Two Swedish tourists got more than they bargained for when their antsy cab driver honked at a car in front of him. The drivers of the other car got out, pretended to be cops, patted the tourists and the driver down, and made off with their luggage…
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Granma, the official state newspaper controlled by Cuba’s communist party, has noticed that some Cubans are now obsessed with garden gnomes and they are simply outraged. Journalist Pedro De La Hoz slammed what he sees as the excess of Cuba’s “new rich” in an anti-materialistic screed for the paper. Of…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has proposed a plan to close 22 of the county’s 49 library branches, and if you’re living either west of the Palmetto Expressway or in a poorer neighborhood, you’re a lot more likely to see your local library branch shuttered…
Police in Collier County say that the Hollywood woman tried to run over her ex-boyfriend near a casino but instead hit a tree.
Two months after David Beckham jetted to Miami to meet with a Bolivian billionaire and tour stadiums around Dade County, reports are trickling out of Britain this week suggesting that South Florida soccer fans’ hopes might just be true. Becks is close to announcing that’s he’s going to start an…
If the Stevie Wonder boycott and the thousands signing MoveOn petitions didn’t convince lawmakers they were going to face serious pressure to repeal the Stand Your Ground law after George Zimmerman’s acquittal, last night’s NAACP convention finale should do the trick. First U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sharply criticized the…
After months of heated arguing, slick production pitches and a last minute curveball from the city manager, Miami Beach has finally chosen a team to redevelop its convention center and spearhead SoBe’s biggest project in decades. The winner is ACE, the team fronted by Prinzker Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas. The ACE…
Though Prancercise has been decades in the making, it only exploded into the national consciousness after a video of Joanna Rohrback went viral.
Brian Deutzman braces himself against the pounding surf just off South Beach and slowly waves his fluorescent-colored metal detector underwater. His eyes narrow as faint electronic beeps resonate in his oversize headphones. Tall, pale, and draped in a thin white shirt, he looks like a combination of a hipster Ghostbuster…
For years, Ultra Music Festival avoided the deadly drug overdoses that had done in many other mega electronica events. In April, however, Riptide revealed that 24 people were taken to the hospital during this year’s edition of Ultra. One of them, a 20-year-old New Jersey native named Anthony Cassano, died…
The charges are piling up against embattled South Miami Police Chief Orlando Martinez De Castro. Last week, De Castro pleaded no contest to Miami-Dade ethics charges that he steered police department business to his wife’s auto tag and car insurance companies, violating a city law that prohibits city employees from…
Daunte Culpepper, one of several players who have been part of the Dolphins’ never ending post-Dan Marino quarterback carousel, has lost his South Florida home in foreclosure court. According to the AP, Culpepper bought the nearly 10,000 square foot Broward County home back in 2006 while he was still playing…
Rachel Jeantel, the Miami Gardens 19-year-old thrust into the spotlight because of her testimony during the George Zimmerman trial, has been making the media rounds this week, and while on CNN’s Pierce Morgan said that she doesn’t believe the word “n*gga” is a racial term, no matter who says it…
Apparently there’s a small but growing effort among Florida Tea Party members to recall their former hero Marco Rubio. There’s just one problem: You can’t actually recall senators in Florida. So first they will try to get a law passed that would allow a recall election in the first place…
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Mike Dee is changing teams, changing coasts and changing leagues. The Miami Dolphins CEO has resigned and will take over as president and CEO of the San Diego Padres…
Ashley Taylor Wright used her own three-month-old baby as her first line of defense against an officer who was trying to arrest her for shoplifting. Instead, she was still arrested and charged with the additional crime of child abuse…
On Monday, Panamanian authorities seized a North Korean ship after they found possible Cuban missiles on board during a bizarre search that involved the captain having a heart attack and trying to commit suicide. Cuba now has issued a statement basically saying, “Oh yeah, those missiles? Guess those are ours…
“Stand Your Ground” may be a problematic law that may actually increase the homicide rate in states that have enacted it, but is it in and of itself a racist law? Activists and journalists calling renewed attention to the case of Marissa Alexander, a Florida woman who unsuccessfully tried to…
Spirit Airlines, the Miramar-based, discount airline with comically tiny seats and a habit of charging extra for every normal airline service is looking for a new marketing director. It’ll be a hard pair of shoes to fill. As well as Spirit is known for its frequent delays, its gotten just…
The thunder rumbled over South Beach around 5 a.m. this morning, just before the torrential downpour. Less than 20 minutes later, more than a foot of water had surged up and over the lower lying parts of SoBe. Hundreds of residents who didn’t leap out of bed to move their…
