Logan Fazio Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama addressed the crowd at Miami’s Bicentennial Park. Click here to view the full slideshow. The best part of today’s rally at Bicentennial Park wasn’t that Barack Obama showed he was smarter than John McCain. Nor was it that he exhibited how ridiculous the…
It’s Tuesday afternoon, still a couple of hours before Barack Obama is to address thousands of chanting, whistling partisans at Bicentennial Park, when Edna Kaiywa offers some international perspective on the electric scene. “This would never happen in France today,” says Kaiywa, a young black documentarian with a Parisian accent…
Gail Shepherd “I don’t want to, Dad.” “You’re committed now, babe,” a father says to his eight-year-old. They’re making tracks through the parking lot toward what looks like an angry hive of human-sized bees. “But it’ll take forever.” The kid’s prescient. The doors open at 9 a.m. at Palm Beach…
Milton Torres, a 77-year-old retired American jet fighter pilot now living on Miami Beach, was given orders by Britain’s Royal Air Force to shoot down a UFO back in 1957, and he believes the craft was manned by Space Aliens. Torres was told to keep quiet about the order or…
Florida Red & Blue, the main organization working against Amendment 2 [which the media insists on calling the Gay Marriage Ban, even though it really should be called “The gay marriage, civil unions (even thought those two things are already illegal, but most Floridians support civil unions) and possibly domestic…
Suggestive emails of the supportive type, that is. According to Variety’s Wilshire and Washington blog (via Wonkette) a couple of Hollywood types ran into Foley, the infamous former WPB Conressman, dining at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Foley was all like ‘I didn’t know the kid was 18, I was drunk,…
When it comes to hyper local blogs you can’t beat Coconut Grove Grapevine. Tom notices everything, and we mean everything, that goes on down in the Grove, and brings us the news today that Condom USA is selling Obama and McCain condoms. Seems by number of sales Obama is winning…
The name Eduardo Verastegui kept coming up when I was searching for blog material. I didn’t know who the hell he was (sorry don’t watch many Telenovelas), but when he officially announced his endorsement of McCain I decided to do a bit of research. Mainly because it seemed he was…
The foreign press, it seems, has taken a keen interest in chronicling Miami’s Cuban vote this election. Sky News, the British 24 hour news station, is the latest to pay a visit to Versailles, and devotes most of a piece titled “Prejudice Rife In Sunshine State” to a demonstration there…
Obama and his grandparents circa 1980, via NY Times Obama announced last night that he’s suspending his campaign for a few days. Unlike some other candidates for the president of the United States of America, this isn’t a case of suspended campaign as ridiculous political stunt. Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham,…
It was quite a show on Monday, as South Florida Democrats invited their brethren to take a midday break from work and rally for the first day of early voting on Huizenga Plaza in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Seemed like every Democratic politician in town — nay the Universe — lined…
Hillary Clinton held a rally for Obama in Broward yesterday. Joe Garcia, Raul Martinez and Bob Graham were there. No one dropped to the floor to simulate a referee, but the crowd loved it nonethe less. [CBS4] Expect traffic downtown for the Obama rally. The Obama campaign urges you take…
Wonkette has this ad starring America’s (and by that I mean, the America Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin talk about, the “pro-American America”) two most feared terrorists from the National Republican Trust PAC (as in, not directly related to McCain). Ha ha, yes it is hysterically, ridiculously, sad and desperate,…
via MadonnaliciousPaciello and Madonna in simpler times. Madonna doesn’t look back to the past all that often. Constant reinvention is Madge’s trademark, but every once in a while she takes a little time to reminisce. Her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance was a nod to her dance floor roots,…
Back in my high school days on ye’ olde Gulf Coast, pretending to be a surfer bro was all the rage. Never mind that the Gulf of Mexico doesn’t produce decent waves, whatever. Just as long as kids had spikey hair and a fine selection of Hurley, Quicksilver and Volcolm…
The Democrats aren’t going to let Florida slip away from them this time. The Sunshine state hasn’t shone blue since we voted to give Bill Clinton a second term (except for that one time where we probably voted for Al Gore, but you know, that’s history, sadly), and with the…
via The Telegraph It’s no big secret in the wild animal training community that big cat trainers are a bit jealous of their dolphin training counterparts. Dolphins are gaga about their handlers: giving dolphin kisses, giggling with delight, and letting them hitch a ride during their swim. Tigers meanwhile are…
via The Guardian I know Iggy Pop’s been living in the area for a little while, apparently in Miami Beach with a girlfriend in a place he calls a “real rockstar house with all mod-cons.” What I didn’t know is that he keeps an art studio of sorts in Little…
We don’t know what’s better: the zero humidity or the temperature starting to cool down. We are glad to see that our version of “fall” is finally starting. Some complain that Miami’s lack of seasonal change is a negative, but we fail to see the fun of driving on icy…
In this video Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart loses his marbles, enthusiastically tries to count them, and then leaps to the floor to collect them. The crowd loved it. –Kyle Munzenrieder…
Time, today, paints a dismal portrait of McCain’s race in Florida, the same state that arguably won him the primaries. Time totally agrees with us that McCain should have picked Gov. Crist, or at least acted more like him. The magazine figures that when the Florida GOP cast its primary…
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will be holding a rally tomorrow in Bicentennial Park. [Obama] Former Sec. of State Colin Powell endorsed Obama over the weekend. [Politico] The Miami Herald did too. [Herald] Ravens beat Fins. Boo. [ESPN] Canes beat Duke! Yay! [ESPN] Troy beat FIU. Boo. [ESPN] Seriously?…
