Reality, or something sort of like it, has finally caught up to Gov. Rick Scott. The Tea Party activists that help elect him? They’re apparently not so enamored of Scott any longer. The leaders of what remains of the movement are not too pleased with Scott’s performance as governor thus…
Update: Wonderfully, Business Insider touted the bogus photo as accurate in a story on how the media is badly reporting the Trayvon Martin saga. Their source for the photo: white power message board Stormfront. Update 2: See the response from the Business Insider author at the end of this post…
Get ready for a Romney-Rubio ticket, Florida. Even as Miami’s favorite Tea Party son tells everyone who will listen that he has zero plans to run as vice president this year, the Tampa Bay Times reports that he’s studiously following the textbook on how to prepare for a vice presidential…
Remember when the Marlins announced the roster of local artists they’d hired to spruce up their new Little Havana ballpark and everyone was all, “Yay! No Britto! Nice work, team.” That enthusiasm was tempered as we got our first look at the iris-searing home run sculpture in left, a construction…
Cecilia “C.C.” Holloman arrived in Miami around 2001 with an impressive resumé. She was an ordained minister, a published Christian author, and a “community builder” in the Clinton administration. Over the next decade, her organizations would receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grants, including $400,000 for a job…
South Florida activist group 1Miami is hosting a gathering this weekend in Hialeah and Little Haiti to bring Carnival Cruise Lines to the public’s attention. They say Carnival is figuratively “sinking Miami.” While most associate the cruise line with family memories, bad sunburns, and tanning oil, 1Miami faults it for…
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LeBron James just Tweeted a photo of the Miami Heat posing in hoodies in honor of Trayvon Martin.His Tweet reads, “#WeAreTrayvonMartin #Hoodies #Stereotyped #WeWantJustice.”We can’t remember the last time professional athletes took a stand on political issues or criminal cases.So far, the uploaded iPhone picture has received 41 comments, most…
Rafael Munga, 26, was arrested Thursday after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman inside her Fontainebleau penthouse suite, Miami Beach Police say.The victim said she woke up to a naked man climbing into her bed, according to a report by CBS Miami. She left the door to her suite open because she…
An observation: the police officers in Surfside — the little town south of Sunny Isles where I’ve lived for over three years — might be the biggest horndogs in the state. They hide in the bushes of a parking lot on Harding Avenue, trapping drivers doing 37 MPH, and lay…
Broward state rep and House Democratic leader-designate Perry Thurston Jr. spoke with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Last Word last night about Governor Rick Scott’s decision to create a task force to look at the “stand your ground” law. While he sees the “prospects looking better,” MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capeheart…
This morning, we woke up and hopped into the shower as we always do before pulling on a dirty t-shirt and pajama pants and plopping down at our filthy computer to make fun of things.This time, however, our delousing was interrupted by a divine vision: somehow Mrs. Riptide’s stray hairs…
Fudge your expenses at work and you could get fired. Fudge them when you’re in Congress and you’ll probably get away with it.A new anti-corruption report spells out how hundreds of U.S. representatives use their positions to enrich themselves and their families. According to the report, those engaged in shady…
Venus Williams didn’t let a little Sjogren’s Syndrome get in her way at the first women’s singles match of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne yesterday.No, no, she showed that disorder who was boss and whooped Japan’s Kimiko Date-Krumm in a 77 minute-long short match (6-0, 6-3).The 31 year-old…
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Jesus lives! In the power meter of a woman from Clermont, Florida, just northwest of Orlando. WKMG Local 6 News reports the woman, whose name was not released, said she noticed the image of God’s son on the metal and glass box close to her mobile home. She said, “I have…
Doyle Hardwick is no stranger to dealing with 911 response people. In fact, he may even have 911 on speed dial.According to the Tampa Bay Times, he gave his wife eight beers with a promise from her that she’d go to sleep after she finished the last one. She finished,…
Earlier this month, New Times revealed the staggering number of serious felonies committed by mob turncoat Chris Paciello. The secret FBI interviews with Paciello unearthed by author Frank Owen exposed the former SoBe club king as the very model of the multi-tasking Mafioso, a virtual one man crime wave. But he…
Carl Scalise is not afraid of the Mafia. Concrete boots don’t faze him, and neither does sleeping with the fishes. We met him yesterday outside Miami New Times offices on Biscayne Boulevard protesting the Mafia, and fighting for your freedom.”For the past 7 years I’ve been fighting the Mafia,” he…
A Senate Committee in Tallahassee played redistricting bingo late yesterday. The idea: Shout so loud the Florida Supreme Court might actually accept its new plan. B-I-N-G-O. They used one of those wire rollers with a handle and a bunch of ping pong balls.Senators who drew white balls got four-year terms…
He blew past Shalom Dreampeace Compost. He wrecked Rockwell C. Bonecutter. He demolished Ebeneezer Noonoo. Now a 19-year-old from Florida with the mind-blowing moniker of Courvoisier Winetavious Richardson is just one round away from winning the coveted title of Name of the Year — the wildly popular annual online bracket…
Jimbo’s Place is closing, and a crazy family feud is to blame
