Sick and tired of the rumor that Charlie Crist is considering jumping into the Senate race in May, one Republican who’s not destined to be a fringe candidate, has jumped into the race. It’s our own Marco Rubio. Maybe he got restless, considering he’s had a pretty campaign website since…
Meet Pamela the PTO Mom. If more media covered state politics with the same passion and obsession as national politics and more people cared, she’d be Florida’s anti-Joe the Plumber. Pamela Hennan, a St. Augustine Realtor and dedicated school volunteer drove all night to address the House Finance and Tax…
It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from the folks at the Liberty Council, the religious right wing organization that played a huge role in Amendment Two — the ban that threatens any recognition of homosexual commitment in Florida. Wonder what they’re up to? Oh, doing everything in their…
There are a couple of unusual aspects to the breaking news that embattled native Alex Rodriguez is gonna miss at least six weeks of the baseball season to have hip surgery.The first is that the story was first reported by ESPN Deportes, which has even the New York Times chasing…
When Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his running mate, America responded with a resounding, “oh, ok.” He’s an experience, competent guy, don’t get us wrong. And by all accounts he made some serious contributions to getting the cabinet together, but it seems that Mr. Biden has returned the Vice…
Experts have said it all along: Sex offenders in transient environments are far more likely to repeat-offend. To say that’s the only reason for an alleged sexual battery that occurred Monday is a stretch — but it certainly didn’t help. Miami police charged Julia Tuttle Causeway resident and registered sex…
With the $630 million Florida Marlins stadium deal teetering on collapse, one would think the agreement’s chief architect would be around to quell any concerns elected officials might have about giving away the farm for the ballpark. But it seems Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess is not sweating it. This…
Donnie was sick of waiting. Dolled-up like a Southern beauty queen, she wore Barbie-blond hair and a pink collagen pout as she sat in the parking lot of a Miramar condo. The five-foot-ten 32-year-old eyed the clock from the passenger seat of a rented green Chevy van just after 7…
Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and a long counter where a wrinkled 80-year-old brews espresso. Near the front window facing NW Seventh Street, Dionisio Gonzalez gently peels a cured deep-brown…
Florida businessman-turned-inventor Doug Sturlingh just filed patent papers for a product he believes will “change the world.” It’s called the Genital Shield, and — though the name is a bit of a boner-shrinker — he believes it will eventually rid the planet of STDs. His target consumer: responsible gentlemen with…
Phones were disconnected last week. The lone staff writer has applied for unemployment. The executive editor’s name — and that of almost every employee — has vanished from the masthead. The SunPost, one of this town’s only truly independent voices, is in deep trouble. “It’s sad,” says Andrew Stark, the…
On a damp September morning in 2006 at the edge of a sleepy Japanese fishing town, an orchestra of screaming voices echoed off the glistening rock walls of a hidden sea cove. Men in navy blue raincoats bobbed on 40-foot boats, hoisting spears nearly twice their height. One by one,…
New Times will be losing one of its closest, in geographic terms that is, media neighbors as WPLG Local 10 is preparing to ditch its Biscayne Blvd studios for a new digs in Pembroke Pines. Which leaves the main offices of the local affiliates of the big four networks equally…
Note to Leonard Pitts Jr.: If you want to demonstrate the differences between old-style media and the new, social internet media you might want to understand what you’re talking about first before dashing off a 600-plus word column on it. Pitts’ Herald column today takes Twitter to task, in a…
Who needs a Gawker Stalker like celebrity sighting maps, when stars with Twitters are openly encouraging stalking. Unfortunately your 30 minutes were up 30 minutes ago. [via Shaq’s Twitter.]…
Had the tides of fate shifted slightly Gloria Estefan, Miami’s official #1 celebrity resident, may have lived a life full of espionage and shadowy secrecy instead of world wide tours and “Conga.”In an interview on Telemundo’s Al rojo vivo with MarÍa Celeste Arrarás, the singer reported that while working in…
Rush Limbaugh, as you know, has been busy running the Republican party from his West Palm Beach radio studio. Too bad he can’t seem to even get the support of another prominent, conservative talking head from the Sunshine state.If anyone didn’t believe Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough’s denial that he…
Bayside Marketplace — a place we’ve been to once, because our best friend used a Chili’s gift certificate from her grandma there — is up for sale. The owner, General Growth Properties, is in a superbad financial situation (who isn’t?) and has decided Bayside doesn’t fit into its core niche of focusing on suburban…
So far, it has to have been a strange week for Shaq. Perhaps not as weird as the first week shooting Shazam, but strange nonetheless. Scheduling has forced the man to do an impromptu tour of his former teams. On Saturday, Shaq and the Suns beat Kobe and the Lakers…
LocalThree years later, Belkis Gonzalez, the owner of an abortion clinic who put a live baby in a bag after a botched abortion, is arrested. [NBC6] The original building that housed Miami Senior High has been repurposed as a community center. [Herald]The half-penny tax for transit will now be allowed to…
Maybe it was a natural let-down after thoroughly dominating the 12th ranked Florida Gators over the weekend. Perhaps it was the fact that Qdoba provided the pre-game meal, which can’t possibly be good per-game chow. Or maybe URI pitcher Eric Smith is just that great. Whatever the reason, the Rhode Island…
When death row inmate Michael Lambrix applied to be a Florida Supreme Court Justice in January, the nominating committee had a good laugh. “It’s tongue-in-cheek,” said Chair Robert Hackleman – and it probably was. (Lambrix wrote: “My biggest qualification…is that I’m the only applicant that has been totally screwed by…
