Florida Children Just Keep Getting Fatter

Seems like Floridians didn’t do too well on their diets in 2008. Between 2007 and 2008, the annual F as in Fat report shows the percentage of adult obesity in Florida creeped up from 23.3% to 24.1%. The good news for those who take pleasure in others’ pain is that…

Hooray? Miami Named Seventh Sweatiest City of All Time

It’s summer in Miami, and you’re either wet because of the rain or because the humidity and heat have conspired to drench you in sweat. Which means right now deodorant is your best friend. Well, Old Spice has gone ahead and named the top 20 “Sweatiest Cities of All Time” in America,…

Calling All Speedy Chihuahuas

Normally racing ins’t very adorable. NASCAR? So not adorable. Sweat soaked marathoners in lycra? Typically not adorable. Mud covered BMXers? Totally not adorable. Chihuahuas? Muy adorable! PETCO is calling for the fastest chihuahuas in South Florida to their tracks. The fifth annual chihuahua races are set to start in August, with the…

Quincy Jones Disses Miami Herald

The great magazine die-off claimed another victim yesterday: Vibe, one of the largest mags covering hip-hop and R&B. But Quincy Jones, who founded the magazine in 1993, is looking to step back in and make the periodical a fully online venture. In his reasoning, he dissed some of America’s most troubled…

Slot Machines at Our Airport?

Sometimes Miami-Dade County Hall reminds me of that guy who’s always dreaming up wacky get-rich-quick schemes and shady money-making ideas (“Dude, I just bought that book from the guy who wears question-mark-print suits…” “If I hit up every sperm bank in the tri-county area once a month…” “I just met…

Miami Police Chief Timoney Wants in on Immigration Reform

In this week’s New Times, we report new statistics showing how President Obama’s “Secure Communities” program pulls Miami cops into the deportation game. The program, which runs anyone booked into any Miami-Dade County jail through a national Homeland Security database, has already flagged 8,407 illegal immigrants since January. Critics fear…

News Roundup

What… the…? Slot machines at MIA? Like that airport needs to be any more of a circus than it already is. [Herald]Miami-Dade commissioners have no problem with Carrie Meek representing Wackenhut and the county, even while the two are in a legal dispute. [Herald]Adam Tavss, the Miami Beach Police officer…

More Volleyball: US Survives Puerto Rico, Advances to Semis

“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop ever, until you are dead.” That was said about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, but it also applies to the US women’s volleyball team (except for the death…

Abandoned Boat Washes Up on Julia Tuttle Causeway

Back in April, staff writer Tim Elfrink reported that the crap-tastic economy was leading boat-owners, overburdened by docking and maintenance costs, to abandon ship all over South Florida. Naturally, we thought he had fabricated the whole thing. But yesterday, we spotted a dilapidated yacht beached on the South shore of…

Attorney General McCollum Works About 22 Hours a Week

The Palm Beach Post decided to check the time sheets of gubernatorial candidates and current cabinet members Republican Bill McCollum and Democrat Alex Sink. Turns out, in the past two months neither has been working that hard.  McCollum averages about 22 hours of work a week as attorney general — a job…

Gawker Takes Down Alex Bogusky

Being the subject of a Gawker field guide is a mixed blessing. It’s like being hate-fucked by the internet. On one hand, it ups your name recognition stock in media circles; on the other, it means there’s a whole lot of snark, derision, and mockery coming your way from a…

Miami Still Leads State in Cocaine and Heroin Related Deaths

The Miami-Dade Medical Examiners district still leads the state in the number of autopsies where heroine and cocaine were found, but the amount of deaths linked to pharmaceutical abuse remains relatively mild compared to other urban areas of the state. State-wide the 2008 “Drugs Identified in Deceased Bodies” reports shows that while deaths related to…

305 Photo of the Day: Rain Ahead

We’re not going to lie to you with some happy, sunny picture. The weather has been terrible as of late, so today’s picture is a reminder that it could always be worse. We picked up the photos of an afternoon thunderstorm shaping up over Miami from Joiseyshowaa’s Flickr…