Yesterday, Marco Rubio unveiled the first attack ad on his Republican primary opponent, Charlie Crist. The imagery is a slow, trippy reveal of a picture of Crist with President Obama, while an ominous narrator straight out of a dark fairy-tale movie paints the stimulus package that Crist supported in strokes…
The fear over swine flu might be dissipating now that health officials are telling us the worst could be over, but one country has just experienced its first case: Florida’s nearest international neighbor, Cuba. The Castro regime hoped to keep Cuba swine-flu-free by placing strict restrictions on travel from Mexico…
Why is it that the middle-aged have embraced Twitter faster and more enthusiastically than most social networks that came before it? Maybe it’s because it’s so simple. Maybe it’s because it requires so little time to update and touch base with contacts. Maybe it’s because it syncs seamlessly with the…
Big, big news! Charlie Crist has joined Twitter! Well, he also announced his intention to run for Florida’s open Senate seat in 2010, but everyone has known that for months. But as of 9:12 this morning, it’s official. Crist made the announcement through a press release and a Twitter update,…
LocalMiami-Dade now has 10 confirmed cases of swine flu. Yeah, Swine Flu updates have gone from their own posts to the ‘News Roundup.’ [Herald]There was a hijacking at MIA! Actually, it was just a false alarm. [Herald]Mayor Carlos Alvarez has still not filled the top job at the County department…
Sure, it’s not as sexy as running coke in cigarette boats over the Florida Straits or bootlegging moonshine for northern gangsters on the lam. But damn if Medicare fraud isn’t lucrative — which is probably why it’s shaping up as one of the defining crimes of modern Miami.As Jay Weaver’s…
With the end of the legislative session in Tallahassee last week, and Charlie Crist widely expected to announce his Senate intention tomorrow the dominoes should quickly fall as down ticket politicos all over the state start positioning themselves for 2010. So far, Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio, who has been mentioned…
You got to hand it to a girl like Brooke Hogan. The official reasoning behind her family’s decision to enter the reality TV fray with Hogan Knows Best was that it would help promote Brooke’s burgeoning singing career. Fast forward four years, and three seasons past the fame, and her brother wound…
The Hell’s Angels’ outlaw hey-day peaked about 40 years ago at Altamont, but pop-culture and ingrained stereotypes have conspired to paint bikers as a unifromerly brutish group. But a new survey actually shows that in a lot of ways, motorcycle owning men in Miami are a bit more sensitive than…
If you stayed home this weekend, it was either because the unbearable heat kept you indoors or because you actually tried to behave yourself on Mother’s Day. Skin and sin was aplenty this weekend (er, well more than normal), so here is what you missed:Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction…
French Tennis player Richard Gasquet tested positive for cocaine during the Miami Masters. He ended up not playing in the tournament anyway due to a shoulder injury, and the result was only announced on Saturday. Do you think it was just a mere coincidence he happened to have cocaine in his…
Do you really need more proof that Jimmy Buffett hates freedom, America, children, ice cream, baseball and pretty much everything else that is good in our world? Even after he wrenched out the soul of a proud football franchise in the name of selling more Corona ripoffs? After the even more…
There’s a tall tale about female lobsters — one that’s supposed to serve as a grim analogy for womankind. As it goes, two things happen when you’re boiling a pot of live lobsters. (1) If the pot is full of males, they will scramble to form a ladder with their…
In the past month the idea that Charlie Crist would run for Senate has gone from hot political rumor to almost foregone conclusion, and news broke this weekend that it is indeed fact. Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer told the Pensacola News Journal last night that Crist will announce…
To whom does a celebrity priest confess? Well, besides God, apparently the public. Father Alberto Cutié, who was caught in paparazzi photos caressing a woman on a beach, is making the media rounds. On Friday he did an interview with Univision, and this morning he appeared on CBS’s Early Show,…
Local74% of Catholics in Miami-Dade oppose the policy of clerical celibacy. [Herald]Gas prices have been silently creeping back up. Miami-Dade averaged $2.28 a gallon, which is seven cents higher than the national average. [CBS4]The kinds of moms who spend all their time online instead of with their children get free…
State Senator Frederica Wilson has Practical hats. She has dramatical hats. She also has pragmatical hats, fanatical hats, oratorical hats, delphioracle hats, skeptical hats, dispeptical hats, romantical hats, pedantical hats, critical hats, parasitical hats, and so on and so forth.Herald/Times Tallahassee bureau just put up a 731 word article on her hats! Which…
Earlier today CBS’s Early Show announced that they’ve score the first, sit-down interview with Father Alberto Cutié. Maggie Rodriguez, a Miami native and former CBS4 anchor, is set to do the interview, however she’s admitted that Cutié is “a family friend whom I’ve known for many, many years.” Should this disqualify…
Porn star Sasha Grey specializes in making hipster boy’s tight jeans even tighter. In addition to starring in skin flicks, she’s a burgeoning alt-icon and has modeled for American Apparel, posed for fashion photographer Terry Richardson, appeared on the cover of Vice and stared in Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming flick The Girlfriend…
Miami native Jose Canseco has made a post-baseball career out of snitching on his former teammates and getting punched in the face. This is not a dignified existence. And yet he insists on respect. Every time evidence emerges that a star did ‘roids, he has to point out that he…
Ever wonder what it looks like to sell your soul?At Dolphin Stadium, it looks something like this: A white guy in a pink sombrero and plastic lei jerks to the grating jingle of “Margaritaville.” Three young men covered head to waist in blue paint awkwardly bob to the faux-Caribbean beat…
One of the most common complaints about universal health care is that it will turn doctors’ offices into overcrowded, beaurecratic nightmares resembling the DMV. These snide dismissals might be a bit overdramatic, but they aren’t totally out of touch as the number of primary care physicians continues to dwindle. But…
