This past Tuesday, Luis Montealegre poured a café cubano, paid a delivery guy for croquetas, and peered east a few blocks from his cafeteria at NW 12th Avenue and Fourth Street. There was only blue sky where a $634 million Marlins baseball stadium will soon rise. “This is the poorest…
The Sony Ericsson Open begins in Key Biscayne this Wednesday, and that means the tennis world’s most notorious one-man circus is coming to town. Forget the athletes; we’re following Richard Williams, dad of top-seeded sisters and Palm Beach Gardens residents Serena and Venus. You gotta love the sideline character and…
Shock jock Enrique Sanchez isn’t exactly known for his social sensitivity. He has made fun of everything from domestic abuse to racial tension — but he swears he’s serious about one thing: obesity. The blunt, pudgy 34-year-old cohost of the Enrique y Joe radio show just started lobbying for city…
The current political scandal involving a Republican spending money on things involves Bill McCollum’s anti-pedophile PSAs. Apparently the Attorney General spent $550 on makeup for the ad! Gasp! Here (via the Buzz) is “yuk yuk yuk” YouTube video driving the point home. Men in makeup for the purposes of lighting!…
Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, the locally based Antichrist behind the Growing in Grace Church/Cult, just wants to find a couple more followers to sport “666” on their foreheads and worship him as a Jesus-like figure. Isn’t that what we all want? He’s had lots of success with that mission…
Bruce Feldman is no stranger to Canes Football. He literally wrote the book, Canes Mutiny, on the team. His recent blog post over at ESPN doesn’t directly address the Canes, but it does bring up an interesting point to ponder: in eight of the ten past seasons the National Championship…
Tesla Motors, the California Automotive start up thats only car is a electronic roadster, promised that they’d have a showroom in Miami by the end of March. Hasn’t happened yet, but they swear they’re working on it. Seems competition in the eco-friendly roadster market is heating up, as the makers…
It’s been an interesting couple days for the sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. In case you missed yesterday’s opinion piece in the Herald, a woman named Voncel Johnson — who plead guilty of lewd and lascivious exhibition on a minor — just joined the 52 banished men…
It seemed like a foregone conclusion just a few months back that Gov. Charlie Crist would run for a relatively easy re-election. Then in November, the Republicans in Washington got their asses handed to them, and whenever Minnesota decides to get its shit together, the Democrats in the Senate will…
The Marlins settled for 600 fans to a home game last year. The Panthers are literally giving away tickets. Our minor-league soccer team is hemmoraging cash, And those are sports that Americans have at least heard of. So you might think it’d be foolhardy to bet millions on Miamians attending the…
LocalDonte Stallworth wants you to know that he flashed his lights at the guy before he hit him. Though, if you see someone in the road you should probably hit the breaks and not your lights, but that’s just me. [AP]12 inmates were treated by doctors after a gas leak…
Supermodel Izabel Goulart sends heart beats racing upwards, and jaws down to the floor, but all she really wants to do is keep blood sugar levels stable. The Victoria Secret Angel was announced today as the International Ambassador for the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, which is headquartered at the University…
I imagine being stuck on a boat with a bunch of cruise ship people is bad enough, but recently returning to Miami I was stuck on a plane full of cruise ship people. Pure airline hell: horrendously behaved toddlers, people eating strange smelling food, and quite a few folks who…
So much for protests. Taxpayers are on the hook for a $634 million new playground for the Marlins, and the biggest grassroots organizer against the project says he wishes he hadn’t wasted his time fighting it.”The fix is in. It was a dog-and-pony show,” says Michael Burnstine, an insurance salesman who…
Ponzi schemes and business frauds are so hot right now. They’re the latest craze among the rich and worldly, so of course we’re seeing more of them every day. They’re like the new Rolexes or Birkin bags for the recession world: Anyone who is anyone got swindled, and if you…
LocalFinally, after ten long years, the Marlins will have a new home to lose in! Just kidding. Let’s hope now they’ll have the decency to build up a World Series-worthy team and then not sell off all of their star talent. [Herald]Patients at the Veterans Hospital might have been exposed…
Folks, please never take sex tips from an entertainment franchise known as “Crime Scene Investigation.” Sex on that show never ends well, and it will surely never end well in real life. Lonnie Lee White, 46, of Knoxville, Tenn., met Misty Dawn Wilmeth, 28, on the fateful night of March…
When I’m not writing Riptide, I live a life of crime.* Sorry, I wasn’t here a couple of days last week, but I had an art heist to pull off at the Louvre. Anyway, earlier this month, I was hanging out at Jackson Memorial Hospital, as I tend to do,…
When news broke that Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp had a pricey travel habit footed by taxpayers, we thought it was suspicious it came only a few weeks after rumors began circulating that Gov. Charlie Crist might be thinking of resigning to run for Senate in 2010, leaving the governor’s mansion to…
Maria Sharapova occasionally pops up on my TV screen to sell me digital cameras in ads where she’s constantly upstaged by a small dog who thinks in the most stereotypical French accent ever. But the 21-year-old former number one hasn’t popped up on my TV screen in any important tennis…
As a wee boy my baseball hero was Kirby Puckett. I know Marlins fans may not be able to comprehend the idea of a star player staying with a single team his entire career, but Puckett did, and racked up two World Series championships for the Twins and an impressive…
With the Miami Dade Commission set to vote this afternoon on whether to blow hundreds of millions of your tax dollars during the worst recession in a generation on a new Marlins Stadium (not that we’ve got a stance on this thing or anything), downtown developer Glenn Straub sent a…
