In today’s installment of former Miami-based celebrity twitter news I will tell you about an exciting new website that takes the fun of LOLCats and adds the wit of a certain beloved big man: LOLShaq takes the bizarre twitter gems of Shaquille O’Neal and turns them into JPeg format. Yes, LOL…
Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s bizarre Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates ads may have left me and you and everyone we know confused as hell, but now the Miami-based infant terrible of the ad world has been named US Ad Agency of the Year by AdWeek. Not inspite of the Seinfeld ads, but…
Whoops the $2.3 billion hole in the state budget is actually a $2.4 billion hole. Eh, what’s an extra $100,000,000? [Herald]Meanwhile, Floridians bought 1.5 million Powerball tickets on the first dat they could. [NBC6]My parents used to always get the free beer at Busch Gardens, and one day, I thought,…
Late last year, there was a bit of buzz that the long-proposed cigarette tax hike might come to fruition. Florida has some of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation, but the idea of raising the tax a dollar per pack was struck down today in the state’s special legislative…
It is probably for the best that respected newspapers such as USA Today (at this point respected not because of journalistic integrity but because it’s not on the total brink of bankruptcy and collapse) don’t yet allow their journalists to inject snark into stories, but sometimes you can tell they want…
Rick Sanchez is our favorite twitter friend ever, but when he started tweeting last night about heady topics such as God, Hitler, and Torquemada, we thought he might be on something. Then he posted, “i am high on crack right now might not be coming to work today.” Aha! Rick…
Tucked away in the RedState.com post we linked to earlier is this delicious little nugget: “Charlie Crist has been on a roll lately undermining conservatives. Behind the scenes, he is trying to drum up opposition to Jeb Bush’s Senate run, not because he doesn’t want another Bush, but because he wants…
After years of taking parts in more cheesy B-list sequels than Eugene Levy, the Magic City has achieved A-list status at the box office. For the second weekend in a row, the Miami-filmed flick Marley & Me came in at number one in ticket sales. Yeah, yeah, America may love Jennifer Aniston, cute…
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew from his commerce secretary appointment over the weekend owing to allegations that a company which donated to his presidential run was unfairly awarded a hefty state contract. Damn you, Rod Blagojevich, you’ve gone and made everyone extrasensitive about political taint. Richardson was Obama’s highest-profile Hispanic cabinet pick,…
With news today that Bill Parcells will stay with the Dolphins, it seems a good bet that the heart of the resurgent Miami Dolphins will stay put for next season. Yeah, yesterday’s game was a heartbreaking thing to behold, but after the greatest season-to-season turnaround in NFL history, Dolfans have…
We’re only five days into the new year and things don’t seem to be getting any better. The conflict in Gaza continues to escalate despite the pleas for a cease-fire, and the economic outlook isn’t looking any better. And in the grossest display of humanity, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters hurled…
As we prepare for the dawning of the age of Obama in exactly two weeks, this weekend provided another reminder it’s going to take more than a feel-great election and historic inauguration to clean up the mess of the past eight years.Obama has promised time and again to quickly shutter…
If anyone had any doubts that Jeb Bush’s possible run for Senate would be more about personal ambition and trying to save the GOP, look no further than George Bush Sr., who went on Fox News this weekend and said he’d like to see President Jeb one day. “I’d like to see…
Hello, KittyI am a 42-year-old man who has never been married or had kids, but I’m finally ready for both. The problem is that most of the bachelorettes around my age are either ugly, have kids, or aren’t able to get pregnant. I’ve been in contact with two women over…
If you think budget cuts at your job suck (New Times is a considering a writing-by-candlelight, tent-office setup) try being a Miami-Dade public defender. Thanks to shrinking state court funds – down in 44 million in the past two years – these burnt-out servants of the poor, tired, huddled masses…
It was so exciting to get back in the playoffs, until we remembered that the Dolphins are not too lucky in the playoffs. They lost to the Ravens 27-9. [AP]But, hey, Bill Parcells isn’t going anywhere. [AP]Thousands of shoes magically showed up on the Palmetto Expressway. My guess is that Cuba tried…
Last month we did some caffiene-fueled theorizing about Gov. Charlie Crist’s third Supreme Court appointment and wondered “Will Crist be able to satisfy both his seeming need for diversity and his record for pleasing the right wing in one candidate? … Or will Charlie have to settle for a minority…
Throughout 2008, Loon Over Miami columnist, Elyse Wanshel, has found herself in plenty of awkward situations that conjures up thoughts of “Only in Miami.” In this post, Wanshel picks her favorite and most memorable columns of the past year.”Zombies Walk” Who knew wearing fake blood and blinking raver necklaces while…
Ever since Riptide saw the above photo in Jacob Katel’s Biscayne Bay StreetWorks collection in October we’ve been haunted by mystery. Who owns this blue truck, how did Jiffy Lube screw it up, and why in God’s name did they refuse to fix it?We were driving down NW 17th Avenue…
Every year, the New Times staff picks the 12 people who have managed to disgrace themselves and, guilty by association, the city. This year’s Dirty Dozen included everyone from former Heat, current Phoenix Suns player Shaq to possibly hairy-puss aficionado Alberto Carvalho. Check out our Dirty Dozen illustration below and…
On this first day of 2009, a monumental morning-after event when millions around the world wake up with strange bedfellows after promising that they wouldn’t, the Magic City Kitty highlights some of her best (or worst, you be the judge) advice of 2008 to help carry you into the New…
Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our often-contentious quintet of film critics put their heads together about the best movies of 2008, they somehow agreed (more or less) on a dozen…
