Miami Coast Guard Crew Seizes $55 Million Worth of Cocaine

A U.S. Coast Guard crew based out of Miami was onboard the frigate HMS Iron Duke, which if you couldn’t tell by the name is a British Royal Navy vessel. They were off the coast of Venezuela last Thursday when they spotted a suspicious speedboat dumping packages overboard. The crews launched a helicopter and a small boat…

305 Photo of the Day: This Is Why You Need Sunscreen

Sorry, the photo of the day can’t always be pretty. Life here isn’t alway pretty. We’re just assuming this guy is homeless (for all we know, he could be an eccentric European millionaire), but if this doesn’t inspire some sort of charity drive to distribute sunscreen to the poor and…

New Trial Sought in Liberty City “Terrorist” Saga

Just when you thought the saga of the “Liberty City Seven” was finally over, the five men who actually ended up with convictions are asking for either an acquittal or yet another retrial. The Seas of David group was originally arrested in June 2006 for suspicion that it was plotting with Al-Qaeda to…

Spotted: A Couture Commode at Culture Kings

Some commodes are strictly utilitarian, while others provide elaborate sets for your Broadway-worthy shit show. One such place is the powder room at Culture Kings, a Design District boutique that began calling the area home and selling cool, exclusive street wear way before big names such as Marni and Y-3…

Kendrick Meek Opposes Using Federal Funds to Pay for Abortions

Rep. Kendrick Meek has joined a small group of house Democrats asking that any health-care reforms not lead to federal funding of abortion, according to the Washington Post. The possibility of taxpayer money being used to pay for abortions is becoming a hot-button issue in the health-care reform debate — one that Republicans might…

Reality-TV People Continue to Do Things in Miami

Oh look, a hotelier is allegedly dating a Bravo reality star. No, we’re not talking about Baron Hilton and PC Peterson. According to Life & Style, André Balazs and Kelly Bensimon were seen “getting close” during fashion week. Balazs owns The Standard and The Raleigh and for years dated actress Uma…

Dead Shark in the Dirty Street

Sometimes Miami deserves its reputation as slightly Third-World. Police last night found a six-foot nurse shark lying in the middle of a street in Overtown. It apparently had been there since 7 p.m., but no one bothered to call the cops for two hours. “It was a relief that it was a shark. When I first…

News Roundup

Miami-Dade officials will finally end the era of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, we hope. The first round might be moved this week to condos in South Miami. [Herald]Two men carried a dead shark around on the Metromover, hoping to sell it. Then they just left it in the…

Charlie Crist Finally Makes up His Mind About Sotomayor

Charlie Crist had been awkwardly mum on whether he would support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Now that it’s almost assured she’ll get confirmed, he has finally decided to let everyone know that, no, he would not vote to confirm this lady. Here’s his statement (via Naked Politics): “Judge…

Fighting for Justice for a Family Half a World Away

Think South Florida cops are crooked? Thank goodness you don’t live in Morocco. Omar Ezzaidi, a Moroccan native who now lives in Miami, moved to the United States in 1998, leaving his family behind. Five years later, he became an American citizen and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Omar sent…

Britto Gets off with No Jail Time for DUI

This past March, artist Romero Britto, whose work seems to be pervasive in South Florida, got popped for driving his 2001 Bentley drunk down Washington Avenue in South Beach. He entered a plea deal today, according to NBC Miami, and won’t serve any jail time. Instead, he will be without a driver’s…

Huizenga’s Son Arrested: Wait, You Can Get a DUI on a Boat?

We just learned two things: H. Wayne Huizenga’s 47-year-old son, Robert Ray, was arrested, and it is possible to be charged with boating under the influence. We don’t have hard statistics on this, but we’d assume boating under the influence is generally less enforced than driving under the influence. Cold…

Miami Surges in Ranking of Global Fashion Capitals

We’re not sure what the editors of Vogue would think, but the Global Language Monitor has an interesting ranking of the world’s top fashion hot spots. The Austin, Texas-based company used its Predictive Quantities Index to make the list, a measure that, according to GLM’s website, is “a proprietary algorithm that tracks words and…