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Nope, Sexy Joe The Plumber didn’t make our list either. Coconut Grove is sexy Halloween costume capital of the world. Thousands of sexy, young college co-eds and other assorted babe-ellania take the opportunity to wear lingerie in public and throw on some cat ears or a police cap and call…

We don’t know if you’ve heard the hushed gossip, but Gov. Charlie Crist has a secret love. His fellow Republicans are fine with it, just as long as he keeps it in some closet in the Governors mansion and doesn’t prance around the State flaunting it like a damn fool…

For once, Florida’s election officials have made the news recently for doing the right thing. The same week that the NAACP sued the governor of Virginia for not doing enough to accommodate the millions of voters expected to cast ballots this year, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist declared an emergency and…

One of the failings of the McCain campaign is that they’ve largely failed to create a strong dialogue down ticket Republicans can latch on to. Unless Congressional candidates wanted to play six degrees of William Ayers (Did you know Joe Garcia’s mother’s third cousin has a co-worker whose sister on…

Courtesy of BAA South Florida Actors Noah Aberlin, Cassie Okenka, Jason Simon and Chris Kind follow the yellow brick road. It takes nerve to recreate a movie on a stage, especially when that movie is as brilliant and beloved as The Wizard of Oz, but the new production that opened…

Both McCain and Obama are in the general vicinity today. [Herald] The NY Times does the obligatory “What is going on in these Miami congressional races?” story. We are not talking about Cuba as much apparently. [NYT] A Liberty City food pantry that serves about 1,000 people a day was…

Melissa Dazquez is one ballsy Obama-lover. Two days ago, the twenty- three-year-old parked her car across from Versailles Cuban restaurant –Miami’s political equivalent of western Texas — and took out a “Change ‘08” yard sign. Bracing herself, she turned on her video camera. (Footage is on the way.) On a…

via HuffPo For God knows what reason The Huffington Post has a slide show of Michelle and Barack Obama’s best displays of public affection at their joint rally in Miami last week. Who knows what those in-the-tank sickos do over their looking at these pictures. Creaming their pants over the…

Charlie Crist likes to call himself the People’s Governor, so when his people complain about the outrageously long early-voting lines, he has to do something. Thankfully he signed an executive order today extending voting hours. Starting immediately, polls from now until Friday will be open from 7 a.m. to 7…

Brad Beckerman, 28, wasn’t always the “wheatgrass-drinking, meditating vegan” he is today. The former escort service-running, gun-toting, DEA-bribing party boy from Miami Beach just launched his own homemade, holistic blend of tonic, made of — among ingredients we can’t pronounce — West Indian sea moss. His PR girl calls the…

Republicans have not won a presidential election without Florida’s electoral votes since Calvin Coolidge’s win in 1924. We also helped the GOP squeak out the last two elections for Bush. So there’s little arguing against the fact that for future Republican candidates, it’s important that the Sunshine State at least…

via Creative Loafing Tampa Car art is not a proven way to win an election. Just ask the driver of the Hillarymobile. Though it can’t hurt (*fingers crossed*). Jennifer Stone-Anderson, a Florida artist, painted her Saturn Ion in a tribute to Barack Obama, and Creative Loafing Tampa has a full…

Chris Paciello isn’t dating Madonna again, but he is sorry for his part in killing a woman and he’s telling Ocean Drive in its next issue, according to the New York Post. “What do you say? Sorry? I’m sorry,” he tells Ocean Drive. “I’m very sorry. There’s nothing I can…

The national media has already picked out Raul Martinez’s Halloween costume! He’s going as Boris Yeltsin. From Politico’s chronicle of the ever-dirty, ever-tight race for District 21: “The physically towering Martinez looks like a Latin Boris Yeltsin, with a doughy, expressive face that is often set in a scowl but…

Back in my DJ days at WVUM my grandparents called in and asked to hear some Jimmy Buffett. Mr. Margaritaville isn’t really a college radio staple, but I did have a PSA that Jimmy had recorded for the Save the Manatee Club. So although I’m not really demographically inclined to…

Illustration via Rolling Stone Miami’s chapter in the implausible saga of Charles “Chuckie” Taylor Jr. will soon come to a sordid end. Lawyers for Taylor and the prosecutors are scheduled to begin closing arguments today in a case that’s drawn international interest for its horrifying accusations and its legal implications…

Obama and McCain are both coming back to the Sunshine State. Obama wants to remind us to vote early, and McCain wants to talk about Joe the Plumber again. [Herald] Local 10 says the race is tied in Florida. [Local 10] But Real Clear Politics still shows a small lead…

Rev. Leo Frade, the Episcopal bishop of the Southeast Florida Diocese, is totally against Amendment 2. I cannot see how we can say we love our neighbors if we pass an amendment that could put at risk for these couples such rights as the ability to visit or to participate…

In 2003 I picked up the very first issue of Radar on an Eckerd drugstore shelf. Things have changed since then. Eckerd in Florida is now CVS, and as of this Friday, Radar (after three different incarnations) exists only as a crappy celeb gossip site owned by Boca Raton-based American…

The Obama show that SNL preemptively parodied this weekend, as you might know, is actually scheduled this Wednesday (no, it won’t be a song-and-dance spectacle) to air on all four major networks — and now a Spanish version is set to broadcast on Univision. Barack Obama: Historias Americanas will air…

Lordy, The View’s Republidrone Elizabeth Hasselbeck came to our great state, Tampa to be exact, and brought her special brand of annoying, self-righteous conservationism along to introduce Sarah Palin. Most of her speech was blah-blah rhetoric and so-called sassiness (she can’t help it, she faux-adorably swears). There were some standouts,…