on an innocent University of Miami student during his first day of school did nothing criminal. However, the student’s parents want the officers suspended. [Herald]Commissioner Dennis Moss handed out raises to close aides hours after the mayor warned that the…
Angry Grovites Talk ‘Cocks
About a year ago, folks in Coconut Grove began complaining about wild peacocks. The feathered squawkers ran in wolf-like packs and saw the world as one big toilet. It made a doctor on Micanopy Avenue so angry he called for the crazy creatures to be hauled away. Letters were written. City commissioners…
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Silicon Beach: Geeks Representing the 305 at SXSWi
Editor’s Note: Maria de Los Angeles will be writing about social media for Riptide. The title of her scribbling, Silicon Beach, refers to….well you know, you geek! There’s a different kind of silicon in Miami and no, it’s not inside boob implants. This gooey stuff is virtual and social. It’s…
Jim Greer Condemns Obama for Telling Kids to Do Their Homework, Which Apparently Is Socialist
For many students across the nation, September 8 will be their first day of school, and President Obama has decided to address them. Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer has somehow interrupted this as a “use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” Rather than take…
Fisher Island No Longer Most Expensive Zip Code, as Only Waterfront Home Slashed by $3 Million
Last year, Fisher Island was sitting pretty at the top of Forbes’ most expensive zip codes list. This year, it has tumbled to 33rd place. Not coincidently, the price for the only single-family waterfront home on the island was recently slashed by $3 million. This year, in the exclusive Fisher Island zip code 33109,…
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305 Photo of the Day: Blur Bliss
Today’s photo comes from Henrymaxm’s Flickr. …
Willie Williams, What Is Wrong with You?
Perhaps, if things had worked out differently, Willie Williams could be sitting at an NFL training camp right now. Instead, he’s sitting in jail. Again. He’s behind bars in Lawrenceville, Georgia, after being arrested Thursday on charges of burglary and wreckless driving, according to the Miami Herald. Williams apparently had befriended a…
Employees Say Amerijet Airplane Dumped 23,000 Pounds of Fuel in South Florida Waters
If you think your job sucks, try flying planes for Amerijet International. According to workers, the Fort Lauderdale-based cargo flight company has no restrooms on airplanes, and makes pilots squat in plastic bags during their intercontinental journeys. Worse, pilots – who fly Bowing 727s at Miami International Airport — say…
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Efraim Diveroli, the 23-year-old Miami Beach arms dealer who illegally supplied Chinese-made ammunition to Afghanistan, has pleaded guilty. He face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. [Reuters] Mitch McConnell and John McCain are confirmed to be at that health-care forum today in Hialeah. [Herald] Yesterday a man walked into a…
Obama Wants You to Bother McCain While He’s in Hialeah
John McCain and Mitch McConnell, the two most strapping studs of the GOP, reportedly will head to Hialeah tomorrow for a health-care forum, and Obama wants you to protest it gather peacefully and respectably outside. They’ll also attend a National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraiser at the swanky Biltmore in Coral Gables later in…
Dolphins Might Face Blackouts
Up to a dozen NFL teams this year might face game blackouts, including the Dolphins, according to the St. Louis Business Journal. Under NFL rules, any home game that doesn’t sell out within 72 hours of kickoff cannot be broadcast locally. Ten to 12 teams were mentioned as possible blackout…
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Farid Khavari Wants to Put Florida in the Banking Business, Himself in the Gov’s Mansion
If you love watching poorly produced late-night infomercials, Farid Khavari might be the gubernatorial candidate for you. Khavari, a Miami resident, announced his candidacy today as a Democrat, and his entire platform seems to be instituting a Bank of the State of Florida, which a stern-sounding announcer clearly lays out…
Cops Videotaped Pulling Guns on Innocent UM Student on His First Day of Class
UMPD holds student at gunpoint in a case of mistaken identity from Miami Hurricane on Vimeo. Jordan Chusid, a transfer student who originally attended UCF, was just about to leave campus after his first day attending University of Miami. Then he got an ol’ Miami-style welcome: a gun to the…
305 Photo of the Day: From the Stands
EbenHazar’s Flickr via our New Times pool, was shot from the lifeguard stand on 14th Street in South Beach during a dark and stormy night. …
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Bad Boys III in the Works
We’re pretty sure Michael Bay has a devious plan to blow up every square inch of Miami-Dade County… if only through the film magic of CGI. So it’s not much of a surprise that the third film in his Bad Boys franchise is in the works. Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence…
A Jew Walks into a Nazi Doughnut Shop…
Papers (2009) – watch more funny videos If your apetite for laughing at Nazis wasn’t fulfilled by Inglourious Basterds, a new short from local production company Peripheral Films, the same crew behind The Dual, might do the trick. In Papers, a crew of German SS officers wind up working the counter of Super…
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Over the weekend, pretty much every newspaper editorial board in the state wrote mean things about new Sen. George LeMieux. [Buzz]Oh, and word on the street is LeMieux might be interested in running for U.S. Senate against Bill Nelson in 2012, or for attorney general. [Buzz]Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a telephone…
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Should Governors Really Have the Sole Power to Appoint Replacement Senators?
Counting Charlie Crist’s announcement today that he’s chosen his former Chief of Staff to fill out the remained of Mel Martinez’s senate term, in that past year alone six United States Senators have entered office through being appointed by a Governor. Depending the outcome of a debate over a law…