Is it just me or does it seem like this week feels like its never going to end? The hours seem to going by painfully slow. Well the weekend is only a day away, but starting tonight there is already plenty to do. If you haven’t been, you must check…
Well, folks, guess which city recently won the distinction of a write-up from Bicycling magazine for being on of the three “worst cities for cycling?” Yeah, it’s not much of a surprise. Still, as bicycling slowly peddles its way up the agenda in Miami, a little bad publicity can’t hurt…
They peeked in the closets. They sniffed the kitchen and breezed through the Spanish-style three-bedroom on San Lorenzo Avenue in Coral Gables, which was going for $653,900. Minutes later, they retreated to the cool air of the black limousine minibus waiting at the curb. The nine potential buyers were trailed…
Sports Big Brown Machine Saturday’s Kentucky Derby favorite arrives fresh from South Florida. By Edmund Newton For the past two weeks, Palm Meadows has clattered with the sounds of an army leaving a battlefield. Early last Thursday at the thoroughbred training facility in Boynton Beach, stable hands load tack into…
Just before dinner on a Sunday evening in January 2007, there was a knock at the door of Cynthia Cuevas’s small red townhouse on West Eighth Street. But the nine-months-pregnant 21-year-old didn’t open it. She had seen police lights flashing outside and was frightened. So she pushed on the door…
Inside Room 222 on the second floor of Allapattah Middle School this past January 17, around 4:30 p.m., the 15 students in Erika Selig’s eighth-period academic improvement class are sitting at their desks, working on algebra exercises. The walls of the classroom are decorated with large, colorful phrases explaining the…
It seems that the Dolphins scored a pretty nice draft grade across the board from various experts yesterday. For example, the Star-Telegram called the Chiefs and the Dolphins the biggest winners of the draft and awarded them each the highest grades of all the NFL teams. And CBS Sports gave…
Hello, Kitty I’ve been with my boyfriend for close to 2 years, and although the typical new-relationship woes nearly destroyed us in the beginning, I feel that we’re stronger now than we’ve ever been. I’m 36, he’s 27, we’re both hardworking and independent, and we’re even blessed to share the…
Violence and videogames have been together since the beginning of time (or at least since videogames evolved beyond Pong). As we move into an era where the unlikely “uncanny valley,” the idea that as video game characters become more like humans yet not completely so they actually cause revulsion in…
The newest numbers from Editor and Publisher show Miami Herald circulation falling faster than virtually any other major American newspaper in the last six months. According to a story in today’s Editor and Publisher, the Herald numbers dropped 11 percent in daily circulation…and nine percent on Sundays. Ouch! It is…
Matt Damon spent Saturday afternoon at the Sport of Kings at Gulfstream Park. Though he did not buy into any poker play, the actor stopped by to shoot the shit with Poker Room Manager Scott Poole. It’s no surprise that the star of a handful of casino-themed flicks frequents the…
Florida tomato pickers and activists from across the country plan to arrive at Burger King’s Miami headquarters at 3:30 this afternoon with 75,000 signatures asking the corporation to kowtow to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers demands to pay pickers more and adopt a zero tolerance for slavery in the fields,…
Everyone is saying Miami is starting its summer lull – you know, the time when nothing exciting happens to the city except for the threats of hurricanes? Well you wouldn’t know it by this past weekend since I have the liver damage to prove it. With Bon Jovi rolling into…
For over a year now, eager entrepreneurs have lobbied the Miami Beach city government to allow pedicabs – bicycle rickshaws for hire – to operate on the Beach. Similar outfits are already busy ferrying people around in other South Florida cities – Fort Lauderdale, most notably – but, so far,…
Sure, the economy’s bad here in South Florida. Workers are getting laid off, salaries slashed, homes foreclosed upon. But have some pity for the poor Deutsche Bank employees in Germany. According to the London Independent, senior executives of the German Bank can no longer expense brothel visits or porn channels…
Murdoch Gears Up To Buy Newsday – Rupert Murdoch has offered the Tribune Company $580 million to purchase Newsday and further solidify his hold on the tabloid papers in New York. If the deal goes through, Murdoch will own 3 of the 10 largest circulation newspapers in the country. Turnpike…
Hello, Kitty I’ve been dating my guy for about a month and a half, things are going great and I’m finally ready to take our relationship to the next level. I’m really comfortable with him and even confident about my skills in between the sheets, the only problem is that…
The weekend is here and everyone knows what that means – time to get so obliterated you wake up with your face down in a gutter. Er, um, I’m not talking from experience – I swear. Anyway, with so many things to do in clubland this week, where to start?…
News The Water’s Fine! Or is it? With the budget ax hovering, we might never know. On Saturday, April 12, in the name of journalism, science, and the American way — and a $75 gift card — Riptide donned a pair of flip-flops and prepared for the worst: to be…
On a clear, warm August night, Dwayne Henry made a last-minute decision to pull into a Walgreens parking lot on South Pompano Parkway in Pompano Beach. Before turning, the handsome Jamaican-born 26-year-old bickered with his pregnant girlfriend, Francine, about whether to pick up her prenatal vitamins. It was 1 a.m…
Now that we have our first pick locked down, we can sit back, relax and analyze what we got in our man Jake Long. Never has game film for an offensive-lineman made me so excited. That’s right. Excited. Boner city? Well, no, not quite. But excited nonetheless…
There is a point when wearing a catholic schoolgirl uniform goes from being cute and attractive to blindingly horrific. This girl crossed that line and kept going. I mean it’s one thing to don this get up for some fetish fantasies in the bedroom but this isn’t something anyone should…
