Drivers headed west toward downtown on the MacArthur Causeway have been greeted by two strange sights lately. To the north, the old Miami Herald office has already begun to decay, its once grand signage replaced by the flickering neon of what looks like a dive bar named Brown Mackie College…
An 18-year-old skater died yesterday after Miami Beach Police officers caught him tagging a building and then Tasered him. Details about the death are still murky, but what is clear is that Israel Hernandez died before dawn Tuesday morning after cops caught him spray painting near 71st Street and Collins…
Before you get too excited, remember an important tool of the British tabloid journalist is pulling things out of thin air and basically churning out fan fiction, but it’s fun to think about anyway. So, yes, the UK’s Now magazine is claiming that Posh and Becks are reportedly thinking about…
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Girls star and generational lighting rod Lena Dunham made her big debut in New York City politics yesterday by speaking at a fund-raiser for comptroller candidate Scott Stringer (her real-life BFF works for Stringer’s campaign, natch). Apropos of nothing she decided to throw some major shade at Tampa…
Well, that Rolling Stone article about rising sea levels and freak weather did theorize that eventually Miami would be damaged so badly that the federal government would decide it would just be more cost effective to cut its loses and let it be destroyed. We just didn’t think it would…
A man claiming he had a “way with the ladies” and a firm grasp on the Florida legal system probably didn’t have either, and ended up getting arrested a popular waterside restaurant in Fort Pierce after causing a scene and riling up his “haters.” Robert Rock, 50, was acting obnoxious…
Ebony magazine has produced a powerful series of covers for its September issue in the wake of George Zimmerman’s “not guilty” verdict. Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade and other celebrities appears in gray hoodies with their sons behind the headline “We Are Trayvon.” The Martin family also appears on the…
Veterinarians at SeaWorld Orlando have successfully performed the first-ever shark C-Section, the theme park announced yesterday. The three-pound whitetip reef pups are the latest additions to the 30 sharks at Discovery Cove, the pricey sister park of SeaWorld that allows patrons to cuddle with bottleneck dolphins while Instagramming a variety…
With the 2013 Miami Hurricanes season just around the corner now is as good a time as any to take a step back and reflect on what the team stands for. What represents Miami Hurricanes football? What defines the program best? Every program or team has an identity, one of…
Hunger Games, a popular media franchise that focuses on a dystopian future where children are forced to kill each other for the enjoyment of the ruling class, has inspired a themed week at summer camp in Largo, Florida, where campers pretend to kill each other for their own enjoyment. That…
It wasn’t just major MLB players Tony Bosch was supplying to from his Biogenesis clinic. There’s new allegations that he might have counted high school athletes as clients. So now the Florida High School Athletics Associations promises to review its rules related to PED use and may even institute random…
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FBI agents stopped by two city halls of Miami-Dade towns today and left with their mayors in handcuffs. Both Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi and Sweetwater Mayor Manuel “Manny” Maroño were apprehended on bribery-related charges this morning. Update: Former North Bay Village Mayor Jorge Forte and attorney/lobbyist Richard Candia have…
North Florida Republican Rep. Ted Yoho, a Tea Party favorite, was caught on tape last week at a town-hall meeting in Gainesville claiming the tanning tax created by the Affordable Care Act is “racist.” He then claimed that because he went to a tanning salon twice, he has now been…
Karlie Tomica, the self-described “party princess” who hit Shore Club executive chef Stefano Riccioletti and then drove home drunk, has reportedly reached a plea deal with prosecutors. She’ll spend just four years in prison, followed by two years of house arrest and 15 years of probation…
One chapter of the Biogenesis scandal closed yesterday with MLB dropping the hammer on 13 players who bought performance-enhancing drugs at the Coral Gables clinic. But many other questions remain, including whether clinic owner Tony Bosch will ever face criminal charges and how he peddled illegal drugs without a medical…
A common purse snatcher in Homestead has managed to give purse snatchers an even worse name. The suspect allegedly grabbed a woman’s purse while she was pumping gas at a station in Homestead. When the woman fought back, he pulled out a gun. The woman still somehow got her purse…
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Bud Selig’s hammer is finally going to come down today on the MLB investigation into players obtaining performance enhancing drugs from Biogenesis, a now-shuttered Coral Gables “anti-aging clinic.” Miami New Times was the first to report that the clinic was supplying PEDs to major MLB stars in an investigation published…
Colin McGinn, a high-profile philosophy professor at the University of Miami and author of a book called Mindfucking, was forced to resign from his post earlier this summer after a female doctoral student accused him of sexual harassment. McGinn has since tried to downplay the incident by trying to philosophically…
Federal prosecutors are not charging Buju Banton’s jury forewoman with contempt of court, even though Terri Wright’s admitted misconduct revealed in a New Times story forced them to drop a firearms charge against the reggae singer. According to the Miami Herald, the decision not to punish Wright stems from prosecutors…
