After 29 years of questionable first-round draft picks, the Miami Dolphins picked up Texas A&M Quarterback Ryan Tannehill at yesterday’s NFL Draft. For fans and players alike, the day should’ve been a celebration, a glimmer of hope that the Dolphins’ upcoming season wouldn’t end miserably. For cornerback Vontae Davis, however,…
Miami has a ton of public art eyesores, notably a plethora of shitty Britto works that litter the city and the “Tremenda Mierda Fountain” in center field at Marlins Park. But few are as tacky as Sarasota’s “Unconditional Surrender” statue, a 25-foot aluminum sculpture modeled after Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic photograph, V-J…
“The bus smells like the bologna sandwiches at DCJ,” a friend recently quipped. He was sitting next to a woman who kept shouting about Jesus on a seemingly never-ending bus ride to South Beach. “This is wacky, bro.” Indeed it is. But it’s that very stench of stale deli meat…
It only took 29 years, but the Miami Dolphins finally grew a pair and used a first round pick to select a quarterback. And that quarterback is Ryan Tannehill of Texas A&M.After getting stiffed by Peyton Manning during the offseason, and feeling pretty meh about Matt Flynn, the Dolphins went…
Conservatives tittered like giddy Limbaughs last week when Jeb Bush cracked open the door toward being a vice presidential candidate by telling Newsmax that he’d “consider” Romney’s overtures if they came. Rubio may be the rising star, but some in the GOP still dream lustily about a return to the…
God bless you, City Hall. Just when we begin to think that you are completely irrelevant, you burst back into our lives with a controversial proposal to plaster Miami with more gaudy logos and revenue-generating ads than a Mexican soccer jersey. Miami city commissioners voted down the crazy measure last…
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Fire up those spliffs, DMV workers of Florida: A Miami federal judge has ruled that Gov. Rick Scott’s plan to randomly drug test all state employees is unconstitutional. Judge Ursula Ungaro ruled today that random tests of 85,000 state employees would be an unreasonable search and seizure and issued a…
The political world has come down with a crippling case of Rubio-mania. A junior member of the glee club United States Senate, Marco Rubio is Latino, has Tea Partiers in his pocket, and represents Florida, the most important state in the 2012 presidential election. Name him as Mitt Romney’s veep,…
Is Mitt Romney surging ahead of Barack Obama in Florida? Has the Sunshine State officially joined Mitt Nation? Did Obama really get zero bump by slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon?Uh, no. It’s only April, so we probably shouldn’t pay attention to any presidential polls yet. Still, a new nonpartisan…
The Miami Beach Police Department’s brass probably winces anytime they hear the words “You Tube” these days. After this past year — when their cops were caught on tape killing a Memorial Day Weekend visitor and speeding recklessly around South Beach — amateur video is a recipe for MBPD heartburn.The…
As if Marco Rubio’s attempts to moderate the GOP’s immigration stance weren’t difficult enough: A Washington Post reporter has released part of a biography revealing that Rubio’s grandfather ignored deportation orders from a Miami immigration court — a detail that, combined with Rubio’s own call for immigration reform, is sure…
All Shall Perish, a blistering political deathcore group from California, burst onto the metal scene with their 2003 record, “Hate, Malice, Revenge.” Today, those are exactly the emotions driving a distributor to seek sweet vengeance against dozens of fans who illegally downloaded tracks from their newest album.A lawsuit filed last…
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NBC’s national Today show deservedly caught loads of flak last month after airing an audio clip of George Zimmerman’s 911 call that had been falsely edited to sound as if Zimmerman was saying he found Martin suspicious because he was black. But where did the bogus sound clip come from?The…
Massive semi-truck crashes can run the gamut from the comical — liquor everywhere! and milk! — to the bizarre — like that Chinese truck that spewed live fish all over the highway — to the profitable, when a bank truck overturns and spews millions of coins. It’s hard to think…
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Prepare to be dredged.After a five-month legal standoff over a controversial plan to deepen the Port of Miami using explosive charges, environmentalists have relented. Three groups opposed to the project have dropped their lawsuit in exchange for legal fees and the establishment of a $1,310,000 trust fund to mitigate effects…
Yesterday, jurors in White Plains, New York, heard from the mistress of Ben Novack, the Miami Beach scion of Fontainebleau Hotel builder Ben Novack Sr. Junior was brutally tortured and murdered in a Rye Brook hotel room in July 2009, and Bliss’s testimony added a new, tawdry layer to an…
