Remember the concept of city-states from the ancient Greek chapter of your middle school history book? When places like Athens or Sparta reigned supreme as the dominate governing, economic and cultural entity, and the concept of a central government of Greece didn’t even exist. Yeah, well, in his new book After…
Rep. Corrine Brown strikes me as a relatively fearless politician. Which is why it’s not out of character that she’s thrown her hat in as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for Florida’s open senate seat, even if it means challenging front runner, family friend, and colleague Rep. Kendrick Meek. A poll…
The cat killer of Cutler Bay is still terrorizing South Dade neighborhoods, and the brutal killings only seem to get worse. Authorities believe the criminal strikes the cats with an unknown object before mutilating them with a knife. He then leaves the bodies for the owners or neighbors to find. He most recently…
Officially, edgy advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky decided to auction off the services of their interns as a way to compensate the underpaid labor, but probably just to remind everyone how quirky the company is and get some press. Brammo, a maker of electronic mini-motorcycles, won the auction for a…
LocalThe City is trying to squeeze out the under-the-Tuttle sex offenders by citing a nearby island as a park, but since there’s no playground on the island the State doesn’t really care. [Herald]Andre Pierre is now the mayor of North Miami. Haitian Americans also regained their majority on the city council. [Herald]Mayor…
Former EliteXC super-hyped, superstar Kimbo Slice sunk his career and the organization after suffering a knockout in 62 seconds to an unknown. Apparently, the brawler wants his Mixed Martial Arts stardom and credibility back, and is set to regain it on reality television. Slice has been announced as a cast member for…
Time Magazine has a burning question: What’s up with all the horny female teachers in Florida? The publication ran a story a couple days ago, inspired by Maria Guzman Hernandez. You know, the 32-year-old Hialeah teacher who was arrested for allegedly seducing a 15-year-old boy last week. We’re guessing writers…
As you’re probably aware Dr. George Tiller, the medical director of a Wichita, Kansas clinic that provided late-term abortions, was killed this weekend while attending a church ceremony. Scott Roeder, a far-right anti-tax nut with a history of mental illness and a taste for the fire and brimstone of the Old…
Sorry to be so GitMo heavy today, but ehgads there is a Guantanamo Bay video game in development. Yeah, we thought the idea of escaping from GitMo was and idea best reserved for fiction, and apparently we were right. T-Enterprises, the British software company developing the game, says Rendition: Guantanamo…
According to a new USA Today/Gallup poll Americans overwhelmingly oppose the closure of the Gaunatanmo Bay detention camp by 65%. Only 32% favor closing the base down. 54% said they would actually be upset if the base closed, and 74% oppose its closure if it meant moving some of the inmates to the respondent’s state…
Esteban Cortazar, at only 23 years-old, has moved up the fashion food chain from peddling sketches to Todd Oldham at the News Cafe as a precocious tween, to Miami and New York’s fashion weeks, to heading up the design end of Paris fashion house Ungaro. He may be young, but he’s worked hard…
For a few years, I’ve harbored a strange obsession with Major League journeyman reliever Jorge Julio. Not because he’s very good, mind you. In fact, the current Milwaukee Brewer is one of the most consistently awful players to make a big-league roster every year. His career is a testament to the…
Oh, the folks on the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee are so quirky. They’ve set up a new toll-free number pretending to be Gov. Charlie Crist’s scheduling office. Sure fooled us. We called the number, 800-403-2195, and were put on hold while some seemingly nice lady told us she’d try to locate…
For some hunters, it is never really about the catch. It’s about being one with nature, trekking through the wilderness, the thrill of the hunt, and the bond formed with your fellow hunters. For others, it really is just about killing things. So much so, that driving up and down…
I was reading I Can Has Cheezburger in my RSS Reader when I saw this ad below all the LOLcats. Apparently, Sen. Bill Nelson wants to raise the taxes on my wine by 233 percent! The ad leads to the Freedom Work’s website, where it explains “a massive new tax…
LocalForget the ethical, legal, political, and human concerns that would arise if the embargo on Cuba were lifted. How would it benefit me economically? [Reuters]If you have a bunch of umbilical cords taking up space in your closet, South Miami Hospital now has a donation bank. [Herald]The Venetian Causeway has been reopened…
Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats…
Father Alberto Cutié reception into the Episcopal Church may have been greeted with cheers when he delivered his first sermon yesterday, but not everyone in the Anglican Communion is cheering. Rt. Rev. Bill Godfrey, the Anglican Bishop of Peru, spoke to RPP-TV about Cutié swift change of faiths, and blasted the ex-Priest, claiming…
Lord knows being an assistant state attorney can be a stressful job, but that doesn’t mean you have to punch your pizza lady. When the attorney hits your arm carrying a big pizza pie, well that just isn’t amore. According to NBCMiami, David Ranck, a Miami-Dade prosecutor, got in a verbal fight with…
Last Thursday, a gray Toyota Tundra was driving west on NE 6th Street next to the Freedom Tower when it slammed full-speed into a southbound, red Honda CRV on Biscayne Boulevard.The truck spun out and skidded onto the sidewalk in front of the Freedom Center. Two women stood in its…
Maybe Riptide has been living off of spaghetti and buying beer with couch change for too long. Maybe seeing the parade of Hummers and yachts in South Beach rubs salt in the wound. Maybe. Because it’s not very nice. It’s kind of mean, actually, that a recent study gives us…
If you thought some of the things that came out of Newt Gingrich’s mouth were ridiculous, wait until you get a load of his Twitter. The former speaker tried on his best Tom Tancredo impersonation and Tweeted out this:”Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me…
