This week’s cover story chronicles the rise of King of Diamonds, the Miami strip club that has become a hang out for some of the most famous rappers and pro athletes in America.The story follows Disco Rick, the former Miami booty bass pioneer who has found a second career corralling…
So we were just walking through Downtown Miami, scanning the sidewalk for cigarette butts when…. AAH ANIMAL LEG! It was loosely wrapped in paper right outside the front entrance of this construction site on Northwest 3rd Street, just a block from the Miami Police headquarters. The rule of the Internet…
Miami Marlins coach Ozzie Guillen has been uncharacteristically quiet ever since he made those dumb comments about Fidel Castro. Even his Twitter has remained inactive for more than a month. However, you can’t keep Guillen’s mouth shut for long, even as he’s trying to put the incident behind him. In…
2011 was a banner year for tourism in Miami-Dade as records were set not only for the number of tourists who stayed overnight in the county, but also for how much money they left behind. According to numbers released today by the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau 13.4 million…
Left-leaning Floridians are probably not too enthused that the Republican Party is descending on Tampa to crown Mitt Romney as its official nominee in August. But don’t worry, you hippies — there’s now something for you to get excited about, too. The Daily Show has announced it’ll tape a week’s…
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A 13-year-old Fort Myers boy was arrested last Friday for allegedly brandishing a machete while chasing a group of elementary school children at a bus stop. The stunt was apparently in retaliation for the younger boys’ bullying the knife wielder’s 10-year-old friend and for “messing with Mexicans.”…
The Miami economy got a shock today when the county’s largest private employer, the University of Miami, filed a notice that it plans to lay off 800 employees from its medical school. The move comes two weeks after university president Donna Shalala said the medical school was planning on cutting…
Mitt Romney will be tearing through Florida next week and hopes to leave the state with somewhere between $5 and $8 million in his campaign’s coffers. He’ll be making stops in Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Tampa, Jacksonville and Boca Raton during the fundraising flourish on Wednesday and Thursday, and Miamians…
Just about the most inappropriate thing to do when you see someone choking on food is to start chanting, “Choke! Choke! Choke!” It may not be very civil, but it isn’t illegal. Hitting a man for chanting “Choke!” and pouring a jug of milk on his head is apparently illegal,…
Between Burmese pythons and giant African land snails, South Florida already has enough invasive species to worry about. But now officials have detected a new alien threat popping up in our region: the Nasutitermes corniger, a species of termite. These guys are meaner and more threatening than the domestic termites we…
Jonathan Davis, a retired chiropractor, was caught in a Hialeah Burlington Coat Factory stalking young girls. Davis recorded images of the girls, touched himself inappropriately, and got the attention of the young girls to say things like, “You can’t have a butt that nice when you’re 8.” Hialeah police are…
Inside a heavily fortified compound in rural Osceola County, Florida, a well-armed group of white supremacists lead by 39-year-old Marcus Faella held regular paramilitary drills where they pretended to shoot black victims, talked about attacking Orlando’s city hall and even discussed obtaining ricin — a potentially deadly poison.So says the…
Thirty-three-year-old Pompano Beach resident Gasmy Joseph wears a supertall Mohawk. About a year ago, an epiphany struck when he wanted to spread the word about a buddy’s birthday party: Why not advertise it on the hairdo? In terms of innovation, Thomas Edison’s light bulb now looks like a piece of…
No longer can you count on finding a sweet deal on rent in one of those quickly filling-up high rises. 24/7 WallStreet reports that rents in Miami are skyrocketing. In fact, in the past year Miami saw the third highest rise in average rent of any major metro area, and…
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Your moms’ dirty little secret is out: she’s reading Fifty Shades of Grey, an S&M-tinged trilogy of erotic fiction. The graphic prose in the series has caused some Florida library systems to ban the books, even as they’re topping the New York Times’ best sellers list, but don’t worry, Miami-Dade’s system has…
Miami may be a leader in producing web porn, but when it comes to watching porno we don’t even come — ahem — close to some of Florida’s other big metro areas, apparently. Men’s Health ranked America’s biggest porn consuming capitals, and Miami only came in twelfth. Orlando, meanwhile, is…
CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are about to get some Miami-based competition backed by one of the world’s largest media conglomerates.Disney and Univision announced this morning that they are set to launch a 24-hour news network sometime in the next year, and the channel’s operation will be headquartered in Miami…
The Miami Heat showed up to Madison Square Garden for Game 4 yesterday and, while they have plenty of fucks to give, they must have left them in their other jeans, because for three quarters the Heat played like they had none to give away. None fucks. And so the…
When Alan Lara touched down in American Samoa, he was looking for a fresh start. Bluesky Communications, a subsidiary of Miami-based eLandia, had agreed to pay the Mexican engineer and his fiancée to move to the tiny U.S. territory from their home in Guatemala. But months later Lara was abruptly…
Jon Broder was sick of getting stiffed. As an attorney and small-business owner, he was tired of clients walking out on small debts — $500 here, $2,000 there — knowing full well they wouldn’t be worth going to court or hiring a collection agency. But what could he do? Then,…
