Former House candidate Annette Taddeo may be tapped to head the Small Business Administration in Obama’s administration. Presumably she never hung up on him. [Naked Politcs] A Broward Sheriff’s Office online sting netted 17 Sex Predators, uh, including one as young as 19. [CBS4]The murder of Adam Walsh, son of…
Tomorrow is the day we have been waiting for all year: the runoff election for the county property appraiser! Seriously, though, the Electoral College has made Obama’s victory official, and we still have not picked our property appraiser. See, this past November, Gwen Margolis got 72,000 votes more than the…
This unfortunately is not a headline from The Onion; it’s a story from the Austin Statesman about the kidnapping of Felix Batista, a Cuban-American, Miami-based expert in kidnapping negotiations. Batista apparently worked for a Houston-based security firm and was invited by Mexican police to participate in a conference in Coahuila, a border town…
If you’re toy-giant Mattel, you win some and you lose some. After winning a legal battle that might see those icky little Bratz dolls (Barbie’s number one competitor) permanently removed from toy-store shelves, the company and its subsidiary Fischer-Price are being fined for selling Chinese-made toys that exceeded acceptable levels of…
Think things are bad? It’s about to get a whole lot worse. So said 60 Minutes last night during a piece about the mortgage meltdown and pending Grapes of Wrath-style doom that faces us all.Long story short: A second mortgage disaster is on the horizon, and no place will be…
Riptide and his best friend both feel lucky to have snapped up gigs in the ever-dying media industry right out of college, especially considering the fate of some of our classmates. This comes with the added thrill that occasionally our respective companies get gossiped about on Gawker and, now, hot…
Continuing the sad tradition of douchebag foreigners coming to Miami and being videotaped doing seriously fucked-up chemically enhanced things, this Russian decides it would be totally awesome to mug for the camera while endangering local drivers. For the first couple of minutes, this Soviet bro is more concerned with dancing around for…
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from listening to social conservative talking points over the past few years, it’s that sexual orientation is just a matter of choice. So let’s all celebrate our governor’s choice to be straight with his official commitment to Carole Rome. Tragically, Bruce Jordan did not…
Barack Obama continued his pattern of naming just about everyone from the Clinton administration to his cabinet, while simultaneously leaving Latinos out in the cold by picking Shaun Donovan as his secretary of housing and urban development. But hey, that was our Mayor Manny Diaz’s fantasy position! Obama, you tease,…
The two most vicious hits in Sunday’s Dolphins-49ers defensive power struggle both came in the waning minutes of the ballgame. First, with the Niners sitting in the red zone, trying to punch in a touchdown and take their first lead of the day, a bunch of security guys absolutely destroyed some random dude in jean shorts who…
Dodging this shoe was like the most awesome thing President Bush has done in years. It kind of makes you remember why so many Americans wanted to have a beer with him in the first place. [AFP]Myriam Marquez wrote this horribly mean thing about Charlie Crist’s wedding, and failed to…
If you whiz through Dadeland Mall’s parking lot anytime this weekend, you might be pleasantly surprised at what you encounter. The cell-phone wielding SUV moms will be smiling, instead of giving you the finger as they steal your parking spot. The typically sullen mallrat teens will have a spring in…
Animal rights activist Jim Dunn is willing to bet that, if Old Saint Nick could materialize in Miami-Dade, the man in red would paint a huge protest sign and then boycott Santa’s Enchanted Forrest. How come? Well, the “country’s biggest Christmas theme park” may offer the kiddies lights and trees…
You may have heard of the Global Agreement- the ominously titled, outrageously ambitious $3 billion project that will basically solve all of Downtown Miami’s debt problems, put a new Marlins stadium in Little Havana, build of Port of Miami tunnel, and cure genital warts. Okay, we threw that last one…
Riptide started feeling really, really bad about all of these jokes we have been making about the wedding of Gov. Charlie Crist and Carole Rome. These are two actual people, with actual feelings for each other, who have decided to spend the rest of their lives together in holy matrimony…
San Francisco 49ers @ Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m. on Fox.Your Miami Dolphins are involved in a hot, sexy three-way with the New York Jets and the New England Patriots, but no one can decide who’s going to be on top … of the AFC East division. The menage-a-trois may very…
You know times are tough when crazed college football fans in places like cold-ass Blacksburg, Virginia; and Cincinnati, Ohio, can’t scrounge up enough change to get to sunny Miami for a January 1 bowl game. But alas, that is the cold, hard truth of these tough economic times.More depressing recession-related news…
So, remember how earlier in the year when we held a primary, but on the Democratic side it didn’t really count? Well now President-elect Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, is saying what a lot of people were thinking: If the Florida primary would have been an actual primary, Hillary Clinton…
According to the AP, a group of five was arrested by customs agents for stealing social security numbers in order to make fake IDs somewhere in suburban Miami. They were members of a Homestead-based ring, and sold not just one, not just two, but 56 forged documents to undercover agents. Seems…
After Chanel debuted its “Miami Vice” shoe, which came complete with a mini pistol in place of the heel, at this summer’s Cruise collection, Miami is starting to gain a reputation for debuting controversial footwear. While Kobe Bryant is no Karl Lagerfeld, he’s following in the Kaiser’s footsteps by debuting…
Oh, no! Your Miami Hurricanes basketball team has fallen out of the AP’s Top 25 poll! They’re currently 5-2, and both of those losses were to unbeaten teams, so there’s not that much shame and a good chance for a resurgence. But tonight they get the chance to let off…
You know what is really, really hot right now? Governor corruption! Especially involving governors who are quite particular about their hair. So the Democratic Party of Florida decided to get in on this hot political meme by issuing a memo from spokesman Eric Jotkoff charging Charlie Crist with his own…
