These dang Florida Democrats can’t seem to run for Senate without some sort of campaign gimmick. Lawton Chiles had his walk, Bob Graham had working days, and Dan Gelber is undertaking 100 days of public service. Rep. Kendrick Meek might be leading in fundraising, but he is totally losing in…
When we wrote that thing about former CBS4 reporter, Colombia lover, and apparent Miami hater Brian Andrews, we had no idea he had a news partnership deal with the Miami Herald. But he does, and here he is reporting on a Colombian classroom that “is filled with bats who are going to…
Awkward Republican National Committee Chairmen Michael Steele is coming to Miami Monday! Hooray! If you’re the kind of person who likes to protest the GOP, Steele is probably the best thing that could have happened to that party. It hasn’t been announced exactly where Steele will be, but Riptide has…
Thank God for websites like Askmen.com. Without them, where would the single males of the world learn jewels of social wisdom such as “Why being nice doesn’t work” and “Ten things to have in your house that women love”? (Attention, gentlemen: You should apparently “try to get your hands on…
The threat of terror birds on University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus is real. So real that it is front-page news for the student newspaper, the Miami Hurricane. As you can see from the cover, this situation is so intense that even the caution is “extreme.” The red-shouldered hawks that nest…
On Wednesday, New Times published “Treasure Island”, the story of serious civil and criminal fraud allegations involving the Grandview Palace condo association in North Bay Village, the building’s father-and-son developers, and an insurance provider accused of being a shell corporation. That same day, the attorneys representing the insurance company and the developers…
Local 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Nelson M. Lantigua of Miami died Tuesday in Iraq. 4,264 American troops have died there so far. [Herald]Kendrick Meek is going to qualify for Senate by petition, just because he wants to. [CBS4]City of Miami went through with the bailout for Jungle Island. [Herald]SportsOh no, you…
Hello, Kitty After years of getting waxed, shaved, and Nair-ed, I’ve decided to let my pubes grow naturally. Well, actually my boyfriend made the decision. He’s European and a major fan of a woman with some hair — which is something I’m not used to at all. My last boyfriend…
Remember when St. Pete Times columnist Howard Toxler wanted the state university system’s next chancellor to be “a real (bleep)”? Basically he wanted someone with name recognition who couldn’t be easily pushed around by legislators. Fat chance at that. The Board of Governors hired a search firm from Texas, and…
For a man who has held so many government positions, Mel Martinez never seemed too gung-ho about public service. As he put it in his book, A Sense of Belonging, politics, “sort of sneaked up and tapped me softly on the shoulder.” But after all these years he would like…
Certain CVS locations in Miami like to keep their condoms under lock and key, which always leads to the most awkward shopping experience. First you have to find someone, then they have to get on the radio to find out who has the key. “I need the key …no not…
It has been over eight years now since Florida changed the history of the world forever by not being able to count votes correctly, and we have been apologizing for it ever sense. I mean, we weren’t sorry enough to not vote for Bush in 2004, and Broward County wasn’t…
As English-language broadcast television continues to bleed viewers to cable and the Internet, Spanish-language networks seem to be on fire. Telemundo, headquartered in Hialeah, announced that March was its best month ever for ratings, and the first quarter of 2009 was its single best quarter in history. The network attracted…
This morning, NFL player Donte’ Stallworth was booked on DUI manslaughter charges and shortly after released on $200,000 bond. Mike Florio, a respected football blogger at Pro Football Talk, claims Stallworth’s legal team is hoping persecutors drop the DUI manslaughter charges and let him off with only a DUI:For DUI…
There are few rivalries in modern sports more intriguing than the one between Venus and Serena Williams. Sure, there are the haters who want to think the outcomes are fixed, but for the rest of us watching the two sisters, who just happen to be the most dominant players of…
Local Donte’ Stallworth surrendered to police. [CBS4] The Miami planning board approved the permit for the Marlins stadium. [SFBJ] Miami-Dade Transit has no money, so it’s trying to skim a little off the top of stimulus money that belongs to municipalities. [MiamiToday] HSBC (a bank) just signed a five-year deal…
Somebody get this kid on Maury. Spanish pop crooner Javier Santos — who goes by only his first name — has spent the past ten years proclaiming he is the love child of Indian Creek Village Lothario Julio Iglesias, which makes him the half-brother of slightly less fossilized Sunset Island Lothario Enrique…
Note to Tim Ryan: Maybe just stay home next February. Ryan, Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation chief since 2006, hasn’t exactly built a mountain of goodwill with his majority black workforce during his three years in charge of one of the nation’s largest prison systems, with a $315 million budget and…
Tourists stroll along the Promenade des Anglais. Tan bodies dot the beach. It’s a peaceful Sunday afternoon, August 5, 2007, and Nice’s wealthiest young partiers sip coffee at the Hotel Negresco as they stare out into the sparkling blue waters of the Bay of Angels. Two blocks away, a motorcycle…
The brains behind the Cocaine Cowboys documentary franchise have placed bounty on Florida Film Commissioner Lucia Fishburne. Rakontur producer Alfred Spellman claims Fishburne has not ponied up $68,000 in state incentives his company earned for filming two documentaries in-state. So irate is the 30-year-old University of Miami graduate that he…
Norland Senior High alum Bruce Perlowin has some damn good managerial skills. Back in the ’70s, the teenage hippie-cum-drug lord ran what feds called “the West Coast’s largest marijuana-smuggling ring,” complete with a fleet of 90 ships that hauled 500,000 pounds of pot from Colombia to the San Francisco Bay…
It was an operation of unprecedented ambition, one that salvaged the life of a completely paralyzed patient and made a national star of 37-year-old wunderkind spine specialist Dr. Charles C. Edwards. In July 1979, the University of Maryland Hospital surgeon sliced into the back of 33-year-old Baltimore housewife Jessie Thomas…
