Miami is definitely a city of lust and passion, but romance? We’re not entirely sold. We mean, is stumbling out of a club at 4 a.m. and making out with someone whose name you barely know in the sands behind a lifeguard stand romantic?Yet, Miami has been ranked America’s third…
Today, Miami gymnast Danell Leyva begins defense of his national championship title as the country’s best gymnast as he inches closer toward his quest of becoming the first Cuban American member of the USA team at the Summer Olympics in London. This 20-year-old is a beast.He is the reigning 2011…
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This is a silly, stupid little post to be writing. The Heat will of course stage a magnificent comeback tonight and go on to emerge victorious in the finals, because whatever powers that rule the universe will decide to give Miami, this muggy land of hurricanes, poverty, foreclosures and zombie…
We’ve found our new favorite legal complaint of the year. As he promised, Hallandale attorney Scott Owens has filed a federal class action lawsuit against the “junk cars”-seeking text message spammers we first exposed. The damages, by Owens’s math? One billion dollars…
Yesterday, the Drug Enforcement Agency announced the bust of two rings of airport workers based in Puerto Rico who they say smuggled thousands of kilos up and down the east coast, including into Miami and Orlando. The feds indicted 45 people with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and violations of the…
Which is the single most corrupt state in our glorious union? Is it Illinois with its Rod Blagojevich bribery bonanza? Louisiana with its freezer-stuffing yet always reelected congressmen? California with its small-town, $700,000-salaried officials?None of the above, according to a new study out this morning. Florida tops them all –…
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wasn’t merely skeptical; he appeared contemptuous of the Justice Department’s argument trying to stop Arizona’s cops from deporting undocumented Mexicans. “But if, in fact, somebody who does not belong in this country is in Arizona, Arizona has no power?” the incredulous Scalia asked. “Are you…
Today in America, one in four Latino voters knows someone in deportation proceedings. The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court don’t care. What else can be concluded from their questions and comments during oral arguments over Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s notorious stab at ethnic cleansing? And Latinos shouldn’t expect any…
Why Do You Love Mexican Food, Hate Mexicans?
Federal prosecutors announced today the arrest of 13 men and women for their involvement in a massive network of marijuana grow houses in Miami.Feds say that the network was run by baby-faced con Gilberto Santiesteban Jr. and three of his brothers. According to several indictments, the family operated grow houses…
Despite all the hubbub floating around about bath salts, so far a preliminary toxicology report has only found marijuana in Rudy Eugene’s system. That doesn’t mean that Eugene, who ate a man’s face near the MacArthur Causeway over Memorial Day weekend, hadn’t used other substances. The full toxicology report will…
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Latin crooner Marc Anthony is hitting up the Fillmore on June 26, but perhaps the more exciting news is that his opening act is President Barack Obama. The two are hitting up the historic concert hall for a fundraiser, and tickets are selling for up to $5,000…
It’s going to be the classiest, finest film studio in all of the world. Or at least that’s what Donald Trump’s company seems to think.The Trump Organization has unveiled plans to incorporate an 800-acre studio city down near Homestead in the southern reaches of Miami-Dade County dubbed, what else, Trump…
Dude, you know you can get your parking validated at the Barnes & Noble, right?Juan Felipe Rodriguez, 19, turned himself into police late last night, after allegedly stabbing Sunset Place parking attendant Jimmy Richard Womble, 23, after arguing over an $8 parking fee…
The two-and-a-half acre plot of grass and nothingness in the center of Midtown Miami has had a tumultuous history. Now only known as the “Green Space”, it was supposed to become a series of fancy gardens. That was scrapped in early 2011 after the high-falutin’ landscaper never got past the…
In the wake of the “Miami Zombie” attack and some other cannibal-tinged news stories, we’ve already established that there isn’t a zombie apocalypse. Or is there? Last night on The Colbert Report, America’s favorite fake pundit Stephen Colbert wasn’t so sure…
