It’s almost time for Spring cleaning, and it’s not such a bad idea to get a head start on some of the harder tasks.Do you have a pack of fennec foxes roaming around your living room? One too many boa constrictors? A Kakapo you’re tired of? Well, you can drop…
Tom Wolfe has been working on his next novel Back to Blood, an epic concerning race, class, and power in modern Miami, since 2007, and its finally set for an official release in October of this year. Amazon.com’s listing has the first official summary of the book, and its basically…
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Could Miami be too big of a market for Peyton Manning? ESPN’s NFL Insider Adam Schefter, citing several “sources,” says that the media frenzy that greeted Manning as he arrived in South Florida may have scared him off. Schefter suggests that like Jim Harbaugh and Jeff Fisher before him, Manning…
In an epic political fail for Senate Republicans, the Florida Supreme Court ruled this morning that recent redistricting efforts amount to illegal gerrymandering.”We conclude that the challengers have demonstrated that the Senate plan… violates the constitutional requirements,” Justice Barbara Pariente wrote in a 5-2 majority opinion. She argued that politicians…
The time has come: we’ve now reached the grand championship match-up of our Miami Mascot Madness Tournament. Despite some close calls in Round One, the match-ups in Round Two were both total blowouts. In fact, when we started this tournament we would have never seen this coming: It’s Sebastian the…
Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr., the Miami 20-year-old who was arrested after making Facebook and Twitter posts threatening to kill President Obama, wants to say he’s sorry. Serrapio appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded not guilty…
Today is one of our least favorite times of the year: the final day of the Florida legislative session. It’s like the dying moments of a drunken high school party, when everyone makes hasty, poor decisions that they will come to regret. So, how have our duly elected representatives spent…
Yesterday afternoon, a 13-year-old boy hobbled down a Lakeland road to a neighbor’s house and complained of a barbaric running punishment: for more than a week, he’d been forced to sleep in a bathtub, then spend nine straight hours kneeling every day with only a single daily “shake” made of…
Cody Conner, 17, walked into an adult novelty store in Debary with a loaded gun and intended to stick-up the cashier. Instead, the employee talked Conner out of the robbery, and actually convinced the kid to fill out a job application.Of course Conner won’t be getting the job. The employee…
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One would think that Democrats would have the advantage when it comes to correctly quoting Jay-Z lyrics. Apparently that’s not the case up in Tallahassee. Dean Cannon, the Republican Speaker of the House, corrected Democratic Rep. Alan B. Williams for misquoting a Jay-Z song today on the House floor…
A North Miami Beach man was beaten and robbed of just about everything he had on him: his cash, his jewelry, his rental cars, and even his pants. Yep, to add insult to injury the attackers left him standing in a parking lot in his underwear…
In their effort to stave off Spring Training boredom, Marlins outfielders Logan Morrison and Bryan Petersen are starring in an online reality show. The first episode saw them donning leather jackets and forming a two-man, cupcake-devouring moped crew. At another point, they drank red white in a tiny bathtub together…
Good Mexican-food God, what is it with Floridians, weird crime and tacos?Christopher Phillips, 23 of Manatee County, found out that his mother had used some of his taco sauce. Naturally, he got so angry he decided to put her in a headlock. Then his girlfriend got involved. It was not…
We don’t need to tell anyone who’s attempted to park at Aventura Mall that the place is busy. It’s so busy, in fact, that it’s actually America’s second most visited shopping mall. The only mall more crowded than it actually has an indoor amusement park, so there’s no shame in…
By now, you probably know that you can bring wine and get boozy in the grass while watching a free movie with the New World Center wallcasts. And you’re also likely aware that — although it used to be easier — a determined drunk can definitely get sloshed for free…
Miami Marlins President David Samson waded into hot water this week after he told a local business council that he thinks Miamians are stupid. Last night Samson talked with WSVN to clarify his remarks. Don’t worry guys, he doesn’t think Miamians are especially stupid. He wants to clarify that he…
After struggling for most of last night’s game against the Atlanta Hawks, the Miami Heat finally decided to stop dicking around and began to hit their shots and play their anaconda-style defense just in time to comeback from as much as 10 points and beat Atlanta 89-86.More importantly however, before…
You’re going to have to wait for that romantic cruise to Havana. Under President Obama, travel restrictions to Cuba have eased from the Bush years, with new air charters opening routes from Miami and Tampa and even Texas to the island. That thaw, though, apparently doesn’t include passenger boats.After more…
Peyton Manning is one fickle football bastard. Just hours after leaving the Indianapolis Colts in a teary press conference, the quarterback arrived in Miami on a private jet yesterday evening. But just as Dolfans and local media thought they had their hands on the NFL veteran, Manning called an audible, saying:…
Fresh off their devastatingly progressive move to legalize rabbit-dyeing, the Florida House passed another landmark law for human rights by banning, at last, state prisons from handcuffing pregnant women during live birth. Next on the agenda: Outlawing forced marathons for disabled veterans in jail and prohibiting wardens from pouring salt…
