We Found a Baby Goat Leg In Downtown Miami

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…

Ozzie Guillen on Backlash: “Fucking Grow Up, Motherfucker”

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…

The Daily Show Will Broadcast From Florida During RNC

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…

305 Photo of the Day: Pylon

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University of Miami Med School to Lay Off 800 Employees

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…

Meet Mitt Romney in Miami Next Week for Just $10,000

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…

Invasive, Crazy Caribbean Termites Threaten South Florida

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…

Gasmy Joseph AKA Mohawk Gaz Advertises On His Hairdo

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…

Rent in Miami is Skyrocketing Again

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…

Orlando is America’s Smuttiest City; Miami Only 12th

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…

Disney and Univision Launching Miami-Based Cable News Network

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…

Heat Can’t Sweep as Knicks Take Game Four

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…