Remember when the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders made a lip-dub video to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” during their bikini-filled calendar shoot? Well, U.S. troops in Afghanistan certainly do. In fact, they were so taken by the video they decided to do a shot-by-shot remake.Of course, some substitutes had to…
Marco Rubio didn’t exactly have the nicest things to say about either Miami rapper Pitbull or the field of science in his interview with GQ published yesterday. He claimed Pit wasn’t a poet, and cast doubt on generally accepted science that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. He’s since…
A 13-year-old girl is in the Miami Children’s Hospital after being shot on the school bus on her way to school this morning. Update: The girl has now been pronounced dead.Meanwhile, a male student is currently in police custody in relation to the shooting…
In Miami, we know a thing or two about cocaine smuggling. This summer, authorities at Miami Seaport seized $7.3 million of the potent powder hidden in a shipping container. Downtown was practically built on blow. And if you look hard enough, you’ll find retired traffickers all around this city.There are…
Well, we don’t have Allen West to push around any more. After two weeks fighting his razor thin loss to newcomer Patrick Murphy, demanding recounts, and calling on fellow Tea Party patriots to battle for his cause, the craziest guy in Congress has finally conceded this morning. And, in vintage…
Hozae Milton’s neighbors in Jacksonville came home last week to a truly disturbing sight: the 43-year-old was skinning a dog right in the front yard of his one-story brick house. When police later came to investigate, they found that poor canine wasn’t alone. Milton had also recently skinned a cat,…
Well, Bud Selig was no help.The MLB has officially approved the trade between the Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays which saw pretty much every Marlins player of not named Giancarlo Stanton up north…
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Marco Rubio and Pitbull may be the two Cuban-American Miamians who, more than anyone else, have shot to national prominence in their own ways in the past few years, but don’t expect the two to be hanging out anytime soon. In a new interview with GQ, Sen. Rubio starts some serious…
Duval County recently opened a brand new $350-million courthouse, but a woman going through a dramatic divorce decided that it needed a final touch that only a $5 can of spray paint can bring.Audrey Dostie, 35, was apparently unhappy with her divorce proceedings and decided to cover the building in…
Nine months ago, Rosita Hidalgo, a transgender Cuban woman living in South Beach, was found murdered in her apartment, the victim of 23 stab wounds. There were no initial suspects or leads, and friends worried that her death would go unsolved.Early Monday morning, however, the Miami Beach Police Department announced…
For the second year in a row, the Miami Hurricanes demolished South Florida on Saturday for their sixth win of the year, earning the chance to play in a postseason bowl. And for the second year in a row, the Canes followed the win with a Monday morning announcement that…
Never trust anyone who’s made a multi-million dollar fortune in art. With that kind of cash in the bank, you can almost guarantee they love money a hell of a lot more than they love art.Now that Jeffrey Loria is the most hated man in baseball after lying to everyone…
Miami-Dade Judge William Thomas will make history. He’s been nominated by President Obama to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and if his appointment is approved by the Senate, he’d become the first black, openly gay man to ever serve as a federal…
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A 16-year-old boy is recovering after shooting himself in the face at the Dickinson Memorial Library in Orange City, Florida, yesterday afternoon. According to WESH, the boy had brought the .38 special into the library and began to show it to friends. It accidentally shot off, and hit the boy…
In May, cheap chic Swedish furniture giant IKEA was rocked with shocking accusations in the German press: That it had manufactured products using forced prison labor in East Germany in the ’70s and ’80s. Of more interest to Miami, one paper also reported the company had contracted with Fidel Castro…
Lets party like its …um, 2008. We’re still not quite back to pre-economic meltdown levels yet, but Florida’s unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest number since October of 2008.As of last month, Florida’s unemployment rate was 8.5 percent. That’s down from 8.7 percent in September…
Math class is certainly not supposed to be sexy, and if it is, then you might have a problem.A former student at Port St. Lucie High School has filed suit against his math teacher Meri-Ann Johnson and the St. Lucie County school board, claiming that several remarks Johnson made in…
For years, wealthy Miami Beach residents — including celebs like Alex Rodriguez — have pimped out their mansions as movie studios. Now, however, it seems locals are finally getting pissed off over the scenic island getting turned into a giant film set.Is the neighborhood nuisance worth it? Well, it injects…
Last night’s beatdown in Buffalo was so dispiriting that John Lennon rose from the grave to write a tragic ballad about the game. Take it away, John:Fins are a concept …By which we measure …Our PAIN …I’ll say it again …..
In this week’s feature, a 69-year-old Holocaust survivor accuses Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez of ruining their Miami Beach neighborhood by turning his mansion into a de facto movie studio.But the All Star slugger is not simply a celebrity succubus sapping the neighborhood of its beauty in order to turn…
