305 Photo of the Day: Crane City
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In the 14 years of American Airlines Arena, Miami-Dade County has only received $270,000. That’s about to change. Mayor Carlos Gimenez and team owner Micky Arison have reportedly reached an agreement that will see the team paying $1 million-a-year to the county’s parks department. The agreement will also keep the…
Plans for Development on Lincoln Road Church Property Approved by Historic Board
Plans to move forward with commercial development on land currently occupied by the terrace of the Miami Beach Community Church on Lincoln Road have been given the OK by Miami Beach’s Historic Preservation Board. The controversial plan will see a three-story building go up on the historic site next door…
Five Reasons the Miami Heat Will Beat the Indiana Pacers
Well, well, well, it looks like we have ourselves a good ol’ fashioned Mexican standoff here . After eight months of basketball, the Miami Heat find themselves right where they always figured they would be, four games from their fourth straight NBA Finals appearance, with only the Indiana Pacers standing…
Video: Man Asks Random Miamians To Show Him the Last Photo They Took
San Francisco filmmaker Ivan Cash is currently traveling through out the country and asking random strangers to show them the last photo they took on their phone. In the most recent installment he traveled to Miami, and, yes, there’s all the partying and hedonistic photos you’d expect, but also photos…
DecoBike Currently Costs Miami Beach Money, But City Is on Pace To Break Even
Two weeks ago, we wrote about how DecoBike was not turning out to be the win-win we were once promised. Despite extraordinary success for the bike share, a revised deal between DecoBike and Miami Beach meant that the city was only getting half the revenue originally agreed upon. Our article…
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NFL’s Darren Sharper’s Miami Rape Case Dropped
Former NFL star Darren Sharper will not be charged for allegedly raping a woman in Miami Beach. Prosecutors announced today that they’d drop the charges, in part because the victim did not file charges until three months after the alleged incident. Sharper however still faces similar charges in Arizona and…
305 Photo of the Day: Gator in Gold
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Herald Columnist Thinks LeBron James Is Cool With Homophobia
LeBron James has been unflinchingly stern in his opinion that Donald Sterling should sell the Los Angeles Clippers. Miami Herald columnist Glenn Garvin, though, has a few questions for LeBron about that. Mainly, he wants James to address every sports controversy to ever happen. James is understandably busy at the…
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Miami Man Expecting Pizza, Instead Gets Beaten, Robbed, and Tasered
Is nothing sacred in this town? Do not even the lowest of the low have some respect for a man’s right to eat pizza in peace? What is this world coming to? Pablo Suescun, 21, was waiting for a pizza to be delivered to his Edgewater apartment. When he opened…
David Beckham’s MLS Stadium Will Likely Be on November Ballot: How Will You Vote?
Whether David Beckham doubles down on his plan to build a Major League Soccer stadium at PortMiami or shifts his attention to the boat slip near Museum Park, one thing is increasingly clear: Voters will get their chance to support or scupper the idea. That means you’re the ref. Will…
Epic Late-Game Comeback Sends Miami Heat to Eastern Conference Finals
The Miami Heat is halfway to the three-peat, and I probably need to see a doctor when this season is finished. The Heat pulled out a thrilling 96-94 series, clinching victory Wednesday night over the Brooklyn Nets that sends Miami to the fourth consecutive Eastern Conference finals, sends the Brooklyn…
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Marilyn Monroe Funeral Items to Be Auctioned by Miami Shores Man
In August 1962, when Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home of a probable suicide — lying face down in bed, nude, and with a telephone in one hand — the news captivated America. But so did the star’s funeral. Joe DiMaggio, Monroe’s baseball star ex-husband, was…
“Royal Couple” Stole From Welfare in Two States
In the fall of last year, Colin Chisholm strode into a Citibank on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California. Burning a hole in his pocket was a check for $120,000. He asked for cash in $100 bills, then hopped a plane to Minnesota with all the makings of an escape…
Pinball Wizard Atticus Palmer Aims for National Gold
Suburbs don’t get much tidier than Coral Springs. The boxy patch of West Broward is made up of neighborhoods of modest ranch homes planted evenly on shady, manicured lawns. It’s Mayberry 2.0, a David Lynch movie before shit goes bad. Behind the front door of one such modest suburban house…
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Biogenesis Scandal: MLB Might Have Obstructed Justice, Police Say
Nearly a year after the Biogenesis scandal ended with a record round of baseball suspensions, one mystery has lingered. It centers on boxes of medical files stolen from the car of whistleblower Porter Fischer, the source behind the New Times article that sparked the whole affair. The files taken from…
Proposed $2.4 Million Condo Lobby Renovation Sets off Melee in Midtown
“People should either be caressed or crushed,” Niccolò Machiavelli once wrote. “If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do.” Seth Cohen clearly did not get the civics lesson. In summer 2012, the then-43-year-old New Yorker went…
Telenovela Star Arrested For Bashing Club Bouncer with Champagne Glass
Well, here it is, your front runner for “most Miami news story of the year.” It involves a telenovela starlet, a fancy South Beach nightclub, a bouncer, people not being on the list, and a champagne glass. The only way it could get more stereotypical is if it involved cocaine,…
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305 Photo of the Day: Look Out
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Rep. Joe Garcia Wants You To Know He Was Not Eating His Own Ear Wax
Joe Garcia’s life is like some less funny congressional version of Curb Your Enthusiasm. He keeps getting caught in these dumb embarrassing situations, and then we imagine this music plays. After video of him apparently eating ear wax live on C-SPAN 2 went viral yesterday, he went to Twitter to…
LeBron James Won’t Play Next Season if Donald Sterling Still Owns the Clippers
LeBron James might just take his talents home next season if Donald Sterling still owns the Los Angeles Clippers. In an excerpt released from tonight’s episode of Jim Rome on Showtime, Roger Mason Jr., VP of the National Basketball Players Association, says that he spoke with LeBron and that the…
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Jose Fernandez Likely Done For the Year, Marlins Fans Ask God What Is Life
Oyyyy, dem Mahleens! It is becoming inevitable that Jose Fernandez will have to undergo Tommy John surgery in the near future, ending what was sure to be a CY Young caliber sophomore season, and likely causing him to miss a good portion of next year. Apparently Marlins fans just can’t…