The former partners at a major Miami architecture firm are accusing one founder of fraud. [Herald]Wingnuts everywhere rejoice. Miami’s ACLU affiliate was forced to cut 20 percent of its staff. [Herald]Authorities rounded up 117 illegal immigrants. Only 30 had previous criminal records. [NBC6]How cold was it last night? It was…
Up until last night, the ’09 edition of the University of Miami basketball team had been acting more like a UM football squad circa the 1990s, in all its cocaine-fueled, felonious glory. Except without all the victories. Best of both worlds, really. The school tossed point guard Eddie Rios off the team last month…
Who says the electric chair should stand in the way of your dream job? Not Michael Lambrix. Sure, the 48-year-old is on death row for fatally bludgeoning and strangling two people outside Fort Myers in 1983. But that hasn’t stopped the articulate, overachieving inmate from applying to be Florida’s newest…
A brushed-chrome-and-wood elevator rises through a Sunny Isles tower just off Collins Avenue, lifting Jenny Huertas toward an 11th-floor condo with an eye-popping balcony view: the barrier island stretching green and leafy to the north, slicing between a sailboat-speckled slate-colored bay and a placid aquamarine ocean. “We’re getting this place…
Under any other circumstances, the girl sitting in the oversize red chair might be screaming for help or begging for mercy. A tall, pale young man — his eyes lined in black — inches toward her with a sharp blade in his hand. It’s just after 1 a.m. on a…
It never fails: Just as we finish explaining to our out-of-town friends that Miami is not really like that, we catch wind of something like this: a plastic surgery fashion show. Last Thursday night, you could smell the silicone in Bay Harbor Islands. As a mitzvah-trained DJ spun techno music,…
On March 15, 2008, a fireball shot into the midday sky over Albania’s capital, Tirana. The blast echoed 100 miles away in Macedonia and Kosovo. Its force was comparable to that of a small nuclear weapon. But this wasn’t atomic. It was an accident at an arms depot, where poor…
The idea that the free broadcast of views opposing the state sponsored media could, in part, help to tumble Communism in Cuba is certainly a noble one, but its chances of success would certainly be helped if more Cubans were receiving those broadcasts. Reports today from Congressional investigators state that…
University of Miami used to have this wonderful, magical football program that everyone feared. Then sometime a few years ago everyone got tired of being wonderful and magical and stopped winning games, and they’ve officially been having “a rebuilding year” every single year since. Today is the first official day…
Miami is generally seen as a vacation destination. A nice place to relax, get a tan, go out, play some golf and indulge in other hedonistic pursuits. Generally this has been a huge benefit in attracting corporate events, but not anymore in this “new era of responsibility (® Barack Obama)”…
When it comes to the 2010 Senate election, just about anybody who’s nobody is getting in. Rod Smith, a former state Senator of the conservative Democrat variety, made a decent run in the 2006 Gubanotorial primary, but ended up losing to Jim Davis. Along the way though he picked up…
Last night, a friend and fellow UM grad and I were talking about the sudden opening for Health & Human Service Secretary, and she said, “Obama should appoint Shalala.” To which I said, “I was hoping someone on the internet would say it, so I can blog about it.” She…
Brrrrr. It’s cold out there. [CBS4]Traffic fines are going up because the State can’t pay its bills. [NBC6]And because the State can’t pay its own bills, it sure as hell isn’t going to start paying more of the poor’s rent. [NBC6]A cigarette smoker nearly burnt down his apartment complex. [Herald]The…
Two months ago, the New Times brought you the story of the “Black October” legal case in Miami’s federal court, where a handful of poor Bolivians are suing Gonzalo “Goni” Sanchez de Lozada and Carlos Sanchez Berzain — Bolivia’s former president and defense minister — for allegedly leading the massacre…
One surefire way to lower your chances of a successful sexcapade: have a foul odor wafting from your body. I know, I know we can’t all walk around smelling like lavender and vanilla all day, and your own personal fragrance is something to wear with pride; BUT if you can…
Not every sex offender lives under a bridge, in fact if they’re not in jail, many have relatively normal living conditions complete with internet connections and MySpace accounts. Sentinel Tech Holding, a Miami-based firm, specializes in detecting registered sex offenders on social networking sites and recently found a whopping 90,000…
From Naked Politics: “The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee just unanimously approved a bill to strike the word “shylock” and “shylocking” from Florida statutes, where it’s used synonymously and repetitiously with the term “loan shark.” …The word is named after the [Jewish] villain in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, who demands…
Well, it’s not quite as monumental as the cancellation of Langerado, but Gwen Ifill’s Wednesday appearance at Coral Gables Congressional Church has been canceled, you know the event you read about in Night & Day this week. A death in her family forced her to cancel. Books & Books, which…
Miami City Ballet announced it won’t renew contracts for eight of its ballerinas and all apprentice dancers next season. Getting laid off sucks, but what exactly do you do when you get cut from such a specialized position as ballerina?If you get cut, for example, as a journalist, you at…
Charlie Crist officially announced he’s going to keep us in suspense until May regarding whether he’ll run for Senate or re-election as governor. This pretty much freezes up the Republican side of things until then. Rubio, Mack, and Buchanan can declare all they want, but nobody is going to be…
All the naysayers (me included, often) think the Dolphins’ roller coaster 2008 season ought to come with a few caveats: “Yeah, yeah, but Tom Brady was out the entire season… Sure, but the Jets had that old guy… Well, the wildcat won’t be as effective next year… Whatever, you had…
So, a bit of the massive Mel Martinez early-retirement rumor we missed yesterday is that Martinez might become president of a Florida university, and The Buzz points out it just so happens Florida International University is looking for a prez. Well, isn’t that nice. Martinez is denying left and right that he’ll…
