LeBron James’ latest sneaker line will go where no Nike sneaker has ever gone before: above the $300 price point.James debuted his new kicks in the Olympic’s gold medal game, and now Nike has announced they can soon be yours for $315. For comparison, the LeBron 9s sold for only…
Read our full gonzo guide to the RNC: “Fear and Loathing In Tampa”Screw Geraldo Rivera. Bugger off Wolf Blitzer. When it came time to pick a guide to this year’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, we went with Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi. He may play a Middle Eastern correspondent…
Also read “New Times Frees Boxer Yathomas Riley, Jailed Two Years Without A Trial” For two years, boxer Yathomas Riley sat in Miami jail cells awaiting trial on an attempted murder charge. Prosecutors said he’d shot his ex-girlfriend Koketia King in a jealous rage in 2010, derailing his promising career as…
Between the cash-hungry strip clubs, the prime-time Rick Scott speech, and the 50,000-plus conservatives and 20,000 protestors squaring off, Tampa is already going to be one insane circus from hell next week. The only thing that could possibly make the Republican National Convention better would be a raging hurricane outside.Which…
Poor Julian Assange. Eighteen months ago, the 41-year-old Aussie was a globetrotting Wiki-warrior with dashing, wizard-like white hair. Now, he is effectively imprisoned inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London while evading an extradition order to Sweden, where he faces sex crime accusations.But before Assange goes to the effort of sneaking…
Miami Beach is home to some of the world’s most luxurious resorts and chicest boutique hotels, so it makes sense that it would be home to a designer hostel.Once the domain of backpackers and college kids on a budget (and designed as such), the Freehand Miami, which will open in…
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Wednesday night’s episode of Showtime’s baseball docudrama The Franchise, which this season is following the Miami Marlins, will be its last. At least two more episodes were originally planned, with the option for others, but the Marlins and Showtime have decided to pull the plug early, because, well, this team…
Nails done. Hair done. Everything did. But apparently not everything’s paid for.Three teen girls, aged between 15 and 17, decided to skip out on the bill after getting manicures at an Orlando-area nail salon. A nail tech chased after them, but one of the girls pulled a pink Taser out…
Rep. Connie Mack is now officially the Republicans’ nominee for Florida’s senate race, but his easy win in last week’s primary didn’t give him much of a boost in the polls. A new Rasmussen Reports poll, a firm that’s independent but tends to produce results that are kinder to Republicans,…
Barack Obama’s reelection campaign hasn’t even hit full stride yet, and there’s already an e-book that supposedly explains all the campaign’s dirty secrets.Politico and Random House released “Obama’s Last Stand” this morning, an e-book that among other things claims that when speculation began that Marco Rubio might become Romney’s running…
Tampa’s strip club industry is preparing for a cash-making bonanza next week as tens of thousands of Republicans come to town to blather on about family values all day before hitting Ybor City at night to get hammered and ogle some T&A. But Tampa police are drawing a line in…
When Andre Frings returned to his South Beach apartment from a trip to New York last December, his jaw dropped at what had happened to the historic building next door. The 1926 art deco edifice was completely gutted, the graceful façade gone. Frings suspected the developer had broken the Beach’s…
In our nation’s capital, real consensus happens as often as a noncreepy Rick Scott grin. Yet for the past couple of years, everyone in Washington, D.C., has agreed on this: President Obama’s mammoth 2009 stimulus was kind of laughable. Green-energy initiatives? Saving America from financial ruin? Hah!Last week, though, that…
Your pet canaries can sing a song of relief tonight. Two men allegedly responsible for stealing 500 canaries from the home of an elderly Miami man have turned themselves in after Miami-Dade Police asked for help identifying the suspects…
Well, Norman Braman’s quest to unseat incumbent Miami-Dade County Commissioners was far from a smashing success, but one of his candidates will live to see another electoral day. Incumbent Bruno Barreiro barely missed the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff by just nine votes. So now he’ll face off…
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Read our in-depth article about the bizarre attempted murder case that landed Riley in jail.Yathomas Riley has spent more than two years behind bars for a crime he likely didn’t commit: the attempted murder of his then-girlfriend on June 10, 2010.Now, however, the undefeated heavyweight boxer is finally getting out…
It’s nearing the end of summer, which means it’s nearing that time when we finally stop hearing our office worker friends in New York bragging about how they get to stop slaving away at noon because their offices pretty much close up shop during Fridays in the summer. We’d like to…
Hey, the Florida unemployment numbers are in for July, and — oh no! What’s this? A rise? We haven’t seen one of these in 12 months.Yes, Florida’s unemployment rate rose from 8.6 percent in June to 8.8 percent in July, the first increase after a steady stream of declines in…
Dave Gordon thought a seat on the board of the Orlando International Airport was all but his. He’s the president of an aviation logistics company and has a master’s degree in airline administration from Embry-Riddle.However, Gordon claims that he was told by a prominent Republican fundraiser that in order to…
Most of the world has moved on from LeBron James’ decision to leave Cleveland and play for the Miami Heat, but at least one man is still mad about it. The lawyer for Muhammad Rahim, an Al-Qaeda member who served as a translator for Osama bin Laden and who is…
