Teenage girls in Liberty City might be the least llikely demographic you’d expect build kick-ass, soccer-playing robots. (Think shrunken R2d2.) But at Northwestern Senior High School, business teacher Kathy Lyden has gotten a group of ten young ladies totally jazzed about robotics. She excitedly points out: “Miami is the world…
We always thought Dwyane Wade’s latest signature shoe, the Wade 4 by Converse, is kind of ugly. So we can’t really blame him for never wearing them on court, but that’s a bit controversial. When basketball players sign these ridiculously lucrative sneaker deals, they are expected to actually wear the…
“How do you do? You see all this shrubbery in the back round here? This is one of the most beautiful atmospheres in the world. You might think I’m in …some kind of an island somewhere far off everyplace where’s this some kind of unbelievable resort area a thousand miles…
State Farm, the State’s largest private property insurer, will stop insuring property in Florida. [NY Times]This seems to be a major thing, but Gov. Charlie Crist is just saying things like, “I don’t really care.” [Naked Politics]But, that’s ok, he was too busy vetoing budget cuts today. Schools get a…
Back in July, the Feds indicted Hassan Saied Keshari and Traian Bujduveanu with charges that the two were illegally exporting military aircraft to Iran. The pair were involved in a scheme that bought American made planes and parts for fighter jets, and then sold them for profit in Iran, funneling…
Back when I was just a freelance Night & Day writer for your Miami New Times, I wrote this weird cap for Victor Bean’s Southern Classic Gun & Knife Show. Somehow I wrote things like “Firing an AK-47 at Italian marble in order to create relief sculptures is all the…
Much has happened with Art Nadel since we last wrote about him. For one, he has acquired a catchy new nickname: Mini-Madoff! How dignified. More important, though, he turned himself in to the FBI early this morning. Nadel ran six hedge funds out of Sarasota, and investors thought they were…
When Rep. Ron Klein isn’t twiddling his thumbs wondering if he should enter the Senate race, he’s already looking toward the likely redistricting ruckus set to take place after the 2010 census. “Mario Diaz-Balart has already told me he and Lincoln will be all over the state legislature to make…
According to the News-Press, University of Miami will at 1 p.m. officially announce Mark Whipple as their new offensive coordinator. Whipple was previously with the Philadelphia Eagles. I’d be a lot more excited about this if the Eagles didn’t just get beatwn by the friggin’ Cardinals, of all teams, but I’m sure that’s…
With 22 months left before the election, there are still plenty of surprises left in this Senate race. The latest of which is that Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio told the Tampa Bay Tribune she’s considering running in the Democratic primary:”It was not something I was considering when there was a possibility…
Past the scowling Puerto Rican National Guard sentries and razor-wire fences, down a rutted gravel road into the heart of Guantánamo Bay’s Camp Delta detention facility, Army Col. Bruce Vargo bursts with gusto into an air-conditioned double-wide trailer. In Washington, the ink has barely dried on President Obama’s order officially…
Hello, Kitty:I fell in love and was intimate with an American guy overseas. He is 57 years old and divorced with two kids, and I am 46. He told me I’m a “special woman” and the best person he has ever met in his whole life. I am a foreigner…
Dan Gelber is officially in the Senate race. Will his Miami Beach values play in other parts of Florida? Probably not, and the democrats will end up nominating Hugh Rodham again, anyway. [CBS4]Commissioner Joe Sanchez is expected to formally announce he’s running for mayor of City of Miami. [JustNews]House Speaker…
So, Tampa residents succeeded in running the Lingerie Bowl out of town because it was too risque for their, apparently, puritanical town. Then the Sporting Spectacle found refuge at a nudist resort in Pasco County, but in a weird twist, the nudists are a little too wild for the Lingerie…
Imagine that you’re an accountant or a software engineer for ING and the terrible news reached you first thing this morning: You’ve been laid off.In fact, that’s just what happened to 7,000 employees of the financial services giant today. Now imagine: you’re grief-stricken, scared, wondering what the future holds. You…
About a year ago noted communist party tool The New York Times needed to fill one of the token conservative slots in it’s op-ed page and chose Wingnut Laureate Bill Kristol. Liberals were angered that the Times chose a conservative’s idea of what a conservative should be, instead of a…
Yes, the plot of The Wrestler — in which a dude who had the world by the balls in the ’80s before falling flat on his face owing to disastrous, self-destructive decision-making and an audience that lost interest — is quite similar to the life story of the dude playing that…
As a frequent patron of White Room on Saturday nights, I definitely have seen my fair share of odd things. But this past Saturday, I probably spotted the oddest thing yet: A-list actor Matt Damon sitting at the outdoor patio bar with an entourage of people who didn’t exactly look…
Jizhou Song, a professor at the University of Miami College of Engineering, along with two collaborators, has designed stretchable electronic devices. The electronics can even be twisted into a corkscrew-like shape without losing function. I am not sure exactly what that means, but it sounds awesome. Apparently, stretchable electronics will…
Karl Rove used to have this gig scaring people into voting Republican and running whatever parts of the government Dick Cheney didn’t. Now he’s reduced to Twittering and arguing with college students.
Now that it’s official — Obama is closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — and we’ve all given ourselves a hearty slap on the back, the tough questions are really starting to rear their ugly heads: What do we do with the 245 guys left in Gitmo? Especially…
Joel McHale loves pussy. And not just the kind that sits in front of a plate of sauce-free spaghetti, but also the kind that belongs to his wife. That way, when it gets stung by a bee in the park while she’s pregnant, he can totally use the story as…
