Online shopping was a boon to buyers who sometimes felt a little embarrassment when buying certain products. The web’s anonymity may have made them feel like no one could judge them for, say, buying an industrial-sized vat of KY Jelly. But the mere presence of social media logos like Twitter…
It’s always nice when we can work a positive story into our WTF Florida category, and yes this story of a woman giving birth on her sixth birthday counts. Don’t worry though, she’s actually 24. Her birthday is February 29th, AKA Leap Day. Which means both mother and daughter share…
You do know that when you rent a hotel room that doesn’t mean that the items in the room are yours for the taking, right? Well, if you’re a Miamian, perhaps you don’t, because a new survey conducted by Living Social claims that Miamians are the biggest hotel kleptos in…
North Miami’s embattled mayor, Andre Pierre, has already survived enough scandals to knock five or six normal politicos off their perch — from the wacky (driving a luxury car gifted from a mysterious “friend”) to the sinister (accusations of wiretapping his enemies offices, corruption probes by prosecutors). So what’s another…
An art deco hotel on South Beach is locked in a battle with the federal government over the kind of accusations that have gotten the 99 percent so riled up recently. The U.S. Department of Labor says the Cavalier Hotel and Crab Shack on Ocean Drive owes its employees $160,000…
A new bill is working its way through the Florida senate which would slash the minimum hourly wage guaranteed to restaurant workers from $4.65 an hour to only $2.13 an hour. True, restaurants would still have to guarantee their workers at least $9.98 an hour with tips included, but several…
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Gregory Paul Nesbitt, 39, was found shot to death early yesterday morning in the lawn of a home owned by rapper Rick Ross in Miami Gardens. While it was originally reported that police wanted to speak to Ross himself about the incident, MTV News now reports that Ross is neither…
When an SBNation.com reporter tweeted a picture of Marlins outfielders Logan Morrison and Bryan Petersen sharing a bubble bath together, we were kind of puzzled. Well, we think we might finally have some answers on how the pic came to be.See, Morrison and Petersen have partnered with SBNation to star in an…
A bill that is meant to allow student-led prayers in school, a proposed law that could potentially lead to costly legal battles, is heading to Governor Rick Scott’s desk after being passed by the Florida legislature today. Though, the bill itself doesn’t mention the word “prayer,” and instead allows for “inspiration…
It’s not exactly a secret that America’s children are getting fatter, so Disney’s Epcot theme park in Orlando decided to help tackle the problem head-on with a new attraction called Habit Heroes. Kids were invited to partake in activities like shooting hot dogs with broccoli spears, and defeating an obese…
The fight over Biscayne Bay is heating up.Environmentalists who have sued to stop the Port of Miami’s Deep Dredge have adopted a new tactic: a public appeal for sympathy — and funds — to stop the controversial project. Meanwhile, a bill is barreling through the Florida Senate that will force…
The 118-foot, 3,500-year-old bald cypress tree known as “The Senator” in Longwood, Florida, was not only the state’s oldest tree, and the fifth oldest tree in the whole country, but also the largest tree of any type east of the Mississippi. To put the tree’s age in perspective, it’s estimated…
A photo of a flyer is circulating Facebook that has Miami-Dade residents in a tizzy. We were going to ignore it, but it has concerned so many of our Facebook friends that we figured it needed debunking. The warning from the “Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Department” that purports that MS13 gang members…
Florida cops, it seems, will do just about anything to find that marijuana plant growing in your closet. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether Miami police violated the Constitution by routinely sniffing around suspected grow houses with drug-smelling dogs without first getting a search warrant.In Tampa, meanwhile, police…
What do an aspiring pop star, a South Beach music mogul, Florida’s most powerful lobbyist, and Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade have in common? They’re all involved in one of the most bizarre, sordid recording-industry lawsuits ever filed in Miami-Dade County, complete with allegations of backstabbing, unsolicited foot-licking, and sexual…
Miami-Dade County Public Schools have a security problem — and we’re not talking bad locks on the local elementary school’s front door. Student information has fallen repeatedly into thieving hands, and the latest lapse comes from an especially embarrassing accused perp: Tizrah Ingram-Johnson, daughter of the late black leader and…
On family trips back to her grandparents’ town in Chile, Paula Barros spent long nights battling it out with her relatives for penny stakes. She was calling bluffs before she turned 10. Later, as a poor actress trying to land gigs in blustery wintertime Chicago, the recent Florida International University…
Rep. Richard Steinberg, a Democrat who represented Miami Beach in the state House, quickly resigned this week after it came to light that he was under investigation for anonymously texting a female assistant U.S. Attorney messages like, “Sexxxy mama?” That means his seat is now open, and its possible that…
There may be plans in the works, but Midtown Miami is still far from the reality of actually having a Walmart built. Walmart’s zoning change request has been put on hold by the city planning and zoning department just a day after another major developer in the Midtown area came…
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Tacos are a delicious concoction of tortilla, meats and cheeses. Harmonicas are a bluesy free-reed wind instrument. It is best to never mix the two up. The consequences could be dire…
