Local It is official. Marco Rubio is running for Senate. [CBS4] The preservation board will vote on whether or not to protect the Bacardi buildings today. [CBS4] The jury in the Liberty City Six trial is at a standstill. [Herald] The St. Stephen’s Episcopal Chruch in Coconut Grove was demolished yesterday. [MetroBlog] Sports Marlins…
Dear Chicago, please trade us Derrick Rose for Michael Beasley…Dear Memphis, please trade us O.J. Mayo for Michael Beasley…Dear New Jersey, please trade us Brook Lopez for Michael Beasley…Dear Minnesota, please trade us Kevin Love for Michael Beasley…Dear L.A. (no, the other L.A.), please trade us Eric Gordon for Michael…
We haven’t really been paying that much attention to the Casey Anthony sage. We watched a Nightline episode on it once, decided it was far too sad and depressing to keep up with, and moved on. Well, Anthony’s defense team is hoping that the rest of Miami-Dade is as out-of-the-loop…
I think it’s been proven by now that LandShark Stadium is the dumbest name for a stadium ever, probably by science. But a stadium by any other dumb corporate sponsored name is still a stadium. More concerning is Stephen Ross’s plan to South Florida-up the feel of the stadium, because apparently a stadium…
For those of you media gossips who are particularly curious, we’ve got a mock-up of the masthead for The Lead, the soon-to-debut weekly targeting Miami Beach. A former SunPost editor is listed as the executive editor, while former SunPost writer Lee Molloy is shown in the dual role of co-publisher…
The AP is reporting something that really isn’t shocking, and we’ve known it in our hearts for some time, but according to its sources, LeBron James will win the NBA MVP award. Not Dwyane Wade. So yeah, that was pretty anticlimactic…
Oh, Selena Roberts. The Sports Illustrated writer unleashed the biggest sports story of the year by revealing Alex Rodriguez had tested positive for steroid use during his Major League Baseball career. And then, to quickly capitalize, she wrote a book, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez. It was originally slated…
The Heat’s season ended yesterday pretty much the same way it played out all year long — as a one-man D-Wade show. Unfortunately for the Heat, Sunday’s game was one of those “Wade can’t possibly carry these clowns all by himself” duds, instead of those “Holy crap, Wade is carrying…
If you’re like us, you spent the weekend bathing in a tub of antibacterial hand sanitizer, so you might have missed some updates on swine flu, the most boring pandemic since McPheever. First off, the Broward girl who contracted the virus is telling reporters she’s feeling just fine and expects to fully…
Miami’s Sex Offender Village from Miami New Times on Vimeo. We long ago gave up on getting any credit from larger media outlets piggybacking on our sex-offenders-under-the-bridge scoop — the story that made the rest of the nation recognize Miami-Dade County’s supreme fucked-up-ness. The terrible situation is bigger than one…
Miami-Dade police began an unholy crackdown on speeders this past week, leaving plenty of bad South Florida drivers to gripe about record-high $600 tickets. For road demons who are still stewing, meet the county’s latest citizen watchdog: A self-appointed speed trap sleuth who calls himself “The Fuzz Buster.” The sly,…
LocalTwo schools in Doral were closed due to Swine Flu. [Herald]So far 5 vets from 3 affected VA hospitals have tested positive for HIV. [NYTimes] Britto is due in court for his DUI charges today. [CBS4]SportsOh, Heat. You were eliminated. It’s okay, we never expected that much out of you anyway…
If only Kenneth Clark Loggins had a beer company and a ferocious appetite for marketing.
Gov. Charlie Crist announced today that two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Florida: a 17-year-old teenage girl who attended Hallendale High School in Broward County and an elementary school boy in Lee County. Earlier, we reported that the 20 suspected cases of H1N1 in Miami-Dade all came…
Take a seat, PetCo Park. Nice knowing you U.S. Cellular Field. Farewell, Citi (Taxpayer Bailout) Field. Very soon, a new champion for the worst corporate named stadium in the land shall be crowned right here in South Florida, at the venue previously known quite logically and respectably as Dolphin Stadium…
News there were 20 suspected cases of swine flu in Miami-Dade was alarming, but it turns out none of those cases was the dreaded H1N1. Still, the Miami-Dade health department warns, “Samples continue to be sent from Miami-Dade County to the Florida Department of Health State Laboratory for testing.” However, concern…
Here’s a prediction by national Republican political operative Roger Stone via PoHo via the St. Pete Times’ Adam Smith’s Twitter: Roger Stone predicts; Mel Martinez resigns soon; Crist appoints caretaker – Jim Smith – and announces his candidacy for Sen.A prediction by one guy posted on another guy’s Twitter picked up from…
Hand sanitizer is a must-have this spring, because the CDC is reporting the gel might be one of the best first-line defenses against swine flu. Eye on Miami reports that local Walgreens are quickly running out of the product, but we know there’s a certain segment of the Miami populace…
Let’s have a big ol’ laugh at a congressman saying “naughty” words on the House floor. That’s what NBCMiami.com and the Sun-Sentinel did. Hahaha… ha. NBC even called it “worthy of late-night talk show television.”In Fort Lauderale Rep. Alcee Hastings’ comments, he listed a number of words such as “asphyxiphilia,” “zoophilia,” and “toucherism.”…
It’s tough to drive through Liberty City these days without running into President Obama. He’s there on the side of Liberty City Elementary, next to the MLK portrait. He’s painted on the walls of at least a couple of street-corner ministries. And at NW 12th Avenue and 58th Terrace, Obama…
There seemed to be something almost poetic about the rumors that Jason Taylor might return to the Dolphins. Well, maybe not poetic, but sort of like a happy ending to a romantic comedy or something. However, it seems that Bill Parcells and staff has stopped showing interest in a reunion, according…
Most businesses aim for the type of viral advertising where their clever marketing materials go viral (hey, Burger King), but occasionally an actual product itself goes viral. Take the Slanket for example. The blanket with sleeves was so ingeniously stupid that the blogs couldn’t get enough of it, but sometimes…
