OK, meme over. The Harlem Shake officially died yesterday in the Florida Senate.Yes, our legislators took on the popular meme, but not everything went well. Apparently, Republican Sen. David Simmons decided not to partake and got yelled at by a colleague who shouted, “C’mon, Simmons! For God’s sake, dance.”…
You could trace the Miami Marlins’ tailspin to last April, when new manager Ozzie Guillen pissed off the most important exiles in town by praising Fidel Castro. Surely the team had that fiasco in mind when news of the death of Miami’s second-most-hated strongman, Hugo Chávez, was announced shortly before…
Venezuelans partied late into the night in Doral following yesterday’s announcement that Hugo Chávez had died from cancer. Restaurant El Arepazo II, on the corner of NW 39th Street and 79th Avenue, was swarmed with more than 300 people waving flags, eating arepas, and sipping Polar.But nearly all those in…
After months of battling a recurring bout of cancer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has died. His vice president, Nicolas Maduro, announced the news on Venezuelan television about a half-hour ago, at 4:30 p.m., CNN reports.His death is likely to lead to political turmoil in a nation he’s dominated for the…
The Minnesota Timberwolves are apparently some sort of semiprofessional basketballing concern located in South Canada that someone has generously allowed to play on the same level as the Miami Heat. Their 20-37 record puts them in dead-last place in the Western Conference, but that apparently hasn’t stopped them from taking…
A mailbox in Miami got an unwelcome delivery this morning. After receiving reports of an explosion, authorities discovered that an “acid bomb” had gone off in a mailbox.At least it wasn’t a bill! Amirite, fellow nonrich people? Bills. Those things just suck, huh?…
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With news that a second sinkhole has opened a mere two miles from the Tampa-area site where last week a man died after being swallowed by a sinkhole that formed under his home, you might be worried the entire state is sinking. Well, as you should know, Miami is a…
There’s the kind of extreme couponing you see on that TLC show, and then there’s the kind of extreme couponing that happens in Florida Walmarts. The main difference apparently being that the latter involves handguns.Mary Frances Alday, a 61-year-old, was arrested after she pulled out a handgun at a Crawfordville…
Venezuela’s government inched closer last night to admitting what its opponents have been saying for months: Hugo Chávez is on death’s door. A government spokesman announced that Chávez’s condition has become “very delicate” after another round of strong chemotherapy.More worrying, Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas also called on Chávez’s supporters to…
Florida is officially home to 31 billionaires according to the latest Forbes list (and that doesn’t even count the ones who have second …or third … or fourth homes here), but Miami Heat owner and Carnival Cruises CEO Micky Arison is the richest of them all. Forbes estimates the 63-year-old…
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The lawyers for Karlie Tomica, the 20-year-old Nikki Beach bartender and self-proclaimed “Party Princess,” are trying to get the judge assigned to her DUI hit-and-run case thrown out. Tomica’s lawyers claims Miami-Dade Judge Migna Sanchez Llorens made comments during an earlier court appearance that indicated the judge had formed opinions…
Hafiz Khan, the 77-year-old former cleric at Miami’s Flagler Mosque, could be spending the rest of his life in jail. Khan was convicted on four terrorism related charges this morning after a jury agreed that he had been secretly sending funds to help arm the Taliban. Each charges carries a…
Talk about sins of the father. David James Mahn, a 49-year-old from Montverde, Florida, is charged with 200 counts of child-porn possession after his 16-year-old son confided in his youth group leader…
Graham Greene is a literary legend, famous for best-selling spy novels like Our Man in Havana, The End of the Affair, and The Quiet American. But the writer was as mysterious as his characters: secretive and prone to bouts of bipolarism. Few people really ever got to know him.Surprisingly, one…
Every spring, they pour into Tallahassee like a gaggle of clowns falling out of a tiny car, except much less funny and far more harmful to Florida’s residents. They’re members of the Florida House of Representatives, and as 2013’s legislative session opens this week, they’re set to wreak havoc on…
Down 16 in the first half to the Heat’s most hated rival, it looked as if Miami’s 13-game winning streak was in a boatload of trouble. Good thing for the Heat it happens to have the B.O.A.T., AKA the man Pat Riley calls the “Best of All Time.” Captain Cobra…
How sweet it must have been for Miami Hurricanes fans to storm the court earlier this season after knocking off then-number-1-ranked Duke and signaling to the world that they were in fact contenders. Well, Duke and grumpy-ass Coach K are apparently upset about all the times they’ve had to endure…
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A Charlotte County Sheriff’s deputy pulled over a car full of 20-somethings because its brake lights were broken, but the deputies then ended up playing an odd game of drug hide-and-seek as various substances were found tucked inside the bras, backsides and, yes, even prosthetic legs of the passengers…
OK, so those rumors flying around Twitter that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has been brain dead since last weekend may not be true. But that doesn’t mean Chavez is recovering well from his latest bout with cancer.Venezuela’s vice president confirmed this morning that Chavez is in fact “battling for his…
