The news broke last week, bringing with it a tsunami of speculation and sizzling hot takes: LeBron James was opting out of the remainder of his Miami Heat contract. What will his next move be? LeBron is available to every team in the league come July 1, and every NBA…
Although it flopped like a dead grouper when it hit in 2008, the straight-to-DVD The Onion Movie was a rare misplayed hand by the world leader in smart-ass news. Since launching in 1988, the Onion has burrowed a niche deep into the American news cycle by uncorking snark and scathing…
For a road that leads to a sparsely developed island sitting just north of a national park, the Rickenbacker Causeway has all the charm of an anonymous highway. A string of accidents, often deadly, have called attention to the fact drivers often zip through the road like it was I-95…
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Ask any Floridians a Family Feud-style query of “Name things we should protect,” and they’ll instinctually shout back at you “Manatees.” Along with Florida panthers, those plump little sea cows are practically synonymous with endangered species in the state. We’re brought up from a young age with a general sense…
Last week, video of a little kid busting out into some seriously sick dance moves after he found himself on the Marlins’ Jumbotron went viral on the Internet. It was the most anyone has paid attention to anything related to the Marlins in a long, long time. So, of course,…
Baseball fans already know that for significant portions of his career, Alex Rodriguez has used performance enhancing drugs. Back in 2009, A-Rod admitted to using steroids from 2001-2003 with the Texas Rangers after news broke that he’d failed a drug test in ’03, when he won an MVP award. Last…
Just before noon July 20, 2012, Aurora, Colorado police chief Dan Oates stood before a microphone in the parking lot outside the suburban Century 16 movie theater where, less than 12 hours earlier, a maniac in a gas mask had thrown smoke bombs and opened fire during a midnight screening…
Mark Gadala had a bad Monday afternoon. The 25-year-old founder of Lucid Digital, a Brickell Avenue web design company, typically eats at the Brickell Plaza Chicken Kitchen a couple of times a week. Around 3 p.m. Monday he once again visited the location and ordered a Mexican Chop Chop, a…
The dream is over, and “#belief” has been replaced with fact. Indeed, Team USA mathematically cannot win. The United States’ rousing run at the World Cup ended Tuesday afternoon with an extra-time 2-1 loss to Belgium. Tim Howard put the United States on his back all game, recording a World…
We’re not sure how a sports columnist in Portland, Oregon, managed to break big Miami Heat news, but John Canzano of the Portland Oregonian has tweeted that Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh are prepared to re-sign with the Heat for a pretty heft pay cut. No one else is confirming…
Argentina wins! And Miami Beach gets a traffic jam! It’s nothing new when La Albiceleste notch a big victory, but fans deliriously celebrating Argentina’s nailbiting 1-0 victory over Switzerland this afternoon have flooded out of a pair of restaurants in the Beach and snarled cars for blocks. “This happens every…
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Nigel Bethel II, a former standout at Miami’s Booker T. Washington High who went on to be recruited by Texas Tech, found himself behind bars and off the team after punching the school’s star women’s basketball player. The incident went down Saturday in the Lubbock, Texas school’s rec center. Bethel…
Some particularly annoying men love to derail online feminist discussion with the war chant of “Not All Men,” to the point that it’s been memefied and ridiculed. What’s scary though is the amount of men who try to justify their sexual violence against women by claiming that, well, “yes all…
The Venetian Causeway is Miami’s oldest bay-spanning bridge and the best bet for cyclists and pedestrians looking to get from South Beach to downtown. It’s also been an unbelievable mess lately. Ever since a bus punched a hole in a deteriorating bridge earlier this year, the County has been plotting…
Miami’s status as Latin America’s media hub keeps getting bigger. BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the global media behemoth, has now opened a new Latin America headquarters at Alhambra Circle in Coral Gables, bringing in more than 50 employees to run the service’s sales and content distribution for a…
It’s Tuesday. It’s rainy. You’ve got a head cold. There’s a three-day weekend coming and you’re just coasting until it’s time for roman candles and Coronas. Well, snap out of it, dammit. The Fourth of July may be Friday, but America’s fourth World Cup game is today. This afternoon, Team…
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After Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, and Udonis Haslem opted out of their contracts over the weekend, conventional wisdom has it that the Big Three are angling to re-sign with the Heat under restructured deals. After all, the trio was spotted lunching at Soho Beach House last week. However, it’s not…
Alexander Thadeus Jackson was admitted to Aventura Hospital around 10 a.m. Thursday. Five hours later, his roommate was dead. Hospital staff found the victim, Raul Alexander Rios, lifeless on the floor of the room the two were sharing. Jackson was found in the bathroom, taking a shower. According to a…
There are some big advantages to hiding your meth lab inside a vehicle. Just ask Walter White. His Breaking Bad crew spent five seasons evading the DEA and local cops in part by cooking crank in a dilapidated mobile home in the New Mexican wilderness. John Day wasn’t quite that…
